He came from the bell tonight

In the quiet galaxy, Xiao Huaiyan did not wait for Su Ling's answer for a long time.

Sour sadness and unspeakable sadness are entangled in my heart, as well as faint anger.

At the end of time, Su Ling sighed softly, raised his head slightly, and kissed the corner of his moist lips.

"I don't know." Su Ling said.

Su Ling could lie to him, tell countless kinds of lies, and weave anything to make him happy—but that didn't help, he couldn't make a promise.He clearly knew that the end was there.

Su Ling stood between the stars, touching the tip of his nose, his cold voice no longer suppressed his emotion.

"Because I love you too."

I don't want to lose you either.

Before Suling's eyes was a blur of wetness.Warm lips fell on his eyes, wiping away his tears, carefully for fear of hurting him.

But other than that, Xiao Huaiyan didn't say a word.

Su Ling grabbed his fingertips, raised his head again, and looked for him with the corners of his lips.

But Xiao Huaiyan didn't respond even though he collided randomly, but pulled a distance away.

"...you don't believe it?" The moonlight-like voice trembled slightly.

After some time, he heard Xiao Huaiyan whisper, "Then prove it to me."

Su Ling looked at him and only said, "Okay."

……

He took Xiao Huaiyan back to the house by the lake.The moonlight fell on the lake, stirring up ripples.

Xiao Huaiyan sat on the cold marble slab, and Ren Suling sat on his lap.He looked at Su Ling quietly, his immersed expression gradually turned into pink ears and collarbone, not letting go of a second.

When begging for a kiss, the tip of the nose will rise and rub against the face unconsciously.

Xiao Huaiyan's heart softened all of a sudden.

"You said that the meaning of your existence is the sea of ​​stars, right?" He asked restrainedly.

Su Ling endured for a long time, and finally said intermittently: "I have found a new meaning."

The hand on the waist was retracted, and the lips, teeth licked, and bit the side of Su Ling's neck.

The glass reflects the moonlight, full of secret and implicit gazes, and the passionate and crazy fate breaks through the diffuse smoke and breaks through the ground.

In Xiao Huaiyan's peripheral vision, the plants placed in the corners of the white space began to grow wantonly.They began to spread from the corners, climbed up the glass and beams, and the vines seemed to be stretching, knotting, and spreading.

"You can control them?"

The slender fingers swayed in the void, hooking the vines.

Su Ling was a little lost, but still replied: "...You can do it too."

Here, at this moment, Xiao Huaiyan can do anything.

as long as he wants.

So he tried it without hesitation, and the frequency resonance brought some hidden currents.

Those vines with soft thorns retracted their tips, wrapped around the rosy white wrist, wound it round and round, and tightened again.

"...It hurts." Su Ling said shortly, with restrained eyebrows.

Xiao Huaiyan immediately stood up holding him, and after the deep kiss was over, he coaxed him tirelessly.However, those annoying vines are not so gentle, grinding the delicate skin on the wrist, as if venting the evil madness of the culprit without reservation.

Su Ling pampered him.

……

Early the next morning, Su Ling was woken up by his own voice, his dazed mind was forcibly dragged back, and he was dazed in place, trying to curl up into a ball.

He regretted it vaguely.

In the end, my wrist hurt so much that I couldn't even hold the water glass steadily.

Xiao Huaiyan soon realized that his eyes were full of peach blossoms, and a water glass was brought to him to feed him.

Su Lingxu grabbed his arm, turned his head away, unwilling to look at him.

"Now I know," Xiao Huaiyan expressed shamelessly, "You really like me."

Su Ling closed the bathroom door with a "bang".

It was only then that Xiao Huaiyan realized that it might be that he really had no strength left.But the steps in the bathroom are slippery and easy to fall, so you can't just leave it alone.

Moreover, the door here will not lock.

Su Ling sat in the corner of the hot spring-like square pool, staring at the floating leaves in a daze.

After it was over, he passed by Xiao Huaiyan who had been waiting beside him, and stretched out his foot to hook him, causing him to fall directly into the water.

It was almost evening when Su Ling said, "I'm going somewhere."

"……what?"

Su Ling didn't answer, Xiao Huaiyan followed.

The two turned along the dense bamboo sea and passed several streams or waterfalls.Finally came to a hillside.There was a Populus euphratica tree, alone, thick with broad golden leaves.

