1
The planetarium will stop checking tickets at 4 pm, and tomorrow will be closed again. Merlin will start cleaning ahead of schedule as usual.
A crew rented the entire building for the next week of filming. It's not an important scene, and the props master didn't come, but it was rare for an actor to show up in advance.
Not to mention that this person is Yu Sichen.
Merlin thought she had recognized the wrong person, but she heard the other person speak first: "Brother Cai, don't wait for me, I'll take the MRT back later."
Yu Sichen is from Yilan, Taiwan, and both speak Hokkien with his manager. But the sound came out of his vocal cords with a metallic texture that hardly sounded like a dialect.
Without hearing a response, Yu Sichen turned his head, and a Yunston Lightning Mint was pressed down by his lips. The girl is young and handsome, but her expression is old-fashioned, with a more old-fashioned PHS hanging on her chest. Yu Sichen hurriedly put the cigarettes back into the gold-plated box, and the Mandarin was also standard enough to be able to take the first-level A-level test: "Sorry, I know that smoking is not allowed here, and there is no ignition."
This astronomical hall is used for celestial spherical projection, so no lighting is turned on. Merlin's nod was too small, Yu Sichen didn't see it clearly, got up and approached again: "I'm sorry, I really didn't light up..."
The handle of the vacuum cleaner slammed into the suede floor, churning up fibers and dust. Yu Sichen reluctantly held back, but Merlin covered her mouth and nose, a suppressed sneeze slightly tilted his collar, and before the other party attacked, she squatted down with a trembling body.
No wonder Merlin is afraid of him, many Yu Sichen fans are also afraid of him.
Yu Sichen was less than sixteen years old when he first debuted. He was running around in the best film at the Golden Horse Awards, riding a bicycle across the ridge, sweetening the rickety golden wheat seedlings. The young Yeyan wearing unilateral earrings caught a glimpse, and everyone was amazed and sighed.
Even the most demanding audience admits that he is a good-looking person who wants to copy the gene sequence at a glance, and the famous director also rushes to throw an olive branch. But in front of such a great opportunity, he suddenly disappeared. In the entertainment industry, every second counts, but he wasted his time, and his return has changed the world.
He has been polished repeatedly for several years, and the sharp and sharp nose bridge can almost cut people. At that time, the aesthetics were still very traditional, and the sharp appearance was not pleasing, not to mention that he had offended many producers by disappearing before, leaving him only negative supporting roles. But he never perfunctory, even a lunatic acted with flesh and blood, and the eyes alone can scare children to tears.
Everyone felt it was a pity, but they were fascinated by him, otherwise a still photo poster of him bowing his head and lighting a cigarette would not be sold out. That sense of aggression is so obvious that even liking him feels like self-injury.
Therefore, Merlin would be afraid, and Yu Sichen was not surprised. Before going out, he found that the girl was still following him, and he couldn't help but smile in his heart.
To sign a photo, but dare not say. He has seen a lot, and he doesn't mind. He took out the pen, but Merlin reminded: "Your eyes...glasses are from the planetarium..."
Yu Sichen realized it later and was finally embarrassed. There is no distinction between other people's dramas, and even taking off glasses has a sense of camera. Critics say he's a natural close-up and can stand the test of high-definition cameras. But the girl who was close at hand didn't even raise her head, so where did he put his rare star stand?
So he handed out the glasses, but regretted taking them back, and asked, "Is there a power bank? My phone is out of power."
Merlin obediently complied, while he turned on the phone slowly, his fingertips across the screen like a fleeting comet, and even his next words were like an illusion.
"Can I add your Line?"
2
Yu Sichen couldn't believe that there are still young people who don't use smartphones at all.
The crew took only four days to film the scene in the planetarium, and the remaining three days became Yu Sichen's one-man show. From time to time he appeared next to Merlene, chatting and joking with her. He is romantic, and it is not uncommon to be close to beautiful girls. His discerning eyes were like torches, and he soon saw the involuntary timidity and wandering of girls and people when they looked at each other.
Yu Sichen has a half-sister like this, he knows that such a person will never talk too much.
The glasses he borrowed at the planetarium are actually color-blind correction lenses.
Yu Sichen belongs to the rarest form of complete color blindness. After turning through hundreds of pages of Ishihara's examination chart, his eyes are still only black and white. Mrs. Yu sneered when she heard it: "Do you know what animal is colorblind? What is the difference between an actor's species and a dog, who only eat free food."
Mrs. Yu was infertile, and Mr. Yu's outer room raised one after another. Before Yu Sichen recognized his ancestors and returned to the clan, the daughter whom the Yu family recognized was diagnosed with autism, and Mrs. Yu insisted that this was retribution.
