The noise of the city woke me up. Slowly opening my eyes, I felt a sharp pain in my head, as if a bullet had passed right through, breaking everything into small pieces.

My throat is dry, I need to drink, with difficulty getting up, I began to move towards the door, in the dark I felt for the door handle, it seemed that it felt unfamiliar to me, as if I was in a strange house.

Home?! Why am I here?! And who am I? I tried to remember at least something, but nothing came to mind, as if all my memories were deep underwater and the pain began to roll in waves. I swallowed and tried to open the door.

Click! I heard that someone nearby turned on the switch and the light from under the door showed that a shadow was approaching me. Women's steps went quickly and it seemed the person was nervous. The door opened abruptly and pushed me, there was absolutely no strength in my legs, I sat down on the floor and looked not at the woman who turned on the light.

"Ling Fang! You fell? Sorry son! It was I who pushed you, I quickly ran to your room, because I felt that something happened ... How is your head? Doesn't it hurt anymore? You came from school and said that you fell, I dragged you to the hospital, the doctor said that it was just a bruise and said that you needed a few days of rest. Lin Fang? Lin Fang are you listening to me? Why are you looking at me like that?" a middle-aged woman asked me.

In her eyes, I saw excitement and anxiety. I felt that to say that I do not remember anything would be problematic for me, I do not want to draw attention to myself.

A? Why did I think so? But for me this is the best option, I will be able to find out the answers to questions gradually, but being under constant care and future trips to the hospital seemed like a waste of time to me.

The appearance of this woman could not be called beautiful. Brown eyes, straight nose, flat lips, oval face is slightly plump, a distinctive feature is a mole in the lower right corner of the mouth, she looks about 40 years old.

"Ling Fang?" She kept looking at me questioningly.

"A? I'm fine," I replied with a smile. “I went to the kitchen to get some water.”

"Let me get you one," she suggested.

"No need, I'm on my own, I want to stretch my legs a little"

“Well then, you need to rest, the doctor said that you should sit at home for a couple of days. You must be careful. Go to bed early, you need to get better soon,” she continued.

"Um," I nodded.

I got up and went to the kitchen, after drinking a few cups of water, I felt lighter.

I need to go to the room, where I can find some answers to my questions. Passing by the bedroom where the woman had gone, I heard a man's voice.

“He doesn’t have to stay at home, it’s just a bruise. Don't forget tomorrow we're flying to London, we have work waiting for us"

"Yes. But I'm still worried... he's still so young. A whole month without us…” she said sadly.

"It's only been one month, this isn't the first time we've left him, just call him when you miss him"

"Fine"

Entering the room, I went to the desk. Picking up a mobile phone, the date is "00:09 December 1, 2003". The message folder is empty, the call history is empty, in contacts, only mother and father. Hmm, I don't seem to be a very social person. Although I didn't think of myself that way. You need to check your browser history. History is empty. Hmm maybe I don't use the phone much or it's just new.

  There is a frame with a photograph on the table, a woman whom I have already seen smiling, next to the right is a man, of medium height, short hair, wears glasses, looks stern, a distinctive feature is a dimple on his chin. The woman puts her hands on the boy's shoulders. Thin, face slightly pale, looking about 10 years old. A girl stands nearby, bright eyes, long hair, a white bow, a lively smile.

It is useless, looking away, I began to examine the table further. No computer? Perhaps this family is not very rich.

Stop! Boy's face! Is it supposed to be me? But why does this face seem completely unfamiliar to me. No, I understand that I lost my memory, but shouldn't one's own face evoke at least some emotion? I went to the mirror on the closet door in the corner of the room.

A young man was looking at me, he looked about 18 years old, his hair was slightly long, his head was bandaged, his features were sharp, his eyes were sharp, his face, to be honest, was kind of villainous. Not like the bandits, but like those who stand behind the stage and pull the strings.

I looked at my face and I couldn't remember anything, I smiled... nothing, and what is that evil smile? Maybe if you remove the bandage, I can remember something?

No, forget it, I'll figure it out tomorrow, I need to go to bed, maybe I'll remember something in a dream. I've heard somewhere that sometimes this happens.

Turning off the light, I lay down in bed, under the swaying waves of pain, I closed my eyes and fell into a dream.

