At this moment, in the distant rain curtain, there was the sound of steady and rapid footsteps.

Xia Nuanxin subconsciously raised her head, and her eyes revealed an obvious shock when she saw the person coming.

Xia Nuanxin never dreamed that her reunion with Huo Beixiao would be in such a situation.

In the monstrous rain curtain, Huo Beixiao was holding a huge black umbrella in one hand, and his whole person was soaked by the rain, and strings of water droplets flowed down from the hem of his clothes uninterruptedly.

Because of the rain, the whole sky suddenly darkened, obviously it was three or four o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky was so dark that I couldn't see the road clearly, and I could only barely distinguish the contours of people's resolute faces by the light of the small shop.

"You...... How can you ......" Xia Nuan looked at the man in front of him with disgust, his eyes full of disbelief.

Huo Beixiao ignored Xia Nuanxin's surprised appearance, he put away the umbrella, shook it casually, and leaned against the door.

The old man in the house saw that there was someone outside, and immediately stood up enthusiastically and pointed out: "Yo, you are finally here, your wife has been freezing here for a while, pregnant women can't be frozen, this rain can't stop for a while, it's better to hurry up and go back before it gets heavy." ”

"I'm not ......" Xia Nuanxin just wanted to open his mouth to defend himself, but was interrupted by Huo Beixiao.

Huo Beixiao first looked at the rain outside, and saw that there was no sign of stopping, but it was indeed like the old man said, there was a tendency to fall more and more.

Originally, he still wanted to wait for the rain to be a little bit lower and then take Xia Nuanxin back, if it was like now, it was better to go back as soon as possible.

"Uncle, do you have any raincoats for sale?" Huo Beixiao turned around and asked the old man in the newsstand, but he didn't even look at Xia Nuanxin.

Xia Nuanxin watched Huo Beixiao skillfully negotiate with the old man, but she still didn't come back to her senses, her eyes widened in disbelief, for fear that this was just her hallucination, as long as she blinked a little, the person in front of her would disappear from in front of her.

The old man's newsstand did not sell raincoats, but he took out a piece that someone else had used earlier and forgot to take away from the clutter pile inside, and raised his hand and threw it to Huo Beixiao: "If you don't mind, just use this, it's better than nothing." ”

Huo Beixiao raised his hand to take it, thanked the old man, and then turned around and walked towards Xia Nuanxin.

He hung his head silently, checked the raincoat inside and out, and shook the dust that had accumulated on it because it had not been used for a long time, he raised his slightly bloodshot eyes, looked at Xia Nuanxin fixedly, and his voice was calm and powerful: "Make do." The rain will not stop for a while and a half, so let's hurry back first. ”

After that, seeing that Xia Nuanxin was still standing in a daze, Huo Beixiao couldn't help but raise her arm and forcefully put the dry raincoat on her body.

The originally slender figure became bloated due to pregnancy, and the raincoat that should have been loose became extremely slim on Xia Nuanxin's body at this moment.

The waist part was a little tight, and Xia Nuan moved uncomfortably.

"Bear with me." Huo Beixiao said.

Then he held up the umbrella, held Xia Nuanxin's shoulder with one hand, and took her into the rain curtain that covered the sky.

The road in the town was quite smooth, and there were no stumbles along the way, but Huo Beixiao's hand was firmly held on Xia Nuanxin's shoulder from beginning to end, giving her an unprecedented sense of security.

In the rain curtain, Xia Nuanxin turned her head slightly, looking at Huo Beixiao, who was a whole head taller than her, her eyes revealed endless nostalgia, until now, she still couldn't believe that the person next to her was the Huo Beixiao she wanted to forget.

What is he here for?

Xia Nuanxin shook her head, and suddenly remembered her purpose for going abroad.

Didn't she come to New York just to forget Huo Beixiao? Four or five months have passed, her life is peaceful and simple, and she rarely thinks of Huo Beixiao anymore.

But the moment she saw his face, her heartbeat suddenly missed half a beat, and then she jumped wildly without warning.

At that time, Xia Nuanxin understood that her feelings for Huo Beixiao were estimated to have no hope of forgetting in this life.

Her self-righteous forgetfulness is just a subconscious deliberate refusal.

As she walked, Xia Nuanxin's foot suddenly kicked a hard object and made a bang. Xia Nuanxin's face suddenly changed, and she felt that her toes seemed to be in pain in an instant.

- Her espadrilled foot kicked an iron plate.

Because she has been being carried by Huo Beixiao all the time, her legs are following the inertia, and she knocked on it just now, but she used all her strength.

Huo Beixiao keenly noticed Xia Nuanxin's abnormality, he looked down and looked at Xia Nuanxin with an inquiring look: "Can you still go?" ”

Xia Nuanxin gritted her teeth and nodded, she hadn't even raised her head after nodding, and there was a stumbling under her feet.

For this kind of behavior of lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot, a trace of embarrassment flashed on Xia Nuanxin's face.

