Mirror

  "It's been a long time." This was Xiao Qingzhu's first sentence when she saw Du Siling, and the matter of that night was an invisible membrane in the hearts of both of them, automatically ignored.

  "Hmm." Duslin simply nodded slightly, calm as a well, without a ripple.

  Xiao Qingzhu still had a faint smile on his face, and his eyes occasionally swept over Chen Zhouyuan beside Du Siling.

  Chen Zhouxuan is quite handsome, perhaps due to his profession, his skin has a bronze color that shines brightly in the sunlight, exuding a healthy and masculine aura from head to toe.

  "See you later." Du Sulin's eyebrows slightly furrowed, she didn't know why Xiao Qingzhu came here, but instinctively felt that it wasn't good. On the surface, however, she showed no signs of anything and calmly bid farewell to Xiao Qingzhu.

  After Xiao Qingzhu nodded in response, he left without looking back.

  "Director, you should be at ease this time." Looking at Du Si Lin's back figure who didn't show any reluctance, Xiao Qing Zhu said to the old man with half white hair beside her.

  "Qingzhu, what you said, such a big thing happened in school, how can I put my mind at ease?" The old man standing beside Xiao Qingzhu was Bai Shaoxian, the principal of this province's Music Academy.

  "Just listen to me, Lao Bai, and everything will be fine. You can rest assured about the college." Xiao Qingzhu comforted with a smile.

  The company she is in is the largest shareholder of the Provincial Music Academy. This time, she came to solve this problem at the behest of the old chairman, because it was already known that she had helped Wang Ziwu resolve the strange event at Jianyou Building and signed a major project contract with him. Although Wang Ziwu has been arrested now, for Xiao Qingzhu's company, there is no damage at all. The first payment of that project, Wang Ziwu had already transferred to the company account, now the project is running successfully, Wang Ziwu's bankruptcy is not a bad thing for Xiao Qingzhu's company. This project, as long as there is enough initial payment, her company can run independently on its own. This can be said to be free money, and in the future, there will be one less person to share the profits, why not? So, the old chairman specially called from abroad to let Xiao Qingzhu come and deal with the Provincial Music Academy's affairs.

  The company where Xiao Qingzhu is located is called Haotian, which was founded by the old chairman Peng Haotian. Peng Haotian has only one daughter, named Peng Luofei, who has no interest in managing the company and is keen on literary creation. She is now a well-known writer at home and abroad.

  Peng Haotian, a forward-thinking entrepreneur, was not constrained by family-controlled conglomerates and hired several highly capable young people at high prices to form a professional management team. In the end, Xiao Qingzhu became the head of this team and the general manager of Haotian Group's domestic company after fierce competition.

  In response to Xiao Qingzhu's sudden and inexplicable words, Bai Shaoyan neither confirmed nor denied them, thinking that it was just a young person with shallow experience trying to comfort him.

  Xiao Qingzhu didn't explain either, but the smile at the corner of his mouth seemed even more pronounced.

  "Shall we go in and take a look, Bai Lao?" Xiao Qingzhu turned around to face the majestic building in front of her.

  "No, no," Bai Shaosheng waved his hand repeatedly. "This building has been sealed off by the police and anyone who goes in may disappear again."

  Seeing Bai Shaoyan's ghostly expression, Xiao Qingzhu had no choice but to give up. However, she still strolled around the building with Bai Shaoyan, discussing the recent operation of the school and how to comfort students and their parents.

  To return to Du Siling, not long after leaving the Provincial Music Academy, she and Jing Jie parted ways with Chen Zhouyuan. Having someone who wasn't particularly familiar by her side made Du Siling feel very unaccustomed, even if that person was her brother's close friend.

  "Taiguang, why must you always come at night?" Jingji asked on the way, puzzled.

  "There are fewer people at night." Du Sulin said bluntly.

  Originally at noon, the yang energy is strongest, and it's also the best time to capture the evil spirit. But in fact, for Du Si Lin, she doesn't need these external aids, relying solely on her own abilities, dealing with this evil spirit shouldn't be a difficult task either.

  "Is it easier to get things done with fewer people?" As soon as the words left her mouth, Jing Jie couldn't help but smile wickedly, knowing that her thoughts were a bit malicious.

