She is brighter than the stars

Night, not just night, looks more like a dark space of permanent nothingness.

The street lamps are like fireflies, leisurely illuminating an asphalt road winding to the horizon.

Cheng Nian was walking on the road, not knowing where he came from or where the road led to, so he walked silently.

Suddenly, a girl in a red dress appeared on the side of the road.

Holding a bouquet of lilies, she stared at Cheng Nian curiously, and said in a childlike voice, "Who are you and why did you come to my world?"

Cheng Nian frowned and thought for a long time before he came up with his own name, and said softly, "My name is Cheng Nian, what about you?"

The girl looked down at her own lilies, and Cheng Nian smiled sweetly.

"My name is Miller."

Cheng Nian squatted down, stared at the girl's cute smiling face, and carefully searched for the name in his chaotic mind.

Miller?Miller, Miller!

The moment the memory was restored, the street lights suddenly turned on, and the world instantly turned into a dazzling white.

The little girl's figure retreated like flowing water in the white light, Cheng Nian staggered and got up to chase, but only barely touched a trace of the disappearing skirt.

She kept running towards the place where the light and shadow disappeared, her eyes were blurred, but she was unwilling to stop.

The whole space suddenly spun, and Cheng Nian felt his body lose weight, and fell into an endless fall in a blink of an eye.

It was dark all around, leaving only a little light in front of my eyes.The tears and the strong wind blew upward together, and countless voices came from Cheng Nian's ears.

"Cheng Nian, my name is Mi Le."

"Cheng Nian, I can play the saxophone."

"Cheng Nian, are you really not going to reconcile with the monitor?"

"Cheng Nian, you are like a gift."

"Little Orange, are you happy?"

"Cheng Nian, run away, it's on fire."

"Cheng Nian, we want to talk about a hundred sweet romances."

These voices were like a string of curses, tightly strangling Cheng Nian's throat, making her use all her strength to take every breath.

In the suffocation of dying, Mi Le's lovely smiling face appeared in front of Cheng Nian again.

Her whole body exudes a gentle light, like an angel.

Mi Le looked at Cheng Nian, lifted her up from the fall, and then gently kissed her on the forehead.

Cheng Nian saw Mi Le's mouth move, but couldn't hear any sound.

She tried desperately to catch the vague phantom, but waved her hand in the air in vain.

Seeing that Mi Le was about to disappear in the courtyard, Cheng Nian cried and tried his best to get up, and shouted Mi Le's name.

With all senses back in place, Cheng Nian opened his eyes and saw his parents and Cheng Zhiyuan surrounding him, the expression on his face changed from worry to joy.

Tears were still flowing, she grabbed Su Huiyu to ask about Mi Le's situation, but she still couldn't make a sound, and fainted again in a panic.

Cheng Zhiyuan hurriedly called the doctor, and the doctor told them that this was a normal traumatic stress reaction, and they should recover after a short rest, so everyone finally felt relieved.

On the rooftop of the hospital, Xie Junyu looked at the burly man in front of him, and said in a low voice, "Is it an accident?"

Shan's lifeless eyes were indifferently placed on the distant buildings, and he said coldly: "Earthquake is, death is not."

This is the method of the organization, to create a perfect death without trace by accident.

Xie Junyu slightly exerted his hand on the fence, and the pile of bricks instantly shattered.He frowned and sighed in pain, "Keep staring at her."

Shan shook his head, "No need, their target is not her."

"what?"

Shan continued: "The one they want to kill is the one who has already died."

Xie Junyu's eyes widened suddenly because of surprise, and he muttered to himself in disbelief: "Why?"

"Why don't you know it yourself?"

Suddenly a nice female voice sounded behind them, Xie Junyu and Shan both turned around abruptly, subconsciously putting on a defensive posture.

It was a man and a woman who came. The woman held a cigarette in her hand and had a smile on her face. The bracelet that was originally given to Cheng Nian had already been hung on her wrist again.The man stood behind her, carrying a stick-like thing wrapped in linen on his back.

