"What's your name?" The little boy shouted from the balcony.

"My name is Ruozhi, Zhao Ruozhi!" She replied with a smile, and suddenly the sun seemed to shine many times brighter, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Hao Hao."

"You look older than me, Brother Haohao, then we will be friends from now on! Shall we play together? ”

The light in the boy's eyes suddenly dimmed: "Yes, we will play together, White Swan." ”

After that, he was no longer satisfied with standing on the balcony and talking to the white swan, he secretly stuffed her favorite model car from the railing of the fence while the family was not looking.

"In return, I'll play the piano in my room at night." There was a sly glint in the girl's eyes.

The little boy thought silently in his heart, you have to wait for me, and when I reach the age of sixteen, I will be able to come out to you. At that time, he didn't know that on his sixteenth birthday, the little girl's family was tragically destroyed.

When he finished his birthday and ran next door to tell the good news to the white swan, he saw blood in the dark house, and the whole luxuriously decorated villa was filled with the smell of blood. He stumbled into the yard where the white swan usually played, and there was no life.

He cried and shouted her name, and the fear in his heart consumed him little by little. He had never seen death, and in the large house behind him, there were three corpses. He was wandering around the yard when he suddenly tripped over something under his feet. He fell to the ground, no longer able to get up.

"What if...... Where are you...... Where are you......"

"Don't cry." A childish voice came from the bushes, "They're gone." ”

The little boy was too frightened to speak. He saw the ugly duckling in his sweatshirt emerge from the bushes, his face covered with cuts from the branches. She pulled the little boy up from the ground and walked out without looking back.

The little boy felt that her hands were frighteningly cold, yet surprisingly soft.

"Don't look back."

The little boy still couldn't help but look back at what it was that tripped over him just now. As soon as he turned around, he regretted it. The little girl in the princess dress fell to the ground with a pale face, a huge bloody mouth in her neck, the blood had not yet fully coagulated, and her limbs were scattered in the four corners of the courtyard.

He couldn't remember how he got home, and the memory seemed to stop the moment he saw the white swan's body. He also couldn't remember where the ugly duckling had gone, and it wasn't until months later, when he came out of that nightmare, that he remembered that there was another ugly duckling.

Han Haonan sighed and pulled out of his memories: "Can you lend me a cigarette?" ”

Zhou Yi directly threw a pack of cigarettes to him.

"Fire."

"Don't you smoke?" Zhou Yi finished lighting a cigarette for Han Haonan, but he peeled off a lollipop and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Occasionally. I didn't expect you to really quit smoking. He let out a long breath, "Thinking of those things in the past, it was difficult for me as a bystander to get out, let alone that she was the person concerned." ”

"Tell me everything you know."

"I only know that the girl who was dismembered in the murder case was not Zhao Ruozhi, but Li Ruolin. They often swap clothes to wear, and it was because of the exchange of clothes that day that Zhao Ruozhi escaped, but Li Ruolin became a substitute for the dead.

Both of them were originally twins born to Zhao Feng and his wife, but his younger sister Li Ruolin was passed on to Li Lianchun and his wife from birth. The cousins looked very similar to outsiders at first glance when they were young, so no one found out that they were actually twin sisters for so many years. ”

Zhou Yi didn't speak, quietly watching the smoke dissipate into the air.

I don't know when the soreness in my heart will dissipate like this smoke.

In the villa, Li Ruolin - no, it was Zhao Ruozhi, she looked at the photo wall quietly, without any expression, like a wooden pillar standing in front of the family photo. One stop is three hours until nightfall.

There was not a glimmer of light in the dark study, just like that night ten years ago.

"Hide, hide, don't let me find you......" With a string of crisp laughter, a voice sounded in her ears: "Sister...... I'm coming for you...... Sister ......"

Zhao Ruozhi turned his head suddenly, but there was no one behind him. She tried to communicate with the voice, "Ruolin, is that you?" ”

"Sister...... Sister...... I'm coming for you......"

"Ruolin ......"

Zhao Ruozhi was looking in the study where he couldn't see his five fingers, and he forgot to turn on the light, for fear that as soon as the light was turned on, his sister would be scared away.

"Sister, don't leave me! Sister! ”

Zhao Ruozhi became more and more anxious: "Ruolin is not afraid, my sister is coming!" She ignored the desks, chairs, and bookshelves in the study, and ran through it vigorously, regardless of hurting her arms and legs. She was afraid that her sister would disappear from view again, which she owed her.

There was no sister in the study, Zhao Ruozhi rushed to the balcony, shouted Li Ruolin's name over and over again, and leaned out.

"I know you're outside, don't hide Ruolin, it's my turn this time." With that, she began to climb the railing, "When I get outside, you can come out!" ”

"What are you doing!"

