Moonlight falls into my arms

In the end, we only stayed on that one question; if we talked about Jiang Yuci for a couple more minutes, we'd be late for the afternoon.

Ruan Li took her phone home; the SIM card was also arranged for her by Jiang Yuci.

She inserted the SIM card and turned on the phone.

I added my first contact to my contacts list.

She paused for a long time while typing the note.

I typed the character "Jiang" (江), but then felt it was too cold.

No matter how many times she changed it, Ruan Li was still not satisfied.

Tan Yue's words suddenly came out.

Ruan Li smiled and finally added the note "Chosen Husband" to Jiang Yuci's contact information.

Ruan Li rolled around on the sofa, clutching her phone, and then added "mine" before the four letters on the screen.

She deleted it again very quickly.

She sat up and touched her burning face.

Open the calendar.

On the last day of this year, which is a week from now, Ruan Li will write a note: Confession Day.

She felt she still had hope. If Jiang Yuci didn't care about her, why would he have reminded her not to like people so easily in the car today?

Then she should be bolder.

She didn't say it today simply because she wasn't ready.

She wanted to give Jiang Yuci a grand confession on the last day of the year!

Ruan Li opened her phone's notes app and made a plan for herself.

Ruan Li's oral cavity was still not healed, so Jiang Yuci ordered food to be delivered to her home that night.

After eating a few bites, she took her phone and went back to her room.

I opened that diary again.

This time, my mindset is different.

In the past, she had always observed things from the perspective of an outsider.

That's a beautiful diary of unrequited love.

But now, looking again at the words Jiang Yuci used to describe others.

She felt incredibly embarrassed and jealous.

I was curious about her face, yet glad I hadn't opened the photo album that day.

......

The next day, Ruan Li took her phone and went to Dr. Li's place to add him on WeChat, and then added Tan Yue on WeChat as well.

Her social circle is that small, and apart from the big shots, it all revolves around Jiang Yuci.

At noon, Jiang Yuci neither ate at the hospital nor went out to eat with Ruan Li.

The meal Jiang Yuci ordered for Ruan Li was delivered to the hospital. He then told Ruan Li that he was going out to eat with his friends alone.

"Is the friend you're talking about the one I saw at the restaurant last time?" Ruan Li asked.

Jiang Yu nodded.

Ruan Li said "oh" but didn't say she wanted to go with them. She also didn't like the way that person was looking at her.

He took his food and went to find Tan Yue to eat with her.

Jiang Yuci watched her enter the lounge before descending the steps.

Huo Xingzhou, still dressed in a suit, waited for a long time in the private room, where a document was placed on the table.

Jiang Yuci pushed open the door and went in, her gaze lingering on the document.

"Here you want it." Huo Xingzhou nodded.

Jiang Yuci didn't touch the document. She sat opposite him with a bowl of warm water already poured beside her.

All the dishes on the table were served.

"Look for yourself." Huo Xingzhou pushed the document over.

"This is the test report."

After attending the birthday party that day, Jiang Yuci learned that Ruan Li was not arranged by her family, so she asked Huo Xingzhou to help her investigate Ruan Li's identity, but to no avail.

Jiang Yu then provided the video for professional plastic surgeons to examine.

Did Ruan Li actually have plastic surgery to look like this?

"Did you see it?" Jiang Yuci asked casually.

Huo Xingzhou shook his head: "I came to find you as soon as I got my hands on it."

"See?" he said, picking up his chopsticks and starting to eat.

"I've never seen you eat so enthusiastically before. Do you have surgery this morning?"

Jiang Yu gave a vague answer, saying, "I'm just hungry."

During the meal, he kept glancing at the document.

Huo Xingzhou slowly flipped through the pages.

The further he went, the deeper his brow furrowed.

Jiang Yuci looked up. "What's wrong?"

Huo Xingzhou closed the file: "How is that possible? They say they haven't had plastic surgery. How can there be people in the world who look exactly alike?"

Jiang Yuci lowered her eyes and put the chopsticks in her hand aside.

Huo Xingzhou looked at him and said, "Weren't you hungry just now? You only ate a few bites before stopping."

