"I always feel that you are very far away from me..." After a long while, she suddenly spoke softly.
Bai Yeqing didn't say anything, and his hand on her back paused for a moment.
His eyes fell on her little face. Her face was calm and composed, framed by her black hair.
She didn't look up at him, but just hugged him tighter with her hands.
Even when she was holding him like now, she knew that they were not from the same world.
His identity, status, ambition, and power were all very far away from her.
However, that was a man's ambition, the goal he had been pursuing since he was a child. Xia Xingchen understood what it meant to him.
… … …
This way.
Warm and charming.
On the other side…
Outside the window, in the howling wind, Bai Suye was lying on the strange bed, gasping in pain.
A thin layer of cold sweat kept oozing out from between his furrowed brows.
Her fingers were tightly clenched on the bed sheet, wrinkling it, and her fingertips were pale. The bed sheet was soaked by the cold sweat from her palms.
"Miss Bai, please leave here immediately!" A man's firm voice came to my ears.
"No! If we go, we go together! If we die, we die together!" She heard her own voice, full of panic. In fact, at the age of 18, she was already used to death, but when she knew what was going to happen next, she was still afraid. Her voice was trembling.
"The young master ordered us to protect you even at death. Miss Bai, please don't make things difficult for us!"
Then, there was the roar of a helicopter, and bullets rained down from the sky. The sniper shot her in the head, and at that time, she could only watch numbly and helplessly as the brothers who had gone through life and death with Night Owl fell beside her one by one and lost consciousness.
"A3280, mission accomplished, welcome back!" The leader of Group A of the Ministry of National Defense landed in front of her from the helicopter and saluted.
She looked at those people who were dying because of protecting her, and stared at her with hatred and regret with the last bit of strength she had. The look in her eyes was cold and scary, like a ghost seeking her life.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!" She screamed and sat up suddenly, with cold sweat on her back. She felt like someone was strangling her neck and she couldn't breathe.
Dream…
It turned out to be just a dream. A nightmare! A nightmare that had haunted her for ten years!
Outside the window, the wind roared like a wild beast. Bai Suye felt like she was about to be suffocated to death. She got off the bed powerlessly and opened the window with force. She took a deep breath and leaned against the window, staring blankly at the darkness in the world.
At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.
I heard the servant's voice coming in softly, "That sound just now was indeed coming from here. Maybe Miss Bai is having a nightmare."
"I understand. Back off." The voice of Night Owl.
Then he walked in.
The door was closed again, and the room was dark with no lights on.
Bai Suyue subconsciously turned around and looked, and saw the tall figure in the darkness.
He didn't seem to notice that there was no one on the bed. He just stood at the door, staring intently in the direction of the bed - there, the quilt was still bulging, and it looked like there was indeed a person lying in the darkness.
She stood at the window, her heartstrings tense, her breathing held, her hands pressed on the windowsill, somewhat confused about what he meant.
Night Owl finally sat down on the sofa and lit a cigarette. He didn't smoke it, but just let the cigarette burn quietly between his fingers.
The flickering light burned Bai Suye's eyes behind him.
After a long while, he seemed to be talking to her, or to himself, his voice was hoarse and he sounded a little tired, "Is Bai Suye really still afraid of this kind of weather now?"
Bai Suye was shocked.
At that moment, tears fell from my eyes without warning.
So... the reason why he appeared here was because he thought she was still afraid of such a stormy day
Ten years ago, in order to get closer to him, this cold block of ice, she pretended to be scared and ran to his studio in a stormy night, pestering him and refusing to leave.
She found that this trick worked every time, and after a few times of success, she became addicted. Moreover, later on, when the weather was like this, Night Owl would come to her room and hug her to sleep.
And then later...
Every night like this, without the night owl around, she would wake up in shock and then remain awake all night.
So many times when Ye Xiao was on a mission and not by her side, he would take the time to call her to comfort her. At that time, Bai Suye even forgot that she was lying, and even felt that she was really timid, so timid that she needed his care, so timid that she only wanted to rely on that man...
Later on, after she completely broke off her relationship with him and successfully returned to the team, she was still the same. She would automatically wake up on rainy nights and then suffer from insomnia.
She even heard hallucinations in the middle of the night, as if that person called again...
Afterwards, the hallucinations were so severe and the quality of sleep was so poor that she almost died. The superiors thought that she was traumatized during this mission, so they arranged for her to receive a psychologist. After two years of psychological counseling, her condition improved slightly.
After that, she told herself again and again that everything was over. That man would never again protect her like a baby, nor would he appear in her room on rainy nights and coax her to sleep.
…
Just as she was thinking of this, the usually alert Night Owl seemed to finally sense that something was wrong—he suddenly turned around.
The wind is blowing outside the window.
She stood there in her pajamas, looking at him sadly. In the darkness, her eyes were washed by tears and were bright. However, he could not see the traces of tears on her face.
Ye Xiao's eyebrows twitched, and fire flashed from his eyes. Those eyes seemed to want to cut her into pieces!
Did she hear what he just said to himself? He suddenly felt like a clown in front of her! Just as stupid as before!
She was obviously no longer the Bai Suye of the past, but he was still obsessed with her, thinking that she was still as timid and fearful as before.
But in fact, how could Bai Suye, who killed so many of his brothers, who was so ruthless and shameless that she could even deceive others, be afraid of a rainy night without any offensive power? ! He was just a fool, an absolute fool, who would wait in the middle of the night without sleeping, and when he heard the sound in her room, he hurried over! He deserved to be laughed at by her side! Maybe, now she would still be proud, look, this fool, until now, is still fascinated by her and can't extricate himself!
Night Owl breathed heavily and extinguished the cigarette butt. He used too much force and his fingers were burned by the cigarette butt, but he didn't feel any pain.