"It's my first time at karaoke."

Sure enough, I still got a cold answer.

"Do you have any familiar songs?"

"That's right, Senior Sister Lanyang, you can also sing and watch."

Anno also instigated, perhaps because he was afraid that if this continued, it would become a solo concert.

“…… Do I sing? ”

Lan Yang blinked.

"Well, you tell me the number, and I'll enter it for you."

Lan Yang stared at the air in a daze at first, and only after a while did he take the song list handed by An Ye with an expressionless face and began to read it carefully.

Lin Yu quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, there was a hint of anticipation. Lan Yang's voice is beautiful. When she sings poetry secretly, even people outside Xia Jing will be fascinated by it, and her singing voice must be first-class. Lin Yu didn't want to criticize Anye's bad singing, he just wanted not to be brainwashed by a series of singing in the future.

"Ah, I'll sing this song."

Lanyang stopped turning the page.

"Where's the number?"

Anno used the remote control to enter the number read out by Lan Yang

......

Xia Jing and Ye Ya left the karaoke room at about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Later, Xia Jing couldn't resist Ye Ya's stubborn fighting, and ordered a total of four cakes.

Although I really want to comfort myself that "it's worth it to see Ye Ya's happy expression", it is also a fact that the purse has lost a lot of blood.

After three hours of karaoke, Xia Jing only sang three songs...... I always feel that this guy has completely misunderstood the culture of karaoke. The next time you have the opportunity to go with someone else, you must remind her that karaoke is sung by everyone in turns.

Anyway, it's been a pretty good time.

Due to the current tense situation, it is inconvenient to stay too late, Xia Jing decided to end today's trip and take Ye Ya back to the station. Since the bus for the two to return went in different directions, they broke up in front of the station.

"Are you still having fun?"

On the way back to the station, Xia Jing asked, Ye Ya smiled and bowed.

"Well, I also made you pay for hairpins. Thank you, I will cherish it."

"It's a pity, it's a bargain."

"It's not about the price, it's about the heart you bought and gave me."

Ye Ya doesn't change his old appearance, and such embarrassing words can be said generously. However, Xia Jing seems to be slowly feeling paralyzed recently, and he can feel happy calmly in his heart, rather than being ashamed.

The two arrived at the bus terminal in front of the station and checked the time.

Xia Jing's train would not depart until twenty minutes later, and Ye Ya's would be fifteen minutes later. Although it is the departure terminal, it is only a small country town after all, and it is a weekend holiday, so there are not many departures.

"Looks like we'll have to wait a little longer."

After the two sat down side by side on the bench—

「…… Summer Scene."

Ye Ya, who was sitting on the side, suddenly changed his tone - muttered in a slightly serious voice, "Thank you."

"Huh?"

Xia Jing tried to pretend to be confused.

"Ask me out today to cheer me up, right?"

…… It seems that she still sees through it.

Ye Ya took Xia Jing's hand, rested her head lightly on his shoulder, and snuggled up to him.

"I'm too uneasy to help myself. All I think about is my mother, Li Qi, and the sword...... I've been trying to let go for the past few days, but I just can't do it."

"Of course...... It's not something that can be easily put down."

Blood relatives, relatives and friends, and the position of the patriarch, all of them are aimed at Ye Ya. Just being able to maintain calm on the surface is already very commendable in Xia Jing's eyes.

Perhaps the tense nerves were soothed, and Ye Ya began to speak slowly in a faint voice:

"That's Ah Le, not my mother—I hope so. But if that's the case, how can I interpret my memory? Why did my mother ...... my sister? If I'm wrong, how nice it would be."

"What you saw that night must be Ah Le who entered the mansion. In the midst of the fire, kill Ah Le...... The image of attacking your sister is mistaken for your mother, didn't I tell you that you want to think like this?"

This is the most logical and powerful hypothesis in the current stage of intelligence, and Xia Jing mentioned it to Ye Ya at one o'clock on the week. Of course, there is a flaw in this assumption, if Ah Le had his body on the night the village burned down, how can he explain the situation last week? - However, it is much more reasonable to assume that "the woman Xia Jing and the others saw last Sunday was Ye Ya's mother and not Le Le".

"Why is Li Qi with Qiu Yin? Could it be that my heart could not be conveyed to her? Maybe she's hating me...... In the end, the sword was also taken away by the other party. If I go down to thank the patriarch, I will only bring humiliation on myself."

