I almost touched the moon

"Ah Che, where did you put my Dior white waisted long coat, the one I bought last month?"

Wen Song looked around in the closet but couldn't find the clothes she wanted. She subconsciously asked, but all she got in response was silence.

She smiled bitterly as if she had just woken up from a dream, and habitually opened her phone to check WeChat. There was not a single message in the pinned dialog box.

Suddenly, I felt that all my strength was drained away, and I slowly slid down the closet to the ground. I hugged my knees, buried my head in them, and fell into a long silence.

Passion can fade, but the habits formed in long-term life seem to be able to never change.

Wen Song didn't know how long she had been sitting in the cloakroom, nor did she know when she burst into tears. She suddenly went crazy and called Cheng Che.

"What's up?"

He still answered the call quickly, but his tone was very cold, without a trace of emotion.

"Where can you put that long white coat from Dior that I bought last month?"

She really wanted to say, I miss you so much, can you come back? But when the words came out of her mouth, they sounded particularly cold and heartless.

"The white coats are all in the back row of closets in the cloakroom. It should be the second closet on the left. Look for it yourself."

Without waiting for her to say anything else, Cheng Che immediately hung up the phone.

Wen Song felt that he was really crazy, which was why he called Cheng Che again.

"If you can't find it, buy a new one. I'll buy it for you."

This time, his tone became a little impatient, but the words "I'll buy it for you" still retained the habit of two years.

"No..." Wen Song said as tears streamed down his cheeks, and even his voice was filled with tears that he couldn't hide, "Thank you..."

When Cheng Che heard her voice, he also fell silent, but he did not hang up the phone. Instead, he waited for her to continue.

"A Che..." Wen Song took the initiative to speak, but he didn't know what to say and fell into silence again.

She could hear Cheng Che's breathing, but the background was very quiet and not a single sound could be heard.

“Are you in Zurich?”

April in Zurich doesn’t rain very often, and even if it does, there won’t be strong winds like in Oxford. More often than not, it’s the sunshine and breeze that dispel the winter chill and bring the springtime with blooming flowers.

"Yes." Cheng Che's answer was brief. After a while, he asked again, "Anything else?"

"No."

After hearing his words, Wen Song knew that there was no need for her to continue the conversation. Her reluctance might keep him by her side for a short time, but in the long run, it would only cause greater harm.

She didn't want to let herself sink, and even more so she didn't want to disappoint Cheng Che.

Cheng Che hung up the phone quickly, leaving her with even more torturous stillness and silence.

Wen Song unpinned the WeChat message he had sent to him, looked down and saw the ring on his left ring finger, and suddenly found it very ridiculous.

"Sister, you have to wear it all the time and can't take it off."

His words were still ringing in my ears, as clear as if they happened yesterday. Wen Song smiled bitterly, took off the ring, put it in the bottom layer of the jewelry cabinet, and closed the drawer.

At that moment, the sound of rain suddenly became louder, falling on the roof, making a lot of noise.

She called Wen Yiheng for the first time and said, "Mom, I want to go home. I don't want to stay in Oxford."

"What happened Ilia?" Wen Yiheng seemed to be busy, and his voice was very light, "If you don't wanna stay in Oxford, just e back whenever you want. Dear, I'm at the middle of meeting, call me back after an hour and half ok?"

(What happened Ilia? If you don't want to be in Oxford, just come back anytime. Honey, I'm in a meeting, call me back in an hour and a half, okay?)

This was the first time that Wen Song cried and called Wen Yiheng after she turned twelve. She really wanted to tell her mother that she couldn't bear to leave Cheng Che, she was very sad, and she wanted to go back to find him, but all Wen Yiheng told her was that she was in a meeting.

She suddenly understood Cheng Che's dissatisfaction with her. When he won the gold medal, he wanted to share his joy with her. Her answer was exactly the same as Wen Yiheng's.

She laughed at herself. It seemed that they were really mother and daughter. They were only suitable to live alone. Once they entered into an intimate relationship, they would only hurt each other. The only difference was that she and Wen Yiheng were related by blood. She couldn't really abandon Wen Song, and Wen Song wouldn't really blame her.

But love is different. Love is too fragile and too easy to dissipate.

Wen Song calmed down and said calmly to the other end of the phone: "Nothing, it's just that the weather in Oxford is too bad."

Wen Yiheng hung up the phone immediately, and one minute later, Wen Song received a message from her, "I asked Audrey to transfer 1 pounds to you, find a place to bask in the sun."

Wen Song couldn't help but laugh. What on earth should she be sad about?

She was indeed reluctant, but would it be useful to be reluctant? Reluctance and sadness were the most useless things. They would not do anything except make her fall into negative emotions. The earth would not stop turning just because Cheng Che broke up with her, and her life would not become dark and gloomy just because Cheng Che left.

Of course, her research project will not extend the deadline because of her breakup. She still needs to publish research results, participate in the International Astrophysics Conference in June, and many other things to accomplish.

If one neglects important work because of a broken heart, in Wen Yiheng's words, he will be sentenced to at least three years in prison.

Thinking of this, Wen Song forced herself to change her clothes despite her tiredness and went out to the college office. She still hadn't found the coat, but it didn't matter, she could just buy another one.

Two days later, she looked up from a pile of draft papers, finally finished the paper, and sent it to her supervisor. She looked at the time again, it was 4:6 am on April 14, and she still had days of spring break left.

She immediately booked a flight to Cairns and a hotel for two weeks, so she could go to the Great Barrier Reef alone.

When she was leaving, she saw that the elevator entrance was crowded with people. Not wanting to get into the crowd, she went to the stairwell at the end of the corridor.

However, perhaps because he was too tired or lacked sleep, Wen Song suddenly felt dizzy, his vision went dark, and he missed the step.