In the past, while Yu Sichen was on vacation in Morocco, the paparazzi used multiple pages to accuse him of playing with the feelings of several college students. Mrs. Yu fanned the flames, wishing to make things bigger.
The brokerage company was going crazy, and Brother Cai rushed to Dalbeda immediately. The waves of the Atlantic Ocean were blowing through the cool monsoon. Yu Sichen chewed the ice cubes squeezed from the black currants, and refused the proposal to hold a meeting to clarify the temperature, and only said that it would be left to a lawyer.
Brother Cai was speechless. Yu Sichen said it lightly, but he also gave all the compensation for winning the case to Brother Cai as the labor fee.
He can turn a blind eye to these smears that can destroy his reputation, except for color blindness. Because that kind of defect is like a despicable engraved in the bones, it can't be cut or broken.
When he was a child, he would be locked in the basement whenever he made a mistake, but later he discovered that the basement was actually built in his heart and was everywhere. The earth's magnetic field and gravitational force will bind him, and then he will fly out of the third cosmic speed, and even the solar system does not want to stay.
He is interested in astronomy, but the astronomy department doesn't even accept color blindness, let alone color blindness. Mr. Yu planned to let him go to Paris to study management in the future, but he didn't care about it. The father and son were constantly arguing. Fifteen years old was the period of rebellion. He was so handsome that he was almost domineering, and was caught by a scout with vicious eyes.
Yu Sichen was filming without his family, but the background of the Yu family could not be hidden. Yu Ji is such a treasure, and the topics are endless, Mr. Yu is furious and restricts his freedom. He also did not argue, and reappeared after finishing university according to his father's arrangement.
Among the Yu family's children, he is the only one with outstanding ability. At that time, Mrs. Yu's attitude softened a little, but her mouth was still unforgiving: "It's better to pretend to be like this earlier?"
"If I don't go out and prove that I can support myself, there are still people who can't recognize that she is the only one who eats free food." Yu Sichen took a napkin and wiped off the non-existent sauce stains from the corners of his mouth, and smiled kindly at the blue-faced Mrs. Yu, "Mother Slow use."
His acting is superb, both in and out of the show. He is his skin, no one can take it off.
The shrewd and mean Mrs. Yu is no match for him, let alone the silent and timid girl from the Planetarium. He's a busy man, and it's a little ridiculous to think about it for three days. But whether the waste of time is really for this trivial matter, that is another matter.
Before leaving, Merlin followed, and Yu Sichen firmly believed that he did not take any items from the planetarium with him this time.
Merlin, however, handed over the booklet and gel pen, and asked him to sign it. Yu Sichen thought to himself: It was probably entrusted by one of her relatives. When I opened it, I found out that this is the first photo album he took. The circulation is very small, and I don't know where I got it.
Since it is necessary to sign, it is better to sign it specially, it can be regarded as an apology for harassing her these days. Yu Sichen wrote his favorite sentence from the classic black and white movie "Casablanca": I can't remember it, Miss Iisa. I'm a little rusty on it. rusted.) He left Isa's name blank and asked, "The recipient's signature?"
"Merlene," Merlene thought for a while, or Chinese was more meaningful, "Wei Merlene. Dangerous Wei, Silent Mo, Lin Lang's Lin."
Merlin stopped stammering, but Yu Sichen's pen tip was sluggish, like hearing that a child with a milk allergy wants to eat cheese. But he was not qualified to say that others were strange, so he handed out the signature, his mind became hot, and he took back his hand again.
"Take a photo with me, it's a sign in return, how about it?"
3
At the end of October when the Orion meteor shower can be observed, news of Yu Sichen's breakup with his girlfriend grabbed the headlines. The Orionid meteor shower has a long duration of peak flow, and this headline is no different.
The fuse of the breakup is said to be an intimate photo of the man and a girl outside the circle.
But the key group photo was not exposed, but Merlin's research institute and part-time job site were taken upside down. The curator and the professor were very nervous, but the client took it in stride.
Because Merlin had already experienced it.
Merlin was born in the hilly area of northern Jiangsu. She is the younger sister of the twins. She is a buy-one-get-one-free. Obviously identical but not cherished, can be sent in or sent out.
Her parents handed her over to a couple who lost their only child, on the grounds that the family could not afford a second child and her sister was sickly. The fact is that they have asked for the signature, and they all say that the elder sister is the one with the rich life.
The adoptive parents were English teachers and liked this beautiful and silent girl very much. They also chose Merlin's foreign-language name. But later they had their own flesh and blood, and that beauty faded, and it was a sin to be too silent.