"I'm not hungry anymore." Jiang Yuci reached out and took the documents, flipping through them.

The photo above shows Ruan Li from ten years ago, when she was still wearing her school uniform. Jiang Yuci bought the photo from her friend.

"I said, she really wasn't someone your parents invited?" Huo Xingzhou still couldn't believe that there could be people in this world who looked exactly alike.

“She is not,” Jiang Yuci replied definitively.

"Then she must have had ulterior motives for approaching you. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that she just happened to find the diary and that it just happened to look like your first love?"

"What could her purpose be?" Jiang Yuci had considered that Ruan Li might have other motives.

But Ruan Li spends most of her time playing video games.

He couldn't fathom what her motives could be; what could someone who stutters even when lying possibly deceive him about?

"Anyway, you still need to be careful of her." Huo Xingzhou raised his glass and clinked it with his.

"Why aren't you replying to me?" Huo Xingzhou looked at Jiang Yuci, who was looking down at the documents.

"Jiang Yuci, you don't think she's approaching you without any ulterior motives, do you?" Huo Xingzhou asked.

Jiang Yuci looked up: "At least not at the moment."

"Don't you know the saying 'cast a long line to catch a big fish'? Maybe she's just not showing it yet. If you keep an eye on her, her true colors will naturally come out eventually."

"I think you've fallen for her, haven't you? You look completely distracted." Huo Xingzhou raised his glass, teasing him meaningfully.

Surprisingly, Jiang Yuci did not refute his words.

Huo Xingzhou sat up straight: "You... let me tell you, don't think that just because you stared at her face a few times, you like her. You're infatuated only because she has the same face as your first love. Wake up."

Jiang Yuci looked him in the eye, his eyes deep and unfathomable: "If it's just because of that face, why do I feel so bad when I hear that she likes someone else?"

Huo Xingzhou said quietly, "It's still because of that face. People always have a possessive desire for the person they like. You always treat her as Ruan Li for no reason, so naturally you have a kind of physiological possessive desire for her. If she falls in love with someone else, you will actively switch the roles in your mind and think that Ruan Li has fallen in love with someone else. It's a very normal phenomenon. I've encountered this situation in the cases I've handled."

Jiang Yuci covered his eyes, his pupils fixed on the smiling face on the document.

“Sigh, I think this is really a pity. I still remember that every day after school, instead of rushing home, you would go to Shenghu first. I really thought you were there to enjoy the scenery. I didn’t expect it was to escort her home.” Huo Xingzhou shook his head. “You’re missing an honest confession.”

"After all, with a face like yours, young girls are very attracted to you."

Jiang Yuci did not respond. Her fingertips gently and slowly brushed over the person in the photo. The soft outline was so familiar that she could draw it with her eyes closed.

In the past, whenever he got off work late, he would go to Shenghu Lake, which he frequented most during his high school years, sit in the pavilion by the lake, and stare blankly at her photo.

It's like a fish that was thrown onto a dry ground finally returning to the water and being able to survive normally.

But ever since that night, he brought Ruan Li home.

It seems he hasn't been to Shenghu for a long time.

More of my memories are of people in the kitchen wearing pink aprons, their hair tied up, frantically adding ingredients to the pot as it bubbled and boiled; two bowls of steaming tomato and egg noodles on the table; and cats that would occasionally stick to my feet.

Perhaps, as Huo Xingzhou said, he projected his possessiveness onto Ruan Li.

So I was very worried when she was sick, very anxious when she got burned, and heartbroken when I learned that she had someone she liked.

"I understand." Jiang Yuci pushed the document in her hand over: "Help me throw it away."

Huo Xingzhou kept his head down and ate his meal, then raised his hand slightly, saying, "It's enough that you understand."

After Jiang Yuci left, he finished his meal and stared at the opened document.

The photo of Ruan Li above was dazzling, and Huo Xingzhou suddenly felt that he might have guessed wrong.

If it were the Jiang Yuci of the past, how could he bear to throw anything with Ruan Li's photo into the trash? He would have been restrained enough not to frame it and hang it on the wall to treasure and worship it.

Now they're telling him to throw it away.

Does he really still love Ruan Li?