Ran Mingzhu has long forgotten the appearance of her father Ran Tianyou, because when her father left Japan, she was only two or three years old. There were only vague fragments of his memory, and she only vaguely remembered his back, the tall man who always sat alone on the table that stretched out from the living room to the courtyard and sighed, and sometimes he would hold a can of beer in his hand.

If he realized that she was behind him, he would call her over, sit on his lap, and ice her little face with a cold beer can, and look at her cute appearance with her eyes closed, as if to make him forget for a moment the things that had troubled him for a long time, and the pain caused by the loss of his sister. But even so, she and the family were unable to keep him.

In fact, the biggest reason why Ling Ran Mingzhu is so disgusted and defensive about demons is that she thinks that it was these monsters that caused the death of her aunt Ran Susu, and finally caused her father Ran Tianyou to run away. They tore apart her family that should have been happy and took away all the joy in her life, and the pain of losing her father was full of the pain of losing her father under the strong exterior of her mother Keiko, which she had deeply experienced since childhood.

After saying goodbye to Ran Mingzhu, Xia Qiu naturally handed over the diary left by Ran Tianyou to Ouyang Xiaoleng, she could feel that no matter how much he resisted this sister who suddenly appeared on the surface, in fact, he subconsciously still wanted to help her.

As a result, Ouyang Xiaoleng, who was behind the diary, his first reaction was to open the diary, put it in front of his nose and smell it, and then said: "Sure enough!" ”

"How?" Xia Qiu turned to him and asked.

"There's something else on it besides the smell of ink, which seems to be a special fluorescent agent." Ouyang Xiaoleng closed the diary and replied to her.

"Oh? Is it like the invisible word in the movie that can only be revealed under special light? Xia Qiu remembered that she had read similar plots in detective novels and movies.

"Yes, Dong Muya and that hacker kid may really help us solve some great questions." Ouyang Xiaoleng suddenly felt that the diary in his hand had become heavy. But before that, he decided to send Xia Qiu home first.

Walking down the familiar path again, he deliberately slowed down to meet her speed, and the moonlight cast the slender shadows of the two of them, the top edge of the shadow seemed to be blurred by water vapor, and a faint smoke could be seen rhythmically moving. The two shadows moved forward in parallel, occasionally overlapping, with a harmonious and quiet beauty, and he decided to take the initiative to reach out a hand in her direction, and take her hand, and their shadows joined together.

Unexpectedly, the romantic moment just began and ended quickly, Xia Qiu raised his head suddenly, saw the figure under the street lamp, suddenly stopped, and exclaimed: "Dad! ”

"Huh?" It took a few seconds for Ouyang Xiaoleng to realize what the two words she shouted meant.

The middle-aged man in front of him was holding a cigarette, he was tall, thin, with some sunken eye sockets, and he looked as if he was seriously lacking sleep. Perhaps their presence also gave him a lot of shock, so much so that his cigarette fell from his mouth to the ground.

Xia Qiu remembered that her father Xia Xuesong had returned to Yongchuan very limitedly, although she knew that many times what he said about busy work was just an excuse, but she had long been used to it. The father in front of her was a little older than she remembered, but more of a stranger. She tried hard to think about what the first words she said to her father should be, but she completely forgot that her hand was still tightly held with Ouyang Xiaoleng.

"Who is this?" Xia Xuesong looked at the young man in front of him vigilantly and hostilely and asked, wondering how dare this young man dare to hold his daughter's hand in front of him.

"He's my classmate."

After answering his father's question, Xia Qiu finally broke free from Ouyang Xiaoleng. She felt her cheeks heat for a while, and she waited for her father's reaction.

"Oh...... I'm Xia Qiu's father. Xia Xuesong hurriedly introduced himself to establish his position, and at the same time erected a wall in front of him and the boy.

"Hello uncle!" Ouyang Xiaoleng greeted him without thinking.

Xia Qiu was still a little worried that Ouyang Xiaoleng, who had never liked to interact with people, would have an unexpected reaction, but fortunately, his attitude was quite normal. But what made her feel most strange was the reason why her father suddenly appeared, so she asked, "Why did you come back?" ”

"Let's talk about this when we go home!" Xia Xuesong glanced at Ouyang Xiaoleng impatiently and said.

Xia Qiu had to say goodbye to Ouyang Xiaoleng and follow his father home. The moment she entered the door, she clearly saw her grandmother winking at her. With the tacit understanding between her grandmother and her, she knew that this was a bad omen, and her father was likely to get angry with her.

There were only two people in the living room, she and her father, and he took out a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket, tapped the cigarette case with his fingers, and took out a cigarette and put it to his mouth just about to light it, thought about it and put it down.

In fact, Xia Xuesong's nervousness was no less than that of his daughter, he was not very suitable for reprimanding Xia Qiu, and he didn't know what tone to use to talk about the next topic with her, and after hesitating for a while, he finally said: "It's been a long time, no matter what time period I call home, you're not there." Although grandma has been helping you cover up, I still think it's not normal for a girl who is still in high school, and I came back this time to get you through the transfer procedures. ”

"Transfer procedures?!" Xia Qiu didn't expect her father to come up and give her a bombshell.

