Moonlight falls into my arms

"Where to?" Ruan Li looked at the haystacks rushing past outside.

After leaving Jinyue, the car drove directly onto the highway, not going to Ruan Li's house, nor returning to Jiang Yuci's house.

"I'll take you to eat."

Ruan Li looked at Jiang Yuci, "Time to eat again."

Jiang Yuci always seemed to care whether she had eaten.

"Okay, I'll take you there." Jiang Yuci made a reservation on her phone beforehand. "What would you like to eat?"

Ruan Li glanced sideways, her gaze fixed on his lowered and focused eyes.

The last meal Jiang Yu ordered was one that Ruan Li liked.

Jiang Yuci always remembered what she liked.

“I’m fine with anything,” Ruan Li said.

Jiang Yuci showed her his phone, "The sweet and sour fish there is really good, want to try it?"

Ruan Li nodded. "Okay, thank you."

Jiang Yuci, not knowing what was wrong with what Ruan Li said, immediately put down the phone he had just shown to Ruan Li.

Huo Xingzhou said from the front, "Give me a plate of stir-fried pork."

Jiang Yuci didn't even look up: "Go home and eat."

"what?"

"Ah."

Huo Xingzhou chuckled at Jiang Yuci's "hmm," and said, "You two are enjoying your time together and don't want me anymore."

“I’ll go back with you to eat,” Jiang Yuci said again.

So this means they won't eat with Ruan Li either? Huo Xingzhou raised an eyebrow and looked over, seemingly not understanding. They had traveled together in the car, so why couldn't they eat together?

"Ruan Li, can I ask you a question?"

The car exited the highway and slowly moved to the side.

Huo Xingzhou drove slowly, as if waiting for the red light to stop the car smoothly, and then turned to look at Ruan Li.

"doing what?"

Jiang Yuci spoke up, drawing Huo Xingzhou's attention.

"I just want to know, how did this little girl..." Her thoughts changed in an instant...

"You don't need to know." Jiang Yuci looked up. "Let's drive."

Huo Xingzhou: "......"

Even the young girl doesn't like him anymore, but he's still protecting her.

Huo Xingzhou found it interesting, so he took Ruan Li to the restaurant that Jiang Yu had booked.

Ruan Li opened the car door and got out, then turned around and found that Jiang Yuci had also gotten out with her.

He escorted her to the door and said, "Don't think too much about what happened today. Eat slowly. There will be a car to take you home after you finish eating."

Ruan Li lowered her eyes, "Hmm..."

Jiang Yuci always manages to arrange everything perfectly, without making a single mistake.

"go in."

Ruan Li turned and went into the restaurant.

Jiang Yuci watched her figure recede into the distance, then turned to open the car door.

They found they couldn't pull it.

A message came from the cell phone.

Huo Xingzhou:

-I have something to do, you can go back by yourself.

Jiang Yuci had just seen the message and hadn't said anything when the car in front of him drove away.

Jiang Yu resigned: ......

Only after the car had completely disappeared did Jiang Yu realize that Huo Xingzhou was not joking.

He ignored the message Qi Ru sent him on his phone and called another car.

Unbeknownst to him, Huo Xingzhou's car reversed back after he left.

He opened the car door, took his phone, and went into the restaurant.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang Yuci ordered the food half an hour ago. Please take me there."

"this way please."

Ruan Li sat alone at the dining table, which was filled with her favorite foods. She slowly took a bite of the sweet and sour fish that Jiang Yuci had recommended.

A voice came from beside me: "We meet again?"

Ruan Li turned her head to look over, still with the fish in her mouth.

Huo Xingzhou?

Didn't he just resign from Jiang Yu's company?

"Can I sit here?"

Ruan Li nodded, swallowed the fish meat in her mouth, and found that the meat was indeed tender and the outer shell was crispy, wrapped in a thick sauce with a salty and sweet flavor.

It's definitely worth a try.

"What are you going to say now?" Ruan Li shrugged. "You even resigned behind Jiang Yu's back. Are you going to say something cheesy like 'take the money and leave, give up'?"

Huo Xingzhou: "...Try reading fewer CEO romance novels."

"Then you should watch less detective shows. There's really nothing about me that you should suspect. I'm just an ordinary person."

At first, Ruan Li found herself in the future, ten years later, feeling lost, helpless, and terrified of the unknown.

After getting used to being around Jiang Yuci, she wondered if she was really different from others, which was why such absurd things happened to her.

Then, nothing happened.

Time has proven that she was just an ordinary person.

"I came here to ask you what you really think, and why you don't want to be with Jiang Yuci."

Huo Xingzhou asked the question directly.

Ruan Li asked softly, "Uncle, do you have someone you like?"

Huo Xingzhou got impatient. "Hey, didn't we agree not to call me 'uncle'? I'd rather you call me by my name."

"Besides, who do you look down on? Everyone has someone they like. I've been in relationships before, you know."

Ruan Li smiled and narrowed her eyes: "I can't tell. Then why did you break up?"

Huo Xingzhou was completely unaware that Ruan Li was leading the conversation by the nose, and instead became lost in memories of the past.

"She betrayed me."

"Cheating?"

"No, I'd rather she cheated on me," Huo Xingzhou sneered. "At least she wouldn't have any regrets."

"So I figured it's better to end it quickly than to suffer for a long time, and I'll just end the relationship directly." Huo Xingzhou looked at the girl opposite him. "I was very malicious towards you before, and I apologize to you, but I'm telling you seriously, I can see that Jiang Yuci has changed a lot because of you."

"Can you tell me why you've been so suspicious of me from the very beginning?" Ruan Li asked.

Huo Xingzhou's eyelashes fluttered, and he turned his head away. "I can't say for sure."

It should be said that Jiang Yuci spoke to her personally.

"See? You don't trust me. Jiang Yuci may care about me, but that's not the kind of care I want." What she wants is a man's affection for a woman.

Rather than a man taking care of his sister.

"..." Huo Xingzhou paused for a moment. He wanted to say that Jiang Yuci's concern was no longer simple, but just as he was about to speak, Ruan Li's phone rang.

She picked up her phone.

It was Xu Wang who sent her a message.

[picture]

These are photos of Jiang Yuci from his student days that Ruan Li had requested.

Ruan Li clicked on it.

Huo Xingzhou glanced at him from across the room and said, "Add me back as a friend first, then I'll send you something."

Ruan Li shook her head. "No."

Huo Xingzhou: "Why?"

"My gut feeling is that you won't post anything good."

Huo Xingzhou was speechless. Why was this girl so hard to coax? How did Jiang Yuci usually get along with her?

"After you read this, you will change your opinion of Jiang Yuci."

Huo Xingzhou thought that at least after she saw it, she wouldn't say things like Jiang Yuci just cared about her.

“Look, isn’t this Jiang Yuci?” Ruan Li held up her phone to show him.

It was Jiang Yuci, wearing a school uniform. Even in a crowd, she still stood out. Standing in the last row of the class, her hair was blowing in the wind, and she wore glasses on her nose. Her features were deep and well-defined, making her seem like she was in a different dimension from the people around her.

"It's him. Where did you get the photo?"

Ruan Li pressed her fingertip to her lips, "He's been handsome since he was a child."

"Yeah, he's so handsome, why don't you say yes?" Huo Xingzhou originally thought his plan couldn't be wrong, and that the two of them would definitely be able to get together smoothly.

The unexpected answer was that Ruan Li was unwilling.

Ruan Li found him strange, "Why do you think I should agree? It seems like everyone thinks I should."

"No, why can't I agree!" Huo Xingzhou was going crazy inside. Didn't the two of them like each other? What were they struggling with?