Her eyes turned and fell squarely on his face.
Pei Xiaoyuan didn't want to look her in the eye and was about to look away to talk about something else when he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a scar on her forehead. His gaze paused unconsciously and he finally saw it clearly.
Indeed. The evening light completely revealed the unobstructed mark. It was like a tiny broken star, lying quietly in the center of her smooth forehead, just above her eyebrows.
"Does Pei Langjun want to see me for something?"
The voice of questioning came to my ears again.
Pei Xiaoyuan was startled and immediately looked away.
She did not invite him in again, and he remained standing there, with a threshold between them.
"I just came from my uncle's place, and he told me about your meeting with him this morning."
He spoke, his expression calm.
"I came to you on purpose to tell you that everything is up to you and I have no objection."
Xu Yu bowed deeply to the man outside the door: "It's all my fault. I'm very lucky that Mr. Pei and Mr. Pei don't blame me!"
He raised his right arm towards her, indicating that she didn't need to do so.
"Don't worry about this matter. Just pretend it never happened. From now on, you can treat this place as your home. Besides, I have something else I want to discuss with you."
"Please speak, Mr. Pei."
"I remember that you came here with your grandfather when you were young, which shows that you have a deep connection with my Pei family. My uncle treats you as his own, and so do I. I am older than you, and if you are willing, you can regard me as your elder brother in the future, and you as my younger sister. We can call each other brother and sister. What do you think?"
Pei Xiaoyuan explained his purpose and saw that she seemed stunned. She looked at him and did not respond immediately. He suspected that she did not react.
He nodded to her, smiling, and said in the gentlest tone he could, "I am the second child. I have a cousin in my family, who is the son of my uncle, but he died for the country when I was young. Now if I can have a younger sister like you, it will make up for my regrets. It is a great honor for me, Pei."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the woman opposite him with a smile.
"Brother, please accept my greeting!"
Xuyu hesitated for a moment, but finally bowed again and changed her words to call him brother.
"Sister, get up quickly. You don't have to be polite to me from now on!"
Pei Xiaoyuan took a step towards her, but ultimately did not step over the threshold. This time he stretched out his hands, half an arm's length away from her, and again lifted them up in the air.
Xuyu bowed to him meticulously and then stood up.
From then on, the two of them recognized each other as brother and sister. After the formalities, they looked at each other in silence for a while.
Pei Xiaoyuan came here for this purpose. At this moment, his purpose was successfully achieved, and he felt that he should leave. But if he left like this, it seemed too abrupt. Not leaving? He didn't know what else he could say, and secretly hoped that she would speak first, but she seemed more reluctant to speak than him.
In this way, Pei Xiaoyuan and his new sister stood face to face across a threshold. He couldn't keep looking into her eyes, so his sight could only drop down and stop at the sunset between the two of them, which was gently wrapping her shadow. In the beam of light, another hidden world appeared, with thousands of dust particles flying, each piece clearly visible. In this silent world, his ears seemed to catch a few faint sounds from her breath, but he couldn't get rid of them. For a moment, he felt a torment of time slowing down.