On the sand pile.
The wind is stronger.
Bai Suye was wearing Ye Xiao's coat. Ye Xiao was wearing only a white short-sleeved T-shirt, revealing his sturdy arms.
She reached out and touched his arm twice, and it felt cold where she touched.
"Put on some clothes. It would be terrible if you catch a cold in a place like this." Bai Suye said as he took off his Night Owl coat. No matter what the reason was, none of the three of them could be in any danger now.
This time, Ye Xiao did not refuse and put on his coat directly. Bai Suye breathed a sigh of relief. It was rare for him to be so obedient.
But the next moment, I felt my waist tighten.
Before she could come to her senses, she was carried over by Night Owl and sat sideways on his strong legs.
She looked up in surprise.
"Night Owl?"
Night Owl opened his coat, hugged the slender girl, and wrapped her in his arms.
The strong wind outside was blocked by her clothes, and what was pressed against her was the man's warm and broad chest. Bai Suye only felt a wave of warmth in her heart, and she didn't even struggle at all, of course...
In this situation, she had no room to struggle.
Instead, she allowed herself to relax and lean against his chest.
"Are you still cold?" He said in a low voice, his deep gaze cast into the distance.
"… Not cold." She shook her head, and reached her uninjured arm out from under his clothes to his lower back. Without a word, she hugged him tightly.
The Night Owl's upright figure froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal.
His eyes slowly moved back to her face. He gently rubbed her waist twice with his big hand, frowning, "Why have you lost so much weight?"
It would have been fine if he didn't ask. As soon as he asked, Bai Suye's nose suddenly felt a little sour for some reason - she didn't know why she, who had always been strong, felt so easily like crying in the past two days.
"… Have you lost weight?" She replied softly, burying her face in his chest, "No."
How could she not lose weight? From the day she returned home on his engagement day until today, she didn't know how she had gotten through it.
Every day, I am actually in a daze, but every day I have to pretend to be sober and strong in front of outsiders...
Living with a mask like that made her almost unable to hold on and she was about to collapse at any time. That's why she volunteered to come here even though she knew the high risk. In the face of death, she might be more sober.
only…
How has he been doing during this period
"Night Owl." She called his name softly.
"Um?"
"Let's have a chat." It has been ten years, a full ten years, and they haven't had a good conversation.
Night Owl was slightly shocked, and then he spoke again, his voice a little deeper, "What do you want to talk about?"
Bai Suye adjusted her sitting position so that her back was against his chest. She rested her head against his chest and looked at the stars in the sky with a distant gaze. "How have you been these past ten years?"
The Night Owl was silent.
My breathing gradually became heavier.
After a long while, when she thought he would not answer again, he opened his mouth and said, "Not good."
It was an expected answer, but when I heard him say that, my chest still ached and it was very uncomfortable.
She was silent.
"What about you?" Night Owl suddenly asked. His eyes were cast into the distance, and he continued, "After returning to the team, you made great contributions and became a hero of the National Security Bureau. An 18-year-old girl, you fooled so many government troops around with Night Owl, and almost wiped out half of his main force leaders overnight. This made you internationally famous in an instant. I think you must have had a good life these years."
A trace of sadness flashed across Bai Suye's eyes.
In fact, it was quite the opposite. She almost died in these ten years...
Just as she was about to say something, Ye Xiao withdrew his gaze, lowered his head to look at the top of her head, and suddenly asked: "How many boyfriends have you had?"
"... Hmm?" The topic changed so quickly that Bai Suye was a little confused.
Night Owl turned her body around and squinted at her. "Three? Five? Or eight?"
"Eight? That's too many."
"How many are they?" Ye Xiao asked, and finally, his expression relaxed a little, "Or is it the one named Yun from last time?"
"He's not my boyfriend."
"Fiancé?" His expression turned a little colder.
That's what she said herself.
“No.”
"What's that?"
"He's just an ordinary friend. My family just likes him more."
Her words made Night Owl look more relaxed. "So... you've never had a boyfriend?"
“…” Bai Suye remained silent.
Night Owl's expression, which had just relaxed, suddenly tensed up again, his eyes cold, "How many?"
Under his strong and coercive gaze, Bai Suye slowly stretched out two fingers.
To be honest, she herself doesn't know whether those people can be considered boyfriends or not.
At that time, she had just returned to China and was thinking about a man she shouldn't have thought about like crazy. He was in her dreams and he was also in her mind when she woke up. However, that man was out of reach and she would never be able to touch him again. At that time, she was like a fish thrown into the desert, struggling to death, and just wanted to find a feasible way to get her out of the tormenting and painful predicament.
The psychologist taught her a trick called "emotional transference". As long as she falls in love with a man again and enters a new relationship, she can quickly forget the past love that could not be fulfilled.
She tried to accept the first man who pursued her, but after a week, she gave up. The second relationship also ended in the shortest time.
These two failed relationships - if they could be considered relationships - did not help her to break away from the past. Instead, they made her realize, even more desperately, that the man had already taken root in her heart, sprouted, and grown into a vine that was entwined with her bones and blood and wrapped around her heart.
If she wanted to forget it, she would probably have to wait until her next life. Even so, she had been refusing to acknowledge this horrible fact for a long time.
Ye Xiao snorted coldly, clasped her fingers into his palm, and threatened her with a dangerous look, "Just as I expected, Minister Bai has lived a fulfilling life in the past ten years just as I expected."
"Don't you have a girlfriend?" Bai Suye tried his best to make his tone sound more relaxed. "Let's not talk about anything else, just talk about your fiancée... I heard about it in Country S. Your engagement party was very grand some time ago, and the whole city was celebrating for you..."
At this point, Bai Suye suddenly couldn't continue.
She glanced at Night Owl, and all her pretense of being relaxed seemed a little strained.
My heart aches.
"I feel like sleeping. I'd better not watch the sunrise..." She pretended to yawn lazily, but her voice couldn't be any lower.