But in the end, she still watched him leave.
It turned out that he still saw the mark she left.
Shi Xiaonian turned over the coin in her hand and saw a touch of red printed on it, which looked a bit shocking. She raised her eyes and looked at Gong Ou's expressionless face, "This is not my blood."
"I was afraid that the blood would fade away, so I traced it with a pen." Gong Ou replied.
Shi Xiaonian's heart was shaken violently, and the redness like blood made her hand holding the coin a little cold, "Why do you want to keep this coin?"
Why draw the shape of blood
What kind of mood would he feel when he was describing it
"You have to leave something, otherwise, everything will be gone." Gong Ou said in a deep voice, watching the soft light of the sunrise slowly falling on the lake, sparkling.
"But keeping this kind of thing will only make you uncomfortable." Shi Xiaonian clenched the coin in his hand.
In fact, she had always understood that he was suffering from the Hill tribe's decision to use her as bait, but she did not expect that he would keep even a small coin, as if he wanted to forcefully carve some mark on his body.
Gong Ou stood two steps forward, with his trouser legs touching the guardrail. Shi Xiaonian looked at his back, and the light falling on his hair was a little unreal.
long time.
Shi Xiaonian heard Gong Ou say, "Shi Xiaonian, I can answer your question just now."
"What was the question just now?"
Shi Xiaonian was stunned for a moment, unable to catch up with his thoughts. After thinking for a moment, he remembered that he had just asked why he wanted to bring her with him.
Is this the problem
"I'm afraid of losing you. I was like this before, and I am like this now. Maybe I can only be like this for the rest of my life!" Gong Ou didn't look back, just stood there and said, his voice was magnetic but hoarse, with the moisture of morning dew, " I'm always absolute in things, but from the moment I picked up this coin, I didn't know what to do."
“…”
Shi Xiaonian stood behind him and stared at him blankly. The arrogant Gong Ou actually said he didn't know what to do.
"I used you as bait because I was afraid that you would hate me; I protected you because I was afraid that you and Mu Qianchu would rekindle their old relationship; now that I have brought you here, I am even more afraid that you will die in front of me!"
Gong Ou stood there, his hand hanging by his side clenched into a fist bit by bit, clenched tightly.
“…”
Shi Xiaonian's brows furrowed slightly, and her nose felt inexplicably sore.
It turns out that he is afraid of so much. It turns out that when he makes decisions, he is not completely domineering and authoritarian. He also hesitates.
The sun is rising from the sky little by little, and the sky is getting brighter and brighter.
"In the past, I could at least keep your life as my first principle, but this time, I don't know." Gong Ou said in a low voice, always turning his back to her.
"Then why did you bring me here?"
Shi Xiaonian asked.
“…”
Gong Ou was silent.
"Gong Ou, answer me, can you look at me and answer my question?" Shi Xiaonian said.
After all, the leaves could not bear the weight of the dewdrops, and the dewdrops slowly slid down from the leaf tips and fell into the soil.
Gong Ou stood there, facing the morning light. He didn't know how long it had passed. He turned around and looked at her. His eyes were red. He stared at her deeply and said word by word, "I I'm afraid that if I leave you alone, you will have random thoughts and die. Here, at least we can die together."
“…”
Shi Xiaonian stared at him in shock. It turned out that this was the reason why he desperately wanted to bring her into a dangerous place.
It was the last time she almost had an abortion that scared him so much that he would rather die together.
Shi Xiaonian turned her face away and closed her sore eyes. She tried her best to put on a smile and looked at Gong Ou, "Why do you think things are so bad? I still want to go back safely and spend time with my children. Grow together."
She just didn't want to die, she just wanted to stay with them, so she crawled to this day in agony.
She never wanted to die.
At this point, is she more optimistic than him
"Shi Xiaonian, I don't want to lie to you. When we enter here, it's like stepping into hell."
Gong Ou looked at her and said.
He has already smelled how dangerous District 13 is.
Shi Xiaonian stood there and still smiled, "A honeymoon trip to hell is not bad, right?"
"You think of this as a honeymoon?"
Gong Ou's eyes flickered. He didn't expect her to think so. Shi Xiaonian nodded vigorously, her smile becoming more and more beautiful in the morning light, "Yes, other people's honeymoons are not as thrilling as ours. Isn't it a very special experience?"
“…”
Gong Ou stopped talking and just looked at him with burning eyes.
“…”
Shi Xiaonian pursed her lips, walked forward, and stood in front of him, staring at him intently with her black and white eyes, "Gong Ou, promise me, don't think so much, okay? The darkness will always pass, unless the sun comes out. Yet?"
The despair she had had had been driven away by him, and now that they could walk side by side, she didn't have as much fear as him.
"I'm not sure how many times I can watch the sunrise with you."
"Gong Ou..."
"Shi Xiaonian, I want you to promise me something today." Gong Ou said with serious eyes.
