Sun An, this woman is actually Sun An! Sun An, who was rumored to have been incognito abroad, was criticized on the Internet...... Yuan Lu was shocked and couldn't believe that Qiao Zhengqi would watch the fireworks side by side with Sun Anxiang.

If it weren't for the fact that Yuan Lu was very interested in the strange poisoning case of G University and sorted out many related reports, Yuan Lu would not have recognized the woman on the terrace as Sun An at a glance.

Back then, Sun An was doxxed on major posts, and she still had short student hair in the photo, and now she has the most popular lob head, and the length of her hair is about the same as before, but the whole person's temperament has changed a lot, it seems that she should have lived well over the years.

At the beginning, there were two suspects of the murderer, one was Xu Chu, and the other was Sun An, Yuan Lu was very strange about the current scene, was it that Qiao Zhengqi and Sun An could stand together peacefully, which means that the murderer back then was actually Xu Chu?

However, the online posts are also unreliable, saying that Sun An absconded in fear of crime, traveled to other countries, and even spent millions of dollars on plastic surgery in order not to be recognized.

Pit daddy!

What's even worse is that Qiao Zhengqi has now turned around and seen her.

Yuan Lu smiled at him unnaturally, and he smiled a little silly in the glass reflection.

Qiao Zhengqi's expression was no different from usual, he glanced at Yuan Lu, and the two of them looked at each other through a glass of glass.

"It's time for you to go." Qiao Zhengqi said coldly to Sun An.

Sun An glanced at Yuan Lu behind the glass, suddenly smiled, and said, "Why, I am so unsightly in your eyes?" ”

"If you don't leave now, it will end in embarrassment in a while, and I bet that the person standing in front of you through the glass will recognize you."

Sun An's face changed, and he scoffed a little: "Just by her, a girl who has not dried up?" ”

Qiao Zhengqi furrowed his eyebrows slightly, but his lips were still calmly arguing: "She is from the journalism department of G University, do you think a G college student majoring in journalism will know nothing about the events of that year?" ”

Sun An's face changed completely, and he glared at Yuan Lu fiercely.

Yuan Lu took her unkind look, chewed the cherry in her mouth indifferently, and spit the seeds on the plate. She provoked Sun An without doing anything, and she didn't believe that there was no credit for Qiao Zhengqi in this.

Yuan Lu pushed open the glass door, and the cold wind outside blew away the heating on her body, and also blew the fluffy sable coat on her body trembling.

"That's leaving?" Yuan Lu didn't even have time to say hello, Sun An kicked her pointy high heels and passed Yuan Lu and went back to the inner hall.

Qiao Zhengqi glanced at the cherry pits and cake scraps on the plate in her hand, so how long had she been watching them from behind the glass just now?

"Let's go inside."

She just came out and went in? They had just taken possession of the place, and she had forgotten to watch the fireworks as she looked at them. Yuan Lu pouted, put the saucer in his hand on the coffee table, and continued to walk to the railing, his elbow pressed against the railing, and looked up at the night sky.

Qiao Zhengqi walked up to her, "You're not cold?" ”

The big deep V close-fitting dress and long skirt, the neck is bare and there is not even a scarf to cover it, and the whole body can still look at the hairy coat.

"It's cold, that's why I went to the garage and put on my coat, you moved the car, right?"

Qiao Zhengqi let out an "um".

She was looking at the sky, he was looking at her, his gaze moving from the bun on her head to her slender white ankles.

"Don't ask?"

"Ask what?" She's playing dumb.

Qiao Zhengqi smiled: "I just saw Sun An's eyes, I clearly recognized who she was, and I was pretending to be confused at this time." ”

Yuan Lu sniffed and said, "You fool, who knows what medicine is sold in the gourd, although I am curious, I will definitely not find trouble for myself." If you can't move, if I get provoked, maybe I will be poisoned and become the next headless case. ”

Yuan Lu's joke was oily, and sure enough, when he turned his head, he saw that Qiao Zhengqi's face was already gloomy.

Yuan Lu was thinking about how to bring the words back, but Qiao Zhengqi said lightly: "No." ”

Harato: "What wouldn't?" ”

Qiao Zhengqi: "I won't let you die." ”

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Yuan Lu's mind was stuck on the racetrack 32 kilometers away, and the horse had already left her and ran from the fifth ring to the third ring, and she was still in a daze.

