evening tide

A small problem.

Xiang Wan said to himself.

Meeting all kinds of people in life, in short, there are all kinds of opportunities, which is also a kind of fate.

So she didn't show anything, sent Chao Xin and Paipai away the next day, stayed with Ms. Zhao until the third year of junior high, and finally returned to Jiangcheng because a project started ahead of schedule.

So when Xiang Wan found the opportunity to talk about this matter with Chao Xin, it was already the seventh day of the lunar new year.

She remembered very clearly that Chao Xin took the cards to the last temple fair of the New Year's Eve that day, the little guy was exhausted from playing, took a bath and went to bed early, and even snorted.

Xiang Wan was leaning against the door in her pajamas, watching Chao Xin clear the table for her, then turn off the lights and come out.

Instead of asking Chao Xin to take a bath first, she said, "Are you free? I want to chat with you."

The expression is innocent and sincere, just like the first time we met.

But Chao Xin had a bad premonition in his heart, although he couldn't say why.

She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Xiangwan leaning against the head of the bed. Her long hair was pushed aside, making her face especially white.

Xiang Wan didn't say anything, just asked her: "I look like your sister, don't I?"

He didn't expect it to be such a topic, and Xiang Wan didn't go around in circles at all.

Chao Xin opened his mouth, subconsciously wanting to deny it.

Because of Xiang Wan's appearance, the almond eyes are outlined by the slender eyelashes, the dark eyeballs are thick as if in meditation, the curvature of the jaw is very delicate, even extending to her shoulders and neck, it seems to be stretched out from a painting, with a dignified look Her bookish manner is not at all the same as that of her sister—her sister who was abandoned by fate.

But Chao Xin said, "It's kind of like that."

"I'm afraid it's more than a little."

"Who told you that?"

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Chao Xin thought it was nonsense. Besides Paipai, who else knew her sister?

Xiang Wan tucked the corners of her mouth and lowered her eyes so that Chao Xin could not see her expression clearly.

Then he said slowly and gently, "I understand."

"what?"

"I always feel that the progress between me and you is too natural, because I have forgotten some things."

Chao Xin's heart seemed to be caught by a hook, hanging empty in his cavity.

"What is it?" But she could only ask dumbly and instinctively.

"Your enthusiasm the first time we met, you gave me all the guidance you gave me, you asked me for my recordings, you agreed that I would be a guqin teacher for papai, you let me have dinner at home, took me to see the house, and It is logical to invite me to live with you..."

The piles of piles, now recalled, are also unbelievably silky.

If these things happened to another person, no one would feel wrong, but it was Chao Xin.

It was Chao Xin who never knew how to manage social relationships and never resisted others entering her life.

Will the habits of more than 30 years be changed just because of someone we met by chance?Just because Xiang Wan is excellent and easy to get along with?no.Over the years, Chao Xin may not have met better and kinder people.

She didn't even choose to be friends with them.

Xiang Wan suddenly felt a little pain in the head, closed his eyes impatiently, and controlled his breathing during this movement, controlling his breath like any other dubbing in the past.

It's just that she never thought that this kind of professionalism would be used in the conversation with Chao Xin.

"So you are close to me and let me live in your house. Is there a reason like your sister?" Xiang Wan didn't look at her, but only looked down at his knees hidden under the quilt.

Chao Xin's palms were sweating finely, she had no way to tell Xiang Wan that every time she mentioned her sister, the hook that hooked her heart would go in an inch, and she felt like she was about to be penetrated.

But even if he was going to be penetrated, he still had to answer Xiang Wan's question.

With a movement of Chao Xin's neck, his voice seemed to be squeezed out: "Yes."

Sincerity may be her only chance.

"Yes, I can't deny that without this reason, I, and Papai, might not have accepted someone to live in our house so quickly."

She just said...our family.

It seemed that Xiang Wan was an outsider.

She trembled her eyelashes and glanced at Chao Xin.

No, only half an eye, and then lowered slowly, like lowering a curtain that isolates the stage.

Xiang Wan really wanted to ask her, then what do you think I am?But her self-esteem began to stir up trouble, blocking the exit of this sentence.

Finally she asked, "How similar?"

It seems that there is nothing else to say, and this is the only thing I want to get to the bottom of.

"It's not very similar, Wan Wan," Chao Xin's fine brows were pressed down, his upper teeth bit the inside of his lower lip, and his tone was a little helpless, "It's not very similar, but she..."

"She is really important to me."

So much so that I only saw sporadic similarities, and couldn't help but want to get close to her.

"How important is it?" Xiang Wan raised her eyes, her eyes flickered for a moment, she actually saw something crystal clear in Chao Xin's eyes, which was placed outside her amber pupils, making her already outstanding eyes even more beautiful .

"She..." Chao Xin gritted his back teeth hard, as if these words required a lot of strength.

How on earth should you open a thing that has been covered in dust for many years, especially if it is stitched together with your own flesh and blood, when you want to take it apart, it will be so painful and bloody.

Chao Xin didn't think about it, she just felt that as long as Xiang Wan wanted to know, she could say anything.

"When she died, I was in Jiangcheng. I called her and told her that I would be right back and asked her to wait for me. She said yes, and she would always wait for me."

Chao Xin's eyelids were lowered, and his eyelashes cast shadows under the light of the desk lamp.

"I didn't wait."

When she said these three words, she sniffed in a concealed manner, making her voice so soft that it seemed like a hallucination.

She still remembers that Chao Wang was very reluctant to hang up the phone that day. After waiting for her, he asked her to slow down and not worry, but then asked contradictoryly, could he hurry up.

Chao Wang has never made a request to her, this is the only one.

Didn't do it.

It was hard for Xiang Wan to hear it, because no one felt Chao Xin's pain like her, but she was very divided, and another voice was threading the needle, telling her, no wonder.

No wonder Teacher Chao said before that she was not used to having people wait for her.

No wonder she had to drive downstairs to Xiang Wan's even to deliver a bag.

"So I admit that when I first met you, there was part of the reason. It may be because of your appearance, you can't help but feel kind, or it may be... a little regret that I can't let go of. I don't know. I haven't thought about it carefully. .”

Chao Xin choked his throat, rubbed his hand on the quilt twice, then raised his eyes and asked Xiang Wan: "Do you mind?"

Xiang Wan was silent for a while, and finally said: "I don't mind how the fate between people begins, but I do mind the essence of this relationship."

"Are you sure you like me?"

Chao Xin frowned: "Of course I..."

She thinks this is absurd, of course she can judge that Xiang Wan is Xiang Wan, and Chao Wang is Chao Wang, Xiang Wan only looks a little similar to her, but upon closer inspection, they are quite different, not to mention that his personality is very different from Chao Wang. , can even detect the cards, how could she not be able to tell the difference?

Similarity is one thing, but it can never be equated, let alone confused.

But she didn't finish, because the hidden meaning in Xiang Wan's words made her feel a little offended.

Offending himself, also offending Chao Wang.

Because Xiang Wan seemed to be saying that Chao Xin might like her as Chao Wang.

An adult individual's liking for another adult individual's sexual impulse and instinctual desire relationship.

"Chao Wang is my biological sister, Xiang Wan." Chao Xin pursed her lips and said softly.