"These two things are not related. Li Qi and the sword snatched back, and the problem was solved. Have you forgotten what you said? The so-called relatives and friends can accept it calmly even if they are betrayed by the other party. If Li Qi still can't let go of her hatred for human beings, you just need to choke her and 'stop making trouble' and force her to face you."

Even though Xia Jing tried to squeeze out a smile to encourage Ye Ya, he still felt sad about his powerlessness.

No matter how many times he said this, he couldn't heal Ye Ya's injuries.

In the human heart, there is a realm in which no amount of clever rhetoric can help.

「…… I understand that as the next patriarch, I shouldn't be whining like this. It is because of you that I can speak weakly. Only with you can I open my heart and be coquettish. Please forgive me, okay?"

"What nonsense are you talking about, stupid!"

Xia Jing couldn't control his emotions and hugged Ye Ya's shoulders.

"What does this have to do with the next patriarch! What responsibilities do you have that has nothing to do with me...... I'm telling you, I didn't do this to you because you were the next patriarch of the Deer Clan. So if you have a complaint and want to vent, even if you don't have to be polite to me, you don't have to worry about what position you have, and if you want to show weakness, I'm welcome. In my mind, you're not the next patriarch's great status...... It's just Yaya."

When I was a child, I met the girl on a snowy day.

A fool with an extraordinarily arrogant attitude, but a cute laugh, boasting that he wants to build a snow hare.

Ye Ya in Xia Jing's mind is just that girl.

What deer clan, patriarch, or civil strife, that's secondary.

"It's going to be fine, there's always a solution to the problem. Even if the patriarch's throne is snatched away by Qiu Yin, don't worry."

Although it has a joke flavor, it is also out of sincerity-

"Anyway, it's you who Anno and the others follow, besides...... If I really let her be the patriarch, then I won't be a son-in-law, and I will marry you instead. Forget about your family."

- said so.

"Summer ......."

Ye Ya turned his head to look at Xia Jing, and his breath touched his cheek lightly.

Xia Jing also stared into her eyes.

Just two centimeters away. It is conceivable that there are passers-by behind you, but where will you care at this juncture.

Slowly lowered his eyes - no, it was Ye Ya who closed his eyes, Xia Jinghe......

「…… I won't allow you to go any further...... Woohoo!"

A familiar voice came from behind him, causing Xia Jing to freeze halfway forward.

「…… Summer view?"

Ye Ya opened her eyes.

"What's wrong? That one...... Uh, I—"

I saw that her face was flushed, and she looked like a nickname. I can even clearly read from her ashamed expression that the one I was expecting didn't happen, could it be that I was making a lot of love to myself? This inner sentence.

"You're mistaken. Ah no, you're not mistaken...... Wait a minute."

Xia Jing got up from the bench and turned his head to look around. There were more people coming and going outside than expected. However, the bus station itself was empty, and there were no other guests on the benches except for Xia Jingye and Yaya.

Behind the bus stop are internet cafes and travel agency offices. Sandwiched between the two is a narrow alley.

In the cracks of the alley, there are suspicious shadows moving behind telephone poles.

A pair of wobble sleeves...... Sleeves that are longer than your arms.

It seems that someone is in a state of loss of control, but they are subdued by others. It was a teenager in a hunting hat and a one-piece overalls who subdued the runaway figure - no, it wasn't a teenager, take a closer look......

「…… Senior Sister Lanyang?!"

Xia Jing shouted, and Ye Ya then got up and looked back.

"Ah......h

Hearing someone shouting her name, Lan Yang, who was holding Lin Yu's body and smashing her mouth with her hand, reflexively turned her head to face Xia Jing and the others.

I saw her calmly speak, "...... You just don't think I'm here."

No way!

"Hmm! Mmmm——!mmmmmmmm

Lin Yu, who was framed, struggled in Lan Yang's arms. Her face was flushed, and she stared at Xia Jing angrily.

"Summer view."

Ye Ya's tone became cold. She stared intently in the other direction—at a certain point on the opposite side of the road.

"You call Anno."

"Huh...... Okay."

Xia Jing took out his mobile phone and dialed according to the instructions, and after three rings-

『…… Hello?'

The call went through. Somehow, Ah Ye's tone was a little unnatural.

Ye Ya suddenly snatched the phone from Xia Jing's hand.

"Don't hide, Anno! I know where you're hiding."

Just like Ye Ya's prediction, a few seconds later, in the direction of her line of sight-

"True and Fake ......"

