In the middle of the night on the plateau, the cold is bone-chilling. Even if it’s just early fall.
Luo Xiao hugged her knees and sat under a tree. From this angle, the small town in the distance looked like a glowing planet, where were the people she loved and the life she wanted.
But now she fled from there.
She lowered her head and felt herself trembling slightly. Tears flowed but were quickly wiped away.
She didn't know what to do anymore. This shouldn't have happened. She should have been alert and able to walk away at any time. But she relaxed and became dazed. In his inn, she lived too indulgently and gave herself a pipe dream.
Is the result an irreparable loss?
She cried quietly and suppressed her tears. She couldn't cry too hard, or someone would notice a suspicious woman sitting alone on the dam of an abandoned reservoir late at night. The sky was black, the grass was black, even the crickets chirping at her feet were black. She stretched out her hand and saw only five boundless fingers. The wind blew the grass and the distant mountains were jagged. She was in the quietest darkness.
Suddenly someone tapped her shoulder, which frightened her so much that she trembled all over and almost screamed out. She couldn't scream because a familiar hand with a smoky smell covered her mouth.
Luo Xiao turned around in horror.
The bright moon hangs high above our heads. He stood in deep fear, looking at her. There was darkness and silence behind him, and there seemed to be no police.
Luo Xiao subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, but when he met his sharp eyes, his heart tightened again.
However, his hand had been firmly grasped by him: "Why do you run away when you see the police?"
Luo Xiao bit her lip and said nothing.
Han Tuo looked at her coldly, then dragged her back and said, "Come back with me!"
Luo Xiao felt as if a gust of cold wind was blowing through his heart, but he refused to move. The two of them collided with each other and she fell into his arms. Han Tuo hugged her tightly and looked down at her carefully. Her eyes were filled with tears, just like the lake that had trapped him for so many days, deep and blue, with undercurrents surging. He sees it clearly.
Han Tuo's heart also sank, and he asked in a low voice: "Why are you crying?"
Luo Xiao felt heartbroken: "Han Tuo... I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I can't go back."
Under the tree, the wind stopped.
She leaned against the tree, looking at the sky in a daze. He sat aside, smoking in a very depressed manner. She lowered her head and saw a little smoke flowing between his fingers. At this moment, he was more handsome and indifferent than ever.
"How big a case?" he asked quietly.
Luo Xiao was stunned and whispered, "Murder."
Han Tuo stopped smoking, took a deep breath and said, "Negligence or premeditation?"
Luo Xiao: "...It's a mistake."
"How did you kill him?"
Luo Xiao was a little dazed. This was the first time in many years that she had opened her heart to someone. She answered, "I don't know... It was very dark at that time. He rushed out of the house. I didn't see anything clearly. He bumped into the dagger in my hand..." Her eyes were moist and she choked up and said, "But I wanted to kill him, but I didn't know what it was like to really kill someone... I was completely confused at that time. He was lying on the ground, bleeding a lot from his chest, and he was dead..."
Han Tuo was silent for a long while, so silent that Luo Xiao felt scared and guilty. She thought she was probably finished. Han Tuo was a criminal policeman who hated evil and all the bad guys were afraid of him. She finally couldn't run away. She felt ashamed of herself, but unwilling to accept it, and had no way to explain it. She was not shirking responsibility, she just didn't want to spend her whole life in jail for a scumbag. Before her death, her mother called her and said, "My daughter, run, run, don't get caught. Your father and I can't bear to let you go. You did nothing wrong, so why should you be the one to go to jail? Run as far away as possible and never come back."
So she became a fugitive, a rat, and spent several years hiding from the police.
Later, hiding became a habit. Originally, the people she admired and liked the most were policemen, and she even thought about finding a policeman boyfriend. But now, she is afraid reflexively when she sees the police.
She didn't know how long she would run. But later I met him. Thinking about it now, it seemed like it was destined.
Love for him, gain for him.
The little bit of hope that I could grow old with him was finally shattered. But she also felt relaxed, a strange and sad kind of relaxation.
So she laughed, cried and laughed, and said: "Han Tuo, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to lie to you, I just..."
Han Tuo crushed the cigarette butt and looked up at her: "Just what?"
"I..." Before she could finish her words, she was grabbed by him. His agility and strength were so great that he was worthy of being the best criminal policeman ever. Luo Xiao was pinned to the grass by him, as if he had fallen into an icy cave, his heart dead. He lowered his head and stared at her: "Luo Xiao? Oh no, of course not Luo Xiao. After dating for so many days, I don't even know your real name. You said you didn't mean it, huh... If you didn't mean it, why the hell did you agree to me? Now I'm in love with you, and I thought I finally found a partner, and you told me you're a fugitive? A fugitive with a life on his shoulders?"
Luo Xiao couldn't say anything. His arms were so painful from being grabbed by him that tears streamed down his face.
