Five months later.

Airport terminal in City D.

"Finally going home, I'm so tired." A pregnant woman wearing loose-fitting clothes slowly walked into the waiting room.

They had just finished going through security.

The man beside her carefully held her waist to prevent her from bumping or falling.

Their home is in City S.

I'm here in D city for a few days as a tourist.

"You should take a nap once you get on the plane. I didn't want you to travel around with your pregnant belly."

"good."

The pregnant woman agreed, snuggling coquettishly into the man's arms, "Ah Xi, after the baby is born, let's bring the baby to D City again. It's tiring, but it's really fun!"

"Of course. I'll go with you wherever you want to go."

"Yeah, you're the best."

As they approached the exit, a large group of men in black suits and sunglasses escorted Xuan Mingyu, who was walking in the middle, towards the airport exit.

After finishing his business at the branch office in D city, he should head back to L city.

Guangxi held the person in her arms tightly and made way for them.

They just happened to pass by each other, and no one noticed anything unusual.

"Ah Xi, are they gangsters?" The pregnant woman asked curiously, watching their retreating figures.

I feel like I've seen that man's back view somewhere before.

Where exactly is she? She doesn't remember knowing any other men besides Ah-Xi.

Seeing her frowning and lost in thought, the man beside her pulled her back from her reverie. "Niannian? Niannian?"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Mo Niannian was startled and subconsciously touched her slightly protruding belly.

"Let's go, we'll be boarding in half an hour."

"Um."

I guess I'm overthinking it. I'm not going to think about it anymore. Anyway, I'm going home and saying goodbye to this city for good.

***

On the airplane.

After boarding the plane, Xian Mingyu habitually took out the dark blue pouch from the inside pocket of his clothes and fiddled with it in his hand.

For the past few months, wherever he went, he would always carry this purse with him. It was sewn by her by hand and had been touched by him for a long time, so the stitches were a little frayed, but Xuanmingyu still cherished it and carried it with him as a treasure, even keeping it by his side when he slept.

His little Ruo'er has been gone for five months.

He never forgot her for a single second.

We searched that area of ​​the sea countless times; we were almost ready to have the seawater drained and the search reversed.

On the tenth day of the search for Bai Xiaoruo, news came from the search and rescue team.

Her body has been found.

Bai Xiaoruo was still wearing the clothes she was wearing, but she was missing one shoe. The shoe she was wearing was the same style as the one they had found earlier.

The corpse emitted a pungent stench, was highly decomposed, and was unrecognizable.

Feng Zhiyuan and Xian Mingyu rushed over to see it immediately.

After only a brief glance, Xian Mingyu immediately dismissed the conclusion that the corpse was Bai Xiaoruo.

He had stroked her soft, boneless little hands countless times, and he had kissed and stroked her soft, long hair and round little head countless times.

Neither the head shape nor the size of her hands matched her at all.

This further convinced Hsien Ming-yu that someone had deliberately switched the items in this way.

It's very likely that the person who switched the body has hidden the real Bai Xiaoruo.

He firmly believed that Bai Xiaoruo was not dead.

No matter where she is, he will find her.

Even if one day they actually find her body, and she is no longer in this world, he will never love any woman other than her again.

In his entire life, he only ever loved one person: her.

His wife, Xian Mingyu, is only Bai Xiaoruo.

In the past few months, Xian Mingyu and Feng Zhiyuan have become much closer.

He was a lonely old man who spent his days in tears, with no relatives left to accompany him. Xuan Mingyu took Bai Xiaoruo's place, treating him as his own maternal grandfather, taking good care of him, and talking to him often.

They often talked about Bai Xiaoruo, and the two of them would be instantly moved, but then they would change the subject to other topics.

She left in the summer, and now L City is completely winter.

Tomorrow is Hsien Ming-yu's birthday.

He had no intention of celebrating; he'd gotten used to not celebrating over the years anyway.

Until he found Bai Xiaoruo, he had no mood to do anything happy.

***

For the past few months, Xian Mingyu has been living in Junjiang District.

There are many traces of her living here.

He framed all the photos she had previously clipped into the album and hung them all over one wall.

All of them are photos of them together from before.

After Bai Xiaoruo left, he often had trouble sleeping.

He dreams about her many times every night. In his dreams, she smiles sweetly, and he can hold her tightly in his arms. But when he wakes up, it's only the middle of the night, and it's not even dawn yet. He's all alone in bed, and she's nowhere to be seen.

Several times when he couldn't sleep, Hsien Ming-yu would drink all night long, one night after another.

I wanted to get a little drunk so I wouldn't miss her so much, and feel so bad.

No matter how many times he got drunk, his mind was still filled with her image.

Whenever he wasn't at work, Hsien Ming-yu would sit quietly alone on the floor of the master bedroom, flipping through her sketchbooks and revisiting memories related to her.

The phone he had given her before didn't have a password, and Xian Mingyu had never paid attention to it. Later, he recharged it one day, opened it, and looked at her Moments, only to find out many of her little secrets.

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