Get off work and become a magical girl
Chapter 188
Chapter 188
On December 12, an ordinary working day, it snowed lightly again in Fangting City.
The light snow started the night before and lasted until the next afternoon.The pure white snowflakes dye the whole city white, and it also brings a bit of dreamy atmosphere in the middle of winter.
The fine snowflakes tapped on the window lattice, silently leaving a few water marks, blurring the street view outside the window.In the Different Policy Bureau with the heating on, Lin Yun, who was sitting in the director's room, wiped the teacup in his hand and sighed suddenly.
Then he looked at the uninvited guest on the opposite side of the table, and asked vigorously:
"Is there anything happy today?"
Sitting across the table is his student and junior, who is also a frequent visitor to the director's office in recent days - Bai Jingxuan.
As a kind of speech technique, it is not asking "what's the matter", nor is it asking "why do you want to come", but to come up and delimit the scope in "happy things".Just because he couldn't figure out the purpose of the kid's visit, he tried to make the tone of the conversation a little more positive.
It was just before getting off work, and when Lin Yun had already finished processing the paperwork for the day and was about to summarize the day's work, Bai Jingxuan came here suddenly.
Of course, even though it was an abrupt visit, Lin Yun was almost used to it.As mentioned before, Bai Jingxuan has become a regular visitor.After what happened in the lakeside spring, Bai Jingxuan's trips to the Different Strategy Bureau have also increased a lot because she accepted this "daughter" as a delphinium.
However, since then, she has not made any appalling requests such as "killing Black Ember Dawn".Often, after simply saying hello to Lin Yun, he would sit quietly in the bureau chief's office and read a book.
Rather, it was also because she was really quiet enough that Lin Yun was willing to let her stay in the chief's office.
"Happy thing?"
Today's Bai Jingxuan seems to be more lively than usual.Even while sitting and reading a book, the legs slightly elevated by the chair are still swaying slightly in the air. A pair of sneakers kick back and forth, occasionally rubbing against each other, making a slight scratching sound.After hearing Lin Yun's question, she stopped her feet and raised her head:
"Don't uncle know?"
know.
Lin Yun thought to himself.Rather, Bai Jingxuan looks so happy today, but she actually has an inseparable relationship with Delphinium.
Because today, December 12th, is Bai Jingxuan's birthday.
Taking her birthday as an excuse, Delphinium informed the members of the team early on that a birthday party would be held for Bai Jingxuan at the secret base tonight.
"Guess can guess a little bit."
Of course, considering that there is no reason to know his identity so clearly, Lin Yun could only weigh his words and said: "I heard a little bit before, today should be your birthday?"
"Uh-huh!"
Bai Jingxuan nodded: "There will be a birthday party for me tonight, is uncle coming?"
There was nothing unusual on Lin Yun's face, but the corners of his mouth twitched slightly after hearing the name "Uncle".
There is nothing wrong with this title, and it is even the most appropriate title between Bai Jingxuan and Lin Yun. If there is any problem with it, it is that Bai Jingxuan didn't call it that way before.
And that's the biggest problem.
In fact, Bai Jingxuan not only gave up the title of "father", which originally gave Lin Yun a headache, but started calling "uncle"; even for Delphinium, she also gave up the title of "mother" and started calling "teacher" again.
This process was so natural and so sudden that Delphinium didn't realize that something was wrong when it first happened.But when she found out that the situation was not very optimistic, Bai Jingxuan's title had completely changed back.
And to ask why it became like this, delphinium is actually clear in her heart - it can be said that it is basically all due to herself.
This matter has to start from the day when I went home and confronted Lin Xiaolu: after Lin Yun revealed to Lin Xiaolu his identity as an employee of the Different Policy Bureau, the turmoil caused by Hongsi and returning to the team finally subsided a little.
The girls obviously understood a lot about Hong Siyu's return, and gradually accepted the existence of this "new" teammate.However, in addition to understanding, some new problems have also arisen.
The first is Lin Xiaolu.
After Lin Yun seriously declared to her her relationship with Hong Siyu, and even her relationship with Delphinium, she really stopped, and she stopped stimulating Lin Yun with such troublesome questions as "stepmother". Emotions.
However, this "stopping" is one-sided.Because Delphinium soon discovered that Lin Xiaolu's attitude towards her had become a little bit wrong.Although it is not obvious from her speech and behavior, at certain times, she will always secretly stare at the delphinium with inexplicable and complicated eyes, and when the delphinium turns back to look at her, she turns her face to the side. , pretending to be doing something else.
This kind of behavior is fine only once or twice, but it happens almost every day, and it's hard for delphinium not to notice.After a few days, both Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan noticed this strange phenomenon.
What was even more strange was that Lin Xiaolu began to work hard for no reason.
It's not that she didn't work hard enough before, in fact, Lin Xiaolu had always completed the tasks assigned by Lin Xiaolu to Delphinium without compromise, and it took a lot of effort.However, these days, her efforts have become a little stubborn, and she even has a tendency to move closer to Bai Jingxuan.
Delphinium asked her why, and her answer was "Among the three, I am the only one who has not awakened the magic costume, so I am a little anxious."
This answer does not sound like a problem, and it can even be said to be reasonable, so Delphinium is reluctant to ask again.After all, it's hard to guess what adolescent girls are thinking. Since Lin Xiaolu's overall behavior is positive, there should be no need to worry too much.
And if Lin Xiaolu's state is just confusing, Bai Jingxuan's attitude is somewhat worrying.
Before this incident, and during the period after the Hupanchun attack, Bai Jingxuan's desire to express herself in the secret base obviously became much stronger.She will try her best to speak up on various occasions in order to maintain her presence and prevent Delphinium from ignoring her presence.
But that night, after Delphinium chose to explain the situation and returned to her home, Bai Jingxuan seemed to talk a lot less.
It's not that they don't talk all the time, but that they rarely take the initiative to speak.If someone asked her something, she would still answer, but it was limited to that, and basically there was no more communication.
If delphinium hadn't paid more attention to Bai Jingxuan these days, she might not have noticed it.After all, this kid has always been quiet and never interrupted at inappropriate times.
Of course, it's useless even if you notice it, because at this time, Bai Jingxuan's address to delphinium has changed back to "teacher".
Ask her why she is like this, and she can only get a slightly naive answer:
——"If uncle and teacher don't plan to get married, they won't adopt me, right?"
This was a very naive answer, but it made Delphinium's heart sink.Because it is too light and too logical.
"Lin Yun" and "Delphinium" will get married and reorganize their family, which is purely Lin Xiaolu's imagination, and Lin Yun has no intention of continuing for the time being.
