Deer in the forest in early autumn

"Qiuqiu, get on board!"
"I'm looking for that idiot Tuanzi."
"This guy ran away from home again?"
"For the thirty-fifth time this year. Because I forgot to open the new can of food for him this morning."
"Absolutely!"

After Shen Yanqiu replied to his friend Orange's message, he put his phone back into the pocket of his beige sweatshirt.
She frowned her curved slender-shaped eyebrows, and there was a hint of helplessness on her increasingly round face.

When I first saw Tuanzi.
It was rescued from the community's green belt by cat volunteers a few days ago.

I just ended my life of wandering as a poor little kid and became a cat waiting to be adopted.

When I first saw this thing, it looked so fluffy, cute, and chubby and extremely well-behaved.
Shen Yanqiu felt that the cat in front of him must be a good cat with good morals!
Unexpectedly, I adopted him and brought him home only one day ago.
Mr. Tuanzi has regained the aloof attributes of a wild orange cat, changing from his previous well-behaved appearance and refusing to let anyone kiss, hug or lift him up easily.

It turns out that charming appearance is the easiest to deceive people.
It was a waste of the charming appearance of Mr. Tuanzi's chubby lucky cat relative.

Later on, Mr. Tuanzi was still arrogant and cold, and quite independent.
Running away from home, these four words seem to have become its exclusive property.
Look, he ran away from home again today.

This is the thirty-fifth time this year!
Shen Yanqiu sighed and continued to look for Tuanzi in the community resignedly.
The fallen leaves on the street fluttered and fell on the cars that filled the roadside parking spaces, covering most of the cars tightly, making the light and dark distinct.

What a beautiful autumn! This bleak scene really matches her bleak mood at the moment.
A gust of autumn wind blew and Shen Yanqiu couldn't help shivering because of the cold.

"Meow"
Tuanzi's familiar voice!
Not far away, there was a person who seemed to be holding a fat orange cat.
Who else could it be but Lord Tuanzi who makes this mellow cry?

The person holding it in the dim light has a tall figure with a vague outline of a straight and thin figure.
Who is this handsome boy?

Oh no! Shen Yanqiu just remembered that he forgot to wear his contact lenses today.
He was getting closer and closer.
Getting closer.
Looks a little familiar?

Ruined.
"Ex-girlfriend! At the college reunion a few days ago, people said that the reason we broke up was because I disliked your poor gaming skills. How come I didn't know that?"

"Rumor! Lin Sen'an." Shen Yanqiu thought of Lin Sen'an, who was always vindictive, and quickly denied it.

"Boss, this is the legendary sister-in-law." A yellow-haired kid with a Shamatte hair color ran over from the side with a string of candied haws in his hand. He stared at Shen Yanqiu carefully and cast a very caring look at her. "Oh, the former sister-in-law." Shamatte continued to add slowly, hoping that the world would not be in chaos.

It's really Mercury retrograde recently.
Shen Yanqiu originally thought that after she and her ex-boyfriend had "peacefully broken up" a year ago, the chances of them meeting again in this life were definitely not remotely small.

After all, he went to study abroad immediately after breaking up with someone.
But I didn't expect that this person came to City F for some reason.

Now, he is being blamed.
Obviously the situation when we broke up was like this.

"Qiuqiu, you're just average at the game. It's hard for me, the jungle king, to lead you."
"Humph."

From then on, the two had no contact for almost half a month.
It was not until half an hour after Lin Sen'an's plane took off that she learned from a mutual friend that someone had gone abroad to study.

This...isn't it a breakup?
Isn't this because they broke up because they are not good at gaming?
But she, who has always been very timid, only dared to jokingly call it a "rumor." The most important thing at the moment is to get Tuanzi-sama back.
"Lin Sen'an, the cat you are holding is my Tuanzi."
"Who would believe that!" Lin Sen'an touched the head of the fat cat in his arms.

"Tuanzi, come home with me!" Shen Yanqiu stretched out his hand and wanted to touch the guy in front of him.

"Meow!" Tuanzi tilted his round head and pretended to be unfamiliar with Shen Yanqiu.
"Tuanzi, you are so heartless. Lin Sen'an, I'll give this guy to you to raise." Shen Yanqiu was so angry that he stomped his feet on the spot. He didn't expect that even Tuanzi would abandon him and turn to Lin Sen'an's arms.

She turned and left as soon as she finished speaking, completely ignoring the gloating expression on the yellow-haired guy's face.
Unexpectedly, someone was following me quickly with a cat in his arms.

"You..." Shen Yanqiu turned around and saw the person holding the cat leisurely behind him. "The road is wide and open, everyone goes back to their own homes and find their own mothers! Lin Sen'an."

Lin Sen'an smiled brightly.
“My home is here too.”
"Meow!" Tuanzi called out at the right time and in a very servile manner.

Shen Yanqiu looked at the man and the cat with confusion.
Turtle and mung bean!
I entered the elevator, and the man behind me was still lingering.
"Lin Sen'an, you don't happen to live on the eighth floor, do you?" Shen Yanqiu asked sarcastically.

The moment the elevator door closed, the boy's face was covered by his hoodie. In the overlapping light and darkness, he seemed like a god who had fallen into the mortal world. He just glanced at the elevator floor casually. He locked his lips tightly, closed his eyes silently, and said no more words.

