hostage

"fake."

"It's true that I'm worried about you, and it's true that I want to hear you sing."

"Would you believe me if I said that?"

"What you just heard is true."

"Don't get caught by me next time..."

"Because you are Xu Mo, I am willing to trust you."

"Ares, who is it?"

"Youran? Youran? Wake up."

"Well, Sister Anna, you're here..."

"You've been up all night again? Go back to sleep, you'll catch a cold if you lie on your stomach like this in the office."

I rubbed my eyes, and my slightly red eyes and pale face were reflected in the mirror on the desk, all revealing my haggardness.

"No, I will report to Huarui later."

"I'll go for you, you have to go back and rest!"

Sister Anna stroked the hair on my forehead with slightly cold hands, and wiped the corners of my eyes with her fingertips.

"Cry?"

"...No...No, I just didn't sleep well."

"Then go back and sleep well."

As soon as he stepped out of the company's building, there was a sudden uncomfortable light that hurt his eyes.But it was not a good weather, the continuous rain fell in the white light, the wind and clouds were turbulent, and it was slightly cool, I couldn't help pulling the skirt of my clothes.

It has been more than a week since everything returned to calm, and the extreme darkness seems to have never come, and all the things in my memory are just a dream of mine.Everyone went back to normal life, except him.

Looking at the thin rain in front of me, I found that I forgot to take my umbrella.The sadness that has never been offset in the bottom of my heart is suddenly ready to come out again, and my eyes are clouded.He will no longer suddenly appear to put on a coat for me, open an umbrella for me, and shelter me from the wind and rain.

"Youran! You forgot to take your umbrella."

Hearing the sound and looking back, it was still Sister Anna.

"Thank you, Miss Anna."

"Go home and have a good rest. It doesn't matter even if you take two days off. You are too tired."

"Sister Anna, I..."

"Youran, do you trust him?"

"letter."

I say that, but what should I actually believe?Do you believe that what he did to me is true, or do you believe that what he said to me is false?In the end, I found that I was only willing to blindly believe his promise——

He said he would never leave me either.But where is he?

Sister Anna smiled faintly, turned and walked towards the elevator.Watching the back of her leaving, I breathed a sigh of relief, I just wanted to ask, but I didn't.

I have always had doubts. Sister Anna kept her mouth shut. There are too many things that she never revealed to me. She seems to hold on to the heavy past. , I know that I am not the only one who hesitates to speak.

But I couldn't ask in the end.Just like, I used to avoid asking him and refusing to listen to him.

He said, you can ask me, you should ask me.

And I didn't allow him to say anything.

Who is to blame for the embarrassment that has happened so far?In the end, I chose to say goodbye to him with the most breaking gesture, to disintegrate everything, above the lies, and finally return to zero.

I forgot who once told me: no matter how cruel the outcome of the path you choose, you must go on with 12 points of courage, and you have no right to regret it.

But at this point, I don't regret it, I just don't know how much courage I can take to face it.

"Is anyone there? A courier!"

Stepping into the corridor at the door of the house, I heard a loud knock on the door. A little brother in the uniform of a courier company stood at the door of Xu Mo's house, turned his head and looked at me helplessly, which was somewhat familiar.

"Express delivery? He hasn't come back for a long time."

"Oh. Then can you sign for me? I remember you know each other."

"……All right."

When I was still complaining that people didn’t come back and bought something, I took a look at the package and saw that my name was written in the column of the signee.

Remarks on the face sheet: kite, butterfly, purple (color).

I just remembered that this is the kite material I ordered two weeks ago.Since the default address on the shopping platform was filled in wrongly, I have always forgotten to modify it. Once upon a time, I sent it to his home again and again, from a wrong coincidence to a deliberate one. Who is teasing whom? I can't tell.

"Please, sign here."

"okay."

After receiving the pen handed over by the courier brother, I took a closer look at the touch in my hand.

"This money?"

"Oh, I can't remember when, but I found it downstairs at your house. I thought it was pretty good, so I picked it up and put it in my bag. Today, I forgot to bring out the company's pen. You write Look, I don't even know if I can write well or not."

"It should be impossible to write."

"How did you know?"

iridescent, the day I returned in a hurry, I didn't hold it, and heard the crisp sound of it hitting the ground. I don't know if I was awake or in a daze. I forgot to pick it up and ran back home.

Xu Mo said that this pen represents luck, and he gave it to me.But all the lucky masters abandoned me, so what's the use of keeping my luck.Seeing it now again, it is as if the bleakness of another world, but holding it tightly in the hand, it is the courage that thousands of people do not want to let go again.

"I lost it."

"Oh, that's it, then take it back."

When I got home, I threw the courier on the coffee table, still holding the pen in my hand, and my eyes became hot, and the tears I just suppressed burst out.Opening the door of the storage glass cabinet, he carefully put the pen in a certain corner, and looked up to see the bottle of red wine that he put away in another corner of the cabinet.

