Chapter 79: Clue
The sunlight behind the door was cold, white, and dazzling. He raised his arm to cover his eyes, and he gradually adjusted to the fresh feeling of being completely enveloped in the sunlight. He took a few steps forward and crossed the low threshold at his feet, but it was as if he had used up all his strength, and his steps were staggering.
He was wearing a white high-necked sweater. The clothes were bought according to his previous size, and they were a little thin on him. They were paired with a pair of dark blue jeans, which outlined his long and straight legs.
The cold autumn wind blew past the front of the door, and his half-wet and half-dry black hair was slightly swaying on his forehead. His hair had just reached the back of his neck, and the ends of his hair were curled up. A few drops of water were dripping from the trembling ends of his hair, and they slid down the curve of his hair, tracing a winding path in the hollow of his collarbone, which extinguished the hot and beating fire in his chest. How long had it been… he had finally walked out of this villa again, as if he were one step closer to freedom.
“Don’t you want to dry your hair? You’ll get a headache if you blow in the cool wind.”
Gu Zhi came over from behind. Her fingertips gently caressed his thin and more profound and three-dimensional eyebrows. She put a knitted hat on his head and covered his wet hair.
The wind blew, and the light pink cashmere coat that was on her was lifted. Her slender calves were wrapped in white leather boots, and the lining was a playful and cute printed knitted shirt. She had tied her curled and dark black long hair into a bun, and the swaying pearl earrings on her earlobes were exposed.
It was rare to see a few bright colors in the bleak and gray late autumn, but she was as delightful as countless colorful colors. Gu Zhi’s makeup style was much brighter than before. She could only do this, using a more and more bright makeup to cover up the haggardness and fatigue that had been tormented by illness these past few days, and she had almost become unlike herself.
Su Yu looked at Gu Zhi with some surprise for a few moments, and he lowered his eyes and didn’t say much. His hand, which was in his sleeve, was clenched into a fist, and it was covered with fine sweat.
The dark black car was parked silently at the entrance of the villa. They got into the car, and it was not until the scenery outside the car window was rapidly retreating that he slowly came back to his senses. He stared at the towering modern buildings outside the window, which he could not see the dome of. The commercial street was decorated with lanterns and colored banners, and the bright and festive red was all over the streets and alleys, and it was filled with a lively and reunion color everywhere.
The New Year was approaching, and the deep black eyes were filled with the rapidly passing scenery. He realized these things with a wooden expression. The memories that had been sealed to escape the pain were gradually awakening. He thought of the people he missed, but the torrent of time was suddenly broken and was lying in front of him. In the end, he reached out and got nothing. A dense and stinging pain arose in his heart, and the tip of his nose was so sour that he couldn’t breathe.
The car passed through the bustling city center and was speeding on the highway leading to the suburbs. They got out of the car in front of the cemetery in the suburbs. Su Yu looked up at the inscription of the Gu family’s cemetery on the stone tablet, and there was not much surprise. He knew that Gu Zhi would take the time to come back here every year, and it was the same when she was in the North Country.
“Let’s go. It’s your first time here, Xiao Yu.”
Gu Zhi suppressed some indescribable emotion and curled her lips stiffly at him. She tucked her messy hair behind her ear and held Su Yu’s hand. Their palms were pressed against each other, and the two of them walked up the green stone steps together. The water mist in the mountains had wet the path between the grass and trees, and their steps were a little slippery. Gu Zhi turned her head and wanted to support Su Yu, but he shook his head and refused.
He had passed by one cold and dark tombstone after another, and in the end, he had followed Gu Zhi and had stopped in front of two other tombstones.
The dark gray tombstones were slightly older than the surrounding stone tablets. They were surrounded by a pile of withered and withered flowers and plants after autumn. The rotten and damp grass and leaves were scattered on the ground, and it looked particularly deserted and desolate.
There were no photos on the stone tablets, let alone the ashes of burned paper money or wreaths for mourning. It was as if they were just standing here, bare. All that was left was the rigid inscription that was engraved on the stone tablets.
Gu Zhi had never mentioned anything about her past to him. Although her personality after she had torn off her disguise was real and without any scruples, she still kept a distance from him. In the end, he still knew nothing about Gu Zhi.
“My parents died in a car accident together when I was a child. They’ve been dead for many years.”
Su Yu heard Gu Zhi suddenly speak. She was smiling with her eyes curved, but her voice was trembling uncontrollably. He subconsciously looked up to take a closer look. The long corners of the other party’s eyes were slightly upturned, and she was wearing a mature and alluring dark eyeshadow. It was still dry, and not a single bit of water could be seen.
“You must be very curious why Auntie Jing, an outsider, is so close to me. She was a third party who had interfered in my parents’ relationship. But my father and mother were both dead. They had died so suddenly. She was very guilty and had no time to atone for her sins, so she wanted to please me and take care of me, as if she were my real mother.”
Gu Zhi shook her head and said with a smile, “But actually, I don’t blame her. She was also a victim.”
“I’m sorry. I’ve said too much. I know you don’t like to hear these things. I’m not trying to get your sympathy. It’s just that… I’m a little down.”
Gu Zhi hugged Su Yu from behind, her nose pressed against his back neck, and she gently rubbed it. She smelled the fresh and warm scent, and her restless heart suddenly calmed down.
She didn’t know why she had suddenly said these things, just as she had suddenly and without any warning wanted to take the boy out. There were too many things she wanted to do, but she was always being chased by time from behind. She was afraid that it would be too late, or that one morning when she woke up… she would have completely forgotten it in a corner of her memory.
Forgetting was really a thing that made people on the verge of collapse. She couldn’t imagine that this entity that had actually appeared in her life would disappear from her cognition without any warning, like a thick cloud that was covering the sun, and it would so ruthlessly deprive her of the light that should have belonged to her.
“We… we’ll leave this place after the New Year, okay? We won’t go to the North Country… I know you don’t like it there, Xiao Yu. We’ll go to a new place and start over. It won’t take long…”
Gu Zhi held the boy in her arms tightly and caressed the other party’s thick and solid back with a love that she couldn’t let go of. How many days and nights had they been making love on the bed… at the moment of reaching a climax, she would obsessively caress the familiar contour over and over again.
“Yeah… where else can I go?”
“Really? So good…”
Gu Zhi turned Su Yu’s body and stared at him. She was so happy. She thought that the other party had finally been smoothed out by her and was no longer so prickly. But she had not thought of the possibility that she had been forced into a corner and was deceiving herself.
She smiled, and her full and bright red lips slowly curved into an alluring arc. That was really beautiful. The boy was stunned for a moment and couldn’t speak. He just raised his arm and gently hugged the woman’s slender waist, patting her as if to comfort her. At that moment, it was as if the years were really quiet.
“Do you want to see the place where I grew up, Xiao Yu?”
Gu Zhi suddenly raised her head and looked at him. She had put away her gentle and intellectual maturity and had blinked her eyes, with a playful and little girl’s demeanor.
“Childhood?”
Su Yu’s heart skipped a beat. He was afraid of revealing his secret and held the woman in his arms even tighter. The other party couldn’t see the throbbing in his dark eyes at all. He responded to her with the same fiery love and left a row of bright red and charming kiss marks on her fair neck.
“Yeah, let’s go and see.”
He said in a hoarse and deep voice.
