cold flame

The night is boundless, enveloping all the people and things in the room. Whenever this moment of complete silence comes, chaotic thoughts rush up like resistance.Lin Mo rolled up the quilt and turned over, opening his eyes.

In the blurry outline gradually revealed by the thick ink, he only found a ray of moonlight that fell through the gap in the curtain.

Since you can't sleep, give up struggling. Lin Mo was wearing pajamas, opened the door aimlessly in his heart, walked to the living room, and found that the French windows connected to the balcony were open on one side, and a tall and straight figure stood under the moonlight. He was still wearing a matching shirt. For casual everyday clothes, there are only incongruous shadows on the ground, which are distortedly printed on the smooth tile surface.

"You haven't slept yet." Hearing the sound of footsteps, Gao Wenxuan turned around, still holding half a cigarette in one hand.

Lin Mo approached, stood beside him and said, "Give me one."

Gao Wenxuan smiled, and uncharacteristically did not refuse. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over. He put the burning cigarette in his mouth again, approached Lin Mo, and within the distance between the two cigarettes, sparks were ignited.

Lin Mo breathed out a puff of smoke, and felt the emotions stagnant in his body slowly rising, "I promised my dad that I will go to their school celebration."

Remembering that when he took his mobile phone to his parents' room to talk about this matter, father Lin's tired face flashed a look of anticipation for a moment, and the reason for the evasion of the words became a promise.

"Very good, he must be very happy." Gao Wenxuan put his hands on the guardrail and looked at him sideways, "What made you change your mind?"

Lin Mo smoked and said nothing, his eyes looked towards the dark corner ahead.

"It's Xiao Ran..."

"If you don't sleep here, you must be thinking about her." Lin Mo's voice was very soft, but it echoed very clearly in the boundless night.

"En." Gao Wenxuan looked up.Looking at the bright and bright moon in the dark blue night, "I remember she said that she likes the moment before the full moon the most."

"There is a different kind of beauty that is about to be perfect but still has flaws, isn't it?" Lin Ran said in a sigh-like intoxicated tone.

Gao Wenxuan smiled and said, "Your taste in beauty is really unique."

They sat at a round table on one side of the balcony, forming a semicircle with Lin Ran as the center. The three of them faced the slanting bright moon.Lin Ran said that viewing the moon should be appropriate to the occasion, and he specially placed several white plates containing moon cakes and fruits on the table, and everyone had a cup of brewed green tea.

There is no need for extra artificial lighting, as long as you immerse yourself in the night breeze and raise your eyes a little, you can taste the constant natural scenery since ancient times.

Lin Ran always likes this short-lived shortcoming before perfection. If you take a step forward, you will complete it in one go. If you take a step back, there will be a long way to go.Just like her favorite tulip, it looks like it is just about to bloom, it is not yet blooming, and it is beautiful but not revealing, mixed between two levels of beauty.

Naturally, Lin Mo didn't appreciate this. He only saw the silver moon with its sharp edge faded in front of him, alone in the navy blue night sky, shining brilliant brilliance on the farthest and highest places invisible to the naked eye. No matter where he was, he could Enjoy the Lang Lang Yuehui that permeates the land.

As if it could directly illuminate people's hearts, Lin Mo couldn't help praising: "It's really beautiful."

"The moon itself can't shine, Momo, don't be infected by your sister." Gao Wenxuan said jokingly.

Lin Ran laughed disapprovingly: "It's too bad to talk about scientific logic at this time."

"Oh? Then you should say something."

Lin Ran took a sip of the hot tea in his hand, and said unhurriedly: "It's a beautiful day, of course we should say something beautiful."

"For example..." Gao Wenxuan's eyes naturally fell on Lin Mo opposite him, with a playful smile.

"For example, Momo's girlfriend." Lin Ran immediately answered.He looked at his brother without blinking.

Lin Mo's tone was firm, revealing a hint of solemnity, "I don't have a girlfriend."

"No way? I always feel that you have someone you like." Lin Ran expressed her unfounded intuition slightly in surprise, "I don't know what kind of girl it is..."

Lin Mo said helplessly, "Sister, you're starting to make up your mind again."

"Okay, okay, I don't have a girlfriend, and I don't have anyone I like, so what about you before? A boy who is almost an adult, wouldn't he have never been in a relationship?" Lin Ran's tone was full of disbelief, trying to use this To stimulate the other party to say a rebuttal.

Gao Wenxuan said: "You sister, you really care about your brother's love life."

"After all, my younger brother is very good. There are many girls who have sent him love letters since childhood. Isn't it normal to be curious?"

Lin Mo added: "There is also a love letter for me to pass on to you."

The girl chuckled, "That's really troublesome for you. However, I have another question, I promise it will be the last one." She raised her index finger and said very seriously.

"Let's talk." Lin Mo knew he couldn't escape today.

Lin Ran lowered her voice and quickly asked, "Brother, is your first kiss still there?"

As soon as the words finished, Gao Wenxuan laughed, "You're the only one who dares to ask."

Lin Ran knew the answer when he saw his younger brother's stunned expression after asking the question, and sighed, "Sure enough, it turns out my younger brother is so conservative."

"Maybe it's just that I don't know how to act." The smile still stayed on his face.Gao Wenxuan continued to joke: "Like Momo, he will definitely not take the initiative."

"That's right! After all, my brother has a thin skin."

Facing the siege of the two, Lin Mo said helplessly, "The more you talk, the more exaggerated you are."

"I can teach you." Gao Wenxuan's dark eyes shone faintly in the moonlight.

"Haha, how do you teach this kind of thing? It needs the right time, place and people..." Speaking of this, Lin Ran seemed to think of something, and took a sip of tea with her mouth pursed and her head bowed.

Lin Mo didn't speak, and this topic ended here.It's just after the confused laughter just now, his heart, which was originally illuminated by the moonlight, became a little dim, and he felt the same confusion as before, and even more confusion than before.

These perplexities, like cracks, criss-crossed and stuck tightly to the bottom of his heart.

"Your expression seems to be thinking of bad memories."

Lin Mo came back to his senses and threw away the cigarette that had already been burned, "It all happened a long time ago."

"You have such a good memory, you must remember everything clearly. I almost forgot many things." Gao Wenxuan's smile was a little vain in the middle of the night.

"Whether you remember or not is actually not that important. Forgetting is hard to avoid." Standing beside Gao Wenxuan, Lin Mo looked down at the darkness after the lights of all houses were extinguished, as if looking at a bottomless well, he continued. : "As long as we have experienced it together, we will not leave any regrets."

"No regrets..." Gao Wenxuan repeated as if talking to himself, "I don't know if your sister has any."

Lin Mo looked at him when he heard the words, "How could she have it?"

Gao Wenxuan smiled wryly, "It's hard to say." After a short pause, he continued: "After all...I have it too."

Lin Mo suddenly felt a little strange to him like this, "Your regret? You don't seem like someone who would leave regrets for himself."

Gao Wenxuan put away the expression he showed just now, whether it was guilt or surprise, "I thought you already knew me very well."

"Sometimes even I think so."

"Some things, it's better that you don't know."

Even though Gao Wenxuan had acted lightly, Lin Mo still had an inexplicable sense of strangeness. He followed the other party's words; "If it's something that should be known, then it's not good."

"Indeed, but I shouldn't let you know now."

"You're weird today."

"Is it strange..." Gao Wenxuan asked softly, staring at Lin Mo and said, "Maybe. You should go to sleep."