C7

I'll go with you if you don't have ten dollars.

He told me that his name was Xiao Jindong, but in my memories, his name was clearly Shen Jianing.

"A Ning, are you worried about the Huo Family? That's why you came to me, pretending to be dead? I've been waiting for you for a long time, and I knew it; I took the man's hand and laughed foolishly, my long hair hanging in a mess on the back of my hand. It was itchy and dry.

"Ran Shuang!" A roar startled me, and I stared blankly at the emptiness in my hand. The original temperature no longer existed, leaving only my hair floating in the air, looking helpless and laughable.

"Director Xiao, my pocket watch is broken. I need some time to adjust to the new plan and pace!"

I heard the woman called Ran Shuang pointing and explaining there. I couldn't understand, my mind was in a mess, it seemed like there were people arguing non-stop. I couldn't bear to listen. I used my hands to cover my head as I smashed it against the wall. Hair after hair was being pulled, but I didn't feel anything.

"Yiyi, be obedient!" I was being held in someone's arms. Those arms were very powerful, but they were not hot at all. I heard someone whisper in my ear, "Yiyi, be good. If you don't behave, no one will want you!"

I wanted to nod my head, to express that I would be really obedient. I didn't want to be alone, so I subconsciously reached out to grab that person's arm, murmuring, "Shen Jianing, Shen Jianing!"

I don't know when I fell asleep or when I woke up. I stared out the window at the gray, breathless sky.

"Song Yi!" Someone was talking by the bed, but I didn't care.

"Song Yi! You can go! " The man spoke again, his voice as calm as ever. She is Ran Shuang, I remember her. Seven days ago, she came in with Gu Qing, and told me a story over and over again using an old pocket watch.

There was no bloodshed or violence in that story. It was as dull as water that had to be drunk every day.

"Go where?" My voice was hoarse, as if from the aftereffects of my long howl.

"Anywhere is fine, as long as you leave Xiao Jindong, anywhere is fine!" Ran Shuang stared at me with a cold gaze that I had never seen before. It was as cold as Gu Qing's. There was no joy, anger, sadness, or desire.

"Leave Xiao Jindong?" I repeated in a daze, as if there was a voice in my head, "Yiyi, be good, if you don't behave, no one will want you!"

I shook my head and curled my body into a ball. "No, I can't leave Xiao Jindong!"

"Song Yi, you don't have to act in front of me. I know that you didn't take the medicine, and I know that my new pocket watch was completely useless against you. I know that you remembered the past, but you remembered it!"

Ran Shuang directly cut through my lies. My eyes that were hiding under the blanket were a little panicked, my fingers tightly gripped onto my hair, and I was so stiff that I didn't dare to let go.

"You go, I'll let you go!" While Gu Qing and Xiao Jindong are not around, take advantage of the fact that I am softhearted! " Ran Shuang suddenly pulled away the quilt, and at the same time, I jumped up and ran out like a madman while wearing my ridiculous Pai Xing pajamas.

The feet, naked, stepped on the ground, and the cold floor sent a feeling of reality into the brain. I was so excited that hot tears almost filled my eyes. The long and unfamiliar corridor seemed to be connected to the darkness in my memory. I ran as though my life depended on it, but there seemed to be no end to it.

"Yiyi, come with me!" Someone came out of the darkness, anxious and nervous, and she held out her hand to me, calling eagerly.

"Hu Xia?" Stunned, I subconsciously gave her my hand. I was pulled by her, but my path seemed to become more and more stable.

"Alright, alright!" Hu Xia gasped for breath as she shoved me into the taxi, while she stood outside the door looking at me. Her eyes were red, but her gaze was resolute, "Song Yi, go on, go on, don't come back anymore!"

She slammed the door, not giving me a chance to answer.

Didn't she stand by Xiao Jindong's side and abandon me because of the ten million compensation? Why did you save me? I had a splitting headache and closed my eyes, but I couldn't think of the details.

The driver didn't ask where I was going. After calming my emotions, I remembered what happened and hurriedly asked, "Master, where are you bringing me to?"

"108 Xinli Street!"

The driver answered very straightforwardly. The car was moving very steadily, but I didn't know where 108 Xinli Street was. And why did I go?

"Xinli Street, where?" I asked in a daze, my hand instinctively gripping my skirt, and realized at that moment that I was penniless. Master, I have no money! "

The car came to a sudden stop. The speed of it caused my head to slam into the back of the car. My originally murky memory had turned completely into mush.

"You don't have any money, yet you're riding in a car! "Scram!"

I was pulled down from the seat rudely and threw onto the ground. I was speechless, why did Hu Xia give the driver the address but not the money when he stuffed me into the car? Does she think I can hide a fortune in a nightdress that doesn't even have a pocket?

I have to say, I really searched through them and found that they were penniless. Had this idiot never thought of this? I looked up at the sky, speechless, and watched the taxi drive away. I sat on the grassy road in the deserted suburb and was abandoned again.

I think life is really too interesting. It is always repeating the same scene over and over again, like being abandoned, being picked up, being abandoned again, being picked up again, being repeated like this, and not getting tired of it.

Looking at the familiar face in the car window, I stood up awkwardly to pat the mud off my body. I wanted to pretend to look at the scenery but my embarrassing situation was exposed by the other party.

"Song Yi!?"

Shen Jianing's mouth was slightly agape, and he looked so surprised that he was about to swallow an egg. What? Pretending not to know him? Was it fun playing this big?

I ignored him and opened the door to get in. "I'm going to 108 Xinli Street! You send me there! " I said it as a matter of course.

He's Shen Jianing, the Shen Jianing who would only coax me to pamper him. Although we had a conflict previously, although Huo Shuixian kept saying that I killed him, although it is possible that his betrayal was already like a row of teeth in his heart, even growing to the point of becoming a towering tree, but, I am despicably consoling myself, at this time, I will leave with whoever is willing to pick me up, even if he doesn't have ten dollars to give me.

Shen Jianing looked at me in the rearview mirror, but didn't say anything. He started the car and drove forward. After all, I said before that I would live a better life without Shen Jianing.

Once again, I pushed all the blame to Hu Xia. If this idiot had remembered to pay me back for the carriage ride, I definitely wouldn't have given Shen Jianing the chance to do so.

I console myself thus, ridiculously self-deceiving.