"People will come back again and fulfill their promises. But food can only stay in the present."

Stay in the moment?I tiptoed and took down the bottle of red wine on the top floor—the bottle I brought back from Sister Arlene's winery last fall.He has always forbidden me to drink secretly, saying that he would find a suitable time to drink together, but now...

Open the bottle cap, it is a mellow and rich wine aroma.

I have been drunk many times, all by accident, and I have never wanted to indulge myself so much as today.

He was drunk once, but he held my hand and said a few words, but I recognized his sincerity. I was embraced and fell asleep by him, which showed his position in my heart.

"I don't even mind."

The past is vivid in my mind, it is a movie with no end in sight, I drink from the bottle, the wine and tears, salty and astringent in my mouth, it is the pain in my heart.Subconsciously spit out those few words, finally because I remembered his question and answer that I never responded to,

"Do you not mind my self-assertive introduction, or do you not mind being...a girlfriend?"

When I woke up again, I found myself lying softly on the sofa. When I opened my eyes, I saw only half a bottle of red wine standing on the corner of the coffee table.Sitting up all of a sudden, he had a splitting headache, his body felt cold, and what he saw when he lowered his head was the purple blanket that had slid down his lap.

A purple blanket that is not part of my household.

"Xu Mo?!"

When I stepped on the ground, I was in a daze at the bright and uncommon objects on the coffee table—that was the kite I bought, which had been put together and spread out on the coffee table in my home.

I didn't think about it, picked up the kite, picked up the bag, and rushed out the door.

When I realized it, I was already standing at the door of the Xu Mo Institute's office.

"I...he's not here, isn't it good for me to go in?"

"It doesn't matter. Professor Xu explained that as long as it's you, you can come and go freely regardless of whether he's here or not."

Xu Mo's assistant said so, after letting me into his office, he glanced at the things in my hand, and quickly walked away.

Open the door, the windows are bright and clean, and there is no popularity.He really never came back.

I know, I had expected it, like last time, no matter whether it is thousands of miles away, he will still return in a hurry, just for a promise, even if it is an unimportant invitation.So, in the end, should I trust him to keep his word? !

I hung the kite in front of the window, thinking of the look in the little assistant's eyes just now, he must be wondering why there is such a stupid woman who brought a kite to find someone who has applied for a long vacation on a rainy day.However, I no longer care about other people's eyes.

Stepping to the window, there is a pot of green plants on the edge of the window sill, with traces of withering flowers, but I can recognize the leaf shape, how can I not recognize it?Once upon a time, I took good care of the gardenia with him, and it is still thriving on the windowsill of my house.It turned out that he still had a pot in his office.

Ding--

Hearing a ring, I subconsciously took the phone in my bag, only to find that it wasn't my own.Xunsheng turned around, only to see a mobile phone on the table. I recognized it as Xu Mo's.

The screen was locked, and I pressed my thumb on the main button in a trance, and after a few seconds of stunned, I heard the sound of turning it on.Swipe with your fingers, but click directly into the chat interface.

I read it by myself, turning forward little by little the various conversations between me and him, forgetting the passage of time, bit by bit, sweet and bitter, all dizzy in my heart, and tears streaming down my face when I regained consciousness.

I looked up to the window, the rain was still falling, but the sky became brighter, and the tears flowed down, as if they were all dripping into the gardenia, the flowers and leaves were swaying.

"Don't cry, I have nothing to do with your tears."

His words echoed in his ears, and the back of his hand wiped the tears, but he couldn't really wipe them clean for a moment.There is no way, so avoid seeing it?

There was a sound behind me, and I turned around to look, and the door happened to be opened.

But when he took a closer look, he could see clearly that it was not what he expected...

"you are?"

The visitor asked each other.

"...Xu Mo's girlfriend."

He answered without hesitation, but lowered his eyes subconsciously, and his eyes fell on the page that had just been turned over, and on the dialogue, the date displayed was like a sharp knife in an instant, surprising his eyes and piercing his heart.

There seemed to be an endless sound of wind in my ears, the sound of something crashing into the glass behind me, and I glanced back, the kite hanging on the window danced like a butterfly, disturbing the shattered memory, countless fragments came one after another...

——EXTRAEPISODE3END——

The author has something to say:

After three months, this episode is no longer what it was originally envisioned.It was originally a side story of Xiaotian, but now it is a knife, which is why I have been in arrears and did not write it. The thirteenth chapter of the main story has really brought me a lot of impact.

This article is almost an official meme, and it is also a sorting out of Leisurely's emotions. In fact, there are still things that have not been explained.All along, I hope that Tao Youran in my writing is not a weak person.

And I always believe that this relationship cannot be broken or established... But my follow-up should not be a happy ending... In fact, "The Hostage" has never been a complete story.

The next episode will follow this one... And then, Sherry is coming back...