The moment she opened the box, she made a point of avoiding it by a wide margin, and exhaled when she finally found that it contained nothing more than a mobile phone, plus a photograph.
Secretly, she laughed at herself for being a coward now.
Seeing that the phone was an old one, Nian Xiaomu’s brow knitted.
Who would send her an old phone on her wedding day?
There was also a photo ……
When Nian Xiaomu picked the photo up and saw that it was of a young girl with a clean-cut face, her pupils suddenly tightened!
The little girl looked like something she had seen before!
It was on the photo album of Tan Beng Beng’s flat.
Only, what Tan Beng Beng was wearing on the photo album, were normal clothes, nothing special.
But in this photo, the young Tan Bom Bom is wearing an all-black outfit!
The rich blackness seems to turn her into a shadow, standing in a shadowy corner, you wouldn’t even notice her presence ……
The hand of Nian Xiaomu holding the photo, clenched silently.
In front of his eyes, it was as if some image flashed by.
It was the scene of two people, little girls of the same age, meeting for the first time.
She was standing in the backyard of the Xing family’s old house.
There were a few large trees there and a swing.
She just sat on the swing and looked at the little girl in black who had just arrived and introduced herself in a friendly way.
“My name is Rokuroku, what is your name?”
“……”
“Are you unable to speak? Or don’t you have a name?”
“……”
“Well how about this, you’re always dark and don’t talk and you wear black, how about I call you Blackie?”
Nian Xiaomu, who had been unable to get a response, extended her hand towards the little girl in black.
“Hello Xiaohei, nice to meet you!”
The little girl in black stared at her hand for a long time and slowly extended her own little hand.
Then, opening her mouth, she said.
“My name is not Blackie, my name is Avalanche, Tan Avalanche!”
Tan Avalanche ……
The name, as if it had travelled back in time, reached her eardrums.
Nian Xiaomu’s body shook!
In her mind, images were constantly superimposed.
That was the first time she saw Tan Beng Beng, and from that day on, no matter where she went, Tan Beng Beng would always follow her.
Like a shadow.
Sometimes, Tan Beng Beng was so well hidden that she couldn’t even find her if she tried to turn around and look for her.
At first, thinking she had lost her, she would even cry out nervously.
At this time, Tan Beng Beng, who was also very young, would always float out from behind her like a ghost.
It floated lightly in front of her.
Wiping her tears away, then saying stiffly.
“You don’t have to look for me, you won’t find me, if you can see me, then others can see me and I won’t be able to protect you.”
That was the first time in Nian Xiaomu’s memory that Tan Avalanche had said something so long in one breath.
Most of the time, she was like a mute who couldn’t speak.
Nor would she appear in front of her.
She wants to say that she doesn’t need protection, she wants to play with her.
But Tanbaeng ignored her, and when she stopped crying, her little body stood up straight again and turned to go.
By the time Nian Xiaomu looked back, she was gone again ……
Later, she met Fan Yu in the Xing family’s backyard.
Gradually, she stopped pestering Tan Avalanche.
Perhaps, Tan Beng Beng was so well hidden that Fan Yu didn’t even notice her.
When Nian Xiao Mu had a good-looking little brother, she forgot about her “little shadow”.
Every time her mum and dad would come to visit her, Tan Beng Beng would suddenly appear from behind the curtains to remind her, and then disappear from near the window again ……