As soon as the two people who returned to the old mansion from Han Haonan's house walked to the door of Zhao Ruozhi's bedroom, they heard movement in the house. After all, he was still not at ease, and came in to check the situation, but he didn't expect to see Zhao Ruozhi was about to climb over the balcony, so frightened that Han Haonan immediately shouted to stop him, Zhou Yize didn't think much about it, so he rushed forward, pulled Zhao Ruozhi back from the balcony railing, and hugged him tightly in his arms.

"My sister is outside, she called me over." Zhao Ruozhi struggled to go out, but he couldn't break free of his embrace.

"I'm sorry, it's me who is bad. I shouldn't have left you here alone. ”

"My sister is still waiting for me! You let me out! Zhao Ruozhi's face was full of anxiety, as if someone was really waiting for her.

"Listen to me." Zhou Yi comforted Ruozhi while asking Han Haonan to turn on the light, "Your sister is no longer here." ”

"Nope! She's coming for me! ”

"If so! Be sober! Zhou Yi had to raise his voice, calling her a little unaccustomed to it for a while.

Zhao Ruozhi looked at Zhou Yi blankly, his eyes full of tears: "You...... How do you know ......" The sudden light made Zhao Ruozhi reflexively close his eyes, and tears also slipped down.

Zhou Yi felt his heart tighten, and gently stroked Zhao Ruozhi's hair, making her bury her face in her chest. "I know it all, it's not your fault."

"It's all my fault." Zhao Ruozhi's voice was muffled, with a thick nasal tone.

"It's my fault that I shouldn't have left you here. I didn't know that thing was so hard for you, and it shouldn't be...... It's that I'm too anxious. You can hit me and scold me, but don't hurt yourself again, promise me, okay. Zhou Yi seemed to be coaxing a child who had lost his temper, patiently coaxing.

"I didn't mean to...... I couldn't control myself at the time...... Right—"

"Shhh-" Zhou Yi put his finger on Zhao Ruozhi's lips, "It's me who should apologize, not you." ”

Zhao Ruozhi looked at the sometimes cold and sometimes gentle man in front of him, and his heart was even more sore. The gradually sober consciousness reminded her that she could not be willful any longer. His eyes were full of exhaustion, he couldn't let him worry so much about himself anymore, he had to be strong. His tenderness will only be revealed in front of her, and she will definitely cherish it.

She nodded obediently, "I see." Looking at the thick darkness outside the balcony, her heart still couldn't relax.

Zhou Yi gently kissed the tears on Zhao Ruozhi's face, carefully examined the abrasions on her arms and legs, and was relieved after making sure that there was nothing serious. "There's a medical kit in the car, let's go back." Without waiting for Zhao Ruozhi to agree, he bent down, passed his right arm through the crook of Ruozhi's leg, and picked her up horizontally.

Zhao Ruozhi exclaimed.

"What's wrong?"

"You suddenly picked me up and scared me." Zhao Ruozhi's spirit is still in a state of tension, and it is inevitable that he will be easily frightened

The corners of Zhou Yi's mouth rose and kissed Ruozhi's forehead gently, "Is there anything else uncomfortable?" ”

"My ankle is twisted and it hurts a little."

"It's not swollen, it should be fine soon."

"Hmm."

Han Haonan, who was standing at the door, only sighed softly when he watched the two of them move so naturally and intimately. There was a voice in his heart reminding him that even if he had been protecting her, the little princess would still leave him after all.

Back in the car, Zhou Yi drove, and Han Haonan took on the work of disinfection and bandaging as a matter of course.

"Seeing that you have been scarred lately, you don't feel sorry, others feel sorry for you. Fortunately, I have a wet nurse who has been following your ass and worrying about you. Han Haonan complained to Ruozhi while bandaging, and finally didn't forget to care: "Does your stomach still hurt?" ”

"It still hurts a little." Zhao Ruozhi grimaced at him: "Doctor Han doesn't do his job properly, he doesn't stay in the hospital well, what's the matter?" ”

"I'd love to." Han Haonan didn't raise his head, and pretended to be relaxed: "It's been so many years, you know." ”

As soon as he said this, he felt the atmosphere in the car stiffen. She did know Han Haonan's intentions all along, but she had never had feelings for him other than friends, and the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend was just an immature relationship.

She didn't know how to respond to him. After so many years, she is also used to having Han Haonan by her side to deal with all kinds of troubles, and Han Haonan has no complaints, she knows that this is too unfair to Han Haonan.

"Hmm...... I know. ”

"Don't think too much, if you don't need me one day, I'll naturally leave."

Zhao Ruozhi stared blankly at the two spins on the back of Han Haonan's head, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

Is she too greedy? has always been reluctant to leave Han Haonan's protection, from childhood to adulthood, he has stood silently behind him without complaint. Now with Zhou Yi, he is still as gentle as before, thinking about everything in advance, and has no complaints.

"Han Haonan, should I send you a good person card" Zhou Yi said with a smile.

"Okay, then you're welcome." Han Haonan also took it calmly.

"Where are we going now?"