God's Gift

"Then what are you doing?" Lu Keming raised his eyebrows with a smile on his face.

Yu Youyou shook her head nonchalantly, "I was just imitating Anthony."

Lu Keming smiled slightly, looked at Yu Youyou, and slowly raised his hand to straighten her hair.

Xiaoou, who was sitting next to Yu Youyou, seemed confused and suddenly asked:

"Why don't you cry?"

Hearing Xiaoou's question, Yu Youyou put down the puzzle in her hand, turned to look at Xiaoou, thought seriously for a long time, and then asked:

"Should I cry?"

“Of course.” Xiaoou’s eyes wandered as he answered Yu Youyou word by word: “A normal person would be sad no matter what if they saw their friend in pain and knew that he was about to die, just like the man who just cried.”

"If you're sad, you'll cry."

She looked up at Yu Youyou's clean cheeks and said in a confused voice: "You didn't cry, is it because you are not sad?"

Yu Youyou fell silent, Xiaoou's small voice reflected in her black pupils. It took a long time for her to come back to her senses.

"So it's because I'm sad." Yu Youyou suddenly realized and understood why humans often cry.

She touched her chin thoughtfully, turned to Lu Keming and said, "Is this the meaning of tears?"

Lu Keming nodded and answered Yu Youyou seriously: "For humans, tears are the carrier of sadness."

“Oh…” Yu Youyou turned around and leaned her face on her knees, with an unclear look in her deep pupils, “Is that so…”

So the tears that flowed from her eyes before were also because of sadness.

Yu Youyou shook her head, threw away the confused thoughts in her head, looked at Xiaoou, and answered her previous question:

“I don’t think it’s anything to be sad about.”

Xiaoou had a puzzled expression, with doubts in his round eyes.

Yu Youyou sighed and patiently explained: "Birth, aging, sickness and death are things that all life in this world must experience. There is nothing to be sad about."

"If someone you love died, wouldn't you be sad?"

Yu Youyou shook her head subconsciously and was about to say that she was not sad, but her eyes met Lu Keming's.

Her expression froze for a few seconds.

A breeze blew, and the gull wind chimes hanging on the windowsill began to jingle again.

Amid the tinkling sound of wind chimes, Lu Keming held Yu Youyou's hand.

The warm body temperature penetrated her skin, Yu Youyou's eyes moved, and Lu Keming smiled at her.

He looked at Xiaoou and said calmly, "That day will never come."

Yu Youyou's gaze fell on Lu Keming's profile. The young man's delicate face still retained a bit of immaturity. Scattered hair blocked his brows, and his eyes under thick eyelashes were like beautiful glass beads, and the look in his eyes was particularly firm.

Yu Youyou withdrew her gaze and her eyes curved.

Listening to Lu Keming's answer, Xiaoou's eyes fell on the hands of Lu Keming and Yu Youyou, with a strange expression on his face, and the next words he said were somewhat unexpected:

"I'm asking her, why are you answering?"

Lu Keming's expression froze, with a look of disbelief in his eyes. Could a child with Asperger's syndrome be so slow? Wasn't his expression obvious enough?

His words got stuck in his throat, and after a long while he replied depressedly:

"That may be because... I am her lover?"

Yu Youyou looked at the confusion on Xiaoou's face, grinned, and explained to her: "We are married."

Hearing Yu Youyou's words, Lu Keming's eyes curved, tiny lights flickered in his eyes, and he held Yu Youyou's hand even tighter.

"Oh." At this point, Xiaoou finally realized the relationship between the two. She was silent for a few seconds, without any embarrassment on her face, and continued to ask:

"Why don't you die? Humans don't live forever."

Lu Keming was in a good mood. He raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said in a contemptuous voice: "You don't have to treat me as a human being."

Xiaoou didn’t understand what Lu Keming said. How could a person not be a human being?

But she thought the person in front of her didn't want to continue answering her questions.

Asperger's syndrome patients have great difficulty in dealing with interpersonal relationships. She has tried to interact with other peers, but she is naturally unable to understand other people's thoughts and emotions, and cannot respond to their reactions accordingly.

So she often said something inappropriate, and whenever those people didn't want to continue talking to her, they would end the topic with some illogical words.

Because they were beginning to get tired of her.

At this point, Xiaoou knew she shouldn't continue talking.

So the little gull lowered its head again, looked at the seagull that was still missing a piece of its wing in the puzzle, and searched for the piece with the wings printed on it among the remaining pieces.

As she was searching slowly, a white hand reached out in front of her.

Xiaoou stopped and stared at the hand.

The hand in front of me was very white, like the soft white fluff on a seagull's neck, glowing moistly in the sun, beautiful and warm.

The hand slowly opened, revealing the remaining piece of the seagull wing puzzle in the palm.

Yu Youyou bent down, her eyes were level with Xiaoou's, her eyes curved, she stretched her hand in front of Xiaoou again, and said to her with a smile:

"for you."

Xiaoou's gaze inevitably fell on Yu Youyou's smiling eyes.

There was no disdain or boredom in those eyes; they were clean and bright, like the sparkling blue sea on a sunny day, just like her mother's eyes when she looked at her.

Looking at the dazed Xiaoou, Yu Youyou blinked and called her again: "Xiaoou, don't you want it?"

Xiaoou stared blankly for a long time, and when he came to his senses, he immediately looked away and took the puzzle piece from Yu Youyou's hand.

Yu Youyou watched Xiaoou reach out to take the fragments, grinned, and asked again: "Will Xiaoou cry?"

Xiaoou paused, and shook his head after a long while.

Yu Youyou suddenly understood. No wonder Xiaoou asked her if she would cry.

In fact, Xiaoou was not asking her, but asking herself.

Is this the confusion she has always been experiencing?

Yu Youyou sighed, then quickly put on a smile and said optimistically, "Actually, this is pretty good."

Xiaoou raised his head, avoiding Yu Youyou's gaze, and said in a puzzled voice: "What's good about this?"

"If you are not sad, those who love you will feel more relieved."