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The two curled up on the same bed as before.

There was a patter of cold rain outside, and Sang Tian knew how cold it was, because she sat in that rain in the afternoon, drenched her whole body until a little chill came out from every crevice in her spine.

She was covered with a quilt, and the quilt was also cold, which made her shiver.

Lin Xue silently leaned over from behind her, and stretched out her arms to hug her.

It was so warm, Sang Tian's cold body instantly relaxed, and Lin Xue's embrace was as warm as the only warm yellow night light in the bedroom.

But the relationship between the two of them has reached this level, so she should make some money, right?But as soon as she moved, Lin Xue hugged her even tighter: "Don't move around, I will bite you again."

Sang Tian laughed: "Are you a dog?"

The wolf cub said confidently, "No, it belongs to the wolf."

She leaned against Sang Tian's back: "Don't worry, don't do anything, just hug her for a while, lest you catch a cold."

Sang Tian thought: Of course I know what you can't do.

After all, I have let you down so much.

She stared at the warm yellow night light: "When will you leave tomorrow morning?"

Lin Xue: "Four o'clock."

Sang Tian: "Then I'll get up and make you coffee."

Lin Xue was silent for a while, as if she knew she would insist on this matter no matter how much she persuaded Sang Tian, ​​in the end she just said softly, "En."

Then what?When will we see you next time?

Sang Tian didn't ask this question because she knew it was meaningless.

Just like before, Lin Xue was chased by the past and fled all the way south to Mudu.

This time, even though she stayed in Beicheng, the psychological distance between the two of them was like last time, thousands of kilometers away.

******

Sang Tian didn't fall asleep much all night, and her dream was full of the funeral of Sang Jia in her previous life, but this time in her dream, she seemed to have realized that it was not just a dream, but probably the future that was about to happen.

She was struggling in cold sweat, but she couldn't wake up, until she watched Sang Jia's posthumous photo become younger and younger, and finally turned into Lin Xue's face.

Both Sang Jia and Lin Xue died, and Sang Tian was reborn this time. She thought it was another chance given to her by fate, but she never thought that it was just a huge joke played by fate.

She finally woke up with fright. Listening to Lin Xue's breathing behind her, it was a little better than her sleeping, which was the result of being too tired from training during the day.

Sang Tian touched the charging mobile phone next to the bed, and checked the time: [-]:[-].

She originally set the alarm clock at 10:[-] to get up to make coffee, but after thinking about it, she might as well wake up [-] minutes earlier.

Can she steal another 10 minutes from her sleep, and use the dim light of the night light to see Lin Xue's sleeping face more.

Unexpectedly, when she moved, Lin Xue woke up immediately, and asked in a daze, "What time is it?"

Sang Tian lightly got up from the bed: "You can sleep for another half hour."

Unexpectedly, Lin Xue followed her and climbed up, her hair bristling: "Why don't you go to sleep?"

Sang Tian gave a random reason: "I want to translate the manuscript."

Lin Xue said in a daze, "I'll accompany you."

She was a little swollen from sleep, and her usually cold and unruly face had blurred edges and corners, making her look round. She stretched out her arms to Sang Tian, ​​half asleep and half awake: "Sister, touch your head."

Sang Tian's heart melted.

During this period of time, she and Lin Xue were so busy that she almost forgot that the little wolf dog was so soft and cute when he was not awake, which was so different from usual.

As soon as she walked over, Lin Xue hugged her waist tightly, as if Sang Tian was her whole world.

Sang Tian patted her head.

At that moment, time seemed to be frozen, and the warm yellow light of the night light seemed to envelop them in amber. If the world stops, does Sang Tian not have to worry that Lin Xue and Sang Jia will die, and she doesn’t have to worry about her rebirth, she will still become a A wandering soul with nothing.

Heartbroken, even soul is not neat.

Lin Xue must not know what she is afraid of, but holding her seems to feel her trembling slightly, Lin Xue's voice is still half asleep: "Sister, don't be afraid."

"With me here, you don't have to be afraid of anything."