Merlin was sent back to her home again. There was no extra room, and her parents vacated a storage room with only one skylight for her to live in. My sister's old clothes, CDs and star posters are all piled up here, as is Yu Sichen.
The entertainment press always likes to use all kinds of celestial bodies to praise the eyes of stars, the sun, the moon or the stars. Merlin thought the same when she looked at Yu Sichen on the poster for the first time, but this celestial body was a black hole.
Black holes that can tear apart stars in seconds, and black holes that attract everything. Merlin cut out those eyes and put them in the textbook. After her sister found out, she cried and complained to her parents, saying that she was a monster.
She is not close to this younger sister who fell from the sky. What's more, it's not an exaggeration to say that watching people who are exactly the same as themselves do different things, strange things.
The biggest difference between Merlin and her sister is that she can study. Because she doesn't dare to contact people, her obsession with knowledge is almost unforgettable. The results of the joint entrance examination were close to full marks, but she did not share her experience with other students, so she deserved to be isolated.
Because of the negligence of her parents, she suffered from rhinitis, sneezing all the time, and someone always shouted impatiently: "Who grabs a handful of salt? Pickle that slug for me."
The whole class laughed, and someone pulled out the eyes and photobook from her schoolbag, laughing at her unhealthy mind.
After Yu Sichen's comeback, he rarely had a positive role, and always loved the heroine madly, but he couldn't. Loving him is like admitting his own selfish desires and secrecy, the girls are too ashamed to say it, and Sichen Yu has a face that is a gentle scum and unsuitable for children.
The two adjectives Merlin also agreed that he lost because he fell in love with the heroine, and children would most likely cry when they saw his face sinking. But before she knew the difference between sexual tension and physical tension, her classmates who laughed at her had already disproved her mental health.
People often say don't go to see the hero in their hearts, but Merlin is lucky to see it. Yu Sichen is better than she imagined, more real and fragile.
The scandal spread at an unexpected speed this time. The curator resisted the pressure and refused to fire Merlin, and the professor was even more indignant. This is the most worry-free good student he has ever brought. He has even won the national award three times. How can he be splashed with such dirty water?
If there was really that kind of dirty water, Merlin would probably stab him down. She was frightened by her own thoughts, and she didn't even notice that there was one more person in the Astronomical Hall. Yesterday he was still active on the Taiwan Financial Channel, but at the moment he was lying on the circular sofa and fell asleep with the vacuum cleaner.
I don't know when Yu Sichen has already cleaned her up. He opened his eyes when he heard the movement: "Are you here? Just sit down."
"The planetarium is not named Yu."
The scandal didn't affect Merlin, but she felt angry and guilty for her delusions, so she had to hide in the cloak of insincere words.
"Really?" His smile was fleeting, "I always thought I was the protagonist and the focus wherever I went."
This is more like self-deprecation, and it is similar to Merlin's lie just now. Yu Sichen has always been casual in his filming. Originally, his acting was to fight with the Yu family. Even if he forced the supporting characters to lower their intelligence in order to set off the protagonist, he could show a sense of hierarchy. There is a joke in the circle that he will never be popular because he is so handsome that he can only play the villain. Fans also regret that he even has an impact factor of over 7 for academic papers, but he cannot star in a movie with an IMDB rating of over 8.
The two sat down in silence, feeling sympathetic to each other. Yu Sichen took a deep breath in the dark: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect Xixian to make trouble..."
Xixian is his girlfriend. Merlin pressed the remote control and projected "Casablanca". She changed the subject without a trace: "You can only see black and white when filming, right?"
"Aren't black and white movies good?" He also took the opportunity to ask back.
"It's just... inconvenient."
"I don't think an actor's emotional expression has anything to do with color, and it's good for me to be completely colorblind. I can see through the bones rather than the skin at a glance, so the first time I saw you, I felt..." He slowly tilted his head , like an empty scene in a movie circling, leaving only the gentle wind blowing across the wilderness.
"Even if you're old, you'll still look good. Like your name, silent pretty girl, so dangerous."
The diameter of the circular sofa suddenly shrank like a collapsing star, and his smooth maxillofacial line was like the trail of a stellar wind blowing forward, and he could hear each other's heartbeats.
But the star collapses, the atoms disappear, and the remaining negatively charged electrons repel each other, making it difficult to get close.
How could Merlin not know how good Yu Sichen's relationship with the opposite sex is. Since his debut, the relationship has never been broken, but he neither admits nor denies it, and the participant is more like a bystander. He seems to be more affectionate than anyone else, but he never takes off the tail ring that symbolizes singleness. The actresses who broke up with him were all haggard, and no one ever said a bad word about him.
That's called danger.
Reason finally pulled Merlin back, and she suddenly turned her head away.
