9 why are u scared?

Time again.

The clouds are like solid ice frozen in mid-air. The sun does its best to exude heat, but it melts into a piece. The afternoon sun can't wait to get out of it, trying to warm the winter of the river city.

Ann's nails were embedded in the palms of her hands, and although she was heavily dressed, she still felt a chill deep inside her. She looked up at the firm's sign, as she had done so many times five years ago, her eyes tingled for a moment from the sun.

In her pocket was a photograph of her birth parents and the man.

Mom hasn't been doing well since she gave her this picture, like she's in some kind of shock. Every time she wanted to ask her mother, sometimes she would get a confused smile, sometimes she would get a coy look in her eyes.

Sometimes she would be caught by the wrist, she would stare into her own eyes, eyes gradually fade, like looking at someone else through her, and then fall into a deep memory.

"Ann, stay away from him!"

Her mother's eyes were filled with pain and despair, but the sound she was trying to squeeze from her throat was weak.

Yes, her mother.

She had learned that it was her own mother, and she now understood that the man's ambiguous smile might have seemed ridiculous and foolish to him as he whirled her about.

He must have known her parents! Who the hell is he? What is his relationship with his parents? What exactly is he up to? What happened?

In the past few years, she would think of this office almost every day. When she first met on rainy days, the office was always full of fresh fragrance, that big shelf, and her young ignorance. All these almost filled her whole youth.

.

She remembered Zhou xing saying her father was still alive.

But there was no trace of the father's existence in the house, no letters, no memory, only the photo and her can barely prove the existence of the father.

Even my mother didn't remember my father, and for a while she thought she was adopted.

How is that possible? There's no mother who doesn't remember her child.

But mother is so sure, in her memory, there is no father, naturally no love, has been alone, until she picked up the young she, there is someone to accompany, there is a family.

Had it not been for the photo and the paternity certificate, she would have believed it herself.

No one knows how many times Ann broke down in the middle of the night, how many times she cried, and how many times she pretended nothing happened in front of her mother, even she did not know.

No one wants the truth more than she does.

Ann has a complicated look at the door of the office. Her palms are sweaty and her lips are bleeding from biting herself.

She was too frightened to see the man who pretended to be impatient with her but had been indulging her, to smell the orange peel that had been her favorite smell for some time.

Ann wanted to tell him that she had kept the owl clock well, along with all the other little things he had given himself.

But she did not forget why she had come.

Zhou Xing must know something! Ann is not willing to doubt Zhou xing's purpose, even though Zhou Xing is the only clue to the whole thing.

I looked through the glass at the person who had been pacing back and forth in the door and put his hand on the handle for several times, but he didn't want to open the door to come in. I couldn't help opening the door after seeing Ann reach for the handle for the fifth time.

"Who is it?

Ann stared at the people, her throat felt as if she had swallowed a handful of sand, dry and sore, and she could not say a word for a long time.

I raised my eyebrows and waited patiently for Ann to adjust.

"Can I help you?"

Ann unconsciously took two steps back, and the feeling of shyness was fully reflected in her body. She pinched her hand hard, coughed twice, swallowed, and tried to swallow the dry throat.

"... Zhou Xing, it's me."

As soon as she spoke, Ann was startled by the sound of her own voice. She wanted to swallow the words. She can't even hear herself, let alone go on a trip?

Sure enough, she heard zhou Xing puzzled answer. Ann lifted it up and saw that his eyes were as pure as ever.

It really hasn't changed a bit.

Ann was overwhelmed with sadness when she saw the teasing in the eyes of the man who had recognized it.

I watched Ann's face suddenly turn red, her head shuffling down, and she hurried to the office with her head down.

Looking at her flurried embarrassed figure, I gently shook his head silent smile, just slowly followed up.

They entered the office one after the other, then fell into silence.

I closed the door, put on the closed sign, went back to the table and sat down, looking at Ann standing awkwardly in front of me.

Time is almost up. We can't afford to delay any longer.

I prayed that Rob would hide better. "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"I want to know what happened."