The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 378 Epilogue Part

December 22, Friday, Winter Solstice.

The horse-head wall of the Gan-style teahouse in MH area is covered with three inches of new snow. Occasionally, a lump of snow cannot bear the weight and falls from the wall with a "bang" sound. In the center of the courtyard of the teahouse, the dwarf pine is covered with snow but still stands firm.

Suddenly the wind blew, and the falling snow drifted in through the open carved wooden window on the second floor, hitting the rim of the glass cup, making a tinkling sound like the lingering sound of a jade chime.

"Senior, the snow is getting heavier."

Lin Quan picked up the glass cup, took a sip of charcoal-roasted Tieguanyin, looked at the gradually dense snow outside the window and said.

"Well, sit for a while, then we'll go back, it's getting dark."

Jian Xi, who was sitting opposite Lin Quan, also looked out the window and said.

Little Green Tea nodded, the tip of her nose turned slightly red after being blown by the cold wind outside the window, but she narrowed her eyes slightly, feeling the coolness comfortably.

After a long while, Lin Quan suddenly looked at Jian Xi in front of him and asked curiously, "Senior, I noticed that in recent years, you seem to have dragged me to watch the snow every winter solstice?"

"Really?" Jian Xi held the wall of the cup, feeling the warmth in his palm and smiled, "I have had this habit for a long time. I dropped it when I was in college, and now I picked it up again."

"Oh." Little Green Tea nodded, and then sighed, "Then we are really lucky, there is always snow on this day."

Hearing this, Jian Xi, who picked up the teacup, was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a smile.

In other words, in this kind of world, it always snows in cities in winter, otherwise how could there be so much snow in the Magic City.

"What are you laughing at?" Little Green Tea asked curiously when she saw this scene.

"Ah?" Jian Xi raised his head, smiled and leaned over to pinch her face, saying, "I'm smiling because you are by my side, so I can always see snow on this day."

"..."

The corners of Little Green Tea's mouth immediately lifted up, and then she stood up and walked around to the dog man, sat down next to him, hugged him and said, "Senior, why does your mouth become so sweet after drinking tea? Let me taste it."

As soon as she finished speaking, she raised her head and took the initiative to move closer and kiss the man.

A few snowflakes floated in and landed on Little Green Tea's trembling eyelashes.

Perhaps it was because it was getting dark and the atmosphere was romantic, plus winter was a good time to huddle together for warmth, so the kiss between the two seemed particularly long.

After a long time, Lin Quan let go of the dog man. Just now, only the tip of her nose was red, but now there was a blush on both sides of her cheeks.

"Senior, how about we go back first?"

Little Green Tea blinked her eyes and said in a sweet voice. After the snowflakes that had just fallen on her eyelashes melted, her entire eyes became moist, and her eyes were filled with water.

Jian Xi gently held her hand, picked up the tea she had just finished and fed it to her mouth, saying with a smile: "Okay, let's go back."

"whee."

Little Green Tea smiled with her eyes curved and drank the tea at her lips.

"hiss!"

After coming out of the teahouse, Lin Quan, who was wearing a white printed cotton jacket, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, pressed the knitted little red hat on his head and said, "It's a bit cold."

"Why didn't you feel cold when you opened all the windows to let in some fresh air just now?" Jian Xi said with a smile, holding an umbrella in one hand and putting his arm around her shoulder with the other.

"Just now was just now, and now is now." Little Green Tea argued cunningly, "Just now only my face was blown, so of course it's different."

"Yeah, yes, let's get in the car and go home. You won't be cold once you get into bed."

Hearing this, Xiao Lu Cha raised her eyebrows and hugged Jian Xi's waist tightly with both hands.

After getting in the car, Lin Quan unbuttoned his collar and breathed a sigh of relief, then patted his face and said, "Senior, Lin Xiao has to take the preliminary exam tomorrow, so he needs to go to bed early tonight. Nan Xiang is going home... uh, she doesn't live here anyway."

Jian Xi, who was warming up the car, looked at her and asked, "So?"

Little Green Tea suddenly became shy and said with a little embarrassment on her face: "My Christmas suit has arrived this year, but... I can have it early."

"..."

Hearing this, the dog man paused for a moment, and looking at the little green tea holding her face, he said calmly, "Okay."

Then he drove straight home, stepping on the accelerator harder than usual.

……

On the other side, in the City God Temple of Demon City.