4
Merlin fell off the ladder while cleaning that day, not only fractured her lumbar vertebra, but also shattered two high-precision telescope lenses. The professor paid her indemnity privately, and the curator and his wife also visited the hospital, telling her not to think too much about everything.
But how can it be done? That person has always flirted with a random sentence, and the typhoon swept the sea. The girl in the mountains had never seen that kind of heavy rain, and her heart was drowned.
But Yu Sichen's apology was by no means just words. He used all his resources to excuse Merlin, but he got on fire. Yuji revealed his mother's old story in a series of articles, and by the time Mr. Yu reacted, it was already known to everyone.
Mrs. Yu once scolded Yu Sichen's mother as a lowly actor, but she wasn't. His mother is not even an actress, just a notorious restaurant girl. She went to the Spanish peninsula with the black ship, and then drifted across the Strait of Gibraltar to North Africa. There she met Mr. Yu, got Yu Sichen, and later sold her son like a pet, and remarried again and again.
The Internet even spreads the emoji of the father and son of the Yu family who eat black. There are very few photos of Mr. Yu. The pictures are from the official website of the group: Don't think I have only one son of you.
Yu Sichen appeared in the most famous cigarette-lighting poster. The man who killed his father and brother had a grim smile: Don't think I only have your father.
Like a butterfly effect, the Yujia Group's past fraud cases were also uncovered, the stock price plummeted, and public opinion was in an uproar. The retribution in Mrs. Yu's mouth eventually turned back on him.
Merlin only thought about one thing after hearing this, it turned out that he was born in Dalbeda. During World War II, that place was called Casablanca.
Yu Sichen is so sensitive to color blindness, the mother who brought him this defect must be his hidden wound.
On the day Brother Cai found the planetarium, Merlin knew that Yu Sichen had disappeared for more than two months.
She reluctantly got out of the hospital bed, and with great difficulty she dug out a flat square from the heavy documents in her schoolbag. This mobile phone was given to her by Yu Sichen earlier, and the battery has long been exhausted, and it took a long time to turn it on. There was only one number and address in it, even Brother Cai kept it secret.
Merlin pressed the screen to her chest, unable to breathe, as if the secret reached out and clenched her heart.
Yu Sichen has never been on variety shows, and he has no account on social platforms, which is extremely mysterious. But he actually keeps himself clean, and his hobbies are very monotonous. In the past two months, he has sent many pictures to Merlin, and each one is heart-stopping. Sometimes in snow-capped mountains and glaciers, sometimes in tropical rain forests, he is happy to be in uninhabited areas, accompanied by birds and insects.
"Compared to these super-visionary animals, humans who can only distinguish three primary colors are colorblind."
Merlin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. These words were like a child's anger with the whole world. Because they couldn't find a specific object of anger, it was even more rambling.
Because he was always kept underground as a child, Yu Sichen had an unusual preference and yearning for high places. Merlin found his penthouse on Huanling Road. The flat floor had a panoramic view, but he was curled up in the corner of the curved floor-to-ceiling windows. The house was clean and tidy, and there was no wine glass in sight. He could only discern his drunkenness from his breath. He has always been clean and fresh, and even if he acts as an oily and powdery face, he can also act as a rain of apricot flowers and willow winds that are soaking wet.
Merlin took out large and small buckle boxes from the thermal bag, and he stuck behind her like a skinny guy. The man's fragrant breath was not cold, and the brass drill covering half of the helix rubbed against Merlin's head, but it was hot and itchy. The avocado shrimp salad and salt-baked sardines were explained by Brother Cai. Without them, Yu Sichen would never eat.
Portuguese sardines are not easy to buy, and Merlin went to three supermarkets to buy the chilled seeds. Fortunately, Yu Sichen was very satisfied, his eyes glowed with a different look during the meal, and even the light was jealous of that kind of beauty, so he refused to pass through his dark brown iris.
"My mother cooks these two dishes very well, but they are not as good as yours."
No wonder Yu Sichen was entangled in peach blossoms, he casually said a word like he was waiting for a wisher to take the bait. Who wouldn't want to take the bait? He got closer and closer, his eyelashes grew terribly, and he surrounded Chao Merlin's bottom line that was about to burst: "Xixian is not my girlfriend, we have never dated."
His micro-expressions are so exquisite that even a vernier caliper can't detect whether it is true or false. His pond-like peach blossom eyes are so deep, he clearly wants to make a confession, but he tempts others to sink first.
His lip lines were so clear that she suddenly kissed him.
Crazy? How dare she! Yu Sichen was also stunned, the other person was a master and pushed Merlin away half a meter in one fell swoop.
After a long time, he laughed, but it seemed like revenge: "She is my fiancee."
