"Sister, don't think like this."
"It's not that, I've been lying to you... There's one more thing, I never told you, Xiaoyang... actually, the people who died in that fire disaster weren't just your parents... there was also..."
Hmm?
Xu Xiangyang was stunned.
"Wait, sister, what did you just say?"
But at this moment, Li Qinglian apparently could no longer hear his words, she lay in her brother's arms, clutching his collar tightly, her eyes fixated on the sky, as if staring at a person that didn't exist, an absent someone.
"That person... do you still remember? The child you used to play with all the time when you were young, you used to talk about her all the time. I've never seen her, but I know, that afternoon you were with her, yet I couldn't save her..."
"— do you still remember?"
Xu Xiangyang didn't answer.
The reason he didn't answer was that he couldn't utter a single word right now, just feeling goosebumps all over his back.
Remember?