Sang Tian wanted to cry—yes, if you were here, I would not be afraid of anything, and I would dare to rush into the world despite the wind, rain and thorns.

But the premise of all that is "with you".

Once you are about to lose your life, I will immediately be scared and cowardly, and I dare not fight for anything anymore.

Still too timid, right?

However, love is such a complicated thing, it can make a person so strong that he is invincible, and it can also make him so fragile that he will be broken at the touch of a touch.

She stroked Lin Xue's head: "Wolf cub..."

She wanted to say, "You don't want to investigate Chao Xi's affairs, we two are fine, okay?"

But before she opened her mouth, she realized—why is this sentence so familiar?

Isn't this what Lin Xue said to her after she ran into Lin Xue in Mudu?

Fate is so ironic, now her and Lin Xue's roles have completely reversed.

She knew she didn't need to ask this question.

Just like she didn't agree to Lin Xue at that time, Lin Xue won't agree to her now.

Accompanied by her silence, time passed by every minute and every second, Lin Xue also gradually woke up from the half-dream, half-awake, remembered the current situation she and Sang Tian were facing, and silently let go of Sang Tian.

Sang Tian was a little embarrassed: "I'm going to make coffee."

Xue Lin: "Yes."

As the aroma of black coffee overflowed, the two became more conscious, and the distance between them became farther and farther.

Sang Tian stood by the table, and Lin Xue stood by the window.

Sang Tian came over and handed Lin Xue a cup of black coffee, Lin Xue took it silently, and Sang Tian fled back to the table as if fleeing.

Except for the sound of Lin Xue sipping coffee, the silence in the room made people feel overwhelmed.

If only it was still raining outside the window, the sound of pattering rain can always break this awkward silence.

But there was no rain outside the window, and Lin Xue had no excuse to stay a little longer.

She put down the empty coffee cup: "Then, I'm leaving."

Sang Tian: "Yes."

When Lin Xue walked out of the building, the person standing by the window and watching became Sang Tian.

She looked at Lin Xue's back, but Lin Xue never looked back.

Probably Lin Xue also knew that turning back was meaningless. This time, there was no more rabbit lantern between the two of them that could illuminate the way home.

******

The difficulty for adults is that Sang Tian still has to go to work after everything is like this. Before he can squeeze into the subway in the morning rush hour, he rushes to the office at a speed of 5 meters to check in. He is still 120 minutes late and has to deduct [-]. dollars.

Sang Tian pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Ding Yuning came over and touched her forehead: "You don't have a fever? Why is the child so stupid? You even laughed when you deducted the money."

Sang Tian was just laughing, God didn't need to play games anymore, constantly testing what was the last straw that crushed her, she was already crushed to the ground and couldn't get up.

After get off work, Sang Tian called Yang Jingsi: "Are you in the hospital?"

Yang Jingsi's work is intermittently busy. After finishing a big job a while ago, she has been quite free for a while. She is bored at home by herself, so she spends all day in the hospital playing "Happy Mahjong" with Sang Jia and Aunt Fang. Together to deceive the happy beans of other old ladies.

Sure enough, Yang Jingsi's cheerful voice came: "Yes, I am playing happy mahjong with my godmother."

Sang Tian: "How is your godmother today?"

Yang Jingsi: "Very good! After lunch, I ate two bananas as long as my forearm! I was afraid that her blood sugar would be high, otherwise she would not be happy to eat it, so I ate it while I was going to the bathroom! I didn't let me tell you when I found out. you!"

At this time, Sangjia's boss's unhappy voice came: "Hey goddamn daughter! How did you betray me!"

Sang Tian smiled: "Then you can dance two more square dances with your godmother, and arrange all the rock version of the Mohe Ballroom. If you do more activities, you won't be afraid of high blood sugar."

Yang Jingsi was quite interested: "This is very good! I can also lose weight by the way!"

Sang Tian: "I won't come here, you know, cover for me."

Yang Jingsi snorted twice: "You've been getting a little tired of being a wolf cub recently, tell me how do you plan to thank me?"

Sang Tian: "Do you know the recent hot crispy noodle burger? I'll order it for you tonight! Two!"

