Tao Tao didn't sleep all night, she struggled all night.

But in the end, she chose the truth.

Tao Tao looked at the haggard face in the mirror because he hadn't slept all night, and sighed heavily.

She looked up, looked at the clock on the wall, and found that there was still half an hour before the time to meet Xiao Qiong.

So she quickly picked up her bag and walked out of the dormitory quickly.

She and Xiao Qiong made an appointment at a café not far from the school.

When Tao Tao arrived, he found that Xiao Qiong was already sitting there.

It's fast enough.

Tao Tao sorted out her expression to make herself look less nervous, and then she walked over step by step.

Xiao Qiong was slightly stunned when she saw her.

Why is she so emaciated?

Tao Tao ignored Xiao Qiong's strange expression, she walked to the opposite side of the man and sat down.

"Hello, what do you want to drink?"

As soon as Tao Tao sat down, the waiter walked over.

"A glass of American."

Xiao Qiong blurted out without thinking about it.

Then he stared at Tao Tao without blinking.

Tao Tao had no way to ignore Xiao Qiong's eyes glued to him.

"Cappuccino, thank you."

Tao Tao smiled at the waiter, and then said.

"Okay two, please wait."

After the waiter finished speaking, he went down to prepare coffee for them.

The two men fell into an eerie silence.

Tao Tao looked at Xiao Qiong's face that made her feel very unfamiliar, and sighed that life was really strange.

Obviously, when I first met Xiao Qiong, I only thought that he was a cold but a little awkward, and he usually loved to hold grudges, but there were still some gentle men.

But now.

Today's Xiao Qiong will only make herself feel strange.

Tao Tao remembered the last time she was in the library, the bag of medicine that Xiao Qiong held tightly in her hand.

"Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Xiao Qiong looked at Tao Tao's thoughts gradually drifting away, frowned and said.

Tao Tao quickly retracted his thoughts after hearing this, now is not the time to recall the past.

"I want to know it all."

Tao Tao looked at Xiao Qiong's unwavering or even emotionless pupils seriously, and said seriously.

"Huh, all?"

Xiao Qiong suddenly sneered.

"Didn't you still believe me last time?"

His fingers tapped lightly on the table, hitting Tao Tao's heart one by one.

Last ......

Tao Tao instantly remembered the last time the two of them were very embarrassed.

"I myself will choose to believe or not to believe."

However, this time, Tao Tao did not choose to be led away by Xiao Qiong's control of emotions.

Xiao Qiong smiled slightly when she heard this.

Tao Tao looked at Xiao Qiong's smiling face in a daze.

"You're still that smart."

At this time, the waiter brought coffee and gently placed it in front of the two people.

Xiao Qiong straightened up and stirred the coffee on the table.

"Whatever you want, just ask."

Xiao Qiong picked up the cup and took a sip without frowning.

"What is the relationship between you and Li Huan?"

Tao Tao watched Xiao Qiong's movements motionlessly.

After Xiao Qiong heard Tao Tao's question, she sneered again.

"I thought your first question would be about Jiang Jinchen."

Xiao Qiong put down the cup, leaned back on the chair and looked at Tao Tao lazily.

"I'm not going to ask questions about him."

Tao Tao met Xiao Qiong's gaze without fear.

Xiao Qiong suddenly narrowed her eyes dangerously.

"Oh? Yes, then you really trust him. ”

Xiao Qiong quickly restrained her emotions.

"Answer me."

Tao Tao knew that Xiao Qiong was very good at controlling others, and Tao Tao thought this time that he would definitely not follow his wishes.

"Li Huan is my sister."

After Xiao Qiong finished speaking, she saw Tao Tao's expression that was not very surprised.

He smiled and continued.

"Half-sibling."

Tao Tao was still stunned when she heard this.

She guessed that Li Huan and Xiao Qiong might be sisters and brothers, but she didn't expect them to be half-brothers.

Xiao Qiong's gaze moved away from Tao Tao's slightly surprised face and looked out the window.

"My mother took Li Huan to marry into our family."

Xiao Qiong's gaze gradually lost focus, as if she was caught in a memory.

"When Xiao Lan and I were very young, my father told us about it. He said he fell in love with Lai Min at first sight when he first met her, even though she was carrying a daughter who was less than two years old at the time. ”

"My father quickly married Li Min back home, and he didn't even investigate her background. Her father only knew that she was an orphan whose parents had died since she was a child, and that she had been deceived and kicked out by her previous husband. ”

"But that's far from the case."

When Xiao Qiong said this, she suddenly shook her head regretfully.

"He was deceived by my mother. Li Min is not homeless, his parents died, on the contrary, my grandfather and grandmother's family are a mysterious family. ”

"The mysterious family?"

Tao Tao sensitively captured the two key words of mystery from Xiao Qiong's words.

"Is it related to some anecdote?"

Xiao Qiong heard Tao Tao's question, glanced at her appreciatively, and nodded.

