He's divorced.

Xie Qingcheng didn't seem to intend to say anything more to He Yu, and only asked, "Xie Xue didn't tell you?"

"No."

"Then she probably thinks it's my personal business."

He Yu was quiet for a while, "Are you and Li Ruoqiu inappropriate?"

Li Ruoqiu is the name of Xie Qingcheng's ex-wife.

He Yu was very impressed with the woman who tied the knot with Xie Qingcheng, thinking that there was something wrong with her, that she was able to go to the grave of marriage with a fatherly and cold male like Xie Qingcheng.

In his impression, Xie Qingcheng seemed to have no desires, and should be sitting at his desk in a neat white coat, with a voluminous bookshelf behind him and the cold, sobering smell of medicine on his body.

He Yu It is hard to believe that Xie Qingcheng will love someone, and even harder to believe that any person will love Xie Qingcheng.

But Dr. Hsieh did get married.

He remembered the day of the wedding, he went to accompany the money as his mother requested, he went so casually that he hadn't even changed out of his school uniform yet. The driver drove him to the hotel, so he entered the hotel with his school bag on one shoulder, stepping on his white sneakers, his hand in the pants pocket of his school uniform sweatpants.

Xie Qingcheng is there to welcome the guests.

The wedding team made up for him, he stood in the middle of the crowd, his body straight, dignified, dark eyebrows seem to fall stars. The master of ceremonies was talking to him about something, the surrounding too noisy, Xie Qingcheng and tall, did not hear, so he turned his head to lean over so that the master of ceremonies can be close to his ears to speak, that face in the bystanders reflected a shocking through the white, as if the spotlight shone on the thin porcelain, even the slightest touch will make it broken, the lips are slightly lighter in color, as if the blood is frozen in the ice layer under the.

Skin like a glazed world, lips like frosty red plums.

He Yu doesn't like men, but he's a very aesthetic person.

In that moment, he had a feeling that although the woman called Li Ruoqiu was also very good-looking, in all fairness, He Yu felt that with her and Xie Qingcheng, the marriage proposal picture might look like this -

Xie Qingcheng should wear a white dress, don't have the usual ballpoint pen and fountain pen, hand in the pocket of the coat like a flower of the high mountain standing, and then in an exasperating tone of voice, said to the other girl:

"I'm going to marry you, so get down on your knees and give thanks."

Of course, he's such a good camouflage that he won't tell the truth.

Carrying a one-shoulder school bag, He Yu smiled, walked up, stood in front of the handsome groom and the beautiful bride, and said, "Thank you, Doctor, sister-in-law."

Li Ruoqiu: "This is..."

Xie Qingcheng introduced to his wife, "A friend's son."

He has an agreement with the He family that he won't say outside that He Yu is a patient.

Li Ruoqiu complimented, "It's so beautiful, what a good looking child."

He Yu yawned politely, gentlemanly, his deep black eyes with a smile, "Where, sister-in-law you are the real flowery one."

Saying that, the teenager took the sealed red envelope from his one-shoulder canvas school bag, which was thick, and said in a gentle manner, "I wish you and Dr. Xie a hundred years of good luck."

A hundred years of goodwill my ass.

He thought back then that Xie Qingcheng such a man would be no one could endure, and he did not expect that this marriage would really be so short-lived. Now it seems that he still has the ability of the Speech Spirit?

He Yu held back his gloating and asked without moving, "How come you're leaving."

Xie Qingcheng didn't say anything.

"I remember she was very fond of you then. She came to my house after she married you, and there was no one but you in her eyes then."

Xie Qingcheng opened his mouth and said, "He Yu, this is indeed my personal matter."

He Yu raised his eyebrows.

He surveyed Xie Qingcheng's solitary appearance, and suddenly felt as if a lot of things were different about the man he had seen again after returning from several years abroad.

He just wasn't curious about the changes in Xie Qingcheng, so he finally laughed, "Forget it then, good luck with your blind date."