Nan Xiang, who was wearing a black woolen coat and had her hair tied up at the back of her head as usual, bought three incense sticks and walked towards the Cihang Hall.

After she went home to stay with her mother for a few days, she originally planned to go back to Pudong directly. However, not long after she left, she suddenly remembered something, so she came to Chenghuang Temple first.

In the evening, it started snowing. There were not many tourists at the City God Temple, and even fewer pilgrims in the Cihang Hall.

The lighting in the hall is not very bright, but this kind of light and darkness just highlights the majesty of the statue, making people who come in involuntarily slow down their movements and breathing.

The strong scent of sandalwood filled her nose. After lighting the incense, Nan Xiang knelt respectfully in front of the Bodhisattva Cihang.

"Great Master, a believer has come to fulfill a vow..."

During the Spring Festival two years ago, when she came to the City God Temple to worship the Bodhisattva Cihang, she made various wishes, about her best friend, about her mother, and about Jian Xi.

Jian Xi's wish was a bit broad, and there was no way of knowing whether it would come true, but at least he was safe and sound. As for his mother, he didn't know whether she had really changed, but at least he hadn't seen her gamble since then.

Well... she asked Jian Xi about this, but Jian Xi analyzed with a smile that it was probably because her mother was old. Casinos are already struggling to survive now, and it would be even more unprofitable if she were to take on more trouble.

Although Nan Xiang was skeptical about this, she stopped thinking about it when she saw that everything was getting better.

Another important wish she made was that she hoped to repair her relationship with Gu Li and that Gu Li would not have bad luck.

Now it seems that this wish has clearly been realized.

Although there were some ups and downs in the process, including a complete breakup at one point, and Gu Li's cancer almost caused us to say goodbye to each other forever, but now everything is over.

The sisters reconciled, and Gu Li married Gu Yuan and lived happily together. How could this not be perfect?

Well... there is still one thing that is not perfect. Everyone knows that Gu Li cannot have children. Although Gu Li and Gu Yuan have not shown anything for so long, as Gu Li's best friend, she occasionally sees the loss in Gu Li's eyes when she sees the child and understands that losing fertility is still a blow to her best friend.

After all, whether or not to have children is a personal subjective wish, but whether or not to have children is an objective factor.

Not wanting to have children and not being able to have children are two completely different meanings.

"It would be great if the Master could let Gu Li and Gu Yuan have a child." Nan Xiang thought silently.

But soon she felt that this wish was a bit absurd. Gu Li was no longer able to have children, so what was the point of making this wish?
Could it be possible that the uterus and ovaries that Gu Li had removed could grow back?
Nan Xiang sighed softly and put the wish she had just made behind her. Since she was here to fulfill a vow, she should stop being greedy.

After opening her eyes, Nan Xiang silently looked up at the compassionate and majestic Bodhisattva Cihang on the altar. A faint white smoke rose from the incense in her hand, floating away to an unknown place.

After a while, Nan Xiang stood up. Just as she was about to turn around, she found that there was also a girl kneeling next to her. However, this girl did not hold incense or close her eyes. She just looked at Master Cihang quietly.

Nan Xiang frowned slightly, not because of the other person's behavior or because she was very beautiful, but because she felt like she had seen her before.

After recalling the past carefully in her mind for a moment, she remembered that she had met the other person the last time she came here, and the other person seemed to want to interpret... a wet dream?
Nan Xiang felt strange in her heart. She looked up at the Bodhisattva Cihang, who was full of compassion for the world, and then looked at the girl who was asking for something strange. Even though she was looking at her like that, she didn't react to her gaze at all.

Is this considered... pious?

Nan Xiang withdrew her gaze, turned around and walked out of Cihang Hall.

Behind her, the girl remained motionless, the two of them staring at each other quietly.

……

At Jian Xi's home.

"Come on tomorrow, Lin Xiao. You'll be my junior when you get ashore."

When Little Green Tea saw Lin Xiao walking towards the master bedroom after washing up, she knew that she wanted to go to bed early, so she encouraged her with a smile.

But to Lin Xiao, her words sounded like the song of a liberated serf, so Lin Xiao glared at her fiercely and said unhappily, "Humph, you are a junior sister for one day, and you will be a junior sister for the rest of your life!"

Then she looked at Jian Xi who was looking at the stock market and said, "Jian Xi, you should also go to bed early and stop going crazy with this junior high school girl."

After he finished speaking, Lin Xiao went straight back to his bedroom, got on the bed and began to fall asleep.

