I Really Like That Guy!

After school this afternoon, Arlo ate dinner on the street outside the school, then skipped the evening self-study and went straight to the Sugar Heart Cake Shop.

Pushing open the glass door of Candy Heart, along with a gust of cold wind, the bamboo wind chimes tinkled.

Behind the counter is the clerk, who is taking orders for several customers. In fact, Tang Xin not only has one clerk, but also a cake maker in the back kitchen. Generally, he makes the cakes in the store, but he rarely comes out, so not many people know about it.

Seeing that the young lady was busy, Arlo didn't step forward to disturb him, so he found a seat and sat down.

After sitting for a while, the phone suddenly vibrated lightly, and when she opened it, it was Xie Wunian who sent her a message.

Boss Xie: Come upstairs, I'm on the second floor.

A Luo responded well, turned off the phone, glanced around quietly, and walked towards the small door beside him like a thief.

She saw Xie Wunian walk through this small door many times, but she never came, and her heartbeat couldn't help speeding up for a while.

Does being allowed to enter his residence represent a further step in the relationship between the two?

Without attracting anyone's attention, Arlo entered the small door. The corridor inside the small door is narrow and the wooden staircase has no windows. A sensor light is installed above, and the dim yellow light is lit up, illuminating the small space on this side.

With a feeling of treasure hunting, Arlo walked up the stairs step by step.

Stepping on the last step, a large room came into view. The room was covered with brown wooden floors, and there was a huge window in front of it. You could see the orange-red sunset, and the interior floor was sprinkled with golden sunset rays.

Opposite the window, there is a large bed against the wall, and the black bedding on the bed is a little messy.

This should be to open up several rooms and turn them into a large space. The whole room is connected into one. Except for the bed, desk, cabinet, sofa and some scattered items, the whole looks very empty. The dull dark color looks extraordinarily cold and not very popular.

Arlo held the strap of his schoolbag and stared at the scene in front of him in a daze.

There was a click of the door opening, she turned her head subconsciously, a frosted glass door was opened in the corner of the room, Xie Wunian came out covered in water vapor, his jet-black hair was still dripping.

He should have just taken a shower, he glanced at her slightly, and said calmly, "Sit."

Arlo walked over to the sofa and sat down. Xie Wunian went to the refrigerator, brought a bottle of cold beer, and sat on the sofa opposite her.

"I only have this here. What do you want to drink, go down and let Xiao Zou make it for you."

Arlo shook his head and said softly, "No."

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Xie Wunian asked.

He looked tired, as if he had just returned from the outside world. Even if he took a bath, he still couldn't kill the tiredness that came out of his bones.

He obviously didn't care much about what Arlo was going to talk to him, or in other words, he subconsciously felt that what she was going to say wouldn't be very important.

Perhaps the reason why he agreed to her was because at that time the two were still pretending to be brothers and sisters, and he would subconsciously accommodate his "sister". Or maybe it was just her nature. Seeing that she was cautious at that time, she also gave a solemn response accordingly.

A Luo can understand, after all, in his opinion, she is just an ordinary high school girl who has just transferred to Lancheng.

She didn't plan to go around in circles, she simply turned on her phone, flipped through the photos, and handed them to the man: "Take a look at this."

Xie Wunian raised his brows slightly, slightly surprised. But he still picked up the phone, and in the next second, Arlo saw his whole body froze suddenly, and the can in his hand quickly fell to the ground, rolling away on the floor.

The man with deep eyebrows stared at the phone, and complex expressions of grief, resentment, regret, etc. appeared on his face for a moment. His eyes were red, and even a little bit of water permeated, and he looked down at the phone screen, and he didn't look up for a long time.

After a long time, Xie Wunian said in a hoarse voice, "Where did you get this photo from?"

With a deep voice, he raised his head to look at her, his eyes were cold and deep, suppressing deep and unspeakable emotions.

A Luo unconsciously let out a soft voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing him, and said softly: "Li Siqi, do you know? It's my roommate. She was there and took pictures."

Xie Wunian took a deep breath and looked down at the phone again. His fingertips rubbed gently on the screen, as if he was stroking the sleeping girl across the river of time.

He whispered, "Can you send me a copy of the photo?"

A Luo said without hesitation: "It was originally intended for you." After a pause, she asked tentatively, "Now, can you tell me what happened back then?"

Xie Wunian returned the phone to A Luo, and A Luo did not delay, and quickly sent him all the photos.

"Si Yue and I are a divorced family." Xie Wunian's voice was low and hoarse, and he slowly told the story of himself and his sister.

In fact, things are not too complicated. Xie Wunian and Xie Siyue's parents divorced very early. At that time, the brother and sister went to junior high school and elementary school respectively. The elder brother Xie Wunian went to Haicheng with his father, and the younger sister went to Haicheng with his mother. Return to the hometown of Lancheng and settle down.