Xie Qingcheng glanced at him with a shallow gaze, and without saying thank you, turned around and left.

The dormitory door closed behind him.

Because He Yu mentioned his ex-wife, Xie Qingcheng couldn't help but think back to his extremely failed marriage with Li Ruoqiu while traveling on the road.

Xie Qingcheng actually knew why Xie Xue didn't mention this to He Yu.

Because the reason for his divorce is embarrassing - Li Ruoqiu did love him, but she did stop loving him later.

She cheated.

This is something that Xie Qingcheng cannot accept. He is a man who does not know what love is, but knows what family responsibilities are, and in some places, he is very conservative in his thinking.

But she's different.

She believes that the most important thing in marriage is love, not responsibility, so in the end they are still mirror broken hairpin, she fell in love with a married man, after the incident, instead of crying and accusing him of his eyes and heart are only work, married to him and married to a piece of ice-cold work schedule is no difference.

Such an accusation is not without merit, and Xie Qingcheng knows that he is a moodless man.

In this relationship, Xie Qingcheng actually did not feel any love, she chased him for many years, he later also felt also suitable, contact for a period of time, but also married.

After the marriage, he did not shirk any of the things that a husband should do and the duties that he should fulfill.

But that's not the kind of marriage she wants.

Xie Qingcheng is very responsible, but he is not romantic, and his nature is also a bit cold. He can even maintain calm and rationality between beds, no sinking, no obsession, like completing a family after the formation of the work that must be done, to do their duty, but not so enthusiastic.

Her heart grew cold.

She cheated on him and turned back to him and said, "Xie Qingcheng, you're a man without a heart. You still don't understand to this day that I want to have love, not just marriage."

But what is love?

Xie Qingcheng only felt his headache, I do not know how much energy spent, only to hold back to not let himself angry and slap the table. He looked at her at that time, looked for a long time, and finally numbly opened his mouth, his voice was calm like stagnant water: "That person likes you? He has a wife and a daughter, how much do you think he means to you?"

When asked this, she held her head up and something burned in her gaze that Xie Qingcheng simply couldn't understand.

"...... I don't care if he has a wife and kids. All I know is that when he hugs me, it's at least passionate. I can hear his accelerated heartbeat. Unlike you, Xie Qingcheng, you're clean, you've never been a womanizer, you've given me your money and your home, but your heartbeat for me is like a dead man's electrocardiogram, always a straight line after so many years of marriage."

"Life is just a few decades, he had been bound by his own unfortunate marriage, so was I. Now I've thought it over, I can do without the name, the money, or even the reputation, whether people call me a slut or a broken shoe, I just want to be with him."

Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes, the cigarette in his hand almost burned his fingers: "Li Ruoqiu, you're crazy, right? There is no love in this world, love is all the dopamine in the human body is reacting, it is your hormones at work, but there is responsibility in this world, there is family. You burned your head to be with him, is he willing to divorce and live with you?"

Silence.

Then that flame in Li Ruoqiu's eyes burned even hotter and crazier, and she finally said to him with tears in her eyes, but no less stubbornly, "I just don't want to regret it."

"Xie Qingcheng, there is love in this world, it may be treasonous and contrary to human decency, it may be down to the dirt and dirty, but it exists and has nothing to do with hormones and dopamine."

"I'm sorry I can't live with you anymore because I now know what love is. I love him, even though it was wrong."

After so many years of divorce, Xie Qingcheng still finds this conversation absurd whenever she thinks about it.

If the so-called love is to let a person know that it is wrong, but also to break the head, knowing that one foot down is the abyss, but also to be obsessed, scolding, spitting, morality, life, the bottom line ...... can be disregarded for anything. Then in his opinion, I am afraid that this is not a kind of love, but a kind of disease.

He couldn't empathize with it.

He's a tough guy, but he's straight after all, and a little macho, and he's hurt in the end when his wife cheats on him and runs off with a married man.

