Wu Jiang used a little force to help her up. He subconsciously reached out to brush away the unsightly dust on her clothes. He paused when he raised his hand, then slowly curled up his fingers and retracted them...
Wen Xi stared blankly at his retracted hand without any movement. After a long time, he made a difficult sound in his mouth, "You finally... are you willing to acknowledge me?"
It was almost a cry.
But she didn't cry.
I forgot how long ago she was held by him and told him, "I won't shed tears if Brother Jiang protects me."
She spoke in such a relaxed tone at that time...
She was so relaxed that she didn't have to worry about anything. The only thing that bothered her was...should she marry him, marry a man who almost raised her.
She looked at him in the sunshine and forgot to brush off the dust.
Then, she heard his voice that was so deep that it was almost cold, "Don't come here again."
"..."
Wen Xi stared at him blankly, grabbing his clothes with both hands.
In addition to "you got the wrong person", what he said was...don't come again in the future.
It turns out that he would rather be a bodyguard than go back to Wen's house.
"Go back. Don't disturb Mr. and Mrs. Li again."
Wu Jiang added another sentence, stared down at the face that was so pale that there was no color in it, turned around and left.
"Let me see you again!"
A thin but firm voice sounded behind him.
Wu Jiang stopped walking. He didn't want to stop, but his movements were one step faster than his brain.
This is the terrible inertia of raising a girl for more than ten years.
As long as she said so, his body would always act faster than his brain.
…
"If I look at you one more time, I will leave and never bother you again."
Wen Xi had already walked in front of him, stood up on tiptoes, and reached out to take off the sunglasses from his face.
His eyebrows, his eyes, the bridge of his nose, his lips...
Everything was displayed in front of her again.
Wu Jiang's eyes moved slightly in his eye sockets, almost without revealing a trace, as if he was not the one being scrutinized, and he was indifferent.
Wenxi held his sunglasses tightly, his warmth still lingering on them.
"You... have matured a lot." Wen Xi stared at his face with some difficulty and said it.
"I'm much older than you."
Wu Jiang answered her words smoothly, Wen Xi's hand trembled, and the sunglasses in his hand were taken away by him...
Putting the sunglasses back on the bridge of his nose, he returned to his expressionless expression.
Then, he walked past her, and when he passed her, he left an indifferent message, "I hope you will keep your promise."
A gust of wind blew, and Wen Xi's long hair was messed up. She almost didn't have the courage to look at him a second time, but she said in a trembling voice, "Don't worry, I won't come looking for you again."
She won't... get entangled in it anymore.
Like a slowed down shot, she could feel Wu Jiang walking away from her step by step even without looking at it.
His steps were steady.
Just like when he came, without any emotion.
"I'm sorry..." Wen Xi suddenly spoke again, his voice trembling to the point of trembling, "From the moment I stepped into the door of the Wen family, I will always bring you trouble. I'm sorry..."
Sorry, Brother Jiang...
He shouldn't have adopted a nuisance like her.
Wen Xi didn't know if he heard it. It was a long time before he heard his voice floating in the wind, "I forgot."
Tears suddenly fell from her eyes.
He didn't say that he still held grudges, didn't say that he still hated her and Wenchi, didn't say that he still hated going home, he just said...he forgot.