Jian Xi looked up and exchanged glances with Xiao Lu Cha, and couldn't help laughing.

Seeing this, Lin Quan leaned close to him and whispered, "Senior, can we sleep in the second bedroom tonight?"

"This……"

"So as not to disturb Lin Xiao. She came back suddenly just now and I didn't even have time to change my clothes."

Upon hearing this, Jian Xi hesitated for less than a second, then put down his notebook, held Little Green Tea on his lap, and began warming up before the game.

In fact, no one is too worried about Lin Xiao's postgraduate entrance examination tomorrow. Although he has been away from school for more than two years, Lin Xiao's foundation is there. After all, he was once the top student in liberal arts and received so many scholarships. How could he really forget all the knowledge?

Moreover, in the past few years, Lin Xiao's physical condition has been getting better and better, and his memory and thinking agility have been greatly improved. Of course, the improvement of one aspect of the brain does not mean that the other aspect of the brain has improved. He will still act stupidly when necessary.

But at least for the postgraduate entrance examination, Lin Xiao could not say that it was a piece of cake, but he certainly had a good grasp of it.

She herself was also full of confidence, but she was now on high alert purely out of habit and for psychological comfort, just like Lin Quan was also full of confidence at the beginning, but he also took the exam seriously.

Now, in order not to disturb Lin Xiao, the dog man warmed up with Little Green Tea in the living room for a long time, then picked up the other party who was breathing rapidly and went to the second bedroom.

"Senior, please...don't wear the bell tonight." Little Green Tea panted softly, "so as not to disturb Lin Xiao."

The Christmas deer was so thoughtful, so the scumbag boy naturally agreed.

only……

As the night deepened, Lin Xiao tossed and turned in the master bedroom with his eyes closed, but he couldn't fall asleep. He reached out and felt around, but still felt nothing...

Finally, after a long while, Lin Xiao turned over and got out of bed, but when she just left the bedroom, she heard a noise coming from the door.

The next second, the door opened, and when she was about to call for help, she recognized the person at a glance.

"Nan Xiang? Why are you here?"

Nan Xiang put away her umbrella, shook off the few snowflakes on her shoulders and said, "I just came back from my mother's place. I didn't want to sleep alone tonight, so I came here."

After a pause, she asked curiously, "Don't you have an exam tomorrow? Why haven't you slept yet?"

"You still come here knowing that I have an exam tomorrow?" Lin Xiao pouted and snorted, then said unhappily, "I can't sleep with mosquitoes at home."

"Mosquitoes?" Nan Xiang automatically ignored the first half of the other party's words and asked curiously, "Where do mosquitoes come from in such a cold weather?"

Lin Xiao didn't want to answer, so he turned around and walked towards the second bedroom. Nan Xiang changed her shoes and followed him. She was a little confused when she saw that there was no one she wanted to see in the living room or the open master bedroom. But as she walked to the door of the second bedroom, she heard the "mosquito hum" coming from inside even though the room was well soundproofed, and she immediately understood what was going on.

Nan Xiang blushed for a moment. She had come here thinking that Lin Xiao would have an exam tomorrow and everyone would sleep on a vegetarian bed tonight, but she didn't expect to run into something dirty.

So she started to back out again. Just as she was thinking about retreating quietly, Lin Xiao grabbed her arm and opened the door of the second bedroom.

"Learn... uh..."

The voice of the ignorant little girl who was facing the door suddenly got stuck in her throat. She wanted to hide under the quilt the next second, but her body was stuck by the dog man and she couldn't move at all.

"Tsk, tsk, why is there no bell this time?"

Lin Xiao, who was standing at the door, spoke expressionlessly, with Nan Xiang, who had a red face and half-closed eyes, beside him.

The dog man hugged Little Green Tea, with no embarrassment on his face, nor any doubt about Nan Xiang's arrival, he just smiled and said: "Why are you not asleep yet?"

"I can't sleep." Lin Xiao continued to look stern, and added, "I can't sleep alone."

Jian Xi then wrapped himself and Little Green Tea in the quilt, raised his eyebrows and said, "But you have an exam tomorrow..."

"Like before, I'll be in better shape tomorrow."

"..."

Nan Xiang was a little confused, after all, she was the one who had the least number of group appearances here. The little green tea girl who understood what the two men meant buried her face in the quilt, just because this bastard had not given up yet.

Jian Xi laughed and said, "So..."

"Go back to the master bedroom." Lin Xiao, who was wearing pajamas, said these three words and turned back with Nan Xiang, but soon she said another sentence, "Take the bell."