On the way home, Merlin looked up, she could not see the top floor of the apartment, but she could feel that he was looking down at her too.
There are so many windows in this city, only Yu Sichen is standing in front of this window.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
5
When the previous scandal first broke out, Yu Sichen suggested that Merlin quit her part-time job at the planetarium and work in her private house. Leisure, but also earn money, but also provide a full range of star services.
"Considerate, always by your side," he joked at the time.
This is what Yu Sichen said when he was shooting public service advertisements in his early years. Later, advertisers like to use black and white to outline his beautiful silhouette. However, when he smiles, there is a strange sense of greenness, which children may not have. Innocent.
He likes filming without makeup, but there is no trace of years, which makes it even more difficult to guess his age. But even if time flies, his heart is locked, and inside is a gloomy boy who will never grow up.
Merlin gets off work from the planetarium at five o'clock every day, and needs to walk two kilometers to get to Huanling Road before taking the subway. The elevator in the apartment is regularly inspected, and she doesn't want to wait. She can climb 20 floors with shopping bags.
They are all children who have to be observant about life since childhood, Yu Sichen can take care of himself completely. He likes to smoke, but he doesn't smell like smoke. The robot vacuum cleaner and air purifier work from 9 to 5 at home, and he still pushes Dyson for a walk.
Sometimes he cooks his own meals, and Merlene is not embarrassed. She washed and cut the vegetables, sealed the meat with plastic wrap, put a label on the shelf life, neatly stored it in the refrigerator, and returned to the institute at 9 o'clock in the evening.
Only once was Yu Sichen who was very drunk and asked vaguely: "I waited for you for so long, and waited here every day, but you didn't come... But you appeared as soon as my mother's scandal was exposed. Sympathy? I don't need."
Merlin still comes every day, like a computer program that she knows will be unpinned but still sticks to the taskbar. Even if she was shut down arrogantly, she insisted on executing it.
Yu Sichen broke off the marriage contract that the family had made for him without authorization, and Mr. Yu was so angry that he drove him out of the family. He ignored it, and soon picked up a new show. He didn't say hello to Merlin before flying to the crew, and he didn't even come back.
Without the need to cook, Merlin changed her cleaning frequency to twice a week. Later, humans first observed the gravitational waves from the merger of double black holes, and the frequency became once a week and once every two weeks. On the day Yu Sichen arrived home, Merlin happened to leave.
Without waiting for Merlin for half a month, Yu Sichen thought she would not come again. When the mechanical strip of the door lock snapped and released, he just came out of the shower, wet hair ticking, sliding all the way along his abdominal muscles into the only bath towel covering his body.
Yu Sichen was beaten with blood on his face in a local Taiwanese drama. Because he was so thirsty, he bit the faucet in the park, and even his face was washed away by the water. At that moment, in this situation, across the damp ambiguity, they were silent as if competing. In the end, Merlin spoke first: "I don't know if you're coming back, I'll go buy some food."
It was clear that she was submissive, but Yu Sichen felt that he had lost, and he had lost in his heart. With one step on his long legs, the bath towel suddenly loosened. Merlin couldn't help but run away, he grabbed her and laughed triumphantly: "What are you thinking? Don't be too busy, just order takeout." Under the bath towel, he was wearing half-length trousers. He was with his mother until he was seven years old. Living in a windy place, protecting oneself is an inescapable instinct.
They each carried a bowl of assorted tofu and sat on the carpet to watch the projection documentary. In the middle of the way, Sichen Yu held back the urge to smoke several times, but Merlin couldn't hold back the sleepiness, and when she woke up, she was leaning on his shoulder. Yu Sichen fetched cold beer and simmered it in his arms before giving it to her.
Merlin lifted the tab and was soaked in beer foam. She was confused: "I didn't see you shaking it? How could it be."
"Maybe my heart is beating too fast... don't believe me?" He slammed her into his arms.
Two black holes collided. The hot kiss is like the most mysterious gravitational force, which cannot be separated no matter what.
Yu Sichen's famous kiss scene has always been the basis for his classmates to laugh at Merlin, but he is not as easy as he is on the screen, he just pretended too well in the past.
Like the colorblind paradox, a person sees flowers as green and leaves as red. But his childhood education told him that the green object he saw was called "red" and the red object was called "green", so because of the same names, no one knew that he was colorblind.
Only if Yu Sichen didn't want to hide it, could others strip him of his disguise and see all of him.
She saw all of him.
I suspect that under that cynical shell you are at heart a sentimentalist.
6
"Many people praise the love of colorblindness, and often use the analogy of 'you make me see color'. But I don't like it, because objectively speaking, I still can't see any color. I want to bring you into my black and white world, and I am very Beautiful, isn't it?"