Yang Jingsi was very bold: "Deal!"

After hanging up the phone, Sang Tian was stunned for a while.

That's why, she didn't plan to tell Yang Jingsi about Sang Jia's condition, nor did she plan to tell Lin Xue.

In fact, people's hearts are far from being so strong. In her previous life, Sang Jia died of an emotional breakdown after knowing her illness.Not to mention Sang Jia, even Sang Tian himself didn't know how to face Sang Jia after knowing that Sang Jia's cancer had spread.

Let Yang Jingsi happily continue to accompany Sang Jia, as well as Lin Xue. If she is still willing to cook some porridge occasionally to visit the old lady as before, Sang Jia's mood can be stabilized.

Sang Tian was not in the mood to eat, so he bought a steamed stuffed bun downstairs in Moxu and planned to take it home, and started translating the manuscript after he dealt with it casually.

The subway in the evening rush hour is also really crowded. She obviously bought a bun, and it was flattened into a pie when she got off the subway.

Just as Sang Tian was translating the manuscript with "pie" in his mouth, the doorbell rang again.

Sang Tian thought to herself, no matter what, it will not be Lin Xue tonight, it must be some delivery guy who went wrong.

Unexpectedly, when she opened the door, she met Lin Xue's lazy face.

Lin Xue: "Hi, fiancee."

Sang Tian: ...

Then she saw a girl with a round face standing next to Lin Xue, pink and puffy like a small dumpling, staring at her with displeasure.

She suddenly thought of Tang Shishan's description—oh, isn't this "Nuomi" Di Ruoxin?

Lin Xue reached out and took the "pie" from Sang Tian's mouth, stuffed it into her mouth and took a bite naturally: "Didn't you agree to accompany me to the dinner party tonight? Why haven't you prepared yet?"

Sang Tian: "Oh that..."

Lin Xue has already squeezed in honestly: "Let me help you."

Di Ruoxin also came in, and when Lin Xue took Sang Tian's hand and walked to the bedroom, she sat down on the sofa by herself: "I'll wait for you, hurry up!"

Sang Tian shook Lin Xue's hand: "Let me go pour someone a glass of water first."

Di Ruoxin: "I don't drink water, give me some orange juice!"

Oh, it turned out to be a kid who loves to eat snacks.

Although Di Ruoxin is 21, her baby face is too small, she looks like fifteen or sixteen, and even though she is from Beicheng, after going to the United States, the head coach is from the Northeast, and she speaks Northeast dialect Very funny.

Sang Tian thought, no wonder Tang Shishan told her not to treat Di Ruoxin as a rival in love, but just as a glutinous rice cake.

It's easy to handle if you like snacks.

Now more and more people like figure skating in China, Beicheng is actively bidding to host the World Championships, Moxu Sports Group, as Chu Lingxue's exclusive interview media, is getting more and more popular in the circle, and they were also popular in the press conference some time ago I was invited, and was given a big snack package by the food sponsor.

Sang Tian brought out the chocolate-coated bread, potato chips, and chicken nuggets for Di Ruoxin, and piled them up on the coffee table like a hill.

Di Ruoxin lived in the United States all the year round and had never seen these before. Her round eyes lit up, and she said with a sneer on the surface: "I don't want to eat, you guys go to prepare, I will wait here."

He also specially emphasized: "Don't worry, take your time."

Sang Tian smiled and followed Lin Xue to the bedroom.

******

As soon as Lin Xue closed the bedroom door, Sang Tian lowered his voice and asked, "What's going on?"

Lin Xue: "Tonight there will be a figure skating party, and some domestic and ISU officials will attend. Although it is not directly linked to the number of international competitions, it must make a good impression on these people, so I have to go too. "

"I know you are very busy these days. You have to go to the hospital to accompany your mother at night. I didn't intend to ask you to accompany me."

"But now there is an unexpected situation. Di Ruoxin has returned to China. She wants to return to her Chinese nationality to represent China in the competition, so she will go tonight."

