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"You...why do you say that?"

Tao Tao stared blankly at Jiang Jinchen who was looking at her affectionately at this time.

"Me, when did I buy you something to eat?"

Jiang Jinchen looked at the bewildered Tao Tao, smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up, and said.

"Well, it's really nothing, I just suddenly remembered something from the past."

Tao Tao was silent for a while after hearing this.

"Yes...is it related to me?"

Then she looked into Jiang Jinchen's eyes and asked seriously.

"Yes."

Jiang Jinchen didn't intend to hide from her this time.

"Very, is it important?"

Tao Tao felt as if her heart was tightly gripped by something, the pain made her breathless.

"Very important."

Jiang Jinchen smiled, and then he gently stroked Tao Tao's face.

"For me, it's really, really important."

Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen's passionate eyes, and didn't know what to say for a while.

"Sorry, I……"

Tao Tao suddenly wanted to say sorry to Jiang Jinchen.

Because she had completely forgotten the most important memory for Jiang Jinchen.

"Don't tell me you're sorry, Tao Tao."

Jiang Jinchen frowned after hearing these three words, then looked at Tao Tao and said seriously.

"This part of the memory is something I can't bear to forget in my life."

"As for you, Tao Tao, I don't want you to care about it that much."

Jiang Jinchen sighed, then reached out and took Tao Tao into his arms.

"Let's lose the lost memory. If you have to recover it, you will be really tired. The past is not important anymore. Tao Tao, you are standing in front of me completely now. enough."

Tao Tao was surrounded by the warmth of Jiang Jinchen's body, as if she had returned to her childhood in an instant.

When Tao Tao was ten years old, her parents had just separated, and Tao Tao's mother took Tao Tao to move to a small but warm city.

At that time, Tao Tao just sat quietly in front of the window every day, watching the pedestrians coming and going on the ground.

When Tao Tao saw a family of three passing by her, she would immediately turn her head and stare blankly at the ticking second hand hanging on the wall.

Tao Tao wondered if every child had an unfortunate childhood.

During the day, her mother had to go out to work, so she was lonely, little by little, looking forward to growing up quickly.

However, the turning point of things happened in the first Spring Festival when they moved to this city.

During the Spring Festival of that year, Tao Tao was woken up early by her mother from the bed, and then she sat on a chair and watched her mother decorate the house beamingly.

Tao Tao didn't understand why her mother did this.

Soon at night, my mother turned on the TV, sat at the table with Tao Tao, and ate steaming dumplings.

Tao Tao looked at the lights of thousands of houses outside the window, and the momentary loneliness couldn't help but burst out.

"Why do we celebrate the Spring Festival?"

Tao Tao raised her head and asked her mother calmly.

She only remembered that at that moment, her mother's hands that had become rough due to hard work suddenly stopped, and it took a long time before she continued to pick up the delicious dumplings on the plate.

Mother put the dumplings in Tao Tao's bowl, and said softly to her.

"We're not just living for ourselves."

Tao Tao looked at her mother, who did not know when, the corners of her eyes were covered with wrinkles, and her heart suddenly ached.

But she asked anyway.

"Is there any point in doing this?"

Mother sighed when she heard it, she put down her chopsticks, took Tao Tao's cold hand, and said to her.

"Child, you have to remember that in this world, all the things you lose will come back to you in another way."

Tao Tao looked at her mother's serious face in confusion.

"No one can live alone in this world forever. One day, we will wait for the person who will accompany us all our lives."

Tao Tao saw tears welling up in her mother's eyes.

"We must work hard to live a good life now in order to meet that person in the future."

So, in the next few years, Tao Tao and her mother depended on each other, but Tao Tao still felt very happy.

Although, she and her mother did not find the warmth that belonged to them in that warm city.

But now, Tao Tao thought that she had finally found that person.

Tao Tao closed her eyes, feeling the familiar temperature in Jiang Jinchen's arms, and suddenly felt that compared to that warm city, only his arms could melt her cold heart.

"Jiang Jinchen."

Tao Tao softly called out his name.

"Well, I'm here."

Jiang Jinchen tightly hugged the girl who had haunted him for 13 years.

"Wait for me, wait for me to grow up to be an adult who can be alone one day, then let's be together."

Jiang Jinchen curled up his mouth and smiled, then nodded slightly.

"Ok, I will wait for you."

After parting with Jiang Jinchen, Tao Tao went back to school by car.

She was walking alone in the deserted campus at this time.

Taking advantage of the dim night, she sat on the steps of the stadium, looked up at the bright starry sky in front of her, and suddenly realized that she hadn't had that strange dream for a long time.

Tao Tao thought, it must be because the person in the dream was by her side right now, so they didn't need to meet in the dream at all.