When he said this, Yu Sichen was playing As time goes by, and the black and white keys of the Steinway Vertical Triangle were flowing brilliantly between his fingers that lost his tail ring. It was he who made her world see color.
There were no patterns in the apartment, and the plain textiles were all clean. Yu Sichen's obsession with cleanliness is also reflected in the fact that the sheets have to be changed every month. He accompanied Merlin to MUJI and scoffed at the striped style she chose.
Merlin retorted: "Tianzhu cotton is very comfortable."
He didn't care, but deliberately said in her ear, "Just sleep comfortably."
It took Merlin a long time to react, and she smashed him in the chest regardless of whether she was still holding a glass of iced Americana. The coffee dyed his casual shirt into a fluttering cloud, and the movement attracted pedestrians' glances. Fortunately, Sichen Yu was wearing a mask and a peaked cap.
But at the next moment, he pushed up the brim of his hat, pulled down the mask, and held the straw in Merlin's hand with a smile.
The call from the brokerage company and Brother Cai is like the passing of typhoon "Catfish" on the 17th of this year. Yu Sichen's mobile phone vibrated like he had an epilepsy, but his cooking skills and acting skills were as good. Ring again.
Merlin was stunned when she saw the machine that had been cut in half. She didn't know how it happened, and Yu Sichen pestered her to go out to watch a movie again.
The film he participated in a few years ago was finally launched. Unsurprisingly, it was still a black-bellied supporting role. The plot was lackluster, and the audience in the back row was discussing from beginning to end whether it should be welded on him. After leaving the venue, Yu Sichen shouted that he was hungry, and went to line up to buy popcorn. Merlin stared at him nervously, for fear that he would make another shocking debut.
Fortunately, this time he was very obedient. He sat in the driver's seat and teased her: "It's just a line. Seeing you are so murderous, you scared the girls around me away."
Merlin's mouth is stupid, and he likes to see her embarrassed: "It's good that I have only you by my side." When talking about movies on the road, his smile is like a specimen of withered flowers, which is rarely fake, "I say it sounds good in acting. It's like a vase."
"Vases are also works of art."
Not knowing what to think, Yu Sichen suddenly said, "My mother is very beautiful."
"I know."
"You haven't seen it before, how do you know?"
"You'll know just by looking at your father." Merlin was very determined.
Mr. Yu is not good-looking, and Yu Sichen was born like this. He smiled brightly, exuding a cloud of chaotic joy, and arched hairy in front of Merlin. Before she was so itchy that she couldn't help sneezing, he took another tissue paper and gently covered his lover's mouth and nose.
The time is so good, and the years are light.
With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.
7
But this planet alternates between morning and evening, although she is rational and calm, he is so uncertain. It can survive strong winds and waves, but the small frictions in life are hysterical.
In order to surprise Merlin, Yu Sichen cooked a table of Yilan dishes on her birthday. Merlin was not used to eating, but he didn't dare to say it, but he was sulking for a long time because the chopsticks were not moving frequently.
My sister wanted to buy a house in the provincial capital, but her parents wouldn't let Merlin continue her studies, and she couldn't make money from studying astronomy, so she should learn to help her family. What about the scholarship that Merlin sent home every year when she was reluctant to buy a smartphone? It's not her who can't learn it, it's her parents.
Merlin refused to be knocked out by her relatives forever, and she never told Yu Sichen about family affairs. He called a sum of money to silence her parents, but the two quarreled about it. Yu Sichen felt that Merlin was making a big fuss, and the rare date didn't go away.
All the seniors in the research institute have been pursuing Merlin, Yu Sichen is dismissive, confident to the point of being mean, but he will look down when a message pops up on her phone. Even when he shaves in the morning, he was scratched by absent-mindedness. Merlin went out to buy aftershave for him, but he said "no" coldly, and even threw away the blade.
At that time, his cigarette withdrawal reaction was very strong, and he kept coughing in the middle of the night, and hid in the living room alone. Merlin was still awakened, and complained to grab the cigarette butt in his hand, and was accidentally burned by the sparks. Yu Sichen suddenly had a seizure, blaming her for being meddlesome. The ice cubes melted quickly in the shoving process, he slammed the ice pack on the ground, slammed the door and left.
He had been gone for several months. When he came back, he had frostbite on his hands and feet. Merlin was still angry. His winter jacket still smelled of fresh snow. After he dropped his hiking bag, he buried his head in her fur collar like a starving clouded leopard. It was so itchy that she couldn't stop laughing.
It was dark, so they drank hot tea under blankets and watched old movies. There is light smoke and light rain outside the window, the mountains are empty, and the situation is more peaceful than the scenery.
