evening tide

Xiang Wanju exhaled lightly and lowered his head.

But the elevator didn't go down, it was opened by someone outside the door.

Chao Xin reached out and pressed the button: "Can I stay tonight?"

Xiang Wan looked up at her, but didn't move.

"I want to ask you something, it's very important." Chao Xin still left the elevator door open, even though it let out a low beep that stayed for too long.

Xiang pulled out, Chao Xin let go of the button, took her hand, walked across the aisle, opened the door, and went straight into the master bedroom.

Carefully closing the door, Chao Xin let her sit on the bed, kicked off the slippers himself, and sat opposite her with bent legs.

The wide nightdress had an open neckline, the long curly hair was pinned behind the ears, and the floor lamp was not too bright, which was better than KTV, just enough for them to see each other.

"What are you talking about?" Xiang Wan said in a thin voice, with a bit of reserve.

"You said that you came from a long time ago. I didn't believe it at the time, because my thought at the time was that no matter where you are from or what kind of person you are, I want to have sex with you."

"But I'm a little sorry, because I really didn't pay as much attention to this matter as you thought, so after that, I didn't think about it for such a long time."

"sorry."

Chao Xin said "I'm sorry" for the first time, a little hoarse and lustful, but with a rare transparency.

There was still a little nervousness, and her brows were raised slightly, as if she was not used to doing this kind of thing.

Xiang Wan didn't want to admit it, and he quickly forgave her, even before the word "right" came out.

Because she had seen too many evasions and too many perfunctories, Chao Xin made a serious start, and she wanted to forgive her.

She bit her lip and looked at Chao Xin, as if she was scooping water in her heart, scooping out the grievance little by little, but the moment she moved it was the most turbulent, so her face was not as well controlled as before.

"What I want to ask you is, where are you from?" Chao Xin looked at her seriously.

Look at her face, shoulders, arms and fingertips propped on the bed.

"Li Chao." Xiang Wan said.

The Li Dynasty... Chao Xin's history is very poor, as if he has heard that it belongs to a small dynasty in some troubled times, similar to the one that transitions between several major periods.

"It's been more than 1000 years from now." Xiang Wan didn't care if she was familiar with her, but said, "I'm many, many years older than you."

When explaining the origin, he still didn't forget to accuse Chao Xin of his wild thoughts before. Although it was hidden by her arrogant words, Chao Xin found out, and she was so cute again.

"Then you are... a monster?"

"Xiu Xian?"

"Or... have you taken the elixir of life?"

Looking at her watery almond eyes, Chao Xin became curious.The eyes of the person in front of him are like deer, but also like the essence of peach blossoms.

Xiang Wan breathed a sigh of relief, couldn't help laughing out loud, and put it away very quickly, with a serious face, he asked her: "How am I like a monster?"

"Will I eat you?" She poked her head, swam her slender neck, and asked her softly.

Chao Xin twitched the corners of his mouth, saying meaningfully, "I've eaten it, haven't I?"

Xiang Wan couldn't help it anymore, she bit her lips and smiled, but she still turned her face to the side, not wanting her to see her, but she forgot to hide her crimson earlobes, accidentally revealing them.

"I'm a human being, just like you. I'm born, grow old, get sick and die." Xiang Wan whispered, looking at the plain quilt.

"Then, how did you get here?"

"One day there was a thunderstorm, and I didn't know why, so I went to Yu Zhou's house, and she took me in."

"So..." Chao Xin thought of an important thing, "You have never wandered before."

"No."

"It's just that I was going to settle down at that time. I didn't have any other reasons to explain the origin, so I wrote 'wandering' and established a household registration as a black household."

"You landed..." Chao Xin closed his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat.

"Yu Zhou's family."

After the words just finished speaking, before the lips were closed, there was a vague upward arc. Chao Xin looked at her, and slowly and restraintly closed the lip line.There are only four words in my heart-so it is.

