Chapter 67  : Eight Years of Loving Him Was Like A Dream (7)

Qin Zhi’ai had stopped, pouting, then turned around, about to angrily ask if he could stop calling her sweetheart.

However, before she had asked, he had opened his mouth, saying, “I’m enlisting in the army next Wednesday.”Gu Yusheng had tilted his face and gazed at the street lamp not far away for a while. It had seemed he had something else to say to Qin Zhi’ai, but in the end, he had just turned his head back and said, “See you this weekend.”

Then, he had put out the cigar after a deep inhale, threw it into the trash can, and walked back to the car.

When Qin Zhi’ai had recovered from the shock caused by Gu Yushang’s words—that he would be gone for five years—Gu Yusheng had already driven out of her sight.

For those few days, Qin Zhi’ai had suffered from intermingled happiness and sadness.

She had been happy about the date with Gu Yusheng, but sad that he would soon leave Beijing.

At that time, Qin Zhi’ai had always felt that Gu Yusheng had special feelings for her, because if not, then why had he known her address? Why had he fought for her when Jiang Qianqian had forced her to apologize? Why had he protected her from his father’s violent golf club? Why had he told her his patriotic dreams? Why had he wanted a date with her alone before he left Beijing and even given her his phone number?

But that day, she had gone to the cinema early like she had the last time, and he still hadn’t shown up. As it had rained heavily, she had walked for over an hour, then found a phone booth, but when she called him, the only response she had received was, “The number you dialed is not in service.”

She had been unwilling to believe that the number he gave her didn’t exist, so she had dialed again and again, even after the number was deeply ingrained in her mind, but the response from the phone remained the same: “The number you dialed is not in service.”magic