Dragon Clan: Thought So Far.

Ever since she parted with Lu Mingfei in Chicago, Su Xiaoqiang always had a strange dream. In the dream, she was standing on a mountain, looking into the distance at a sea of ​​trees that seemed to be rippling with waves as if blown by the wind. The sea of ​​trees stretched all the way to the horizon, and a huge copper pillar stood at the end of the sky and the earth.

There would be fog in the dream, and the fog would rise from the mountainside like a cloud. In the depths of the cloud, Su Xiaoqiang would sometimes see a young man with drooping eyebrows and wearing a stiff denim jacket. His face would always be full of bitterness and hatred, and he would never utter a word.

They stared at each other across the clouds that flowed like water on the mountain. Su Xiaoqiang vaguely remembered that the man's surname was Tang, and he was Zhao Menghua's friend. Their first meeting was in the autumn of 2009, when the lush red pine forests in Illinois gradually turned yellow. It was the first time Su Xiaoqiang and Lu Mingfei met again after graduating from Shilan Middle School.

The first time Su Xiaoqiang woke up from this dream in his dormitory near the economics activity area, he felt as cold as if he was thrown into a lake in winter.

Outside the window, there was continuous snow and wind, and the gray-black clouds were so tall that they looked like mountains that were about to fall. The flames in the electric fireplace were jumping and reflecting the skin on her wrists, which was white with a hint of red.

Thinking back to the man in the dream, Su Xiaoqiang's face was filled with confusion and helplessness. She didn't know why she kept having the same dream over and over again. In her dreams, she always felt that she was facing something huge. That thing was rolling over her, and she was powerless to stop it, as if she would be crushed into dust immediately.

She was tormented by this emotion for a long time. Since the first time she had this dream, Su Xiaoqiang always felt as if there was always a layer of impenetrable fog in front of her, and the man surnamed Tang in the fog was carrying something heavy.

Meeting a young man in a dream should be wonderful, but Su Xiaoqiang always felt that she was just looking up at him. Even though Ronald Tang was actually standing at the foot of the mountain, she felt that he was high above her, like an emperor.

Of course, Su Xiaoqiang often dreamed of Lu Mingfei, but those dreams were not good. He was always pierced on a strange branch, like a dying bird, with his drooping eyebrows revealing infinite sorrow.

All this seemed to be foreshadowing something, until later she even got used to those ancient, strange and even somewhat weird dreams.

Anyway, the person in the dream would not hurt her, so she sat on the mountain and enjoyed the scenery.

The copper pillar at the end of the sky seemed to be reflected in a sea of ​​fire. Its bottom was illuminated red by something, while the top was black like dark iron. If you look closely, you can see that the surface of the copper pillar was engraved with ancient language in some kind of small seal script.

The color of the sea of ​​trees gradually changed from dark green to pale yellow, mottled and gorgeous, like stubborn brushstrokes.

Su Xiaoqiang thought it was pretty good this way. The scenery in her dreams was peaceful and harmonious. There were always clouds rolling around her, as if she was in a fairyland.

Everything in the dream seemed to be in an endless cycle, until one day the man in the fog stopped staring at her and walked towards her.

He sat down next to Su Xiaoqiang, and Su Xiaoqiang didn't feel scared at all. It was as if he was reminiscing about his childhood with a friend he hadn't seen for many years.

He said, "My name is Norton."

"Zhao Menghua told me that your name is Ronald Tang." Su Xiaoqiang did not look back. She just raised her face slightly and stared at the copper pillar in the sky gradually disappearing into the darkness that slowly took away all the light and fire.

When the world becomes completely dark, she will wake up from her dream.

"Ronald is to Norton like a river is to the sea. No matter how far the river goes, it will eventually return to the ocean." Norton said softly. He was very tall and handsome. In Su Xiaoqiang's eyes, he was perhaps only a little bit inferior to Lu Mingfei.

"Why are you here?" Su Xiaoqiang tilted his head. "Are you a ghost? If you are a ghost, then you and I have only met once. In comparison, Zhao Menghua is more like the person you should dream about, right?"

"That's true from Ronald's perspective, but if you want to explore fate from Norton's perspective, you are the more suitable person."

"destiny?"

"It's like everyone is written in a script, and everything they do is predetermined from the moment they are born," Norton explained. He always had a smile on his face when he said these words, and his skin was clean and had a marble texture.

