After Wen Tong's unremitting efforts throughout the afternoon, his villa was finally as clean as new.
Those paper cranes still hung above the bed, swaying gently with the wind blowing in through the window.
The two of them were sitting on the bed, giggling, with a large picture album in the middle.
"This is what I drew when I was in the third grade of elementary school. It's a picture of a chicken eating rice." Luo Xi turned back excitedly, "This, this, this is what I drew when I was in the sixth grade. How about showing off your domineering attitude."
Wen Tong smiled, with two shallow pear dimples at the corners of his lips.
"There is something even more powerful." Luo Xi jumped off the bed, rummaged through the bookcase, and finally found a box.
He slammed the box onto the bed, and the contents fell out with a loud splash.
"This is the treasure I collected, basketball badges. Look, each one has the signature of the star." Luo Xi picked up one and handed it to Wen Tong.
She looked over and over. She didn't recognize the players, but these things must look very precious.
"Luo Xi, I heard that you are doing charity work and I often see you on TV."
"Actually, it's nothing. I just go to impoverished mountainous areas to teach children to play ball, draw, and donate books to them." He said simply. In fact, over the years, he has traveled to many mountainous areas and visited hundreds of elementary schools. Most of the time
None of them are in Bincheng.
I came back this time to attend Uncle Huang’s birthday celebration.
Maybe it was such a coincidence that he met her.
"You will definitely be an outstanding king in the future." Wen Tong stroked the badge in her hand as if it was his future achievement. She smiled sincerely, "Your subjects will also be very happy."
Luo Xi didn't speak, his eyes were a little sad.
For him, being a king is not his ambition.
If he were not a prince, he would be willing to go to remote mountainous areas to teach. However, he has an unshirkable responsibility on his shoulders and cannot be willful.
Just like six years ago, he wanted to take care of his beloved girl, but he couldn't even give her the most basic protection.
Thinking about myself at that time, I was really useless.
He would rather not have been born into a royal family.
Both of them were silent, not speaking for a while, and just kept flipping the badges in their hands.
The sudden ringtone interrupted the silence. Wen Tong said apologetically: "I'm going to answer the phone."
She walked to the window, a little frightened.
"Where are you?" Beichen Xiao's voice approached and asked.
"Inspection, isn't this the job you ordered?" Wen Tong answered confidently.
"You should go back to the company immediately." His commanding tone made her very angry.
However, she couldn't stand up to her boss, so she had to agree hastily, "I understand."
Putting down the phone, Luo Xi asked casually: "Are you going back?"
"Well, the boss is urgently calling." She shook the phone in her hand helplessly.
"I'll give it to you." He put away the things scattered on the bed, and she hurried over to help.
In a hurry, their fingers touched the same badge, and a warm warmth spread between each other's fingers.
She bent slenderly and naturally wanted to avoid it.
But he suddenly grabbed his hand.
Gradually hold it in your palm.
Her little hands were soft and boneless. He still remembered the first time he held her hand. He was so excited that he didn't sleep all night.
One is black and the other is white, black wraps up white.
One is hard and the other is soft, softness restrains hardness.
He stared at the two hands on the bed, blankly lost in thought.
"Luo Xi." Wen Tong called him softly.
He came back to his senses suddenly, but did not let go of his hand.
He is no longer the ignorant boy he was before. When he encounters love, he will love with all his strength. He has already let go once, and this time, he will not let go easily again.
He put her in his arms and hugged her tightly, resting his pointed chin on her shoulder. She was too thin, and the bones made him feel a little painful.
He said: "Wen Tong, let's be together."
Wen Tong smiled and looked at the ruins outside the window, which seemed to be her empty heart at this time.
She said: "Luo Xi, I have to go pick up my son."
He suddenly froze.
The expression on his face was mixed with shock, pain, and even hopelessness.
His hand suddenly dropped stiffly, hanging by his side, tightly grasping the trouser line, and blue veins emerged from the clenched fist.
Wen Tong stood not far from him, still smiling.
However, her heart felt as bitter as if she had swallowed yellow lotus.
Luo Xi, I'm sorry. Six years ago, I couldn't promise you. Six years later, I still let you down.
A woman like me with a gloomy past will only bring you infinite disaster and shame.
You are so clean, as clean as silk, your origin is so noble, and you are too noble to be stained in the slightest.
We can only be ordinary friends. If we go beyond that, we will be doomed.
You know it in your heart, right, Luo Xi.
Luo Xi watched helplessly as she opened the door and her slender figure disappeared in the corner of the corridor, like a leaf blown off the branch by the wind.
He ran to the window and saw her walking out of the destroyed door.
Her long hair hung down, but it could not hide her slightly straightened back.
He suddenly remembered her figure waiting alone in this empty villa six years ago.
How sad and lonely that figure must be.
As soon as he thought about it, his nose started to feel sore.
He chased him out, his steps uncontrollably hurried, and he almost fell down the stairs.
But he didn't care about anything, he just wanted to catch up with her.
An imperial concubine must be a virgin, and a wife of a royal family must be born into a noble family.
He doesn't care about these bullshit rules. As long as he becomes king, those are not his final say. He can change them if he wants and abolish them if he wants.
For the first time, he felt that being a king had such important meaning.
As soon as I went out, I met a wall-like figure.
The conscientious Rong Xuan was there, still looking respectful.
"Your Highness, His Highness the Sixth Prince asked me to take you back to the palace. He said that His Majesty's birthday party will be here soon. He also said that the Princess misses you."
Luo Xi glanced behind him anxiously and saw the figure disappearing behind the ruins.
He was so angry that he wanted to stamp his feet, but Rong Xuan was staring at him with eyes like an old fox.
The impatience in my heart slowly subsided.
No matter what, he still behaved himself in front of Rong Xuan, a big talker. If his father really found out, I don't know what method he would come up with to deal with them.
Wen Tong walked far away, but Luo Xi did not catch up.
She looked back at the small building that was gradually disappearing, and sighed softly.
This is really not a gorgeous and romantic encounter. On the contrary, it is full of sadness.
Return to the Wen family's small courtyard.
The little guy and his uncle have become close friends for a long time. He is obsessed with his uncle's various game consoles to the point where he can't put them down.
Even when she said she was going home, the little guy reluctantly pouted, looking like he was still unsatisfied.
Mother Wen lovingly touched the little guy's head and interceded for him, "Since you like to play, then stay a little longer and let your mother pick you up from get off work."
The little guy was naturally so happy that he blinked his big eyes and looked at Wen Tong pleadingly.
Wen Tong happened to be going back to the company and had no time to take care of him, so she was happy to keep him here.
When I returned to ec International and saw Beichen Xiao, the atmosphere in the office seemed a little different.
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