Chapter 1 Car accident

"Is there any ticket to Pengcheng today?"

"There is no here. You have to go to Pengcheng to take a bus. The bus that arrived in Pengcheng today was departed in the morning."

"Okay, thank you"

Chen Kangjie had a gloomy face and frowned, and walked out of the ticket hall of Chengxi Bus Station in Deying City with heavy steps. He was dragging a suitcase in his hand, and some changing clothes were placed in it. His eyes were a little confused and dim, and his face turned yellow. He looked depressed at first glance. He walked out of Chengxi Bus Station, looked at the blue sky, and sighed deeply. The weather was actually very bright today, and the sunlight fell on his body warmly and comfortable. The weather in the south has been very good recently, but Chen Kangjie still felt a little trembling, which has something to do with his mood these two days.

This is Deying City, a county-level city with a population of only 100,000. It belongs to Qingyuan City, eastern Guangdong Province, 200 kilometers away from the provincial capital Yangcheng. It belongs to the northern Guangdong region. It is a relatively poor mountainous area in eastern Guangdong Province, and is generally spoken in Hakka.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month of 2011, he went to his girlfriend's house in Deying City for the New Year. He was unwilling to come because he had been dating with her girlfriend for more than four years and had been here several times, but every time he had an unpleasant relationship, he left him behind to play cards several times.

Chen Kangjie did not go home for the New Year this year. In fact, Chen Kangjie had not been home for several years. After graduating from college, he went to Pengcheng, the special economic zone to work. He worked several jobs. He changed them for one reason or another. He started a business three times. All of them were bad luck, so he never returned to his hometown in Qianzhou Province to celebrate the New Year. This year, his girlfriend originally promised to come to Pengcheng from Deshun to celebrate the New Year with her. She hadn't met for several months. He was looking forward to it. As a result, he received a call from her on the 28th day of the 12th lunar month, telling Chen Kangjie that she had gone home by herself and asked Chen Kangjie to go to her house for the New Year. He heard this, Chen Kangjie felt like he was being deceived. Li Tingyan's promise to him almost all failed every time.

Chen Kangjie was very angry, but he was also numb. This situation started with them and encountered it dozens of times. Every time, it made Chen Kangjie feel dazed and always doubted whether Li Tingyan loved him. He had broken up many times because of this. However, every time he saw her resentful eyes, saw the tears in the corners of her eyes, and heard her say "I love you very much, I can't live without you", Chen Kangjie softened again.

In fact, it cannot be said that Chen Kangjie is soft-hearted. The main reason is that Chen Kangjie loves her so much. After Li Tingyan graduated from high school, she went to Deshun to work. They met online accidentally. Five years ago, Chen Kangjie went to home to surf the Internet alone after get off work (Chen Kangjie is simply an otaku. After get off work, he always goes home to surf the Internet and rarely goes out to play). Suddenly, a QQ message pops up, and a girl adds him as a friend. Chen Kangjie has a very plain personality and adds it without rejection.

Chen Kangjie entered this friend's space to browse, wanting to see which MM added his friend. After opening her album, there were many photos. Chen Kangjie slowly browsed one by one and found that the girl was very elegant, graceful, bright and white, and her teeth were dressed in fashion and trendy on each photo. Some of them were also a bit cool. Some photos could also see some of her heavy makeup, but it still reflected her brilliance. Although Chen Kangjie did not like girls with heavy makeup, as a young girl in the city, these were normal. Gradually, Chen Kangjie still felt some subtle changes in her expression. Compared to the previous photos, there was more brilliant face, and there was a hint of melancholy behind her, and she could feel a hint of grief in her heart.

Of course, there are over 100 million QQ users, and there are at least several million online. Chen Kangjie has seen many photos of beautiful girls like this, so he didn't care much about it. Before he could finish reading the photos, a message popped up.

