Qin Zhi Ai stopped in her tracks, puffed out her cheeks, and was just about to turn around and say irritably: "Can't you stop calling me Little Dumb Love?"

  But before she could say anything, he spoke up: "I'm enlisting next Wednesday."

  Qin Zhi'ai's action of turning her head was instantly frozen in place.

  Enlisting... is he going to be a soldier? He graduated from high school, didn't attend college, and actually became a soldier? The dreams he told her were not just mere fantasies, but something he really wanted to achieve.

  It wasn't until a while later that Qin Zhi'ai came back to her senses, slowly looking at Gu Yu Sheng. The words she had just been about to say to him with a huff were squeezed out of her mind by the two words "enlist".

  When Qin Zhi Ai looked at Gu Yu Sheng, Gu Yu Sheng had just exhaled a mouthful of smoke. The swirling smoke obscured his face, making it impossible for Qin Zhi Ai to discern his expression. His voice was clear and elegant, sounding particularly pleasant in the night air: "I'll be gone for five years, at least five years, I won't be back in Beijing."

  Five years... five years, can't come back to Beijing? That is to say, in five years, he and she won't see each other?

  Qin Zhi'ai's hand suddenly tightened on her clothes, she stared at Gu Yu Sheng, not even daring to take a breath, afraid that if she did, tears would fall.

  Gu Yu Sheng slightly tilted his head, staring at the streetlight not far away for a while. He seemed to have something else to say to Qin Zhi Ai, but in the end, he just turned back and said: "See you on the weekend."

  Then he took two strong puffs of the cigarette in his mouth, extinguished it and threw it into a nearby trash can, turned around and got back into the car.

  When Qin Zhi'ai came back to her senses from Gu Yu Sheng's "one trip, five years", Gu Yu Sheng's car had already disappeared without a trace.

  Those few days of Qin Zhi Ai, were filled with both joy and sorrow.

  Happy about the date with Gu Yu Sheng, sad that Gu Yu Sheng is leaving Beijing soon.

  At that time, Qin Zhi Ai always felt that Gu Yu Sheng might have had some feelings for her. Otherwise, why would he know where she lived? Why would he stand up for her when Jiang Xianxian made her apologize? Why would he protect her with all his might and not let his father hit her? Why would he tell her about his passionate dreams of the mountains and rivers? Why would he ask to see her alone before leaving Beijing? And even gave her his phone number...

  But you know what? On that rainy Sunday, she went to the movie theater entrance early again. She waited for a long time, but he didn't show up. In the heavy rain, she walked for over an hour and finally found a public phone booth. She called him, and the response was: The number you dialed is not in service.

  She couldn't believe it and didn't want to, she dialed his phone number again and again, the eleven digits were etched in her memory, but the response on the phone was always the same: The number you dialed is not in service.