The Humble Spare Tire is Set After the Car Rolls Over - Chapter 170

They still have some savings. His father had deposited a lot of money in Swiss banks in batches, but the night before the accident, he only told Nan Xiaojin’s mother that there were four million in one account. And these four million became the last resort for Nan Xiaojin and her mother to travel to a foreign country.

The expenses abroad are not small, although Nan Xiaojin’s mother and daughter are still consciously frugal, and now there are only more than 2 million left. With more than two million yuan, it is still very difficult to settle down in City B.

Zhao Yi wants to help her arrange a place to live. There are many properties in City B under his name, and they are empty.

But Nan Xiaojin did not agree, but simply rented a small apartment in City B. The pressure of renting a house in Beijing was too great, Zhao Yi did not agree, but seeing Nan Xiaojin insist, he did not say anything. Just arranged a job for her mother – he listened to her mother’s piano very well, and found someone to arrange a job as a piano teacher for her.

For about a week, he and Nan Xiaojin went to see the house and bought furniture, making the slightly humble rental house more and more warm.

Zhao Yi had met Nan Xiaojin’s mother before. She was a gentle and demure lady who was well-maintained and looked to be in her early thirties at most. Later, he and Nan Xiaojin went to the airport to pick her up, and found that in just three years, she had lost a lot of weight and had fine lines on the corners of her eyes. But after returning to China after many years, Mrs. Nan’s mood at this time was only joy and gratitude.

Dazzling, more than half a month has passed.

It has been more than a month since Zhao Yi moved out of that apartment.

The lives of Nan Xiaojin and Mrs. Nan are gradually on the right track, and after a few days, New Year’s Day is approaching.

On New Year’s Day, Nan Xiaojin asked Zhao Yi to have dinner together in a famous couple’s restaurant.

The layout of the restaurant is very good, romantic and warm and gives enough space for each guest. The two were in a secluded corner, where the flickering lights and the green plants around the corner isolated them from the outside world.

Zhao Yi asked Nan Xiaojin about the recent situation, and Nan Xiaojin told him that he was doing well. It’s really good. The mother and daughter have returned to their hometown and have a stable life. Her mother has a smile on her brows every day.

After the trivia was over, Nan Xiaojin finally summoned up the courage when it was about to end.

“Zhao Yi.” She called out suddenly.

Zhao Yi raised his head and looked at her: “What’s wrong?”

His eyes were quiet, and Nan Xiaojin’s heart froze almost instantly. But it’s already here, and no matter what, it can’t be left halfway.

For a while, she forgot all the thoughtful and touching confessions, her mind was blank, and she could only ask him directly with her eyes closed: “Can we get back together?”

Zhao Yi was stunned and did not answer.

Time passed by, and the overhead lights flickered several times.

The last ray of hope that he held tightly was completely shattered, and Nan Xiaojin seemed to have finally calmed down.

“It turns out that you told me at that time that you had someone you liked, and you really liked it so seriously.” She forced herself to tease, but there was only a bitter taste left.

Zhao Yi frowned and was about to deny it.

Nan Xiaojin touched her eyes, hurried in front of him and said, “Don’t rush to deny it, you obviously like her very much.”

When you love someone, you can’t hide it.

Zhao Yi accompanies her to eat, watch movies with her, play with her everywhere, and accompany her to see the house and buy furniture… It is so intimate and inseparable, but she can always feel the melancholy between Zhao Yi’s eyebrows and the alienation in her eyes.

He no longer likes her, the tenderness and care these days are more just guilt and compensation.

What a sensitive person Nan Xiaojin is, she should have noticed this long ago. But because of always holding on to hope and reluctant to face it.

Now that her hope was broken, she suppressed the disappointment and sadness in her heart, and finally began to think about it calmly. Some clues that she could ignore in the past are more and more invented at this moment.

Zhao Yi has fallen in love with someone else, but he has never seen him get along with other girls for two months, and he has never heard him mention it. He even refuses to admit his liking.

All kinds of conclusions can only point to one answer, he fell in love with a person he couldn’t like.

If it had been discovered earlier, Nan Xiaojin might have persuaded people to give up. But in the past two months, she can feel Zhao Yi’s persistence, which is not a shallow liking.

“I know, you actually wish you could ‘like’ me…but you failed.”

“Who is that person? Do I know him?” she couldn’t help asking.

Zhao Yi moved his gaze to the glass window beside him, looking at the crowd in twos and threes outside, and Xinxue.

Nan Xiaojin chased his gaze and asked him again, “If you really like it, why don’t you try harder?”

Her voice was soft, but there was something about her strength.

She is petite and weak, but she has always insisted on chasing after the people and things she loves.

