Boomerang

Luo Tan was very satisfied with her performance. After the embarrassing moment when she was hugged, she finally got back on track!

Sure enough, she is a vengeful woman.

But it seems that this doesn’t count as holding a grudge, right?

What is this?

Luo Tan couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.

But when she went out humming a song, Xu Cheng seriously rejected the suggestion of taking a bath behind her.

"Why?"

Xu Cheng opened his mouth, with helplessness in his eyes, which meant: You really don’t know why?

Luo Chen blinked and repeated, "Why?"

Xu Cheng glanced at her, and then suddenly said: "I haven't taken a shower yet, I'd better sleep on the floor..."

"you……"

Then Luo Tan watched Xu Cheng rummaging through the drawers in the room for a long time but couldn't find any extra sheets or quilts.

She couldn't help but burst into laughter, then pretended to yawn and said, "I'm going to sleep."

She quietly buried herself in the quilt, leaving only her eyes exposed. After seeing Xu Cheng heard her words, he quickly slowed down his movements. However, he could not search far and wide, nor could he find any spare bedding. In the end, he could only sneak up to her bed like a thief.

She saw Xu Cheng put the notebook he had never put down neatly on the bedside table, and then lay down on the other side of the bed with his clothes on.

Thanks to her huge double bed, there was room for four people to sleep between her and Xu Cheng.

As the lights went out, Luo Chen felt a little sleepy. Just as she was about to fall asleep, she suddenly heard a nasal sound.

?

The next second, the faint nasal sound turned into a sobbing sound. As if afraid of being discovered, the secret sound was cut off halfway through.

But Luo Tan felt that he had heard correctly.

She turned over and turned towards Xu Cheng. In the night, she could vaguely see Xu Cheng curled up with his face facing the wall on the other side.

The next second after she turned over, she noticed that Xu Cheng's back stiffened.

Xu Cheng felt a pair of eyes on his back. He tried his best to control his voice and waited for Luo Chen to turn around again, but the goddess of luck did not come after all. He heard Luo Chen say, "You are not going to cry, are you?"

Xu Cheng wanted to say that he didn't. After all, he was already such a grown-up, crying was a very embarrassing thing.

But he couldn't make any sound, because once he did, it would definitely expose his abnormality.

He heard Luo Tan sigh: "Who is Xu Lan to you?"

Xu Cheng closed his eyes. Since he couldn't hide it any longer, he told the truth: "...She is my mother."

"Sure enough, that's why you had to take that notebook back. We've already read all the information in it and may not need it anymore. But even if you are being hunted down and targeted, even if you risk your life, you must take back the diary she left behind."

Xu Cheng felt a little sour in his heart, as if an unripe fruit deep in the branch of his heart had its skin pierced and sour juice was flowing out.

He said softly, "When I was little, I always felt that she didn't love me that much. When other children went home from school and were picked up by their parents, I only had a nanny, and when the nanny was not there, I could only walk home by myself. On rare occasions, she would come home when I was asleep and tell me a bedtime story. But most of the time, I did my homework alone, recited my lessons alone, watched TV alone, and ate dinner alone."

Luo Tan: "Your mother loves you very much, she is just too busy."

Xu Cheng said nothing.

Luo Chen said in a relaxed tone: "Your mother is much better than my parents. They would just keep telling me from morning till night that they hope I'm a boy. It's as if if I grow that thing overnight, the family debts can be paid off in one go, my father will be respected in the unit, and my mother will be 20 years younger and regain her youth and beauty!"

"Sometimes, I wonder why I still feel sad every time I hear these repetitive words. Later, I thought about it and figured it out. Because the person who PUAs you is the person closest to you, the person you thought you could put all your trust in. If it was your boss who said this, I could just smile on the surface and say you are right, but curse him behind his back. But for parents who are closest to us, their behavior will become the deepest thorn in our hearts."

"But if you think about it carefully, parents become parents only because of their blood relationship, which does not affect the fact that they are idiots. But perhaps all human beings have a common ancestor thousands of years ago, so when faced with those unfair words, we can only smile on the surface and curse them in our hearts, and not take it to heart."

"Unfortunately, I didn't live up to that level of carefreeness until I ran away from home."

"That's off topic. Your mother was not that kind of person. At the very end of her life, she was still thinking about celebrating your birthday. She loved you."

Luo Tan quietly looked at Xu Cheng's expression for a while. In the dark night, she couldn't see the changes in his facial expression, but she thought he should be much better now.

She talked about a bunch of her own affairs, which seemed irrelevant, but was actually intentional.

When someone is sad, dry words of comfort are powerless. The most effective way to comfort someone is to let him know that you are worse off than he is.

Just like after an exam, when a top student burst into tears and keeps talking about how he got the last big question wrong, you just say casually that he forgot to mark the multiple-choice question, and he will feel much better. But he still has to pretend to comfort you: "It's okay, I might have gotten the multiple-choice question wrong too." Or, "I seem to have forgotten whether I marked it or not, hahaha."

Luo Chen thought Xu Cheng would say something that top students often say, something like, "My mother prefers girls." Or, "Your parents may love you deep down, but they are not good at expressing it."

But Xu Cheng suddenly turned around, his eyes sparkling in the darkness: "Forget all this, you still have me in the future."

What?

Luo Tan didn't expect him to say such words. She waited for a long time, but he didn't say the second half of the sentence "my friend".

Did he forget the second half of the sentence?

Luo Tan was a little upset.

She closed her eyes, tried to calm her breathing, and pretended to be asleep.

But soon, she couldn't pretend anymore.

Because she found that Xu Cheng kept turning over, and every time he turned over, he got closer to her.

Is he rolling on his side? Xu Cheng's sleeping position was forced to be correct by the single bed in the police station, but when he no longer slept on a single bed, he could no longer control his sleeping position.

There was a faint fragrance in the air, which came from Luo Chen's hair.

He moved towards that direction in a half-asleep state.

Finally——

An angry voice rang out: "If you come any closer I'm going to fall under the bed!"

Xu Cheng woke up with a start: "I'm sorry!"

He looked very innocent.

But Luo Tan: …

Well, even if I don't believe him, there are no extra mattresses for him to sleep on the floor.

The boomerang came so fast!

.

at the same time.

In a room in the palace, a computer screen was emitting a faint fluorescent glow.

If Xu Cheng saw this screen, he would be surprised to find that the communication box on it was exactly the same as the one he saw in the parachute basement before.

A pair of hands are resting on the keyboard, typing flexibly.

Two lines of words gradually appeared on the screen:

"Hello, I recently discovered who is the person who has been secretly hindering your planet's great plan."

The other party quickly replied: "Who is it?"

A picture was dragged into the message box, and then a finger clicked the mouse, and the picture was sent.

This picture, or more precisely, should be a photograph.

Luo Tan's black hair fell on both sides of her shoulders. She looked towards the camera, pursed her lips and smiled slightly, looking bright and gentle.

This is a photo of her taken when she was participating in the portrait painting of royal family members.