It’s Colder Today

Thirty-Seven Degrees Part 2

Shi Yun read the short excerpt pushed by the software. The taste of barbecued meat in her mouth was gone, and only the bitter taste of lettuce remained when she chewed.

This message gave Shi Yun a warning that the person in front of her was not him. Even if their eyebrows and eyes were similar, even if she tried her best to find the shadow of that person in these eyes, it was all an illusion.

The meat on the grill sizzled, and Shi Yun turned her eyes away from her phone.

The phone screen lit up and then dimmed automatically. After swallowing the vegetables and meat in her mouth, Shi Yun responded seriously, “Do you really want to meet them?”

Ji Yanli nodded: “I want to know everything about you.”

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Perhaps it was because the insecurity brought to him by his own family was too strong. His mother abandoned him and his father. Ji Yanli was inferior, lacked self-confidence, and greatly lacked a sense of security.

He even felt that he was unworthy of beautiful people and things.

Looking at the person opposite her, Shi Yun was silent for a while before saying, “Okay, I’ll send you the time and place.”

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Mbl zsnyvksd sq vbl bsv rsv alpvywaydv oyp lypu vs qkde. Gqvla Fbk Zwd alrsavle vbl vyczl dwxcla vbyv Tl Fwk vsze bla, pbl oyp zle kdpkel cu vbl oykvla.

Tl yde bkp tkazqaklde bye yzalyeu yaakhle.

Fbk Zwd vssj sqq bla nsyv yde pyke, “Tl oyp nyzzle vs y xllvkdt cu bkp kdpvawnvsa vbkp yqvladssd. Tl okzz nsxl shla zyvla. El nyd lyv qkapv kq usw’al bwdtau.”

Tl Fwk’p tkazqaklde Lkdt Zyduk bydele vbl qawkv rzyvl vs Fbk Zwd: “Rv’p sjyu, kv’zz sdzu cl y pbsav oykv.”

Fbk Zwd eke dsv qllz xwnb bspvkzkvu vsoyaep Lkdt Zyduk, rlabyrp clnywpl Tl Fwk bye yzalyeu vsze bla lhlauvbkdt ycswv vbl rypv. Mbl vball sq vblx nbyvvle nypwyzzu clqsal Kk Zydzk yaakhle.

Yspv sq vbl vkxl vblu vyzjle ycswv vblka nbkzebsse, pwnb yp vbl xwzclaau vall kd vblka uyae, yde bso Tl Fwk sdnl eashl yd lzlnvakn ckjl vs tkhl Fbk Zwd y akel, obknb alpwzvle kd Fbk Zwd’p zlt clkdt casjld yde qaynvwale.

He Sui’s girlfriend likes to listen to these childhood stories very much. But Shi Yun didn’t like telling them very much, because there was another person who was the protagonist in these stories.

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For example, who caught her after she fell off the mulberry tree, and who scolded her for picking mulberries and then helped her pick a basket of mulberries.

For example, after she and He Sui fell off the electric scooter together, who replaced the useless He Sui and piggybacked her to school every day.

This person was absent.

“…You don’t know. I fell while taking Shi Yun on an electric bike because the car coming out of the corner was too slow. He and I were trying to let the other go first and I didn’t know why my brain stopped working. I forgot to use my feet to support us on the ground, and then we fell because the car was going too slowly. And do you know what happened next? The driver thought we were trying to blackmail him, and as soon as he got out of the car, he blamed me, saying that he was driving so slowly but we still fell. When I heard that, I was not convinced, and I jumped up from the ground. I quarreled with him and told him that we fell because he drove too slowly.”

He Sui spoke vividly on the other end.

Shi Yun was also angry and amused: “There were a lot of people watching at the time. I was lying on the ground and couldn’t get up because of a broken leg. He fell on his butt and was perfectly fine. He didn’t even come to help me up. He was arguing with the driver. I was lying on the ground and people were watching him arguing with the driver.”

Ning Yanyi laughed so heartlessly that she covered her mouth and said, “I don’t think I should be so happy?”

Shi Yun: “It’s okay. No matter what, everyone will laugh every time I talk about this.”

When Ji Yanli arrived, he saw them talking and laughing from afar. The waiter was leading the way for him, making a gesture of invitation, and then he was holding his headset and communicating with an colleague.

Waiter: “Table number seventeen is here, sir, this way…”

It was a very ordinary four-person seating, with two long sofas on each side, and two people sitting on each sofa. The soup base hadn’t been served yet, so the three of them sat there chatting and waitingq for him.

When Ji Yanli walked over, he first saw Shi Yun facing him. Opposite Shi Yun was a couple, a man and a woman, with their backs to him.

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The laughter had not yet died down when he walked in. He sat down next to Shi Yun. Just as he raised his hand to greet him, Ji Yanli noticed that the smile of the man opposite him had frozen in place.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

He didn’t know whether he should put down the hand that was raised to greet them.

The ignorant waiter came over with the menu and asked if they wanted to order. But none of the four people at the table answered him.

Shi Yun looked at He Sui. His reaction did not surprise her at all. She took the initiative to introduce them: “This is my boyfriend, Ji Yanli. This is my childhood friend He Sui, and this is He Sui’s girlfriend Ning Yanyi.”

Ji Yanli: “Hello.”

However, neither of the two people on the other side responded to him.

Ning Yanyi wanted to say “hello”, but she couldn’t open her mouth. She looked at Ji Yanli opposite him with some shock, and felt that this face was extremely familiar, and a little bit like He Sui.

Her gaze moved back and forth between Ji Yanli and He Sui. Finally, Ning Yanyi looked at Shi Yun opposite her. She could feel the rising anger of He Sui who was sitting next to her.

It was very noisy all around, making the silence at their table seem particularly eerie.

In the eerie silence, He Sui was the first to break it.

“Shi Yun, come out with me.” He Sui looked at Ji Yanli, and finally looked away, but without even looking at Shi Yun, he walked straight out of the hot pot restaurant. The suppressed anger in him was obvious.

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Ji Yanli looked at Shi Yun with some confusion. She just smiled at him and then scooted out of the booth.

He Sui walked very fast in front, not caring at all whether Shi Yun behind him would catch up or not. He followed the signs to find the fire escape.

He Sui pushed the door open, and it was pitch black inside. As the door opened, the sound-activated sensor light came on.

The fire escape was very quiet, and dust covered everything. It seemed that no one had been there for a long time. The smell of cement had not dissipated due to lack of ventilation.

Shi Yun walked in, and the fire escape door closed automatically behind her.

“Are you sick?” He Sui asked.

His voice echoed in the empty fire escape, and the repeated echoes seemed as if everything around her was questioning her.

Asking if she was sick.

Shi Yun met He Sui’s angry face. She seemed to be playing dumb and asked, “Don’t you think he looks like him? I think he looks like him.”

“So, don’t you think you’re sick?” He Sui raised his hand and pointed at the door of the fire escape. “Don’t you think you’re sick and repulsive for finding such a person? What did he do wrong? What did he do wrong for you to like him as a substitute?”

He Sui yelled at her, veins bulging in his forehead and neck. He was clearly the aggressor, but he broke down before Shi Yun. He felt sympathy for Shi Yun, but was also angry at her for not fighting back.

He took a deep breath to prevent himself from crying. He Sui passed by Shi Yun and reached out to open the door of the fire escape. When the door opened, the noise outside the mall immediately floated into the quiet fire escape.

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“Shi Yun, you know, it’s impossible.”

He said this at last, and then the door to the fire escape slammed shut.

The closed door brought silence back to the fire escape. Shi Yun didn’t know how long she stood until the lights went out.


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