The tide only felt like his gaze was glued to the red mark. Jiang Qi seemed to feel a slightly burning gaze and looked sideways.

"I'll send you back?" He asked.

"No, I don't. My house is not far away, and there is a night market over there, which is very lively. The tide answered him with a lowered eye. She was telling the truth, but against her will, she didn't want him to take her home.

She just wanted to keep her distance from him as much as possible. The farther away you are, the less you may sink deeper.

Jiang Qi acquiesced to her wishes, and as he stopped and watched the tide walk away, he easily wiped off a leaf that had fallen on her shoulder.

The hot breath he exhaled as he approached hit her ears, causing the tide to relive the pounding of that day. She thought that maybe this was really the feeling of liking someone, and what she had experienced before might just be a blind worship of beauty, which caused her one-way crush for three years.

But it's too late. Besides, even if Xiao Ya is not by Jiang Qi's side, she will never put herself in the position of bearing the brunt of her feelings.

She said goodbye and walked forward with her head bowed, without looking back, Jiang Qi's figure gradually disappeared into the boundless night.

When Chaohai appeared in front of him, he was as surprised as Pei Yicong's sudden appearance yesterday.

Tide looked up and saw his iron-blue face, his face slightly solemn.

"Dad?"

The title was blurted out almost in a frightened situation. Tide felt that the word was becoming more and more unfamiliar, because it had been a long time since she had said it in front of him.

She subconsciously turned around and glanced behind her, and saw that Jiang Qi was no longer there.

"That guy is your boyfriend?"

The tide has always been a one-handed one-way approach. Tide sometimes thinks that if it weren't for the fact that her personality is really the same as his, she can't believe that this man is her father.

"It's not." She clearly denied it, bypassing him and moving forward.

"I don't know why you're lying to me, but I warn you not to get too close to him." Chaohai quickly followed, walking side by side with her. "I'm not at ease with him, and at first glance he is an unreliable person."

Tides are a little amused to hear this. She glanced up at him, only to realize that she rarely walked side by side with him like this, and she didn't know that the tide was so high. Although he is in his forties and his sideburns are a little gray, he still has the momentum and feeling of a gangster boss. In fact, this feeling is largely due to the fact that Tide once accidentally saw his flower arm.

"You don't like what you're saying. How can you judge someone good or bad based on their face alone? ”

She asked back with a slight sarcasm.

Chaohai glanced at him seriously, his brows tied into a knot. "I am older than you, I have been involved in more world affairs than you, I have more experience than you, and I have a good eye for people."

It's this set of elder's rhetoric again. Tidal remembers that the high school homeroom teacher often told them that the man was a high-achieving student in his thirties with thick-rimmed glasses, a son with cerebral palsy who often had snot running into his mouth, and a wife who also suffered from polio. Young teachers are not well paid, so their families are poor. He often said this on his lips, as if he had experienced all the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the world at a young age. Sometimes the tide looks at him bowing on the podium, and feels that he has indeed experienced a bit of the vicissitudes of the world.

However, although Chaohai is at odds with the Yangmei couple, and even has such a rebellious and cold daughter, at least his career is somewhat successful, and his friends are all over the world.

Thinking about this, the tide unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth.

Chaohai saw that she didn't speak, and his tone became slightly anxious, as if he was afraid that Chao Hai would deliberately play with him in a daze.

"I'm talking to you, do you hear me?!"

He stopped, and stood in front of the tide and looked at her with a majestic expression.

"I don't agree with you. I'm twenty-one years old and have my own worldview and outlook on life. ”

She sneered. Chaohai's face was not very good, as if he had been poisoned by eating something poisonous, purple and red, and the green tendons on his neck were also ready to go.

"I don't care about you for anything else, you have to listen to me on this matter! I don't care if that person is your classmate or a so-called boyfriend, cut off the relationship with me from today! ”

This man's face always becomes very fast, and sudden irritation is only a matter of moments. The last time Yangmei was in a troublesome situation, he tried every means to dissuade and beg for mercy, if the tide was not mistaken, when Yangmei put down his thoughts and went back to the house, he threw things at her more loudly than ever.

The tide won't listen to him. He hadn't taken much care of her in twenty years, and his courtesy at this time only made her feel sick.

"You think I don't know what's at stake in your obstruction of me?" She raised her chin slightly to look directly at him. "You never do things that are good for you, and filter out all the harm. Do you think I'm stupid or lazy and don't want to poke you? ”

Chaohai was slightly stunned for a moment, and then his face was gloomy like a storm about to cross.

The adult man's self-esteem was trampled under the feet of the little girl for a while, so that his incompetence was all transformed into anger.

"Smack!"

The crisp slap sound was particularly loud in the silent night, and the tide only felt a burning pain in his right cheek. The power of men is much greater, mixed with anger and resentment, and the heat is even hotter.