"I don't actually understand love between humans. Is your feeling for Lu Mingfei love?"

"Maybe." Su Xiaoqiang said.

"Maybe?"

"That's right." This time the girl's tone was higher and her voice became firmer.

She was a girl called a little angel by many people. She was very proud, so proud that she seemed a little conceited. She never refused any courtesy approaching her and was always alone, until that year when she saw the boy at the high school entrance ceremony who was clearly standing in the crowd but so lonely that he seemed to be outside the world.

That kind of loneliness made him out of tune with everyone around him, but it was this incompatibility that suddenly attracted Su Xiaoqiang for no reason.

She thought the boy was such a cool guy. He always walked alone on the narrow gravel path between the library and the classroom. His hair was always wet and covered his eyes on rainy days, as if he would not look at you even when you talked to him. He always sat silently by the window, gazing into the distance.

But what really made Su Xiaoqiang feel that he liked this guy a little bit was the time when Chen Wenwen was diagnosed with lupus erythematosus. At first, the school organized students to visit her, but later no one wanted to go anymore. Only Lu Mingfei insisted on going to discuss Duras's lover with her every week.

Su Xiaoqiang also insisted on going there every week. At dusk, the two of them would walk back along the Fei River together. As they were walking, Su Xiaoqiang asked Lu Mingfei, "Do you like Chen Wenwen?" Lu Mingfei was stunned and showed a look of shock on his face for the first time, and said, "No."

Su Xiaoqiang asked again, "Then why do you visit her every week?" Lu Mingfei asked, "Aren't you the same?"

As the two were walking, Su Xiaoqiang suddenly said to Lu Mingfei, "Look, look quickly." Lu Mingfei looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a kitten fell into the bank of the Fei River.

In autumn, he took off his clothes and jumped in, scooped up the kitten and threw it on the shore. It was hard to say why, but the moment he jumped into the Fei River, Su Xiaoqiang felt that he might like him.

Maybe it was the courage to risk his life, or maybe it was the rare kindness that he dared to express, or maybe it was because Su Xiaoqiang liked kittens very much. In any case, Lu Mingfei quietly broke into her heart.

Later, there was another time, she forgot what happened, Su Xiaoqiang was alone, hiding in the corner of the stairs wiping her tears while others were going home after class. She cried so sadly. At that time, she wanted to be with a man riding a white horse from the sky to hug her and comfort her. No matter whether that guy was Tang Monk or a prince, she would be willing to marry him.

But the one who showed up was neither Tang Seng nor the prince, but Lu Mingfei, who was wiping his wet hair with a towel and returning to the classroom to pack up his things after playing basketball with the boys from the physical training team on the playground.

The guy didn't have the courage to hug Su Xiaoqiang in the end, he just sat with her silently on the rooftop of the teaching building, waiting together until the sunset took away all the afterglow, and the silent city woke up in the sea of ​​light. He said that no matter what happens, don't cry, you must not lose your composure when you are frustrated, because those people you hate are waiting to laugh at you.

Su Xiaoqiang asked, "Are you here to laugh at me?"
Lu Mingfei said, "No, I came here to see the stars. I often watch the stars on the rooftop of my uncle's house." When he said this, he was looking up at the stars in the sky. The starlight was reflected in his eyes, so bright that it seemed to fall into the sea.

Su Xiaoqiang blinked and forgot her sadness. After many years, she once again felt the alienation and loneliness from the boy beside her. Lonely people always sympathize with each other.

When he was in high school, Lu Mingfei ranked first in his grade for three consecutive years, but someone told Su Xiaoqiang that when he was in junior high school, he was just a weed growing in the corner of Shilan Middle School and anyone could step on him.

Sometimes she would secretly look at the boy's profile in another corner of the classroom and wonder what changed him, what made you go from that useless boy who talked nonsense to the majestic Senior Brother Lu he is today?
"What does it feel like to like someone?" Norton asked.

"You will know if you try it. Why are you asking me?" Su Xiaoqiang said.

"We are all born with flaws, and only a few of us understand the meaning of love, so that even if we feel a little warmth, we will try our best to hold on to it."

The darkness in the dream grew thicker and thicker. Su Xiaoqiang watched the clouds coming and going. After a moment, she said, "Can you please stop appearing in my dream?"

