Approaching eight o'clock in the evening, Tang Yuanyuan pushed the door and returned home.

She took off her school uniform and winter boots, and walked out of the hallway blocked by the cabinet, and as soon as she put her schoolbag on the sofa, she raised her eyes to see Yi Huai sitting on the sofa with an expressionless apple.

The fruit knife skillfully peeled off the skin of the apple in his hand, and the skin and flesh rolled into a rotating circle and fell together, he didn't say anything, but Tang Yuanyuan just felt that he didn't seem to be in a good mood.

So she snorted twice with a sloppy eye, lightened her movement from the door to the kitchen, and said "I'm back" in a low voice.

This sentence, which should have only been at the volume of self-talk, was clearly heard by Yi Huai, who said "heh" and said:

"I'm so lucky to see you come back alive."

"It's all said, it's just an occasional day, and it's okay not to watch it."

Is the resentment in your body a little too overflowing?

Tang Yuanyuan said so in his heart, he walked to the water dispenser in the kitchen and poured himself a cup of warm water.

All right! It's not that she can't understand Yi Huai's bad mood, after all, when she went out this morning, she emphasized many times that he and Xun didn't need to follow her today, and even said that she didn't want to find their traces somewhere today.

Even if he and Hyun moved out, this excuse didn't work, and whatever she said was sternly rejected by her. In Yi Huai's eyes, this kind of words are probably like a prohibition order full of disgust, right?

Although she didn't mean that herself...

It's just that just as she thought when she chatted with Gu Yuan this afternoon, she felt that she had something to say that she needed to talk to Gu Yuan alone, although in fact, even if Yi Huai and Xun were there, it wouldn't affect anything, but she couldn't help but feel embarrassed when she thought that there were two other silent objects nearby when she was chatting alone with others.

After all, Yi Huai and Xun are not the kind of low-level ghosts who don't care about anything other than eating and cheating people, on the contrary, their emotions and thoughts are too human-like, even if Tang Yuanyuan doesn't treat them as human beings, it is difficult to treat them as air.

Not to mention that in the past, when she and Gu Yuan chatted for a long time, Yi Huai would always stare at her with meaningful eyes... It's not that she didn't notice, she just pretended not to see it, but this kind of pretending not to see too much will be tiring!

So taking advantage of the free opportunity of the first day of winter vacation that she finally got today, she said that she would give you a vacation, and dragged Gu Yuan alone to walk around privately and chat as she did in the past.

It seems that it has been a long time since he has really chatted with Gu Yuan alone, and Tang Yuanyuan rarely feels extra relaxed today.

However, she originally thought that as long as he didn't let Yi Huai follow her, he wouldn't face Gu Yuan with an inexplicable hostile aura like before, but now it seems that even if he stays at home, his resentment will not weaken...

But she really didn't understand why Yi Huai had such a strong grudge, obviously she didn't seem to do anything that would threaten her life and make him lose.

Maybe I should talk to him about it...

Tang Yuanyuan thought so, walked to the living room with his cup of hot water, sat down on the sofa beside him, and when she sat down, she looked at the coffee table in front of her, but found that there were already five peeled apples on the coffee table, but the movements in Yi Huai's hands did not stop.

"Oh, that's enough, what are you doing with so many apples, you shouldn't be angry with food when you're in a bad mood, right?"

Tang Yuanyuan really couldn't stand his silent strange behavior, and the latter made a movement in his hand, raised his head, and looked at her with a pair of red eyes that were not bright, and asked:

"Is that going to be angry with you?"

Tang Yuanyuan was speechless, stretched out his hand and snatched the fruit knife in his hand, and said speechlessly: "What are you angry about?" Isn't the biggest question what exactly you're angry about? ”

Yi Huai looked at her and his eyes flashed, put down the half-peeled apple in his hand, frowned and said:

"I'm just somehow in a bad mood."

"That's inexplicable." Tang Yuanyuan said, wiped the fruit knife in his hand, and then closed it and placed it on the other side of the coffee table.

"Speaking of which, I felt a little wrong some time ago, Yi Huai, let's talk while I'm free now, shall we?"

Yi Huai's eyelids jumped for some reason when he heard her words, as if he knew what she wanted to ask, and subconsciously wanted to avoid her questioning, but he didn't leave, just removed the gaze that fell on her.

