allonlinenovel Chapter 1259 Yun Rui's sincerity: Career is always the most important
Chapter 1259 Yun Rui's sincerity: Career is always the most important
The dusk was like ink, gradually permeating the buildings of Hunan University. Gu Yunqian's black Bentley quietly stopped in front of the Chemistry Department Building, and the headlights dyed the falling ginkgo leaves into warm gold.
He watched Gu Yunxi walk out of the building holding the lab report, her white coat swaying gently in the cold wind, and he seemed to have returned to the way she looked when she first entered the academic circle - at that time, her eyes were filled with pure curiosity, without the complicated emotional ties she has now.
The car door opened, and the air-conditioning with the scent of cedar perfume blew in. Gu Yunxi sat in the passenger seat and rubbed his brows tiredly: "Brother, why are you picking me up so late?"
"I want to talk to you about something." Gu Yunqian started the car and looked ahead. The light and shadow of the street lamp flickered on his face. "About Lin Xu."
Gu Yunxi raised his eyebrows, and his fingertips subconsciously rubbed the corners of the experimental report, leaving wrinkles on his palm.
The air in the car seemed to freeze in an instant, with only the faint sound of classical music from the car stereo flowing in the silence.
"I gave him a chance to study in Cambridge." Gu Yunqian turned the steering wheel and drove into the main road. The neon lights shone through the car windows, reflecting tiny spots of light on his glasses. "A full scholarship to study with the disciple of the Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry."
Gu Yunxi was silent for a long time, looking at the street scenes passing by outside the car window. Those colorful billboards blurred into one in her eyes.
She thought of Lin Xu's focused eyes in the laboratory and the stuffed toy he won for her at the amusement park, but at this moment those scenes seemed so distant.
"So, you talked to him?" Her voice was soft, but with a barely noticeable hoarseness.
"I told him that love is a luxury for children from families like yours." Gu Yunqian's voice was as cold as iron. "He needs time and experience to understand what he should really pursue."
He glanced sideways at his sister and saw that she was biting her lower lip, her eyelashes casting trembling shadows under her eyes.
"Actually, I would have arranged it even if you didn't look for him." Gu Yunxi suddenly spoke, with relief and helplessness in her voice, "I also think that he should go see the bigger world." She sighed softly, "He is still young, and he will meet more outstanding people and experience more things in the future. His current feelings are nothing more than a momentary impulse."
The car fell into a long silence, with only the rustling sound of tires rolling over the asphalt road.
Gu Yunqian looked at his sister's tired expression in the rearview mirror, and a trace of guilt surged in his heart. He knew that his approach might be a bit tough, but as a brother, he couldn't watch his sister fall into a relationship that might hurt her.
"I didn't ask you to cut off contact forever." Gu Yunqian broke the silence, "When he returns from school, if the feelings are still there, I won't stop him." His voice softened rarely, "But now, it's the best time for both of you to settle down."
"I hope he can accept it readily, so that all our efforts will be worthwhile."
As she spoke, a bitter smile appeared on Gu Yunxi's lips. It's not like she hasn't seen boys of this age giving up their careers for love, following the plots in idol dramas.
As she was thinking, she turned her head to look at the lights of thousands of homes outside the window. The warm halo shone through the glass, but it could not dispel the coldness in her heart.
She understood her brother's good intentions, and also knew that Lin Xu's future should not be constrained by a young relationship.
But when she thought of the boy's fiery eyes and his determination when he said, "I want to be someone who can watch the scenery side by side with her," her heart still surged uncontrollably.
The car slowly drove into the driveway of the Gu family's old house. The headlights illuminated the maple tree in the yard. The red leaves swayed gently in the wind, just like her troubled mood at the moment.
When Gu Yunxi got off the car, it was already late at night. The cold wind blew up her hair, and also blew up those unspeakable emotions.
She knew that from this moment on, some things were destined to be temporarily sealed, waiting for the answer of time...
In the dormitory corridor late at night, the voice-controlled lights flickered with the sound of Lin Xu's footsteps.
His knuckles turned white as he gripped the gold-plated invitation letter. The coolness of the metal door handle penetrated his palms, but it was nothing compared to the chill surging in his heart.
When he opened the door, he was greeted by the sound of his roommate's snoring mixed with the hum of the computer fan. Above his bed, there was a photo of Gu Yunxi at an academic lecture - he had secretly taken it and printed it out, but at this moment it was like a sharp blade, cutting into his heart.
The moment the desk lamp came on, the emblem of Cambridge University flashed on the invitation letter in the yellow halo.
"Full scholarship"
“Disciple of the Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry”
These words coiled on the retina like a poisonous snake. Lin Xu thought of his father's calloused hands, the antihypertensive medicine his mother hid under her pillow, and the contemptuous yet determined look in Gu Yunqian's eyes when he said, "You can save ten years of detours."
Yes, for a child from a working-class family, this is indeed an opportunity to change one’s destiny, which many people cannot obtain.
But when he closed his eyes, the image of Gu Yunxi concentrating on debugging the instrument in the laboratory, her smiling face illuminated by fireworks in the amusement park, and her flustered but slightly red cheeks when she confessed her love, all came to him like a tide.
He suddenly loosened his collar, as if this could relieve the suffocation. Gu Yunqian said, "Love is a luxury," but he clearly remembered that when Gu Yunxi's fingertips brushed across the back of his hand, the warmth was more dazzling than any academic achievement.
The phone vibrated beside the pillow. It was a message from my mother: "Axu, it's getting cold, remember to put on more clothes." The accompanying picture was the back of my father working in the vegetable garden, his white hair disheveled in the wind.
Lin Xu's throat tightened and he buried his face in the pillow. His suppressed sobs startled the night birds perched outside the window.
If he accepts this opportunity, he can give his parents a better life and stand shoulder to shoulder with Gu Yunxi on a higher platform;
But if he refuses, he might miss the love of his life, and become the one who wakes up in the middle of the night with regrets in the moonlight many years later.
The moonlight outside the window was obscured by dark clouds, and the dormitory fell into complete darkness. Lin Xu fumbled to open the drawer and took out the sketchbook hidden at the bottom.
Between the yellowed pages, there was a dry ginkgo leaf - it was the bookmark that Gu Yunxi had given him.
The sketchbook was filled with her silhouette, back, and the occasional smile he caught. He stroked those lines with trembling fingers, as if he could touch her true temperature.
"Although I'm not sure whether it's a fill-in-the-blank question or a multiple-choice question, but one thing is... I don't want to be the person who sighs at memories many years later." Lin Xu muttered to himself in the darkness. His voice was so hoarse that it didn't sound like his own, and was finally drowned out by the roommate's snoring.
But when his eyes fell on the invitation letter again, the name of Cambridge attracted him like a magnet.
The boy's love is passionate and pure, but it cannot withstand the heaviness of reality; the temptations of the future are at hand, but they may make him lose the most precious light in his life.
The rain started to fall without knowing when, beating on the security window, just like his chaotic thoughts. Lin Xu curled up in the corner of the bed, at the junction of light and darkness, between love and future, waiting for the dawn, but he didn't know which way the light would illuminate...