Near eight o'clock in the evening, Tang Yuanyuan opened the door and returned home.
She took off her school uniform and winter boots and walked out of the entrance blocked by the cabinet. As soon as she put her schoolbag on the sofa, she looked up and saw Yi Huai sitting on the sofa expressionlessly peeling an apple.
The fruit knife skillfully peeled off the skin of the apple in his hand, and the skin rolled into a rotating circle and fell together. He said nothing, but Tang Yuanyuan felt that he seemed to be in a bad mood for some reason.
So she laughed twice carelessly, eased her movements from the door to the kitchen, and said "I'm back" in a low voice.
This sentence that should have been just spoken to himself was clearly heard by Yi Huai, who let out a "ha" and said:
"I'm so lucky to see you back alive and kicking."
"As I said, it's okay if you don't look at it for a day occasionally."
Is the resentment in your body a little too overflowing?
Tang Yuanyuan cursed in his heart, walked to the water dispenser in the kitchen and poured himself a cup of warm water.
All right! It wasn't like she couldn't understand that Yi Huai was in a bad mood. After all, when she went out this morning, she repeatedly emphasized that he and Zhen didn't need to follow her today, and even said that she didn't want to find their traces wherever she turned around today.
Even the excuse that something dangerous might happen if he and Tsumu moved out didn't work, and she sternly rejected whatever he said. In Yi Huai's eyes, such words are probably like a no-close order full of disgust, right?
Although she didn't mean it herself...
But just as she was thinking when she was chatting with Gu Yuan this afternoon, she felt that she had something to say and needed to talk to Gu Yuan alone. Although in fact, even if Yi Huai and Zhen were there, it would not affect anything, but when she thought of her and others When chatting alone, she couldn't help but feel embarrassed when there were two other silent people nearby.
After all, Yi Huai and Zhen are not the kind of low-level ghosts who don't care about things other than eating and deceiving people. On the contrary, their emotions and thinking are too much like humans. Even if Tang Yuanyuan doesn't regard them as humans, they are very human. It’s hard to really treat them like air.
Not to mention that Yi Huai would always stare at her with meaningful eyes when she and Gu Yuan chatted for a long time... It's not that she didn't notice, she just pretended not to see, but this kind of pretending didn't see too much It will also be tiring!
So taking advantage of the hard-earned first day of winter vacation today, she called it a holiday for you, and took Gu Yuan alone to walk around and chat in private like she did in the past.
It seemed that it had been a long time since he had truly chatted with Gu Yuan alone. It was rare for Tang Yuanyuan to feel that he was particularly relaxed today.
However, she originally thought that as long as Yi Huai was not allowed to follow her, he would not exude inexplicable hostility towards Gu Yuan like before, but now it seems that his resentment will not weaken even if he leaves him at home...
But she really didn't understand why Yi Huai had such strong resentment. It seemed that he had done nothing that would threaten his life and cause him losses.
Maybe I should have a chat with him about this matter...
Tang Yuanyuan thought so, walked to the living room with her cup of hot water, and sat down on the sofa beside him. When she sat down, she looked at the coffee table in front of her, only to find that there were already five cups of water on the coffee table. A peeled apple, but the movement in Yi Huai's hand did not stop.
"Oh, that's enough. Why are you peeling so many apples? You shouldn't take it out on food when you're in a bad mood, right?"
Tang Yuanyuan really couldn't stand his strange silent behavior. The latter moved his hands for a moment, raised his head and looked at her with his dull red eyes, and asked:
"Is it possible to take it out on you?"
Tang Yuanyuan was speechless, reached out and snatched the fruit knife from his hand, and said speechlessly: "Why are you so angry? Isn't the biggest question what are you angry about?"
Yi Huai looked at her with eyes flashing, put down the half-peeled apple in his hand, frowned and said:
"I'm just in a bad mood for no reason."
"That's really baffling." Tang Yuanyuan said, wiping the fruit knife in his hand, then closing it and placing it on the other side of the coffee table.
"Speaking of which, I felt something was wrong some time ago. Yi Huai, let's have a chat while you're free now?"
Yi Huai's eyelids twitched for some reason when he heard her words, as if he knew what she wanted to ask. He subconsciously wanted to avoid her question, but he didn't leave, he just looked away from her.
