The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 349: Flowers in Spring, Fish in Winter

As Lin Xiao stood up and exclaimed, the atmosphere in the living room suddenly became tense again.

Nan Xiang, who was about to help clean up the dishes, dropped the chopsticks in her hand to the ground after hearing Lin Xiao's words. Her half-standing body froze and she stared at the other person.

"What's going on? Where are you now?" Lin Xiao asked anxiously, holding the phone.

"Go to the hospital, the hospital, I'll be there soon..."

After saying this, Lin Xiao looked at Jian Xi. When she was about to open her mouth, her face suddenly became dull and her eyes became unbelievable.

I don’t know what Gu Li said on the phone, but he hung up in a hurry.

Lin Xiao held his hand still, and his gaze slowly moved from Jian Xi to Nan Xiang.

"It was Xi Cheng." Lin Xiao spoke softly, but the words he uttered weighed down like a mountain, "Xi Cheng cut Wanru's mouth."

"..."

Her vision went dark, and a feeling of absurdity and fear quickly grew from the bottom of her heart, turning into vines that tightly wrapped around Nan Xiang, almost making it impossible for her to breathe.

In just two seconds of daze, the feeling was so strong that it suffocated her.

"What are you doing standing there like an idiot? Did you become stupid from drinking soup?"

Jian Xi's voice rang in Nan Xiang's ears, and then she felt a pulling pain on her face, but this pain made her return to the shore like a drowning person. The influx of air made her feel grateful and sober after being rescued.

After Nan Xiang came to her senses, she realized that the severe pain was not an illusion. Jian Xi was really reaching out and pulling her face.

"Are you awake? Do you want me to use a little more force or give you a slap?" Jian Xi didn't let go of his hand and continued to pull Nan Xiang's face.

If it were any other time, Nan Xiang would definitely glare at the bastard, but at this moment, she did not hesitate and threw herself into his arms, hugging her boss tightly.

"Boss, it's like... it's like her..."

Lin Quan on the side frowned. Although he knew there was a reason for it, he couldn't help but grit his teeth after seeing this scene.

Jian Xi felt helpless as she felt her clothes on her chest getting wet. She didn't expect that she would not be able to escape this today.

So he had no choice but to pat Nan Xiang on the back and said, "Cry on the way, let's go to the hospital first."

After Jian Xi spoke, Nan Xiang and Lin Xiao, who was also in a daze, finally reacted and hurriedly wiped their tears, put on their coats and changed their shoes.

At this time, Lin Quan reminded: "Senior, we are all drunk and can't drive. Let's go get a taxi first."

"Row."

……

There was silence in the car all the way. The three girls sat in the back with a worried look on their faces. Lin Quan was holding a pack of tissues, while the tissues in Lin Xiao and Nan Xiang's hands were wet and crumpled into a ball. Perhaps they were too tired from crying, and now they both leaned on Little Green Tea.

The two best friends activated their intimacy again at this moment. The rivalry in love was completely suppressed, and their hands were tightly clasped together, as if to give each other comfort and strength.

Xiao Lu Cha was also a little worried, but she was not that familiar with Tang Wanru after all, and she was just influenced by the two women around her.

So when she was handing tissues to the two girls and wiping their tears, she looked around from time to time. Until she was about to arrive at the hospital, she suddenly felt that bringing Nan Xiang here today might have been a bad move.

Great!
Sitting in the passenger seat, Jian Xi frowned and looked out the window. Compared with Lin Xiao and Nan Xiang, he did not have any worries about his long-time friend being admitted to the hospital.

But I thought of something else.

He remembered that Tang Wanru in the original drama seemed to have experienced the same thing?
But in the original drama it was just an accident, and the glass fragments stuck in her mouth, causing her mouth to be cut. It was different from what Gu Li said on the phone just now that it was cut by Xi Cheng.

But...why did Xi Cheng go to find Tang Wanru right after he called Nan Xiang?

And Gu Li, how did she know? Did Tang Wanru call her first?
There are indeed many doubts, but Tang Wanru has the same fate in both the original drama and in reality. Isn't this a bit...

Or, is this the retribution that Tang Wanru cannot escape?

After all, whether in the original drama or in reality, she is the one with the biggest and loosest mouth.

The car arrived at the hospital quickly. As soon as Lin Xiao and Nan Xiang got out of the car, they rushed up hand in hand. Just as she entered the door, she remembered to call Gu Li to ask where she was.