Tidal looked up and saw that his palm was firmly in mid-air, not moving at all. She expected to see a flash of remorse and forgiveness in his eyes, but she didn't.

"Good."

Two words came out of his mouth coldly.

Tidal reached out and touched his hot right cheek, feeling that the coldness of his five fingers could no longer cool down its high heat. The scorching pain caused by the afterforce spread along the facial nerve to the whole body, and penetrated into the bones.

Chaohai turned his heels, and stepped away from her with a thousand pounds of strength in his steps.

Chaohai's slap was very heavy, and Tide didn't notice it when she looked in the mirror at the time, but Xia Chan's surprised scream during class the next day made her re-examine the mark.

The right cheek is already swollen. Compared to the left side of the face, it is indeed a little obvious, and it is obviously a gradual growth trend. In addition, a small part of Chaohai's unceremonious five-finger finger prints remained on the lump, and two imprints could be vaguely seen extending from the root of the tidal ear to the corner of the mouth, which was shockingly long.

"Oh my god!" This was the first thing Xia Cicada said when she saw the tide that morning. She dropped her book and ran over, her face filled with anger and distress.

"Who the fuck hit you?!"

Xia Cicada felt like her lungs were about to explode with gas.

Tidal reached out and slightly covered his right face, and his tone was calm.

"Menopause doesn't know what's crazy about. I hit the muzzle right on the gun. ”

Xia Cicada frowned and thought about it, as if she suddenly realized.

"It's not Uncle Chao, it's Aunt Yang."

Tide was amused by her and reached out and punched her. "You're not talking nonsense? Are you menopause? ”

Xia Cicada also laughed, reaching out and gently touching the pitiful half of the tide while laughing. "Damn, it's so heavy, it's all broken for you."

The tide was silent, rummaging through the drawers for the disposable masks that had been sitting for a long time. This mask is still the collective mask issued by the school cleaning last year, and she put it on the table after using it once and never took it out again.

"I found it, let's use it for the time being, I'm afraid this face will scare others."

She flicked her light blue mask and saw a fine layer of dust rising in the light. She was still a little afraid that if she wore this dust collection, not to mention that the lump had not subsided, it was a bit possible that she would be infected by bacteria and get sick.

As soon as the mask was clipped to one ear, the other hand was suddenly held down by the other hand behind him. Tide turned his head in confusion and saw Qiao Shen standing behind him with his eyebrows lowered.

"How?"

His gaze was reincarnated on that bulging and two red marks, and the waves under his eyes were turbulent.

Xia Chan retracted his expression unnaturally, then turned back appropriately, sat silently on the side and began to sort out the books.

"It's nothing, relatives came to the house, the child was ignorant, and he accidentally hit him when he was crying."

Tide broke free of his pressed hand slightly, and put the other side on.

Of course, she knew that Qiao Shen was smart, and he naturally wouldn't believe this reason. She was only using it as an excuse to prevaricate his concerns. A voice in her head told her that their previous relationship had broken down, even for her, since Qiao Shen's sudden seriousness last time, she had avoided him. In a way, this reason is more empathetic than the actual paternal violence caused by family misfortune.

"Drugged?"

The waves under Qiao Shen's eyes seemed to have receded a little compared to just now.

The tide nodded, and inadvertently saw that Xia Cicada had already gotten up and walked to his place. She was only concerned about prevaricating and avoiding Qiao Shen just now, obviously not paying attention to Xia Chan's every move.

She raised her eyes to look at Qiao Shen again. He stood there lightly, without further questioning, and had no intention of leaving.

"I'm really fine."

Tides added a note in a sincere tone.

This time it worked. When she saw Qiao Shen, she put away the scattered gaze on her face, turned around and sat down.

Xia Chan suddenly looked over, but his eyes followed Qiao Shen's behavior.

She always doesn't like to hide her thoughts and emotions, and sometimes it is useless to hide them. The tide meaningfully visited back and forth between the two of them, and felt that the light in Xia Cicada's eyes became brighter and brighter. It was brighter than the light in the last time, as bright as the twinkling stars in the night.

Silly girl.

Tidal laughed faintly. She knows Xia Chan as well as Xia Chan knows her. When I was a child, even the teachers at school wondered why the relationship between two children with very different personalities could be surprisingly good. At that time, Xia Chan was the eldest sister in the school, with the same flat head as the boys, and she didn't intimidate the little boys at all. The tide has been sitting quietly in the corner reading and writing, and always seriously helps every student who is not good at homework to make up for the study. The teachers like the self-discipline and sensibility of the tide, but they also prefer the liveliness and intelligence of Xia Cicada.

Xia Cicada is like her other half of the wings, which have grown deep in her flesh and blood, knowing herself and her opponent, like a conjoined body.

What they were thinking about each other, no one knew but each other.