……

Time seemed to have pressed the accelerator key, and soon we entered the year 2018.

Friday, March 23rd.

"Old Gu, would you like to come out for a drink tonight?"

While driving to Shanghai University, Jian Xi called his good brother Gu Yuan.

Listening to Gu Yuan's dying voice in the headset, he couldn't help but laugh: "You really quit drinking? You are so young, I thought you were just talking before."

"You didn't tell me why you quit drinking. Could it be that you were really hurt by alcohol and sex?"

"OK, I won't go drinking with you anymore. Go deal with the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law first."

After hanging up the phone, Jian Xi sighed and put the matter of his good brother behind him.

What was there to think about? After a year's honeymoon, conflicts between Gu Li and Ye Chuanping, the two mother-in-law and daughter-in-law enemies who had never gotten along, naturally emerged again.

However, the conflict between them now is not a simple conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, nor is it because of Gu Yuan. After all, Gu Li has already married Gu Yuan and entered the Ye family. How could such an established fact be brought up again?

The current conflict between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is purely due to personality reasons and internal struggles within the Ye family.

Although Gu Li married into the Ye family, it did not mean that she would retire and become Mrs. Gu. Although she loved luxury goods as much as her adoptive mother Lin Yilan, she was not a vase. No matter whether she was the director of Shenggu or the financial director of "ME" later... No matter how well she did during her tenure, she still had enough airs.

Unfortunately, Sheng Gu was gone after that. After the reorganization of "ME", Jian Xi naturally would not be crazy enough to recruit her back to continue to be the financial director. So Ye Chuanping arranged this daughter-in-law to work in Ye's. Because of the gold mine, part of the Gong family's business that Ye's had digested was handed over to her.

Well... Gu Yansheng's hidden legacy was finally found after Jian Xi pretended to search for it, but the condition was that Ye Chuanping withdrew from "ME".

He once said that he only wanted one "ME", so of course he wanted "ME".

Gu Li also knew about the gold ore worth 600 million yuan. Apart from the initial shock, it was later regarded as compensation to Gu Yuan as she had told Jian Xi.

After all, she had hurt Gu Yuan so many times, and the Ye family had invested several hundred million to fill the hole left by Shenggu. In the end, the extra money could be considered as a dowry.

Of course, that being said, in reality, whether it was simply to save face or to make up for herself, Gu Li suddenly started to seize power in Ye's.

In the beginning, Ye Chuanping may have still had a conscience and turned a blind eye to Gu Li's behavior. However, with the backstabbing of Hao Daer, a typical guy who forgets his mother after getting a wife, Gu Li now seems to be in a difficult situation.

I don’t know if Ye Chuanping regrets it. Is it worth it to go through all this for that gold mine?

Although she believed that Gu Yuan and Gu Li would not divorce, no matter how Gu Li tossed it around, the meat would still rot in the pot, but the meat didn't have to rot...

It is also worth mentioning that in addition to being pressured by her good daughter-in-law, Ye Chuanping was also pressured by Gong Ming, who was far away in the United States, within the Constanly Group.

Although the Gong family had suffered huge losses before, it did not mean that it had completely collapsed. After Gong Ming returned to the United States, he quickly sorted out the Gong family's overseas assets. Now that he has become the head of the Gong family, he naturally wants to take back what he had lost.

So in this situation where there are wolves in front and tigers behind, Ye Chuanping finally revealed to Gu Li that Gu Yansheng’s car accident might be related to the Gong family...

In addition, there is another thing that makes the situation more complicated, which is the fact that Gu Li is infertile.

Regarding this matter, whether Jian Xi acted out of bad taste or to punish Gu Li, pimping Yuan Yi over was actually a good thing for the Ye family.

The wedding robbery incident not only ruined the reputation of the three families in Shanghai, but also caused the relationship between the Yuan and Ye families to break down.

Although the Yuan family was indeed quite far away from the Ye family, it did not mean that the Yuan family was insignificant. It was just that the Yuan family was in a crisis at the time, and after falling out with the Ye family, it could not get through it safely.

After the Yuan family survived with great difficulty, Yuan's father fell ill and Yuan Yi took on the responsibility. Unfortunately, no matter how capable she was, she could not revive the Yuan family. Later, Jian Xi found her, and she boldly placed her bet on this bastard.

The two hit it off immediately, one risked his life and property, the other... was a pimp.