Lin Xue scratched her head: "Many people in the circle know that she likes to cling to me. If she is still like before tonight, I'm afraid that people will be misunderstood..."

She looked at Sang Tian confidently: "So, fiancee, I have to trouble you to run with me."

Sang Tian: "What fiancee, you know what's going on with us."

She turned around and took out the diamond ring box from the drawer: "This is the diamond ring you gave me before..."

Ever since Lin Xue left without looking back this morning, she has been wondering whether she should take the initiative to return this item to Lin Xue, since it is quite expensive after all.

But she was also afraid that Lin Xue would be angry if she thought she couldn't wait to get away, so she was a little nervous to take it out tentatively at the moment.

Lin Xue was not angry, and took the diamond ring box.

Sang Tian breathed a sigh of relief.

As a result, Lin Xue opened the box and put the diamond ring on Sang Tian's finger with her backhand.

Sang Tian: ...

Lin Xue: "Don't you know? No matter how serious the internal conflict is, once there is an external conflict, we must first concentrate our firepower on the outside."

...When did the wolf cub study the art of war?

She opened Sang Tian's closet: "Do you have that little black dress?" She pointed to the little black suit on her body: "It's the kind that makes me look like a couple."

Sang Tian hummed in his heart: You really know how to think.

She walked to the closet: "I'll find it myself."

She took out a small dress, made of black silk, which was exactly the same color and texture as Lin Xue's body, and the wolf cub squinted his eyes in satisfaction.

Sang Tian: "Turn around."

Lin Xue: "Why?"

Sang Tian: "I'll change clothes."

Xue Lin: "Oh."

After all, the relationship between the two is a bit awkward now, and it's always a bit wrong to change clothes naked *luo* face to face.

But Sang Tian soon felt that it was meaningless to do so, because when she changed the skirt and asked Lin Xue to turn back, Lin Xue's eyes were amazed, and then she brushed the end of her hair caught in the skirt very naturally.

It's really like a couple.

It's like we've been together for 100 years before, and we'll be together for another 100 years in the future, and no one will break up.

Sang Tian sighed in his heart: What should we do?

She had no choice but to emphasize to Lin Xue: "I know you are a person who is afraid of trouble, I just help you solve Di Ruoxin's problem first, and then talk about our problem."

Lin Xue: "Well, let's deal with Di Ruoxin first."

Sang Tian put on simple makeup when she went to work during the day, and she is too lazy to touch it up now, but she just wiped off her lipstick after eating steamed buns. She remembered that there was a dark red lipstick with a brown tone that was very suitable for this little black gift. The skirt, picked it up and unscrewed it for a look, unexpectedly it was bald by her at some point.

She is so thrifty!

Lin Xue stretched her head over to look: "Are you using the right color?"

Sang Tian: "Yes."

She was thinking about which lipstick would be more appropriate to use instead, Lin Xue tapped her lips: "What do you think of my color?"

Sang Tian glanced at it, the dark lipstick looked cool on Lin Xue's lips, but her lips were redder than Lin Xue's, so it should have a different style when applied on her lips, which would complement the little dress.

She asked Lin Xue: "Did you bring this lipstick? Then lend it to me."

Lin Xue smiled: "I didn't bring it, but I can borrow it from you."

She gently lifted Sang Tian's chin, faced Sang Tian's soft lips, and covered her own lips.

Then when he raised his face, a pair of cold star-like eyes flashed an uncontrollable smile: "Okay."

She held Sang Tian's hand: "Let's go fiancee, don't make Nuomi Ci wait."

******

When Lin Xue and Sang Tian walked out of the bedroom, the hill in front of Di Ruoxin was half shorter.

Di Ruoxin was sitting upright on the sofa, with her hands firmly on her knees, as if she hadn't touched the snacks in front of her at all.

Seeing Sang Tian coming out, she said to Sang Tian with a serious face, "I'll tell you something very scary."

Sang Tian: "Well, tell me."

Di Ruoxin: "Did you know there are mice in your house?" She pointed to the mountain of snacks in front of her: "I ate them stealthily."

Sang Tian almost didn't laugh out loud.