  "Hmm." Duslin nodded as if he hadn't understood, acknowledging it anyway.

  Jing Jie could only sigh inwardly, Du Si Lin was indeed a guy with high IQ and low EQ, so pure and naive that he didn't even catch the hidden humorous meaning in this sentence, nor did he know whether it was true or pretended.

  If it's a fight, I'll definitely stare her down. Jing Ji thought to herself, and quietly stuck out her tongue.

  Du Sulin certainly did not know that Jing Jie had already turned so many bends in her heart, what she thought was why Xiao Qingzhu would appear there.

  Xiao Qingzhu's physique was a perfect match for that demon spirit, it seemed like she didn't know how attractive she was to monsters. Wherever there were demons and ghosts, Xiao Qingzhu would be there too.

  After returning home, Du Sulin was forced by Jing Jie to drink a large bowl of medicine slowly, with a frown on his face and a bitter expression that was hard to describe.

  Zhi Xing was arranged by Du Siyan to attend a boarding school as a transfer student and could only come back once a week.

  This made Jing Jie very pleased, what she wanted to do, Du Siyan had already done it one step ahead of her.

  Du Sulin's high fever still shows no signs of abating, she has been chilled for seven days and doesn't know if she will have a fever for seven days too, if that's the case, it would be fortunate if she doesn't go crazy from the heat.

  "Taiguang, really won't let us accompany you?" Before going out, Fangfeng hesitated repeatedly, she was really afraid that Du Siling's body couldn't hold up.

  Look at her slender figure, it's almost as thin as a piece of paper, and she might be blown away by the wind.

  This time when he woke up, Du Si Lin's words were much fewer than before, almost to the point where if he didn't need to speak, he wouldn't say a word.

  Du Sulin nodded, stuffed some money into his bag, and took a taxi alone to the Music Academy.

  The music academy at night has a strange atmosphere, there are almost no people on the road, and the dim lights seem to be cool at this time.

  She walked into the dance studio with familiarity, and the room was inexplicably filled with mirrors that didn't seem to have been moved in.

  In every mirror, there is a Du Shilin. Upon closer inspection, each expression seems slightly different.

  Du Sulin's eyes were as sharp as gold, scanning the surroundings, making everything have nowhere to hide.

  She stepped back and forth in front of the mirror, but it seemed as if the mirror was moving on its own, Du Sulin felt like she was walking around in circles.

  In each mirror, there seems to be a different world. Duslin sees herself with seven emotions: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, surprise, and they all look ugly, whether she's crying or laughing, her stiff face seems to have no nerves since birth.

  Du Sulin knew that these mirrors were strange, but she was happy to walk among them, and since she couldn't control her emotions, she might as well take a look.

  Suddenly, the image in the mirror changed and was no longer Du Sulin's appearance.

  But in a hospital room, a majestic man was holding a baby and crying.

  That baby's eyes are as black as ink and as deep as the sea, making it impossible for people to see through.

  Du Sulin was stunned, the man's appearance etched in her heart for over twenty years, how could she forget, it was her own father, Du Kongzheng. The real Du Kongzheng was even more handsome than the painting, the sorrow on his face made Du Sulin's heart ache as well.

  The scenes in the mirror keep jumping, all of which are Du Sulin's experiences of tribulations from childhood to adulthood.

  Indeed, Du Sulin was afraid of death, an instinctive fear of death. So every time, no matter how weak she was, she told herself to hold on.

  Du Sulin's loneliness from childhood to adulthood, big and small wounds, only she alone licked.

  As resolute as Du Sulin, she finally shed tears in this situation. She looked at the image in the mirror and knelt down on the ground dejectedly.

  The last scene, she would never forget. The woman, with a tall and slender figure, eyes like walnuts, gentle as water, hair like waves, Xiao Qingzhu, why did she appear?

  Dou Sulin stared blankly at the woman in the mirror who was gazing back at her, and an inexplicable feeling arose in her heart.

  She liked watching Xiao Qingzhu's unguarded smile at herself, when Xiao Qingzhu smiled, his eyes curved like a new moon hanging in the sky, making people's hearts flutter.