And because the conditions are wrong, the subsequent inferences are also wrong. Based on this, "Lin Xiaolu's family will adopt Bai Jingxuan" is also a castle in the sky.Deriving from this logic, it is not difficult to come up with Bai Jingxuan's current answer.
There is nothing wrong with this answer, but when it is said by Bai Jingxuan herself, the situation is completely different.
Judging from her previous attitude towards this matter, this is not such an easy matter for her.Her attitude shouldn't be like this.
Delphinium had thought that Bai Jingxuan would be suspicious and would ask herself to confirm the authenticity of the promise; she also thought that Bai Jingxuan would be dissatisfied, thinking that she was perfunctory and deceiving; but she never thought that it would be neither, Bai Jingxuan did not express any Doubts and dissatisfaction, but easily convinced myself, and then easily accepted.
And this is the worst kind of development.
This means that Bai Jingxuan not only didn't get rid of the knot in her heart, she didn't even think that the problem could be solved, she started to hide the problem, and instead internalized the knot as a part of herself.
After several unsuccessful attempts to talk, Delphinium had no choice but to ask Xia Liang to explain the ins and outs of the matter, including but not limited to allowing Bai Jingxuan to call herself "mother".Then, under Xia Liang's delicate gaze, he abandoned these premises for the time being and conducted some discussions, and finalized a plan:
That is to use Bai Jingxuan's birthday as an opportunity to use the atmosphere of the birthday party to get a chance to have a sincere conversation.
That's why today's scene happened. Bai Jingxuan would make a special trip to the director's office of the Bureau of Different Strategies and ask him if he wanted to participate.
Obviously, "birthday party" is a long-lost experience for Bai Jingxuan. No matter what problems she had before, now she hopes to share this happiness with people she knows.
But unfortunately, Lin Yun's answer is destined to be negative.
"……Feel sorry."
After several struggles in his heart, he finally responded: "I have something very important to do tonight, and maybe... there is no way to get over it."
If possible, he very much hopes that the current self can learn to separate himself and attend this birthday party with two identities at the same time, but unfortunately, he will not.
In this birthday party, Delphinium and Lin Yun are destined to have only one person present.
After saying these words, he was already thinking about remedial measures in his mind, thinking about how to use words to make Bai Jingxuan feel better, but before he could continue speaking, he heard a soft voice. laughter.
"hey-hey."
Bai Jingxuan closed the book in her hand, and for some reason there was a small smile on her face: "I knew it, because Sister Xiaolu told me that Uncle, you even missed her birthday before."
Lin Yun didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only twitch the corners of his mouth bitterly.
"In this way, I really came here at the right time." Bai Jingxuan said again suddenly.
"……what?"
The sudden turning point caught Lin Yun off guard for a moment.He raised his head in astonishment, only to find that Bai Jingxuan was squinting, with an innocent smile on her face:
——"Everyone celebrates their birthday together, but uncle, if you can't go alone, isn't it lonely? So before I celebrate my birthday, I will come to accompany you, talk to you, and share the good luck of your birthday with you. "
These light and fluffy words failed to leave any traces in the office, but made Lin Yun speechless for a moment.
He looked at the girl in front of him who seemed to be smiling happily. For some reason, his throat moved slightly, but he couldn't say a word.
The weather was very cold on the day when the snow fell, even if the indoor heating was turned on, there was still a chill that could not be dispelled in the huge different strategy bureau.The snowflakes that melted outside the window continuously stripped the heat from the house, allowing the cold to continue to invade the house.
But at this moment, Bai Jingxuan's words seemed to have some kind of magical power, warming the snow all over the sky.
Although it was mid-winter, the snow outside the house could no longer bring the slightest cold. The inexplicable warmth seemed to flow through Lin Yun's limbs and bones, making him feel a little dazed.
After a long silence, he suddenly gathered the documents on the table and stood up slowly.
"I really can't go to your birthday party."
Stretching out his hand, he rubbed Bai Jingxuan's head: "But, before I have anything else to do, I can take you to the shopping mall and buy you a birthday present."
"I didn't come to uncle for the gift!" Bai Jingxuan puffed her mouth in dissatisfaction as if she felt that her words had been misinterpreted.
"I know."
Lin Yun withdrew his hand on her head and pulled the door of the director's office in front of him: "It's not for anything else, it's just that I want to buy it."
……
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The snowy sky was very gloomy, and the gray clouds covered the sun airtightly, leaving no gap for the sun.It was only after five o'clock, and the sky became dark early, as if it was already night.
Even on weekdays, the shopping plaza next to Yishi Bureau is quite lively - after all, it is the only shopping plaza around, and it monopolizes most of the passenger flow.
And among this group of customers, at some point there was a pair of customers who looked like father and daughter.A middle-aged man dressed meticulously, with an indifferent expression, and quite the aura of a career elite, was walking slowly in the square with a little girl.
They said they were here to buy gifts, but in fact they were just shopping. Along the way, Lin Yun had already taken Bai Jingxuan to visit many things, such as the indoor skating rink in the shopping mall, or the high-end head-mounted display experience area specially set aside... Although this kind of recreational activity is not new to people who often go shopping, Bai Jingxuan enjoys it.
Only at this time will she rarely show her relatively naive side, that is, the threshold of happiness is very low, and she can be full of interest no matter what she plays.
It's just that there is no burden when playing, but when Lin Yun said that he wanted to buy a gift, Bai Jingxuan became a lot more cautious.No matter what kind of gift Lin Yun proposed, she always showed a little resistance, obviously thinking that "accepting the gift" would make it appear that she came to Lin Yun with impure motives.
This kind of thinking made Lin Yun a little dumbfounded, but he didn't force it, so he just took her to continue wandering in the mall.
From the perspective of passers-by, it is like a father walking around with his daughter, stopping at the door of some toy or clothing stores from time to time, as if he is asking the girl beside him something.But most of the time the girl just shook her head, and the man smiled helplessly, and the two moved on.
Just looking at the past all the way, until they reached the door of a somewhat deserted handicraft shop, the pace of the two gradually slowed down.Because Lin Yun noticed that Bai Jingxuan's eyes seemed to be attracted by something in the window.
Following his gaze, he saw a piano music box with some exquisite workmanship, and it was placed there with the lid open.The exquisitely arranged transmission components are exposed under the cover of the music box, but because there is no winding, it just stays there and there is no other movement.
"Are you interested in that?" Lin Yun lowered his head, wanting to refer to Bai Jingxuan's opinion, but found that the girl had turned her head away, looking forward as if nothing had happened.
"No, just a casual glance."
Bai Jingxuan muttered softly, reached out and tugged at Lin Yun's sleeve: "Let's go."
"you sure?"
This time, Lin Yun didn't go along with her intentions, but asked again: "I didn't say that you must buy it after seeing it. I'm just interested. If you want to take a closer look, it's okay to wait for you for a while." no."