"Is there anything wrong that we need to talk about in particular? It's not like we don't talk every day."
Tang Yuanyuan saw his intention to evade, but saw that he was sitting there without leaving, so he asked straight to the point:
"I'm talking to Yi Huai, have you been a little too protective of me lately?"
Yi Huai fell into silence for nearly half a minute after hearing this. After a while, he asked:
"Why do you think so?"
Tang Yuanyuan thought to himself, "Isn't it obvious yet?" He couldn't help but hold his forehead while looking at Yi Huai's appearance of pretending that it didn't happen.
"Don't you think that since you solved the ghost baby incident, you've basically been hanging around me? You used to often look for some clues alone, but since that incident, you seem to have completely lost interest in those things. "
"Can't it be because I'm too tired and want to take a rest or because I'm very free?" Yi Huai said without changing his expression, "Or do you hate me hanging around you?"
"Stop, I didn't mean that. I just think you always appear in front of too many people and are easily discovered." Tang Yuanyuan shook his head, "And I want to reject the excuse you gave. You don't look innocent. Want to rest."
She paused for a moment and then asked:
"Tell me the truth, did you realize that there was something important that you didn't say after you solved that matter, which made you lack motivation like you are now... For you not long ago, finding 'She' seems like it should be an urgent matter."
Yi Huai fell into a long silence again, and finally sighed softly under Tang Yuanyuan's attitude of insisting on getting the answer.
"I often think it would be better if you weren't so sharp..."
This sentence almost confirmed some of her guesses. She was startled and asked: "What is going on?"
Yi Huai sat on the sofa and leaned back. He closed his eyes as if he was a little tired and said:
"On that night, didn't you say that you had seen the appearance of the boy behind the scenes? You said that he had a face that was almost exactly the same as mine."
"You asked me before, who is he, and what is his relationship with me, why he has the same face as me, and why he can restrain my abilities. My answer at that time was that I didn't know either."
"But judging from your previous reaction, you have obviously known about his existence for a long time." Tang Yuanyuan said.
"That's right." Yi Huai suddenly opened his eyes again and said, "I didn't lie about that matter. I really don't know any detailed information about that boy, and I can't claim to know him. "
"But I only hid one thing from you."
He said softly: "Many years ago, before 'she' left completely, she once told me one thing."
"If one day in the future I see a boy with the same face as myself appear, it means that she has completely disappeared from this world. No matter what I want to do before that, don't try to find her again."
"So actually I already knew that one day he might appear, but I didn't expect this day to come so quickly."
Tang Yuanyuan was startled when she heard this. She never expected to hear such an answer.
If Yi Huai had already realized this when she mentioned the boy's appearance, then what was his mood at that time and even during this period?
Looking for that "her" has become an obsession for him, and it can even be said to be the obsession that keeps him doing everything he does now, but the last hope of this obsession has actually been cut off... Yi Huai returned Tang Yuanyuan was surprised to be as calm as now.
"Such an important thing...why didn't you tell me earlier?"
She frowned and asked Yi Huai, but the latter looked at her and shook his head: "It's just that whether you talk about this kind of thing or not is actually not that important to you."
"Why is it not important? Didn't I promise to help you find her?" After hearing this, she finally felt a little angry. It was obviously him who said that he would use his own power to find "her", but now he said it was right for her. unimportant? Isn't this just like saying that you have nothing to do with it?
Yi Huai didn't seem to understand why she was unhappy, and just said: "Because this incident will not affect your life, and it will not change anything now. For me, even if I no longer look for She, I will never leave your side now, so I think even mentioning her will mean nothing to you."
Tang Yuanyuan took a deep breath and reached out to grab his wrist.
"Yi Huai, look into my eyes." She said, "What matters is not whether those things are meaningful to me, but what impact they have on you."
"This should be very important to you... It has always been your wish to find her..." She gritted her teeth, "But now it has become something that cannot be achieved... You can't Do you think it doesn’t matter?”
As she spoke, the strength in her hands tightened slightly, but after hearing her question, Yi Huai stared at her for a while, and then whispered:
"...Actually, I have known that this is the final outcome. I have always been unwilling to accept it, but now everything has become a foregone conclusion, and I seem to have no choice but to accept it."
"I have been chasing her shadow, but I always seem to be a step late."