It turned out that the emergency contact was the reason.

The haze seemed to dissipate for seven or eight minutes, and all worries about age and social background were taken away. Chao Xin felt that he was a little naive, and he was naive that he had never tried before.

The kind of childishness that is depressed because of a small behavior of a person, and because of her explanation of a few words, the rain is over and the sky is clear.

"Then what were you like before?"

"I," Xiang Wan raised his eyebrows and raised his chin, with a half-smile at the corner of his mouth, "I am the lady of the prime minister's family, and my name is Xiang Axi."

"A little proud." Chao Xin said with a smile.

But she was saying in her heart, no wonder, no wonder Xiang Wan's upbringing is so good, his temperament is so good, and he looks like a poetic scholar.

She blinked her eyes slowly, as if looking at a kaleidoscope, and after she blinked, she turned the kaleidoscope once, and pieced together in her mind a picture of Li Chaoshi's Xiangwan, a beautiful woman in gorgeous clothes, so bright and beautiful.

It turned out that at the awards ceremony, she felt that the Hanfu suits her so well that it made her look pale that night. It was not her own illusion.

It turns out that Xiang Wan's deepest indulgence and desire to control are not her illusion.

On the contrary, she was really getting to know Xiang Wan.

This discovery made Chao Xin's heart feel like being bathed in warm water, very warm and comfortable.

"I was born in the 24th year of Xinyuan. I was eighteen years old when I came here. My father, Xiang Yu, was the left minister of the court. My mother, Xiang Huashi, was the daughter of Princess Gaozong Zhaohua. My eldest brother, Xiang Pi, was then the governor of Yanyan and the censor. Doctor, the second brother's name is Xiang Qin, and he was still in the army when I left."

"My second brother and I have the best relationship, but he always scares me. I told you earlier that I want to take a foreign teacher class with Pa Pai because my second brother told me that barbarians can eat people."

"I also have a little sister born to my aunt who is only eight years old, but Yuxue is cute and very clever. You must like it when you see her."

Xiang Wan said carefully and slowly while recalling.

Her eyes flickered, as if she was using a weak force to connect Chao Xin with her past.

Chao Xin was in a daze, because the girl in front of her was introducing her some people who were buried in the dust of history in a serious manner, and they were alive in her words, as if they were in a hometown not far away. If you want to visit, you can be led in by the leader and have a table of wine with them.

But the more vividly Xiang Wan portrays them, the more sad Chao Xin is. The richness in the past has mercilessly revealed that Xiang Wan has nothing now.

It was hard for her to imagine how Xiang Wan lost everything overnight and came to this world dazed and lonely.

She must have been terrified.

Not even a transition.

Chao Xin stretched out her hand and held Xiang Wan's fingertips. Her index finger was still scratching unconsciously on the quilt. Then she raised her eyes and asked Chao Xin: "Do you really believe it?"

Weak, even with a hint of prayer.

"I remember, your father, mother, eldest brother, second brother, and a very cute little sister, I really remember this time." Chao Xin didn't answer whether she believed it or not, but she said so.

"You believe it," Xiang Wan said softly, "I see that you love me."

There was a faint sparkle in her eyes, this was the second time she wanted to cry, but she didn't understand why, the last time she wanted to cry was heartbreaking, this time, nothing happened, they just said calmly said something.

Chao Xin leaned over and kissed her tenderly, first on the cheek, then on the corner of her eye.

So she understood that Xiang Wan had a good future, but it was also a future that was not really reassuring.

What she said nonsense, Xiang Wan didn't pass, it turned out to be true.

Many times, each of us stands on a high platform built by experience. The "past" is our support for the future. Some are called the warmth of the original family, some are called the goodwill in the process of growing up, and some people's past is Qionglou. Yuyu can send them all the way to the Nine Heavens, and soar up to Qingyun.

Chao Xin's past was a crumbling dilapidated house, and she could sometimes smell the smell of rotting vegetable leaves and the disgusting smell of hogwash.