She secretly glanced at Qiao Zhengqi beside her, and found that his paralyzed iceberg face had always been the same for thousands of years, and the words that came out of his mouth seemed to be with ice ballast, either freezing people half to death or half dead.

Just now, their conversation was like a pair of fugitives who died in the world, what kind of death is not dead, and they are guaranteed to be so serious.

Yuan Lu said "ha" and said, "Where can I be?" What kind of society, don't talk about these haves and don'ts, who will you go to for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner the night after tomorrow? Send WeChat to ask you, and you won't reply. My idea is that I don't shy away from those Shinto things, and my grandmother is alone in the hospital for the holidays, and I want to go to the hospital to spend the holidays with her. ”

Pull? Qiao Zhengqi stared at Yuan Lu silently, and Yuan Lu was a little frightened by him, so he turned his gaze away.

"You can go if you want."

"You don't want to go?" It's weird, whose grandmother is this?

Qiao Zhengqi said: "I mean if you want to go, we will go to the hospital together to accompany grandma for the New Year." ”

"Oh." Yuan Lu found that to talk to him, you really have to have a brain hole with the capacity of the entire galaxy, otherwise it really can't make up for the meaning of what he said at once.

Yuan Lu was suddenly curious about how he looked when he taught his students, and was he as silent as when he talked to her?

When she first came to Qiao's house, there was a wall in the house dedicated to the honorary awards and trophies that Qiao Zhengqi had won since he was a child. If Lin Mu is a myth from her student days, Yuan Lu has been chasing all the way, at least she can still catch up, but Qiao Zhengqi's fruitful honors, since she stepped into this home for the first time, have invisibly become a burden for her, and this unattainable superiority is destined from birth.

What this family needs is the icing on the cake, with a character as Qiao Zhengqi, she is an adopted adopted daughter, in addition to not being inferior, she also has to play the role of the intimate padded jacket of her parents.

There had been many times when she was so scared of him that she would wake up in the middle of the night from a nightmare.

He is the real owner of the Qiao family, she is just a swallow living under the eaves of the Qiao family, and she is always frightened and cautious about the dove's nest, and she has a natural fear and awe towards Qiao Zhengqi.

But recently, she found that her sense of guilt as an intruder was gradually fading, and she could even joke casually when facing Qiao Zhengqi, and when she looked back and thought about the reason, she couldn't figure it out, but at this moment she suddenly had an epiphany.

The reason for this relaxation actually comes from Qiao Zhengqi's recognition of her, he doesn't resist her, he doesn't reject her, it seems that he still follows her a little bit and indulges her ......?

Yuan Lu couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the word "connivance".

Qiao Zhengqi saw it and said coldly, "You should go in." ”

Yuan Lu touched his nose, and actually did it obediently.

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On the 28th, Yuan Lutai stayed up all night to sort out the interview script of the roundtable cocktail party, and all the work of the previous year was completed.

Yuan Lu turned off the computer, got up from the office chair, stretched a lazy waist, and walked to the office window, the sky outside was still dark, she looked down at her watch, it was still a quarter before five o'clock.

There were quite a few people in the station all night, and the smell of strong tea and coffee permeated the entire office.

By the time Hara came out of the TV station building, the sky had turned slightly white, and the illumination power of the street lamps seemed to be weak.

Originally, she planned to go back directly, but remembered that Aunt Zhang and Aunt Liu should have gone back to their son's house for the New Year last night, and no one at home made breakfast this morning, so she ran to a pancake and fruit shop near the TV station alone.

It was so cold, and it wasn't half past five yet, so she could only try her luck with the mentality of trying it out to see if the pancakes were sold, but she didn't expect that the couple who sold the cakes were really there.

Yuan Lu is their first customer today, and they can't help but have to greet Yuan Lu for a while: "Looks like you just got off work?" ”

Yuan Lu nodded and said, "Well, the last time I worked overtime a year ago, and I started my holiday today." You come out so early to do business, there are few people here, and most people would rather come out later. ”

"Hehe, there's always someone out of the stall, aren't you so early? Earn two greedy money in the morning, so that in the future, my son can earn this hard-earned money like you and not like us. ”

Yuan Lu sighed, in fact, if you want to do well, no job is easy.