Huo Beixiao paused, and suddenly shoved the umbrella in his hand into Xia Nuanxin's hand. At Xia Nuanxin's inexplicable juncture, he unexpectedly bent down and directly hugged Xia Nuanxin horizontally.

Because Xia Nuan was pregnant and carrying the child that would oppress her belly, in order to rush back to the hostel before the rain became heavier, there was only one way that was not a way.

Xia Nuanxin struggled twice, and finally compromised under Huo Beixiao's stubborn eyes.

One of Huo Beixiao's arms was exposed to the rain, Xia Nuan's eyes were sharp-eyed, she stretched out her hand, and pushed the umbrella to Huo Beixiao's side as much as possible.

Lying in front of Huo Beixiao's chest, Xia Nuanxin once again heard his powerful heartbeat, as well as the familiar and warm Huo Beixiao's unique taste.

Obviously he hadn't seen him for four or five months, but Xia Nuanxin felt that time seemed to be as long as a century. She quietly buried her head in front of Huo Beixiao.

In a hurry, the two finally rushed back to Britney's hostel before the rain became heavier.

Almost as soon as they stepped into the inn with their front feet, there was an earth-shattering thunder outside, and the whole world seemed to tremble with it. Then, the drifting rain, which was almost twice as heavy as before, poured down from the dark sky and instantly lost people's sight.

Britney, who had been waiting in the living room, and Melody, who had just come out of confinement, immediately sent a large dry towel to Xia Nuanxin and Huo Beixiao.

"Thank goodness it's finally back. I'm afraid you're getting wet in the rain, thanks to this gentleman today......"

Britney said as she took a towel up and down to wipe Xia Nuan's heart.

Through the gap of the big towel, Xia Nuanxin mustered up the courage to secretly glance at Huo Beixiao.

I saw Huo Beixiao drooping his eyelids slightly, his gaze lingering on her huge abdomen, and the meaning in his eyes was very complicated.

Xia Nuanxin gritted her teeth and struggled in her heart. Once Huo Beixiao asked, how should she answer his question?

She has been eight months pregnant, and no amount of clumsy excuses can explain Xia Nuanxin's current situation.

The rain was too strong, and no one could leave the town now, Huo Beixiao just sat down in the living room and let the enthusiastic Britney take his coat to dry.

Britney's dinner was cheese bread with oatmeal and poached eggs, and the smell of milk lingered in the small restaurant. Britney sensed the turbulent tide between Xia Nuanxin and the strange Mr. Huo, and took advantage of the effort to go to the bathroom, she pulled Xia Nuanxin's arm.

"Do you know this Mr. Huo?" Britney has always been the most observant of words and feelings, and she had already discovered Xia Nuanxin's sneaking gaze at Huo Beixiao.

Xia Nuanxin bit her lip and nodded helplessly.

Britney raised her eyebrows in surprise: "I said, he lingered outside the door for a while, if he hadn't seen the rain and wanted to help, I guess he would have turned around and left." ”

Xia Nuan was stunned: "When did he come?" ”

"Not long after you sent Mr. Qiao out......"

Xia Nuan was shocked, could it be that Huo Beixiao saw the scene where she sent Qiao Yu out? Then did he misunderstand what was between her and Qiao Yu again? Is she going to explain? Xia Nuan's heart was in turmoil.

After a pause, Britney suddenly poked Xia Nuan's armpit, "Is this ...... What is the baby in your belly? ”

Britney's eyes looked at Xia's warm belly with interest.

Xia Nuanxin's face turned red, and she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, don't guess." ”

She didn't know why she denied it, Britney and Huo Beixiao didn't intersect, and they weren't people who liked to talk a lot......

But Xia Nuanxin denied it unconsciously, her subconscious was both curious and afraid.

She wanted to know how Huo Beixiao would react if he knew that the child in her belly was his; But at the same time, she didn't dare to risk her child, in case Huo Beixiao asked her to kill the child......

This is something that Xia Nuan can't even think of.

All night, there was no sign of the rain stopping, and Xia Nuanxin could only arrange for Huo Beixiao to rest in the place where Qiao Yu slept. It wasn't until eight o'clock in the evening that several pregnant women who didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement went back to sleep under Britney's order.

In the noisy living room, Huo Beixiao and Xia Nuanxin were finally left.

Huo Beixiao sat on the sofa with a golden knife, his hair was still steamy because he had just taken a shower, and he was wearing Britney's newly bought spare men's pajamas.

Xia Nuanxin sat on the sofa opposite Huo Beixiao, her expression a little apprehensive.

Huo Beixiao lost weight again and became haggard. His hip bones protruded visibly from his cheeks, and there was a faint bluish black underneath his eyes.

There was an embarrassing silence in the room, and in the end, Xia Nuanxin couldn't help it, and was the first to speak: "Could it be ...... You don't have anything to ask me? ”

Huo Beixiao leaned on the sofa motionless with his back facing the sky, his eyes slightly closed, as if he was too lazy to the extreme.

Hearing Xia Nuanxin's question, he just lifted his eyelids casually, and his voice was lukewarm: "What should I ask?" ”