Gemini Two

  This winter's first snowfall was late in coming, the temperature gradually dropped, I spent most of my time cooped up in my room, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window watching the snowflakes fall fluttering down, suddenly I had an urge to run.

  As I was thinking, the knock on the door came over, and I quickly opened it without even having time to put on my shoes. It was Gu Liuyi who knocked on the door, and when he saw me barefoot, he frowned and said, "Hurry up and put on your shoes." Actually, there was a thick carpet laid out, which was very warm, so whether or not I wore shoes didn't matter much.

  But since Gu Liuyu said so, I just went along with it and put on my shoes.

  Then Gu Liu said: "Yun Ge and Nan Mu have arrived, let's go down."

  I was taken aback and restrained myself from rolling my eyes, thinking for a moment before asking tentatively: "Has Gu Chen gone back?"

  Gu Liuyi gave me a strange look and nodded: "He just left not long ago, he wants to go back to take care of his grandfather."

  I couldn't help but rush out, it's better to leave now than later. To be honest, I didn't want to see Qiao Yunge and Qiao Nanmu at all. If Gu Chen was here, that would be great, at least he could cause some trouble and she could avoid running into them smoothly.

  What bad luck.

  Gu Liuyi saw my reluctance and opened his mouth with a hint of warning: "You'd better not come up with any tricks, go down quickly." He put on an unyielding attitude, I rolled my eyes, slightly adjusted my hair and followed Gu Liuyi downstairs.

  Today is a rare day when Gu Huamin and Shen Bieru are both absent, and I don't know what Qiao Yunge and Qiao Nanmu came here for.

  "Flowing and smooth." Qiao Yun smiled and greeted, her familiar tone wasn't too unpleasant.

  I raised my head and saw Qiao Nanmu first.

  He stood quietly beside Qiao Yunduan, and compared to the dazzling Qiao Yunduan who could grab everyone's attention at first glance, he seemed particularly steady and introverted. It seemed that Qiao Nanmu had never revealed his sharp edges, but with such a demeanor, he was elegant and refined, calm and serene, and his strong yet gentle and cold aura also made it difficult for people to look away.

  Especially at this moment, Qiao Nanmu was wearing a deep gray coat, and his clothes still had white snowflakes on them, as did his hair, which added an inexplicable sense of nobility and aloofness to him.

  Qiao Nanmu's eyes swept over me with a calm and waveless gaze, suddenly reminding me of what he said that night. At the time, he casually but unequivocally told me that as long as I married, he would marry too.

  I often wonder what kind of mood Qiao Nanmu was in when he said that sentence. At the time, I didn't think much about it and just immersed myself in my anger towards Qiao Nanmu, but now I feel that this sentence carries too much weight.

  At that time, I was angry with Qiao Nanmu because I felt he took marriage as a joke. Even if I couldn't say how much I liked Qiao Nanmu, I always thought that someone who could stand shoulder to shoulder with me should like me too. But he obviously had someone he liked yet still said those words to me, and I just felt humiliated.

  It wasn't until later that I thought about it carefully and suddenly understood. The girl Qiao Nanmu liked was no longer in this world, so for him, what did it matter who he married? Even if the young lady of the Gu family today was not me but someone else, he would probably still say something like that.

  I stared at Qiao Nanmu in a daze, my mind racing with thoughts that were a hundred times more complicated than before.

  Qiao Yunge smiled and teased, "Ah Jian, every time you see Nanmu, you stare blankly. Although Nanmu does look good, you shouldn't be a flower idiot, right?"

  I froze, and for a moment I didn't think of anything else. I immediately looked away. But unexpectedly, just as I looked away, Qiao Nanmu's deep eyes swept over me silently, with a hint of scrutiny and examination.