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Yuan Lu brought two sets of luxury pancakes and fruits home, and on the way, she couldn't help but gnaw her share several times, and the taxi driver saw that she restrained herself from taking a small bite from time to time, and said: "Don't be embarrassed, this is not the subway, you can eat if you want." ”

Yuan Lu Weiyun: "The breakfast of the twenty-ninth has to be eaten with the family in the coming year to be reunited, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year." ”

This is the old lady of her hometown in the countryside.

The driver said "oh", "There are fewer and fewer young people who understand Lao Li'er, hey~ In two generations, the rules and regulations left by the ancestors should be closed." ”

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When I got home, it was almost seven o'clock, and I didn't know if Qiao Zhengqi got up, but according to the relationship some time ago, Qiao Zhengqi was a master who was never lazy.

Yuan Lu changed into slippers, took off his coat, and rushed into the kitchen, ready to make a vegetable egg soup with pancakes and fruits.

Yuan Lu rolled up his sleeves and ping-pong in the kitchen, and Qiao Zhengqi came down after a while, wrapped in a loose bathrobe.

He went to the refrigerator and took out the water bottle containing lemonade, and while pouring lemonade into the empty cup, he looked at Yuan Lu, intentionally or unintentionally.

Yuan Lu said: "Alas, why can't this gas be hit?" It's been three to five minutes. ”

She was sweating on her forehead.

Qiao Zhengqi didn't speak, put down the water cup in his hand, walked to her side, glanced at her indifferently, then opened the cabinet under the cupboard and pressed the gas button.

"It's because the gas isn't on." Yuan Lu fainted, only Aunt Zhang knew the structure of the entire kitchen best, and everyone who entered the kitchen had to be coaxed out by her, which was good, she couldn't even hit the gas and made Qiao Zhengqi see the joke.

Yuan Lu blushed and said, "I bought two sets of pancakes and fruits, and I will eat them together when the soup is ready." ”

Qiao Zhengqi took a sip of lemonade and raised his eyebrows.

Yuan Lu made the soup and brought it to the table, the pancakes and fruits in the microwave oven happened to be hot, and I went to the refrigerator to tear up a box of salad and mix it with salad dressing.

After Yuan Lu set up breakfast, he went to pour some dog food into Pony's bowl, haha, it can be regarded as a family of three having breakfast at the same time.

When Yuan Lu poured dog food for Pony and came back, Yuan Lu looked at Qiao Zhengqi, who was sitting on the table with a knife and a fork and eating pancakes, and was also completely stunned.

She choked on a mouthful of saliva and asked, "Brother, do you know what this is?" ”

Qiao Zhengqi paused the knife and fork in his hand and raised his right eyebrow.

"Oh my God, I'm really going crazy, it's the first time I've seen someone eat pancakes with a knife and fork, what a down-to-earth snack, it's like eating a French meal by you, but spare the pancake fruit."

Yuan Lu grabbed his share of the pancake fruit that had been gnawed a few bites, took a demonstrative bite, stuffed the cake in his mouth and said vaguely: "If you want to pick it up and bite and eat it, you just want this rough style to be fragrant, isn't it?" ”

Qiao Zhengqi handed her a tissue with a little cleanliness and motioned for her to wipe her oily hands.

Yuan Lu took the tissue, very depressed.

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After the night shift, Yuan Lu slept upside down, the curtains in the room were tightly drawn to prevent a trace of daylight, and the mobile phone was simply turned off.

I don't know how long she slept and felt the hot and wet itch on her face, and Hara felt that her dream was becoming more and more real, until her hand touched a fluffy mass on the side of her face.

Yuan Lu bounced up from the bed and shouted through gritted teeth: "Po-ny! ”

Pony was shouted by her, and he licked her excitedly to arch into her arms, using all his coquettish skills.

Yuan Lu's anger quickly raised the white flag at the cute thing, and she stroked it while holding Pony, her eyes slightly glancing at the cozy figure by the door.

