If this sweet shell is destined to be peeled off by you

Standing at the gate of the orphanage again, Maeda was silent but filled with emotion.It was just a few months ago that he kissed Xueyue for the first time here, and he scared the poor little guy enough.But thanks to his impulsiveness, he was able to confess his love and get the person he likes.

"Xueyue, do you remember the last time I kissed you here?"

The door had already been opened to welcome the two of them, but Xue Yue who was sitting in the car began to feel timid secretly.

"It seems, it seems... March, I forgot..."

After issuing the certificate, as an adult, he can independently apply for adoption with the Maeda family.That is to say, after this, I will have a family member in the legal sense.

"Well, we've been together for more than half a year, and we..."

The quiet life day after day can make people gradually forget the flow of time. Although it has been more than seven months to accurately calculate the time, but habits make people dull. Xue Yue always estimates the duration of these seven months. It felt very long, but when I came to my senses, more than 200 days passed in just a flash.

I don't know how many more than 200 days there will be in the future, and I don't know if it will be the same as today, but Xueyue is still grateful for Maeda's appearance.He brought too much to himself, and those things were beyond his imagination.

Walking into the familiar office, Dean Zhongshan in formal attire was waiting for them leisurely.

"Hello, Mr. Dean, this is the first time we meet, I am Xueyue's lover, Maeda Linto."

He politely lowered his head and reached out his hand, and the dean quickly shook it.

"Mr. Maeda, this is the first time we meet. I am the director here, Nakajima. Please take a seat."

After Xue Yue greeted the dean, she began to secretly glance at the other's expression.For a long time, the only person Xueyue can count as close is the dean. Now that she is an adult but needs to come back to get the household registration, I don't know if he will be a little sentimental.Really hope the chief can be a little sentimental.

"Hey... Xueyue told me today, and I was taken aback. I always thought that one day Xueyue planned to get married and would come back to pick it up because of the registration, but I didn't expect it to be for adoption..."

Frowning, he raised his head and looked at Maeda, this man...Although he looks pretty good, but Xueyue has gone this way after all, and he doesn't know what will happen in the future.If it is a normal marriage and childbirth, I can't support it any more, but now, I can only fix the relationship through this method.

"Have you really decided to go through the adoption procedures? Have you really thought about this kind of thing?"

Xueyue and Maeda, who were sitting across from each other, looked at each other, their hands clenched even tighter.

"Yes, and my parents adopted Xueyue as an adopted son, not me. They knew my relationship with Xueyue, liked him very much, and agreed to adopt him. From now on, Xueyue and us will be family members, we He thinks that if he is more stable, at least he can feel more at ease. So, I will trouble you today."

The eyes are firm and strong, full of confidence, and imperative.On the other hand, Xueyue pursed her lips lightly, but lowered her head, but her eyes were full of happiness.

"Okay! Today...I'm going to find Xueyue's household registration."

After finishing speaking, he stood up, stretched his dark suit lightly, and looked back at the two of them.

"Follow me to the reference room to pick it up, everything is there."

The reference room is actually at the end of the corridor of the office, but it is usually locked when there are no new orphans admitted or when there are adoptions.Leading the two of them forward, the dean with a dark complexion was wondering what he was thinking.

"Uncle, I want to ask you something."

He didn't look back, but Dean Zhongshan had almost guessed what Xueyue was going to ask.

"Uncle, do we have the complete information of my birth in the courtyard? Why have you been refusing to tell me? Besides, uncle and mother..."

Xueyue, who was hesitant to speak, struggled a bit, but if she didn't say anything, she didn't know if she would have a chance to talk about this topic again in the future.

"Xueyue, I didn't want to tell you at the beginning because you insisted on going out to live alone. I hope you don't think too much. Those old things don't need to delay your current life. So..."

"so?"

The more hesitant, the more curious.The day he was born was Valentine's Day, and his birth also represented the death of his mother.Even if he mentioned his mother now, he had no idea at all, but he still wanted to know, even if it was just an accident, or he clearly stated that he was an unaccepted and abandoned existence.

"Your mother is also my older sister. She was only 21 years old when she gave birth to you. The person she likes is not a decent person, a jobless person, a gangster. Since she found out that she has you, she has persuaded her to get rid of it. She disagrees. , the other party ran away. It was already three months at that time, and she couldn't bear to part with you. She broke up with the family and had no choice but to move out and live by herself. I was three years younger than her at that time, although I objected My parents told my sister to move out, but no one listened to me."

The furrow between the brows deepened. Recalling this passage, Dean Zhongshan felt very uncomfortable.For so many years, he thought that the past is the past, Xueyue has grown up, and his parents are also gone because of poor health, but now he mentioned that the appearance of his sister being kicked out of the house that day is still in front of him.Her hopeless but stubborn gaze, after so many years of looking for Xueyue but in vain, made him heave a sigh of relief.