After saying this, he felt that Bai Jingxuan's strength in pulling her sleeves was obviously much weaker, and his gaze that was forced to look forward was once again glanced at the side window, obviously a little moved.
"Go." He waved his hand to Bai Jingxuan, and after expressing his encouragement again, he stood still at the side, expressing that he would not wander around.
Having already encouraged this, Bai Jingxuan no longer hesitated, ran all the way to the shop, squatted there, and looked at the music box carefully.
Lin Yun followed, and stood quietly behind Bai Jingxuan, looking at the handicraft in the window with her.When the salesman in the store noticed the two people who looked like father and daughter here, and wanted to come to inquire, he shook his head at her from a distance, then pointed to Bai Jingxuan silently, and declined temporarily. The other party's kindness.
Several minutes passed like this before Bai Jingxuan's eyes gradually moved away from the music box.After looking back reluctantly, she said to Lin Yun, "Let's go, uncle."
"Are you really not going to buy it?" Lin Yun asked.
"It doesn't make sense to buy it."
For some reason, after looking at the music boxes in the store, Bai Jingxuan's mood became a little lower, she shook her head and said, "It's just a resemblance, but it's not something in my memory."
"What's in the memory?" Lin Yun asked.
He remembered Bai Jingxuan's magic outfit—Tianyin's appearance was a music box, and the magic girl's magic outfit was often inextricably related to her personality and experience.Obviously, for Bai Jingxuan, the music box seems to be something with special meaning.
But unfortunately, after raising this question, he did not get a follow-up answer from Bai Jingxuan.
The two wandered around the mall for a while, during which time, no matter what gifts Lin Yun proposed to buy, they could only be rejected by Bai Jingxuan.This delayed the trip that was supposed to end in half an hour, and the two didn't leave until it was close to six o'clock.After several suggestions to no avail, Lin Yun had no choice but to give up the idea of buying a gift—the purpose of giving a gift is to make the recipient feel good. If this cannot be achieved, then it is better not to buy it.
After leaving the shopping mall, Lin Yun drove Bai Jingxuan on the snow-covered road.Looking out of the car through the swinging wipers on the front window, just as he was focusing on the road conditions in front of him, he suddenly heard Bai Jingxuan's subtle voice from the seat beside him:
"I... When I was young, my health was very poor, so I basically couldn't go out."
As if answering a question from a long time ago, she said in a somewhat rambling manner: "So I can only listen to my father telling me stories, he will tell me what the outside world is like, and tell me what the world is like in this world. There are so many beautiful things."
Although this passage was as abrupt as babbling, Lin Yun vaguely realized that what she was talking about might be the question she had asked in the handicraft store before.
"Whenever I fall ill in bed and my head hurts so much that I can't fall asleep, it's my father who comes to comfort me. He will hold my hand by the bed, tell me stories, and coax me to sleep."
Bai Jingxuan lowered her voice and continued as if talking to herself: "One day, my father told me that he was going on a business trip, but I didn't want to, so he took out a small box from his bag and put it next to my bed. Tell me, this thing is called 'Music Box'."
"He said that by twisting the mainspring, the music box can make music, and there will be little people dancing on it. If I can't sleep, I will open the music box and hear its sound, and I can fall asleep, as if he was same time."
"I didn't believe it, so he opened the music box and let me watch the little people dancing on it. After a while, I really fell asleep."
"So, later on, that music box became my friend. When I couldn't sleep; when I was bored at home alone; when I was in a bad mood...as long as I opened the music box and listened to its sound, I felt my heart change. Be quiet."
"It's just that, later, father and mother met the beast, and they... all died."
"A group of uncles and aunts in black clothes came to our house, took away everything from my parents, and sent me to an orphanage. I don't know where the music box my father gave me was lost."
Speaking of this, Bai Jingxuan paused, she glanced at Lin Yun, but quickly retracted it, continuing as if there was no such thing at all:
"Originally, even if the music box is lost, I don't care. Because as long as I close my eyes, I can still think of the sound of the music box, and it is in my head."
"But last month, those bad guys came. They told me that my parents are not my parents at all, and I am not their child. I am a beast, a monster."
"I get headaches because I am a monster, and the music box is actually something that my father made to control me. Open the music box and listen to its sound, and the beast will fall asleep. So I will fall asleep too, That way, I won't lose control."
After saying this, the car returned to silence again.
After listening to what she said, Lin Yun thought for a long time before asking: "Why do you believe what the bad guys say?"
"Because, when I felt blurred afterwards, as if I was going to become something else, one of the bad guys was humming."
Looking at the snow scene outside the car window, Bai Jingxuan's lips moved:
"The song he hums is exactly the same as the music box..."
The car passed the intersection on a snowy night, because it was in the outskirts of the city, so there was not much traffic around.For a moment, it seemed that there were only two people walking forward in the darkness on this silver-white road.
Lin Yun's face was expressionless, his lips were tightly closed, but his hand holding the steering wheel was tight.
He seemed to understand why the Black Ember Dawn at the scene failed to survive, and he also understood why the remnant beast that seemed to be the leader was tortured like that.
Bai Jingxuan also stopped for a long time, as if she was thinking about something, before she spoke after a long time:
"Uncle, they say my name is fake, my parents are fake, and my identity is fake. They say I'm a crippled beast with nothing, just like those nasty monsters."
"But they haven't told me if my birthday is fake. So, it's like the only real thing about me."
"I want to be as happy as all the birthday people on this day, and I want everyone to be happy on this only real day, and I hope that when I come to you, I bring my only real thing... …In this way, I will feel that I am a lot more real now.”
"But I really don't dare to think about it, if even my birthday...is not real, then what is left of me?"
"Could it be that even this date is not actually my real birthday, it was just made up randomly..."
——“When I was young, my family was very poor.”
Her words were suddenly interrupted by Lin Yun's voice.
When he said these words, Lin Yun's eyes kept looking straight ahead, without turning to Bai Jingxuan at all.As if grabbing the words just now was not intentional, he was just talking to himself:
"Because my father is the only one in the family to take care of me, and he is not in good health and has been bedridden all year round. Therefore, our family has always been short of money. Basically, we can only rely on subsidies and some money earned by my father when he is in better health. .”
"Our family doesn't have any extra money to buy cakes at all, but even so, he will insist on celebrating my birthday. Every time it comes to my birthday, he can always conjure a lot of chocolates out of nowhere. He Said the cake was too sweet and the chocolate was just right, so I never thought there was a problem."
"Later, I grew up and learned that there is a festival called 'Valentine's Day' in this world, and this festival is on the same day as my birthday, which is February 2th."