"why?"

"I always feel that you are not something fabricated by this dream, but a real ghost." Su Xiaoqiang counted on his fingers, "And I think that Lu Mingfei and I will have a happy ending one day. It's not a good idea for you to keep showing up like this. Who knows if you have peeked in my wet dream one day?"

"One day you'll be glad I'm here." Norton smiled.

"Bullshit, who knows what you are." Su Xiaoqiang bared his teeth and narrowed his eyes. "What if you covet my beauty?"

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"We are not of the same species." The man sighed, "Will an elf fall in love with a goblin?"

"That's right, I'm not interested in you at all. This is my dream, and you don't have the ability to do anything stupid." Su Xiaoqiang snorted. The girl was proud in her heart that no matter who he was, at least he had some self-awareness.

"Don't get me wrong, actually you are the goblin in this metaphor." Norton's face full of bitterness and hatred finally showed a ripple.

Su Xiaoqiang puffed up his cheeks angrily.

On the same day, when Su Xiaoqiang woke up, he found himself not in his bed in the dormitory but in a luxuriously decorated cafe. The cafe was not open late at night. The store was silent, with transparent floor-to-ceiling windows all around and a huge chandelier hanging overhead.

She pulled out her cell phone to check the distance to the University of Chicago, only to discover that it was a full thirteen kilometers.

There were two cups of steaming coffee on the table. When Su Xiaoqiang woke up, he was holding one cup in his hand, while the other cup was only half empty, with a crumpled up napkin next to it that looked like it had been used.

She shuddered slightly, stood up and touched the chair opposite her.

Still warm.

Just as she was falling asleep, her body quietly pushed open the door of the dormitory at the University of Chicago, and then traveled more than ten kilometers to come to such a stylish cafe and drink a cup of coffee with a guy whose identity was still unknown.

Su Xiaoqiang thought that maybe he should look for a priest instead of a psychologist.

——When Su Xiaoqiang first met Norton two years ago, he didn't know that this world actually hides so many truths that ordinary people cannot touch in their entire lives.

This time, Lu Mingfei was finally willing to show her the so-called dark side of society. It turned out that darkness and light co-exist in this world, and between light and darkness there has always been a desperate wall standing. The flesh and blood built up of that wall came from a group called mixed-races.

Su Xiaoqiang pushed the door open carefully, biting a pencil. She saw her mother curled up on the sofa and asleep. The Portuguese woman, who was nearly middle-aged but still looked as delicate as a girl, was wearing silk pajamas, holding a huge panda doll in her arms, and snoring softly.

Ever since Lu Mingfei introduced a lady who called herself Nuwa to help her cure her father's cerebrovascular disease a day ago, her mother seemed to have finally unloaded the burden on her shoulders and slept well for the first time in several months.

Although in fact, the family business has always been handled by Su Xiaoqiang.

With my mother's IQ, she might be stripped of all her power on the first day she takes power.

She tiptoed to the refrigerator, found an apple and put it in her mouth, then returned to the room. Her pale face was reflected in the mirror.

With Su Xiaoqiang's intelligence, he had already guessed that Norton was actually from Lu Mingfei's world, or a dragon.

In fact, since that sleepwalking incident, she rarely had the dream of looking into the distance from the mountain again, but she still remembered what the young man looked like, and his face that seemed to always have a sad expression and looked a little embarrassed.

She was sure that it was not a hallucination, nor was it a product of schizophrenia.

But should I tell Lu Mingfei?
Tell him that she actually had the opportunity to contact the world hidden under the ice, or that she had actually already been a person in that world?

no, do not want.

There was a very small voice speaking in Su Xiaoqiang's heart. It said, "No, Su Xiaoqiang, don't tell Lu Mingfei. You also want to be a person of that world, and you also want to be able to stand by his side."

Just like Xia Mi, just like Chen Motong, just like Hui Liyi.

At a certain moment, a dim golden color suddenly caught Su Xiaoqiang's attention. She looked at the mirror in front of her and looked at herself in the mirror.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but there seemed to be a flash of golden light in her pupils.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but a kind of extreme palpitations arose from the depths of my soul.

It was like the feeling she had in another dream when she saw Lu Mingfei being pierced by a branch. (End of this chapter)