It seemed that there was indeed another purpose in taking her to watch the sunrise. Shi Xiaonian raised four fingers and said, "I swear, I will protect myself and prevent myself from getting hurt."
Is this what he wants
Gong Ou looked at her silently, his eyes red. Shi Xiaonian's eyelashes trembled. She realized that this was not what he wanted to say, and she looked at him in confusion.
"If one day, death is in front of us, and you let me die first, live if you can, and die behind me if you can't." Gong Ou said each word, his voice low and hoarse, shaken by the morning light.
"..." Shi Xiaonian looked at him in shock and asked after a long while, "Why?"
Gong Ou turned around, turned his back to her again, and said, "I thought about doing it the other way around. At least I could collect your body and let you leave peacefully, but I found that I couldn't do it."
Can't do it...
Gong Ou actually said that he couldn't do it.
This was one of the few times when Gong Ou showed his fragile side in front of her. Shi Xiaonian suddenly didn't know what to say, and his eyes were a little moist.
In fact, he didn't say it, he had always done this, and there was no danger that he didn't stand in front of her.
But she didn't expect that he would say that all this was just because of his cowardice and that he couldn't face it.
“…”
"Shi Xiaonian, listen, I, Gong Ou, can't collect your body for you. If you die in front of me, I..."
Before Gong Ou could finish speaking, Shi Xiaonian hugged him from behind, hugging his body tightly with both arms. She curled her lips bitterly, "I promise you, if there is such a day, I will let you protect me." Until my last breath, I will never try to do anything for you."
After she finished speaking, Gong Ou's body was shaken severely.
Suddenly, Gong Ou turned around and hugged her tightly into his arms, wanting to strangle her body. He lowered his head, put his thin lips to her ears, and said almost through gritted teeth, "Remember what you said today. If so, don’t forget a single word!”
"good."
Shi Xiaonian tried her best to agree and raised her head to look at the sunrise in the horizon.
She will never forget the sunrise that day or his words. If death comes, she will let him die first, collect his body for him, and bear the pain of the person she loves dying in front of her eyes.
"Shi Xiaonian has been protected by Gong Ou for too long. He can't do anything. All he can do... is to fulfill his only cowardice." Shi Xiaonian said slowly while looking at the sunrise.
Gong Ou's body was shocked again, and he hugged her tightly with both arms, refusing to let go no matter what.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter.
…
With such a heavy beginning, Shi Xiaonian knew that the following days would not be easy.
They moved into a small courtyard villa carefully arranged by Gong Yu. The owner was a woman who lived alone in the local area for a long time. The courtyard wall was very high and the situation inside could not be seen from the outside. The owner was also a solitary person who did not make friends with others. Or, this kind of house is most suitable for them to live in.
The house is very clean. Although the furniture is old, it is spotless and looks very comfortable. It can be seen that the owner is a very hard-working person.
Gong Ou sat in front of the sofa and started assembling computers and machines.
"Shi Xiaonian, I want to eat an apple!"
Gong Ou calls her.
"We'll talk later. I need to water this potted flower first." Shi Xiaonian held the moonlight flower and walked to him to sit down, carefully dusting some water on it with her fingers.
Gong Ou glared at her dissatisfied, "Is this pot of broken flowers more important to me?"
"It's very important. The time to go back depends on it." Shi Xiaonian said seriously, carefully cultivating the "flower" which was still a pot of soil.
"boring!"
Gong Ou sneered disdainfully.
After returning from the lake, the two of them had a tacit understanding and stopped talking about the sad promise, as if nothing had happened.
"I think it's very meaningful." Shi Xiaonian said, looking at some machines in front of her, after thinking about it, she picked up the basin and stood up to leave.
Just as Gong Ou was about to hug her, he jumped in the air and said displeasedly, "Where are you going again?"
Can't you spend more time with him
"Your machines have radiation, I'd better put the flowers farther away." Shi Xiaonian left with the basin in his arms, and met Gong Yu who hurriedly walked in.
Shi Xiaonian couldn't help but paused and looked at Gong Yu, only to see him walking next to Gong Ou. He didn't even bother to sit down and said, "A large number of people from Lancaster have settled in District 13. It seems that we have been here all night." I still found movement when I came in."
“…”
Shi Xiaonian couldn't help biting her lip. No wonder even Gong Ou, who had always been arrogant, was so pessimistic. How could he find someone if he was discovered so quickly
Gong Ou sat there playing with his machine, with no surprise on his face.
"Have you guessed it?" Gong Yu frowned.
"You don't think that a high wall outside can hide us, do you?" Gong Ou sneered, "That old man just wanted to lure us here and catch us all."
"Bring it here?" Shi Xiaonian was stunned, "So, that Bit is not in Area 13?"
Is this just a scam
"Only when the bait is real will people fall for it."
Gong Ou glanced at Shi Xiaonian, his eyes a little uncomfortable, just like when he used her as bait. (To be continued)