Three years after our breakup, you came back to China, and I'm just giving up. Why are you cryi

A river breeze carried Xiao Xiyue's words to Lu Hao's ears.

"My condition is that you cut off all contact with those women!"

Lu Hao was not surprised; when she mentioned the second condition, he already had the answer in his mind.

This is the only answer.

He remained silent, not out of hesitation, but because he had gone over it in his mind.

Su Yu is a thing of the past.

Lin Ran was an accident, a beautiful mistake, and there shouldn't have been any further entanglement.

Zhou Mengmeng and he had an agreement: whoever found a partner first would have to leave the stage. Now, it's time for him to leave.

As for Ning Shu... aside from that absurd incident on that rainy night, the two of them were completely innocent and were just friends.

Thinking about it that way, this condition doesn't seem... difficult.

He raised his eyes, meeting Xiao Xiyue's peach blossom eyes that were both tense and feigning strength, and calmly uttered a single word.

"it is good."

Xiao Xiyue's eyes flickered; she hadn't expected him to agree so readily.

Her beautiful brows furrowed slightly, a hint of scrutiny in her eyes: "You're willing to do that?"

"What's there to be reluctant about?" Lu Hao shrugged, as if he were talking about something trivial. "There was never anything special between us anyway."

He was only half telling the truth, but at that moment, all he wanted was to put her mind at ease.

Xiao Xiyue stared at him for a long time without blinking, as if trying to find any reluctance or pretense on his face.

In the end, she didn't see anything.

Xiao Xiyue stood up in a hurry, and the wind she stirred up ruffled her hair.

She lowered her head, patted the dust off her skirt, and turned to walk towards the stone railing beside her.

The night breeze grew cooler. She braced her hands on the stone railing, took a deep breath, and tried to climb over, but when she tried to exert any strength in her arms, she found that her whole body was weak and she couldn't muster any strength.

Just then, a pair of large hands wrapped around her waist. A force came and lifted her up.

The next second, she straddled the stone railing, the river wind making her long skirt flutter.

She turned her head and met Lu Hao's smiling eyes.

"Why are you looking at me?" Lu Hao grinned, revealing a set of white teeth. His smile was clean yet slightly roguish. "Isn't this what a boyfriend should be doing?"

Boy friend……

Xiao Xiyue couldn't help but smile upwards, turning into a bright and cheerful smile.

That smile, under the cool moonlight, was breathtakingly beautiful, as if sweeping away all the gloom that had come before.

"I'm hungry." She looked at Lu Hao, her voice unconsciously softening, carrying a charming naiveté that she herself was unaware of.

Lu Hao chuckled, pushed himself up with his hand, and flipped over to sit astride the stone railing, facing her.

"How long have you been waiting for me here?"

"Wait until the sun sets, wait until the moon rises."

Lu Hao's heart was touched; this silly girl.

"Why choose this place?" He was a little confused.

Xiao Xiyue's eyebrows curved into a beautiful crescent moon as she nimbly jumped down from the stone railing and landed on the running track by the river.

"Because I saved someone here."

Lu Hao touched his nose, then jumped off the stone railing and caught up with her in a few steps, walking alongside her. "I was willing to risk my life to accompany you back then."

"I didn't ask you to jump," she retorted, but her steps quickened.

"If you jump, I'll jump too. Do I need to give way?"

"Glib-tongued."

Xiao Xiyue left those words behind and walked onto the road along the stone path beside her.

"Where did you park your car?" Lu Hao asked.

"I didn't drive."

"I've opened it, it's over there." Lu Hao said, pointing in a direction.

Xiao Xiyue didn't say anything, but lifted her leg and walked in that direction.

The two walked side by side along the quiet riverside road, the streetlights casting long shadows of them.

As she walked, Xiao Xiyue's playful mood was stirred.

She jumped onto the curb by the roadside, like a tightrope walker, slightly spreading her arms to maintain her balance, and carefully stepped forward one step at a time.

"Be careful." Lu Hao subconsciously followed her to her side, reaching out to protect her swaying body.

Xiao Xiyue seemed not to hear her, and continued walking on her own, humming a light melody.

The singing was soft at first, but then became clearer and clearer, carried to Lu Hao's ears by the evening breeze.

"You were unexpected, disrupting my peaceful rhythm. I'm afraid that loving you will bring me suffering, and I'm afraid that not loving you will keep me awake at night..."

Lu Hao paused slightly.

Are these lyrics her true feelings?

That absurd encounter at the bar that night brought two people who should have had no connection into each other's lives, disrupting their entire rhythm.

He suddenly felt a pang of heartache.

A girl's first time was given to a stranger so confusedly. How lost and helpless she must have felt during that time.

No wonder she searched for herself so frantically.

From her initial display of femininity to that forceful slap later on, it all seemed more like a expression of disappointment.

However, due to a series of unforeseen circumstances, he ended up finding Xiao Xiyue again in order to help Lin Ran get promoted smoothly.

Lu Hao gave a bitter smile; it all seemed like a preordained arrangement of fate.

People you're meant to interact with will find a way to appear in front of you, no matter what.

People who shouldn't have any connection live across the hall, yet they can never meet.

"I drift and drift, you sway and sway, rootless weeds. When the dream ends and the sky clears, how can we drift away again? A second more love won't lessen hate; promises are torture. If we don't care, let's burn brightly once and for all!"

Her singing suddenly rose, carrying a poignant beauty born of desperation, echoing along the empty riverbank.

Are they rootless weeds?

All escape routes have been cut off, all for this one exhilarating burning.

Lu Hao turned his head to look at her stunning profile outlined by the moonlight, his eyes gradually growing hot.

He remembered a phrase.

In this lifetime, one will love with all one's might twice.

One was the passion of youthful ignorance and the awakening of first love.

One was the madness of seeing all the splendor and knowingly doing the impossible.

The singing gradually stopped, and Xiao Xiyue seemed to be tired as well. She jumped off the curb and stopped in front of Lu Hao.

"Did you sing well?" She tilted her head back, her bright peach blossom eyes looking at Lu Hao with a hint of expectation.

Lu Hao did not answer.

He simply reached out and gently tucked a strand of hair that had been ruffled by the wind behind her ear.

Then, he looked into her eyes, his voice low and earnest.

Are you still afraid that love will bring you trouble?

Xiao Xiyue shook her head, cupped Lu Hao's cheeks in her hands, blinked, and smiled, "Guess?"

After saying that, she stood on tiptoe, gently tilted Lu Hao's head down with both hands, and gave him a light kiss on the forehead.

Before Lu Hao could react, she turned around, put her hands behind her back, and moved with a light and cheerful air.

"When I get home, I want to eat a bowl of egg noodles that you cooked."

Lu Hao stood still, watching the girl walking ahead of him, her long hair disheveled by the evening breeze.

This seemingly promising path is actually fraught with hidden dangers.

The scars left by thorns ahead will become medals for the future.