Chapter 144: Color
“Sorry for the trouble. We were also very surprised this time. It’s a family matter from the past. Um… is she okay?”
Su Yu finished his statement and looked into the inner room and asked.
“She’s basically stable now. The police stations in other places have also received her alarm. Her other daughter has run away from home. She may have been stimulated and has some mental problems. Now that the family matters are difficult to handle, we are also in a difficult position.”
“Then… can I go and see her? After all, she has no one to take care of her now.”
The police officer frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded. “If you can, try to learn more about her current living situation and if there are any relatives who can be contacted. It will also be convenient for our follow-up arrangements. But don’t stimulate her.”
…
The woman was sitting in the lounge of the police station. The iron chair was cool. Her hair was messy, and her clothes were barely wrapped around her body. She was looking down with a listless expression, and her bitten lips were red with blood. Her lips were slightly parted, and she was mumbling something that was hard to hear even when he got close.
“Auntie…”
Su Yu sat down on the chair opposite the woman, and there was a distance between them.
The woman murmured and looked up at him. Her stable mental state made her look much better. Her hoarse voice was a little cold. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m not here to apologize, and I have no right to forgive you for others.” Su Yu looked at the woman with a blank expression, his eyes dark. “I know what you’ve done to Qian Ge. You’re the ones who should be sorry. She’s innocent…”
“Haha, innocent… you say she’s innocent?”, the woman laughed, and her features under her messy hair were a little twisted, as if she hated her to the extreme. “What do you know? She really has you guys wrapped around her finger with that face of hers.”
“I’m very sorry about your daughter’s matter. But this has nothing to do with us. The past should be in the past.” Su Yu sighed. The woman was so stubborn that she was completely unable to communicate. She stared at him coldly, and her bloodshot eyes were covered with blood vessels, as if she were possessed. “If there’s nothing else, I hope you won’t bother Qian Ge anymore. I’ll be going now.”
Su Yu stood up and left. Before he left, he glanced at the woman who was looking down and not speaking. This was a debate with no answer. People would always stubbornly believe what they saw with their own eyes. But no one had ever promised that what they saw with their own eyes… was real.
“Are you that little bitch’s boyfriend? Where did you guys meet?”
Su Yu stepped on the creaking threshold, and the woman suddenly called out to him. He lowered his eyes and was silent for a few seconds. “We met in the capital. What’s wrong?”
“Oh… I see. Nothing. It’s just… you look very familiar. I seem to have seen you somewhere. Then I must have been mistaken.”
Su Yu turned his head. The woman was still sitting there with her messy hair, and her features were numb on her face, and she didn’t say anything more.
This time, he really left directly. It was pouring with rain outside.
…
Su Yu rubbed his throbbing temples with some fatigue and shook off the raindrops on his umbrella. A few drops of water fell on him, and a dark color was on his white shirt. The cold and gloomy coldness was piercing into the cracks of his bones, and his eyelids were heavy and drooping. Perhaps it was because of the medicine he had taken at the hospital, but he was very sleepy.
He pressed the loose doorbell, and before the ring could go far, the lock clicked open. He saw her slightly pale face behind the door, and the redness and swelling around her eyelids had not yet subsided. Her face was adorned with frail and beautiful features. Her beauty was just right between charming and pure. With every smile and frown, it was also reassuring.
She was particularly talkative today, and she was chattering and wanted to know about his one-hour trip. “How was it? Did you get it bandaged at the hospital? Are you okay on the way? Did you get wet?”
“Look, I’m fine.” Su Yu shook the already-treated wound on his arm.
“It’s good that you’re fine.”
Xia Qiange seemed to have suddenly let out a sigh of relief. Her smile was filled with fatigue and weakness.
“I passed by a fried chicken shop and brought some back…”
Su Yu carried the hot and steaming fried chicken into the house. He looked into the living room, and it was dark and he couldn’t see any light. He fumbled for the switch on the wall, and the cold white light drove the darkness to a corner. He then used the blurry light to see the girl behind him clearly.
He found that her hair was as if it had been soaked in water, and her pajamas were also wrinkled and clinging to her body, as if she had just had a cold sweat.
An uneasy emotion was rolling in his heart. He parted her bangs and felt a layer of wet and sticky sweat on her forehead. “Were you asleep just now?”
“Yes… what’s wrong? I didn’t sleep well this morning.”
Xia Qiange looked at him with confusion. She was a little uncomfortable and unbuttoned a few buttons on her collar. The sweat on her neck was covered with a crystal-clear layer. “I slept too soundly. It was stuffy on a rainy day, and I was covered in sweat.”
“Did you have a nightmare?”, Su Yu blurted out his guess.
“It was raining heavily just now, and there was a loud thunder.”
She blinked her round and red eyes. The drizzling rain from outside the corridor was blown in by the wind. She wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered in his ear, “But the rain has stopped now.”
…
“So fragrant.”
The hot steam rushed out, mixed with the smell of fried food, and it was even stronger at the tip of her nose.
Xia Qiange lowered her head and bit open a packet of ketchup with her teeth. She squeezed it all into her fries. The bright red liquid seeped in through the cracks. She was as if she were extremely hungry, and her hands were covered in a sweet and greasy red.
“Eat slowly. This is an exception. You’re not allowed to order takeout secretly before the spring break is over.”
Su Yu wiped the grease from the corners of her mouth. She raised her neck and let him rub the soft flesh on her cheeks. She squinted her eyes and smiled coquettishly. Two shallow dimples appeared. She was like a greedy child. She even very generously handed a piece of fried chicken to his mouth. “You should try it too. This one is better than last time.”
“Yeah, the taste is indeed much better.”
“I have good news.”
“What?”, he asked curiously.
“I’ve gotten all my unused vacation days from my internship approved. It’s about a month. So…”
Xia Qiange put down the cola in her hand and wiped the grease from her hands with a tissue. She looked up at him very seriously. A brilliant light was burning in her dark eyes. It passed over her long eyelashes and was reflected in his eyes. It was like a very passionate longing, and it had taken away all the gloom of today.
“Ah Yu, let’s get married early. We’ll have our wedding the day after tomorrow. Then we can go to cities we’ve never been to, and we can also go abroad… after we come back from our honeymoon, we’ll move. No one will ever bother us again.”
She just smiled and outlined a very tempting future. The background was a warm and sweet pink. The sky was a clean blue and white. In the distance was a vast and boundless blue sea. And under their feet was an isolated island with lush grass and flying warblers.
“Okay?”
Her breath was close to him.
His eyes were a little sore, and he could no longer see what was in the distance. Perhaps it was a gray that was intertwined with black and white, or perhaps it was still this colorful world…
“Okay.”
He opened his arms and gently hugged her, and he answered in a low voice.
