Chapter 3 — After the Storm, the Sky Is Blue for Thousands of Miles

From Beijing to Sanya, the fastest flight takes three hours. Tell me, how does he teleport?" Hua An's lips trembled, unable to utter a word.

“That so-called hot girl is a hotel food service employee – I saw it too.”

I continued to speak, my voice was not fast but each word was like a small hammer, hitting straight into Hua An's weak defense line.

“You said you got into an argument with him, he spilled wine on you, so you had to change into a bathrobe.

So let me ask – what about his cloak?” I pointed towards Chu Du An. Hua An's face turned from pale to purple. She reflexively looked towards Chu Du An, her eyes clearly showing a plea for help. Chu Du An's eyebrows furrowed, he finally opened his mouth, his voice was dry:

“It's you.

Last night I received a call from Hua An, she said that an important customer that we cooperate with specifically wanted to meet with me, and was in Sanya, the situation was very urgent. She said she had already arranged everything, so he didn't think much and immediately flew over. When we got to the hotel, she said guests were coming and told me to take a shower and change clothes so I could be awake." After speaking, his eyes turned to Hua An, full of indignation at being deceived.

“Hua An, what exactly are you playing at?”

Hua An's body trembled, as if she was about to lose her footing. She finally stopped pretending, the weakness and injustice in her eyes disappeared, replaced by cruelty when exposed. She stared at me, screaming in a high-pitched voice:

“On Chich! What do you mean? Would you rather trust a man who lied to you, than trust your best friend of twenty years like me?"

“Best friend?” I repeated that word, finding it extremely funny.

“My best friend, did you lie to my husband in the middle of the night and come to Sanya to open a room?

My best friend, just called me to expose the traitor, while wearing a bathrobe to dry my husband's hair? My voice suddenly raised, the anger that had been pent up all night finally had a place to burst out.

“Hua An! Do you really think I'm an idiot?”

The living room was silent. Hua An was speechless when I asked her, her facial muscles twitched, her eyes wavered crazily. Chu Du An's face was also extremely unsightly. He walked up to me and whispered:

“Chich Chich, sorry. It was me who was wrong, I shouldn't have hidden it from you, and I shouldn't have..."

“Are you apologizing to me now?” I looked at him coldly.

“When you believed her words and ran to Sanya, why didn't you think to say something to me?

When you were in the same room with her, showering and changing into robes, why didn't you think of me? My question made Chu Du An's face immediately turn pale. He opened his mouth, unable to say anything. That's right, what else does he have to say? One phone call, he immediately left the "urgent" meeting at home and ran to Sanya to meet an "important customer". That guest – was the person who had pursued him. And I - his wife - was blindfolded like an idiot from beginning to end. If I don't come, what will happen next? I don't dare to imagine. Looking at the two people in front of me - who used to be the people I trusted the most - one is full of lies, the other is extremely stupid, I just feel disgusted.

“I told you – tell you to go away.”

I looked at Hua An again, my eyes no longer had any warmth.

“Don't make me say it a third time.”

Hua An's body trembled violently bounce. She looked at me, then looked at Chu Du An, and suddenly burst out laughing.

“Go away? On Chich, what are you basing on to tell me to go away?

Who do you think you are? Do you really think Chu Du An loves you? If he really loved you, why didn't he accept your offer in college and wait until I gave up before coming back to find you? Her words were like a bomb exploding in my head. Read full version at Van Ha's Love page. I turned around and looked at Chu Du An. Chu Du An's face was worse than dead. He shouted to Hua An:

“Shut up!”

“Shut up? I won't shut up!” Hua An seemed crazy.

She pointed at me and shouted at Chu Du An:

“You tell her!

Tell her that you confessed to me before, but after I rejected you, you came to her! Tell her, she – On Chich – is nothing more than a replacement shadow of me – Hua An – something I don't need anymore!” My mind is blank. I only saw Chu Du An's lips moving, seemingly explaining something, but I couldn't hear a word. In my ears, only Hua An's sharp words echoed endlessly:

— She - On Chich - is nothing more than a replacement shadow of me - Hua An - something I don't need anymore.

So that's it. It turns out, the love that I've been happily proud of for so many years, from the beginning... was a joke. I felt a salty, fishy taste rising into my throat, my eyes darkened, and the front of my face became dark in waves.

04

The world before my eyes shook, the sound of ocean waves, Hua An's high-pitched laughter, Chu Du An's excuses - all the sounds mixed together, like a pot of porridge boiling in chaos. I grabbed the armrest of the sofa next to me and tried to stand.

“What did you say?” I heard my voice – horrifyingly hollow. “Chu Yu An, what she said… is it true?”

Chu Du An immediately grabbed my shoulder and shook me hard, as if to shake me out of my dizziness.

"Chich Chich, you heard me! That's not true! She made it all up! I never confessed to her!" His voice was hurried, even carrying a trace of fear.

“Am I making it up?” Hua An laughed coldly, she took out her phone from her pocket, her finger quickly scrolled across the screen.

"Chu Du An, have you forgotten? In my second year of college, that Valentine's day, he played the guitar all night in our dormitory, the song 'Reluctant Love', he said he only sang it for me alone.

The school forum post can still be found now!” She pushed the phone screen close to my face. On the screen is an old post on the student forum, the title is: "Shock! The handsome singer of the Information Technology department - Chu Du An sings in the rain for love, who is the female lead?". Below is a blurry night photo - a male student holding a guitar sitting next to a flower bed in front of the girls' dormitory, his physique is exactly that of Chu Du An in his youth. The comments below are full of speculation about the female lead's identity. One of the most liked comments wrote: "Why do you still have to ask? It's definitely the beauty queen of the Foreign Language department - Hua An. Who doesn't know those two are a couple?"