Jian Xi and Lin Quan followed behind the two of them. Just when he was about to speed up, he glanced to the side and stopped.

"Senior, what's wrong?" Lin Quan, who was holding the dog man's hand, asked.

"I'll go up later. You and Lin Xiao can go over and take a look." Jian Xi said with a smile. Lin Xiao was waiting in front with the phone in his hand.

Upon hearing this, Little Green Tea looked in the direction that Jian Xi had just glanced at, nodded without asking any more questions, let go of his hand, and chased after Lin Xiao.

Jian Xi waited for a few seconds before turning around and walking to the side.

There were quite a lot of cars parked outside the hospital. Jian Xi walked straight to the familiar Bentley Continental GT. The people in the car had seen him, but they didn't react until he knocked on the window.

"Your eyes are really sharp. I thought you didn't notice it." The car window slowly rolled down, and Gu Yuan's slightly hoarse voice sounded. In addition to his voice floating out of the car window, a strong smell of cigarettes also floated out.

"You smoke with the car windows closed. Aren't you afraid of suffocating yourself?"

There was some surprise in Jian Xi's eyes. He guessed that what happened today must not be that simple. However, he did not spoil the atmosphere by asking questions. Instead, he laughed.

Gu Yuan also laughed, but his laugh was full of bitterness.

"It's better if I die of the smoke. At least I won't feel bad." He took another pack of cigarettes from the side and handed it to Jian Xi, "I just bought them at the supermarket."

Jian Xi looked at the half-empty pack of cigarettes in his hand with a strange expression on his face. No wonder the other party's voice was a little hoarse, but he didn't say anything more and lit one with him.

The two men just sat in the car, one sitting in it, and the other standing outside the car, smoking silently, and neither of them was in a hurry to speak.

Only after the cigarette in his hand was half burned did Jian Xi ask, "Did you see Xi Cheng?"

"Yeah." Gu Yuan nodded without hesitation, "Not only did I see him, I even had a fight with him."

“哟，当着心爱女人的面，暴揍曾经伤害过她的垃圾多好啊！”简溪笑了笑，但随即话锋一转，“不过看你现在这样，是没打过他？”

"How is that possible?" Xi Cheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, "But what's the point of winning or losing?"

"How can it be meaningless?" Jian Xi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Isn't it true that every time you swing your fist, it is a fist that carries love and justice?"

"..."

His good brother's words suddenly made Gu Yuan silent. It was unclear whether he was embarrassed by these words or for some other reason.

After being silent for several seconds, he took a deep puff and threw the cigarette butt away.

“But the one who gave love and justice to my fist transferred these things to the enemy that my fist was pointing at.”

Gu Yuan looked at the people coming in and out of the hospital in front of the windshield and spoke softly, his tone no longer retaining the demeanor of Master Ye.

Jian Xi's expression became even more strange. Why did this sound like a scene where a pure love warrior was defeated by a minotaur?
"Isn't Gu Li on your side?" he asked again after throwing away the cigarette butt in his hand.

Gu Yuan did not answer, but the silence gave the answer first.

Jian Xi felt a little surprised. Why did he always meet such unlucky people in love? What could be more tormenting to the heart of a pure love warrior than such things?

It was like a scene from one of those disgusting romance dramas, where the boy and the girl were poor but they loved each other and only had eyes for each other. However, after some unexpected changes, they faced reality and a rich man intervened. The boy still believed that true love was invincible, so when he was fighting with the rich man who wanted to steal his beloved, the girl suddenly stopped him and said to him, "I would rather cry in a Mercedes than laugh on the back of his bicycle. I stopped him not because I was worried about his safety, but because I thought his fighting was too vulgar and not mature at all..."

However, compared with Gu Yuan and Xi Cheng, he should be the real rich man, and he doesn't have a bald head and a beer belly. To be more precise, he should be the standard tall, rich and handsome man, while the other party is just a blond.

So this disgusting plot has an updated version. The boy and the girl are both rich. They love each other and think that they should be a perfect match. They will get married smoothly, have children, grow old together, and then walk to the end of their lives with a smile and be buried together. Until a sudden accident happens, the yellow-haired boy spends a night alone with the girl by chance and successfully leaves a mark in the girl's heart. Although the girl returns to the boy afterwards, she still can't forget the yellow-haired boy. The boy knows what happened that night, but he only feels sorry for the girl and thinks that this will not shake their relationship. Until the yellow-haired boy appears again, the boy duels with the yellow-haired boy who wants to snatch her beloved away. The girl stops him again and says to him, "You are a good man and you will definitely be a good husband in the future, but I don't want the future to be so predictable. It's good to be with you, but this will make me lose the passion for life, unlike the yellow-haired boy, who is full of passion when she is with him..."

