Love Just Begins - C108
He slowly stood up and looked at the fallen old camphor tree at the school gate, recalling it for a long time.
That summer, the sun was torn apart by the leaves, leaving behind shadows of varying shapes. The air was thin and slightly hot, and the fragrance of camphor wood filled the bustling campus.
At that time, as a newly arrived junior sister, in order to show off her skills, she climbed up a tree, and sent her best friend out to buy snacks. She had always liked the feeling of having the stars support the moon, and in addition to that, she had a lot of friends, but they didn’t communicate with each other. If she thought about it, at any time, a group of people would surround her, and she would calculate the love, but she wouldn’t read their hearts.
She still felt lonely like this, because it had always been someone else who had told her, but she had never found someone she could tell her …
The dense foliage just obscured her figure, the red and black school uniform draped over her shoulders like a cloak, a handful of tarot cards in her hand spread out like a fan, her little finger pushing back and forth, still only seventy-seven cards, one missing.
Students came and went under the tree, but no one noticed her presence. They proudly kicked off their shoes and accidentally kicked them off, landing on the lowest layer of the tree tops.
Just as she was about to go down to pick them up, she saw a boy walking over, leaning against a tree trunk and reading a book. She paused for a moment, but not long after, a girl walked over as well.
Because the boy did not take her gift, nor did he speak.
Of course, Chen Cancan knew why the boy didn’t say anything, because he noticed her. Blinking her eyes, she reached out her hand and gently pointed at the girl beside him, indicating that he felt settled and that she should leave.
The boy lowered his eyes and expressionlessly looked at the girl in front of him, who was still holding out her hand and handing him the gift box with a look of ‘if I don’t accept it I won’t rest’, apologizing. “I’m sorry …”
Without waiting for him to finish, the girl pushed the box into his hand as if she had expected this and ran away. She was probably crying?
Seeing that she was running far away, Chen Cancan also slowly crawled down for a bit. She picked up her shoes, lightly jumped, and landed in front of the boy, laughing out loud, “Long time no see, junior.”
Yes, this was not the first time they had met, nor was it the second time. They had met each other many times, and if one were to talk about the reason, it was naturally Chen Cancan’s doing so.
“Not junior, I am of the same rank as you.” He opened his mouth hesitantly. “I don’t know your name yet.”
“Chen Cancan.”
“Du Hao.”
The two of them looked at each other and smiled.
“Right.” He casually shoved the gift box into her hands, “Here, take it.”
She looked at the latter for a moment before opening the box. It was an exquisite box of Jiu Xin chocolate.
He threw one into his mouth and mumbled to the people beside him, “Is this how you give something to others when they give it to you?” “Then I won’t dare to give you anything next time.”
“It’s meaningless. I don’t want to be misunderstood.” He turned and left.
“Then why did you give it to me?” She followed behind him and asked him about the things that happened, but he unexpectedly stopped, turned his head and looked at her in puzzlement. He thought for a moment, then said in an extremely sincere tone, “I just feel that the feeling you give me is different. It’s that kind of … It’s easy to get distracted, and if you tell me, I… “It might feel like he’s agreeing to it.”
White clouds drifted across the azure sky as she stood at her original spot. At that time, her mood would be different.
With a flick of his finger, a silver chain was hooked onto his fingertip. The ring that was connected to the chain slid down another section of the chain and fell to the ground. After a circle, the diamond lost its luster in the cloudy sky and the chain snapped.
She had always been wearing this ring by her side, but it wasn’t for the sake of remembrance. It was to remind her that Du Hao and the past were unforgivable!
“Little Can.” With her usual gloomy voice, she turned around and saw him. The corners of her mouth lifted into a smile, and her voice contained a tiredness that could not be hidden. “You still chose the most difficult path.”
“Big brother?!”
Ling Chen’s smile was cold, and his eyes were a little grey. It was clear that he was tired of living, and it was also obvious that someone like him, who was always on guard, would not be able to sleep outside.
“I’ve found you. So it turns out that you’ve arrived late. No wonder …” He took out his cell phone and spoke into it. Then he hung up and looked at her.
“What are you doing here?” Chen Cancan had a bad feeling about this.
“I’m looking for you.” He leaned back against one of the armrests. “If it weren’t for the old man’s worry about you, would I have dropped the whole business and come here?”
Chen Cancan nodded, “Then you’ve found it now, and seen it too. I’m very safe, can you leave now?”
Ling Chen rubbed the top of her head. Last night, it rained all night, and did not stop until morning. Chen Cancan did not bring an umbrella, nor did he put down his bag.
“Just arrived?”
She took a step back and frowned, “Just ask me what you want to know. Although we aren’t a father, we’re still born from the same mother, and we’re still related by blood. Don’t be so nervous, you’ll look uncomfortable all over.”
Yes, back then father had always thought that she, who was born later on, wasn’t his daughter and was very cold to her when she was young, but she didn’t have the chance to do DNA testing, so when her parents divorced, father stubbornly took her brother away. But he didn’t expect later on to discover that he was wrong.
While he was angry, he was also worried that he wouldn’t be able to find his own daughter. Actually, it was because he was afraid that Chen Cancan wasn’t related to him by blood, and was a joke, so he focused on his career, and hadn’t had any children for the past few years.
When he saw Chen Cancan again, it was because Ling Chen had unintentionally discovered that the girl who had a hundred percent compatibility with her father was actually his illegitimate daughter, but he had still brought her back. In the end, he discovered that she was actually his half-sister, and the development of the story was also beyond his expectations.
“Then …” Ling Chen smirked, still using the same standard smile, “What do you want to do now? Find the man, then what? Do you see? Should he rush up to give them a good beating, or … “A tooth for a tooth?”
Chen Cancan frowned, she wanted to circle around him, “I don’t need you to care!”
He stopped her, turned and looked into her eyes, enunciating each word very gently, “Let me say, I brought him in front of you, and then I asked him, ‘Do you recognize me now, do you still remember?’ Whether he remembered or not, he cut off his flesh with a knife, using the dullest of knives. Oh, right, I found that knife back then, but it’s already rusted, but it’s barely usable …”