Gong Yao turned her head after lying down, and looked carefully at her mother lying next to her, a woman who had been trying her best to protect her from growing up safe and happy.

Her delicate face, coated with expensive skincare products, also has a few faint, slender wrinkles, which creep out when you smile, as if to remind you that no matter how you struggle with aging, the years will leave their due traces.

The years will not be lost silently, youth will not be eternal, and time will always leave you traces of its existence.

"I have to start when I was in kindergarten." Gong Yao looked at her mother, she never thought that her mother would treat herself so carefully, for fear of making herself sad when she mentioned something that should not be mentioned, maybe they were because of the lack of communication, so they felt that the other party was defined from what they thought they wanted. So Gong Yao plans to talk to her mother about the past and tell her true feelings.

"I remember at that time, when I was in a large class, my father transferred me to another private kindergarten, and the children in the class kept looking at me with very strange eyes when they saw me, as if they were asking me with their eyes: Why do you look different from us? Why are your eyes black, why aren't your hair blonde, why are your skin yellow, why are your teeth crooked? After a few days, there was a little boy with the same yellow skin and black pupils as me, and he was the first child to talk to me, and then we became good friends, both of us spoke Mandarin when we were together, and other children couldn't understand it, so we became each other's only good friends. ”

"Later, I went to elementary school, and it was a coincidence that he and I were both directly promoted to this school and a class, he was very handsome, only the first grade was the tallest boy in the class, and many girls in the class liked him very much, but the boys in the class were very naughty, and they didn't like people who were different from themselves, others seemed to be better looking at the older they were, and the more I grew up, the worse I looked, and my classmates began to laugh at me..."

Mother Gong looked at Gong Yao, remembering her when she was a child, she was very guilty, she was born very weak, and her teeth were not good-looking when she grew up, but her eyes were watery and very beautiful, but Mother Gong didn't expect that this could also be ridiculed, is it different from everyone else? Mother Gong began to regret choosing to come to the United States to develop, so that maybe Gong Yao would not be excluded in the class...

"I still remember that there was a small group of boys at that time, and they would make fun of me and tease me every day, and I was really unhappy at that time, I didn't talk every day, I was ridiculed and teased, and I endured it, and I went into the school garden after school to cry. After school that day, a boy in the class scribbled on my math book and drew a very ugly pig and wrote: This is you! I got very angry when I saw it, so I ran out and ran to the garden behind the classroom to cry, and the little boy followed me out, and I was stunned when he went into the garden to look for me, and he took out a handful of toffee from his pocket, and then sat next to me, and didn't talk to me, handed me a tissue and kept humming until I stopped crying, and he didn't talk to me..."Gong Yao recalled, but her mouth couldn't help but show a sweet smile, and Gong's mother looked at her with her head, and gradually became infected by her smile..." So what did he say? Mother Gong asked.

He said: I used to cry, but then my mother told me that crying children don't have candy! I won't cry, when you want to cry in the future, you will want to ask me for candy, but the premise is that you can't cry and I will give it to you, if someone bullies you, you ignore them, you are a princess, and the princess will not talk to Diao Min! Wait until we slowly accumulate strength, and when we become stronger, we can fight them! It is because of his words that I have supported me to this day, and it is also because of her that I have become strong and brave, and I will slowly be relieved after that... It's a pity that when he was in the third grade, he transferred schools, as if he had moved, and we broke off contact like this. Gong Yao's expression changed from a sweet smile to a sense of regret of loss, and Gong's mother saw it in her eyes one by one.

The moment she turned her head, she saw tears flashing in her mother's eyes, Gong Yao never thought that she would make her mother sad, "Mom, what's wrong with you?" ”

"It's okay, mom just, just listening to your story, mom thought of her former young self..."Gong's mother smiled, but tears secretly fell from the corners of her eyes, Gong Yao breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that it just aroused her mother's girlish heart, not to make her mother sad.

Mother Gong felt that pink bubbles suddenly rippled in the room, and the air was filled with the fragrance of roses, as if she was eighteen years old again in an instant.

