Of course Renault wanted it, "You can sleep in my bed."
Seeing her slightly hesitant look, he immediately added, "I'll be standing by."
Gu Youran lay down with his eyes still open.
Renault sat in the armchair beside the bed, his voice as soft as if he was coaxing a child to sleep.
"Remember? When you were two years old, your eyes lit up when you first tasted osmanthus cake?"
He gestured with his hands, "Holding the cake in his tiny hands, his face was covered in powdered sugar as he ate, like a kitten stealing food."
Gu Youran's breathing gradually became steady.
Renault continued softly, "You had just learned to run at that time, and every time you saw me you would stumble and rush over to me."
He pointed his fingertips in the air at a height he remembered, "It's only as high as my waist..."
The night wind rustled the curtains.
His voice became softer. "One time you secretly followed me to private school and fell asleep under the desk."
"When I found out, you were drooling while holding my schoolbag..."
Gu Youran's lips curled up slightly, as if she was dreaming of those warm times.
Renault suddenly choked and pressed his knuckles against his sore nose.
"On your third birthday... you grabbed the corner of my clothes and said..."
"Say 'Youyou will be with Brother Nuonuo forever'..."
He gently pulled up the quilt and said the second half of the sentence...
"But we were separated for twenty-two years after all" he swallowed it back.
The cherry blossoms fell twenty-two times, the snowmen were built and melted,
The corners of clothes that were tightly clenched back then have long been worn away by time and have lost their warmth.
…
The other side.
Shi Heng had been searching in the secret room for two hours.
Just when he was about to give up, his right hand suddenly touched a slightly raised brick.
Unlike other bricks, this stone has almost imperceptible spiral patterns carved into its surface.
He held his breath and pressed harder.
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