Qiao Zhengqi leaned against the door and said innocently: "It's seven o'clock in the afternoon, I made dinner, and I called you several times and you didn't respond, so Pony came to call you." ”

Yuan Lu twitched the corners of her mouth, could it be that Pony would open the door and enter her room by himself with a long hand? Blame herself, she pulled the curtains, turned off her phone, and ordered the soothing aromatherapy, why did she forget to lock the door?

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Yuan Lu went downstairs with a straight face, and Qiao Zhengqi was sitting at the dining table reading a book.

She glanced at the food on the table, which was surprisingly hearty. Three hot dishes, one cold dish, and one soup, what did Qiao Zhengqi say just now? It seems that he made dinner...... What he did......

When Qiao Zhengqi saw her come down, he put down the book in his hand and said, "Let's eat, I slept for a day." ”

She is not unfamiliar with Qiao Zhengqi's craftsmanship, after all, after living abroad for so many years, it should not be difficult to cook Chinese food for himself. But she didn't expect Qiao Zhengqi to be so meticulous that almost all the carrot shredded carrots in a plate of fish-flavored shredded pork were the same length and thickness.

While picking up a shredded carrot, she secretly glanced at Qiao Zhengqi's ten slender and delicate fingers, it was hard to imagine that such a pair of hands could practice knife skills like this.

"It's a nice day." Qiao Zhengqi said.

The heron slept for a day, but now it was dark, and the weather seemed to be of little use.

She chewed the rice in her mouth, swallowed, and mumbled.

"The air visibility is high." He continued to speak as if no one was around.

About today's weather is really good, basically no haze in C City, even if you want to have excellent air quality, this year's 365 days can account for ten days is considered the top sky.

The meal in the evening was delicious, and Hara Lu couldn't help but eat a little more, and volunteered to wash the dishes. Just being able to cook for her to eat, she felt that it was enough, and she didn't have the courage to ask Qiao Zhengqi to wash the dishes and lend her ten more guts.

Yuan Lu washed the dishes, cleaned up the stove, cut another plate of fruit and poured some blueberry sauce on top.

She walked out of the kitchen and originally wanted to beckon Qiao Zhengqi to eat fruit, but the others didn't know where to go.

Pony was screaming upstairs, and Yuan Lu thought that Pony was probably playing crazy upstairs, so she didn't pay much attention to it, and sat on the sofa with a plate of fruit and began to turn the table on the TV.

After a while, there was a thumping sound on the stairs, and Hara's ears moved, and he could hear that it was Pony coming downstairs. Sure enough, all of a sudden, a round, hairy head came out of the staircase.

Pony galloped up to the heron and jumped into her arms, and as soon as the heron wanted to hold it and brush its fur, it began to tear the heron's sweater.

"No, no", Yuan Lu quickly stopped.

Pony didn't listen, still tearing Yuanlu's sweater frantically.

Yuan Lu had no choice but to get up from the sofa and throw it on the sofa to ignore it, but he didn't expect Yuan Lu to come together, it immediately jumped off the sofa, bit Yuan Lu's trouser leg and pulled Yuan Lu to go upstairs.

Yuan Lu saw this situation, Pony is a very ghostly dog spirit, and when she listened to Qiao Zhengqi's words the most, she immediately realized that this little dog spirit must have been instructed by someone.

Yuan Lu said to it: "Got it, I'll bring the fruit too, don't worry." ”

Pony loosened his mouth that was clenching Yuanlu's trouser leg, stuck out his tongue, understood, and sat on the ground with a well-behaved appearance and waited for Yuanlu to fetch the fruit platter.

Yuan Lu is so angry, she can't cry or laugh, she is a big living person and has to be led by a dog.

Pony led the way all the way in front, bouncing up and down the stairs, not at all looking like he had dog plague before, and he didn't look like a nine-year-old dog, but he was still energetic and lively.

It took the heron all the way to the top floor, and the heron paused.

Could it be that Qiao Zhengqi is in that room on the top of the building?

That room is Qiao Zhengqi's exclusive space, and Aunt Zhang usually refuses to even let her go up the stairs in the attic, saying that it is full of Qiao Zhengqi's treasures, and others can't touch it, and even when her parents are at home, they can't enter without Qiao Zhengqi's permission.

