Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 32: This Is Me (1)

Loran had been seemingly asleep, even in her dreams, and was anxious.

Qian Xu must have thought she was a big liar, what to do?

After sleeping for more than three hours, she couldn't sleep anymore, so she got up and drilled into the kitchen to make breakfast.

Washing and cutting, steaming and cooking ......

In the filling aroma of the meal, Luo Lan remembered the first time she cooked for Qian Xu many years ago, and also the first time Qian Xu cooked for her when he took her to Adventurer's Paradise to play.

Without realizing it, many years had passed, and they had traveled to many places together and cooked for each other many times.

Loran gradually thinks, that since she doesn't want to lose Qian Xu, and since she did something wrong, she should face it bravely and try to find a way to get it back.

Early in the morning, Luo Lan brings the soup and breakfast she made and rushes to the institute to look for Qian Xu, only to find that Qian Xu has already left.

"Why did you let Qian Xu leave so early?"

"The data is all normalized." Feng Lin pulls up Qian Xu's physical examination report and shows it to Luo Lan, "He strongly requested to leave on his own, I don't have any reason to detain him."

Luo Lan quickly scanned through the data and indeed there were no more problems.

"But is there no problem going back to work so soon?"

"Of course not, he's the one who killed four people in one night!" Feng Lin sighed, "Although it's certainly not the first time a soldier like him who retired from the front line has killed someone, and there shouldn't be any psychological problems, I still ask him to rest for at least a month, not to leave Alicata, and to keep under observation."

Loran dialed Chixu's terminal and couldn't get through, a system auto-reply message appeared, "The other party closed communication, please contact them later."

Feng Lin asked, "What's wrong?"

Luo Lan smiles reluctantly, "No one is picking up, probably still sleeping."

Feng Lin could see that she was in a bad mood and comforted her, "It was already the latter part of the night when he left yesterday, it's normal to sleep a little later."

Luo Lan felt that it made sense and decided to contact Qian Xu later, just that the breakfast brought ......

She opens the lunch box and puts the soup and snacks in front of Feng Lin, "Join us for breakfast?"

In the office, Loran fidgets and keeps checking the time.

Two hours later, she tentatively sent a text message, "Are you up? I want to talk to you."

There was a delayed reply, and Loraine consoled herself with the thought that he should still be asleep and hadn't seen it yet.

After waiting for another hour, she couldn't hold back any longer and dialed Qian Xu's terminal.

It was connected, but, after a few rings, it was hung up.

A system auto-reply message appeared, "The other party refuses to talk, please contact them later."

Over the years, Luo Lan had contacted Qian Xu countless times, and for the first time, there was a "call refused" situation. She stared at the short message and read it back and forth a few times, so sad that she wanted to cry, Qian Xu didn't even want to talk to her anymore.

The mountain is not on me, I will go on the mountain!

Loran fights the urge to send a message to Feng Lin, "Can you send me the address of Qian Xu's dormitory?"

"You haven't contacted him yet?" Feng Lin was wary, "That's not a good sign, maybe a psychiatrist needs to intervene."

"It's just between him and I. Last night he found out who I am from Brown Leaf."

"Is there a need to get upset about that? He's not the only one you're hiding it from. It's time to explain clearly, and whether he accepts it or not, there's no need to mind too much."

Luo Lan had no way to explain to Feng Lin that Qian Xu was different from the others and could only reply with nothing.

Luo Lan took the ferry flyer and arrived at the base's dormitory area.

According to the base's policy, military personnel working on the base could go outside the base to purchase real estate, or they could rent the base's single dormitory at a very cheap price.

Most of the single soldiers would covet the cheap convenience of living in the dormitory, Qian Xu was an orphan and had no family, so naturally he had been living in the dormitory.

Previously, Luo Lan had a ghost in her heart and didn't dare to reveal her address, so she hadn't dared to ask Qian Xu where she lived, self-deceiving "I don't visit your home, you don't visit my home, very reasonable".

Loran stood outside the dormitory building and checked the address Feng Lin had sent her: e-7-203.

After confirming that nothing was wrong, she walked into the dormitory building.

Loran rang the doorbell, and a robot with a round body and round eyes appeared on the screen of the front door.

It said in a naive manner, "Hello, guest! The owner is not at home, please visit later or contact the owner directly."

"Where is your host?"

"Confidential."

"May I come in and wait for him? I'm a good friend of his."

"No."

Loran felt foolish, too, for trying to climb into friendship with a robot who was aboard and followed instructions.

