The jacaranda trees that extend from the courtyard bloom on the branches in patches, just like in memory, dreamy and beautiful.

Su Gu Bai stretched out his hand and stroked the slightly mottled courtyard door, under the light, but in the deep darkness of his eyes, there was softness.

Like dandelion tidbits raised by the wind, white and small, but light and warm heartbreaking, there is a warm but can't hide sad attachment in it, fragmented to the point that I dare not touch it at will, for fear of breaking it, and for fear of never seeing it again.

For seventeen years, she has not set foot in the courtyard where her parents lived with her for seventeen years.

It's not that she doesn't want to, it's not that she doesn't want to, but it's destroyed.

The bumpy and fragmented life, the only place that could make her miss and tie to her heart, in the later time, was smashed into ruins, and there was nothing left.

"Squeak-"

She took out the key from behind a brick crack and pushed open the mottled courtyard door, the warmth and tenderness in her eyes brought a desire to tears.

As if expecting, behind the door, there was someone like what she was thinking about.

a mother who is incomparably beautiful, but not unscrupulous; Handsome to the point of being handsome, but also gentle and tall father.

When they heard the sound of the door opening several times, they stopped what they were doing, stood in the small courtyard where the flowers and plants were blooming, and stretched out their hands to her, smiling doting and helpless.

"Yo~, the little flower cat has to go home? Look, it's dirtier than yesterday, what kind of hole did you climb to hunt for treasure, and what kind of tree did you go up to steal food? ”

Can.

The flowers and plants are still in full bloom, and they have not faded, and the warm and beautiful courtyard is as good as the beginning.

It's just—

The softness in Gu Bai's eyes slowly faded.

The light smile on her lips disappeared, making her lower her eyes and murmur slowly.

"Sure enough, isn't it?"

yes, how could it still be there?

When she was five years old, her mother disappeared, and her father sent her to the old house of the Su family, and talked with the old man for a long time before coming out, and then disappeared.

She has been waiting since that year, keeping her promise with her father.

[Stay at home obediently, don't go anywhere, when Dad finds Mom, I'll come back to pick you up, and then we'll go home.] 】

But she waited for ten years.

So obediently lived like a dog in the house, but they didn't come back.

At the age of fifteen, she was captured and sold by the Black Dragon Gang, and she couldn't hide her as a girl, and when she escaped from the tiger's den in Longtan, what was waiting for her was the anger of the old man of the Su family, and the reality of driving her out of the Su family.

And this heaven and earth were also smashed.

Even so, they didn't come back.

She was already homeless, and with no way out, she thought-

[Dad, I'm not disobedient, it's just that my long-cherished family won't allow me, and I can't wait for you there, so I'll go to you, okay? Tiannan Haibei, heaven and earth, as long as we are alive, we can always meet, when the time comes, you and my mother must love me well and make up for the debts of these years. 】

But.

Seventeen years, seventeen years.

It doesn't matter how much dirty water you are splashed with, it doesn't matter how many times you are chased and killed, how many times you are locked up in the laboratory, you have to escape, as long as you live, even if you are in tattered copper and iron, you have to live.

Only in this way will she not lose her words and be able to keep the people she wants to see.

However, her hope was finally ruined in the universe, and there was nothing left.

And for now.

Gu Bai raised his feet and stepped into the small courtyard, he couldn't help but smile, but his eyes were red.

"This time, I'm sure I'll find you, I'll be able to—"

Her will is already so strong, and her fragile body can be trained at any time, so she will only become stronger, so strong that no one can destroy her, so that she can find her parents as soon as possible, catch what she wants to grasp, and protect them for the rest of their lives.

The living room was clean and well furnished, although it was a little old, but it was all polished brightly.

These, including the flowers and plants in the courtyard, are carefully taken care of by her late every night from the old house of the Su family.

Although I killed a lot at the beginning, I was sad for a long time, and I picked up a lot of books on raising flowers before I slowly got started.

Mom loves flowers and plants, and Dad Aiwu and Wu found all kinds of exotic flowers and plants for her, and installed thermostats on them, so that they can bloom all year round and be fragrant.

And for now, these are left to her, and she naturally has to take care of them and wait for them to come back.

I still remember one time my mother was on a business trip, my father didn't know where to go, and he didn't come home very late, she was hungry alone, and she ate all the snacks at home.

She actually coveted these fragrant flowers and plants, picked a lot of them, sat on the ground and stuffed them into her mouth, and thought happily, well, it's delicious.

As a result, I had a stomach upset and a fever, and I was hospitalized for acute enteritis.

After letting his mother know, she was shocked, and viciously beat her father with a stick, and even made him kneel for several days of durian, and slept in the study for a long time before he was angry.

Later, after her mother was angry, her father poked her little head viciously and gritted his teeth.

"Little white-eyed wolf, your father admitted his mistake to you, and he lost so much pocket money to you, and you even sued your mother! It's too much! ”

Who knows, but his mother listened to him and beat him hard, making her happy.

made her grab her father's 'little handle', and every time she wanted something, when her father didn't give it, she shouted:

"Mom! Daddy bullied me! ”

As soon as she shouted, her father had a bitter face, and he didn't pay for it again and again, what else did he want, and he couldn't give her beauty.

Thinking about it, Su Gu Bai laughed, stood in her room, reached out and grabbed a pink hibiscus flower blooming just outside the window, bit it in her mouth, and sighed lightly.

"It's delicious."

The eyebrows and eyes are gentle like spring, and the expression is shallow and sad like autumn.

Following.

I didn't go back to my old house, and I lived here directly, and I was doing push-ups in the courtyard to build up my strength.

Then I heard a knock at the door.

She raised an eyebrow and stood up to open the door.

"Ah, it's you—"

The moment he opened the door, Su Gu Bai couldn't help but smile.

In the afternoon, the slanting sun was preparing to get off work, but there was still a bright afterglow, staining everything around with a thin light of pale gold.

The boy leaned crookedly against the door frame in the pale golden light.

With his hands around his chest, he let large drops of sweat run down his wet hair, down his pink cheeks, across his thin white neck, and into the neckline of his sweatshirt.

And he smiled a little inexplicably, looking at the girl in front of him with delicate but cold eyebrows, long hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a knee-high black and red plaid school skirt, and a white shirt and a black suit school uniform, and pushed the tip of his tongue against the top of his chin.