5 in the morning, I opened my eyes outside the window, it was just beginning to get light, the pain in my head was gone, however, I still don’t remember anything. Need to go for a run? Hm? I like to jog in the mornings? No, it's not like love, but a habit. I rummaged through the closet, but found nothing but a sports school uniform. I took off the bandage and left the room, after passing the living room, I looked at the door of the door of the next bedroom, it looks like they are still sleeping, wearing sneakers, I went out outside. Cold air blew in the face, there was no snow, but it seemed that it was about to go these days. It's December right now! I need to go and dress warmly.... Forget as soon as I start running I'll warm up. Leaving the apartment, I looked at the elevator. No, I’ll go down the stairs, for one it will be a warm-up, having passed 4 floors, I went out into the courtyard. Looking at the house, I counted 9 floors. An ordinary box, obviously not an elite house.

Taking a deep breath of fresh air, I ran, remembering the environment along the way, as well as trying to remember something. I began to remember different things, songs, films, mathematical formulas, foreign words. It's okay, any memories come up quickly and naturally, but not me. I am not in my memories. I don't remember the woman in the photo, I don't remember the man, not the boy or the girl. Everything related to me is simply inaccessible.

I ran about two kilometers when I felt that I could run more, my breath hitched, there was no more strength in my legs and I was sweating. Don't I run in the morning? The distance I ran was too short. I have to run 10 kilometers. Why do I think I have to run 10 kilometers? Who set this bar? Is this my memory? I breathed a sigh of relief, finally I remembered something about myself, even if it is a small and not at all important detail, but it is at least some progress.

Turning around, I walked back, the shops I'd run through recently were mostly closed, street food vendors were starting to prepare food, and the air was filled with various flavors of the kitchen. The smell was not familiar to me and no familiar memories arose. Arriving home, I opened the door and saw that the woman was looking at me with an anxious look, the man from the photo was standing next to her, the look was even more severe than in the photo.

“Ling Fang, where have you been?” the woman asked.

“Went for a run,” I replied, trying to calm her down.

"Jog? You never ran and weren't interested in sports,” the man frowned.

“I thought I should start, my body is too weak since I fall in school. Now I will run every day in the morning,” I smiled.

"Every day? I think you will quit this business in a couple of days, like everything you always start and quit!” - cursed the man and went to the bedroom.

"Darling..." the woman said at his back.

“Son, you should not be angry with your father. It's good that you started running, but you shouldn't start doing it now while you're still recovering. It's already morning, let me cook breakfast for you, and you go take a shower for now, ”- saying this, she went to the kitchen.

I took my home clothes and went to take a shower. I looked at the three brushes, but I couldn't remember which one was mine. I just put the paste on my finger and brushed my teeth.

After a shower, I left the bathroom rubbing my wet hair with a towel, hanging it on the back of a chair, I sat down at the table. A man and a woman were already sitting at the table. A man was looking through a newspaper, and next to him a woman bustled around the table.

“Here are scrambled eggs and pork, eat more, do not forget about vegetables,” she said smiling and pushed the food.

"Sister won't eat?" I asked and regretted it.

The woman's face froze in bewilderment, and the man's face became extremely stern.

"You son of a bitch! What are these jokes!? Don't you know that your sister went missing 8 years ago!" the man shouted.

“Darling… Don’t be angry, I’m sure he didn’t do it on purpose to annoy you. Perhaps due to trauma, he forgot or his memories got mixed up. Lin Fan! Apologize to your father immediately!" the woman said in a serious tone.

"A? I?" - I stood up and bowed - "Forgive me, I forgot, I did not want to disturb these memories."

Although these people were strangers to me, they treated me well, and I had no reason to offend them.

"You forgot? Are you unwell? Let's go to the hospital again," the woman said anxiously.

“No, no, don’t worry, maybe I just didn’t sleep enough and forgot. I think if I rest today, then tomorrow everything will be fine with me, ”I began to wave my hands, calming them.

“You just don’t want to go to school and that’s why you came up with such nonsense. Lin Fang think what you say! I know you don't like going to school, but don't you dare use your dead sister's name as an excuse!" shouted the man banging on the table.

From his swollen veins, I realized that he was very angry.

