After rebirth, my new love and I made it real

He was sixteen that year, and Lin Qingran was thirteen.

The truck brushed past his arm.

He tripped and fell to the ground.

"Don't you have eyes? Why are you walking forward when the car is coming?" The owner of the voice was a girl.

The young Lu Siheng turned his head following the voice and was immediately met with Lin Qingran's clear eyes, and was startled.

The girl had a slightly angry look on her face. "Do you know that you were in danger just now? You almost died!"

Like a parent educating a naughty child, Lin Qingran stood in front of him with her hands on her hips, looking down at him.

"What does it have to do with you?" Lu Siheng blurted out subconsciously.

He was a little impatient. If she hadn't pulled him like that, he would have been dead.

The sudden appearance of this girl ruined his plan.

"I saved you!" This was the first time Lin Qingran had seen such an ungrateful person. She said arrogantly, "If it weren't for me, you would have become a cold corpse now."

Lu Siheng didn't want to argue with her because she didn't know that he was planning to die.

He tried to get up by supporting himself on the ground with his hands, but his broken bones hurt and he frowned in pain.

The next second, a white and beautiful hand appeared in Lu Siheng's sight.

"Let me help you."

Lu Siheng raised his head and his eyes met the girl's bright eyes. His ears felt inexplicably hot.

He glanced at the girl's clean and delicate palms, but still did not put his hand on them, because he was covered in dust and dirt, and his palms were also covered in dirt, which would dirty her palms.

"I... I can do it myself." He said this awkwardly and climbed up while enduring the pain.

For some reason, the haze in his heart seemed to dissipate a little. At least he didn't think about finding another car to hit himself to death immediately. Instead, he turned and walked towards the train station.

Lin Qingran stared at his tattered clothes and limping legs for a moment, then chased after him, "I want to eat pizza, do you want to come?"

Lu Siheng paused slightly.

He hadn't eaten for three days at that time.

"I came out to play secretly." Lin Qingran walked up to him, pointed to the dozens-story financial and commercial building across the street, and said, "My dad is in that building. He has to deal with work and is very busy. He has no time to accompany me, so can you accompany me to eat?"

Lu Siheng shook his head silently.

Then go around her and keep walking.

Having never eaten pizza before, he thought it was a very expensive food. Besides, he had no money to eat, so how could he afford a pizza for two people?

However, some things seemed beyond his control.

Unexpectedly, his hand was grabbed from behind.

Lin Qingran looked at him with a smile, "It won't take up much of your time. I can give you money, as much as you want, as long as you accompany me to eat pizza."

Lin Qingran had many friends in China, and she always had someone to accompany her wherever she went. But she suddenly came to Country M to find Lin Jingyao, and suddenly she couldn't find any friends of the same age, and she had already become sick from holding it in.

So she desperately needed a playmate.

Lu Siheng blinked his eyes and said, "You don't want me to pay?"

"Of course not." Lin Qingran pulled him straight into the pizza shop.

Lu Siheng rested his head on the back of the chair, staring ahead, his thoughts gradually returning to their original state, and he spoke again, "Xu Mushi, that was my first time eating in such a bright place."

"The store is well heated, and the aroma of the food is more upscale than that of the roadside stalls."

For a long time, he was lucky to be able to eat at roadside stalls. When he didn't steal money, he could only pick up some leftover food from the trash can.

He suddenly wasn't cold anymore.

Especially when the food is taken with hot drinks.

"It doesn't seem like a big deal now, but at that time I had no idea what a normal life was like. I hadn't lived a normal life for so long."

"And Lin Qingran, who is sitting opposite, looks so noble."

Yes, noble. When this word appears on a thirteen-year-old girl, it may be difficult for others to understand.

But Lin Qingran is very expensive, from head to toe, inside and out.

"The clothes she wore, the bracelets she wore, even the white scarf around her neck, everything looked expensive."

Lu Siheng's understanding of expensiveness came purely from the experience he gained from watching the people coming and going at the train station and judging which people were worth stealing and which were not.

"She sat there and attracted many people's attention. The adults would praise her generously, saying that the girl sitting there was so delicate and beautiful. She seemed to be accustomed to these admiring looks. She drank her drink and played with her phone nonchalantly, occasionally looking up and smiling at me."

When she smiled, she glowed, and he was often dazzled by her and forgot to look away.

That day, he sat with Lin Qingran in the store for two hours and felt fuller than ever before.

During those two hours, he didn't need to hide in fear, nor did he have to worry about being caught by the police at the next second. He could sit there calmly, sitting opposite her, listening to her talk and watching her smile.

"Later she said she was leaving and her father was looking for her." Lu Siheng smiled helplessly, "I was quite disappointed, but she said she would come to play with me again and we would meet again, so I didn't feel disappointed anymore."

And Lin Qingran was afraid that he would be cold, so she took off the white scarf around her neck and gave it to him.

"I told her I would treat her to a meal next time."

Not with stolen money.

He suddenly didn't want to continue to degenerate.

He also wanted to wash off the dirt and gloom on his body, to be able to enter and exit these places openly, no longer having to hide like a rat, to be able to sit here in clean and decent clothes, to eat something, or to have a hot drink.

"Your worldview has changed because of her appearance," said Xu Mushi.

"Yes, I had just come out of the orphanage that year, and my worldview had not yet been formed. The mistakes I made at the beginning led to my disappointment with the world and I never recovered, until I saw something different."

In fact, at that time, he didn't have any other ideas. His mind was full of how to make enough money to treat her to a meal legally and reasonably, and then sit with her again like that and see her smiling face when he looked up.

Xu Mushi looked at him and said, "I guess you didn't treat her to a meal after all."

Otherwise, Lu Siheng would not have been looking for Lin Qingran for so many years.

Lu Siheng nodded, "Yes, I actually earned enough money to treat her to a meal. I wandered around the entrance of the financial building for many days, but I didn't see her. I even went to ask if there was a man named Lin in the financial building, trying to find her through her father."

Now that I think about it, Lin Jingyao should not be a permanent office worker in that building. He may just be on a business trip or attending a meeting.

So it’s no wonder that Lin Qingran suddenly disappeared. Maybe she had already returned to her country at that time.

Unfortunately, he didn't know all this at that time. He just thought that Lin Qingran had settled in Country M, so he didn't return to China to attend university in the end. He was afraid that if he returned, he would never find her again.