C7

7 - If you don't have ten dollars, I'll go with you

I found the man opposite me laughable. He told me his name was Xiao Jin Dong, but in my memory, his name was clearly Shen Jia Ning.

"Ah Ning, are you worried about the Huo Family? That's why you came to find me, pretending to be dead?" I've been waiting for you for a long time. I knew it. I took the man's hand and laughed foolishly, my long hair hanging in a mess on the back of my hand. It was itchy and dry.

"Covered in frost!" A roar startled me, and I stared blankly at the emptiness in my hand. The original temperature no longer existed, leaving only my hair floating in the air, looking helpless and laughable.

"Director Xiao, my pocket watch is broken. I need some time to adjust to the new plan and pace!"

I heard the woman with the creamy hair gesticulating over there, and I couldn't understand what she was saying, but there was a commotion in my head, as if there were voices arguing all the time. I couldn't bear to listen. I used my hands to cover my head as I smashed it against the wall. Hair after hair was being pulled, but I didn't feel anything.

"Yiyi, be obedient!" I was being held in someone's arms. Those arms were very powerful, but they were not hot at all. I heard someone whisper in my ear, "Yiyi, be good. If you don't behave, no one will want you!"

I wanted to nod, to show that I was truly obedient. I didn't want to be alone, so I subconsciously reached out to grab that person's arm and whispered, "Shen Jianning, Shen Jianning!"

I don't know when I fell asleep or when I woke up. I stared out the window at the gray, breathless sky.

"Song Yi!" Someone was talking by the bed, but I didn't care.

"Song Yi!" You can go! " The man spoke again, his voice as calm as ever. I slowly turned my head to look at her. She was frosted, I remember her. Seven days ago, she came in with Gu Qing, telling me stories over and over with an old pocket watch.

There was no bloodshed or violence in that story. It was as dull as water that had to be drunk every day.

"Anywhere is fine, as long as we leave Xiao Jin Dong, anywhere is fine!" Dirt looked at me steadily, with a cold in his eyes that I had never seen before. It was as cold as Gu Qing's. There was no joy, anger, grief, or joy, nor any of the seven emotions and six desires.

"Leave Xiao Jin Dong?" I repeated in a daze, as if there was a voice in my head, "Yiyi, be good, if you don't behave, no one will want you!"

I shook my head and curled up my body, "No, I can't leave Xiao Jin Dong!"

Song Yi, you don't need to act in front of me. I know that you haven't taken any of the medicine, and that my new pocket watch is completely useless against you.

The frosting directly punctured my lie. My eyes, which were hiding in the blanket, were a little panicked. My fingers tightly gripped my hair. I was so stiff that I didn't dare to let go.

"You go, I'll let you go!" While Gu Qing and Xiao Jin Dong are gone, and while I'm being soft-hearted! " The frost threw back the covers, and I jumped up almost at the same time, in my ridiculous Pie Star pajamas, and ran out like a madman.

The feet, naked, stepped on the ground, and the cold floor sent a feeling of reality into the brain. I was so excited that hot tears almost filled my eyes. The long and unfamiliar corridor seemed to be connected to the darkness in my memory. I ran as though my life depended on it, but there seemed to be no end to it.

"Yiyi, come with me!" Someone came out of the darkness, anxious and nervous, and she held out her hand to me, calling eagerly.

"Hu Xia?" Stunned, I subconsciously gave her my hand. I was pulled by her, but my path seemed to become more and more stable.

"Alright, alright!" Hu Xia gasped for breath as she pushed me into the taxi. She stood outside the door and looked at me with her red eyes. "Song Yi, you can leave. Let's go. Don't come back!"

She slammed the door, not giving me a chance to answer.

Didn't she stand by Xiao Jin Dong's side and abandon me because of that 10 million yuan compensation? Why did you save me? I had a splitting headache and closed my eyes, but I couldn't think of the details.

The driver didn't ask where I was going. After calming my emotions, I remembered what happened and hurriedly asked, "Master, where are you bringing me to?"

"108 Xinli Street!"

The driver answered very straightforwardly. The car was moving very steadily, but I didn't know where 108 Xinli Street was. And why did I go?

The car came to a sudden stop. The speed of it caused my head to slam into the back of the car. My originally murky memory had turned completely into mush.

"You don't have any money, yet you're riding in a car! "Scram!"

The driver rudely pulled me out of my seat and threw me on the ground. I was speechless. This Hu Xia, why did he give me the address but not the driver's money when he stuffed me in the car? Does she think I can hide a fortune in a nightdress that doesn't even have a pocket?

I have to say, I really searched through them and found that they were penniless. Had this idiot never thought of this? I looked up at the sky, speechless, and watched the taxi drive away. I sat on the grassy road in the deserted suburb and was abandoned again.

I think life is really too interesting. It is always repeating the same scene over and over again, like being abandoned, being picked up, being abandoned again, being picked up again, being repeated like this, and not getting tired of it.

Looking at the familiar face in the car window, I stood up awkwardly to pat the mud off my body. I wanted to pretend to look at the scenery but my embarrassing situation was exposed by the other party.

Shen Jianning's mouth was slightly agape, and he looked so surprised that he was about to swallow an egg. What? Pretending not to know him? Was it fun playing this big?

I ignored him and opened the door to get in. "I'm going to 108 Xinli Street! You send me there! " I said it as a matter of course.

He is Shen Jianning, the Shen Jianning who would only coax me to pamper him. Even though we had a conflict before, even though that Huo Shui Xian kept saying that I killed him, even though it is possible that his betrayal was like a tooth in the back of his heart, even growing into a towering tree, but, I feel despicable to console myself, at this time, I will follow whoever picks me up, even if he does not have 10 dollars to give me.

Shen Jianning glanced at me in the rearview mirror. He didn't say anything, but started the car and drove around the corner. I coughed a little, a little primly. After all, I had said boldly that I would be better off without him, Shen Jianning.

Reality smacked me in the face, and it happened so quickly. I once again pushed all the blame onto Hu Xia. If this idiot had remembered to give me the fare, I definitely wouldn't have given Shen Jianning this chance.

I console myself thus, ridiculously self-deceiving.