That night, after returning to the villa, Huo Dongheng asked Qiu Bailu twice. For some reason, even though his movements were extremely gentle, she still felt pain.
But no matter how painful it was, she endured it.
She stretched herself as hard as she could and loved everything he gave her.
When the night got deeper, Qiu Bailu had a dream.
Because it had been so long since she had had that dream, when she appeared in the white bathroom in the dream again, she immediately realized that it was a dream.
Her soul seemed to be floating out of her body and into the air. She looked at her young self, wearing a plain pajamas, with her long fluffy hair tied up randomly. She stared blankly at the man lying on the bed.
The woman who looked exactly like him in the bathtub was so thin that she seemed like a ghost who would disappear at any moment.
She saw her weak smile towards her, and a slender pale arm stretched out from the bathtub. She waved to her and said, "Come, Lulu, come to mom. Mom has something to tell you."
She didn't want to go there, she felt very scared, but her body involuntarily moved closer to the bathtub until she could see the basin of scarlet blood and her mother immersed in it.
There was a huge wound on the mother's wrist. Because the wound was so deep, the wound turned outwards like a baby's lips. The gurgling blood poured out of the wound and flowed into the bathtub, like a river flowing into the ocean.
Disappear.
"Mom... I want to go out... I'm cold, I'm scared." She trembled slightly, cold tears flowing down her little cheeks. "Mom, what's wrong with you, can you go out with me, okay?"
The mother looked at her with a smile, "Baby, I can't get out. Mom wants to stay here, you stay with her..."
While talking, the tiles between the bathroom walls began to fall off, and large blocks of stone tiles fell down. The entire room was disintegrating, and there was an endless black abyss underfoot. The young Qiu Bailu had no way to escape.
She could only hug her mother tightly.
Her body was so cold that even her breath seemed to freeze into ice. As they fell together, she said in Qiu Bailu's ear, "Lulu, remember, ignorance is happiness."
Ignorance is happiness.
Qiu Bailu woke up suddenly, her eyes were dark. She breathed rapidly and stretched out her arms. The other side of the bed was blank.
She turned her head and saw a tall figure standing in the darkness outside the glass window.
Qiu Bailu grabbed a coat and put it on her shoulders, pushed open the glass door of the balcony, "Can't you sleep?"
Huo Dongheng was standing in front of the railing smoking, and when he saw her coming out, he put out his cigarette, "Did it disturb you to sleep?"
Through the starlight, she could see his appearance clearly. His eyes seemed a little red, maybe it was caused by staying up late. When he looked at her, he was smiling slightly, with a rare hint of loneliness and vulnerability in his expression.
"No, I woke up after a dream. Why don't you sleep?" Qiu Bailu's heart was still beating wildly. She approached Huo Dongheng and felt his body temperature, which made her feel a lot more at ease.
"I don't know why, but I seem to feel more energetic the more I do it." Huo Dongheng said, and Qiu Bailu smiled a little sheepishly, "It's getting colder outside, so it's better to wear more clothes and be careful of catching a cold."
Huo Dongheng hummed, stretched out his arms, and hugged her tightly, "Is it still cold like this?"
His arms were very warm, and Qiu Bailu was as warm as a small stove. Qiu Bailu did not answer, turned around, and kissed him gently on the face.
Far away from the villa is the edge of the city. At midnight, the entire Binhai City fell into sleep. On the streets intertwined with lights, vehicles occasionally drove past quickly. In the residential area, it was even darker, and a few houses were still lit.
Light up the lights to add some popularity to this quiet city.
Farther away, on the sea surface, the lights lit up on large international cargo ships were like lone stars falling from the sky, rising and falling with the sea waves.
"Tell me what you dreamed about." Huo Dongheng whispered behind her, his lips gently touching the shell of her ear.
Qiu Bailu looked at the darkness in the distance, "Nothing, it's still the same nightmare, dreaming about my mother's death. I still don't understand why she locked me with her in the first place and let me experience her death.
I can’t forget that scene for so many years.”
"Maybe she is just afraid that you will forget her."
"In such a terrible way?" Qiu Bailu shook her head, "But she really succeeded. I think I will never forget her in this life."
In her memory, her mother was a very strict person. She always seemed to be dissatisfied with Qiu Bailu. Although this dissatisfaction was not expressed in any form, Qiu Bailu could clearly understand every look in her mother's eyes.
, they all can talk, Qiu Bailu has been afraid of her since she was a child.
"Xiao Lu...you know about my family's affairs. Auntie told her to mention it to you." Huo Dongheng said hesitantly, Qiu Bailu was silent for a moment, and then nodded slowly. Huo Dongheng rarely talked about his family's affairs with her, probably
It’s also because it’s too painful and I don’t want to mention it.
Huo Dongheng continued, "My parents' marriage is not happy, so I rarely talk about it. Ever since I became sensible, I have never seen a worse couple than them."
The life of a teenager was probably extremely difficult for him, but he was determined by nature, so he didn't often talk to others. But Qiu Bailu knew that only unspeakable pain is called pain.
"Then why did they get together in the first place? Did they love each other very much?" Qiu Bailu was very curious about this couple. From Su Wenwan, it could be seen that Huo Dongheng's mother's family should be a well-off family with good upbringing, even if it was not rich and powerful.
How could a daughter from such a family choose such a man as her lifelong partner? Or is there a story behind this?
Although she was curious, Huo Dongheng obviously didn't want to continue this topic. He patted Qiu Bailu on the back and said, "Let's go, it's getting late. If you don't sleep, there will be dark circles under your eyes tomorrow."
Qiu Bailu knew that he didn't want to say anything, so she didn't make it difficult for him. She nodded, and the two of them walked side by side towards the room.
As he was about to enter the room, Huo Dongheng suddenly paused and asked, "Xiao Lu, do you still remember Xining?"
"I don't remember...but Aunt Su told me that she and I used to have a very good relationship." Qiu Bailu replied casually.
"It's okay..." Huo Dongheng's answer suddenly became low for some reason. Just when Qiu Bailu walked into the room, she suddenly heard him saying in a light and gloomy voice behind her, "You shouldn't forget her."
."
But when she turned her head, there was nothing unusual about Huo Dongheng's expression, and those words seemed to be her hysteria.
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