Shan Le's lifeless eyes finally had some light, and he whispered like a pilgrim seeing a true god, "Shui Gu Yunlin."

Mizutani smiled, flicked the cigarette ash casually with the hand holding the cigarette, stared at Xie Junyu meaningfully, and walked towards him leisurely.

Xie Junyu put down his guard, straightened up and looked at Shui Gu, and said softly, "What do you mean?"

Mizutani pressed the cigarette on Xie Junyu's shoulder, the cigarette butt burned through the thin clothing, and even made some sizzling sounds when it burned the skin, but Xie Junyu's face did not touch at all.

Shui Gu looked at Xie Junyu's expressionless face with satisfaction, leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice: "During the fire in the inn, why did you choose to save that girl?"

Xie Junyu's heart froze, he was dumbfounded and speechless.

The fire exposes what is most dear to man.

Because he was familiar with the organization's way of doing things, he deliberately avoided Cheng Nian at that time.

Mizutani backed away with a smile, his eyes turned between Xie Junyu and the mountain, and he took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

She blew a smoke ring on Xie Junyu's face, and said slowly: "People in the dark river should not dream of going ashore in this life, Wen Wan is very kind to you guys. Kindly remind me, it is not she who is chasing and killing you, but someone I want you to die. The bid is very high, Wen Wan has no reason not to accept it."

Mizutani patted Xie Junyu's face and grinned big, "You know, life is better than death, you used to let others do this."

The blood on Xie Junyu's face faded away in an instant, as ugly as his expression could be.He stared blankly into the distance, and said in a hoarse voice for a while, "Thank you."

He didn't ask who Mizutani was, he knew she wouldn't tell.

Mizutani was still smiling, she pointed to the diamond studs on her ears, "Thank her if you want to, but you know what you should do."

After speaking, Shui Gu walked towards Yun Lin, and the two left as if they had never been here before.

When going downstairs, Yun Lin cursed angrily and said, "What are you doing talking to him so much? There are guys who have no tomorrow today."

Shui Gu said with a smile: "I can't bear the death of a person who can escape from the dark river."

Yun Lin was jealous and said, "You like him? This kind of chick?"

"I only like you."

……

After they left, Xie Junyu coughed a few times, his whole body arched, and his legs bent down uncontrollably.

When he was about to kneel down, Shan helped him up, "What are you going to do?"

Xie Junyu breathed a sigh of relief, and stood up with difficulty supporting the mountain.

Under the scorching sun and the sky, his expression was painful and desolate, but it still contained a kind of determination to die and live later.

A task that may take a whole life and may not be completed appeared in Xie Junyu's mind.

He straightened up, resisting the pain in his knee, and said something lightly to Shanyun.

"Let's go."

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In the ward, Cheng Zhiyuan took Cheng Nian's parents, who had been guarding Cheng Nian overnight, home, and took care of her alone.

He was also a little tired, so he fell asleep beside the bed without knowing it.

In the quiet ward, the door was opened silently.

It was rare for Shui Gu not to smoke, and walked to Cheng Nian's side as quietly as a feather.

She took out a thin silver needle from her waist and pricked some acupuncture points on Cheng Nian's body.

After putting the needle back, Mizutani took off the diamond earrings from his ears and put them on the table beside him. Chong Chengnian said softly, "Little cutie, I like the earrings very much, but I'd better give them back to you first."

After Shui Gu left, Cheng Nianyou woke up, she tried to call Cheng Zhiyuan's name, and found that she could already speak.

Although his throat was extremely dry, as if it had been filled with charcoal fire, he could finally make some sound.

She shook Cheng Zhiyuan awake, and said anxiously, "Brother, where is Mi Le? Is Mi Le injured?"

Cheng Zhiyuan sobered up for a while, and avoided answering.

"You should drink some water first."