She remembered that she told Sanja this lie when she was five years old. At that time, Sanja laughed so hard that in today's words, she let out goose squawks.

Sang Tian felt that the athletes were really innocent, and he didn't know if it was because the training environment was too closed since childhood. Dai Qing was, and so was Di Ruoxin. Only Lin Xue, who had been severely beaten by life, was relatively better.

So Sang Tian kindly didn't expose her: "Well, okay, I'll ask the exterminator to come and have a look tomorrow."

But also out of goodwill, in order to let Di Ruoxin maintain a good image at the first party back to China, Sang Tian pointed to the corner of his lips: "You are covered with chili powder."

on chips.

Di Ruoxin's round face turned red all of a sudden: "What chili powder! That's the most fashionable lip makeup effect in the world! You're so rustic that you don't even know it!"

Sang Tian: "Pfft."

Di Ruoxin jumped up: "Be serious, I'm your rival in love!"

Sang Tian: "I'm serious, I didn't smile."

Di Ruoxin: "I heard you even when you laughed!"

Sang Tian: "I really didn't smile." She pointed at Lin Xue: "She did."

Xue Lin: "I didn't..."

Sang Tian glanced at her.

The wolf cub consciously helped his fiancée take the blame: "Well, I laughed, poof, ha, ha, ha."

Di Ruoxin didn't dare to say anything to Lin Xue, and urged the two of them, "Let's go, we're going to be late."

Lin Xue took Sang Tian's hand.

Di Ruoxin: "By the way, can I take the snacks on the table away?"

Sang Tian: "Didn't the mice eat it?"

Di Ruoxin: "That's right, aren't you afraid it will be unhygienic if you put it in your house? I'll take it away for you, I'm kind."

Sang Tian's eyes were bent: "Thank you."

Di Ruoxin snorted, "You're welcome."

******

Sang Tian was led by Lin Xue into the banquet hall and saw that Dai Qing was also there. Sure enough, no one in the figure skating circle would be absent from such a party.

The moment Dai Qing saw Di Ruoxin, Di Ruoxin also saw Dai Qing, and they each hummed and immediately turned their heads.

Sang Tian understood in seconds: "These two are old enemies, right? After you retired, they fought hard for the title of 'Ice Princess'."

Xue Lin shook her head: "Actually not."

Sang Tian: "Huh?"

Lin Xue: "Among our group of kids practicing figure skating when we were young, they were the two who cried the most. When I was young, I gave the sweets I won based on my grades to stop them crying so much."

"The two of them always felt that I gave the other person more sugar, so they have been awkward with each other for so many years."

Sang Tian: ...

Really promising!

As soon as Lin Xue appeared, she obviously became the focus of the party, as did Di Ruoxin, who had just returned from the United States and was about to transfer her nationality. Let her be the representative to cut this year's commemorative cake to celebrate the founding of the Chinese Skating Association.

Usually this honor is borne by athletes. In previous years it was Dai Qing, but this year it was replaced by Chu Lingxue, but Dai Qing didn't seem to have a temper.

It's just that when Lin Xue cut out the first piece of cake with a figure skater, Dai Qing and Di Ruoxin stretched out the plate in their hands at the same time.

Lin Xue: "...How about you two rock-paper-scissors?"

Di Ruoxin: "That's not true! You gave Dai Qing the last candy before you retired! I remember it clearly! She should give me this piece of cake!"

Dai Qing: "Why should I give it to you? You should lose some weight, otherwise you won't be able to dance."

Di Ruoxin was angry: "Who are you saying is heavier? Skinny chicken! Don't think I don't know that you want to suck European air! Sister Xue, you won't give it!"

Lin Xue: "Well, I won't give it."

Di Ruoxin, as a fellow apprentice, smiled proudly, and stretched out the plate in front of Lin Xue again.

But Lin Xue found another plate, put the cake in it and lowered her head to take a bite: "I won't give it to anyone, I will eat it myself."

Dai Qing let out a "ha".

Di Ruoxin: "Who are you laughing at?" She immediately pulled Dai Qing's hair.