"Later, when I was in middle school, my father died of a serious illness. I found our family's resident registration book when I was packing up, and then I found my birthday on it-it was not February 2 at all."
"The reason why he didn't tell me the real date and kept lying to me that my birthday was Valentine's Day was because on that day, the streets were full of chocolates that no one wanted. He just went to the street to pick up some well-packed ones. You can find something to eat for your birthday.”
Speaking of this, Lin Yun suddenly showed a rare smile: "For such a stupid reason, he changed my birthday, and he kept it from me until he died."
Speaking of this, he suddenly looked at Bai Jingxuan, and asked a little abruptly: "So, do you think my birthday is real or fake?"
Hearing this joke-like story, Bai Jingxuan didn't show the slightest smile. Rather, after hearing Lin Yun's words, she was stunned.
It wasn't until Lin Yun asked her a question that she regained her composure and tentatively asked, "Uncle, when is... your birthday now?"
"November 2."
Lin Yun said with certainty: "Although I haven't celebrated my birthday properly for many years, my birthday is February 2th."
"……why?"
"Because February 2th is the day that my father and I spent again and again, brought me happiness, and left a mark in my memory."
Stopping in front of a crossroad, Lin Yun turned his face and said to Bai Jingxuan seriously: "Every birthday I have memories is on February 2th, so February 14th is mine, it is Lin Yun's. Birthday."
"The so-called birthday is just a date after all. The day we were born has become the past, no matter how we remember the number on that date, it has also become history."
"For people who live in the moment, it's never really important what day your birthday is. What matters is the people who come together on your birthday to celebrate your birthday. Regardless, they're real."
"As long as that group of people gathers together and you both firmly believe that this day is your birthday, then this is your birthday. And because of their existence, this birthday is more real than anything else."
After saying this solemnly, he restarted the car and continued to drive forward.
But Bai Jingxuan, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, was still extremely confused at this moment: "But, this is nothing more than self-deception..."
"No, it's not self-deception."
Lin Yun shook his head: "The definition of our existence as a human being is actually constantly given by others. The definition given to your child by your parents; the definition given to your student by the school; the definition of a magical girl given to you by the Magic Kingdom... …we are constantly acquainted with people in this world who shape and define each other.”
"If that sounds a little hard to you, just remember this simple phrase - seeing is believing."
"Your 'parents', no matter whether they are the ones who gave birth to you or not, as long as they really love you, protect you, and raise you, then they are your real parents."
"As a human being, no matter what kind of blood or magical power you have, as long as you possess human wisdom and act in accordance with human morality, then you are a real human being."
"Your enemies, no matter how much they flaunt their justice, no matter how much they confuse the public, as long as they do dirty things that are not as good as animals, then they are monsters, monsters more hateful than beasts."
"Including your teacher."
He paused again for a while, carefully organized his words, and then took a deep breath:
"No matter what the relationship between me and her is, and whether I will adopt you or not, as long as she really promises you and accepts you as a 'daughter', then this contract is established. Under this promise, you can Go ahead and call her mom, and think of her as your mom too."
"So, it doesn't matter if you call me uncle, but you call her 'teacher' again, which actually makes delphinium very worried."
Saying this is the result of his real deliberation.
Because no matter what, he can still remember the feelings he read from the child's expression when Bai Jingxuan was showing off to himself and explaining everything to himself that afternoon when he went alone to the spring by the lake.
It was a kind of anxiety, but also a kind of expectation.
It is precisely because of this that delphinium chose to respond to that expectation, calm down that anxiety, accept the title of "mother", and make the decision to guide this child.
Whether as a senior or as a teacher, Delphinium has no reason to betray this commitment for the sake of the child's growth.From that moment on, no matter how the facts change, this promise will not change.
And for this reason, if he needs to further clarify everything, maybe he also needs to have a complete showdown with Bai Jingxuan.
In itself, he has no reason to hide his identity from Bai Jingxuan. As long as he can ensure that the child will not leak his words, then showing the identity of Lin Yun and Delphinium will undoubtedly help him guide the child's growth from the sidelines.
For Bai Jingxuan, "Lin Yun" is a dispensable identity after all, and so far it is just "Dad" called out because of a misunderstanding. In fact, it is not...
— "Well, Dad."
Bai Jingxuan's voice interrupted his thoughts.
He looked aside in a daze, and saw Bai Jingxuan curled up on the seat, holding his fingers tightly, and also looked at him with a somewhat disturbed expression:
"If possible, I still hope that I can continue to call you uncle and your father. Because no matter what, I also want people who care... a little more."
A little more.
This word made Lin Yun shrink back what he was about to blurt out.
He looked at Bai Jingxuan, his originally serious expression became a little gentle again.He stretched out his hand, rubbed it on his head again, sighed, and didn't know what he was sighing.
"A little more... yeah, I see."
Then, under Bai Jingxuan's somewhat puzzled eyes, he said, "Get out of the car, you're here, someone is here to pick you up."
Bai Jingxuan heard the words and looked out the window, only to realize that the surrounding scenery had become quite familiar, and she had obviously reached the block near the secret base.The snow-covered street was so different from what she usually saw, that's why she couldn't recognize it for a while.
And in the snow curtain outside the car window, there seemed to be a familiar figure standing there waiting.
It's a delphinium.
Bai Jingxuan could confirm this at a glance.
All the previous confusion disappeared at this moment. She put her hand on the door handle, but she looked back at Lin Yun as if she remembered something, and she didn't know what she was expecting.
"I really have something to do, so I can't go."
Shaking his head, Lin Yun leaned back slightly, expressing his determination: "Go back and celebrate your birthday with your sister and mother. Dad will send you here, Xiaoxuan."
The first half of the sentence made Bai Jingxuan's expression darken a little; but the second half of the sentence made her look bright again.It's like a face-changing version of reality.
She got out of the car and took a few steps towards the direction where the delphinium was, but she didn't wait in front of the other party, but looked back at the car again.After finding Lin Yun sitting in the car, watching her with a smile on his face.She just laughed and waved her hand, then continued to walk in the direction where the delphinium was.
Her footsteps became faster and faster, more and more urgent, and finally turned into a trot, and then rushed into the delphinium's arms.
Perhaps, she didn't notice that when she left, the figure of "Lin Yun" in the car behind her scattered into a blue magic line.
Perhaps, she didn't notice that the hand holding her seemed to still have the residual warmth from touching the top of her head not long ago.
For a birthday child, these are things that don't need to pay attention to, and they can also not exist.
On a midwinter night when the snow was falling heavily, she hugged the delphinium under the street lamp of Mobai, raised her head and opened her mouth, but she was speechless for a long time.It wasn't until Delphinium held her palm that her eyes became brighter, and finally, with a smile, she spoke again:
"mom!"
And this time, this calling will never change again.
