Chapter 34: I'll Wait for You
"You...... Why do you say that? β
Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen, who was looking at him affectionately at this time, in a daze.
"Me, when did I buy you something to eat?"
Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao, who looked confused, curled the corners of his mouth and smiled, and then said.
"Well, it's not true, I just suddenly remembered something from the past."
Tao Tao was silent for a moment after hearing this.
"Yes...... Is it related to me? β
Then she looked into Jiang Jinchen's eyes and asked seriously.
"Yes."
Jiang Jinchen didn't intend to hide it from her this time.
"Very, is it important?"
Tao Tao felt as if her heart was being clutched tightly by something, and the pain made her breathless.
"It's important."
Jiang Jinchen smiled, and then he gently stroked Tao Tao's face.
"For me, it's really important."
Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen's amorous eyes, and didn't know what to say for a while.
"I'm sorry, I ......"
Tao Tao suddenly wanted to say sorry to Jiang Jinchen.
Because she forgot all the most important memories for Jiang Jinchen.
"Don't tell me I'm sorry, Tao Tao."
Jiang Jinchen frowned after hearing these three words, and then looked at Tao Tao and said seriously.
"This part of the memory is something I can't bear to forget in my life."
"And for you, Tao Tao, I don't want you to care about it like that."
Jiang Jinchen sighed, then stretched out his hand and took Tao Tao into his arms.
"Lose your memory, let it be lost, if you have to get it back, you're really tired. It didn't matter in the past, Tao Tao, you are standing in front of me now, and that's enough. β
Tao Tao was surrounded by the warmth of Jiang Jinchen's body, and she seemed to have returned to her childhood all of a sudden.
When Tao Tao was ten years old, her parents had just separated, and Tao Tao's mother took Tao Tao to a small but warm city.
At that time, Tao Tao just sat quietly in front of the window every day, watching the pedestrians coming and going on the ground.
When Tao Tao saw a family of three passing in front of her, she would immediately turn her head and stare at the ticking second hand hanging on the wall in a daze.
Tao Tao wondered if every child had an unhappy childhood.
During the day, her mother had to go out to work, so she was lonely and lonely, looking forward to growing up quickly.
However, the turning point came during their first Chinese New Year when they moved to the city.
During the Spring Festival that year, Tao Tao was called up from bed by her mother early, and then sat on a chair and watched her mother decorate the house with joy.
Tao Tao didn't understand why her mother did this.
Soon in the evening, my mother turned on the TV and pulled Tao Tao to sit at the table and eat steaming dumplings.
Tao Tao looked at the lights of thousands of homes outside the window, and the loneliness of that moment couldn't help but burst out.
"Why are we celebrating the Chinese New Year?"
Tao Tao raised her head and asked her mother with a calm face.
All she remembered was that at that moment, her mother's hand, which had become rough from exertion, suddenly paused, and it was a long time before she continued to pick up the fragrant dumplings on the plate.
Mother put the dumplings in Tao Tao's bowl and said softly to her.
"We're not just for ourselves."
Tao Tao looked at her mother and didn't know wrinkles, the corners of her eyes were crawling with wrinkles, and her heart suddenly hurt.
But she asked.
"Does that make any sense?"
When her mother heard this, she sighed, she put down her chopsticks, took Tao Tao's cold hand, and then said to her.
"Child, you have to remember that in this world, everything you have lost, will come back to you in another way."
Tao Tao looked at her mother's serious face with a confused expression.
"No one can live alone in this world forever. One day, we will wait for the person who will accompany us all our lives. β
Tao Tao saw tears in her mother's eyes.
"We must work hard to live our current life in order to meet the person in the future."
So, in the next few years, Tao Tao and her mother depended on each other, but Tao Tao still felt very happy.
Although, she and her mother did not find their warmth in that warm city.
And now, Tao Tao thinks that she has finally found that person.
Tao Tao closed his eyes, feeling the familiar temperature in Jiang Jinchen's arms, and suddenly felt that compared to that warm city, it seemed that only his embrace could melt his cold heart.
"Jiang Jinchen."
Tao Tao softly called out his name.
"Well, I'm here."
Jiang Jinchen hugged the girl who had been haunted by her for thirteen years.
"Wait for me, wait for me to really grow into an adult who can take charge of myself one day, at that time, let's be together."
Jiang Jinchen curled the corners of his mouth and smiled, then nodded lightly.
"Okay, I'll wait for you."
After separating from Jiang Jinchen, Tao Tao took the car back to school.
She was walking alone on the empty campus.
She took advantage of the darkness of the night to sit on the steps of the stadium, looked up at the bright starry sky in front of her, and suddenly realized that she had not had that strange dream for a long time.
Tao Tao thought that it must be because the person in the dream was by his side at this time, so they didn't need to meet in the dream at all.