"Hello"

When Chen Kangjie saw that it happened to be sent by this beauty, he replied, "Hello"

In this way, they started to chat. Chen Kangjie was originally a very sincere and frank person. With his peaceful and humorous personality, the girl also said more and more from the beginning. From the chat, Chen Kangjie learned that the girl was clicked and added casually, and also knew that the girl was named Li Tingyan, four years younger than Chen Kangjie. Because she had just broken up with her boyfriend, she began to learn to chat online. Chen Kangjie also opened his heart and talked about his failed emotional experience. He chatted all night on the first day, and when he got off the plane, he even went on a date and continued to chat the next day.

In the next three or four days, they chatted very late almost every night. As the communication deepened, Chen Kangjie learned more about him. She originally loved her boyfriend very much, but she almost obeyed her words. In order not to lose her boyfriend's love, she paid a lot, but in the end she broke up for all the reasons.

Hearing these words from her, seeing her resentful eyes and tears that slipped down her cheeks, Chen Kangjie was deeply moved, and it was as painful as if his heart was cut by a knife. He had a strong impulse in his heart to protect Li Tingyan. Chen Kangjie always wanted to find a frank girlfriend, a girl who gave a complete heart for love. At that moment, Chen Kangjie fell deeply in love with Li Tingyan, and secretly vowed in his heart that he would love her, love her, tolerate her, and give her another unforgettable love.

So a week later, Chen Kangjie proposed to meet her, but was rejected. She said she was not ready yet. Chen Kangjie understood her thoughts. It was really difficult for a girl who had just broken up with her beloved boyfriend for a while to accept the relationship of a new man. Hearing the rejected answer, Chen Kangjie's heart seemed to have fallen to the bottom, but Chen Kangjie still did not give up. He felt that he should not give up this girl in his life. In any case, he had to get her recognition and acceptance, because Chen Kangjie wanted to protect her and did not want her to be hurt by other men.

Two or three days later, Chen Kangjie hurried home and sat in front of the computer to wait for her to arrive as promised. At that time, Li Tingyan worked in a jewelry store in a shopping mall (when I was with my boyfriend before, I had never worked. The person seemed to have a small factory and his financial conditions were quite good). After get off work, he rushed to the Internet cafe upstairs to chat with Chen Kangjie online. Chen Kangjie proposed to visit her every day in Deshun. She refused two days ago. The third night was the eighth day they met. Li Tingyan finally agreed to meet him, and was so happy that Chen Kangjie didn't sleep well all night.

In this way, their five-year love began.

After Chen Kangjie walked out of Chengxi Station, he took a motorcycle and went to Deying City Bus Terminal. Perhaps because the Spring Festival has not yet ended and the business is good, the driver rode the motorcycle at a speed. At this moment, Chen Kangjie was not afraid, and it was even more impossible to remind the driver to pay attention to safety. At this moment, he was ashamed, and tears rolled from his eyes. Before he fell, he was blown away into the air by the wind.

The day before yesterday, Chen Kangjie and Li Tingyan went to the countryside to pay New Year's greetings. Li Yanting's family used to be in the countryside, and three brothers moved to the city after they came to work in the city. However, there were two uncles in the countryside. Their three mud houses in the countryside were also given to their uncle's house. The second uncle's family built a new brick and tile house next to the uncle's house.

As a result, I woke up early yesterday morning and took a quick bite of food and dressed up carefully, and went to the class reunion with my cousin A Ling (my uncle's daughter) and cousin A Yu (my uncle's daughter).

The night before yesterday, a male classmate came to my uncle's house to chat with them very late. I don't know if the male classmate's arrival was a cause for trouble, but I felt that her thoughts were all about this man. Although she sat next to Chen Kangjie, she almost didn't speak or look at Chen Kangjie.

Maybe I also think it’s not good to leave Chen Kangjie alone at a relative’s house, so I took Chen Kangjie’s hand and said, “Why don’t you go with me?”