Of course, Yuan Lu was also curious about what that room was like, but she had the consciousness of an outsider, and she never took half a step over the thunder pond.

Pony saw that she stopped and didn't leave, so he turned around and shouted several times.

Hara looked at the lighted room above under the stairs of the attic, not knowing whether to go up or not.

Pony stopped halfway up the attic stairs, wondering why Hara Heron didn't come up, and tilted his head strangely to look back at Hara, looking confused.

Yuan Lu looked at it so cute, and thought that Qiao Zhengqi opened his door without his permission in the afternoon, and admired her sleeping so openly for so long, this opportunity came, how could she have to pay a good salute~

She raised a smile at the corner of her mouth, took the fruit bowl, stepped up the attic stairs she had never stepped on, rubbed Pony's little head, and said, "Let's go, let's go up." ”

The door to the room was open, and Hara Heron came up for the first time, and it looked like the door to a new world had been opened.

It can be seen that the room is very large, and it has been partitioned, and Pony has already run into the partition at this time.

It turned out that the trophies and certificates of Qiao Zhengqi that she saw on the first day of Qiao's house that she had disappeared later had been moved here, and the outside of the partition was full of all kinds of crystal trophies and metal trophies, and each certificate of honor was standing at an angle of thirty degrees and was covered by glass. In addition to the certificates and trophies, there were more than a dozen bows and more than twenty quivers.

A certain memory point of Yuan Lu slowly woke up, as if when he looked at the family photos with Qiao's mother, he did see the photo of Qiao Zhengqi riding a horse in the horse farm with a bow and arrow, and Qiao Zhengqi was about seven or eight years old at that time.

Qiao Zhengqi was playing with bows and arrows in her childhood, and she was probably still playing with mud when she was about the same age.

The partition is made of a large glass with a one-sided perspective, and when you look inside from the outside, you can't see anything in the pitch black, and when you look at the outside from the inside, it's clear as if there is nothing to obstruct it.

Hara Lu lightly bypassed the partition glass and finally saw the true face of this room, which was filled with all the interesting playthings.

There are more than 20 gamepads piled up under the widescreen LCD display alone, as well as various real equipment in the real room, various types of microscopes and flow tubes, and Yuan Lu was dumbfounded. In addition to the fact that there are many specimens of exotic animals and plants hanging on these walls, the original heron has every reason to believe that these specimens are from Qiao Zhengqi's hand.

However, he still didn't see Qiao Zhengqi, and Yuan Lu continued to walk inside, only to find that there was a ladder behind an oil painting screen that only allowed one person to pass through guò.

Pony couldn't go up, so he kept barking next to the ladder.

Yuan Lu put the fruit platter on the real platform, grabbed the handrails on both sides of the ladder and slowly pedaled up.

It was as if she was exploring a misty and fantastic forest, and finally found a secret passage to the place where the treasure was buried, delighted, curious, a little fresh, and a little indescribably afraid.

She climbed up, only to find that there was such a secret structure in the house, a glass cover covered in all directions in an arc, and the entire roof of the building was exposed to the sky.

She saw Qiao Zhengqi, who was fiddling with the lens in front of an astronomical telescope.

He was very focused on searching for the stars in the sky, and Yuan Lu thought that he didn't know that she was coming, but he said as if no one was coming, "The starry sky is beautiful tonight." ”

He straightened up and stopped looking at the starry sky, and said to her, "Stand where you are, and when you look up, you can see three bright stars in the sky above you in the left side. ”

Yuan Lu raised his head, and according to what he said, he saw three stars that were much brighter than the others, and they were three connected in a straight line.

"That's Orion's three-star." Qiao Zhengqi continued to lower his head, looked intently at the camera, and slowly moved the angle of the camera to find the location of Orion.

"Come here."

Yuan Lu walked to his side, he turned behind her, took her hands with both hands, gently pulled her hand to put her hand on the telescope, and gently exhaled in her ear: "You look down at the camera, these are the three stars you just saw, after the telescope is magnified, you look down along the lower left of the three-star line, you can see a star that is much brighter than them, this is the brightest star in the whole day." ”

"See, bottom left, it's bright."

"That's Sirius, the ruling planet of Canis Major."

"Hmm."