"Yes, the Li family has mastered a hypnotism for generations, and the practitioner can easily break into people's minds and hypnotize them completely."

Tao Tao wasn't too surprised when she heard it, she had thought of these before.

Xiao Qiong took a sip of coffee and continued.

"I don't know what my mother's purpose was in doing this, and I don't know whose child Li Huan was, the two of them were so mysterious at the time."

"A year after the two of them got married, they gave birth to me, and another year later, they gave birth to Xiao Lan."

"For as long as I can remember, my father rarely came home. And my mother didn't seem to care very much, she just stayed in her room every day. ”

"Then she doesn't care about you?"

Tao Tao suddenly felt a little sorry for Xiao Qiong's brothers and sisters.

"Yes, it doesn't matter."

Xiao Qiong nodded expressionlessly, unable to see her emotions.

"At that time, my sister and I were the only ones who depended on each other. Everyone up and down the family, except for my sister and me, I can no longer feel a flesh and blood life. ”

Tao Tao frowned when she heard this.

"It's as if everyone is set up with a program and performs tasks according to the program every day, without the slightest emotion."

"That's how Xiao Lan and I grew up."

"That'...... How did your mother treat Li Huan? ”

Tao Tao felt that Li Huan was so similar to her mother, so his mother should be more affectionate towards her.

"It's the same."

Xiao Qiong shook her head gently.

"She treats all her children equally."

"When I was a child, Li Huan was not the same as Xiao Lan and me."

"She has a very bright brain, and she knows how to please adults at a young age. And she always carries a maturity that her peers don't have. ”

"But she's pretty good to us."

Xiao Qiong paused slightly when she said this.

"She did take care of us for a while, but since she was fifteen, she left home and lived alone in the school and rarely came back."

"Xiao Lan and I usually don't hear a little bit about her. It's the same at home, my mother still doesn't like to go out, Xiao Lan and I go to school during the day, playing the role of a rich son and a rich lady. And at night, they also took off the camouflage on their bodies and hugged each other to keep warm. ”

Tao Tao sighed softly when he heard this.

It turned out that Xiao Qiong, who seemed to be strong, also had such a tragic childhood.

"The ring on her hand ......"

Tao Tao suddenly remembered that she found the question that Xiao Qiong wanted to ask the most this time.

"You noticed."

Xiao Qiong picked up the cup again and took a sip of coffee.

"That ring was handed down from the ancestors of the Li family, and I don't know the specifics, I just know that this ring seems to be able to devour people's will and ......."

Xiao Qiong said this, and suddenly stopped.

"And what?"

Tao Tao frowned and looked at Xiao Qiong, who wanted to speak and stopped.

"It's nothing, there are two rings in total, it must be worn by mother and daughter together, the one on Li Huan's hand is very similar to her mother's, but the pattern is different."

Tao Tao felt that Xiao Qiong had skillfully avoided the questions she had just asked.

Is it possible to modify the memory?

Tao Tao looked at Xiao Qiong who seemed to be a little evasive, and affirmed his thoughts in his heart.

Her memory is likely to have been modified by Li Huan.

But...... If it's a revision, why are they all gone all of a sudden?

Tao Tao thought that it seemed that Xiao Qiong would not tell herself this question.

"The cheongsam they wear is also handed down from their ancestors?"

Tao Tao suddenly remembered what Jiang Jinchen had told him before, the cheongsam that seemed to be hundreds of years old.

"Yes."

Xiao Qiong thought for a moment after hearing this, and nodded.

Tao Tao looked at Xiao Qiong's eyes and suddenly asked a question.

"When did you know that Li Huan had this ability?"

Tao Tao stared at Xiao Qiong's eyes, not wanting to miss any of his looks.

I saw Xiao Qiong suddenly squint her eyes and smile, and then said without hesitation.

"Thirteen years ago."

Tao Tao shook imperceptibly.

She looked at Xiao Qiong's dark pupils, and felt that she almost fell into the haze.

He said it so quickly.

Tao Tao lowered his head and glanced at the coffee that had already been cold in front of him, thinking about how he could remember it so clearly.

"One last question."

Tao Tao raised her head and looked at Xiao Qiong with a somewhat strange expression.

"You say."

Xiao Qiong's eyes inadvertently glanced at Tao Tao's untouched cup of coffee.

"Have we met before?"

Xiao Qiong seemed to have thought that she would ask this question a long time ago.

He hooked the corners of his mouth and pulled a strange smile, and looked at Tao Tao's serious face intently.

"Yes."

Really......

Tao Tao seemed to understand all of this at once.

"Thank you."

Tao Tao already knew what she wanted to know, and she didn't want to spend any more time with Xiao Qiong, so she thanked Xiao Qiong and got up to leave.

Just as Tao Tao was about to leave, she heard Xiao Qiong say something meaningless behind her back.

"You haven't taken a sip of your coffee."

Tao Tao turned to look at Xiao Qiong and smiled, and then said.

"I don't like coffee."

Because she didn't want to add this inexplicable bitterness to her beautiful life.