"Lin San! Stop yelling at him, he already knew he didn't have to go to school today and wouldn't use such a stupid excuse to skip!" - reproachfully said she looking at the man.

The man turned away and continued to look at the newspaper. She sat down on me and looked sadly: “Eat, son, you need to get better.”

I quickly swallowed the food because I really need strength. Thanking for the meal, I cleared the plates from the table and went to the bedroom.

“Darling, don’t you think that Ling Fang is strange today?”

"Hmph!" the man mumbled, showing that he didn't want to talk about it.

Entering the room, I took the pen from the table and lay down on the bed. Twisting the handle between my fingers, I thought to myself. What an idiot I am. There is no other bedroom in the apartment and where a girl could sleep, there are also only three chairs at the table. I could guess. When did my brain get so bad at thinking? Turning the handle in my hands, I felt that my fingers were not dexterous and strong enough. I need to train them more, finger strength is a must when using a knife. Also with your fingers, you can inflict many painful blows, on the eyes, throat, collarbone, joints. When you need to twist your opponent's arms when climbing a wall.

Finger strength, body flexibility, quick reflexes and strength are all needed to deal with an opponent.

Another memory? Or is it just the thoughts of a boy who wants to become stronger and his dreams are passed off as memories? Hah, this is funny, with such thoughts, I will not be able to understand where my real memories are, and where they are just fiction.

While thinking about it, I heard a knock on the door.

"Son, we're leaving. Don't forget to eat and answer calls. If tomorrow you feel bad, you can not go to school.”

"What do you mean, don't go? If you don't go to school tomorrow, I'll come and beat you with a belt!" the man exploded.

"Don't worry, I won't skip meals and school, the phone is always with me, you can always call and check on me," I smiled and tried to reassure them.

The woman hugged me tightly, I felt a certain awkwardness. After all, they are my parents, even if I don’t remember them, I should stop calling them a man and a woman in my mind, and address them as “Mother” and “Father”. But I felt it wasn't right. I don't know why, and I didn't want to think about it.

The woman looked at me again with excitement and followed the man who opened the door.

I stood and smiled until they closed the door.

"Fuh!" I sighed.

Still, it was a good idea to keep silent about the fact that I don’t remember anything. Due to this lie, I can live for one month and put my thoughts in order.

I went to my parents' bedroom, opened the door, looked at the room and, as expected, could not remember anything.

Suddenly I felt anxiety in my chest and a thought flashed through my head, I need to go to the city, something important is waiting for me there.

Me? What can be waiting for me there? I don’t remember anything about myself, is it again my fantasies or are these real memories? If I stay, these thoughts will not lead to anything, if I go, I was able to dispel my suspicions, maybe I can even remember something.

I went to the bedroom, I don’t have a hiking backpack, I shook out all the contents of the school backpack, thinking about what I can take with me from home. I only put a couple of pens and a utility knife in my backpack.

He dressed warmly, put on a hat, looked at the gloves and took them too, just in case. Wait, you need to take another spare pair of socks, it can be such that your feet get wet. After checking my pockets, I made sure that I took the phone and money, closing the door I looked at the apartment again, but this view did not evoke any memories. Taking a deep breath, I pressed the elevator button. The elevator doors opened and inside I saw an old man and a girl, they stood at a distance from each other, which made me understand that they were strangers to each other. After thinking, I decided to say hello to them, maybe one of them know me?

"Hello." I greeted them both.

"Tch" - the girl clicked her tongue and turned away. The old man looked at me carefully and then nodded.

They don't seem to know me either.

Leaving the courtyard, I went to the nearest store. Bought two bottles of water, several chocolate bars, matches, bread and jerky.

I don't need a compass or a map. Because I still don't know where I'm going. I only knew that I needed to go north. Sitting on a bus that was moving in the direction I needed, I began to look out the window at the passing houses and cars. Empty in my head, no memories, I drove for some time, until I felt that I was moving in the wrong direction. Leaving the bus, I changed to another one, which was moving in the direction I needed. In this way, I changed a few more times until I got to the station where the buses made trips out of town. Having bought a ticket, I got on the bus, while I was driving, I felt that I was moving in the right direction, but looking out the window at the passing landscapes, I didn’t remember anything. Passing fields and rivers, I felt an impulse that I needed to get out here. I asked the driver to stop here, at first he did not want to, but seeing my serious look, he complied with my request.