The dog man planned very well and successfully, but the subsequent issue of having children was not something he had to consider.

Originally, he thought that Ye Chuanping would immediately pack up Yuan Yi and send her to the big bed to give birth to a grandson as soon as possible, but until Gu Yuan and Gu Li got married, he didn't notice any movement.

Tsk! Are you giving up?
Jian Xi thought silently, and while waiting for the traffic light, he couldn't resist the urge to eat melons, so he sent a message to Yuan Yi to inquire.

Even after the traffic light turned green and the car started again, Yuan Yi didn't reply to his message.

mean!

The dog man complained while driving, and just when the car was about to arrive at Magic City University——

"Ding dong!"

Jian Xi tilted his head to take a look, and just this one look almost caused him to rear-end the car in front. Yuan Yi said nothing, but just posted a photo of her holding her belly. Although her clothes covered her belly and nothing could be seen, this photo alone had already spread a lot of information.

Everyone in Jianxi was a little confused. Was this... already successful?

Suddenly he thought of what Gu Yuan said about quitting drinking. He had heard about it two months ago, but he had never really believed it. Could it be...

But won’t it be hard to get an erection when you’re drunk?
Or is it simply an escape?

After the car drove into the school, Jian Xi had a thousand questions in his mind. When he was thinking about asking another question, he saw Yuan Yi sent another message.

Yuan Yi: I met Gu Li.

"?"

After Jian Xi parked the car, a thousand question marks popped up in his mind, but unfortunately Yuan Yi didn't reply to him.

Now he just wanted to pick up Lin Quan as soon as possible and rush back to eat melons. How could he miss such an exciting thing?

Will it cause blood and flesh to fly everywhere?
……

"Senior, please wait a moment, I'm still in the group meeting."

Listening to the WeChat message from Little Green Tea, Jian Xi calmed down his slightly excited mood. Since the thing has already happened, he can eat the melon anytime.

He put away his phone and began to wander around the school casually. Although he had been to his alma mater many times after graduation, he had to admit that he felt unusually calm every time he strolled around the campus.

I don’t know if it’s because several of his girlfriends were in school, but now he is always willing to go to school, and he only goes to the club when he needs to go to work.

"The black and white keys of the piano are the code of time. In the mottled light and shadow of the piano room, there is a heartbeat that spans twenty years. When Ye Xianglun pushed open the creaking door, the notes turned into butterflies, holding the fingertips of the boy and the girl, weaving a gorgeous dream in the dislocated time and space..."

On Friday afternoon, after a "zizi" sound, the campus radio was filled with the voices of male and female announcers singing in unison. Just like the film society organizes open-air movie screenings on weekends, the broadcasting society will also recommend music to students to welcome the holiday before the weekend arrives.

The phone in her pocket vibrated. Jian Xi took it out and saw that it was Lin Xiao complaining in the group of "the three of them" that the re-examination line was a bit low, which would increase the number of people entering the re-examination, causing her to waste more time.

Unfortunately, Little Green Tea was too busy to pay attention to her at the moment, so only Nan Xiang was sharing beautiful photos in the group. The two of them were communicating at a different place and the conversation was completely disconnected.

Jian Xi smiled. Just as he was thinking about whether to join in, he heard the voice of a female announcer: "It turns out that the most romantic confession is the song "Secret" jumping on the piano keys, the yellowed sketch in the iron box, the last moment of running against time and space, exchanging destruction and rebirth for a reunion... A song "Secret That Cannot Be Told" is dedicated to all the students."

Jian Xi was stunned for a moment, and some strange feelings inexplicably emerged in his heart, but he quickly calmed down and everything returned to normal.

As Jay Chou's unique voice sounded on the radio, Jian Xi pressed the voice microphone in the WeChat group and recorded a song from the radio while taking a walk.

"Jian Xi, where are you?"

“At school.”

"You love going to school so much. After I am admitted, you must come to the school to pick me up often."

"Boss, do you think I need to take the postgraduate entrance examination as well?"

"..."

As soon as Nan Xiang opened her mouth, Lin Xiao was speechless. Then she changed the subject and asked, "Jian Xi, what is the name of this song?"

"Secret."

"A song or some secret? What can't you tell me? Are you still hiding this from me?"

As soon as Lin Xiao opened his mouth, Jian Xi and Nan Xiang both laughed.

And the little green tea who had been lurking during the group meeting finally couldn't help but bubble up.

"Lin Xiao, you idiot, the title of this song is Secret That Cannot Be Told."

