Chapter 12: Endless Warmth 3

  Muxi Xue looked at the flower-like face in the mirror, picked up the photo, and compared it with the one in the mirror: her chin had become sharper, her face smaller, and her mouth slightly larger.

  She picked up a silk scarf to cover her face, leaving only her eyes and eyebrows visible, then picked up the photo and covered the lower half of it with her hand, making it look like the same person.

  It's been almost a month now, and she compares like this every day.

  She didn't believe that the person in the photo was her, and she also suspected whether the woman who claimed to be her mother was really her mother.

  She should be! She takes care of everything meticulously and thoroughly.

  At night, when she was woken up by the pain of her leg injury, he would be sitting beside her, sometimes sleeping, sometimes gazing at her lovingly like a fool, staring blankly as if she might run away at any moment.

  As soon as she cried out in pain, she could see the muscles at the corner of that woman's mouth twitching slightly, and her eyes would become moist. She had no reason not to believe that beautiful elegant woman was not her mother, but 'doubt' always followed her like a ghost.

  She is cautious when talking to herself, afraid that if she doesn't say something well, she will hurt her own feelings.

  "Xian'er! Looking at yourself again. Getting used to it?"

  "No. It's just that I've gotten used to seeing you." Musui Xue couldn't help but dislike the face in the mirror.

  "Shall we have beef noodles today?"

  "Didn't you say I love eating crystal dumplings with lotus root filling the most?" Mu Si Xue said on purpose.

  "These days the lotus root in the supermarket is not very fresh, let's eat it when we have fresh ones. Besides, eating one type of food all the time is not nutritionally balanced and not good for your recovery." The daughter's memory was gone, and her taste seemed to have changed too, she didn't like eating crystal dumplings that much anymore.

  "The school has been contacted, are you ready?"

  Xue leaves the mirror: "There's nothing good to prepare for, you think I should go whenever it suits me, anyway being at home doesn't make sense."

  Muxi Snow interrupted Guan Snow's words, and what she said was a long sentence that included many questions.

  She impatiently imitated Guan Xue: "When someone says 'we knew each other before' to you, you must be careful of him/her; don't tell others about your amnesia; don't casually get along with strangers; can't become friends if not knowing for a year... and many more, I all know and will follow."

  Her daughter's temper has been getting worse and worse, and Guan Xue is worried every day. However, the psychologist said that it's normal, some people become timid after losing their memory, while others become violent, all of which are normal reactions due to a lack of sense of security, and will get better with time.

  Night thoughts snow put down ice water, stepped on the accelerator to the end.

  The sea breeze is still damp and the seawater is still vast and boundless.

  Muxi Xue stopped her car on the seaside highway, opened the door and walked along the winding mountain road.

  He said they had a promise that if she went first, he would bury her on the mountain slope facing the sea, because she loved the sea.

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  "Really? Is that woman who lives with you your mother?" Miora and Sara sat together on the high, hard steps, swinging their legs.

  "Who knows? She said she is." Musi Xue blew a big and round bubble with the chewing gum in her mouth.

  "I have a friend who said that his relative in Chicago has a daughter, who ran away from home two years ago and never came back. He came to see me the day before yesterday from Chicago and insisted that you are his niece." Sarah is the daughter of Mu Si Xue's neighbor and is about the same age as Mu Si Xue.

  "Who are you kidding? Do you think I'm an idiot?" Mu Si Xue said, but in her heart, she was wondering if she really was that man's cousin.

  "Don't you believe it? Go to Chicago with him for a paternity test, what's the harm in that?" Seeing Muxi Xue wavering, Sarah continued: "We'll go now and be back by five this afternoon. Your fake mom definitely won't know."

  "Only a ghost would believe in such a coincidence." Musi Xue lowered her head and kicked at the stairs.

  "I never thought I'd be friends with someone who's lost their memory, it's unbelievable! How could this happen to you? It's ridiculous that there are people in the world who can't remember anything!" Sarah chimed in from the side.

  "Is it going to be that quick? Can we come back this afternoon?"

  "Of course." Sara jumped down the stairs: "My friend said his 9 o'clock train. We can still make it if we go now." Seeing Muxi Xue was still hesitating, Sara pulled Muxi Xue's hand: "It's not like we're doing something bad, let's go!"

  Moxi Xue's hesitant steps gradually became more hurried and determined.

  "Aren't we going to the station?" Muxi Xue looked at the increasingly dark alley, her heart full of doubts.

  "We're taking a shortcut." Sarah pulled Muxue's hand, and the two men followed closely behind them.

  Muzi Xue glanced at the two men behind him, their hairstyles were strange and so were their eyes. They didn't walk looking forward, but kept glancing around left and right.

  They also carried guns, and Mu Si Xue hastily withdrew her gaze, realizing that she was in a very dangerous situation. She ran forward to grab Sarah's arm, thinking as they walked about what she should do next. Drunken moonlight.

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