“Kid, be careful, this is not your city,” the driver said looking at my face, as if trying to remember me if he had to answer questions from the police in the future when my dead body was found.

I smiled broadly and nodded.

I got off the bus and waited for it to leave. To my left is a mountain wall, ahead of me is a tunnel, and to my right is a fence behind which there was a descent from the mountain. Stepping over the fence, I carefully looked at the descent. Crazy, in my right mind, I would never go down, but a burning desire to find out the truth pushed me forward. For myself, I have already found several suitable options for descent. The descent is not difficult, it is not a sheer cliff, you just need to walk slowly and not roll, otherwise there will be no accident at the end of the bones. eru.

When I got down, I went further along the foot of the mountain. In the mountains, the weather is quite different than in the city. The snow had already fallen here, so we had to walk carefully. After walking for a while, I saw a black spot on a white surface, coming closer, I saw that it was a cave. Looking at the position of the sun, I realized that it would soon begin to get dark and thought that I could spend the night in this cave.

When I went inside, I saw that the cave was not deep enough. About 10 steps away, stones, leaves and sticks lay on the ground. Having listened, I did not notice extraneous noises and began to collect a fire from stones and sticks, setting it closer to the entrance to the cave so that the smoke would be blown out by the passing wind.

By the time the fire was lit, night had already fallen outside the cave.

What am I doing? I came not understand where, just following my feelings? But, listening to my inner self, I realized that I was exactly where I should be. Closing my eyes, I began to warm myself by the fire until I heard a faint “Gu.”

A? Is there an animal here? Listening to the silence, I looked in the direction where the noise came from, swallowing, I looked at a pile of leaves, there was some kind of movement and a small human hand came out.

Child? In such a place, at such a time of year, and a child? I quickly came closer, gently taking my hand, I pulled out a child from a pile of leaves. Dirty hair, it’s not even clear what color it is, the whole face is covered in mud, looks like 9 years old, eyes are closed and weak breathing. Cloth? What is this? Bag? She only wore a bag as clothing. The hand is very cold.

"Haaah..." I sighed.

Unbuttoning the jacket, I held the baby to my chest and buttoned the jacket again, leaving only the baby's head outside, quickly going to the backpack, I took out an extra pair of socks and water. Although the water was cold, I still decided that the child needed a little drink. I leaned the bottle against his lips and slowly poured the water into the child's mouth, patiently waiting for him to take a sip.

After he took a few sips, I put the bottle aside and dressed, got spare socks from the backpack, and quickly put them on the child's feet. He took out a piece of dried meat and brought it to the child's mouth. Zero reaction. This will not work, the child must definitely eat. Meat will help the body gain strength, as well as warm. Seeing no other way out, I took a piece of meat in my mouth and chewed it, then put the chewed meat in my palm and put it in the child's mouth. Little by little, he began to swallow the meat, and I did the same with another piece of meat. You should not give a lot otherwise, on an empty stomach it can only do harm. I sat closer to the fire and took the child's feet in my hands so that they warmed up faster.

I had the idea to pick up the phone and call the hospital, but the problem was that I didn't know where I was. And to go with a child in such a state to the city, it seemed to me a bad idea. Looking at the child's face, I said, "You have to fight, you have to live."

Touching the face of the child, I saw that it had already begun to warm up from the fire, I took off my hat and put it on his head in order to keep the already accumulated heat and at the same time protect it from excessive heat.

Holding the child under the jacket, I felt how it begins to warm up, and my thoughts slowly calmed down.

I came today, I don't know where, I just followed my heart and here I am to save this child's life? How did I know there was a baby here? Are these my memories or just intuition? So far, I can not answer this question, so there is no point in thinking about it.

To the beat of a small heart next to mine, I began to fall asleep.

I am standing in the bedroom, under my feet is the skin of a gray bear, I am wearing leather boots, and somewhere to the left a fireplace is burning, quietly crackling from time to time. A girl stands in front of me on one knee and looks at the ground, although her hair is gray, but I know that this is a young girl. Her hair is braided into a thick braid, and a rapier hangs from her belt. With a smooth movement, the girl took it out of its sheath and held it out to me with outstretched arms.