She sat cross-legged on the floor and decided to wait for Chisoku to return.

The robot was baffled, its large, round eyes rolling rapidly, searching around in its smart brain for such a situation, unable to calculate what the solution should be. The robot repeated, "Please visit later, or contact the master directly."

Without looking back, Loran asked, "Does your master make it a rule that no one can sit at the door?"

"No."

"Then you should leave it alone."

The robot's round eyes continued to roll rapidly and its body was about to heat up when it finally had a solution.

It sent a message to its master, "There's a woman who is staying at the door, should we call the police to arrest her?"

Along with the message was a picture of Loran's back.

Qian Xu replied, "No need. Let me know when she's gone."

An hour later, Qian Xu sent a message asking the robot, "Is she gone?"

"No."

The robot sends him a video

Loran was sitting cross-legged on the floor, facing the screen on the door, knee-deep in conversation.

"Looks like you're a pretty old model, been following your master for years. How many girlfriends has he dated?"

"Confidential."

"Did he date boyfriends?"

"Confidential."

"What topic can we talk about? Talk about whether you should lose weight?"

The robot's round eyes turned into mosquito eyes and the processor made a buzzing sound.

The robot asks Chisoku, "She spied on Master and me, should we call the police to arrest her?"

Qian Xu replied, "No."

Three hours later, the robot takes the initiative to send a video to Qian Xu -

The robot asks, "When are you leaving?"

Loran listlessly covers his stomach, "Tell your master that I haven't eaten lunch yet and I'm very hungry, I hope he won't keep me from eating dinner as well."

"You can leave for dinner."

"Tell your master that I will not leave until I see him."

Chisoku was dumbfounded, Loran had guessed that the robot would contact him but still waited for four hours just to make it clear that she wouldn't give up and had to see him.

Chisoku gave the robot instructions, "Tell her to come inside, there's a nutritious meal in the crisper. I'll be back in three hours."

The door slowly opens and Loran leaps up excitedly, it looks like Chisoku has finally agreed to see her.

The round robot raised his hand, "Please come in, Robot Bear at your service."

"And Chisoku gave you a name?" Loran looked at the robot that only came up to her waist and thought that the name Big Bear was too much of a name.

"Master said he'll be back in three hours."

"Three hours?" You can go all the way around Planet Alicata in a star train, where the hell did Chisoku run off to for a walk?

"Please pick." Bear opened the crisper.

Loran, greedy for convenience, took the can of nutrients.

She looked around, suddenly curious about the place where Qian Xu lived and lived, "Can you show me around the house?"

The big bear's round eyes rolled a few times, "Yes."

Loran drank the nutrient while following the big bear to look over one room after another.

When she was waiting outside just now, she was idly bored and logged onto the base's intranet to check the information of the single dormitories.

The single dormitories were all standard structures: living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and fitness room. Furniture and necessities were also provided at a low cost, so you could move in with a handbag at any time.

However, since fewer and fewer people are willing to get married nowadays, and many of them will be single for the rest of their lives, and will most likely live in the singles' dormitory until they retire, and since the base's salary package is not low, people will not save that money, and will redecorate the dormitory according to their preferences, because after all, it is the home where they can rest and relax after a hard day's work.

Qian Xu's living room, dining room, and kitchen were the same as the model room on the datasheet, although Loran felt it was a bit strange, she didn't think much about it.

However, when it came to the bedroom and fitness room, Loran realized that it was surprisingly also the look of the model room, with only a few pieces of furniture like the bed and the table, surrounded by nothing but the most necessities of life, and then there were no more extra objects.

The whole room was clean, neat, cold, and empty, without a trace of popularity. It seems that the man living in this room is just living, living for the sake of living, without a trace of excess.

Loran's eyes gradually dampened.

As far as she knew, this was Qian Xu's only residence, his only home, but no one's home would be like this.

Because she had no memories and her identity was false, Luo Lan had never had a sense of stability inside, never, never dared to consider that house that had been lived in for ten years as her home.

It always felt like she was hitching a ride, borrowing someone else's house, and could be evicted at any time; she had no qualifications, nor the will to remodel and decorate it, and that house had always existed in the same way as it was when she lived in it.

It turned out that she was not the only one without a home; it turned out that for so many years, the man who let her take warmth was more barren and desolate than her heart!

Qianxu is not really like the sun generally shining, he is just because he understands, so compassionate; because of empathy, so pushes themselves toward others, and gentle treatment.