Looking from the hillside, the golden light falls all over the field, like a veil of fine velvet.

The white stars are far away at the junction of the sea and the sky, sinking slowly.

"Can the sun also be imagined?" Xiao Huaiyan asked.

Su Ling stood in the shadow of the whirling trees, with a faint smile in his eyes.

"There is also a star here," Su Ling explained, "but it wanders in the boundary dimension and doesn't appear often."

It may only happen once in hundreds of years.

He and Xiao Huaiyan sat side by side on the hillside, watching the grand sunset.In the distant tide, the transparent light constitutes a whale jumping out of the water, spraying out a column of water, and then sinking into the water.

At the moment when the stars are completely hidden, the stars slowly emerge.

The damp wind is also gentle, like passing through countless years, smoothing the bitterness after the pain, and drying the aftertaste of joy.

Xiao Huaiyan and him lay head to head, shoulder to shoulder, lying on the grass.

"You haven't told me why you are the captain of Liberty Ship?" Su Ling asked.

Xiao Huaiyan raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "That happened when I was three years old. Xiao Yimo wanted to settle down in Syracuse. If no one continues to be the captain, this ship will be taken back by the Interstellar Development Agency. She is not happy, Coincidentally, Dong Mi came again, so let him and I be candidates."

"At that time, Dong Mi and I didn't know what it meant, and no one cared about it. As a result, on the day of the official selection, Dong Mi and I got into a fight and accidentally dismantled the compass, leaving the identification system on it. My fingerprints. So, the Liberty Ship accidentally recognized me."

Su Ling said, "No wonder."

"what?"

"You said you owe Dong Mi a favor."

"When did I say that?"

Su Ling turned his head, looked at him for a few seconds, and laughed at the same time.

After a while, Su Ling suddenly said, "Happy birthday."

Xiao Huaiyan was startled.What day is today, even he himself forgot.

He suddenly knew why Su Ling brought him to see this.For a moment, moving lightly rubbed the depths of his heart, causing him to bend his eyes.

"When is your birthday?" Xiao Huaiyan saw Su Ling raised a hand, and the starlight passed through his fingers.

"I don't know." Su Ling hesitated for a moment.

He knows that in the human world, birthdays seem to be very important, which heralds the peeling off of the newborn from the mother, the beginning of the journey, and the beginning of time.Like an anchor, always there.

But for him, everything is too long and barren, and he can't find the starting point.

Xiao Huaiyan also imitated him and raised his hand, with the palm pressed against the back of his hand, clasping it very slowly.

"Then today is also your birthday," Xiao Huaiyan suggested, "We celebrate it on the same day."

"Okay." Su Ling replied.

One year ago today, he met Xiao Huaiyan.

That was also his anchor, his starting point.

"Happy birthday to you too."

Su Ling thought for a while and said, "Thank you. Where's the gift?"

Xiao Huaiyan seemed to be in deep thought.

Su Ling waited until he was about to fall asleep, and then he heard Xiao Huaiyan say: "...the fleet chasing the distant Xinghai is about to arrive, and there are less than eight hours before they reach the edge of the Xinghai."

Su Ling seemed to be suddenly dragged into sobriety.

The night is twinkling with stars, but sometimes it is deep and sometimes shallow, which means that the passage of the worm nest has not been finally resolved.

But Xiao Huaiyan suddenly asked softly: "Do you want to see him?"

Su Ling was slightly taken aback.

Xiao Huaiyan smiled softly: "I always feel that it seems unfair to him. But maybe, he also wants to see you. Just like me."

As he spoke, his smile gradually faded, leaving only bitterness.

"But he can't come." Su Ling took out his pocket watch.

The dial is empty.The pointer is about to go to zero.

Xiao Huaiyan stroked his hair, and took out a piece of crystal blue flakes from his coat.

"This is the piece from the bell tower, I think, he was going to bring it to you."

Xiao Huaiyan said, and put the fragment into the pocket watch.He rubbed the ends of Su Ling's hair and kissed his forehead intimately.

This time, he clearly heard the sound of the pointer moving.

It seemed that there was a long and long bell ringing faintly in my ears.

Su Ling hooked his neck and took the initiative to deepen the kiss.

As Xiao Huaiyan's movements became extremely familiar, Su Ling couldn't help biting him lightly.

Xiao Huaiyan let go of him, and suddenly smiled.He blew lightly on Su Ling's neck, and quickly mastered the rhythm.