Looking at me with big blue eyes, she said: "Lord, accept my oath ..." She said something "... both in life and in death."

Everything around is getting dark, I hear screams around, but I clearly hear the whisper of this girl: “Let me follow you in the next life ...”

Opening my eyes, I felt tears in my eyes, looking towards the dawn, I felt some sadness and nostalgia in my heart.

The fire had already cooled down, looked at the face of the child, although he looked like he was sleeping, but I see that the pupils are twitching under the eyelids, and breathing with a heartbeat is too frequent for a sleeping person.

“I know that you are no longer sleeping,” I said, looking into the face of the child.

“Let me give you water and you need to eat.”

"Gu...."

"A? Can't you speak?

The child shook his head, put his hands under his jackets, made a couple of movements in the language of the deaf and dumb, showing that he could speak, but did not want to.

"Do you not want to talk to me?"

“Gu...” - making a couple more movements, I realized that the child did not want to talk to anyone at all.

"Okay, you don't want to say okay, let's eat then."

The child continued to gesticulate, from time to time axis "Gu".

"Do you want to go to the toilet? Well, then go to the end of the cave and do your job... Why are you embarrassed? We are men, what's the problem? What? Are you a girl? Angry cries of “Gu! Gu! Goo!"

"Okay, okay, what do I care, go do your thing, I won't watch."

"Gu"

“Yes, I will not peep, who needs you ???”

"A? Then no one will marry? What do I care about your marriage?"

"Gu gu!"

“Do you want me to take responsibility then? Okay okay, I'll come out of the cave, when you're done, just call me."

"Gu"

"I won't peek! Crap!" I roared.

I unbuttoned my jacket to let her out. She looked at her socked feet, then at the cold floor, then at my shoes...

"Gu"

"What? Are you kidding?! Do you seriously want me to go barefoot in the snow?”

"Gu"

"I mean just a couple of minutes"

"Goo-hoo-hoo!!!"

"Can't you take it anymore? Stop! I am now. I'm filming everything."

I quickly took off my shoes and put my socks aside as well. After looking again with eyes full of anger, I ran out into the snow and went away from the cave.

"Crap! Crap! My feet are just cold, and I thought it was not worth coming here .... "

Jumping from foot to foot, I lifted my foot from time to time and tried to warm it with both hands.

"Gu gu"

"I enter"

She quickly ran up to me. Looking at her clothes from the bag, I sighed, unbuttoned the jacket, pulled it to me and buttoned it again.

Taking out water, bread, meat and chocolate, we had breakfast.

"What were you doing here?"

"Gu"

“Dad left you here and left? When it was?"

"Gu"

"Two days ago? And you've been here all this time?"

"Gu"

"Why won't he come back? Because he doesn't love you? Do not speak in a way that parents can not love their children ... "

Thinking of her sack as clothes, I fell silent.

"Okay, forget it, I'll take you with me and then we can find him."

"Gu"

"No, I need my shoes, I'm not going to go barefoot"

"Gu"

"Yes, I will carry you in my arms."

Taking her in my arms, I went back to the already familiar path, climbing the hill, I went to the track and went in the direction from where I came. Holding the child with one hand and catching the car with the other. After a while, I heard the familiar noise of the bus, and the familiar face of the driver smiled at me at the open door: “Alive?”

I smiled and said hello, sat down and looked out the window.

“I don’t think I saw this child with you yesterday.”

I looked at him, but did not say anything and continued to look out the window.

Arriving at the station, I got out and took a taxi, since I knew the return address of my house. Arriving home, I let the girl out of the jacket.

"You need to swim, and then we'll eat, wait, I'll give you my clean clothes," - I said, heading into the room - "It's next to my parents' bedroom, don't go inside, otherwise we can go wherever you want."

Of course, there were no small size clothes in the closet, thinking I took out a T-shirt and gave it to her: "Use this as a dress."

"Gu," the girl nodded.

I went to cook food, at first I wanted to make instant noodles, but after thinking about it, I decided to cook healthy food. Let's fry vegetables and meat, some salads and an orange for dessert. While I was fiddling, the girl came out of the bathroom and began to walk around the apartment carefully examining everything.

"Food is ready, sit down to eat."