Dai Qing screamed in fright: "Don't do it! I spend five hours every time I go to do hair care!"

She stretched out her hand to scratch Di Ruoxin: "Do you think I don't remember that you are the most ticklish?"

Di Ruoxin hid while laughing, a pair of paws kept flapping on Dai Qing's body.

Sang Tian saw from a distance that Dai Lili was walking this way with a glass of cocktail in hand, frowning.

Dai Qing quickly pushed Di Ruoxin and Lin Xue: "Let's go quickly."

The three of them disappeared in the noisy crowd, making Dai Lili's hawk-like eyes difficult to find. Dai Lili stood there holding a cocktail with a very ugly face, and Sang Tian couldn't see the three of them for a while. .

She picked a cherry from the fruit plate and stuffed it into her mouth. It was sour, she picked another one, and walked out of the banquet hall alone.

A bright crescent crescent in the sky looks like someone's smiling mouth.

A few girls gathered at the door smoking, Sang Tian walked over and said, "Hey, can I have one?"

"no problem."

One of the girls handed her one and ordered it for her. Sang Tian thanked her with a smile, and walked to a corner where no one was around.

She found that she still didn't know how to smoke, and coughed for a long time after smoking, but she couldn't help but pretend to be deep.

She had no choice but to stop smoking, put the cigarette between her fingers, and stuffed the cherries that were turning around in her hands into her mouth. It was still the same as the first one, sour.

Like her mood at the moment.

She glanced inside from a distance, and the crowd inside was bustling with wine and wine. She couldn't see where Lin Xue, Dai Qing, and Di Ruoxin were, but those three must be part of the lively crowd.

The sourness in Sang Tian's heart was of course not because she was jealous, but because she hadn't seen such a relaxed expression on Lin Xue's face for a long time.

She feels that the relationship between athletes is really amazing. They compete with each other and achieve each other, they are hostile to each other and accompany each other.

She had never seen Lin Xue talking so much with anyone else, nor had Dai Qing been so lively in front of anyone.

If she forced Lin Xue to stop investigating Chao Xi's affairs, then Lin Xue's psychological barrier would come back, and it should be difficult for Lin Xue to set foot on the field again.

Then Lin Xue with such a stretched face today does not exist anymore?

"What are you looking at?"

Lin Xue's lazy voice suddenly sounded, startling Sang Tian. It turned out that she came out from another door at some time and walked in front of Sang Tian.

Sang Tian opened his mouth: "Lin Xue."

She decided to clearly say the sentence that they both knew was the inevitable ending: "Let's really break up, I'm not the person you think."

She told Lin Xue not to investigate Chao Xi's affairs before, because she wanted to save their lives.

If it is absolutely impossible for Lin Xue to give up, if this is also the inevitable trajectory of her fate after rebirth, when she looked at Lin Xue's stretched face, another thought popped into her mind——

She has been investigating this matter longer than Lin Xue. If she moves quickly enough after pushing Lin Xue away, will she be able to find out this matter before Lin Xue goes deep into the crisis?

Even if she couldn't find out, and was forced to death by Yun En like in her previous life, if she pushed Lin Xue far away, would it be possible to save Lin Xue's life?

In fact, she is not so selfless, she is also selfish.

She wanted Lin Xue to live and continue to let Sang Jia have the best imported medicine, so that the chance of Sang Jia's survival increased to 30.00% forty or even fifty.

She wanted Lin Xue to remember her, and no matter which woman she kissed or hugged in the future, she would always miss her deeply.

Most importantly, she wanted Lin Xue to continue laughing.

c, Sang Tian scolded in his heart, thinking about it this way, isn't it quite selfless?

Love this stuff, it's so overpowering.

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感谢在2022-02-1717:10:21~2022-02-1816:33:19期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the shallow water bomb: forgot 1;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: qr, the piece in the middle of the watermelon is for you to eat, Mu Chenyan, old friend sighs 1;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Yongji and Moshang Renruyu; 5 bottles of Love Orange and Shenqi; 2 bottles of Xiaoder;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!