Chen Kangjie is a relatively easy-going person and is also a very reasonable person. Last night, he knew that their classmate hadn't seen each other for several years, so he wanted to give her some space to talk to her old classmate, so he said:

"You go, I won't go, have fun chatting, come back early"

"You really won't go?"

"Your classmate reunion, I can't even get in the air even if I go. You can just come back early."

"Then you play with them later, I'll go sit there, and come back in an hour or two." Li Tingyan said that they were their cousin.

After saying that, he happily took a motorcycle with his cousin Abing and went out. The venue for this party was in the village next door. It took more than 40 minutes to walk, and it was at the home of the male classmate who came to chat with them the night before yesterday.

"Aren't you coming back for dinner?"

It was dark and while having supper, Chen Kangjie frowned and called Li Tingyan. It had been more than six hours since Li went out.

"I won't come back to have a meal, you can eat by yourself."

"When will you come back?"

When Chen Kangjie heard Li Tingyan say that, he asked unhappily. He said he would come back in one or two hours, but he had not come back for six or seven hours. He didn't go back to his uncle's house for dinner. No one would be happy, and he wouldn't be able to come back for a while after hearing the tone.

"I'll be back later. You can have dinner with them first. You can rest early after dinner."

At this time, Chen Kangjie also heard many people talking and laughter and the sound of cars coming from there. He felt even more strange.

"Are you in the car now? Where are you going? Go back to the city?"

Li Tingyan's answer next made Chen Kangjie angry

"We are taking a bus to the city to sing"

After hearing this, Chen Kangjie was speechless and felt deeply hurt inside. At this time, he suddenly had an epiphany that Li Tingyan didn't care about him at all.

Chen Kangjie hung up the phone without hesitation and asked A Bing to take him to the town with a motorcycle, and return to the city with his own taxi, and then plan to find a hotel for one night before returning to Pengcheng by himself.

My uncle and his family repeatedly tried to keep him, but they still couldn't resist Chen Kangjie's determination. They happened to meet Abing's brother Aka and cousin Axin (the son of the second uncle) who also needed to go back to the city, so a few people rode two motorcycles back to the city overnight.

Originally, Chen Kangjie wanted to get off the car and find a hotel to stay in the city, but he thought it was inappropriate. At least Li Tingyan's brothers and mother were good to him, so he should say hello as a polite person. In addition, A Bing and others directly rode the motorcycle to Li Tingyan's elder brother's house, so they had to go in somewhere.

After entering the door, only her elder brother and sister-in-law and her mother were at home. She sat down and chatted with her elder brother, A Bing and the others for a few words to smoke a cigarette. Chen Kangjie found an excuse and went out by himself.

Walking down the street, she was about to find a hotel to stay, and her elder brother called her

"Ajie, where are you?"

"Brother, I'm walking around the street"

Chen Kangjie replied plainly.

"I know you've suffered a little, come back soon. I'll call Ayan and she'll be back soon."

It should be A Bing and Ashin who told the eldest brother what happened, so the eldest brother thought Chen Kangjie was angry, so he "run away from home."

After hearing the elder brother's words, I felt warm in my heart. Her elder brother is a very good person. Although I heard that she had been outside when she was young, her personality changed a lot after getting married. She was steady and kind, diligent in doing things, and was nearly 1.8 meters tall, but her tone was always calm and made people feel comfortable.

"Okay, brother, I'll be back after strolling around."

Less than two minutes after hanging up the phone, her mother called again

"Asong, Ayan is back, come back soon"

Li Tingyan's mother can understand Mandarin, but she can only speak Hakka dialect. Fortunately, Chen Kangjie has been to Deying City several times and often hears their family chatting in Hakka dialect, so "practice makes perfect", Chen Kangjie can gradually understand a lot of Hakka dialect. Every time he goes to Li Tingyan's house, her mother treats Chen Kangjie very well and is very hospitable, so Chen Kangjie has always respected her mother very much in his heart.

