At around 4 AM, as we were leaving, I saw Qi Yufeng leaning against his car door smoking across the street. Upon seeing me, he extinguished his cigarette and was about to come over, but I turned and walked away, leaving him to stop helplessly. Baba scolded me, pointing at the cigarette butts littering the ground, “He waited for you all night!” I was forced to go over, reluctantly pouting; hadn’t I waited for him all night, and even longer than he did! However, seeing the cigarette butts all over the place, though it was bad for the environment, it was somewhat touching…
We stood there in silence for a long time, the empty street as if no one else existed, just the two of us with our own thoughts.
“Let’s go home,” I said, opening the car door and getting in—what’s that smell? Qi Yufeng, upon entering, also noticed it. He suddenly slapped his forehead, “Almost forgot,” and reached to the back seat for a large bouquet of flowers, “They’ve been closed up for half a day, they’re almost wilted,” “Do you still want them?” I took them from his hands immediately; they smelled so good!
“Are they… night-blooming cereus?” He actually brought night-blooming cereus… “You’re so weird…” His face seemed to flush slightly, “It’s my first time giving flowers, I didn’t know the details… If you don’t like them, throw them away, if you dare.”
“I like them~” They’re so beautiful! This variety is quite rare, and he actually used it to give me flowers! “I had them specially air-freighted back.”
Suddenly, he stopped the car, parking at the roadside—what was he doing?
“Xia Xia,”
“Huh?”
He hesitated, then turned his head away, ignoring me. What was he doing, so bizarre! I looked out the window; we were at a harbor.
Qi Yufeng suddenly started cursing, “So embarrassing! What a surprise, now it’s all ruined! Get out!”
Before I could figure out what was going on, Qi Yufeng dragged me out of the car, over the railing, onto the beach. On an abandoned small boat, he handed me a sand shovel, pointing at a slight mound in front of us, “Dig!”
“What?”
“I told you to dig!”
