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Huo Sicheng looked at Gu Qingcheng with a hint of complexity in his eyes.
“Do you really have no recollection at all?”
“Um?” Gu Qingcheng was puzzled by Huo Sicheng’s words. “What should I rember?”
Huo Sicheng’s eyes flashed, “It seems you really have forgotten.”
“I forgot?” Gu Qingcheng thought for a mont and then asserted confidently to Huo Sicheng, “I haven’t forgotten. In my mory, we t and got to know each other at school, introduced by Qin Jun.”
Huo Sicheng shook his head, “It wasn’t Qin Jun who introduced us. You forgot ; only I rember.”
Gu Qingcheng, puzzled and curious, urged, “Stop beating around the bush. Since you say I’ve forgotten, tell where we first t.”
Huo Sicheng gazed tenderly at Gu Qingcheng, gently stroking her hair with his fingertips, and spoke softly, “At Mt. Dragon Cetery.” Gu Qingcheng was taken aback, “Mt. Dragon Cetery?”
Huo Sicheng nodded. “Mm.”
Gu Qingcheng racked her brain but couldn’t recall ever eting Huo Sicheng at Mt. Dragon Cetery.
In her mory, the first ti she and Huo Sicheng were at the cetery together was a couple of days ago, on the anniversary of Mu Xia and her parents’ death. Other than that, she didn’t recall being there with him at the sa ti.
“This…” she furrowed her brows in doubt, murmuring, “Impossible… How could we have first t at that cetery? I can’t rember.”
Seeing Gu Qingcheng frown, Huo Sicheng raised his hand to her forehead, speaking softly, “You can’t rember because you’ve forgotten.”
Gu Qingcheng felt the warmth of Huo Sicheng’s fingertips on her forehead, his gentleness easing her furrowed brows.
“What happened then?” she asked, “When did we et at Mt. Dragon? Why don’t I rember? And was our eting just a passing by where you recognized ?”
Huo Sicheng shook his head. “We didn’t just pass by each other; we talked face to face.’
“Ah…” Gu Qingcheng was stunned again, searching her mory but failing to recall eting Huo Sicheng. She couldn’t help but ask, “What did we talk about?”
Huo Sicheng looked at Gu Qingcheng with affection. “You said, ‘My na is Gu Qingcheng…”‘
“That’s it?” Gu Qingcheng was surprised. “I just introduced myself to you that simply?”
“No,” Huo Sicheng softly replied to Gu Qingcheng, “There was more than just an introduction.”
Gu Qingcheng pursed her lips, looking at Huo Sicheng. She realized he was the type of person who only answered what was asked.
However, this was just how Huo Sicheng was. If she didn’t ask, he wouldn’t say a word.
“I did more than just introduce myself, then what else did I say?” she pressed Huo Sicheng, “And where in Mt. Dragon Cetery did we et? Why did we et?”
Huo Sicheng, facing Gu Qingcheng’s continuous questions, patiently replied, “We t in front of your mother’s grave.”
Gu Qingcheng urged him, “Continue.”
Huo Sicheng said, “You know my parents and your mother share the sa death anniversary, which ans they died on the sa day. So every year on this day, there’s a chance we might et…”
Gu Qingcheng nodded, agreeing with Huo Sicheng’s explanation.
“Yes, even if we didn’t know each other, just by visiting the cetary on the death anniversary, we could have t one day.”
“Right,” Huo Sicheng agreed, “But the day I went there wasn’t the anniversary of my parents’ death. I just missed them a lot and went alone to visit them. I was distraught that day, and I stayed in the cetery all day, until the evening when the sunset turned half the sky red. I knew I had to leave, or else it would be dangerous if soone found out I wasn’t at ho.
“But as I was about to leave, I heard a song, a very, very beautiful song. It was like I was enchanted, and I walked towards it until I reached your mother’s grave, and then I saw you.”
“? Singing?” Gu Qingcheng looked incredulously at Huo Sicheng. “I was singing at my mother’s grave? That’s impossible, I’ve never sung before, I…”
She suddenly beca uncertain because if she couldn’t rember what Huo Sicheng was saying, she also couldn’t be sure whether she had sung or not.
And Huo Sicheng wouldn’t lie to her—she believed what he was saying—it was just that she had no mory of it.
“You did sing. It was a nursery rhy,” Huo Sicheng, seeing the complex emotions in Gu Qingcheng, spoke softly, “I listened to you sing the nursery rhy to the end, your voice sweetly calling for your mother, until you noticed and turned to look at …”
His gaze on Gu Qingcheng grew even more doting and affectionate, “Qingcheng, you smiled at , your smile was the most beautiful and happy one I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Gu Qingcheng was dumbfounded, “? I sang a nursery rhy and smiled at you?”
She felt her brain short-circuiting, unable to comprehend how she could sing and smile at Huo Sicheng, especially at her mother’s grave.
In her mory, every ti she went to her mother’s grave, she was always very sad.
“Yes, you smiled at .” Huo Sicheng’s eyes, gentle as water, looked steadily at Gu Qingcheng, saying word by word, “You are my angel, from the mont you appeared before , you were the angel who saved .”
Gu Qingcheng was astonished, then softly said, “You’re exaggerating. I don’t seem like your angel; I’m more like your creditor, not only bullying you but also beating you, and we even quarrel. If I were an angel, I definitely wouldn’t bully you, beat you, or quarrel with you.”
“You have the right to bully ,” Huo Sicheng told Gu Qingcheng seriously, “It’s a right I give you, not to anyone else, past, present, or future. Only you can hurt .”
Gu Qingcheng was touched, her heart filled with warmth.
“Sicheng…”
“Call hubby,” Huo Sicheng corrected Gu Qingcheng. “I like it when you call ‘hubby.”‘
Gu Qingcheng smiled sweetly, tender, and obedient. “Hubby.”
Huo Sicheng enjoyed being sweetly addressed by Gu Qingcheng, responding. “I’m here.”
Gu Qingcheng continued, “Hubby, keep going. What happened after I smiled at you? Is there more?”
“Yes,” Huo Sicheng told Gu Qingcheng gently, “You spoke to first, asking my na, but I didn’t tell you. You noticed I was in a bad mood, didn’t ask why, just told a joke, and then said that your mother told you when you’re sad, you should sing and dance. Singing makes people happy, and dancing lets out emotions.”
Gu Qingcheng had no mory of this, just quietly listening to Huo Sicheng’s revelations.
Huo Sicheng continued, “I still didn’t respond to you, and you pointed to your mother’s tombstone, telling , ‘I ca to visit my mother because I miss her.’
Then you asked why I was there.”
He rembered the past and couldn’t help but smile softly. “At the ti, I didn’t answer any of your questions.”
“Later, as it got dark and you were about to go down the mountain, you said you had sneaked out and needed to go ho, or else your stepmother would scold you. As you were leaving, you said sothing to that I still rember to this day.”
Gu Qingcheng eagerly asked Huo Sicheng, “What did I say?”
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