As for Xiang Wan, she didn't even have a dilapidated house. She crossed a single-plank bridge in a steep valley, and even... walked a tightrope.

Maybe there will be a friend of the same height next to her, reaching out to hold her from time to time to stabilize her swaying figure, but she has not met anyone who really wants to pick her up to a safer platform.

"Then," Chao Xin's thoughts were interrupted because he was suddenly poked by a very important question, "Do you want to go back?"

"I don't know."

Those four words made Chao Xin's heart shrink.

"However, Yu Zhoutong tried with me. In the same thunderstorm, I didn't go back successfully. Moreover, she asked a friend in the museum to check the information on the intranet. There are slightly more detailed records about my family, saying that I have already... ...died."

Seeing Chao Xin frowned, Xiang Wan corrected again: "It was Xiang Axi from Li Chao who died."

Chao Xin let out a sigh of relief, but she didn't feel relieved. She couldn't hear that these three words were associated with Xiang Wan.

"So I want to study archaeology, I want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, and then enter the museum. I also want to see the records about myself, as well as my elder brother's and second brother's. I don't know if there is any younger sister. My dear sister Li, I don't know... Which family did she marry?"

Xiang Wan tilted her head, speaking softly and softly about her tiny selfishness.

Chao Xin listened intently, nodding to show he understood.

"Telling you so much, my ears are a little hot. When I wake up tomorrow, will I regret it?" Xiang Wan touched his ears, not sure.

"It's too late to regret it, I've listened to it."

"So you get it."

"Know what?" Chao Xin couldn't help choosing her words.

"You don't make sense."

"I……"

"You thought you were different from me in the future, so you pushed me away, but I am a thousand times, ten thousand times more uncertain than you, but I have never been like you, looking forward and backward, making decisions."

Xiang Wan glanced at her: "I know that the way ahead is unclear, so I agree to have sex with you, but you are pretending to be free and easy, but you may not be free and easy."

"Then we..." Chao Xin hesitated.

Xiang Wan sat up straight and interrupted her seriously.

"I like you a little bit, and you probably do too. However, if one party feels that the time is not enough, it may not be able to force it. If you want to get back with me, then promise me that I want to get close to you in the future, so I will get close. You want If you get close to me, you will also get close, so you don't have to worry too much."

"If one day, whoever is tired of this relationship brings it up as soon as possible, we will have nothing to do with each other."

This was the best way Xiang Wan could think of, without putting any pressure on life and future between the two of them, but also without suppressing his desire to get close and to ask for something.

Chao Xin had nothing to say, and silently and willingly admitted that he was indeed not the older one. Xiang Wan beat her to death, advancing and retreating, as if targeting her emotions precisely.

In fact, Xiang Wan's attitude is what Chao Xin wanted to pursue at the beginning, "just be comfortable", but something else happened later, which disrupted their relationship.

The other is called "not enough", called "greedy".

But for now, the two of them don't have the capital to be "greedy".

"Did you think of these words now? Or did you want to tell me before you came here." Chao Xin asked her.

"I thought about it while eating."

Have a meal?Chao Xin probed: "Then they all..."

"understood."

"All?" Chao Xin's heart skipped a beat.

"Ah."

Chao Xin stopped talking.

Xiang Wan lowered his head slightly: "You are blushing."

Chao Xin brushed his hair noncommittally, pressed the phone, and said in a natural tone, "It's getting late, go to sleep, I'll take you to school tomorrow."

But Xiang Wan shook his head, and Chao Xin raised his eyes to look at her.

Xiang Wan pretended to go over: "You let me stay, you made me sad before."

Smelling the warm fragrance that was getting closer, Chao Xinxin was pulled up, like a string, and bumped up and down.

"I still have some lingering anger."

Xiang Wan covered Chao Xin's lips with one hand, and pushed her nightgown up with the other.

"So I don't care about the cards."