“Oh, what have you stolen now?” Xiao Guangzong snatched the letter. “Is this a love letter? Oh! Someone wrote you a love letter?”
“No, it’s not—Brother, don’t open—” Her protest was ineffective.
The letter unfolded in Guangzong’s hand, the words read aloud—”Mom, they say they want to take me to Japan to study, but I know they just want to separate us. Please wait for me, Shi Lun will always be your son. That woman Hu Cang Yue Ling can never replace you! You want me not to hate her, but I can’t do that. I even want to kill her—”
“Ah!?” Xiao Yao gasped.
The letter-reader also began to scream: “Xiao Yao! What is this? Murder! I’m going to tell Mom! Mom, come quickly, Yao Yao is learning how to plot murder…”
“Brother, don’t!” Chasing her brother’s figure, Xiao Yao cried anxiously.
That night, Xiao Yao was severely scolded, watching with tearful eyes as her mother crumpled the letter and threw it in the trash.
Only when the night was deep and quiet did she secretly slip out of bed. Holding the trash can, she began to search. “Ah! Found it!”
Carefully spreading out the crumpled letter, she gently wiped away the dirt with a tissue.
Finally, she placed the letter in a purple velvet-lined wooden box. This was her own “secret box”, containing her most treasured things, and now this letter.
Xiao Yao understood why her parents were angry—they thought Shi Tou was not well-behaved.
But she had her own thoughts. She would wait for Shi Tou to return and ask for clarification. Of course, she would also tell him that murder is bad, and her mother said if he was a bad person, they couldn’t be friends. So he definitely couldn’t be a bad person, because she liked him as a friend.
Decision made! What made Xiao Yao even happier was that now she knew Shi Tou’s name.
Shi Lun? That’s how he wrote it in the letter.
Hugging the cloth doll Shi Tou gave her, she returned to the warm bed, letting out a satisfied sigh and drifting to the still-beautiful dreamland.
Fifteen Years Later
The morning sunlight was brilliantly radiant.
Huawei Group’s central office building was just beginning its workday, immediately presenting a rhythmic atmosphere.
