Chapter 1: Midnight's Sons

It's two hours until midnight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 However, for Teng Yunshen, the day is over, or it can be put another way, a new day has just begun.

He belongs to the night - this is not some kind of pretentious rhetorical device. Everyone experiences the night, but he is different, and at its darkest he sits under the bright lights, behind the old counter, waiting for the occasional guest.

Most people don't have the habit of not returning home at night, so they are often accompanied by nothing else to accompany him during long nights.

"You're not going to do this forever, it's just a transitional phase. Introducing the shop to his neighbors, he said, "You can use your free time to review your homework or learn something else." ”

Teng Yunshen recalled the other party's elderly and kind face, and sighed softly. With very little to do, but earning a sixth more than his colleagues during the day, he probably shouldn't complain.

He knew that such a state of mind was not right. However, there are some ...... It's hard to let go.

He had just turned eighteen, and it had only been half a year since he last left the classroom. At 10 p.m., he should spend his time in a university dormitory like his classmates, rather than working a nine-hour job in a nearby store.

But who is to blame for this? In any case, it is not the kind neighbors who are to blame, but they have helped a lot. Thinking about it, it's just that he is to blame. Why did he have to go there at that time?

Icy mist...... Teng Yunshen recalled and shuddered.

In any case, it had already happened, and he lost the opportunity to go on to higher education because of it. Now, here, in the 24-hour shop, there is a small place for him.

People don't say it to his face, they comfort him. Behind the scenes, however, they will say, "This child will not have a future." "Of course, there's nothing wrong with that.

In the past, his grades were not good either, and he was in the middle and lower reaches of the class. But as long as the final result is not yet available, it means that there is still some hope. He may be able to go above and beyond to get into a university that barely gets by, and truly become one of his peers.

Now, everyone knows that he will live a life of mediocrity. He might be lucky enough to find a cute girl and spend decades of obscurity with her. This won't be too much of a problem, and his excellent classmates will eventually live like this. However, at this moment, they still have visions and possibilities that he does not have.

Teng Yun sighed deeply and casually turned the next page of the book.

Neighbors say he can use his time. However, re-engaging with the strange and familiar knowledge was painful for him – a pain that no one else could experience.

At least not yet, after two hundred days and nights, he still couldn't move forward.

Icy mist...... Teng Yunshen shook his head, letting his thoughts jump a few times in the long void, and lightly jumped to half an hour ago.

He saw her again. Sometimes, he thinks, "Good fortune once blessed me." ”

He had been in the same class as her for twelve years, and it was not easy to maintain such a record, which was inseparable from the gift of chance. He and she had never been able to get closer, but even so, Teng Yunshen was grateful for the arrangement of fate in the past twelve years.

The two are not even good friends, they are just acquaintances. She didn't deliberately alienate him, she was nice to him, but she was nice to everyone. Pretty, smart, kind, impeccable, anyone would want to revolve around her. So, he could only be squeezed into a far corner, just like now, without any difference.

And just half an hour earlier, when he had to leave early for work, the girl insisted on sending him to the door—to his almost flattery—that he had had been alone with her for the past twelve years.

"Sober up. Teng Yunshen reminded himself. A long time ago, he stopped having romantic thoughts about her.

What did she say to him?" the girl patted his arm with a feigned ease, "you didn't talk much today, you're still the same." ”

He was just a pure foil at the reunion, and the topics of conversation were always inseparable from the excitement of college life, and he had nothing to say about it. Of course, even in the past, he was mostly reticent......

Teng Yunshen smiled: "Isn't this good?"

"It's a little relieved to see you like this," the girl bit her lip, "after all, such an unfortunate thing happened. ”

"It's all gone, and it's not your fault. Teng Yunshen said he didn't care, "Go back." They can't live without you. He was amazed that he would take the initiative to leave the other party. "Goodbye. He took a few steps, then turned around and waved at her.

The girl nodded solemnly: "Be careful." She watched him leave, her expression sad and moving, like a far-reaching landscape in a painting.

Then, Teng Yunshen sat here, sitting on a plastic chair that was not very comfortable, waiting for the dawn to come.

Nothing noteworthy. It's a university town, not a dangerous fringe zone, and no one will do anything wrong. His thoughts quickly drifted back to the girl. He had heard that when he lost consciousness, she clung to his shoulders and cried.

"What a wonderful girl. People say this, although Teng Yunshen knows that such kindness is not exclusive to him, but he is still deeply moved. However, it is a pity that before and after this, the girl did not care about him so much.

Teng Yunshen continued to flip through the textbook at hand, blank, blank, still blank. The neatly printed words leaped high from the paper, patted his head gently, and then spread his wings and flew in all directions, leaving no trace.

He sighed. How many times had he sighed tonight? Long sighs were a sign of age, and he was a little anxious about it.

A figure slowly walked past the door of the store, distracting the clerk's already inattentive attention. Teng Yun looked at the untimely passer-by in surprise, a ...... Child?

He looks so small, the smallest model you can imagine among children who go out alone, you will be very worried about whether he has lost his way and cannot find his way home. It's ten o'clock, and it's too late for a child.

Teng Yunshen hesitated for a moment. Then, locking the drawer with the money, he walked out of the store and followed the child unhurriedly. "Hey. He greeted cautiously, for fear of frightening the sluggish little one.

The child turned his head, and Teng Yun stared into the child's eyes.

"Oh my God!" he wouldn't forget those pupils. That day, when he suddenly regained consciousness, his pupils in the mirror swirled the same hollow, empty, with nothing.

Icy mist...... Teng Yunshen quickly looked around. It's too quiet, unusually quiet, scary.

He picked up the little boy and ran as fast as he could, "Hurry up!" His mind was in a mess, "Get where there are many people!"