Her expectations, her joy, as time flowed drop by drop, gradually turned into unease, turned into worry, until finally, turned into heavy disappointment.
At three o'clock, he didn't show up, she thought being late was very normal.
At three thirty, he didn't show up, she thought, maybe something had held him up.
At four o'clock, he didn't show up, she thought maybe something unexpected happened to him.
Five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock...... She couldn't hold back her tears and they all fell down. She cried while continuing to wait until the movie theater closed at 11 pm, but Gu Yu Sheng still didn't show up.
If the story had stopped at that moment, it would have ended abruptly.
Qin Zhi thought that many years later, she might forget that she had been infatuated with a boy named Gu Yu Sheng; or perhaps on a sunny afternoon, she would suddenly remember the boy she was infatuated with when she was young, who had the most stunning profile and the cleanest temperament in the world. Or maybe she would see someone on the street who looked like him, be stunned, and then think of him with emotion and regret. Or perhaps she would treat him as a growing experience in her youth, hide him in her heart, and then encounter new love and start a new life.
But it wasn't until many years later that Qin Zhi'ai realized that moment was not the end of the story, but its true beginning.
Gu Yu's high school final exam was a disaster, she performed abnormally and it was a complete mess.
For her at that time, those days were simply a dismal and desolate collapse of heaven and earth.
Wu Hao hadn't gone to college yet, and Xu Wen Nuan would often hang out with him during summer vacation. Every time they hung out, Xu Wen Nuan would invite Qin Zhi Ai along, but Qin Zhi Ai was afraid of running into Gu Yu Sheng, so she would come up with different excuses to decline each time.
Maybe because they were about to be separated, Xu Wen Nuan and Wu Hang often quarreled. That day, Xu Wen Nuan cried and ran to Qin Zhi Ai's house, staying until evening. Xu Wen Nuan cried so much that she got hungry, saying she wanted to turn sorrow into appetite, asking Qin Zhi Ai to eat a big meal with her, dragging her out of the door to a Western restaurant.
That day was really coincidental, Xu Wen Nuan and Qin Zhi Ai entered the western restaurant, just about to find a seat when they bumped into Wu Hao's neighbor. The neighbor didn't even give Xu Wen Nuan and Qin Zhi Ai a chance to speak, loudly shouting towards a private room: "Hao Ge, your wife is here!"
Xu Wen Nuan was about to turn around and leave, but Wu Hao rushed out from inside, grabbed her, and the two of them pulled and tugged at each other for a while before making up. Then Qin Zhi Ai was dragged by Xu Wen Nuan into Wu Hao's private room.
The private room was very large and had twenty or thirty people seated inside. The lighting in the house was a bit dim, so Qin Zhi Ai couldn't see clearly who was who for a while.
When Wu Hao had specially ordered imported steak for her and Xu Wen Nuan, Qin Zhi Ai suddenly discovered that Gu Yu Sheng was also there.