Chapter 51: Cousins' Situation - A Separate Side Story - Fall (Part 8)
As her eyes were plunged into darkness, Yu Qingzhou tripped over something on the ground.
Then my forehead touched something soft, smooth and warm, like... human skin.
After a slight hissing sound, the overhead light came on, casting a dim glow into the room with the curtains tightly drawn.
A woman was lying quietly in the armchair in front of me.
The woman closed her eyes, tilted her head to one side, her slender arms draped softly at her sides, and her legs stretched out, revealing the hem of her long skirt.
The familiar face was clearly—
The one in the missing person notice.
Seeing this familiar scene, Yu Qingzhou's heart began to pound uncontrollably again.
He pressed his throbbing temples, as scenes from his dream flashed through his mind.
The sound of hurried footsteps echoed down the corridor... and the singing abruptly stopped...
The girl turned her face to look this way...
A pale face hidden deep within black hair...
The image freezes on a missing person notice in the corner of the television screen, accompanied by the host's professional narration.
(The female patient was reportedly wearing a white dress when she went missing.)
Is it really... her?!
As he realized this, a dull pain suddenly shot through his brain, and he pressed his head and backed away.
At the same time, a pair of hands gently pressed on his shoulders.
Yu Qingzhou felt a sudden numbness in her forearm and looked down at the syringe in Li Xiao's hand in disbelief.
The drug was injected into the blood vessels, accompanied by a strange burning sensation.
Li Xiao gently lifted Yu Qingzhou and placed her on a chair next to him.
Yu Qingzhou obediently leaned back in her chair.
His breathing gradually became calm, and the black ripples in his pupils diffused.
He stared blankly at Li Xiao's face, which was so close to his.
Yu Qingzhou felt her head being gently cupped, and her fingertips gently caressing the throbbing area; it was cool and comfortable.
Upon hearing the other person's soft call, Yu Qingzhou blinked slowly, a strange calm welling up within her—
He thought he knew why the woman was unconscious.
"Then...who is it?" Yu Qingzhou asked languidly, feeling herself gradually losing control of her body.
"Of course, it is our mother."
Li Xiao gave an unbelievable answer with a smile on his face.
Yu Qingzhou took a few seconds to process the other person's answer, then looked confused: "You...your mother...wasn't she...dead a long time ago? Where did...our...come from..."
The unclear pronunciation reduces the offensiveness of the words themselves.
"Yes, so I picked a better one, or rather, a more suitable one."
Li Xiao shifted his gaze to a distant place that did not exist.
After a moment of distraction, he stared into Yu Qingzhou's eyes and smiled smugly. His childlike expression made Yu Qingzhou's still heart tremble slightly.
"But she's gone. I searched for her for a long time, and I almost thought I would never find her again, just like... I once thought I would never see you again."
When she said the last sentence, Li Xiao suddenly stopped laughing. A deep, unfathomable pain flashed across her emerald eyes in an instant, before returning to tranquility.
He lovingly cradled the other's head, which had tilted to one side due to its inability to support itself.
Their breaths mingled and intertwined.
Yu Qingzhou turned his head slightly, and drowsiness forced him to close his eyes.
But the person behind him stretched out their arms and wrapped them around his neck, the slippery touch like a cold, coiled snake.
Would you like to hear a story?
The snake whispered softly in my ear.
His breath carried a cool, sweet taste, like hard candy.
The sound seemed to come from somewhere, sometimes near, sometimes far.
Yu Qingzhou weakly tugged at the corners of his mouth, his tongue trembling uncontrollably, so he could only mumble, "W-what story... the tadpoles looking for their mother?"
Upon hearing this, Li Xiao couldn't help but chuckle softly, a slight tremor emanating from the point where his limbs were crossed.
Yu Qingzhou couldn't see it, but he could guess that the other person looked happy.
Strangely enough, he also felt a sense of pleasure under these circumstances.
"Could it be some kind of...outdated stuff from a long, long time ago..."
Isn't this a tired, outdated opening?
Unable to muster the strength to speak, Yu Qingzhou could only silently complete the second half of the sentence in her mind.
"No, it's not that far off."
Li Xiao gently corrected him, leaning closer to kiss the young man's earlobe: "But you definitely don't remember, because—"
because……
Because that's a secret.
