Chapter 5 Unrequited Love (2/2)

The woods were deep. As Xiao Bing passed through, he became exhausted. Finally, the two fell to the ground.

Under the moonlight, Xiao Bing stared at the little girl sticking to his chest. Ye Zi's eyes sparkled with excitement. His face blushed. When she noticed Xiao Bing's lost eyes, Ye Zi showed a sly expression and asked playfully, ”You won't fall in love with me, will you?”

”Maybe so.” Xiao Bing loosened her up, sat down against the tree and laughed, ”Your bodyguards are too weak. They won't catch up for an hour and a half.”

”It's not that they are too weak, but that you are too strong. I have never seen anyone fly... Is this kungfu? My bodyguards work hard, too. Why aren't they as strong as you?” she inquired.

Looking at the curious eyes of Ye Zi, Xiao Bing said with a laugh, ”Actually, it's not called flying either. At first, I showed the ability of staying in the air. Later, I used the trees of this forest as pedals, just like apes shuttling in the forest—which is far from actually flying.”

Sitting next to Xiao Bing, Ye Zi smiled and said, ”It may not really be flying, but the important thing is to experience that feeling. I just felt it.”

Xiao Bing laughed and asked, ”Are you praising me?”

Ye Zi laughed beautifully, with eyes like the moon. ”I am not only praising you but also thanking you. From childhood to adulthood, my parents, brothers, and sisters loved me very much, but I have grown up, and soon I will be twenty years old. Enough about me, Brother Bing. Let's talk about you. You're a storyteller, aren't you? I can see if you have something weighing on your mind.”

Xiao Bing sighed, ”You're right. You really grew up.”

”You tell me, see if I can enlighten you. Even if I don't understand, it's good to share with another person,” Ye Zi replied.

Xiao Bing looked at this lovely girl and could not bear to refuse. He pondered and said, ”I am different from you. I grew up in an orphanage.”

”Then... what about your parents?” she asked.

”I don't know.” Xiao Bing said indifferently, ”It doesn't matter. I came over so many years ago. Although I grew up in an orphanage, I was very happy. The aunts in the orphanage were very kind to me and sent me to school. Because I was an orphan, my classmates bullied me, I don't know why. But they couldn't beat me. Later, I gradually earned a reputation and even the gangsters outside the school were afraid of me.”

If it were anyone else, it would be miserable to say these words, but Xiao Bing's face was always smiling. He felt very happy and grateful. Til this day, he often donates money to orphanages and occasionally goes back to look at them. In his opinion, those days were the happiest.

”Later, gangsters outside the school conspired against me, and I knocked them all out. I don't know why, but the scene was seen by an uncle who later found my school and orphanage and took me away.”

”Took you away? For what?” Ye Zi inquired.

”To serve as a soldier.” Xiao Bing said with a smile, ”In the army, I studied fighting more systematically, as well as shooting, reconnaissance, anti-reconnaissance, and other knowledge. I gradually gained a reputation and became the captain. At that time, a girl in the team always stood up to me. She was extremely beautiful. At first, I thought she would never accept me, but when I applied for retirement for some reason, she also applied for retirement. I founded an organization and she joined the organization... Then, she died. During a mission, she was deceived and surrounded by enemies. By the time we arrived, it was too late.”

After recounting this last moment, Xiao Bing's smile disappeared. Although his face was still calm, his fingers trembled slightly. ”Before she died, she told me that she always liked me. Although she always challenged me in the army, she actually wanted to attract my attention. The reason why she retired was that I didn't take good care of her…”

Xiao Bing's eyes turned red and he forced a smile. ”It's a pity that I just took you away, and the beer also fell on the river. Otherwise, I would have a couple of beers!”

Ye Zi looked at Xiao Bing with a serious face and said cautiously, ”You are sad.”

”She died because of me,” Xiao Bing replied solemnly.

”She liked you, did you like her?” Ye Zi asked.

Xiao Bing hesitated for a moment and sighed, ”She shared my common interests in many aspects and had followed me for so many years. We had a tacit understanding with each other, she was like my confidante.”

Ye Zi sighed, ”The taste of unrequited love is agonizing.”

Xiao Bing looked somber at first, then smiled and asked, ”Do you have a secret admirer?”

”Me?” Ye Zi laughed and said, ”Don't underestimate the secret love. China has a population of more than 1 billion. However, there will only be one person in your life who can really make you worry about losing all desire for food and drink, and... the man who is qualified to make me love secretly hasn't appeared yet.”

Ye Zi blinked her sparkling eyes, bright as the stars at night, with a faint smile on the corners of her mouth, ”I heard that the first kind of happiness for a woman is to be able to meet the man she loves, and she did. The second kind of happiness is to let this deeply loved man remember her forever, and she did. The third kind of happiness is to be able to stay with the man she loves. She didn't get that, but I believe her life has no regrets. Brother Bing, leave a space in your heart. Allow this big sister to live in it forever.”

Xiao Bing looked at Ye Zi in a daze. Ye Zi blinked gently. Her eyes were bright as stars, and there was a sweet and nifty smile on her face.