"I was studying at that time, but I still secretly worked to help her during the holidays. My stomach was so big that I couldn't go out to work anymore, so I took on some jobs in a rented house and barely made a living. Until you were born, that one ran away for several times. The bastard who was a month old just took a look at you outside the ward. I got angry and fought him."

Listening to these past events before I was born is like listening to other people's stories, but those are Xueyue's mother's personal experiences, although I can't empathize with them, but even listening to them is very touching.Xueyue's uncontrollable chest has been enduring that uncontrollable emotion, biting her lower lip tightly, almost biting to bleed, but she still didn't say a word.

"It took a long time for you to be born, and it was midnight at that time. But I didn't expect that she had seen you, but she still couldn't survive. At that time, the medical treatment was not too backward, but there was no way to save her. Live. Just tell me when you are still conscious, I have given you a name. Xueyue, your mother... doesn't want you to know too much, but she insists that you change your surname to Inoue and call you by the same name as her Xueyue. I still don't really understand what my sister thinks, I didn't say anything..."

The originally slow footsteps behind her gradually stopped, because Xue Yue had covered her face and started crying silently.Maeda was beside him silently handing a tissue to wipe away the tears that kept dripping.

No one looked back, but everyone felt a little heavy in their hearts.

Dean Zhongshan slowly took out the key to open the door, looked at the piles of documents in the filing cabinet, but did not flip through them.Because those who belong to Xueyue are not among them.

On the side table, the drawers were also tightly locked.It contained Xueyue's information, as well as very precious relics.Opening the drawer and placing the household registration and relics in front of the two, Dean Zhongshan sighed.

"Here, I'll write a certificate and you can take it away. But this..."

He pointed to the envelope next to him, but didn't move.

"This is the only photo left of your mother. When she was pregnant with you, I took it with her when I went to see her. You can take this too..."

Zhongshan, who closed his eyes, seemed to be able to see again, the woman with a very obvious belly in the late autumn, which was as clear as today, forced herself to take a photo of sitting in front of the window.

Xueyue didn't touch it, he didn't dare to touch it.In the past [-] years, whether it was the fear of cold when he was a child, the habit of sleeping on the sofa as an adult, his distrust of strangers, and his closed heart, he has never blamed anyone.The woman in the photo that I want to see now is her biological mother who left him alone in the world.Whether it's joy or sorrow, this inexplicable conflict makes him unable to stabilize.

"Xueyue, do you want to see it?"

Maeda, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked.

"Um……"

Suppressing tears, he nodded slightly, and Maeda took out the photo from the envelope.

The autumn sun slanted into the room, and beside the huge window was a woman who was already pregnant.She was sitting on a chair, wearing a soft knitted sweater cardigan, with her hands covering her already obvious belly, with a quiet and warm smile in her eyes.Although more than 20 years later, the original color photos are gradually yellowing and old, but that kind of smile always makes people feel a kind of warmth that can be felt across time.

Looking at it like this, Xue Yue finally smiled.

What a beautiful person.That smile reveals that although life is difficult, it is full of hope, such tenacious eyes, such a happy smile... Xueyue couldn't bear it anymore, gently took the photo, and fell into Maeda's arms.

"My mother is really beautiful, have you seen..."

It was like the sun raining, although the tears never stopped, the smile on the corner of the mouth dispelled the haze in Maeda's heart.He was worried that Xueyue would be sad because of her life experience, but at the moment she was relieved.

"Well, as beautiful as you."

Holding his body that was still trembling from crying, Maeda's heart was full of satisfaction.Although the woman in the photo had long since passed away, being able to be by his side and being his closest person made him feel so happy.

Dean Zhongshan looked up at the scenery outside the window, feeling a little melancholy, but didn't know what to say.He used to send Xueyue to the orphanage with his own hands, and because he was worried, he took over here when he was able, and it has been ten years now.

"Okay, pretend it's okay, we'll have a meal together after finishing the formalities. Xueyue, you can call me whatever you want in the future. Although I haven't told you before, we have always been relatives. "

Letting go of Maeda, Xueyue wiped her red and swollen eyes, nodded quickly, packed up and went out together.

These long-sealed files were finally handed over to Xue Yue.That yellowed photo will always be with me.Although more people will become her family members in the future, Xueyue finally found the home of her life experience, and also found those sustenances that she never mentioned to anyone day and night.

"In the future, we will be family, right?"

The two people following the dean walked slowly, Xue Yue asked quietly.

"Well, my relatives, my lover, the person I like, the person I long for, and the person I want to spend my whole life with is you."

She also answered Xue Yue in a low voice, and shook the hand she was holding.

"Yes, me too……"

The author has something to say:

At the beginning, I wanted to write a short episode about the acquaintance between my mother and Xueyue's father, but then I thought of such a strong woman and such a good Xueyue, so I stopped writing when I got angry.But I finally made up the hole left by the part of the kindergarten teacher Xiao Lin, comfortable.