"..."

Seeing Lin Xiao starting to curse angrily in the group, Jian Xi happily put away his phone. At this time, the music on the radio stopped, and he realized that he had unknowingly dispersed to the school's piano room.

Perhaps because of the music playing on the radio just now, the sound in the piano room was suppressed for a moment, and it was not very obvious to the outside, but as soon as the radio stopped, the melodious piano sound came out of the piano room.

Jian Xi raised his eyebrows and recognized the tune as the classic piano piece "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence". Even though it was not Christmas, it would not be out of place to listen to this piece of music at any time.

Of course, what surprised Jian Xi was not the name of the song, but that he found the feeling of playing this song at this moment a little familiar, as if he had heard it before.

The same piece of music, played by different people, gives people different feelings.

With Jian Xi's memory, if he had heard someone play it before, there would be no way he would have forgotten it. But at this moment he actually found that his memory was a little fuzzy?

Without much hesitation, he followed the sound into the piano room. As he got closer to the source of the sound, the familiar feeling became stronger and stronger.

The phone, which had been silent for a while, vibrated again. He took it out and saw that it was the little green tea girl who, after being scolded by Lin Xiao, spread the song and movie "Secret" in the group, either out of kindness or to seduce the other party.

"..."

Jian Xi raised the corner of his mouth and sent a private message to Xiao Lu Cha saying that he was in the piano room. Then his mood calmed down again and his steps in following the sound slowed down a little.

He walked all the way to the end of the corridor and stopped at the blue wooden door. It could be seen that this piano room was quite old. There were many dents on the wooden door and some of the blue paint had fallen off.

As for schools, just like government agencies, renovation has always been a difficult problem, and Jian Xi can understand that.

At this moment, the door was only half-closed, and the unfinished piano music continued to come from the room. However, no matter how good Jian Xi's eyesight was, he could not see through things. The two-finger-wide gap could only allow him to see the black legs of the piano.

The song gradually came to an end, and the increasingly strong sense of familiarity made Jian Xi hesitate for a moment, but he still chose to gently push open the door.

"Crench!"

As expected, the door made a teeth-grinding noise when it was pushed open, which was bound to alarm the person playing the piano in the room.

However, until Jian Xi stopped pushing the door, the song still did not seem to be in any panic.

At this time, he could already see the situation in the house clearly.

Under the spring sunset, the orange-yellow sunlight shines through the lattice window on the other side of the piano room. The window can only be half-open due to its age. A breeze blows in, and the earthy blue curtains are slightly lifted at a corner. That corner follows the sunset and the breeze, pointing to the piano in the center of the piano room and the girl in a white dress sitting in front of the piano, letting her fingers dance on the keys.

Jian Xi was standing at the door, right behind the girl. The girl had a high ponytail, so her face could not be seen. The sunlight pouring into the room made the piano room extremely bright, so much so that Jian Xi could see the dust floating in the air and the fine hairs behind the girl's slender neck.

But even so, Jian Xi was stunned on the spot. Although he couldn't see the girl's face, the side and rear angle, coupled with the other person's posture when playing the piano and the characteristics of the song, made some vague memories instantly emerge in his mind.

When the curtains fell again, this performance with only one audience member finally came to an end, leaving only the lingering sound, echoing faintly in the piano room.

After the girl finished playing, perhaps she needed to adjust her breathing, so she did not turn around in a hurry to expel the uninvited guest at the door, and still only showed a small part of the other person's profile and a large part of his back.

"You played this piece very well. I also heard you play it in the central hall of the Magic City Exhibition Center." Jian Xi spoke at this time, without any embarrassment to disturb the other party, "That's you, right?"

When he attended Gu Yuan and Yuan Yi's engagement ceremony, he also heard this piece of music at the Magic City Exhibition Center. Except for the piano, everything else was almost exactly the same.

He was quite far away at the time and didn't stay there for too long, but the other party left a deep impression on him. However, he didn't take it to heart later. After all, there were too many beautiful girls in the world, and he couldn't fall in love with every one he saw, right?

I just didn't expect to meet each other here.

Hearing his words, the girl, who had calmed down her breathing, turned around and looked over.

really!

Jian Xi's eyes twitched slightly. The other person was indeed the person he met that time, but...

There was no expression on the girl's delicate features, but she subconsciously frowned when she saw Jian Xi at the door.

"That girl with a guitar on her back is you too?!"