(End of this chapter)
On December 12, an ordinary working day, it snowed lightly again in Fangting City.
The light snow started the night before and lasted until the next afternoon.The pure white snowflakes dye the whole city white, and it also brings a bit of dreamy atmosphere in the middle of winter.
The fine snowflakes tapped on the window lattice, silently leaving a few water marks, blurring the street view outside the window.In the Different Policy Bureau with the heating on, Lin Yun, who was sitting in the director's room, wiped the teacup in his hand and sighed suddenly.
Then he looked at the uninvited guest on the opposite side of the table, and asked vigorously:
"Is there anything happy today?"
Sitting across the table is his student and junior, who is also a frequent visitor to the director's office in recent days - Bai Jingxuan.
As a kind of speech technique, it is not asking "what's the matter", nor is it asking "why do you want to come", but to come up and delimit the scope in "happy things".Just because he couldn't figure out the purpose of the kid's visit, he tried to make the tone of the conversation a little more positive.
It was just before getting off work, and when Lin Yun had already finished processing the paperwork for the day and was about to summarize the day's work, Bai Jingxuan came here suddenly.
Of course, even though it was an abrupt visit, Lin Yun was almost used to it.As mentioned before, Bai Jingxuan has become a regular visitor.After what happened in the lakeside spring, Bai Jingxuan's trips to the Different Strategy Bureau have also increased a lot because she accepted this "daughter" as a delphinium.
However, since then, she has not made any appalling requests such as "killing Black Ember Dawn".Often, after simply saying hello to Lin Yun, he would sit quietly in the bureau chief's office and read a book.
Rather, it was also because she was really quiet enough that Lin Yun was willing to let her stay in the chief's office.
"Happy thing?"
Today's Bai Jingxuan seems to be more lively than usual.Even while sitting and reading a book, the legs slightly elevated by the chair are still swaying slightly in the air. A pair of sneakers kick back and forth, occasionally rubbing against each other, making a slight scratching sound.After hearing Lin Yun's question, she stopped her feet and raised her head:
"Don't uncle know?"
know.
Lin Yun thought to himself.Rather, Bai Jingxuan looks so happy today, but she actually has an inseparable relationship with Delphinium.
Because today, December 12th, is Bai Jingxuan's birthday.
Taking her birthday as an excuse, Delphinium informed the members of the team early on that a birthday party would be held for Bai Jingxuan at the secret base tonight.
"Guess can guess a little bit."
Of course, considering that there is no reason to know his identity so clearly, Lin Yun could only weigh his words and said: "I heard a little bit before, today should be your birthday?"
"Uh-huh!"
Bai Jingxuan nodded: "There will be a birthday party for me tonight, is uncle coming?"
There was nothing unusual on Lin Yun's face, but the corners of his mouth twitched slightly after hearing the name "Uncle".
There is nothing wrong with this title, and it is even the most appropriate title between Bai Jingxuan and Lin Yun. If there is any problem with it, it is that Bai Jingxuan didn't call it that way before.
And that's the biggest problem.
In fact, Bai Jingxuan not only gave up the title of "father", which originally gave Lin Yun a headache, but started calling "uncle"; even for Delphinium, she also gave up the title of "mother" and started calling "teacher" again.
This process was so natural and so sudden that Delphinium didn't realize that something was wrong when it first happened.But when she found out that the situation was not very optimistic, Bai Jingxuan's title had completely changed back.
And to ask why it became like this, delphinium is actually clear in her heart - it can be said that it is basically all due to herself.
This matter has to start from the day when I went home and confronted Lin Xiaolu: after Lin Yun revealed to Lin Xiaolu his identity as an employee of the Different Policy Bureau, the turmoil caused by Hongsi and returning to the team finally subsided a little.
The girls obviously understood a lot about Hong Siyu's return, and gradually accepted the existence of this "new" teammate.However, in addition to understanding, some new problems have also arisen.
The first is Lin Xiaolu.
After Lin Yun seriously declared to her her relationship with Hong Siyu, and even her relationship with Delphinium, she really stopped, and she stopped stimulating Lin Yun with such troublesome questions as "stepmother". Emotions.
However, this "stopping" is one-sided.Because Delphinium soon discovered that Lin Xiaolu's attitude towards her had become a little bit wrong.Although it is not obvious from her speech and behavior, at certain times, she will always secretly stare at the delphinium with inexplicable and complicated eyes, and when the delphinium turns back to look at her, she turns her face to the side. , pretending to be doing something else.
This kind of behavior is fine only once or twice, but it happens almost every day, and it's hard for delphinium not to notice.After a few days, both Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan noticed this strange phenomenon.
What was even more strange was that Lin Xiaolu began to work hard for no reason.
It's not that she didn't work hard enough before, in fact, Lin Xiaolu had always completed the tasks assigned by Lin Xiaolu to Delphinium without compromise, and it took a lot of effort.However, these days, her efforts have become a little stubborn, and she even has a tendency to move closer to Bai Jingxuan.
Delphinium asked her why, and her answer was "Among the three, I am the only one who has not awakened the magic costume, so I am a little anxious."
This answer does not sound like a problem, and it can even be said to be reasonable, so Delphinium is reluctant to ask again.After all, it's hard to guess what adolescent girls are thinking. Since Lin Xiaolu's overall behavior is positive, there should be no need to worry too much.
And if Lin Xiaolu's state is just confusing, Bai Jingxuan's attitude is somewhat worrying.
Before this incident, and during the period after the Hupanchun attack, Bai Jingxuan's desire to express herself in the secret base obviously became much stronger.She will try her best to speak up on various occasions in order to maintain her presence and prevent Delphinium from ignoring her presence.
But that night, after Delphinium chose to explain the situation and returned to her home, Bai Jingxuan seemed to talk a lot less.
It's not that they don't talk all the time, but that they rarely take the initiative to speak.If someone asked her something, she would still answer, but it was limited to that, and basically there was no more communication.
If delphinium hadn't paid more attention to Bai Jingxuan these days, she might not have noticed it.After all, this kid has always been quiet and never interrupted at inappropriate times.
Of course, it's useless even if you notice it, because at this time, Bai Jingxuan's address to delphinium has changed back to "teacher".
Ask her why she is like this, and she can only get a slightly naive answer:
——"If uncle and teacher don't plan to get married, they won't adopt me, right?"
This was a very naive answer, but it made Delphinium's heart sink.Because it is too light and too logical.
"Lin Yun" and "Delphinium" will get married and reorganize their family, which is purely Lin Xiaolu's imagination, and Lin Yun has no intention of continuing for the time being.
And because the conditions are wrong, the subsequent inferences are also wrong. Based on this, "Lin Xiaolu's family will adopt Bai Jingxuan" is also a castle in the sky.Deriving from this logic, it is not difficult to come up with Bai Jingxuan's current answer.