—Our secret.
"Our secret."
As the woman spoke, a gentle smile appeared on her usually serious face.
The child was hurt by that sweet expression and lowered his head in silence.
The woman took his hand and carefully placed it on her protruding belly, the rounded pregnant belly causing her warm body to rise and fall slightly.
The child was never used to such closeness, yet he held his breath the moment he touched that private spot.
The woman was touched by the child's rare moment of distraction. She reached out and pulled the child close, letting the child's ear touch the bulge.
Bang, bang...
Bang, bang...
The child seemed to hear another sound besides his own heartbeat—a faint yet real sound that made him lose all words for a moment.
For the first time, a different color appeared in his eyes.
Like a ray of brilliance breaking through the surface of a desolate lake, it happened in an instant; the child's expression became lively, but gradually returned to calm.
A secret is something you can't tell others.
The woman added coldly, "You can't even tell Dad."
The child pursed his lips, his emerald eyes drooping slightly, before he smiled sweetly.
--I see.
He said.
Without a doubt or objection, the child's understanding was astonishing.
Despite having such a child, the woman could never get close to him.
Because of those eyes...
Whenever she thought of another person with the same eye color, she couldn't help but feel resentment—
Whenever the woman showed a similar expression, the girl in the loose white dress would always speak up to comfort her, her clear eyes revealing boundless tenderness.
The woman with the indifferent expression was Li Xiao's biological mother, and the girl beside her—at that time, Li Xiao could not yet define the relationship between the two.
He simply gazed quietly at the two people behaving intimately.
He didn't laugh.
He never smiles when no one is watching.
However, when his gaze fell on the latter's abdomen, Li Xiao's eyes would unconsciously soften.
If it's for... he thought, he wouldn't mind keeping their so-called secrets.
But--
The plan has changed.
The woman hurriedly packed her luggage, the drawers haphazardly open, jewelry piled together. She quickly closed the suitcase, but was startled by her silent child.
The child didn't cry or make a fuss, but calmly asked, "Is it that you're never coming back?"
He looked almost like a child.
【Yes. 】
The woman paused for a moment, then spoke the truth.
Perhaps considering this is the last time.
She examined the child closely for a while, almost like never before.
Then it suddenly dawned on me that the other person wasn't entirely like that man's child—mostly like him, but also unlike him in some ways.
The parts that don't look alike are probably proof of their blood relationship.
Can't you really take me with you?
The child asked again.
The woman bent down and pressed her palms down on the child's shoulders—a gesture that seemed to be the first time the child had ever made in his memory.
You are, after all, his child.
She sighed softly.
The child watched them leave.
In fact, the woman did not trust the child, so she made sure he had no chance to tip him off before she left safely.
In fact, he didn't even believe in himself—
Palms outstretched, touching the void.
Tenderly, affectionately, tenderly, resentfully...
The child lowered his emerald eyes and pressed the dial button with his hand, which was bloodied and mangled from struggling to break free of his restraints. After the dial tone, his father's long-lost voice came from the other end of the phone.
"To be fair, I also sent a message to them, telling them that he knows."
"……he?"
"my father."
"And then what?"
"later--"
Perhaps Li Xiao was holding the ground a little too tightly, because Yu Qingzhou began to feel a little suffocated. He struggled a couple of times, which was better than nothing.
Noticing the other person's discomfort, Li Xiao loosened her grip and gently rested her chin on the young man's shoulder, swaying it playfully.
A cold hand covered my weary eyelids.
Yu Qingzhou felt as if he were sinking, but... Li Xiao's embrace made him feel very safe.
It seemed that no matter where he went, the other person would follow him until he fell into the bottomless darkness.
"Later I regretted it, but thankfully—"
Li Xiao murmured softly, as if trying to meld the other into his own body, and hugged Yu Qingzhou even tighter.
Fortunately—
You were still born into this world.
Fortunately, I wasn't the one who was left behind.
Fortunately... we did meet again in the end.
So this time, I really don't want to separate again no matter what.
Of course, no one will separate us anymore.
.
Actually, you don't necessarily have to say your vows of love at the top of a Ferris wheel to be considered a confession.
—If possible, to embrace the unfathomable night and plunge into boundless darkness together would be an unparalleled happiness…
-fin-
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