"That's right! I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I haven't taken enough care of you, and my grandparents have been too indulgent to you, so I'm worried that you'll learn badly. Xia Xue replied with a tight frown.

"Bad learning?!" Xia Qiu asked with a wry smile, she didn't know how her father suddenly found a sense of responsibility as a father after sixteen years of losing herself to her grandparents.

"Yes, I was thinking that it would be better for you to live with me, and I will help you contact the schools in Beijing." Xia Xuesong said in a determined and undeniable tone.

"Do I have a choice?" Xia Qiu felt a rebellious flame ignite in her chest.

"Originally, I wanted you to choose, but after seeing the boy just now, I felt that I was right." Xia Xuesong didn't want to back down at all.

"I'm not going to leave Yongchuan, at least not yet." Xia Qiu's eyes revealed stubbornness.

"Because of that boy? I think I need to talk to him! Xia Xuesong became more and more angry.

"What are you talking about?!" Xia Qiu was even more sure that she didn't know her father at all, and she couldn't imagine that he could be such an unreasonable person.

"Anyway, you can call him to come to the house tomorrow!" Xia Xuesong then changed his words and said, "Forget it, let's make an appointment outside, I don't want your grandparents to worry about it." ”

Xia Qiu couldn't think of how to continue the conversation between her and her father, who obviously couldn't listen to her for a while, so she had no choice but to go back to her room and lock the door. Now it seemed that only this space was completely her own, and she lay on the desk, feeling full of grievances and crying.

She couldn't explain to her father what she was doing, and she also wondered if she hadn't become a blood alliance contractor, if she hadn't shouldered the safety of the demon world and the world, if she was just an ordinary high school student, would she have followed her father out of Yongchuan with all her heart?

In addition to making her tired, crying also made her have some tinnitus so much that the knocking sound from the window became so distant. She raised her head slowly, and Ouyang Xiaoleng was outside the window in her eyes filled with tears, which made her wonder if he was just her hallucination.

But she opened the window anyway, and he landed beside her, whispering in her ear, "Are you alright?" ”

His voice was unexpectedly gentle, she looked at him, he should have already gone back to Ouyang Ancient Mansion and turned back, because the school uniform on his body had been changed into a light gray cotton sweatshirt. She didn't speak, just grabbed the corner of his clothes, buried her face deep in his clothes, and slowly regained her strength. And he stroked her hair again and again, quietly waiting for her to stop crying.

Xia Qiu finally calmed down, she took her face away from his clothes, sighed and said, "He said he came back to help me with the transfer." ”

"Where do you go to transfer schools?" Ouyang Xiaoleng asked eagerly.

"Beijing ......" Xia Qiu's voice was still a little trembling.

"This ...... Maybe it's a good thing. Ouyang Xiaoleng's gaze instantly dimmed, but he still said.

"You think so too? Hehe. Xia Qiu asked with a sneer.

"I don't want you to be embarrassed if you want to ......"

She interrupted him and said, "You know I want to stay. ”

"Then stay!"

Ouyang Xiaoleng seemed to be waiting for her words, he reached out and took her hand holding the corner of his clothes, and then squatted down so that his forehead could be attached to Xia Qiu who was sitting in the chair.

"He said he wanted to talk to you tomorrow, and I hope you can use your hypnosis to get him to change his mind and go back to Beijing." Xia Qiu could feel his breath rushing to his face, and the distance between him and her was so close that she also regained her sense of security.

"Well, that's all there is to it." Ouyang Xiaoleng responded.

Being in this not too spacious room with Xia Qiu, unconsciously surrounded by her fragrance, just thinking about this made his heart beat faster, coupled with the desire of the power of gods and demons in his body for her blood became more and more obvious at this moment, he knew that he had to leave, otherwise the consequences would be out of control.

"You're going back?" Xia Qiu asked reluctantly after finding that Ouyang Xiaoleng slowly let go of his hand.

"Rest early!" He nodded in response, then jumped out of the window and vanished.

He went straight back to Ouyang's ancient mansion, there was still an irrepressible desire in his body, this feeling had not occurred for a long time, but this time it was suddenly intense. Just now, he had handed over the diary of Tian Tian You to Dong Muya and Min Entong, and Dong Mu Ya happened to have a fluorescent light that could make this invisible text appear, and as long as he used this kind of light, he could read what those words that Tian You intended to hide were. He urgently needed to turn his attention to these things, otherwise he felt that he might even go to Xia Qiu uncontrollably.

As Ouyang Xiaoleng had speculated, Dong Muya and the others quickly read out the hidden words, and the content of the words happened to be a summary of the dense records on that page, or a hint. She recorded this useful information, and in the process of recording, she also learned what happened to Ran Tianyou from the beginning of the independent investigation into Ran Susu's death to the time she disappeared.

He just mentioned the previous owner of the Sparrow Hotel, Mrs. Lan, and clearly pointed out that this Madame Lan was a very powerful snake demon, and the most important point was that she worked for Qingyun.