There is nothing wrong with this answer, but when it is said by Bai Jingxuan herself, the situation is completely different.
Judging from her previous attitude towards this matter, this is not such an easy matter for her.Her attitude shouldn't be like this.
Delphinium had thought that Bai Jingxuan would be suspicious and would ask herself to confirm the authenticity of the promise; she also thought that Bai Jingxuan would be dissatisfied, thinking that she was perfunctory and deceiving; but she never thought that it would be neither, Bai Jingxuan did not express any Doubts and dissatisfaction, but easily convinced myself, and then easily accepted.
And this is the worst kind of development.
This means that Bai Jingxuan not only didn't get rid of the knot in her heart, she didn't even think that the problem could be solved, she started to hide the problem, and instead internalized the knot as a part of herself.
After several unsuccessful attempts to talk, Delphinium had no choice but to ask Xia Liang to explain the ins and outs of the matter, including but not limited to allowing Bai Jingxuan to call herself "mother".Then, under Xia Liang's delicate gaze, he abandoned these premises for the time being and conducted some discussions, and finalized a plan:
That is to use Bai Jingxuan's birthday as an opportunity to use the atmosphere of the birthday party to get a chance to have a sincere conversation.
That's why today's scene happened. Bai Jingxuan would make a special trip to the director's office of the Bureau of Different Strategies and ask him if he wanted to participate.
Obviously, "birthday party" is a long-lost experience for Bai Jingxuan. No matter what problems she had before, now she hopes to share this happiness with people she knows.
But unfortunately, Lin Yun's answer is destined to be negative.
"……Feel sorry."
After several struggles in his heart, he finally responded: "I have something very important to do tonight, and maybe... there is no way to get over it."
If possible, he very much hopes that the current self can learn to separate himself and attend this birthday party with two identities at the same time, but unfortunately, he will not.
In this birthday party, Delphinium and Lin Yun are destined to have only one person present.
After saying these words, he was already thinking about remedial measures in his mind, thinking about how to use words to make Bai Jingxuan feel better, but before he could continue speaking, he heard a soft voice. laughter.
"hey-hey."
Bai Jingxuan closed the book in her hand, and for some reason there was a small smile on her face: "I knew it, because Sister Xiaolu told me that Uncle, you even missed her birthday before."
Lin Yun didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only twitch the corners of his mouth bitterly.
"In this way, I really came here at the right time." Bai Jingxuan said again suddenly.
"……what?"
The sudden turning point caught Lin Yun off guard for a moment.He raised his head in astonishment, only to find that Bai Jingxuan was squinting, with an innocent smile on her face:
——"Everyone celebrates their birthday together, but uncle, if you can't go alone, isn't it lonely? So before I celebrate my birthday, I will come to accompany you, talk to you, and share the good luck of your birthday with you. "
These light and fluffy words failed to leave any traces in the office, but made Lin Yun speechless for a moment.
He looked at the girl in front of him who seemed to be smiling happily. For some reason, his throat moved slightly, but he couldn't say a word.
The weather was very cold on the day when the snow fell, even if the indoor heating was turned on, there was still a chill that could not be dispelled in the huge different strategy bureau.The snowflakes that melted outside the window continuously stripped the heat from the house, allowing the cold to continue to invade the house.
But at this moment, Bai Jingxuan's words seemed to have some kind of magical power, warming the snow all over the sky.
Although it was mid-winter, the snow outside the house could no longer bring the slightest cold. The inexplicable warmth seemed to flow through Lin Yun's limbs and bones, making him feel a little dazed.
After a long silence, he suddenly gathered the documents on the table and stood up slowly.
"I really can't go to your birthday party."
Stretching out his hand, he rubbed Bai Jingxuan's head: "But, before I have anything else to do, I can take you to the shopping mall and buy you a birthday present."
"I didn't come to uncle for the gift!" Bai Jingxuan puffed her mouth in dissatisfaction as if she felt that her words had been misinterpreted.
"I know."
Lin Yun withdrew his hand on her head and pulled the door of the director's office in front of him: "It's not for anything else, it's just that I want to buy it."
……
……
The snowy sky was very gloomy, and the gray clouds covered the sun airtightly, leaving no gap for the sun.It was only after five o'clock, and the sky became dark early, as if it was already night.
Even on weekdays, the shopping plaza next to Yishi Bureau is quite lively - after all, it is the only shopping plaza around, and it monopolizes most of the passenger flow.
And among this group of customers, at some point there was a pair of customers who looked like father and daughter.A middle-aged man dressed meticulously, with an indifferent expression, and quite the aura of a career elite, was walking slowly in the square with a little girl.
They said they were here to buy gifts, but in fact they were just shopping. Along the way, Lin Yun had already taken Bai Jingxuan to visit many things, such as the indoor skating rink in the shopping mall, or the high-end head-mounted display experience area specially set aside... Although this kind of recreational activity is not new to people who often go shopping, Bai Jingxuan enjoys it.
Only at this time will she rarely show her relatively naive side, that is, the threshold of happiness is very low, and she can be full of interest no matter what she plays.
It's just that there is no burden when playing, but when Lin Yun said that he wanted to buy a gift, Bai Jingxuan became a lot more cautious.No matter what kind of gift Lin Yun proposed, she always showed a little resistance, obviously thinking that "accepting the gift" would make it appear that she came to Lin Yun with impure motives.
This kind of thinking made Lin Yun a little dumbfounded, but he didn't force it, so he just took her to continue wandering in the mall.
From the perspective of passers-by, it is like a father walking around with his daughter, stopping at the door of some toy or clothing stores from time to time, as if he is asking the girl beside him something.But most of the time the girl just shook her head, and the man smiled helplessly, and the two moved on.
Just looking at the past all the way, until they reached the door of a somewhat deserted handicraft shop, the pace of the two gradually slowed down.Because Lin Yun noticed that Bai Jingxuan's eyes seemed to be attracted by something in the window.
Following his gaze, he saw a piano music box with some exquisite workmanship, and it was placed there with the lid open.The exquisitely arranged transmission components are exposed under the cover of the music box, but because there is no winding, it just stays there and there is no other movement.
"Are you interested in that?" Lin Yun lowered his head, wanting to refer to Bai Jingxuan's opinion, but found that the girl had turned her head away, looking forward as if nothing had happened.
"No, just a casual glance."
Bai Jingxuan muttered softly, reached out and tugged at Lin Yun's sleeve: "Let's go."
"you sure?"
This time, Lin Yun didn't go along with her intentions, but asked again: "I didn't say that you must buy it after seeing it. I'm just interested. If you want to take a closer look, it's okay to wait for you for a while." no."