She felt so wronged, but she couldn't speak.
Han Tuo's heart was broken, and he was filled with hatred. He said, "Do you think I can't do anything to you? Girl, let me tell you, no criminal has ever escaped from my hands. Even though I almost lost my life, those vicious criminals never got away. Do you think you can escape? Do you think you can escape from my hands? Lao Ding and the others couldn't find you, but I found you here after following the footprints for an hour!"
He must have been very angry, as he spoke so quickly and harshly. Luo Xiao just felt heartbroken, and shook her head and said: "No, no... I never thought of using you to deceive you... How could I know that you would fall in love with me, how could I know..." She burst into tears and cried loudly.
Her tears rolled down into the grass, and her face was still stained with mud and grass on the ground. Under his suppression, she was like a dying fish. Han Tuo looked at this scene and suddenly his heart was shocked.
He asked himself, how did it come to this, how did the confrontation become like this? On the way here, he had all kinds of guesses in his mind, but he deliberately tried not to think about them. It was not until she herself admitted to the murder that the emotions he had suppressed for so long suddenly burst out.
But Han Tuo, you shouldn't treat her like this. A voice said in my heart. If you think about it carefully, isn't it the result of his insistence that their relationship has developed to this point today? It was he who provoked her first, and it was he who pitied her. It was he who was moved by the sadness and loneliness in her eyes and was determined to give her stability and warmth. Then his heart, which had been wandering for many years, could finally find warmth and happiness.
Now that he finally knew the truth about her sorrow and the sin she carried, would he pull away and abandon her?
Han Tuo felt a chill in his heart and immediately loosened his grip on her.
But she still lay on the ground motionless, as if she were dead.
Han Tuo felt a pain in his heart and picked her up from the ground. Her tears flowed silently and neither of them spoke.
"Go back." He said in a hoarse voice.
He pulled her up and she said nothing. The moonlight is so clear, tomorrow will be another sunny day. He took her hand and walked towards the town.
The embankment was so quiet that there was not a single person within a radius of several hundred meters. The quiet farmhouse stood on the hillside not far away, with no lights on. Luo Xiao's hands were icy, but his were hot. He held her wrist and walked on the dirt road. On the side of the dam, the water flows silently and the insects chirp. The night is so beautiful, yet so sad.
They walked for quite a while without speaking. But at some point, perhaps even Han Tuo himself didn't realize it, his grip gradually loosened, no longer in a tight grip, his hand slowly slid and instead held her hand.
It was as if he was taking her for a walk in the wilderness under a moonlit night.
Luo Xiao stopped crying, and the whole world seemed to be quiet. She gently held his hand, and he noticed it, but did not move.
"Come back with me." He said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Explain your case clearly. As long as I'm here, I won't sentence you one year longer, nor will I sentence you one year less."
"……good."
He clenched his hands a little tighter.
"Han Tuo." She asked softly, "Does this mean we are parting ways just because we are walking back to the inn?"
He was silent for a long while before answering, "Yeah."
"Then... walk slower."
He replied, "Okay."
It was already late at night, and from a distance, most of the lights in the town were turned off. He walked really slowly, and every step seemed to be heading towards a bottomless abyss. Luo Xiao's heart suddenly felt empty, filled with a strange and peaceful feeling. When they were about to walk down the embankment, she suddenly grabbed his arm and said, "Han Tuo, I want to go back tomorrow. Let's stay here for another night. Tomorrow morning, we will turn ourselves in and break up."
Han Tuo looked like a sculpture, and Luo Xiao could only see his cold and hard profile. He remained silent. Luo Xiao's heart sank. He smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know what's good for me..."
Before he had finished speaking, he took her hand, turned suddenly, and walked back into the woods on the embankment.
Luo Xiao's heart was shocked. He walked so fast that she almost fell. Then he started running and she followed him. It ran away from the embankment and into the dense forest. He pulled her breathlessly to a dense old tree, then let go of her hand. Luo Xiao was also breathing rapidly. He looked at her and she looked at him. Then she held his shoulders and raised her head to kiss him.
What a sad kiss it was, almost draining away all a woman's tenderness and love. Under the dim moonlight, Luo Xiao seemed to see a flash of tears in Han Tuo's eyes. So she was satisfied and let go, she knew that she had received a man's most sincere love and compassion. There was no contempt in his eyes, only love and hate.
Her hands scurried down to unbutton his shirt and jeans. Then he grabbed her and pressed her down on the grass under the tree. He remained silent throughout the whole process, and neither did she, as they kissed until their clothes were in disarray. It was as if all the suppressed emotions of half a lifetime, the sorrow of not being able to obtain what one desired, were released in an instant.