For a while after the divorce, Xie Qingcheng continued to work, write papers, and take care of his students, and he usually did not show any signs of distress. But everyone around him could see that he was rapidly losing weight, his cheeks were slightly sunken, and his voice was hoarse when he spoke.

Out of the fear that "if he hangs up, the school will be in the hot seat", the leader warmed up to him: "Professor Xie, if you are not feeling well, take a leave of absence and go home to rest for a while, don't push yourself."

Who expected that Xie Qingcheng dumped a bunch of ppt compressed package to him, is the latest lecture courseware, the content of the fine, systematic cohesion, the leader asked himself even in the most clear-headed body when the most powerful, it is also very difficult to complete such a project in such a short period of time.

"Do you still want me to go back?" Xie Qingcheng leaned toward the office chair, slender ten fingers folded, thin like light paper like people, thin like smoke like shape, raised his eyes to look at people is still clear, can even be said to be cold sharp.

"I do want to take a break, but please make sure that the first lecture of this class can be made like this by someone else besides me."

It is natural that there are no people who can make such a thing.

The leader also saw in his torchy gaze that his school wouldn't be on the hot seat for a while - it wasn't the kind of look someone who was about to wither away would have.

But almost no one knows that in order to work well, in order to be able to press the broken emotions into the bottom of the heart to fill, Xie Qingcheng, as long as home, will sit in the house to smoke, smoked to coughing and do not want to stop, almost to smoke their lungs into black, to turn the whole house into a nicotine happy place.

It was hard for Auntie Lai, a neighbor, to see him like this.

Xie's family was originally from a very good family, and his parents were both very high-ranking police superintendents, but then made an important mistake in handling a case, and both were transferred down to the grassroots level. In that period of time, Xie's mother was sick again, in order to give her medical treatment, they sold their big house and lived in a small alley in the old town of Huzhou City, living in poverty, but getting to know a lot of enthusiastic neighbors.

When Xie Qingcheng's parents died, Xie Qingcheng were not yet adults, have to assume the responsibility of the head of the family, the neighbors look at the children poor, they are very caring, and these people, Xie Qingcheng the best is this Auntie Lai.

Auntie Lai is a little younger than Xie Qingcheng's mother and loves children, but has never married and has no children of her own. She almost treats Xie's siblings as her own babies, especially after Xie's father and mother have passed away, this floating weed-like woman, and the two children whose parents have abandoned them have found in each other some emotions that they cannot give up.

Xie Qingcheng divorced, Auntie Lai in tears for a while, and then and a broken-hearted old mother, and try to get up the spirit to introduce him to girls.

He, too, so as not to hurt Auntie Lai's feelings, went all the way, but he was really just going through the motions, and he wasn't a very good choice for those girls-

Xie Qingcheng first married, the conditions are very good, he is handsome, tall, three hospital doctors, the age of twenty years old, the wind is in the prime of life, the future is promising.

The only hardware flaw was that he didn't come from a very good background and had no money.

Now, however, he's a second wife, his salary as a college professor isn't as high as it was when he was a doctor, and he's not so young anymore, so his flaws have become abnormally jagged and diaphanous. Divorced man, four years old, no good house, no good car, and there is a sister who has not married and needs his care in the drag.

A good-looking face, not a star, can't always be traded for money to get by.

How could the girl's parents not mind?

Dating is not the same as a relationship, the first look is said to be eye candy, but it's really a combination of conditions, so conversations happen often:

"It's a good job, isn't it, being able to take care of your family?"

"Can't. Because I'm a medical school professor, the content of the lectures needs to be very careful and no mistakes can be made, and the students have so many questions that they often work overtime."

"Oh ...... that's a good paycheck, isn't it?"

"It will probably be another three years or so of teaching before I get promoted. But I'm not sure I'll still be in higher education after three years."

"So ...... do you have any other family at home?"

"...... has a sister."

"Married?"

"Not yet."

......

The jabs are often sharp and blunt, knifing apart a person's conditioning and chipping away at the hopeful smile the other person had at first.