  Only Xiao Qingzhu would call her own name, Silin, Du Silin. At that time, she would have a brief moment to forget that she had another name, a responsibility as heavy as the sky.

  "Clear... clear bamboo." She couldn't help but mutter under her breath.

  Suddenly one of the mirrors burst into a brilliant light, enveloping Du Siling's body and sucking him in.

  When Du Sulin opened her eyes, in front of her was a pool of spring water, with the sky a brilliant blue. She walked numbly to the edge of the spring and gazed at her reflection in the water, her pale face still bearing tear stains, the bewilderment and sorrow in her eyes still lingering.

  Du Sulin knew this was her vulnerable self. But at this moment, she didn't want to pretend anymore and exhaust herself. In the mirror's reflection, Du Sulin cried. She cried like a child.

  "Si Lin......?" As Du Si Lin was enveloped in a warm embrace, a call poured into his heart like sunlight.

  Douslin knew who it was, and she buried her head in Xiao Qingzhu's neck, greedily savoring this breath. It was precisely because she knew it was an illusion rather than reality that Douslin dared to face this moment of dependence on Xiao Qingzhu.

  "Silin, how did you get so burned?" Xiao Qingzhu asked with concern, tightly hugging Du Silin.

  "Shut up and hug me." Du Sulin said with a dry mouth.

  Xiao Qingzhu's chin rested on Du Sulin's head, and she hugged his arm even tighter. She had never seen Du Sulin cry before, or at least not to the point where it was so heart-wrenching.

  After a long while, Du Sulin finally left Xiao Qingzhu's arms. She looked at Xiao Qingzhu and the clarity in her eyes was restored once again.

  "Why are you looking at me like that?" Xiao Qingzhu smiled, her eyes narrowing into a crescent moon shape, and reached out to wipe away the tears on Du Siling's face.

  Du Sulin smiled and shook his head.

  "You... you smiled?" Xiao Qingzhu couldn't believe what had just happened. She had never seen Du Siling smile before, and she didn't expect that when he did, it would be so beautiful, like a cloud's gentle and calm appearance, yet containing thousands of words.

  "Laugh?" Du Sulin couldn't believe his ears, just now, she laughed?

  "Xilin looks really good when she smiles!" Xiao Qingzhu sincerely praised.

  "It must be your mistake." Du Slin denied, still disbelieving that she had smiled.

  "Fool, I'm not you, can't I look at it wrong even if I don't smile?" Xiao Qingzhu gave Du Silin a white eye, her tone somewhat reproachful, but with a strong pampering.

  Du Sulin was stunned, Xiao Qingzhu's expression was a thousand times more charming and gentle as spring water.

  "Foolish, what do you want to say?" Xiao Qingzhu faced Du Siling, her mouth still carrying a warm and gentle smile that warmed people's hearts.

  "D... Du Shilin was momentarily speechless, stuttering and stammering, with two red clouds flying across his pale face. "Y... you're very beautiful." After hesitating for a long time, Du Shilin finally managed to blurt out this sentence.

  Xiao Qingzhu couldn't help but laugh, and Du Siling repeatedly praised her, saying that she was so lovely that it was like having a knife held to her throat when someone said she was beautiful.

  "Foolish, don't you know that you look even more beautiful when you smile?" Xiao Qingzhu said intimately, wrapping her arm around Du Siling's and leaning on her shoulder.

  Du Sulin felt a bit uneasy, but didn't think of pushing away Xiao Qingzhu. She felt her heart beating several times faster than usual, with a feeling that was about to burst out of her chest cavity.

  This is really Xiao Qingzhu, not a fake image conjured up by that demon spirit. Du Siliang's mind was clear.

  She herself didn't know, at this moment her mouth was curved into a smile, the two of them sat leaning against each other by the spring, dragonflies skimming the water, stirring up ripples. If only time could stay frozen in this moment, Du Siling's heart thought.

  The two, however, were unaware that not far away, a pair of eyes was gazing at them, the profound meaning in those eyes being difficult to fathom, with a mix of envy and sorrow, complex to the extreme.

  Teacher Xiao is nowhere to be found, I'm afraid I'll get a beating.

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