Tao Tao squinted and smiled, and then made a decision in his heart.
From today on, we must live hard, study hard, and work hard.
You must work hard to become better, and then confess to the boy I like.
When Tao Tao thought of this, he suddenly felt so naΓ―ve.
Confess this kind of thing to the person you like......
At my age, it's really rare.
"Ahem."
Tao Tao coughed embarrassedly with a red face, and then got up and prepared to go back.
However, just as Tao Tao had just walked down the steps, she suddenly saw a hazy figure appear in front of her.
"Who is it?"
Tao Tao was taken aback, she didn't think that there were still people in the school at this time.
"It's me."
An icy voice came from the darkness.
"Xiao, Teacher Xiao?"
Although Tao Tao couldn't see the person's face clearly, she could still hear the person's voice.
The voice that had tormented me for a long time.
Xiao Qiong quickly walked in front of Tao Tao.
I don't know why, Tao Tao suddenly felt that his face looked particularly lonely in the night.
"You're out to work?"
Xiao Qiong looked at Tao Tao expressionlessly, and her voice couldn't hear the slightest emotion.
"Forehead ......"
Tao Tao looked at the strange Xiao Qiong in front of her, and suddenly felt a chill behind her.
"yes."
Then Xiao Qiong was silent again.
Tao Tao didn't dare to speak again, she felt that Xiao Qiong was really dangerous now, but she just looked at herself like this and didn't say a word.
"Jiang Jinchen's company?"
It seemed that a century had passed, and Xiao Qiong's cold voice finally came from the air again.
"Yes, yes."
Tao Tao seemed to have been in the cold wind for too long, and she trembled and answered Xiao Qiong's question.
"Wait, wait."
Tao Tao suddenly reacted, and it seemed that something was wrong.
"You, how do you know Jiang Jinchen's name?"
Tao Tao widened his eyes and looked at Xiao Qiong, who was extremely strange today, and then looked surprised.
"Not only do I know his name, I also know a lot of things about him, do you want to hear it?"
Xiao Qiong suddenly pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, and then he took a few steps towards Tao Tao, slowly attached himself, and whispered in her ear.
"You!"
Tao Tao was wrapped in the cold air emanating from Xiao Qiong's body, and she stepped back and quickly dodged him.
"Why are you telling me this?"
Tao Tao suddenly felt that the current Xiao Qiong was so strange to her.
"Poor boy."
Xiao Qiong didn't answer Tao Tao's question, he suddenly stretched out his hand and hugged Tao Tao's trembling body tightly.
Tao Tao felt the cold from Xiao Qiong's body, and stiffened for a moment.
"I didn't know if I was deceived."
Tao Tao suddenly felt Xiao Qiong's cold lips touch her ears, and the cold voice kept echoing in the air.
"No, it's not like that......"
Tao Tao's brain was blank at this time, and she felt as if she had been spelled by Xiao Qiong, and she fell into chaos all of a sudden.
"Jiang Jinchen lied to you, everything he said was false."
Xiao Qiong's voice kept echoing in her ears, Tao Tao closed her eyes tightly, and tears kept pouring out of her eyes.
"No, no, it's not like that......"
Tao Tao's mind suddenly appeared those fragments of the previous dream, barren mountains with no grass, winding alleys, steaming buns, and ...... And......
And...... The face that has appeared in Tao Tao's dreams countless times.
Tao Tao suddenly opened his eyes in horror, and then stood there motionless.
Xiao Qiong felt Tao Tao, who suddenly quieted down, and then he straightened up, staring at her tightly with dark pupils.
Tao Tao looked at Xiao Qiong's face in a daze, and found that this face was slowly overlapping with the face in the dream.
No, you cannot......
"Tao Tao, the person in your memory has always been me."
Xiao Qiong hooked the corners of her mouth to reveal a strange smile, and then gently stroked the corners of Tao Tao's eyes.
"No, it's not like that!"
Tao Tao suddenly woke up from the chaos, she pushed Xiao Qiong away all of a sudden, and then the whole person took a few steps back.
ββ¦β¦β
Xiao Qiong stumbled with shock on her face.
"I won't believe what you say!"
Tao Tao wiped the tears on her face, took a deep breath, and then looked at Xiao Qiong expressionlessly and said.
"I don't know what kind of hatred you have between me and Jiang Jinchen, but I will never allow you to say that he is a liar!"
Xiao Qiong stood gloomily in the night and looked at Tao Tao gloomily, without saying a word.
Tao Tao looked at Xiao Qiong's strange expression and chuckled in her heart.
Then she didn't dare to look at Xiao Qiong any more, picked up the bag on the ground and ran out quickly without looking back.
However, this time, she didn't notice the ring with a strange pattern that Xiao Qiong had been wearing on her hand since the beginning.