Chapter 74: Can You Promise Me Like You
When wounded memories are turned over, it is always inevitable that they will bring out a piercing pain.
Maybe it was because he knew that KK had been with him on the other end of the call, so Ren Xi had the courage to flip through those memories that were almost dusty in his mind.
She doesn't have a father, her mother has been raising her alone since she gave birth to her unmarried, her mother is very busy, in order to raise her, she needs to work a lot of jobs, she can remember that she was entrusted by her mother to live alone in a boarding school, and occasionally she was only locked up in the room when she was taken home, sometimes she played video games alone, and sometimes she just sat alone in a daze.
She doesn't remember when she started to be different from other children, she just remembers that one day she suddenly stopped liking talking to children of the same age, and she didn't like to play, and she began to like to be alone in a daze.
Gradually, some people began to bully her, scolding her, saying that she was a child who had no father and no mother's pain, she felt angry, so she fought with those children, and she was taken home by her mother afterwards.
Mom said that she didn't have to go to school anymore, she was very happy, she felt that this way no one would laugh at her anymore, she would no longer have to sleep alone in a cold bed, and she could be with her mother all the time.
But she was wrong, her mother was still very busy, she bought her a lot of books and a lot of video game consoles, and then kept her alone in the room as always.
She thought that her mother must be a child who likes to talk and be smart, so she tried to read books and memorize those incomprehensible things, hoping that when her mother came home, she could praise her.
But no, all she can see is her mother's busy back.
When she saw other children getting slapped for secretly playing games, she suddenly wondered if her mother would care if she did the same. So she cleared all the video game cards and game consoles that her mother bought, but her mother thought that she had played enough video games and bought her a computer.
It was only then that she realized that maybe her mother really didn't like her child.
Since then, she's learned how to swallow a large chunk of words and express all her emotions with just mumb.
Until...... With a stepfather.
Mom finally had time to stay with her, but ......
Then every day and every night for the rest of the day was all ...... A nightmare she didn't want to remember again!
……
Su Xiang's heart was tensed by her extremely light words, and he looked at the increasingly depressed and weak figure from afar, and he couldn't wait to rush forward and circle her into his arms.
She didn't show any sadness, and if, if he was just on the other side of her network, he might have assumed that she was joking.
However, it does not exist only in a virtual set of data.
She's sad now, he knows, he just knows! Even if he can only see one of her backs at the moment!
Su Xiang took a deep breath, "Xixi." ”
"Huh?"
"Can you please allow me to like you?" Su Xiang said in a brisk tone with a little caution, "Your family is too violent, in fact, I have wanted to like you for a long time, but I am afraid that you will not agree, so I have not dared to say it." ”
Ren Xi was stunned for a moment, and the clouds that slowly accumulated in his mind were directly dissipated because of Su Xiang's words.
I couldn't help but hesitate: "...... What did you say? ”
"I said, can you promise that I like you!" I only listened to him repeat the words word by word.
I'm afraid that even Su Xiang himself wouldn't know how gentle his eyes were when he looked at the figure in the distance when he said this.
“……”
Ren Xi was completely dumbfounded, and his brain seemed to suddenly become blank in an instant.
What is KK talking about?
"I don't know how to refuse? Then I'll ask you if you're okay in another way, if I like you, will you hate me? ”
Will you hate him?
“… Of course not! ”
Su Xiang hooked his lips in anticipation of the answer, "Then I'll take you as an agreement, and in the future, you can't just treat me as a friend, you have to treat me as someone who likes you, you know?" ”
“……”
She seemed to be a little entangled in it.
"Will it be different from now?" She's always liked him.
"Of course I have, after I like you, I have to give you a holiday, I have to give you a gift, I have to care about you, I have to praise you, in short, I have to think about you first!"
As his words fell clearly, Ren Xi's mood became clearer, the corners of his mouth rose, and he suddenly smiled.
"Really?"
"Of course, in view of the above, the first thing you need to tell me is when your birthday is!"
Ren Xi's smile was sluggish when he heard this, and his expression looked a little incredulous, "You will give me a birthday?" ”
Never, no one has ever celebrated her birthday, never!
"That's the most important thing you should do as someone who likes you!"
Suddenly there was some heat around the eye sockets, "December 12th, my birthday." ”
Although she knew that it might just be a joke from him, she was already very happy with his words.
"I remember." Su Xiang looked at the man's slightly drooping head as if he was raised, and his tone sounded a lot more cheerful, and his frowning brows finally relaxed, allowing the gradually overflowing tenderness to replace him, "Another point, as a person who likes you, you have the right to know all your joys and sorrows, so in the future, if you have something happy to tell me, you have to tell me something unhappy." ”
Ren Xi couldn't help but laugh a little when he heard this, did he treat her as a little girl who didn't know anything about the world.
"KK, do you need to do these things if you are liked?"
Ahem, someone's old face can't help but be hot, Lai Pi said.
"I don't know what other people are like, but I have to do these things if I like them."
“…… All right. ”
"The person I like now has a question for you."
Listening to him speak back and forth with this tongue-twisting self-title, Ren Xi finally laughed out loud.
"Don't talk so weirdly, you ask."
"Then you have to answer me truthfully."
"Hmm."
"What kind of people do you like?"
……
What kind of people does she like?
Ren Xi's breathing was slightly tight, and several abrupt memory fragments suddenly appeared in his mind......
Seeing that she didn't answer for a long time, and her pace was extremely slow from a distance, Su Xiang thought that he was too presumptuous to ask this question: "If it's hard to answer, don't answer." ”
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard her response suddenly come from the earpiece.
But I heard her say,
"I don't like ...... anyone"
When Su Xiang heard this, his heart suddenly sank down, but his tone was still forced not to care: "Ah, yes." ”
Just as he was a little at a loss to find a word to end the topic, he heard her voice come again, softly and briefly.
"But I like you."