"You...... Do you still have this picture? Lin Qingqing, who didn't know what to say, casually found some questions and perfunctory.

Looking at the photo with deep meaning, Lin Yan chuckled and nodded. "That's right." He bent down and hugged Lin Qingqing as soon as he used his strength. "It's our best years, and I've always missed it."

When he said this, Lin Qingqing always felt that his eyes were like a thin layer of mist, which made people want to reach out and wipe him clean. Lin Yan is like a brother next door, making people feel clean and comfortable. But beyond that, she could feel the sadness in him, though she couldn't tell why.

Seeing that Lin Qingqing's ankles were already swollen, Lin Yan's eyes showed distress. "Don't move, it might hurt a little." He said in a deep voice.

Lin Qingqing nodded. She is not afraid of pain, so many years of hardships in living alone, this pain is nothing.

Glancing at Lin Qingqing again, Lin Yan was finally ready to start. He poured the massage oil into the palm of his hand and rubbed it repeatedly until his palm was hot. Then, put his hand on her ankle and gently massage.

Lin Yan's palms seemed to be so warm all the time, feeling the temperature on his ankles, Lin Qingqing's thoughts were taken away.

She still remembered a winter a long time ago, when she lived in the Lin family, but after all, there was a difference between dignity and inferiority. So when Lin Yan and Lin Yu went home in the car driven by the family driver, she could only wait for the bus.

In winter, the bus stop is really cold, and the exhaled air immediately turns into white smoke when it encounters low temperatures. Lin Qingqing kept rubbing his hands and stomping his feet. Because her mother's salary was not much, the cotton wool in her padded jacket was squeezed into a heap, and some places without cotton filling could not withstand the biting cold at all.

When a private car stopped at the bus stop, Lin Qingqing didn't think much about it at all. She knew who she was, and she knew that this kind of car couldn't be here to pick her up.

But when the car window rolled down and revealed Lin Yan's face, Lin Qingqing's heart jumped surprisingly alive. She still remembers the sentence she saw in Journey to the West, my crush is a hero of the world, and one day he will come to pick me up with colorful auspicious clouds.

At the moment of his heartbeat, Lin Qingqing actually felt that Lin Yan was his hero. In the cold station, there was a light in her eyes, and she looked as bright as a little star.

"Qingqing, it's cold outside, get in the car." Lin Yan's smile was warm.

Xu was confused by Lin Yan's innocent and harmless appearance, Lin Qingqing didn't remember his mother's warning to keep his distance from the young master of the Lin family. She nodded, and accepted Lin Yan's kindness.

In addition to Lin Yan and Lin Yu in the car, Lin Yan is willing to let her go home in the car, but it does not mean that Lin Yu is also willing. She kept a straight face and threw a blank eye at Lin Qingqing from time to time.

At that time, Lin Qingqing was not as brave as she is now, she only dared to use her frostbite-covered hands to keep twisting the shabby cotton clothes on her body, and then sat in the corner without saying a word.

"Warm your hands with this." Lin Yan handed the hand warmer in his hand to Lin Qingqing, still looking as warm as jade.

Staring at the brand-name down jacket Lin Yan was wearing, her inferiority complex was like a maggot crawling along her veins and veins all over her body. It was just a moment that Lin Qingqing realized what a terrible thing the gap was.

"Hurt silly?" Lin Yan's voice finally brought Lin Qingqing back to reality.

Lin Qingqing shook his head and smiled lightly. "I heard that you took over the Lin family?" She asked suddenly.

As soon as these words came out, Lin Qingqing wanted to bite her tongue and kill herself, which of her scriptures was wrong to ask this question. Although this question does not touch any moral bottom line, even Lin Yan may have forgotten the immature promise he made a few years ago.

But the moment the movements in Lin Yan's hand stagnated, Lin Qingqing knew that he hadn't forgotten, he still remembered. But what you remember, what you forget, things have come to this point.

Lin Yan picked up the paper towel on the side, gently wiped the massage oil on his hand, and then applied the ice pack to Lin Qingqing's feet. "Does it still hurt?" He turned the subject aside.

The water that spilled out of the words was spilled, Lin Qingqing's heart was clear, and he decided to ask this matter clearly. She knew herself too well, and if she didn't ask about it today, she would have been tossing and turning for many nights to come.

"Do you want to take over the Lin family?" She continued to ask in a different direction.

The current Lin Qingqing is no longer the person she was back then, not the cowardly, timid, and inferior her. On the contrary, she is now like a warrior, until she dies.

After taking a deep look at Lin Qingqing, Lin Yan sat down on the sofa next to her. "Qingqing, I really don't like your aggressive appearance." He laughed, like he was joking.

This sentence made Lin Qingqing lower her head, she was indeed different from before, but compared with her previous self, she preferred her current self. Her fingers unconsciously wrenched at the corners of her clothes, as helpless as she had been so many years ago.

"I want to protect you." Lin Yan was unabashed.

Lin Qingqing raised his head and looked at Lin Yan with some horror. For so many years, the thin layer of window paper between the two of them, which she had tried so hard to maintain, was finally pierced. The last time they met, she knew that this relationship would not last long, but she didn't expect it to be so soon.

Because he didn't know how to answer, Lin Qingqing could only bite his lower lip. She was afraid to approach Lin Yan like this, but she wanted to get one step closer to him. This complex emotion made her fall into a kind of entanglement, and she was always uneasy.

There was a biting cold from the ice pack on his feet, which made Lin Qingqing can't help but shrink a little. "Brother Lin Yan, you know, there is ...... between us" She gritted her teeth and said word by word.

"I don't know!" Lin Yan, who had always been gentle, suddenly became angry. "Qingqing, I want to protect you, I want to be with you, I want to give you a home!" He said all the words he had buried in his heart.

Lin Qingqing didn't seem to expect that Lin Yan was no longer the same Lin Yan as he had been. He was no longer forbearing, and when his feelings were surging, he didn't stop him much.

Both men in the room fell silent for a long time, no one spoke, and almost no one breathed. Lin Yan looked at Lin Qingqing, but she just stared at the floor.

"Qingqing, let's be together." Lin Yan squatted down and looked at her affectionately.

The wish she has always wanted to realize is obviously close at hand, as long as Lin Qingqing nods and says yes, she can be with the person she thinks about day and night, but she doesn't know what is wrong now, she just can't convince herself to nod.