After saying this, he felt that Bai Jingxuan's strength in pulling her sleeves was obviously much weaker, and his gaze that was forced to look forward was once again glanced at the side window, obviously a little moved.
"Go." He waved his hand to Bai Jingxuan, and after expressing his encouragement again, he stood still at the side, expressing that he would not wander around.
Having already encouraged this, Bai Jingxuan no longer hesitated, ran all the way to the shop, squatted there, and looked at the music box carefully.
Lin Yun followed, and stood quietly behind Bai Jingxuan, looking at the handicraft in the window with her.When the salesman in the store noticed the two people who looked like father and daughter here, and wanted to come to inquire, he shook his head at her from a distance, then pointed to Bai Jingxuan silently, and declined temporarily. The other party's kindness.
Several minutes passed like this before Bai Jingxuan's eyes gradually moved away from the music box.After looking back reluctantly, she said to Lin Yun, "Let's go, uncle."
"Are you really not going to buy it?" Lin Yun asked.
"It doesn't make sense to buy it."
For some reason, after looking at the music boxes in the store, Bai Jingxuan's mood became a little lower, she shook her head and said, "It's just a resemblance, but it's not something in my memory."
"What's in the memory?" Lin Yun asked.
He remembered Bai Jingxuan's magic outfit—Tianyin's appearance was a music box, and the magic girl's magic outfit was often inextricably related to her personality and experience.Obviously, for Bai Jingxuan, the music box seems to be something with special meaning.
But unfortunately, after raising this question, he did not get a follow-up answer from Bai Jingxuan.
The two wandered around the mall for a while, during which time, no matter what gifts Lin Yun proposed to buy, they could only be rejected by Bai Jingxuan.This delayed the trip that was supposed to end in half an hour, and the two didn't leave until it was close to six o'clock.After several suggestions to no avail, Lin Yun had no choice but to give up the idea of buying a gift—the purpose of giving a gift is to make the recipient feel good. If this cannot be achieved, then it is better not to buy it.
After leaving the shopping mall, Lin Yun drove Bai Jingxuan on the snow-covered road.Looking out of the car through the swinging wipers on the front window, just as he was focusing on the road conditions in front of him, he suddenly heard Bai Jingxuan's subtle voice from the seat beside him:
"I... When I was young, my health was very poor, so I basically couldn't go out."
As if answering a question from a long time ago, she said in a somewhat rambling manner: "So I can only listen to my father telling me stories, he will tell me what the outside world is like, and tell me what the world is like in this world. There are so many beautiful things."
Although this passage was as abrupt as babbling, Lin Yun vaguely realized that what she was talking about might be the question she had asked in the handicraft store before.
"Whenever I fall ill in bed and my head hurts so much that I can't fall asleep, it's my father who comes to comfort me. He will hold my hand by the bed, tell me stories, and coax me to sleep."
Bai Jingxuan lowered her voice and continued as if talking to herself: "One day, my father told me that he was going on a business trip, but I didn't want to, so he took out a small box from his bag and put it next to my bed. Tell me, this thing is called 'Music Box'."
"He said that by twisting the mainspring, the music box can make music, and there will be little people dancing on it. If I can't sleep, I will open the music box and hear its sound, and I can fall asleep, as if he was same time."
"I didn't believe it, so he opened the music box and let me watch the little people dancing on it. After a while, I really fell asleep."
"So, later on, that music box became my friend. When I couldn't sleep; when I was bored at home alone; when I was in a bad mood...as long as I opened the music box and listened to its sound, I felt my heart change. Be quiet."
"It's just that, later, father and mother met the beast, and they... all died."
"A group of uncles and aunts in black clothes came to our house, took away everything from my parents, and sent me to an orphanage. I don't know where the music box my father gave me was lost."
Speaking of this, Bai Jingxuan paused, she glanced at Lin Yun, but quickly retracted it, continuing as if there was no such thing at all:
"Originally, even if the music box is lost, I don't care. Because as long as I close my eyes, I can still think of the sound of the music box, and it is in my head."
"But last month, those bad guys came. They told me that my parents are not my parents at all, and I am not their child. I am a beast, a monster."
"I get headaches because I am a monster, and the music box is actually something that my father made to control me. Open the music box and listen to its sound, and the beast will fall asleep. So I will fall asleep too, That way, I won't lose control."
After saying this, the car returned to silence again.
After listening to what she said, Lin Yun thought for a long time before asking: "Why do you believe what the bad guys say?"
"Because, when I felt blurred afterwards, as if I was going to become something else, one of the bad guys was humming."
Looking at the snow scene outside the car window, Bai Jingxuan's lips moved:
"The song he hums is exactly the same as the music box..."
The car passed the intersection on a snowy night, because it was in the outskirts of the city, so there was not much traffic around.For a moment, it seemed that there were only two people walking forward in the darkness on this silver-white road.
Lin Yun's face was expressionless, his lips were tightly closed, but his hand holding the steering wheel was tight.
He seemed to understand why the Black Ember Dawn at the scene failed to survive, and he also understood why the remnant beast that seemed to be the leader was tortured like that.
Bai Jingxuan also stopped for a long time, as if she was thinking about something, before she spoke after a long time:
"Uncle, they say my name is fake, my parents are fake, and my identity is fake. They say I'm a crippled beast with nothing, just like those nasty monsters."
"But they haven't told me if my birthday is fake. So, it's like the only real thing about me."
"I want to be as happy as all the birthday people on this day, and I want everyone to be happy on this only real day, and I hope that when I come to you, I bring my only real thing... …In this way, I will feel that I am a lot more real now.”
"But I really don't dare to think about it, if even my birthday...is not real, then what is left of me?"
"Could it be that even this date is not actually my real birthday, it was just made up randomly..."
——“When I was young, my family was very poor.”
Her words were suddenly interrupted by Lin Yun's voice.
When he said these words, Lin Yun's eyes kept looking straight ahead, without turning to Bai Jingxuan at all.As if grabbing the words just now was not intentional, he was just talking to himself:
"Because my father is the only one in the family to take care of me, and he is not in good health and has been bedridden all year round. Therefore, our family has always been short of money. Basically, we can only rely on subsidies and some money earned by my father when he is in better health. .”
"Our family doesn't have any extra money to buy cakes at all, but even so, he will insist on celebrating my birthday. Every time it comes to my birthday, he can always conjure a lot of chocolates out of nowhere. He Said the cake was too sweet and the chocolate was just right, so I never thought there was a problem."
"Later, I grew up and learned that there is a festival called 'Valentine's Day' in this world, and this festival is on the same day as my birthday, which is February 2th."
"Later, when I was in middle school, my father died of a serious illness. I found our family's resident registration book when I was packing up, and then I found my birthday on it-it was not February 2 at all."