The box office of the previous movie was sluggish, but Yu Sichen acted like a true character, and it was bad for him to be able to go to textbooks. He opened and closed the gilded box, back and forth anxiously: "I don't know how others scold me."
Merlin pondered for a moment: "Have you heard of Antikythera Machinery?"
On the Greek island of Antikythera, a sunken ship from the first century BC was salvaged, but on the ship was a metal gear that was recognized by the archaeological community as it only appeared in the thirteenth century. It is easy to fold a circle in half, but difficult to divide into thirds, so the production of odd-numbered teeth is far more difficult than even-numbered teeth. The study also revealed that it was an astronomical computer, with 235-scale gears representing the positions of the sun, moon and Earth.
"People call it an anachronism. The same goes for the Costa Rican stone ball. The Indians a thousand years ago shouldn't have the ability to carve with such a precise curvature. Before they were colonized by Spain, they didn't even enter the iron civilization."
"Are you saying that I was born at the wrong time, or at the wrong time?" He heard the voice, and took out a ring in his restless right hand, "It's a coincidence, I was really about to say something inappropriate - see you. Not long after, I went to the Antwerp Drilling Exchange. I didn't dare to let it light up for fear of being abusive to you."
He put on a dove egg shaped like a star for Merlene, and the four platinum claws couldn't catch the shining light, like his eyes encircling her ring finger, and even the future has a name.
The night after the rain is extraordinarily clear and bright. The Tianzhu cotton four-piece suit has not been changed, and the color has faded after repeated starching, and it is full of stars like the night sky. She also cuddled in his arms and said something: "The starlight you see when you look up at this moment may have been emitted tens of thousands of years ago."
"One thousand years?" he asked with a smile.
"10,000 years, maybe only this one."
Merlin remembered that she had been begging for an autograph from Sichen Yu's back.
But why didn't you take it away? The curator's wife once joked that Merlin was like a treasure in the town hall, but she guarded and stole it. It was only a glance, but I actually gave my heart away.
I was a fool to fall for a man like you.
8
Yu Sichen publicly admitted his relationship for the first time, and even the wedding ring on his left hand was photographed.
Until everyone found out that Merlin was actually a third party who had a close photo with Yu Sichen, the agency felt that something was wrong.
The company has always wanted to transform Yu Sichen and try to avoid the negative effects of the scandal. It was Mr. Yu who reacted even more to this, because he had a particularly strict emotional restraint on his children because of the lessons learned. He thought that if he stopped the family trust and removed his post, he could make his son submit, but the fact showed that it was his father who couldn't afford to lose.
Xixian's family was also infuriated, but Merlin's parents were the ones who were the first to go into chaos. They are all farmers with low vision, and they were scared by the media chasing their doors. My sister was also mistaken for Merlin, she even lost her job, and threatened on the phone that she would one day make her sister suffer and regret.
Xixian swallowed the medicine, but she stumbled over Yu Sichen even though she was in danger. After that, the Yu family encountered big trouble with the brokerage, and it was also Xixian's grandfather who took out his credit as an endorsement. Kindness and kindness, even if they are ruthless, they have to repay their kindness. The Taiwanese media all think that they will be reunited.
It rained coldly the day Yu Sichen flew back to Lukou Airport. Recently, the International Astronomical Society has been too busy to communicate. The seminars are often held until dawn, and Merlin doesn't even have time to look at her mobile phone. When Yu Sichen stepped into the house, she had just finished taking a shower, and she was also wrapped in a bath towel, but she had nothing on it.
He was about to kiss her when he put down the suitcase, and she was shy and didn't smile when he avoided it. He laughed, and lazily cried hungry.
There were only frozen sardines in the refrigerator, Yu Sichen reluctantly ate a few bites with turnip bibimbap, and mistakenly identified soy sauce as mirin, feeling like freezing rain had poured in his heart again. Merlin was unaware: "I didn't expect you to come back suddenly, I'll go buy you fresh..."
"What can you think of? You don't reply to how many text messages I send. I want to know, do you do the same to that senior?" He frowned and threw the phone on the table.
It was a report on international astronomical exchanges. In the group photo, Limeline happened to be standing with the senior. She hurriedly took out her mobile phone, and as soon as it was turned on, the hot news accompanied by countless text messages stabbed at the eye mask, causing her to squat down in pain for a while.
When Mr. Yu sneered at Yu Sichen's mother and Mrs. Yu scolded him for knowing how to repay his kindness, he sent a message to ask Merlin: Shall we get married now?
He stood in front of her as if he had met for the first time. Yu Sichen also squatted down and stretched out his hand towards Merlin, then pulled it back quickly, as long as he wanted to, his hair was full of drama: "Why do I think you treat me like a dog, coax when you're happy, and kick when you don't need it? Kick off?"