I saw my young appearance in my daughter, and my first love also came to mind, but unfortunately the years are not forgiving, in a flash of more than 20 years, her first love has long been married, thinking of this palace mother sighed, she wiped the tears hidden in the corners of her eyes, and suddenly thought that her first love marriage object was herself, and the imagination stopped, and her eyes were focused on her daughter again.

"I'm sorry, Mom has tried her best to balance family and work, at that time the company was still just starting out in the United States, Mom and Dad were a little too involved in the career, but Mom has tried her best not to miss the important moments in your life, Mom is still a little bit not very good, can't help you solve your troubles... Mom is also a first-time mother, can you forgive Mom? Mother Gong felt guilty for thinking she knew her daughter, and if it weren't for this all-night conversation, she would never have known how strong her daughter's adolescence was.

"Mom, what are you talking about, I have never blamed you, you gave me life, and gave me such a good growth environment, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all the best, you and Dad are so busy with work, but you never miss every parent-teacher meeting I have, graduation ceremonies, and even my speech contest and parent-child activities required by the school, Mom, do you know, you are an omnipotent superman in my eyes, you care about my feelings, I care more about your thoughts, you are the best mother in the world!" Gong Yao hugged her mother tightly and told her mother all her thoughts, she has always been moved to be lucky to have such a pair of good parents.

The mother and daughter snuggled up to each other for a while, and the palace mother reached out and pulled the hair in front of Gong Yao behind her ear, and said gently: "Maybe you have someone you like, and you will fall in love when you grow up, as for the boy you said, maybe you will meet in the future, life is long, and passers-by are in a hurry, Yaoyao, you must learn to love yourself first, and then love others, you know?" Mother Gong gently touched Gong Yao's head, this is also the first time she has talked about love with her daughter...

Gong Yao looked at her mother and nodded, in fact, the beautiful love between her and her father is her most powerful reference, love at first sight to marriage and childbirth, until now the relationship is very strong, no matter how busy she is, Dad will always find time to accompany Mom, Mom is always very supportive of Dad, isn't the love of her parents very enviable?

"It's not early, mom goes back to the room to sleep, don't bother you." After Mama Gong finished speaking, she got up from the bed and went back to her bedroom.

Gong Yao's body suddenly stopped, and what her mother just said came to her mind, hey, why did her mother suddenly say that? What does that mean? Maybe it was the first time that I hadn't slept so late, and my mind began to get excited, as if my brain was burning by something, Gong Yao looked at her box of unpacked luggage, looked at the dolls that were scattered, and Teng Xiaofeng's appearance appeared in her mind again, remembering the clip of them traveling together, and the fire in her heart burned even hotter, and her face was hot.

She picked up her phone and posted her first circle of friends, with only two short words - good night.

I put it on mute and put it aside to recharge myself and get ready for bed.

Gong Yao was lying on the bed, for some reason she didn't feel sleepy at all, she was still thinking back to the time when she first met the little boy when she was a child, and what touched her the most was that she had been called an ugly duckling, but she didn't expect someone to think that she was a princess, Gong Yao couldn't help but smile, and her mouth was still reading in pieces: "I am a princess, and the princess will not talk to Diao Min." Every time she thought of this, Gong Yao felt an inexplicable sense of sweetness welling up in her heart, she really wanted to see him again, even if it was just one side.

Why did he suddenly change schools? Why didn't you tell me in advance? Why not leave your contact details? Where is he now? Are you still in the U.S. or have you already returned home? I wonder what he's become now...... Won't we ever meet again in our lives? Is it true that there is no fate at all?

Gong Yao looked out the window and was still thinking about the past, it was now three o'clock in the morning, in this strange but full of a sense of belonging in the city, the gentle night was embracing everyone, the sleeping people quietly lived in the night, the awake people left a light for the night, afraid that this gentle night could not see why they didn't sleep, why they couldn't sleep, someone was alone in the night, staying up with the gentle night syrup, waiting for the dawn to come and dip the new round of freshly baked red sun for breakfast; Someone has a companion to accompany her, talking about love and ideals, remembering the past thoroughly, the moon is secretly watching everything under her nose, decorating everyone who doesn't sleep into stars, letting romantic people count and play, and let lonely people be companions.