Chen Kangjie replied with some emotion, "Auntie, I'll be back soon."

Chen Kangjie walked to the door of his elder brother's house and was about to meet Li Tingyan hurried back. When he saw Chen Kangjie, he walked home without saying hello. Maybe he was angry. Chen Kangjie insisted on going back to the city from his uncle's house in the countryside, or maybe he was angry that the family knew that she left her boyfriend and ran out to play. No matter what the reason was, she could tell that she was very angry.

After entering the house, only the eldest brother and Abing and Ashin were drinking tea and chatting in the living room, but they didn't see Li Tingyan, her mother and her sister-in-law.

Chen Kangjie could only sit down politely and drink tea and smoke with his elder brother and others, but he talked very little. The elder brother probably did not ask Chen Kangjie further about the whole story because of embarrassment. After a while, the three of them got up and went to play at my aunt's house, leaving Chen Kangjie alone in the living room to smoke.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt uncomfortable, and I felt astringent in my mouth. After a while, I heard the sound of Li Tingyan and her mother and sister-in-law chatting from the upper floor, but I couldn't hear clearly what they were talking about.

She sat quietly until eleven o'clock, almost smoking half a pack of cigarettes, and the whole living room was filled with smoke. Her mother came downstairs and asked Chen Kangjie to go upstairs to take a shower and sleep.

That night, Chen Kangjie couldn't sleep all night. When he came upstairs, he saw Li Tingyan taking a towel to the bathroom to take a shower. He passed by and didn't even greet him. After returning from taking the shower, he went to bed by himself without looking at Chen Kangjie.

Countless bitterness flashed in Chen Kangjie's heart. On the third day of the Chinese New Year, it was such an unhappy thing. I felt that her family had to look at her face. The loss and no one cared for her was speechless. The darker the night, the colder the colder. However, Shen Kangjie was sleepless and sat in front of the window smoking alone, feeling a lot of depression that no one told him. Many thoughts were tossing and turning in his mind. Finally, it was decided that in order to prevent similar things from happening again and again, it would be better to break up with Li Tingyan and go back to Pengcheng by himself after dawn.

After getting up this morning, Chen Kangjie told Li Tingyan that she had returned to Pengcheng. Li Tingyan might also feel that she was a little inappropriate, but she just tactfully tried to keep her. Li Tingyan felt that she had done nothing wrong, because Chen Kangjie was too stingy.

In fact, no matter whether you do something wrong or not, Li Tingyan will never admit it. She has known her for so many years, but in front of Chen Kangjie, Li Tingyan never felt that she had done anything wrong. She is a very stubborn person, and Chen Kangjie is familiar with this.

Chen Kangjie bought a shuttle ticket to Pengcheng at 2:30 noon at the bus terminal. On the bus, he looked at the rows of street trees outside the window and flew away behind the bus. Chen Kangjie's eyes blurred again. Although it took two or three months to meet each other for five years to fall in love, the happiness of getting along is still constantly popping up in his mind like a movie. When he was together, Li Tingyan was often very good to Chen Kangjie, cooking, washing clothes, playing and walking together. So far, Chen Kangjie's most expensive suit was also given by Li Tingyan on Valentine's Day. Of course, every quarrel caused by her indifference kept shaking in front of him. As long as she was in Deshun, she basically disappeared. She couldn't find anyone. She often refused to meet him for her friends and never celebrated her birthday with her (after she broke up with her ex-boyfriend and ran to another city to attend her ex-boyfriend's birthday party).

Chen Kangjie was very conflicted, but when he turned around and left Brother Li Tingyan's house, he had already made a choice. It was better to have a short pain than long pain. Although he loved her deeply and thought that one day she would return to her side and live together forever, until the breakup, she did not agree to his request to work in Pengcheng countless times. Chen Kangjie sighed in his heart, hey, I don't want so much. She can go out all day and leave him alone and go to sing with her own karaoke. It should really not love her.
Chapter completed!