Su Ling grabbed his hand, breathing slowly and calmly.

"You didn't tell me the truth." Su Ling said.

Xiao Huaiyan pretended not to understand, and still went to kiss him.

Su Ling blocked it with his palm and looked straight at him.

"...The mimetic liquid enters from here," Su Ling's fingers brushed across his Adam's apple, "What does it feel like?"

"I lost my sense of smell, I couldn't breathe, my whole body was exhausted, bleeding, will it hurt?"

Xiao Huaiyan pulled his hand away and kissed him again.

"It's no big deal." Xiao Huaiyan said nonchalantly.

With half of his body pressed against Su Ling, he let Su Ling rub his brows open.It was full of depression and pain.

Suling knows it all.He wanted to squeeze out a smile, but there was nothing he could do. When the corners of his lips touched, he said softly, "Are you stupid?"

Xiao Huaiyan kissed his palm.

"It's the most rewarding thing in my life."

Su Ling covered his mouth.

He could almost see the figure who was walking alone in the barren universe 12 years later.Alone, depressed, desperate, dying.

He must have lived very hard.

But he still traveled thousands of miles and came to Suling.

Xiao Huaiyan hugged him, breathing in his breath greedily.

"We're even," Xiao Huaiyan said in a low voice, "You didn't tell me why the distant Xinghai didn't reject me?"

The distant Xinghai is a place that only those who belong here can enter.And as an ordinary human being, why is he qualified to come in alive.

Su Ling looked at him honestly, and said in a faint voice, "Because I also gave you a contract."

"What's the content of that contract?" Xiao Huaiyan asked.Fingers caressed Su Ling's soft lips, copying them over and over again.

Su Ling didn't want to answer, so he just bit his finger.Unexpectedly, this person is the most aggressive, his fingers are stirring in the wet and soft mouth, and finally let him go.

"It's a permission," Su Ling said slowly, "and, to share."

He grabbed Xiao Huaiyan's fingers, and suddenly turned over and pressed him on the grass.

Against the starlight, he looked at Xiao Huaiyan.

"I allow you to enter the distant star sea, and I also give you half of your life."

In the vast universe, as long as he can reach the end, so can Xiao Huaiyan.

Even if one day he is gone, all this still counts.

Xiao Huaiyan stared at him steadfastly, the beating flesh and blood in his chest seemed to be torn apart and kneaded into a ball again.For a long time, he couldn't speak, he just felt the point of the knife poking his throat, vowing to stab it until the moment the blood ran out.

This is a gift from Suling, and also from Xinghai.Otherwise, he would have died in the hibernation cabin on the first day he took the mimic liquid.

"... Was it that night," Xiao Huaiyan said word by word, "the day you left Snow City?"

Su Ling said, "Yes."

"But—" Xiao Huaiyan thought that in the original "past", there was no such night.

Su Ling bent down, nose to nose, soft hair brushed against Xiao Huaiyan's cheek.

He remembered that day, cakes and candles lit up the whole room.

"At that time, on your birthday, I made the same choice."

The eyes of Tao Hua who was close at hand suddenly filled with ecstasy and sorrow.The two completely different emotions are constantly colliding, creating the illusion of drowning.

No matter what time it was, Su Ling chose him.

He pulled Su Ling into his arms, his chest heaving uncontrollably.In the past years, there were really too many hardships, but compared with this moment, they are not worth mentioning.

Su Ling heard the sobbing like a small animal.He let Xiao Huaiyan hold her, and buried his face in his neck.Like many years ago.

After an unknown period of time, Xiao Huaiyan gradually calmed down.

He exchanged a deep kiss with Su Ling, and heard Su Ling ask: "On your birthday, what did you wish for?"

Xiao Huaiyan smiled softly: "I said, I hope to spend my next birthday with you."

He sat up and hugged Su Ling, with endless joy in his eyes.

"It has been achieved," he said with a smile, "and I have no regrets."

"You came to say goodbye." Su Ling understood.

"No, it's not."

Xiao Huaiyan looked at Su Ling, with slight expectation in his red eyes: "We will definitely meet again, in the future, or at some other time, right?"

Su Ling hugged him tightly.

"Yes," he murmured, and repeated firmly.

"Sure, we will meet again."

The author has something to say:

Statement, it is Xiao Huaiyan who has changed his attitude, not me...