"Gu"

As we ate, a lot of questions to her were spinning in my head. Who is she? What is her name? How did she end up in this situation? The conversation seemed difficult and I decided to put it off until she had finished eating.

After eating, I washed the dishes, sat next to me and asked: “What is your name?”

“Gu,” the girl started gesturing her name, but at some point, she stopped, as if she had an idea, ran to my room, took a pencil, paper, and quickly wrote “You Xiaoxiao.”

“I see, my name is Ling Fang. Hmm, Xiaoxiao, I need you to tell me about yourself. Do you have parents?"

"Gu ...." - the girl nodded and began to show with gestures.

“It turns out that your mother died at the beginning of the year, when you were 9 years old, now you are 10. Your father left you in the mountains, said that he would return soon, but never returned. You were cold and you hid in a cave and sat there for two days. Until I found you."

Even if she lied about her father and ran away from home, for example, that doesn't explain why she used the sack as clothing. Looking at her white hair and big blue eyes, I remembered a dream in a cave and maybe that's why I made such a decision.

“If you want, you can stay with me. My parents will be away for a month and during this time we will be able to figure out what to do with you.

"Now go to my room and sleep, little children have to sleep otherwise you won't grow up."

The girl's eyes were already really sticking together, she nodded and went to sleep. I took clean clothes from the closet, took a shower, lay down on the sofa in the living room and was finally able to relax.

Why does she look like a petite dream girl? Why did I even find her by going by my gut? What should I do with her now? I have to go to school tomorrow, I don't even know what class I'm in.

Gradually, thoughts began to leave me and I fell into a deep sleep.

"Lord, there's nowhere left for you to run , there are thousands of us here, you were badly injured, all your loyal supporters are already dead! You can't win! Give this thing to us and we'll let you die painlessly."

"Do you think I'm afraid of pain or death? When I found out that they went against you alone and fell, do you think I started running because I was scared? Do you really think that your army can instill fear in me? I did it for them. They are dead, I cannot bring them back to life, all that remains for me is to fulfill their last will. Since they left alone, it means they wanted me to live. »

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Looking at the night sky, I took a deep breath, the cold air filled my lungs to the limit, I knew this was my last breath. The wound under the ribs, again spattered with blood. Taking out two swords from their scabbards, I crouched down like a runner getting ready to start.

Flash! In the place where he had just stood, only a pillar of dust. Bzzzzzz the sound of lightning flew into the crowd, a bright light split the darkness. Where lightning landed, lightning, a man stood, from hitting the ground, a sound wave tore apart the bodies of nearby opponents.

"Aaaaaaa!!! Kill this demon, let's all come together, for our God!" - the crowd of people shouted and rushed forward. In fact, while they were saying this, the figure did not stop for a second and continued to cut everyone around with two swords, from time to time you could see several heads, arms and fragments of swords fly up again and again.

I have no more strength, no mana, no clarity in my eyes, blood just gushing from the wound.

"Haaa.." A puddle of blood escaped from his mouth. And he dropped to one knee.

“No, it’s not time yet, I can still, a little more, pick up a few more bastards.” Standing up abruptly and swinging my sword, I saw my sword hand move in a strange trajectory, as if it had a life of its own. "A? Is my hand cut off? I turned around and struck with the sword of the other hand in a swing, the sword again cut off someone's head, turning around, I saw my severed hand fall past my eyes, kicking the sword in his hand, he entered someone's chest. Bending down from the blow of the sword, I stood up and with a sharp blow of the head smashed someone's face, waved the sword and cut off the head.

"It's time for you to die," the voice from behind sounded firm. The sword went through my back and out of my chest. It didn't hurt at all, I looked at another enemy in front and stuck my sword in his chest, then kicked and pushed back. Turning around sharply, I sank my teeth into the face of the enemy.

“Aaah! Bastard, why won't you die???"

bam! A blow to the temple threw me to the side, smiling, I looked at the place where my nose used to be, now there was a bitten wound, I laughed and spit out the rest of my nose into the snow.

Another sword plunged into my side, then another and another, in a second I looked like a hedgehog.