"Now look at the bottom of the three stars, you will find that there is a bright spot, it is the great nebula of Orion, the evacuation is beautiful, right?"

"It's beautiful......

Qiao Zhengqi looked up at the starry sky from her perspective and said lightly: "Looking up at the starry sky is the loneliest time for a person, and it is also the loneliest time for human beings. ”

When Yuan Lu heard this, he didn't feel a sour nose.

Sure enough, she felt lonely at this moment. She thought of her biological parents and the little little brother who had been gone for six years.

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, the three of them don't know what Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will eat in the sky, and the scallion oil crucian carp burned by Grandma should not put more soy sauce.

The heron snorted and straightened up.

"Missing family?" He asked.

Yuan Lu nodded unabashedly.

Qiao Zhengqi's lips pursed into a line, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Yuan Lu looked him in the eye and said, "You are also my family. ”

Qiao Zhengqi stared at her eyes, as if he wanted to see her heart all the time, and did not answer.

He sighed almost inaudibly, and finally spoke: "What if it's more than family? ”

Yuan Lu was stunned, what would it be more than just a family?

Qiao Zhengqi's lips slowly pulled out a smile, and said mockingly: "Thirteen days, my limit." ”

"What?"

Qiao Zhengqi looked at her with firm eyes and said, "Thirteen days, leave you for thirteen days." It's only one day or two weeks, but unfortunately I can't hold back in the end. ”

The original heron was completely stunned.

He, what is he talking about?

Qiao Zhengqi felt that her stunned expression was as expected, but it really broke his heart.

In a mocking and self-sarcastic tone, he said, "Yuan Lu, you won't know. ”

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Qiao Zhengqi said, "You go down." ”

Yuan Lu hadn't recovered from what he had just said, and he didn't have the courage to stay here anymore and quickly slipped away.

Qiao Zhengqi's hand rested on the telescope and used his palm to block the lens.

Hearing the rustling movement from downstairs, he chuckled helplessly.

With such a flustered and hurried footsteps, Qiao Zhengqi didn't need to look at it to know that Yuan Lu was now faster than a rabbit who was running for his life, and it was good that she didn't give him a forward roll and a hot wheels to evacuate in seconds.

The roof of the building was restored to its former calm, and Qiao Zhengqi stood under the dome, and indeed felt lonely again.

The loneliness that no one can compare with the stars has always been accustomed to him, and even feels that this is the weight that a person standing on a high place must bear, and at this moment, after trying the taste of looking at the stars with another person, he began to become unwilling to be lonely.

The residual warmth on her hands was still on the metallic paint of the mirror, and even the scent of shampoo in her hair seemed to linger on the tip of his nose. This crisp aroma, such a moment of looking at the stars together, he has not relived it for a long, long time.

During the astronomical camp in the summer vacation of his sophomore year of high school, a person said to him: "Qiao Zhengqi, won't you be bored watching the starry sky all the time?" Look at me, I'm so much brighter than the starry sky in your eyes. ”

I had never seen such a girl who could speak her love words so unabashedly and confidently, as if he would have suffered a great loss if he hadn't put down the binoculars in his hand to look at her.

At that time, Lu Shijing was still a warm and bold girl, with excellent grades and a wealthy family, and her parents were both high-ranking officials at the time, and even her appearance belonged to the kind that was remembered by boys when she was a student.

Their romance took root on a hot and humid night that summer vacation.

On a rainy day, all the members of the camping team were in tents, and the astronomical survey mission was temporarily put on hold due to a downpour.

Dripping, under the banana tree, he watched her drenched in the rain but still looked at him with a smile on her face.

She asked him, "Now that your starry sky is gone, can you finally use your eyes to look at me alone?" ”

He pursed the cold rain at the corner of his lips and said, "I will go to the United States in my third year of high school, and now is not the right time." ”

There were only twenty days left before he was going to transfer to the United States, and although he had a feeling of heartbeat at that moment, that little heartbeat was not enough to wear out his senses, and he politely refused.

Lu Shijing laughed when she heard this, and swore and said: "I will be where you are, at the ends of the earth, and I will accompany you all the way." ”

In her opinion, she is the only one in the world who can match Qiao Zhengqi, and only she has the kind of resolute courage that once she decides that she will never look back, no matter where he goes, she has the ability to follow him all the way.