"Ding!" We have arrived at the eighth floor.
Shen Yanqiu strode out of the elevator, and suddenly, she seemed to step on something, her body tilted, and she fell directly down and fell upside down.

"Ex-girlfriend, your shoelaces are untied."
"..."
Talking bad about people behind their back will indeed bring retribution in this life!
After waiting for a long time, Shen Yanqiu stood up and brushed off the dust on her body. However, she was too guilty to look back and simply ignored the person and cat behind her.

She took out a bunch of keys with a Pikachu keychain from her trouser pocket and walked straight to the door of her room 8801. Shen Yanqiu inserted the key into the door in a hurry. At this time, a cartoon bear band-aid was handed to her from the side.
"You are hurt."
Shen Yanqiu looked down at his elbow and found that his right elbow was broken from the fall, and blood was now flowing out of the wound.
"what!"
She couldn't help but feel dizzy.
God damn it, God knows why she has been afraid of seeing blood since she was a child.

In the blur, a figure rushed over.
The warm hug mixed with someone's cool minty scent wrapped tightly around her cold body.

"Qiuqiu, I miss you." The moment she opened her eyes.
A slightly cool kiss came up.

"Xiao Qiu...you, you guys." The moment the door of 8801 opened from the inside, I saw my good friend Orange.

Shen Yanqiu knew that he was doomed.
She fainted again.

After waking up, Shen Yanqiu rubbed her messy curly hair and looked at the band-aid on her hand.

I can't help but recall my socially frustrated experience yesterday.
"I really want to forget the bloody yesterday."

As soon as Shen Yanqiu arrived at the company, his colleague Aruo poked his head out from the workstation next to him and said mysteriously, "Today, a big shot is coming to the company. The mysterious client is coming to our company in person."

Shen Yanqiu took a sip of the steaming milk in the thermos.
He nodded in agreement quickly, only to realize belatedly that his tongue had been numbed by the burn.

It's been a bad year.

Who is Party A's father? You might as well worry about whether you can get off work on time tonight.
But Shen Yanqiu never expected this.

When the mysterious client dropped into the company's conference room, her pupils widened with fear, like a frightened deer.

The representative of the other company was wearing a black leather jacket and had a mess of familiar yellow hair on his head. This person just called me yesterday...ex-sister-in-law?
Wasn’t Party A’s father the one who came in next and forcefully kissed her ex-boyfriend Lin Sen’an yesterday?

At this moment, someone was wearing a light grey suit, and his eyes swept across everyone present. His brown hair revealed a certain laziness. His slender white fingertips were as pale as snow.

"Wait a moment, we have some controversial points about the new project proposal we discussed last time." The yellow-haired man projected the screen of the computer in his hand.

Unexpectedly, Lin Sen'an's WeChat interface popped up.
Pinned: A chubby cat avatar.
Note: Kiss my little baby Qiuqiu
When Shen Yanqiu saw this, his face turned red like a fried tomato.
The faces of my colleagues were all filled with shock.
The unknown person in our company was officially announced by the client!
It's really off the mark!
……

Moonlight poured in from the French windows, and the cold wind in the dark night brought a chill. Shen Yanqiu woke up with a start, and poked her head out of the faintly warm quilt. She quietly wiped away the tears that had fallen from her eyes. She sat on the bed in a daze, feeling a little tired.

The illustration not far away was simply sketched with a few line drawings.

It turns out that all the dreams just now were just a mixture of reality and fantasy. It seemed like it really happened, but it also seemed like I was secretly deceiving myself and hiding something.

Eighteen-year-old Shen Yanqiu has Mary Sue.
At the age of 24, Shen Yanqiu's world only consists of himself.

There are no dumplings here.
Today marks a week since Tuanzi left home.

Shen Yanqiu thought of the last moment when it struggled with illness and left for heaven. This time it would no longer suffer, but it would not go home again. The biting autumn wind blew across her face at night, and the biting cold made her tears on her face particularly cold.

There is no Lin Sen'an here who is as domineering as in the dream.
Lin Sen'an, in my memory, is an arrogant and cold young man.

The familiar phone number in my cell phone three years ago is no longer accessible.
She lost him.

Shen Yanqiu felt a little suffocated, and almost lost control again like a fish out of deep water. She turned on the night light on the wooden bedside table in a daze. Under the warm orange light, she opened an old notebook with a torn cover beside her pillow, and the rolled pages recorded the thoughts of an 18-year-old girl.

"Lin Sen'an looked so handsome shooting three-pointers today!"
"Lin Sen'an said: Qiuqiu, you are so silly and cute."
"Lin Sen'an and I went to the claw machine together, and he caught a pink rabbit and a white lamb for me. So cool!"
"The best thing about my birthday today is that Lin Sen'an agreed to my confession!!!"
"Great, we're together!"
"On our 100th anniversary, Lin Sen'an bought me a special giraffe cake."
……

It seems that there is still a glimmer of life in the memory.
Every stroke of the handwriting in the notebook outlines the girl's summer.
That summer there were young people, and also the warmth belonging to Shen Yanqiu and Lin Sen'an.

Will we meet again? Lin Sen'an.
Shen Yanqiu closed her eyes in pain. She looked at the yellowed paper of the notebook and tried to touch every word on it with her hands.
Suddenly, she couldn't help it anymore, she curled up, hugged her head and cried loudly.

(End of this chapter)