I fell to my knees, this is the end, I already feel that death is pulling my soul out of my body. Looking at the five rings on my right hand, I looked up at the sky. There was no more breathing, the pounding in my ears stopped, my heart stopped. The remnants of consciousness began to fade. I looked at the sky and thought: "Let's have a drink in the next life."

One of the enemies came up to me and began to shake me, slapping me in the face. I thought, “What are you doing? I'm already dead, you fucking bastard." He brought his face closer to mine, looked carefully and said: “Gu!”

Opening my eyes, I see a girl shaking me with all her strength and slapping me in the face.

“Gu! Gu! Goo!" she screams and continues to shake.

"I can't sleep anymore," another slap interrupted my speech. - “Yes, I don’t sleep, I don’t sleep, what do you need ???”

"Gu"

"Did I scream in my sleep? You got scared and came to wake me up? I see you are very kind, but please don't hit me in the face the next time you wake me up. OK? Don’t cry… I just had a bad dream.” Saying this, I lightly ruffled her hair.

"What time is it now?"

“Almost five in the morning? Do I need to go for a run?" I shook my head in displeasure. I washed my face, put on a tracksuit and went out into the yard. Instead of the elevator, I still went down the stairs.

"Let's run!" I encouraged myself. Top top top, the sounds of running on a concrete path. Like the last time I came back I saw the park. Let's run over there and see what's there. The park had half-empty paths and empty benches, I ran and thought that my body was still too weak, I could not even start exercising. I felt that I have special training, but I'm not ready for them yet. Top top top continued to run, I mentally estimated the distance traveled, it must have been more than three kilometers. You need to bring the result to four. Top top, I'm already breathing with the last of my strength, about 100 more meters and there will be a finish. Top top, a few more steps .... ready! Without strength, I fell on a nearby bench.

I closed my eyes and began to catch my breath. Top top, someone's footsteps are approaching, opening my eyes I saw a girl who leaned over my face and looking into my eyes said in a surprised voice: “Ling Fang? What are you doing here? Are you following me?"

Looks like this girl knew me before she lost her memory.

“I know you're upset that I rejected your feelings. But that's not the reason they're being driven follow me. We live with you in different worlds, I want to study well and finish school. Don't forget this is the last year and beyond university. Now more than ever, you need to take your studies seriously. I know that you love me, but I don't have feelings for you, you have to put up with it and think about studying,” she continued to say.

“Do you know what our first lesson is?” I interrupted her.

“Yes, math, class 3-3,” she replied, a little surprised.

"Thank you". I smiled and stood up from the bench and walked towards the house. She looked at my back with a strange look, shook her head and walked in the other direction.

Along the way, I saw fried dough sticks, taking a few pieces, at the same time I grabbed some honey. Arriving home, I threw a bag of food on the table and went to take a shower to wash off the sweat.

When I left the room, I saw Xiaoxiao eating sticks, dipping them in honey. The teapot was already hot, it looks like Xiaoxiao put on hot water, but she couldn't find any tea. After making two cups of tea, I pushed one of them to her and said, “Don’t eat dry food or your stomach will hurt.”

The girl nodded her head and began to slowly drink tea. I sat opposite, took one chopstick and also joined the breakfast.

“Xiaoxiao I need to go to school.”

"Gu"

"Mmm? No, you can't come with me."

  "Gu"

“Because you are small…”

"Gu"

“10 years is still very short. That's enough, we'll talk about it after I get home from school. Here is my phone number, if there are any problems call me.”

"Gu"

“How can I understand you? I don’t know, you’re smart, come up with something, everything’s time for me, I want to come early today.”

After changing into my school uniform, I went to the bus stop, looked at the list of passing buses, caught a taxi and said the name of the school. I paid, got out of the taxi and went through the school gates. Gradually, the number of students began to increase. I thought it would be a good idea to stand here, someone might know me and we can go together. I still didn't want to tell anyone that I had lost my memory.

A hand on the shoulder woke me from my thoughts, I looked back and saw three guys who were looking at me with an evil smile.

“Ling Fang! Long time no see! I heard you were in the hospital? How is your head? Does not hurt? Ha ha ha!” the children laughed.

“Jackpot!” I thought to myself and smiled. Finally someone knows me and I won't have to stand anymore. Judging by their attitude towards me, they are not very good guys, so it will not be a big deal if I teach them a little, but I need to do it quietly.