Qiao Zhengqi looked at her silently, the rain soaked her face, the corners of her eyebrows, the tips of her eyes, the tip of her nose, and her lips......

He suddenly showed a very shallow smile, and reached out and flicked her forehead: "Let's go." ”

She looked at his back as he strode away in the rain and asked aloud, "Where are you going?" ”

"You're talking about the ends of the earth."

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However, in the end, only Qiao Zhengqi went to the United States alone, and at the beginning of the third year of high school, Lu Shijing's family had a huge change, his father was accused of bribery and dereliction of duty by his colleagues and was imprisoned, and his mother was also entangled in a lawsuit and was prosecuted. Overnight, the original figure like Lu Shijing also dimmed like a microstar.

Lu Shijing couldn't go to the United States anymore, moved out of the original townhouse, and the originally enthusiastic relatives and friends gradually became cold like people, grandparents died of illness one after another, and even her uncle, who was idle in the Cultural Affairs Bureau, avoided her like a snake and worm.

The originally invincible proud son died on the day his father was sentenced to death, and Lu Shijing's life was completely rewritten from that moment.

Qiao Zhengqi once came back without telling her, and when he found her, she was working as a helper in a small restaurant that mainly served Hunan cuisine, and the whole restaurant was smoked like a fog of choking chili oil.

She coughed and set up a stool, the restaurant proprietress leaned against the counter with one hand, glanced at her while picking her teeth, shook her head and said, "Xiao Lu, you can't bear it, and you still want to work long hours in our place, it's not the proprietress who said you, this thing is really inappropriate, why don't you go and take a look elsewhere?" After doing it today, I will settle the salary for these few days to you. ”

Qiao Zhengqi slowly clenched her fists, and at that moment, she was completely relieved of all her vexatiousness, resentment, and complaints on the phone.

Lu Shijing, who was once as proud as an untamed wild horse, was picked on by an unkempt middle-aged woman at this moment and was useless, and she had to smile without humility or arrogance, and say pitiful words of humble begging.

The horror, timidity, and cowardice in her eyes were seen by Qiao Zhengqi outside the restaurant as there was nowhere to escape, and Qiao Zhengqi clenched his fists tightly and gradually loosened.

He went back to the United States and began to intimately help Lu Shijing charge her phone bills regularly, give her clothes, shoes, and bags, learn to care about her low feelings, and try to tolerate her increasingly sensitive and suspicious heart.

The beginning of a relationship is often moved by love and desired, and the process may not be all sweet, but at least it will not be a torment for both parties from beginning to end.

From high school to college, and then to Lu Shijing's first year of graduate school, Qiao Zhengqi seems to be completely accustomed to quarrels and suspicions as the normal way to fall in love, so much so that one day Lu Shijing whispers goodnight to him on the phone, he will feel uncomfortable, it feels like a hair-thin spike is deeply rooted in the flesh, unable to be removed, but it has always been awkward.

In the summer of his 22nd year, his parents informed him by a transatlantic phone call that they were adopting a fifteen-year-old girl as their adopted daughter and his sister.

Qiao Zhengqi's reaction was so flat that everyone expected.

His parents thought that his silence meant that they were unwilling to accept it, so they bitterly recounted on the phone how tragic the girl's life story was, how her family was ruined and then used by her relatives to fall into a news scandal that was condemned by the whole city, how she was sensible, how she had excellent grades, and how she was self-respecting and self-reliant.

The more Qiao Zhengqi listened on the other end of the phone, the tighter his brows locked.

He absurdly felt that if it wasn't fate to meet Lu Shijing, then it must be fate to meet this "sister" who was killed halfway.

For the first time, his materialist worldview had a slight crack in that moment.

Even Newton and Einstein became theistic believers when there was no proof in the end. Qiao Zhengqi has always wondered whether such a thing as fate is really controlled by a pair of invisible divine hands, or whether it is just a mathematical probability event.

Lu Shijing and Yuan Lu, two completely opposite lives. A son who has changed from the pride of the sky to a prisoner of fate overnight, and a daughter who has become the envy of everyone from nothing.

At the end of the world that year, neither he nor Lu Shijing arrived.