For many years after that, there was very little contact between the two sides. The Xie family's parents divorced very hard. They made up their minds to distance themselves from each other, and did not make a phone call for three or five years.

However, the two brothers and sisters have always been in private contact. With the development of the modern Internet, communication has become simple. From time to time, the two brothers and sisters will ask each other about the current situation on the Internet.

After Xie's parents divorced, Xie's father worked hard in Haicheng and remarried a few years later to have a new family. Xie's mother is the same. She remarried and gave birth to a child in Lancheng and started a new life.

At that time, Xie Wunian was about to become an adult, and he was no longer a child who craved family affection and parental attention. His father's reorganization of a family had little effect on him. But Xie's mother's remarriage had a big impact on Xie Siyue.

Xie's new family can accept a second-married woman, but does not want to accept a child. For this reason, Xie's mother left her daughter to an elderly mother to raise.

Grandma's home is near No. 3 Middle School. Xie Siyue has lived with her grandmother for several years, from junior high school to high school. Except for visiting her occasionally and giving her a little living allowance, Xie Siyue has no other care.

Later, when the grandmother died in Xie Siyue's second year of high school, she was the only one left in the family.

These are all things that Xie Wunian noticed in the chat between the two of them. That girl has always reported good news instead of bad news, and never once told her brother about her hard work.

Living in such an environment, Xie Siyue has a soft temperament and is indifferent to the world. She is like a delicate orchid growing on a cliff, absorbing nutrients in the cracks. She is weak, but she has never given up on growing in the sun. .

After learning about his sister's situation, Xie Wulai had seen her several times. At that time, he also had to go to school, so he could only visit her during the holidays. In order to make his sister's life better, Xie Wuyian worked and studied part-time, while earning money for his own studies, he also called half of the money to his sister.

Xie Wunian sensed that something was wrong, it was the year when Xie Siyue rose to the third year of high school.

Xie Siyue's news is getting less and less, and he often responds to him after several days, and when she calls her, she is often turned off. Even if she is connected, Xie Siyue says she wants to study and has no time to look at her phone.

During the last period, Xie Wunian and Xie Siyue almost completely cut off contact. At that time, he happened to graduate and there were a lot of things to do, so he thought about going to see his sister after the holiday.

As a result, he received a phone call from Xie Siyue again, but the strange and familiar voice of Mama Xie came from the other side.

She told him that Xie Siyue was dead and committed suicide by jumping off the building on the eve of the college entrance examination.

When Xie Wunian arrived at Lancheng, there was nothing left. All he saw was a newly cast tombstone with his sister's name written on it. There was also the house where Xie Siyue had lived for several years. Perhaps out of guilt, Mama Xie gave the house to Xie Wunian.

Then, that's how things are now. Xie Wunian came to Lancheng, sold the house, rented the shop and opened a cake shop. He ran around the city every day, searching for the truth of the year in vain.

After talking about all this, Xie Wunian was silent for a long time. He lowered his head, his face was shrouded in shadows, and his whole body was filled with an aura of remorse and pain, which made people feel heavy at a glance.

A Luo couldn't help reaching out, and across the coffee table, his fingertips stroked his damp hair.

The man's body trembled slightly, he raised his eyes suddenly, his dark eyes were already red, and he stared at her solemnly.

"It's not your fault." She said slowly, in a soft tone, "It's only the murderer, not you and Xie Siyue, you are both victims."

Xie Wunian's face was pale, and he said in a hoarse voice, "I know, but after two years of searching, I can't find the real culprit."

A Luo retracted his hand and asked him, "Is there really no clue at all?"

"One thing, I heard that the police came to investigate after the incident, but nothing was found. Originally, the police station should have kept records, but when I came to Lancheng and went to the police station to understand the situation, the Lancheng police station said a suicide case. The police station doesn’t keep records. I searched the police station system, but I did not find relevant information. Not even a single photo, which is obviously unreasonable. Even if no case is filed, there should be an investigation record.”

"You mean, suspect that the police station has something to do with the murderer?" Arlo said quickly.

"Yes, the police decided that Si Yue committed suicide, but I know Si Yue's temperament. She is by no means someone who commits suicide easily. There must be other reasons for her to choose this path. She sent me a message back then. , Just the night before she committed suicide, she said that she was too tired and sorry for my brother. I didn't realize it at the time, and I comforted her like this in the third year of high school. Later, it became evidence of her suicide due to too much pressure." When he said this, Xie Wu Nian's originally peaceful and indifferent face turned out to be quite hideous.

"Let's take it slow, now there are pictures, can you see anything in them?"

Xie Wunian looked down at his mobile phone. During the conversation between the two, he kept holding his mobile phone and carefully checked the photos that A Luo sent him.

His eyes darkened, and he said, "This photo tells me that Si Yue never committed suicide because of the pressure of the college entrance examination. There are also those marks on her body," he said, choked in his throat, and swallowed hard before continuing. Said, "I can go through these traces and judge the approximate height and shape of that person."