Love and know each other but separate.

"Which one do you want to eat?" I shoved the two plates of pastries the waiter had brought in in front of her.

Li Xiaoai looked at the delicate cake in front of her, raised her eyes and glanced at me again, then picked up a knife and fork to divide the two plates of pastries into two portions, and then pushed me a plate.

I lifted the corners of my lips and picked up the knife and fork from the napple and put the two cakes mixed with blueberry and cheese sauce into my mouth, "This is the weirdest cake I've ever tasted." ”

"Never forget." Li Xiaoai's voice was very soft and even mixed with a hint of choking, "Thank you, except for Uncle Di's noon call, you are the only one willing to be by my side today..."

The cake is in the mouth, the cheese is accompanied by a salty and faint fishy spicy, and the blueberries are mixed with sweetness and then show a faint sourness.

Maybe that's part of life's flavors.

After eating the cake, I drank two glasses of vodka, one was pushed to her, and the other was held up by me, "After today, the sun will rise tomorrow as usual, and there will be a next time after drinking this time, so the past will always pass." ”

Bang! The crisp sound of the wine glasses colliding, Li Xiaoai drank the wine in the glass without saying anything, and the cold in his eyebrows also returned a faint warmth.

"Actually, I came to see you today and have something to ask." I put down my glass and looked at her.

Li Xiaoai raised her eyes to meet my four eyes, thought for a few seconds, and then lightly raised her palm and stretched out three fingers, "Three, I will tell you truthfully whatever you ask, no matter what you ask." ”

"What's the problem?" I asked, teasingly.

"Well, whatever." There were tears in her eyes, and the coldness in her eyes quietly faded a little.

Li Xiaoai didn't joke with me, she was serious, no matter what I asked her, I would get the most truthful answer, I thought about the past in my mind, and resolutely asked, "As far as you know, did your father or you ever have a grudge against someone?" Even if there is, who will kill the killer? ”

Li Xiaoai looked into my eyes with her deep eyes, her mind seemed to be thinking about my problem, she shook her head and said slowly, "No, my father and I will hardly have sharp conflicts with others, how can we have a grudge." It's just that now I'm also the daughter of the enemy of the relatives and families who were killed by my father, and I can understand that they want to kill me to avenge those who were killed. I want to atone for my father's sins, but I don't know why all this is, and who should atone for my father's sins. ”

As soon as the words fell, Li Xiaoai's eyes were filled with tears again.

Suddenly, there was a feeling churning in my mind, the real murderer behind the scenes is using this vague concept of the enemy to confuse the people who really need to be eliminated, Li Xiaoai was used by the murderer as my stand-in, so many victims, even if some of them really wanted to assassinate her, it is normal for public opinion and ordinary people to feel. But the real target is not actually her, after getting rid of my original goal, she only needs to kill Li Xiaoai by the way, and no one will suspect the real intention.

I was just an insignificant person who died because of my profession and work, and the need to protect her, and my death was just an accident caused by a vendetta.

In an instant, a deep guilt spread throughout the body. All this should not have been so heavy on her, she should have borne her father's part of sin, and nothing else. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the behavior of the nameless killer seemed clear, his target may not be Li Xiaoai in the first place, maybe the person he tried his best to kill was me. I care about her, so I can't continue to pretend to be ignorant and get along with her, bringing her inexplicable danger.

But why me? Why am all the assassination targets? Does it really have to be me?

"What's wrong? What's wrong? After swallowing three glasses of wine in a row, while my hand holding the wine glass was still trembling slightly, Li Xiaoai calmed down a lot.

"No, it's nothing...", I forced a smile, but my mind still flashed the scene of the brown curly-haired girl appearing in the community, would she do something to my family? When to get your hands on? By what means?

"You don't seem like anything like that? What happened? Li Xiaoai's eyebrows were slightly locked, and she looked at my every move, looking very puzzled.

I finished another glass of wine and took a deep breath, "I'm still not sure, although it almost matches what I thought, but I'm still not sure." ”

"Sure what?"

"According to Officer Chung's investigation of all the previous cases that happened between us, it seems that your father is not connected, so he suspects that the assassination we suffered was actually independent. But after he targeted the victim, he continued to investigate and found that in fact, your past was not a reason to be targeted, so I want to know if you or your father have offended anyone, and your father was forced to make that choice? ”

Li Xiaoai stared into my eyes, and finally understood that I wasn't joking with her, "No, my father's death was not because he offended anyone at all, but..."