Auntie Li knew, anxious: "Hey, dating is to praise yourself! This is the rule of engagement, others are bragging, but you come up to say themselves to the poor, people think I will be worse than the mouth, who knows you reverse ah!"

Xie Qingcheng originally wanted to say, "I don't want to get married again."

But meeting Auntie Ri's eyes that were anxious to the point of some sadness, the words changed to, "...... I'm used to it. I'm sorry."

Auntie Li stared at him, stared and stared, and choked a little, "Child, you say you are so good, how come Buddha does not bless you? ...... I burn incense every day and worship every day, just to beg God to give my family's treasure to find another good marriage, then I immediately die is also worth it ... ..."

"Auntie Lai, you can't talk nonsense."

"My old bones I am still afraid of what, you are not the same, you are still young, if you are not as good as you want to be in the future, I go underground, where do I still have the face to see your father and Muying ......"

Auntie Lai is known for her insistence on finding him all kinds of girls, always hoping to match him up with a marriage.

Xie Qingcheng is very upset, he is a high-minded hard man, refuses to lie, and is not willing to be picked on, but also for some reasons, his state of mind has been completely different from the year when he and Li Ruoqiu dating, he has been very sure that he will not spend the rest of his life with anyone.

But with a man of the house like him, how could he stand to have his friends and family grieve and shed tears for him? He could only accept that they were living happily under his protection and care.

So even if the results were all predictable, he would still agree to go to those job application-like blind dates just to make Auntie Lai happier.

.

This time, he was matched with a very young girl named Bai Jing, whose family has a relative who teaches at the university, and I heard that she is also from a famous medical school. She herself is working in the most fashionable mall in Huzhou as a counter attendant of a luxury goods counter.

The flow of gold and jade in the coastal cities, the most lack of is the assets of hundreds of millions of gold masters, the girl spends her days in the high luxury counter immersion, listening to the men and women customers talk about, can not help but produce their own is also very noble and cold illusion, look at the people with their heads high, first look at the clothes logos, the boys wearing Adi Nike are all in the heart of the stamp of the poor pussy, at least a set of prada to match her conversation. The first thing you need to do is to look at the logo of the clothes and put all those boys wearing Adi Nike in your heart.

Xie Qingcheng came to the cafe, Bai Jing is on the phone with his girlfriends: "Aiya, yes ah, you do not know oh, I work every day can meet that kind of stupid, today also came two mother and son, son wearing what do not know, presumably amassed goods, if not for my good professionalism, the eyes are going to be rolled up to the sky, ah, wear Taobao to shop our counter, you nest dimple or not dimple ah". Our counter, you nest dimple not dimple la."

Thumb up in her diamonds, stirring the coffee in her small cup, Bai Jing listens to her best friend say something back on the other end of her cell phone and hides her mouth in amusement.

"What else can I buy? I can't afford anything. A pair of slippers at our counter may cost them half a year's salary. Hey, baby, and I'm telling you, you know what that boy said to me? He said, 'Do you sell baseball caps here? My mom loves sports, and it's her birthday today, and I want to buy her a baseball cap.' ."

Bai Jing was laughing and shaking with flowers.

"I said directly back to him, I'm sorry oh, our brand has never come out with baseball caps, sir you don't know our brand? Hahahahaha, you didn't see his face! Special wonderful ...... oops, wait a minute, and I match the man seems to come, I first do not talk to you, turn back together to go to Bulgari card afternoon tea Oh baby, love you!Mua!"

Unfortunately, the café was noisy and Xie Qingcheng was looking for someone, so he didn't hear her talking.

Bai Jing saw the way he looked around and matched the matchmaker's description of "tall, handsome, peach blossom eyes, but with a cold temperament", and immediately waved at him: "Hi! Is it Prof. Xie Qingcheng Xie?"

Xie Qingcheng walks over, "Uh-huh. Hello."

Bai Jing looked him up and down, finally her eyes locked on his simple T-shirt, and suddenly smiled, her voice whining an octave, "Hello hello, my name is Bai Jing."