For a moment, he suddenly realized that he was about to be swallowed by desire, and he paused, trying to break free. She noticed it, and almost begged him as she put her arms around his neck again, begging him softly in his ear: "Atuo...Atuo...this is all I will give you in my life. This is my first time, let me give it to you...I don't want to give it to anyone else..."
So he fell again. I knew it was wrong and I shouldn't have made love with her when I was about to leave. But it was like he had encountered the only dream fantasy in his life, and he was reluctant to let it go. He suddenly realized that in his heart, she had always been breathtakingly beautiful. The soft voice is, the wet figure is, the way she looked up at him is, and when she was sitting alone in the room, packing up a future that belonged to them, it was also. Han Tuo's eyes became moist without him noticing.
When did love become so clear and detailed? Although not engraved in my mind, every scene is engraved in my heart.
When he first entered, she grabbed the grass beneath her in so much pain and bit her lips until they almost bled. As Han Tuo was wrapped in the ultimate pleasure, he suddenly felt a warmth in his heart, like a tired bird returning to its nest. Perhaps it was because there was still a gentle smile on her pale face, or perhaps it was because the fingers she held on to his arm were too delicate.
The whole world turned its back on the two of them, leaving only darkness and coldness as their companions. But at this moment, Han Tuo forgot everything. Move happily, move wantonly. Her soft body in his palm was like a flower fully released. Her expression was painful at first, but slowly it was replaced by a hazy expression. He finally knew where he was going, taking her to the deepest part of life, to a place that could forgive all sins and pain. And at this moment she was willing to accompany him until death.
This is probably the most idiotic and craziest thing Han Tuo has ever done in his life.
He and the suspect he wanted to catch spent the entire night together in the wild.
When it was almost dawn, Han Tuo held Luo Xiao and sat under the tree for a long time. Luo Xiao leaned her head on his shoulder, watching the sun gradually rise, her heart was surprisingly peaceful.
"Are we going back?" she asked in a low voice. "If we don't go back, the old detective will probably come looking for us. He will be very upset when he sees us like this." She was actually in the mood to make a joke.
"Okay." He took her hand and stood up. The two walked back towards the town.
Luo Xiao felt that Han Tuo seemed to have changed a little. He had been so angry and so ruthless last night. While doing it, his eyes were blurry. But after one night, he seemed to have calmed down a lot. Luo Xiao didn't know what he was thinking.
"Han Tuo, thank you." Luo Xiao whispered, "After I leave with the police, just forget about me. I think it's good to spend a few days with you like this. We both have no regrets and don't need to miss each other anymore, right?"
Han Tuo didn't turn around. He was silent for a while, but asked calmly: "Didn't you call me Atuo just now? Why did you change your words again?"
Luo Xiao didn't understand, but he didn't want to delve into it, so he just said quietly: "Oh, Atuo."
Han Tuo stopped talking.
At daybreak, they walked to the road outside the town, but unexpectedly found that all the roadblocks originally set up here had been removed. I don't know what happened.
Along the way, many townspeople were whispering and talking to each other. I could only vaguely hear someone say, "Did she get caught?" "I heard she got caught? It's her! Wow! How scary!"
Both of them felt a chill in their hearts and continued walking towards the inn.
Just on the road outside the inn, I ran into Lao Ding and two policemen passing by in a hurry. Seeing them, Lao Ding laughed, patted Han Tuo and said, "You are right, she is an acquaintance in this town! We caught her last night! She was probably trying to commit a third crime, but my people caught her on the spot. Hahaha! Also, I'm sorry for what happened at the inn yesterday, but it was my duty." Then he nodded to Luo Xiao, glanced at their holding hands, and whispered to Han Tuo, "The rest is the police's business. Take your wife and have a good relationship. I'll treat you to a drink when I've completely closed the case."
Han Tuo asked: "Who is the murderer?"
Old Ding smiled and said, "What do you think? You have predicted almost everything, and you still can't guess it? You know it too. Go back and have a rest first. There is no food in the inn today. Take the girl out for a meal. Don't be so stingy."
Lao Ding seemed to be deliberately keeping the matter in suspense, and turned around and left in a hurry with his men. Just leave Han Tuo and Luo Xiao where they are.
The two looked at each other, Luo Xiao broke free from his hand, looked at Lao Ding's back and said, "I'm going to turn myself in..." Before he could say anything else, his hand was grabbed by her again. Han Tuo stared at her with dark eyes and said, "Come back to the inn with me."
Luo Xiao: “…Oh.”
He led her and continued walking forward. Perhaps because the murder case had been solved, the street was crowded with people. After a while, he put his arms around her shoulders and held her in his arms. Luo Xiao snuggled up to him gently. At this moment, Han Tuo was like a cold deep pool. She had no idea what he was thinking. She felt uneasy and confused.
Old Ding walked a distance and suddenly seemed to remember something. He was stunned for a moment, looked back, but could not find Luo Xiao in the crowd.
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