"And what?" I asked anxiously, wondering if she would know the cause and effect.

Li Xiaoai buried her head and hesitated a little, shaking the half glass of wine back and forth on the table with her fingers, but she didn't speak for a long time.

"What's wrong? Something hidden? "I'm more curious.

Li Xiaoai stared at my eyes for two seconds to confirm, "Okay, in fact, when you accompanied me to work in the Aikang Group before the Spring Festival, my intention was not to turn Aikang into safety, I couldn't do that kind of thing, in fact, no one could do it." ”

"What about you?"

"In Cha Aikang's past, and the cause of his father's death. My father has always puzzled me by not allowing me to meddle in the business, or even from Hong Kong to return to the SAR, but he has always insisted on doing so, and even did not buy any assets for me in the HKSAR except for the apartment, including himself. In fact, my father has always been a very strict person, and I rarely question or guess what he is not allowed to do, but that doesn't mean that I don't think about it in my heart. ”

"A few years ago, my father's company was actually very small, and I was still in junior high school at that time. However, due to the need for funds for drug development and clinical trials, the company finally ran out of power after several failures. At that time, my father and I had unimaginably poor lives, and we even had to look in our pockets every day for dinner. But my father still gave me pocket money, and told me that girls can't have that kind of poor sourness, and that the home near Uncle Di at that time was much more modest than a hotel apartment, but it was really my home. Li Xiaoai's tears didn't stop after all, and one drop after another fell into the wine glass in the palm of his hand.

In her tearful eyes, the tears seemed to flow like time, and everything seemed to go back to the past...

On the first day after the National Day holiday, Li Shukang seemed to feel that his holiday had completely come, but he did not have a trace of excitement. Li Shukang didn't expect that the company he had tried his best to fight for would not be able to take this last breath and fail, and the last anesthetic hypnosis amnesia clinical trial treatment was a failure after all.

The test patient was a patient with severe memory phobia, a former firefighter who witnessed his comrades being hit by reinforced concrete during a disaster relief operation a few years ago, and the upper and lower parts of their bodies were dismembered on the spot. Since then, the patient has been inexplicably ill, often screaming and acting in hurtful ways. Instead of getting better during treatment and recovery in a psychiatric hospital, his condition worsened and he had to resort to isolation treatment.

After obtaining the consent of the psychiatric hospital and the family, Li Shukang adopted Dr. Freddy's suggestion to use the latest memory-suppressing drug Forgetfulness to intervene in the patient's past horrific memories, and then undergo psychological treatment to alleviate his symptoms and finally achieve a curative effect.

Forget worries, a new type of zepam drugs, after use, patients will have a strong dependence, but the effect is incomparable to other zepam-like drugs. For diazepam, hypnosis, anesthesia and other medical fields have the characteristics of fast onset and good stability, and are being tested and promoted.

In fact, during the time of the experiment, the drugs were stable for the patient, and not only did the severely mentally ill patient not continue to have the disease, but with the help of Dr. Freddy, another hallucinatory memory that did not exist at all. It is a fairy tale-like innocent boy, with innocent memories and a gentle character, who will watch the morning dew and the leaves purely, and will also quietly listen to melodious notes, which is completely impossible for the former self to do.

Such memories look so out of place in a haggard shell of a man in his forties, but the new personality after memory suppression and hypnosis does make it possible for the severely mentally ill to leave the psychiatric isolation cell.

After a few days, the patient who had not relapsed seemed to start relapsing, and he smashed the radio in a thunderous rage, and then he could not regain his composure despite the help of several doctors, so he had to be sent back to the cold isolation ward. The family and the doctors were disheartened, and the patients feared that they would have to stay in the bleak iron gate for the rest of their lives.

The treatment failed, but Dr. Freddy didn't seem to give up, and two days later he told Li Shukang that he wanted to experiment one last time, this time with heavy hypnosis and continuous drug intervention. The family and the doctor agreed to Dr. Freddy's request to try again in desperation, and the treatment was started again, which lasted nearly a month, and the initial condition was basically the same as before, except that this time the hypnosis did not implant deeper memories, but only made the patient forget the past, and the mind was like a blank sheet of paper.

Under the dual effect of forgetfulness and hypnosis, the patient never recorded any seizures during the entire treatment period. In addition to the normal obedient eating and sleeping every day, without receiving other instructions, he was left to look at the empty sky or ceiling above his head, and there seemed to be nothing left in his empty eyes, only a piece of nothingness, including his soul.