Why have the stories of the poor boy and the rich woman, the rich man and Cinderella remained popular for thousands of years?
Is it because the writer of the story is either a poor guy or Cinderella?

There are thousands of reasons and there is no definitive answer. In fact, the answer is already there. Of course, it is communism... uh, yes, of course... true love is invincible.

No matter it is a poor guy, a rich woman, a wealthy man or Cinderella, everyone who encounters a love disaster can find a sense of substitution in it and firmly believe that the love between himself and the other person is true love.

Interloper? Sorry, there is another hot fix for the story - there is no first come first served in love!
So for Gu Yuan at this moment, he couldn't help but doubt whether the love between him and Gu Li was true or false?

"I have known since I was a child that my family is very wealthy. It is not an exaggeration to say that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. As long as I want, I can really have everything I want, so I feel that I have everything I need."

After a long silence, Gu Yuan spoke again.

"Since I started elementary school, there have been girls around me. But at that time, I only knew how to play. I just thought those girls who surrounded me were annoying. Later, when I entered junior high school and learned about love, I thought it was very interesting at first. The more girls around me, the happier I was. I felt like I was the protagonist of the whole world. Girls all revolved around me. But later I found that some of the girls who surrounded me soon surrounded other boys. Only then did I realize that I was not the protagonist of this world. As time went on, I wondered whether these girls surrounded me because they simply liked me, Gu Yuan, or because they just liked my family's money."

"Do you think I'm being pretentious? Now that I think about it, I do feel that I was being pretentious myself, but I really had everything I needed back then, except true love. I had good grades, and I read a lot of books and watched a lot of movies. The books said that everyone would meet someone in their life, and then fall in love with her, and she would like me too. We met at the right time and in the right place, just like encountering flowers blooming in spring, and then everything would be fine, we would fall in love, get engaged, get married, and live together...but when this spring would come, and when the flowers would bloom, was still unknown."

"So I met Gu Li. After meeting her, I understood what the book said. She is the flower that belongs to me. But it is not until spring comes that the flower blooms, but it is spring when the flower blooms."

"Although Gu Li's flower is a little prickly, it doesn't matter. Compared with the flower, the prickly thorns are insignificant in my eyes. I even think that flowers with thorns are more beautiful. Aren't beautiful things more precious if they have self-protection mechanisms? But I don't want to pick that flower. Just like the book says, what I encounter is the flower in bloom."

"What makes me happiest is that this flower also likes me, so I don't have to risk being pricked by thorns to get close to it. At that time, the feeling that I am the protagonist of the whole world returned to me again, but my world only has this flower, just like the story of "The Little Prince" shining into reality, but I don't need to go to other worlds. Gu Li is my most important rose. We tame each other and belong to each other."

"Although Gu Li, the flower, would prick me with its thorns from time to time, and I would sometimes get so angry that I turned my back and didn't want to see the flower bloom, our bond had already been established, and it tightly connected the two of us, and we will never be separated."

"Two years ago, Gu Li and I had a fight and broke up. I said that I still loved her even if she was penniless. At that time, I really thought that if my mother didn't agree, I would elope with Gu Li, but she said that love without material things is like sand that will disperse after two steps. I was really sad at the time, but later I thought about it and felt that if I was penniless, I believed that Gu Li would still not break up with me. That was just her angry words. I believe in the bond between us."

"I always thought that Gu Li tolerated Xi Cheng for Nan Xiang's sake, so I tolerated it too. But when she stopped me and told me to get lost, I realized that the bond I trusted was just my wishful thinking."

"When I was sitting in the car just now, I suddenly remembered the content at the end of the book that I read. Some people meet at the wrong time, just like seeing a fish floating up to breathe through the ice in winter. After the fish breathes, it sinks into the water and can no longer be seen. There is a thick layer of ice in between."

Gu Yuan spoke softly and calmly, but when he turned around, his face was already in tears.

"It turns out that what I thought was seeing flowers blooming in the spring was actually just that the fish took a little longer to breathe."

(End of this chapter)