Jian Xi blurted out, and another memory jumped out from the depths of his mind. That time he came to the school to pick up Xiao Lu Cha, when it was getting dark, he saw a girl carrying a guitar next to the flower bed, and another girl was taking a photo of her. At that time, the two of them looked at each other.

wrong!

Jian Xi soon frowned as well. With his poor memory, if it was the second time he met the other person, it would be impossible for him not to immediately remember who the other person was.

He remembered that he also had a feeling of familiarity with the other person that time, but he could never guess who the other person was.

Is it because the other person didn’t play the piano?

For the first time, Jian Xi began to doubt whether he had indulged in too much and even his external physical fitness had been reduced.

"who are you?"

The frowning girl finally spoke, her voice clear as pearls falling from a jade plate.

Just as Jian Xi was about to answer, the other party spoke again.

"I've seen you before." The girl frowned even more deeply this time, "It seems more than once."

Just by seeing this expression, Jian Xi knew that he didn't have a good impression of the other party, but he didn't care about this situation. As I said, he wouldn't like every pretty girl he saw. The only thing he needed to care about now was why the other party was always not very clear in his memory.

Is this the other person's fault or your own fault?
So he nodded and said, "I saw you at the Magic City Exhibition Center, but you may not have seen me. Later at this school, when you were taking pictures with your guitar on your back, we should have seen each other."

After a pause, Jian Xi continued, "If that's the case, we should have only met once, but if you saw me at the exhibition center, then that would be twice."

"wrong."

The girl shook her head, denying his statement.

For some reason, this meeting triggered by the piano music made the two of them start calculating how many times they had met.

Jian Xi was slightly surprised. Just when he was wondering if the other party had remembered him wrongly or had seen him at the Outstanding Alumni of Magic City University, he heard the other party's voice faintly saying, "Have you been to the City God Temple?"

"Ok?"

Jian Xi frowned and began to search his memories. City God Temple... He had been there with the three girls two years ago, but at this moment, he could not find the other person's figure even after searching his memory.

In the end, he could only look at the other person with a puzzled look: "I have been there, but I am sure I have not seen you."

Perhaps the girl had already known the answer when she asked the question. She was not surprised by the other party's confirmation, but...

The girl lowered her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking. After a long while, she pursed her lips and looked back at the man at the door who was still thinking about where he had seen her before and asked, "Can you play the piano?"

"play piano?"

Jian Xi nodded, then his expression changed slightly. He glanced at the piano next to the other person, and... the girl took the initiative to move to the bench, leaving a space.

"..."

To be honest, the dog man never thought of himself as the male protagonist of Long Aotian, nor would he exude the aura of a cuckold at any time and place like those male protagonists. Wherever he went, men bowed their heads and women offered themselves to him. Although he had the external plug-ins such as physique and knowledge of the plot, he had established relationships and given gifts when necessary, and basically smiled and looked like harmony brings wealth...

This was the first time that girls with whom I had basically no connection took the initiative to get intimate.

Seeing him standing there motionless, the girl looked a little unhappy and asked, "Do you know how to talk?"

"..."

Is this considered urging?

Jian Xi felt strange, but still smiled and walked over to sit down next to the girl.

"Four-hand piano? What to play?"

"Secret"

The girl said the song she wanted to play without any hesitation and did not ask Jian Xi if he knew how to play it.

Jian Xi was stunned again, not because the song was simple, nor because the song was very suitable for couples to play together, but because he found that this song and this movie called "Secret" seemed to have too many connections with himself.

The girl was ready, but Jian Xi asked with a smile, "Is it because of the song that was played on the radio just now?"

The girl shook her head and just looked at him with a slightly complicated look, her hands on the keys, as if asking him if he was ready.

Jian Xi took a deep breath, suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, and placed his hands on the piano keys.

"let's start."

As evening approached, the orange-yellow sunset gradually turned orange-red. The sunlight slanted through the window and was pressed into flat strips in the piano room. The breeze was silent, but it lifted a corner of the blue curtain again, as if dancing to the piano music of the two people in the room.

The dust particles floating in the air danced slowly, and every change in the rhythm of the sound waves made the dust particles rise and fall.

The girl closed her eyes, as if she had played this piece of music countless times. Jian Xi turned his head and glanced at her a few times, but then he felt bored and closed his eyes as well.

The man in a neat suit and the girl in a white dress with a high ponytail who left the company showed extraordinary tacit understanding when they played four-hand piano for the first time. Their fingertips danced together, and it was a waltz on the piano keys.