The Hainan restaurant that Yuan Lu took him to was called "The End of the World".

He sat in the "end of the earth" and asked her if she liked fried noodles very much, she nodded silently with tears in her eyes, and pretended to talk about the events of the year as if nothing happened, although there was no description of grievances between the words, in his ears, his heart would hurt like a knife.

Time is going backwards, time and space are changing, and the person sitting in front of him, he began to be unable to distinguish whether it was Yuan Lu or Lu Shijing, who had become a prisoner of fate.

The stars are moving, and the sky remains the same. The Earth revolves around the Sun, and each star returns to its original counterpart.

From the moment Yuan Lu took him to the "ends of the earth", the moment he saw the name on the restaurant sign, he knew that Yuan Lu was his fate that he had nowhere to escape in this life.

He spent six years in the United States and returned to China last winter to hold an academic seminar. It snowed heavily that day, he stood in the café on the first floor of the G University Library and looked at the bustling pedestrians outside the window, a cup of coffee bottomed out, he turned around to refill the cup, and returned to the window, but there was a girl who was looking in the mirror at the floor-to-ceiling window as if no one was around.

There were snow marks on the knees of her pants, apparently she had just fallen in the snow.

She grinned at her reflection in the window, ignoring that there were still people looking out of the window, and shook the snow on her knees with a big grin, and looked at herself in the reflection, and seemed to be satisfied, and seemed to whistle when she left.

The coffee in Qiao Zhengqi's hand was originally very hot, and he held it until it was cold, and he was still standing in front of the window, not even moving his position half an inch.

Six years in Boston, two thousand one hundred and ninety-two days, he came back only one day, a 1 in 2,192 probability; There were twenty-four hours in a day, one thousand four hundred and forty minutes, eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds, and she was not a second late, not a second earlier, and the second he turned back to the window appeared before his eyes, a probability of one in eighty-six thousand four hundred; G has a million and a half million square meters, and there is no deviation of a square, and she appears in front of his eyes, only a glass of glass away from him, with a probability of one in one five hundred thousand.

Such a tiny value, such a negligible probability, in addition to being explained by the ethereal word "fate", even Qiao Zhengqi, whose computing power can compete with the computer, is completely inexplicable this time.

The coffee was cold, but he smiled heartily.

Tonight, he said to her, "You won't know. ”

yes, she wouldn't know. These things that even he can't solve, these things that made him taste the word "confused" for the first time in his life, probably she will never know.

The night before the business trip, he carefully removed her makeup, his movements gentle and rigorous, as if he were treating a peerless treasure that was extremely fragile. For a moment, he wanted to crush this beautiful treasure with his own hands, to tear the shackles that fate had imposed on him, but when his fingertips felt the warmth from her soft lips, he completely surrendered.

For thirteen days, he tried to change back to his self in the United States, ignoring and ignoring her Qiē, not replying to her WeChat, not replying to her text messages, and even trying to restrain his thousands of impulses to answer when he saw her caller number popping on the mobile phone screen.

However, despite how much he wanted to go against her, fate once again pulled him into reincarnation.

The organizer of the annual Youth Roundtable reception in City C sent an invitation to his email address, and the organizer's media partner at the bottom of the invitation read: CSTV.

The moment Qiao Zhengqi saw these four English letters, the haze of so many days suddenly disappeared.

CSTV, the internship unit of the former heron.

For some reason, Qiao Zhengqi at that moment suddenly had an unprecedented relief, not so much relief, but actually more like stealing a precious respite under the oppression of a thousand catties of giant ding.

So, his attempt ended in complete failure.

In Hilton's basement garage, her car blocked the reversing position of the white Buick next to her, and he just got off the car that picked him up to the hotel with his front foot, and his back foot met the Buick owner who got out of the car at the same time and was about to make a phone call to Yuan Lu.

The car key that was mistakenly packed in the suitcase during a business trip was the matching key of the Infiniti that Yuan Lu drove the night before.

So, Qiao Zhengqi could only help her move the car while being helpless and self-deprecating.

One qiē is so good, and one qiē is so ridiculous.

The only problem in the world that Qiao Zhengqi can't solve is Yuan Lu.

This is the only one, and it is one of a kind.