How hurtful these words are. Only in front of people who completely indulge him can he dare to be so fearless. The wind and rain were dark, and the night was silent. Merlin curled up in front of the curved window, not daring to cry. When Dongfang was white, she vaguely felt that she was picked up and put into the bed.
They both understood that no storm could separate them. Unfortunately, most of the good things are not strong, and many cracks can only be repaired with time and space.
The new crew started up near Nanga Bawa Peak, and Yu Sichen was sticking to the bedside before he set off - I'm gone, really gone. We'll be reconciled when we come back this time, okay? We will get the certificate on the day we come back, okay?
Merlin was still pretending to be asleep, she didn't dare to say yes, for fear that it would be like the routine of a tragic movie. She didn't even dare to say bad, annoyed him, and had to postpone the return date.
Less than half a month later, he called to say that he was homesick, and asked, "Are you okay?"
I love you more and more each day as time goes by.
Why wait, why wait any longer?
She was about to say yes, when suddenly it seemed like a snowstorm was pouring down on her, the walkie-talkie rang wildly, and then she couldn't hear anything.
9
In mid-2021, the world disrupted by the epidemic will rarely regain some vitality. The professor was too old to work, so he asked Merlin to go to Yunnan to take an open class for him.
Yunnan is too close to Tibet and too far from Taiwan. You may see the top of Nanga Bawa Peak, but you can't see the bone gallery of Yilan Jiaoxi Cherry Blossom Cemetery.
Five years ago, several crew members accidentally fell into the snow-capped mountains, but Yu Sichen was the only one who had experience. He went down to save people without hesitation, and then never came back. The villain who killed countless people died in reality in order to save people.
But in just five years, the vicissitudes of life, no matter how deep the love can be diluted into a weak fate. What happened yesterday may not be remembered today. Like that dialogue in "Casablanca" --
Where were you last night? (where did you go last night?)
That's so long ago, I don't remember.
Will I see you tonight? (Can I see you tonight?)
I never make plans that far ahead.
For Merlene, the only connection between yesterday and today is the dream. But she never dreamed of him and always woke up crying.
Over the years, the We-Media has developed rapidly, and Yu Sichen's character editing has set off a huge tribute. He is like a copybook, with pearls and jade in front, and cold swords and rust in the back, no matter how others imitate him, it is impossible to draw a tiger.
A piece of sadness can't be painted.
After the presentation, many audience members asked Merlene questions, academic or gossip. In the years after Yu Sichen's death, the charges related to Merlin were cleared one by one, showing her legendary experience. A doctor of astronomy who came out of the countryside is romantic even with his back to the sky.
There were also several backpackers in the auditorium. Merlin seemed to be fascinated by a jacket, and suddenly chased out against the crowd. It was only after she burst into tears that she remembered, how could it be him? If it was really Yu Sichen, why didn't he come up and say a word to him? Even goodbye.
That person is indeed not Yu Sichen.
But Yu Sichen really stood outside the crowd and didn't dare to speak to Merlin.
He did not die in the snow-capped mountains, but he was seriously injured in a coma and could only be maintained by intubation. About two years ago, after he woke up, he dragged his sick body back to Nanjing, but a wedding was waiting for him.
Merlin and another man's wedding.
As if swallowed by a black hole, his whole person was torn apart and he almost went crazy. But three years were a snap to him, but to Merlin it was more than a thousand minutes of days and nights. The beautiful bride in the welcoming guest turned her head in slow motion and saw him, as if she was looking at a stranger.
If he was like any unloved character he's ever played, he'd definitely be desperate to take his heroine away. But he will always be just a supporting role after all, or the boy who was abandoned by everyone in the past. Frustrated and timid, he failed to take that step.
Let him be black and white, and let her be gorgeous.
But that bride wasn't Merlin either. My sister actually recognized Yu Sichen, but refused to say it.
The open class ended successfully, and the senior officially proposed to Merlin. She suddenly remembered that Yu Sichen had taught her to speak Hokkien, and there was a saying in it, "The sea of life". I finally realized that no matter how ups and downs this life changes, it still has to go on.
That night was the first and last time she dreamed of Yu Sichen. It was so rare that she patronized her and forgot to kiss her.
Merlin never left Nanjing for the rest of her life, and Yu Sichen never went back. Later, he traveled all over the world's rivers and mountains, but never met his stars again.
The hero and heroine of the movie said before the separation at the end: "We'll always have Paris." (We will always have Paris.)
They also had the gentlest wilderness and monsoons on the entire planet.
Last updated: October 27, 2022