Anno emerged from the shadows of the café.

In addition to her, another figure appeared. The slender woman in a dress was ......

"Even Anai is there? Do you ...... say?"

Xia Jing turned his head and glanced at Lan Yang and Lin Yu again, and then he suddenly realized.

「…… When did you start tracking you?"

He asked Lan Yang. Lin Yu, who was free from the shackles of the blue sun, replied on his behalf: "We followed all the way from the beginning to the end! You guy...... How dare you be so intimate with a girl in broad daylight!"

"Why are you so angry and don't confess!"

Lan Yang still said expressionlessly, "Xia Jing. We're not here, you can go on."

"It's okay! It's here! I can see it clearly!"

"Anai, how did you come up with that dress...... Did Anno ask you to change it?"

Ye Ya asked the two people who were honestly crossing the road and walking towards here.

Ye Ya's face swelled even redder than just now, and the big red Hanfu was on par with it.

Xia Jing held his head in annoyance, because he knew that his cheeks were almost as red as Ye Ya's.

At the same time.

Near the hospital –

Adai walked alone on the road next to the national highway.

Although her style of dress still does not match the atmosphere of a small country town and is very eye-catching, the whole road is empty, and naturally no one will look at her suspiciously. Even if the driver driving on the national highway noticed her presence, it was speeding past in the blink of an eye, and Adai would not deliberately stare back at the driver.

Her gaze was the opposite of the rabbit ears that shook with every step, and she was very cold and stern. That body is as if she is resisting the breath of others, and it has not changed-Qiu Yin, who was hiding in the park by the roadside, thought to herself.

She stepped out of the shade of the trees, stepped over the bushes, and stood in front of Adai's eyes.

Adai recognized Qiu Yin, frowned and stopped.

「…… What to do?"

"Ask me what to do, so ruthless."

Qiu Yin put his hands behind his back and gradually approached Adai.

"People are waiting for you."

"Don't you call if you have something...... What are you trying to do in an ambush like this?"

There are thorns in the Adai language, which is obviously a liver fire.

「…… I can't stand you. Yesterday's one was accidental, so forget it."

"Yesterday? Did something happen yesterday?"

"I don't have to explain it to you."

Adai smacked his lips and looked away, and Qiu Yin smiled at her.

"What does it matter to tell me?"

"What's the matter with me? If there is a fart, let it go. If you don't make a call, it means that it shouldn't be an emergency."

"No, it's urgent."

After Qiu Yin shook his head in disapproval, Adai showed a surprised expression.

So—Qiu Yin took another step forward, peering into her eyes.

"Hey, Senior Sister Adai, I have a question for you."

"Tsk, what do you want to ask......

"How would it feel to know that your loved one will never wake up again?"

Instantaneous—

Adai was murderous.

「…… Where did you hear about this?"

"Your lover...... The man who is engaged to you for life, the fiancé, seems to be a person with a stable temperament who is very incompatible with you. But regardless of whether it was because of his personality, he was bullied by his classmates; is like Fang Yuan's classmate, or like Lin Yu's sister...... Their experiences are strikingly similar. Could it be that the deer have genes that will be attracted to this type of person? Or is it just that the world is full of malice?"

"Answer me! Why do you know this?"

Adai tugged at the hem of Qiu Yin's clothes and pulled it forward, glaring at her in discoloration.

Qiu Yin was unmoved.

Ignoring Adai's threat, she said to herself, "That's why you hate humans, and you hate the deer village that doesn't allow you to seek revenge. So you choose to join the rebellion and burn down the village...... Then he slashed with his own hands six humans whom you consider enemies."

"What does that have to do with you?"

"You will see that Xia Jing and Lin Yu are particularly unpleasant, is it because they are different from you and have given up the means of revenge? And the reason why you killed the son-in-law of your own family without pretending to be someone else...... Ya's father was out of hatred for not being allowed to seek revenge, and hatred for humans, right?"

「…… Do you want to die?"

Did you get it right?

Adai tightened his grip on the placket of his clothes, and the anger he released was stronger than before.

If he continues to provoke unscrupulously, Adai is likely to kill Qiu Yin seriously.

Ignoring the difference in the positions of the two, and ignoring the fact that the other party will kill them at all costs-

"No...... You don't think about what to take, because the reason you joined the prosperity faction is only for revenge, and there is no reason to hesitate to do so."

Even though his throat was about to break, Qiu Yin still smiled from ear to ear.