"I've seen it in my dreams...many times."

At this moment, the girl suddenly spoke. Her voice was very low, so low that it seemed to be completely covered by the sound of the piano, like a dream talk, but Jian Xi heard it clearly. Although it did not cause him to make any mistakes in his movements, it completely calmed the strange feeling in his heart.

Memories float up like bubbles, and in each bubble that glows with colorful colors under the sun, there is a more distant picture, so distant that it has spanned lifetimes and is buried in the deepest part of his memory.

Many years ago, also in an afternoon with an orange-red sunset, a woman in a white dress who looked like an elf was playing the song "Secret" with him.

In "Secret", Lu Xiaoyu from twenty years ago traveled through time to twenty years later in her time and space because she played a mysterious piano score "Secret" and fell in love with Ye Xianglun at this time. However, due to misunderstanding, this love across time and space ended up being a tragedy. But there is still a chance to save everything. Ye Xianglun played "Secret" at the last moment, reversed time and space, found the perfect timeline and rewrote the tragedy.

Love transcends life, death and time. The movie's fairytale ending highlights this theme, but...

Is it love or that piano piece that transcends time and space?

Who can tell the answers to many questions in the world?
At this moment and in this place, the piano music had ended at some point, and in the piano room with only two people, it seemed as if something had changed, yet it seemed as if nothing had happened.

Empty, the black and white piano is still there, the orange-red sunset is still there, the blue curtains are still there...

After the sound of the piano disappeared for a long time, the two people who had just played the piano slowly opened their eyes.

Jian Xi turned his head and saw that the girl beside him was still the same girl, but he just felt his throat was unusually dry and he looked at her in silence.

The girl turned her head and looked into his eyes. She was still the same girl, but in his eyes, many things had changed.

He finally understood why his memory of the girl was blurred. It turned out that what was blurred was not the memory, but... the person who shouldn't be there.

Two people who are close to each other look at each other, but it feels like there is a very long distance between them.

Even though the person in each other's memory looked different from the person in front of them, they remained unmoved and just stared into each other's eyes for a long time, as if they could see through the eyes and see something deeper.

The souls in the two bodies looked at each other across the distance of time and space.

"It turns out we have been apart for such a long time." The girl finally said the first sentence.

The voice was still clear and pleasant, but Jian Xi felt a pain in his heart and his lips trembled slightly.

The girl smiled at this time, raised her hand and placed it on his face, which should have been a stranger to her, and gently stroked it and said, "That's great."

Even though the girl's face was covered with tears at this moment, she didn't care at all. She just touched Jian Xi's face and kept repeating "How nice" to her.

The man who always had the upper hand over women didn't say a word at this moment. He just stared at the girl blankly in silence.

After so many years, how should I meet you? With tears or with silence.

"Won't you say anything to me? Time is running out."

The girl smiled and spoke, urging him, but there was no urgency in her tone.

Jian Xi's Adam's apple rolled, and he raised his hand and placed it on the other person's face, gently wiping away the other person's tears.

"I'm sorry I didn't love you well enough."

"So it was then, it was this time." The girl placed her other hand on Jian Xi's hand. Even though her tears kept coming down, she couldn't hide the smile on her face. "It's already very good, it's already very good... It will be even better when we meet next time..."

"Yeah." Jian Xi responded softly. When many words he wanted to say came up to his throat, he realized that it would be better to take a good look at the other person.

"Senior! Who is she?"

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the door of the piano room, and the two of them looked over there instantly.

After the group meeting, Lin Quan went to the piano room according to Jian Xi's previous information, but she saw such a scene. Even if she liked her senior very much, it didn't mean that she had no bottom line.

Looking at the woman who was crying and touching Jian Xi, Lin Quan had a blank expression and cold eyes.

Just as Jian Xi was about to speak, a flash of lightning appeared in his mind and his eyes suddenly widened. He looked at Lin Quan, then at the girl beside him.

Even though he had just been shocked once by this bizarre world, he was shocked again now. It turned out that the familiar feeling at that time had another kind!
The girl took Jian Xi's hand and stood up from the bench, still ignoring the tears on her face. Even though Lin Quan at the door was obviously hostile to her, she still smiled and bowed and nodded.

This scene made Lin Quan a little confused. She always felt that something was wrong. Also, the senior looked like someone she had never seen before.

Jian Xi looked at the girl. The girl looked at him with eyes that he was once very familiar with, and said softly: "Brother, you can call me...Lin Ting."

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