He left, you came

  Tang Jiji withdrew her hand and quietly took a few steps back, her face slightly pale.

  "It was you who gave me a choice, I chose to leave first." Tang Jiji made an effort to keep himself calm, stating the facts.

  No matter how she tried to cover it up, her nervousness was still evident. She knew that Shen Nan wanted her to stay, and she had no way of escaping yet.

  Upon hearing this sentence, Shen Nan's expression seemed to be smiling yet not smiling, his face was clear and handsome but completely shrouded in the shadow of sunlight, unable to discern any subtle signs of discontent.

  "Season, in my impression, you've always been very well-behaved. It turns out that you're not." He suddenly raised his hand to stroke Tang Season's hair, like an older brother stroking his younger sister's head. He smiled lightly: "But despite this, Season, I still understand you very well. Tell me, how many tens of thousands will it take for you to come back and see him again?"

  Tang Jiji didn't make a sound, nor did she avoid his hand with any expression. In her heart, she really extremely disliked the way Cheng Nanxiao treated her brother and sister, as if the emotions between them could only be limited to sibling affection.

  So in his heart she had already become someone who needed to be coaxed with money? Hehe, that's right, Tang Jiji was indeed this kind of person.

  "Five million?" Shen Nan's hoarse voice cut through the silence of this moment.

  "You think I'll go back for this price?" Tang Jiji said, and he couldn't help but want to bite his tongue off. He quoted a price and she actually took it seriously, as if they were discussing how much 419 was worth.

  "One million."

  "Good." Tang Ji finally nodded, she silently turned her head to the other side. The sunlight fell on her arm, stirring up heat, but her heart was throbbing with pain.

  So it's really time to go back? To see Ji Chuqu who has already passed away?

  Unfortunately, Tang Jiji still didn't make it to Ji Chuqian's funeral. He was already properly buried. She thought, perhaps it was fate, and fate had not allowed her to see him one last time.

  ……

  Outdoor park

  Fresh grass connects the sky, in the desolate suburban park behind the mountain, occasionally someone appears, but that is also very rare, because this is a cemetery for the deceased. Tombstones stand among clusters of chrysanthemums.

  Tang Jiji and Shen Nan stood to the side, while Ji Chuyan's tombstone was standing upright in front of them. A pair of mismatched people were also standing there, seemingly unaware of the two under the big tree.

  It's Gu Nuo Ye and Su Wei Jing, Tang Ji Ji silently muttered to herself in her heart. Heh, Ji Chu Quan, they've come to see you! The Gu Nuo Ye you've been thinking about day and night has come to visit you, will you be very happy...

  On the tombstone is a black and white photo of Ji Chu Xiang, which is also the only photo that he carefully preserved for many years, because it was taken by Gu Nuo Yan, whom he deeply loved until his death.

  It's all because of that damn unrequited love, to the point where he didn't care about his own sister Tang JiJi's life or death. For this stupid one-sided love, Ji Chuqiao exhausted everything and ended up buried in the yellow earth...

  In the photo, his narrow eyes are slightly closed, as if he is enjoying something to himself, and the corners of his mouth rise with a childlike smile, rarely showing warmth.

  That was a Ji Chuqiu that Tang Jiji had never seen before, with an expression as if he owned the whole world.

  Tang Jiji stood aside, staring at Gu Nuo and Su Wei Jing. They held flowers, released them, mourned in silence, bowed their heads and whispered something in front of the tombstone. Even outsiders could feel that the air was filled with sorrow, and the background behind them had frozen into a black-and-white photograph.

  She looked at this couple who were so distressed, and suddenly felt ridiculous and pathetic. Obviously, she knew that Ji Chuqu was deeply in love with Gu Nuo Yan, but Gu Nuo Yan actually brought Su Wei Jing along with him. Did he want to show off his love even after death?

  Tang Ji didn't remember how long she stood there, only that after Gu Nuo and Su Wei Jing left, a torrential downpour began.

  "Come." Shen Nan suddenly grasped her hand and led her to the tombstone.

  Tang Jiji was soaked from head to toe, shivering with cold, but she just stared blankly at the photo on the tombstone, as if scrutinizing a stranger she had just met.

  The rain grew heavier, and the raindrops flowed from her hair to her cheeks, with a cold temperature, but tasted bitter.

  Tang Jiji heard her own voice with a slight sob as she said to Shen Nanxiao: "Shen Nanxiao, I'm so cold. Can we go back?"

  Cheng Nanxuan seemed to have not heard her plea, and muttered to himself: "Ji Ji, when your brother was seriously ill, you were still taking the college entrance exam, so he didn't let anyone tell you that he was dying."

  Tang Jiji's face was expressionless as he corrected her: "He is not my brother, and we don't share the same surname."

  She felt that she was deceiving herself, yes, they were not of the same surname. This was because her parents had divorced 5 years ago, and Tang Jiji chose to live with her father, while Ji Chuxiao chose to live with her mother, so their surnames were changed.