But no matter where he lives, the style is the same three tones of black, white and gray that have remained the same for ten years. It is cold and thin. The air seems to still have his scent, making it feel even more deserted.
From her understanding, there must be new bathrobes and pajamas in the closet or dressing room of Xiao Yu, a severe mysophobic patient.
She had been forced to sleep in Longjing Huating several times, and she was used to it.
Chi Zao walked in and was about to open the wardrobe.
His eyes suddenly glanced at the photo frame placed on the bedside table. In the photo, it seemed to be a child.
This made her stunned.
Xiao Yu doesn't like taking photos, and even if he does, he never keeps any photos. It's impossible to see a photo in his territory.
She didn't expect that there was a photo of him here before? She remembered that there wasn't one when she came here in her previous life.
Chi Zao raised his eyebrows slightly, curious.
Was that when Xiao Yu was a child?
She had never seen him as a child.
With this thought in mind, she walked over.
However, when she got closer and saw the little boy's face clearly in the photo, her steps suddenly stopped, and a chill rose from her ankles to her chest.
The bright light in the empty room clearly reflected the shock in her eyes.
She stared at the photo closely, feeling a surge of shock and disbelief in her heart.
This is... Xiao Yu??
How could this be him...
The background of the photo is the long courtyard of the Xiao family mansion. The little boy in the photo is about seven years old, with delicate and beautiful facial features, light brown pupils, and a faint sense of mixed race. He is sitting quietly on the stone bench with an expressionless face.
, looking at the camera blankly and indifferently.
Chi Zao's heart shrank.
He turned out to be the little boy she dreamed about that night!
That real but terrifying dream, that dark and cold night, that desolate and gloomy cemetery, with graves standing one after another, and the abandoned little boy curling up next to the tombstone without crying or fussing, like a broken rag doll, falling little by little.
into the abyss of despair.
Chi Zao took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, and stepped forward to pick up the photo frame.
This is the first time Chi Zao has seen this photo, and it is also the first time he knows what Xiao Yu looked like when he was a child.
But this was also the reason why she was extremely shocked.
She had never seen Xiao Yu when she was a child, so why could she clearly dream about what she looked like when she was a child, and even dream about such a real and illusory dream.
The boy's eyes in the photo made her feel familiar yet strange at the same time.
When he grew up, Xiao Yu was cold, but not at a loss. His eyes were as deep as water and had never been seen through.
As for him, who was a little younger than in the photo, his confused and desperate eyes in that dream are still vivid in my mind.
She had never connected Xiao Yu with the little boy in her dream before. Because the little boy was still too young, and his facial features were beautiful but not long. He was not very similar to Xiao Yu now, and she didn't think about it at all.
.
But in the photo, he is seven years old, and his current shadow can be vaguely seen between his eyebrows and eyes...
Chi Zao was in a trance.
She thought of Xiao Yu. She thought of the scene where he was sitting alone in the dark. She thought of that day when he said that the darker the place, the more clearly you can see people's hearts.
He seems to like the dark, always immersed in the dark and doesn't like to turn on the light.
But Mr. Xiao said that he was afraid of the dark...
At that moment, she didn't even know which one was the real him.
She thought he liked darkness.
Mr. Xiao still thought that he was afraid of the dark.
Chi Zao held the photo frame and found it hard to calm down.
She originally thought it was just a strange dream. But at this moment, she suddenly realized...
What if that wasn't a dream?
Chi Zao took a deep breath and slowly put down the photo frame.
Taking one more look at the beautiful boy in the photo, she turned around and opened Xiao Yu's wardrobe.
…
Chi Zao found a set of men's pajamas from a well-known brand that had not yet been opened in the closet, and entered the bathroom with many concerns on his mind.
Half an hour later, when she came out of the bathroom, she rolled up her trousers and rolled them up several times before she managed to stop mopping the floor.
She had to choose between a sofa and a comfortable and soft bed. In the end, she chose the sofa.
There was only one bed in Xiao Yu's room and she couldn't sleep on it.
Although he said she could go to bed.
In fact, Chi Zao didn't know how he allowed her to sleep in his bed. I don't know since when, there seemed to be something more and something missing between them... The trend of the two getting along was getting better and better.
It's getting more and more unexpected.
In addition, there are photos of him as a child next to his bed.
If she slept there, she would probably lose sleep all night.
Chi Zao was lying on the sofa with this matter still in his mind.
His figure kept swaying, sometimes it was him, and sometimes it was the little boy in the dream.
She, who was already tired, felt dizzy and her thoughts were extremely confused.
In this chaos, a guess suddenly popped up in her mind.
If that dream is true...can it explain why Xiao Yu has a bad relationship with the Xiao family, and even has no relationship with his biological parents?
Did the Xiao family really abandon him back then? Let’s not say whether it was intentional or unintentional, but if the dream was true, what a huge shadow it had on him when he was a child.
Not to mention a child, even an adult would collapse if thrown into such a horrific cemetery.
What's more, he was still so young at that time.
If this is true, judging from his attitude towards the Xiao family, then the abandonment is most likely intentional.
So he is not close to Xiao Zhengbang and Yu Yun.
So... is this the reason why he turned dark?
His character is cold and twisted because he suffered huge trauma and shadow in his childhood.
Chi Zao didn't know about this at first, and she already felt that Xiao Zhengbang and Yu Yun were very unfair. In her previous life, she followed Xiao Yu and saw the extreme partiality of her parents. She thought at that time that there was a reason why Xiao Yu turned black.
.
Not to mention now...
But this is unreasonable.
Why did Xiao Zhengbang and Yu Yun abandon his own son? No matter how much he didn't like his eldest son, he wouldn't be so cruel. Moreover, for such a large Xiao family, there was no reason to do this.
Also, if it was lost, why would it be found later?
Mr. Xiao loves Xiao Yu so much, but he doesn't punish the person who did this?
Something is wrong.
This guess is still wrong.
Chi Zao was in a very confused mood. She turned over irritably, but she felt as if a big stone was pressing on her chest, which was extremely dull.
She thought about her previous life.
Although she didn't want to admit it, in fact, at that time, when she saw the dark Xiao Yu, she always felt an inexplicable feeling of sympathy for him.
When she was a ghost, she liked to follow him so much because there was a similar loneliness between them.
Actually...he's not that bad.
In his previous life, he was ruthless to the Xiao family, ruthless to the people around him, and ruthless to himself. However, he had done many charities and donated countless amounts of money, but none of them were in his own name.
He's not that cold either.
She just listened to Chen Chuchu and coaxed him a few words, and his mood changed. Even if he didn't show it on his face, the steady flow of gift certificates from the system said everything.
Chi Zao fell asleep while thinking about it.
When Xiao Yu came back, he saw her curled up on the sofa.