While Yang Ming and the others were following He Luo, Liu Haoran returned home as usual.

Turning into a teenager, he looked at his reflection in the window all the way, feeling a little absurd and illusory.

He thought he would rather not be like this if he could.

Rejuvenation may be a dream for many people, but for themselves, it is a different feeling.

The appearance of the boy reminded him of the old days.

When I was a teenager.

Naturally, I thought of my wife.

When he got out of the car and came to the door of his house, he looked at the door in a daze, hesitating to open the door.

Because he wasn't sure if his wife was still at home.

He wished she was still there, but he wished she was gone. This ambivalence made him a little distressed.

"Don't be outside the door, come in."

A woman's voice came from inside the house.

Liu Haoran's heart was shocked, and then he pushed the door open.

Upon entering, he saw a young woman—about twenty-four or five—with long blond hair, silver-white eyes, an apron, and a plate of hot food in her hand.

Or my favorite pepper fish head.

Seeing Liu Haoran's appearance, the woman was slightly stunned.

Without waiting for him to explain, the woman frowned, sniffled, then furrowed her brows and asked, "Or you, what happened last night?" ”

"It's a long story." Liu Haoran scratched his head and said, turned around and closed the door.

"Then don't talk nonsense. I love that you've become the way you used to be. The young woman didn't express much surprise and glanced at Liu Haoran. She put the fish head on the table and added, "You look ugly when you're old." ”

"Uh......" Liu Haoran didn't know how to answer the woman's words. Speaking of which, I thought that the woman would at least be surprised to see her like this, but it turned out that she looked at herself twice.

Although women have always been so cold to themselves, and they are used to it, they really break their inner expectations.

At least for now.

He stared at the woman, and through the slightly drooping blonde hair, he could see the woman's somewhat tired eyes.

"You haven't slept all day?" Liu Haoran asked in surprise.

"Hmm. You didn't come back last night and couldn't sleep. The woman took off her apron and yawned, "Hurry up and eat, I'll go to bed later." ”

As he spoke, he sat down at the dining table and filled a bowl of soup.

Liu Haoran walked across from her and was about to sit down, but the woman patted the place next to her, and said without raising her head: "Sit down and let me take a good look." ”

Liu Haoran immediately retracted his ordinary buttocks, and then sat down next to the woman.

The woman placed the soup in front of him, then pinched his chin with her right hand, and a pair of silver-white eyes swept around his face while her nose twitched.

He looked like a fairy in the forest, examining his prey. With a hint of satisfaction and teasing.

Liu Haoran looked at the woman's eyes and felt the same way.

"The appearance has changed back, but the eyes are not as good as before." The corners of the woman's mouth went up, she let go of the other person's chin, and then added: "Why don't you dig it out?" ”

Liu Haoran closed his eyes directly.

He knew that women really did it.

"Okay, tease you." The woman giggled, "Eat, I haven't cooked for too long, I'm rusty, try it." ”

Liu Haoran slowly opened his eyes, and the woman's bright smiling face appeared in front of him, and her silver-white eyes were still clear.

He turned his head and looked at the dishes on the table: fish head with chili pepper, braised beef brisket, pork rib soup.

It's all my favorite.

Liu Haoran was in a trance, as if time had returned to a certain time before, the warmth and happiness of that family.

Bubbles.

"Hurry up and eat, I'm sleepy." The woman yawned.

Liu Haoran came back to his senses, picked up the soup in front of him and took a sip.

"It's a little salty." He looked at the woman and said.

After taking a bite of the pepper fish head, he smacked his mouth and said, "The fish head is a little fishy." ”

I tasted the brisket again, and it tasted like chewing wax.

"It's a little ......" he looked at the woman's somewhat annoyed eyes and said, "It's delicious." ”

"Then you can finish eating. I'll watch you finish eating, and then go to bed. The woman rubbed her eyes.

Liu Haoran wanted to cry without tears.

But he happily ate the plate of brisket.

The woman nodded in satisfaction, stretched, and stood up.

"I'll go to sleep. It's trapped me. She yawned.

"Wait a minute," Liu Haoran looked up at her and asked, "Why didn't you leave last night?" ”

The woman's figure was stunned.

Then, she turned her head, pinched Liu Haoran's face and said, "I can't go, besides, with you guarding me, I am reluctant to leave." ”

After saying that, a meaningful smile appeared on the woman's face.

Maybe it's sarcasm, maybe it's anger, maybe it's forbearance.

Liu Haoran wasn't sure which one.

Probably both.

This smile is as complicated as their relationship now.

Liu Haoran stared into the woman's eyes and said, "You should go." ”

"Why?" The woman asked rhetorically.

"The testing center is in action." Liu Haoran said, "In the next few days, maybe you can't leave if you want to." ”

"That's not right, I don't want to go anyway." The woman lifted her blonde hair and disagreed: "They are acting exactly what I want." ”

"I ......"

"Okay, I don't want to listen to your nonsense, I'll go wash the dishes after eating, I'm going to catch up on sleep." The woman said impatiently.

She walked upstairs, and as she went up the stairs, she turned back and asked, "How do you feel about role-playing at school now?" ”

Liu Haoran didn't answer, he licked his lips, and then buried his head in the pork rib soup and drank it.

The woman giggled and turned upstairs, and the room fell into the same dead silence as usual.

Only Liu Haoran was holding a bowl of soup and drinking it.

The soup was salty and salty.

I don't know if the woman deliberately put a lot of salt, or the tears in Liu Haoran's eyes.

The last rays of the setting sun had dissipated, and the light of the neon lights outside shone through the gaps in the curtains, only to be covered by the white light inside the house. The slightly cool air came in with a gust of wind, and while it swept away the heat, Liu Haoran felt a trace of coldness.

The coldness that penetrates into the bone marrow.

He shuddered.

He looked up and looked into the distance through the gap in the curtains, where there was no moon or stars, only thick clouds that grew in color.

Beneath the clouds, is a sprawling building.

The shape of the triangle is like a sharp knife, inserted into the sky. The top of the building, like a heavenly palace, floats in the clouds.

Liu Haoran suddenly laughed.

He grinned, laughing and shaking.

Laughing silently.

Laughing with tears all over his face.