Chapter 5: Encounter at the Café

  The head of the river lit up, he's online!

  "I've been waiting for you." A sentence appeared on the screen that made Cao Er's heart flutter.

  "Are you back? Are you okay?" Cao Er tried to calm down her emotions.

  "Hehe! Everything is fine, it's just that I always miss someone!"

  The grass carefully depicted the face of the river and his expression when he said those words, but her disordered thoughts made everything blurry. His face kept appearing in front of her eyes, as if within reach, yet far away. It was like a dream!

  "Hehe! Tell me about your trip this time?" Cao'er restrained herself, deep down she wanted to pour out her longing emotions to the river, she wanted to tell him about her own struggles and pains, but... could she? Could she? Cao'er knew who the river was thinking of, she had always known, but she must make the river stop this kind of thinking, so she changed the subject.

  "The mountains are green and the water is beautiful, the scenery is pleasant to people, but I always think that if it were a trip for just the two of us, this scene would be even more charming."

  The grass sighed: "The grass relies on the river to be lush and green, and the river moistens the grass to make it lively. But in fact... the grass and the river have their own paths."

  Tears again welled up in Cao Er's eyes. During this period, she had become especially prone to tears - a single sentence, a song... could all make her tearful. The moonlit romance she wove in her heart was shattered, fragmenting inch by inch in her tears.

  "Perhaps we can be bosom friends: the grass is the river's red beauty, and the river is the grass's blue beauty." The subtlety of the grass allows the clever river to savor a unique flavor! Yes! When men and women meet online, even if they fall deeply in love, their respective families stand behind them. Although romance quietly retreats with the passage of time, familial love remains warm in people's hearts...

  "So let's not let this emotional thought jump out of the boundaries of our hearts, but instead, let it quietly accompany us as we journey through life, sharing in the joys and sorrows of the internet age, washing away the dust and troubles of the years, possessing a carefree spirit, and being lifelong friends!"

  The river's words are like a call, an appeal. The grass felt the river's sincerity and passion. All its thoughts and ideas retreated, retreated... to the depths of the grass's heart, hidden, hidden, without a trace.

  "Can I? Can I? Can I? Can I? Can I?......" He asked a string of questions. Across the screen, Cao seemed to see He's anxious face.

  "But just being a bosom friend, why refuse? " Cao Er suddenly felt relieved, thinking of the story of "High Mountain and Flowing Water": The piano and se are harmonious, and the interest is consistent; And I will be friends with He Yiwen, happy in my heart, what's wrong with that? Cao Er always thought that there was still friendship between men and women. It is not a euphemism for hidden love, nor is it a sublimation of unrequited love. Heterosexual bosom friends are the same as same-sex bosom friends, maintaining relationships with each other with the purest and most pure liking. Friends have always been mutually admired, not just between men and women, but also between men and men; The difference between friendship and love lies in the degree of admiration, friendship is three points of admiration and seven points of friendship, while love is nine points of admiration and one point of friendship.

  At this point, Cao'er sent over a "handshake photo" along with a sincere message: "Cao'er wishes to be the red mate of the river!"

  He immediately sent over a "little person jumping" emoji, showing his delight.

  "Hahaha..." The spontaneous laughter warmed their hearts.

  "Can we walk under the sunshine? The development of friendship also needs the nourishment and illumination of sunshine." This river's encounter made the grass delightful, the grass smiled. Hehe! This river should flow under the sunshine, and the grass should stand tall and green under the sunshine.

  The thoughts of the grass floated up again: The internet is the source of our acquaintance and understanding. In the virtual world of the internet, the grass and the river became acquainted. From the moment the river jumped out of the grass's QQ like a little deer, a long-lost joy quietly surged into the grass's heart. The Buddha said that it takes 500 reincarnations to have a chance encounter in this life. So, isn't being able to meet on the internet a fate earned from past lives? The grass and the river met on the internet and got to know each other through words, understanding each other's joys and sorrows, and feeling each other's true emotions. Perhaps if we take this relationship into reality, it will become even more pure and sincere! Let's give it a try!

  Grass nodded "OK" towards the river.

  On a sunny afternoon, in a cozy coffee shop filled with the fragrance of coffee, Cao and He sat quietly across from each other at a small table by the window, with two cups of fragrant coffee in front of them.

  Soothing, gentle music echoes in the quiet coffee shop. Amidst the excitement and tension of a first meeting, a heart-to-heart call and exchange are brewing and waiting to happen. This feeling seems both distant and yet just within reach.

  The grass smiled at the river, a tall man with middle-aged maturity, his white face showing elegance and wisdom.

  For a brief moment, the two of them said nothing, sipping their coffee, smiling at each other, and the warm atmosphere was gently floating in the air filled with the fragrance of coffee...