"Can't you just leave him alone? Ah, you really are such a person, I really don't know what to say to you."

"no."

"I swore an oath."

"What oath?" Bian Xuzhu touched his chin with his fingertips, and Lin Qingzhu felt an itch on his chin.

"002 must always protect 001."

"don't know."

"Brother, let me tell you."

Lin Qingzhu told Bian Xuzhu about the story of him and Gu Wenqing for a long time. If Lin Qingzhu was a girl, he would have thought it was a beautiful and heart-wrenching love story.

"Your brother never does anything good." Bian Xuzhu listened silently before saying

"No……"

"He's a good man."

"What about you?"

"I'm a...bad person."

"This is the first time I've seen someone talk about himself like that." Bian Xuzhu scratched his chin again.

"Brother, I am an unforgivable person."

"It's okay, you're just a good boy to me."

"Brother, if everything I did in front of you was just an act..."

"Will you believe me too?"

"I will believe you too. No matter who you are, I will believe you unconditionally."

Lin Qingzhu's pupils suddenly trembled, and the light in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

"Thank you, brother."

"But what if that's the case?"

A small silver gun was pressed against Bian Xuzhu's neck. The gun still had some of the warmth from Lin Qingzhu's body.

"So, what's that little thing you have against my back?"

"Brother, it's a gun."

He lifted the gun from the back of his neck to Bian Xuzhu's eyes and explained to him: "I made this myself. Don't be fooled by its small size. It fires just as well as normal guns."

"Then your back..."

"Don't worry, brother. I wasn't shot today. The one I got shot with was from the friction when I was sliding down the wall from upstairs."

"Really?"

"I want my brother to assure me that what I said is true."

"Then what you told me before was a lie."

"Not entirely."

"Come, tell your brother which of the words you told me were false."

Bian Xuzhu wanted to make him laugh but found that Lin Qingzhu couldn't laugh at all.

“A lot of it is fake.”

"Brother, I'm really not a good person."

"With this gun, I've taken at least ten lives today."

His hand clenched the gun, and his whole hand began to shake.

"They are all about the same age as my brother, me, and Aqing. They are all in their teens."

"One day I will die just like them."

"Brother, please stay away from me in the future."

As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes, and he looked even more pitiful because he was idle.

“Why are you doing this?”

"You can retire and find a place where no one knows you, Lin Qingzhu, and start over. You are still so young, and everything will be fine."

"That's impossible, brother. Once you step into this line of work, there's no turning back."

"Brother, I have never regretted choosing this line of work. I did everything willingly."

"Brother, you'd better think about it carefully. Do you regret knowing me?"

As Lin Qingzhu was talking, blood oozed out of the corner of his mouth again, but he just happened to move his head closer to Bian Xuzhu.

"Brother." He spoke in a cautious tone, and even the crying tone was more obvious. He seemed to have stopped crying.

Bian Xuzhu was afraid that if he said one word wrong it would hurt his nerves.

"I have no regrets."

“You’re there to do things.”

"It's okay to tell this to my brother, but you can't tell anyone about it outside."

"Qingcheng."

"The most stunning beauty in the world."

“It sounds good.”

"Yes, it was obtained by Aqing's mother. Her mother is a very gentle person."

"Her mother..."

"Call Song Anyi."

"Song...An...Yi..." Xu Zhu muttered something that sounded strangely familiar. He seemed to have heard it somewhere before.

But I couldn't remember where I had heard this name before.

"I can help you, Ah Zhu. I can help you leave that place called Qingcheng, that place that eats people."

"No, you can't help me. No one else can help me in this place except Aqing. Aqing won't let me go."

"Is this a gift for me?" Lin Qingzhu cleverly changed the subject. He noticed the gift box inside.

"It's for you."

“These are seeds from my native land.”

Bian Xuzhu explained to him one by one what the seeds were.

There are also some photos of his China trying to plant these seeds

Lin Qingzhu took the photo and could tell at a glance that Bian Xuzhu was well protected by his family. His eyes showed the look of a child from a wealthy family who had not experienced much harm and was not familiar with the world.

Bian Xuzhu turned over a photo and said, "This is my sister."

"My name is Bian Yuze."

Lin Qingzhu looked over and saw a photo of Bian Xuzhu and her sister standing in the field together.

That innocent smile is a smile that he can't fake no matter how hard he tries.

His smile was too fake. Lin Qingzhu thought as she was lost in thought.

"Azhu, let's take a photo together."

"Come to think of it, we've known each other for so long, and we don't even have a photo together."

He did send Lin Qingzhu photos of his life from time to time, but now thinking back, it seems that Lin Qingzhu has never sent him a photo in return.

"I have kept your photo in a private album."

Although Bian Xuzhu didn't understand why he saved his photos in a private album, he didn't ask.

"good."

Bian Xuzhu tidied up the living room a little bit and found a good angle for taking pictures.

"Come, let's take a picture here."

"Click... Click..." The sound of two shutter buttons being pressed.

When Lin Qingzhu looked at the photo of himself and Bian Xuzhu, he observed carefully and said

"Brother, we really look so much alike."

But Lin Qingzhu insisted on finding something different

"Brother, there is a mole on my neck."

"I also have a small mole next to my belly."

"There's also a small mole behind my right ear."

"Brother, look." Lin Qingzhu bent down and showed him the mole behind her ear.

"This mole cannot be seen unless you look closely."

"Brother, besides you, Aqing is the only one who knows about this mole."

"Don't your parents know?" Bian Xuzhu pinched his ear and said kindly

"Well, my parents don't know either."

"This mole is an acquired one. I only discovered it after Ah Qing told me about it. It's a small one."

"Brother, let's put these seeds in the bottle together."

Because there is a small bottle in the gift box, that's why he said that.