Tao Tao narrowed her eyes and smiled, then made a decision in her heart.

Starting today, we must live hard, study hard, and work hard.

I must try my best to be good, and then I will confess my love to the boy I like.

When Tao Tao thought of this, she suddenly felt that she was so childish.

Say something like this to someone you love...

At my age, it's really rare.

"Cough cough."

Tao Taohong coughed in embarrassment with a small face, then got up and prepared to go back.

However, just as Tao Tao walked down the steps, she suddenly saw a hazy figure appearing in front of her.

"who is it?"

Tao Tao was taken aback, she never thought that there were still people in the school at this time.

"it's me."

A cold voice came from the darkness.

"Xiao, Teacher Xiao?"

Although Tao Tao couldn't see the man's face clearly, she could still hear the man's voice.

That voice that tormented me for a long time.

Xiao Qiong quickly walked in front of Tao Tao.

For some reason, Tao Tao suddenly felt that his face looked particularly lonely in the night.

"You went out to work?"

Xiao Qiong looked at Tao Tao expressionlessly, and could not hear the slightest emotion in her voice.

"Forehead……"

Tao Tao looked at the strange Xiao Qiong in front of her, and suddenly felt a chill behind her.

"Yes."

Then Xiao Qiong lost his voice again.

Tao Tao didn't dare to speak anymore, she felt that Xiao Qiong was really dangerous now, but she just looked at her like this but didn't say a word.

"Jiang Jinchen's company?"

After what seemed like a century, Xiao Qiong's cold voice finally rang out in the air again.

"Yes, yes."

Tao Tao seemed to have stayed in the cold wind for too long, she answered Xiao Qiong's question tremblingly.

"wait wait wait."

Tao Tao suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"You, how do you know Jiang Jinchen's name?"

Tao Tao stared wide-eyed at Xiao Qiong who was very strange today, and then looked surprised.

"Not only do I know his name, I also know a lot about him, do you want to listen?"

Xiao Qiong suddenly pulled up the corners of his mouth and smiled, then he took a few steps towards Tao Tao, slowly lowered himself, and whispered in her ear.

"you!"

Tao Tao was enveloped by the chill radiating from Xiao Qiong's body, she backed away quickly to avoid him.

"Why are you telling me this?"

Tao Tao suddenly felt that Xiao Qiong was so strange to her now.

"poor child."

Xiao Qiong didn't answer Tao Tao's question, he suddenly reached out and hugged Tao Tao's trembling body tightly.

Feeling the cold from Xiao Qiong's body, Tao Tao became stiff for a moment.

"I don't know if I was cheated."

Tao Tao suddenly felt Xiao Qiong's cold lips pressed against her ears, and her cold voice kept echoing in the air.

"No, it's not like that..."

Tao Tao's mind was blank at this time, she felt as if she had been cursed by Xiao Qiong, and suddenly fell into chaos.

"Jiang Jinchen lied to you, everything he said was false."

Xiao Qiong's voice kept echoing in her ears, Tao Tao tightly closed her eyes, tears kept pouring out of her sockets.

"No, no, it's not like that..."

Those fragments from the previous dream suddenly appeared in Tao Tao's mind, barren hills with no grass growing, winding alleys, steaming steamed buns, and...and...

And... the face that had appeared in Tao Tao's dreams countless times.

Tao Tao suddenly opened her eyes in horror, and then stood there motionless.

Xiao Qiong felt Tao Tao who suddenly became quiet, and then he straightened up, staring at her closely with his dark pupils.

Tao Tao stared blankly at Xiao Qiong's face, and found that this face was slowly overlapping with the face in the dream.

No, you can't...

"Tao Tao, the person in your memory has always been me."

Xiao Qiong raised the corners of his mouth and showed a strange smile, then gently stroked the corners of Tao Tao's eyes.

"No, it's not like that!"

Tao Tao suddenly woke up from the confusion, she pushed Xiao Qiong away fiercely, and then took a few steps back.

"..."

Xiao Qiong staggered in shock.

"I won't believe what you say!"

Tao Tao wiped the tears off her face, took a deep breath, then looked at Xiao Qiong expressionlessly and said.

"I don't know what hatred there is between you and Jiang Jinchen, but I will never allow you to call him a liar!"

Xiao Qiong stood in the night and looked at Tao Tao gloomyly, without saying a word.

Seeing Xiao Qiong's weird expression, Tao Tao felt a little bit in her heart.

Then she didn't dare to look at Xiao Qiong again, picked up the bag on the ground and ran out quickly without looking back.

However, this time, she didn't notice the ring with strange patterns that Xiao Qiong had been wearing since the very beginning.