"What's wrong with something that needs to be talked about? It's not like we don't talk every day. ”

Tang Yuanyuan saw his intention to escape, but saw that he was sitting where he was and didn't leave, so he still asked straight to the point:

"I said Yi Huai, have you been a little too protective of me lately?"

Yi Huai fell into silence for nearly half a minute when he heard this, and after a while, he asked rhetorically:

"Why do you think that?"

Tang Yuanyuan said in his heart, isn't it obvious, and couldn't help but hold his forehead while looking like Yi Huai wanted to pretend that there was no such thing:

"Don't you think you've been hanging around me since you solved the ghost baby incident? You used to go on your own to look for clues, but since that incident, you seem to have completely lost interest in those things. ”

"Can't it be because I'm too tired to take a break, or maybe I'm idle?" Yi Huai's face didn't change, "Or do you hate it when I appear around you?" ”

"Stop, I didn't mean that, I just think you're always in front of too many people and easy to find." Tang Yuanyuan shook his head, "And I want to dismiss the excuse you gave, you don't look like you just want to rest." ”

After a pause, she asked:

"You tell me the truth, is it that after solving that matter, you realized that there was something important that you didn't say, which is why you became as unmotivated as you are now.... It didn't seem like a long time ago for you to find 'her' as an urgent matter. ”

Yi Huai fell into a long silence again, and finally sighed softly under Tang Yuanyuan's attitude of insisting on getting an answer.

"I've often thought it would be better if you weren't so sharp..."

This sentence almost confirmed some kind of guess on her part, and she was shocked and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Yi Huai sat on the sofa and leaned back, as if he was a little tired, closed his eyes and spoke:

"Didn't you say that you had seen the boy behind the scenes that night? You say he has a face that's almost exactly like mine. ”

"You asked me before who he really was, what he had to do with me, why he had the same face as me, and why he was able to restrain me, and my answer at that time was that I didn't know."

"But judging from your previous reactions, it's clear that you already knew that he existed." Tang Yuanyuan said.

"That's right." Yi Huai suddenly opened his eyes again and said, "I didn't lie about that. I really don't know any details about the boy, and I can't claim to know him. ”

"But there's only one thing I'm hiding from you."

He whispered, "She told me something many years ago, before 'she' left completely. ”

"If one day I see a boy with the same face as myself, it means that she has completely disappeared from this world, and whatever I want to do before that, don't try to find her again."

"So I knew that one day he might show up, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly."

Tang Yuanyuan was stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect to hear such an answer anyway.

If Yi Huai had realized this when she mentioned the boy's appearance, then what mood did he have in at that time and even during this time?

Finding that "her" has become an obsession on him, and it can even be said that he is obsessed with doing everything now, but the last hope of this obsession has long been cut off... Yi Huai was still as calm as he was now, which already made Tang Yuanyuan feel very surprised.

"Such an important thing... Why didn't you tell me sooner? ”

She frowned and asked Yi Huai, but the latter looked at her and shook his head lightly: "It's just that this kind of thing is not that important to you." ”

"Why doesn't it matter? Didn't I promise to help you find her? Hearing this, she finally felt a little angry, obviously he said that he wanted to use his own strength to find "her", but now he said that it was not important to her? Isn't that like saying you have nothing to do with it?

Yi Huai didn't seem to understand why she was unhappy, but said: "Because this matter will not affect your life, and it will not change anything now." As far as I'm concerned, even if I don't look for her anymore, I won't leave your side now, so I don't think it makes any sense to you even if I mention it. ”

Tang Yuanyuan took a deep breath and reached out to grab his wrist.

"Yi Huai, look into my eyes." "It's not about whether those things make sense to me, it's about how they affect you," she said. ”

"It should be important to you... It's always been your wish to find her...", she gritted her teeth, "but now it's become unattainable... You can't think it doesn't matter, do you? ”

The force in her hand tightened slightly as she said that, but Yi Huai stared at her for a long time after hearing her question, and then whispered:

“... Actually, I already knew that this was the final ending. It's just that I don't want to accept it, but now that it's a foregone conclusion, I don't seem to have a choice but to accept it. ”

"I've been chasing her shadow, but I always seem to be one step late."