Without turning back, she may not be able to understand those who stand still and are afraid of losing.

…

New Year’s Eve.

Although it is forbidden to set off fireworks, people always have a way to express their joy of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Therefore, the lights of the steel city are flickering and changing, and anyone can feel the noise and joy of the city.

But all this is just like a silent painting on the window in Zhao Yi’s room. No matter how the light and shadow outside change, it can only illuminate a little light in the room that is not turned on.

Zhao Yi was lying on the bed without even taking off his clothes.

It was the same three years ago. He was alone in the dormitory, holding the letter that Nan Xiaojin had left for him in his hand, looking out the window from the sun to the center, then gradually sinking to the west. Time is fast, yet it seems slow.

Then the boy dressed in twilight opened the door, driving out the silent darkness.

But today there is no such boy.

Nan Xiaojin and what he said kept lingering in his ears.

I… like him?

He stretched out his arms and covered his eyes.

Yes, he likes court speeches.

It’s actually not that hard to see. His shadow is always in his dreams every night.

Perhaps earlier – very early – Zhao Yi knew this love, even a stronger feeling. But he didn’t expect that this emotion that he didn’t dare to admit could be so easily pointed out.

He picked up the phone and rubbed his thumb on the name at the top of the address book for a long time.

Finally, he pressed the dial button.

beep-beep-beep…

The busy tone rang for a full minute, but no one answered.

The complexity in his eyes receded at this moment, frowning between his brows.

These days, Chao Ci has never contacted him actively, nor has he contacted Chao Ci.

It’s just that he didn’t expect that he called the other party, but no one answered.

It was not twelve o’clock at this time, and Chao Ci usually went to bed at half past twelve.

Zhao Yi sat up from the bed and made another phone call.

Still no one answered.

He called five or six in a row, but was never connected.

…

Zhao Yi didn’t even know if he fell asleep the night before.

He tossed and turned for a whole night, and when he woke up the next day, he asked the counselor for the contact information of the tutor who took the remarks as the subject.

He didn’t care about class, left the counselor’s office, and called the counselor downstairs in the teaching building.

He asked the tutor if Chao Ci followed him to do research in Country X. The instructor replied yes.

But he then asked again if he could ask Chao Ci to call him back. He couldn’t reach Chao Ci yesterday, so he was in a hurry.

The instructor faltered and said only as much as possible.

After finishing the call, Zhao Yi frowned fiercely.

He could sense something was wrong. He also tried to make a few calls to Chao Ci this morning, but still no one answered. There is rarely such a situation in which they have been unable to communicate with each other in North Korea, and the instructor is also ambiguous, which is very awkward.

This incident is thought to be that Chao Ci was deliberately avoiding him, which makes sense. But he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

Chao Ci… Are you really doing research in country X?

For some reason, he suddenly had such doubts. And once there is a direction, the suspicion becomes stronger and clearer.

Yes, with Chao Ci’s popularity in the school, coupled with the background of Chao’s family, it was not difficult for him to ask a tutor to say that he went to that country together.

He went back and checked the school’s official website for a long time, and finally found the national project led by the tutor that the tutor said. However, in the list of more than a dozen participants, there is no name of Chao Ci at all.

This is not a final conclusion.

Zhao Yi looked at the names of the participants. They were all from their department, but most of them were seniors and seniors. He asked someone to find the contact information of one of them and called him again.

He asked the person if there was a person named Chaoci in their group.

“Chao Ci? Do you mean the junior at XX level?” the senior sister on the other end asked. Chao Ci is still very famous in their department. “No. It would be nice if our group really had such a handsome junior.”

No.

It’s almost certain now that Chaoci didn’t go to Country X to do any bullshit.

He just asked the mentor to play him a trick to fool outsiders. But the tutor didn’t tell the other students in the group about this.

The flustered heart palpitations became more and more obvious.

If he hadn’t followed the tutor to do the project, and he didn’t come to school for more than two months, he didn’t go to the company, where could he go?

Are you avoiding him, or have something bad happened?

He became more and more worried, the previous complicated emotions were not worth mentioning in the face of Chao Ci’s safety.

Most of his communication circles with Chao Ci overlapped, so he went to ask those friends if he could contact Chao Ci, or if he had seen Chao Ci during this time.

nothing.

Chao Ci seems to have just disappeared.

The heavy worry reached its peak, and he directly contacted the channels and contacts in his hands to find Chao Ci.

He searched for several days, and it seemed that someone was deliberately obstructing his investigation, or deliberately concealing the whereabouts of Chao Ci.

Finally, four days later, he received the news of Chao Ci.

The message appeared to be found on a flight to Germany this morning.