"The reason why he didn't tell me the real date and kept lying to me that my birthday was Valentine's Day was because on that day, the streets were full of chocolates that no one wanted. He just went to the street to pick up some well-packed ones. You can find something to eat for your birthday.”
Speaking of this, Lin Yun suddenly showed a rare smile: "For such a stupid reason, he changed my birthday, and he kept it from me until he died."
Speaking of this, he suddenly looked at Bai Jingxuan, and asked a little abruptly: "So, do you think my birthday is real or fake?"
Hearing this joke-like story, Bai Jingxuan didn't show the slightest smile. Rather, after hearing Lin Yun's words, she was stunned.
It wasn't until Lin Yun asked her a question that she regained her composure and tentatively asked, "Uncle, when is... your birthday now?"
"November 2."
Lin Yun said with certainty: "Although I haven't celebrated my birthday properly for many years, my birthday is February 2th."
"……why?"
"Because February 2th is the day that my father and I spent again and again, brought me happiness, and left a mark in my memory."
Stopping in front of a crossroad, Lin Yun turned his face and said to Bai Jingxuan seriously: "Every birthday I have memories is on February 2th, so February 14th is mine, it is Lin Yun's. Birthday."
"The so-called birthday is just a date after all. The day we were born has become the past, no matter how we remember the number on that date, it has also become history."
"For people who live in the moment, it's never really important what day your birthday is. What matters is the people who come together on your birthday to celebrate your birthday. Regardless, they're real."
"As long as that group of people gathers together and you both firmly believe that this day is your birthday, then this is your birthday. And because of their existence, this birthday is more real than anything else."
After saying this solemnly, he restarted the car and continued to drive forward.
But Bai Jingxuan, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, was still extremely confused at this moment: "But, this is nothing more than self-deception..."
"No, it's not self-deception."
Lin Yun shook his head: "The definition of our existence as a human being is actually constantly given by others. The definition given to your child by your parents; the definition given to your student by the school; the definition of a magical girl given to you by the Magic Kingdom... …we are constantly acquainted with people in this world who shape and define each other.”
"If that sounds a little hard to you, just remember this simple phrase - seeing is believing."
"Your 'parents', no matter whether they are the ones who gave birth to you or not, as long as they really love you, protect you, and raise you, then they are your real parents."
"As a human being, no matter what kind of blood or magical power you have, as long as you possess human wisdom and act in accordance with human morality, then you are a real human being."
"Your enemies, no matter how much they flaunt their justice, no matter how much they confuse the public, as long as they do dirty things that are not as good as animals, then they are monsters, monsters more hateful than beasts."
"Including your teacher."
He paused again for a while, carefully organized his words, and then took a deep breath:
"No matter what the relationship between me and her is, and whether I will adopt you or not, as long as she really promises you and accepts you as a 'daughter', then this contract is established. Under this promise, you can Go ahead and call her mom, and think of her as your mom too."
"So, it doesn't matter if you call me uncle, but you call her 'teacher' again, which actually makes delphinium very worried."
Saying this is the result of his real deliberation.
Because no matter what, he can still remember the feelings he read from the child's expression when Bai Jingxuan was showing off to himself and explaining everything to himself that afternoon when he went alone to the spring by the lake.
It was a kind of anxiety, but also a kind of expectation.
It is precisely because of this that delphinium chose to respond to that expectation, calm down that anxiety, accept the title of "mother", and make the decision to guide this child.
Whether as a senior or as a teacher, Delphinium has no reason to betray this commitment for the sake of the child's growth.From that moment on, no matter how the facts change, this promise will not change.
And for this reason, if he needs to further clarify everything, maybe he also needs to have a complete showdown with Bai Jingxuan.
In itself, he has no reason to hide his identity from Bai Jingxuan. As long as he can ensure that the child will not leak his words, then showing the identity of Lin Yun and Delphinium will undoubtedly help him guide the child's growth from the sidelines.
For Bai Jingxuan, "Lin Yun" is a dispensable identity after all, and so far it is just "Dad" called out because of a misunderstanding. In fact, it is not...
— "Well, Dad."
Bai Jingxuan's voice interrupted his thoughts.
He looked aside in a daze, and saw Bai Jingxuan curled up on the seat, holding his fingers tightly, and also looked at him with a somewhat disturbed expression:
"If possible, I still hope that I can continue to call you uncle and your father. Because no matter what, I also want people who care... a little more."
A little more.
This word made Lin Yun shrink back what he was about to blurt out.
He looked at Bai Jingxuan, his originally serious expression became a little gentle again.He stretched out his hand, rubbed it on his head again, sighed, and didn't know what he was sighing.
"A little more... yeah, I see."
Then, under Bai Jingxuan's somewhat puzzled eyes, he said, "Get out of the car, you're here, someone is here to pick you up."
Bai Jingxuan heard the words and looked out the window, only to realize that the surrounding scenery had become quite familiar, and she had obviously reached the block near the secret base.The snow-covered street was so different from what she usually saw, that's why she couldn't recognize it for a while.
And in the snow curtain outside the car window, there seemed to be a familiar figure standing there waiting.
It's a delphinium.
Bai Jingxuan could confirm this at a glance.
All the previous confusion disappeared at this moment. She put her hand on the door handle, but she looked back at Lin Yun as if she remembered something, and she didn't know what she was expecting.
"I really have something to do, so I can't go."
Shaking his head, Lin Yun leaned back slightly, expressing his determination: "Go back and celebrate your birthday with your sister and mother. Dad will send you here, Xiaoxuan."
The first half of the sentence made Bai Jingxuan's expression darken a little; but the second half of the sentence made her look bright again.It's like a face-changing version of reality.
She got out of the car and took a few steps towards the direction where the delphinium was, but she didn't wait in front of the other party, but looked back at the car again.After finding Lin Yun sitting in the car, watching her with a smile on his face.She just laughed and waved her hand, then continued to walk in the direction where the delphinium was.
Her footsteps became faster and faster, more and more urgent, and finally turned into a trot, and then rushed into the delphinium's arms.
Perhaps, she didn't notice that when she left, the figure of "Lin Yun" in the car behind her scattered into a blue magic line.
Perhaps, she didn't notice that the hand holding her seemed to still have the residual warmth from touching the top of her head not long ago.
For a birthday child, these are things that don't need to pay attention to, and they can also not exist.
On a midwinter night when the snow was falling heavily, she hugged the delphinium under the street lamp of Mobai, raised her head and opened her mouth, but she was speechless for a long time.It wasn't until Delphinium held her palm that her eyes became brighter, and finally, with a smile, she spoke again:
"mom!"
And this time, this calling will never change again.
(End of this chapter)
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