“Ling Fang! Why are you so joyful? Your happy smile makes me sick. Did you miss running around for food for us? Or do you miss our training?” Grinning, they dragged me by the hand around the school corner. "Let's go, let's celebrate our reunion."

Going around the corner, I examined their positions, one is a stocky fat man, his left leg is lame, the other has a thin face and long arms, there are no obvious weaknesses, then their leader can be seen in his face that he is from a wealthy family and as such does not have his own strength. One, using her status and money, manages her sixes and intimidates ordinary schoolchildren.

As they came around the corner, they turned their joyful faces towards me.

Hit! The fat man grabbed his throat. Kick! He fell on the knee of his lame leg, He howled in pain, but because of the previous blow to the throat, the words did not want to come out. Another knee to his face made him lie on his side, curl up in a baby's position and cry in pain.

Turning to the skinny face, I saw a look of panic and doubt on his face. A blow to the jaw and he fell on the fat man. He collapsed so quickly, as if in one moment his soul had left his body.

“Ling Fang! What are you doing? You are crazy? Do you know who my father is? You know…"

bam! A blow to the solar plexus caused him to fall to his knees. I grabbed his hair, looked into his face and said, “I don't care who your father is or your mother. All I care about right now is where is class 3-3? Take me there boy and I won't hit you."

“You don't you know where your class is? Do you want me to accompany you? You…” Two sharp slaps interrupted his monologue.

“Xiao Bai, I told you to walk me to class. Why do you keep talking to me?”

“But my name is…. Another slap interrupted his speech.

"Hm?" I frowned at him.

“I do! My name is Xiao Bai, let me show you to your class.” He quickly nodded his head, got up from his knees and quickly walked forward showing the way.

After going to the third floor, he opened the door of Class 3-3 and motioned for me to come forward. I went inside and looked around the half-empty classroom. Not all the children had come yet, I moved to the last desk by the window, sat down, folded my hands on the desk, and decided to sleep for a while until the lessons started.

Just closing my eyes, I felt a vibration in my pants pocket, picking up the phone, without looking, I answered the call.

"Hello?" I asked in a sleepy voice.

“Gu!” - children's voice was distributed in a tube.

“Xiaoxiao…” I sighed, “I can’t understand your bird language, through the phone, let’s talk later…”

“Goo-goo… Goo-goo…. Gu…. Gugu…” she began to say the words in rhythmic sequence.

“Hmmm…” - I I thought about it for a while and then I realized it was Morse code.

“I understand how you want to communicate. Let's go first." - I said.

“Goo-hoo… goo-hoo…. googoo… googoo…”

“I see, you want me to buy you some clothes? Pajamas, slippers, toothbrush, T-shirt, shorts and panties? Okay, I'll buy you this after school. Now I have lessons, let me sleep… Yes, yes, I won’t forget, that’s all for now.”

Putting the phone in my pocket, I continued to sleep.

"He has a girlfriend? It looks like they live together... If a girl left her toothbrush in the apartment, then they definitely sleep together. ”

I was too lazy to explain anything, and in general to say that a ten-year-old girl lives with me, would add even more misunderstanding.

“Ling Fang! Lin Fan! Someone wake him up!” shouted the teacher's female voice.

I opened my eyes, my face was numb from the fact that I had been lying on it for a long time and saliva flowed from the corner of my mouth. Quickly wiping my mouth and face, I looked at the teacher.

A girl who had recently graduated from the institute was looking at me, Her hair was gathered in a bun, glasses were on her face, a white shirt and a dark tight skirt. His face showed obvious displeasure.

"Teacher, what's the matter?" I asked.

“Why are you speaking to me in a language other than English?” she asked, in English.

“Liverpool accent? Teacher did you live in Liverpool? Where exactly? Did you study there or do you have relatives?” - smiling, I began to quickly speak to her with the same accent.

Seeing deep surprise on the girl’s face: “Teacher, what’s the matter? You don't want to talk to me?"

“How can you speak English so well? I remember that you couldn’t connect a couple of words before.”

“Master, if you want to know, let’s meet at the coffee shop after class and talk over coffee.” I said smiling.

"What? Who wants to drink coffee with you? Shameless!” - she blushed, said with great embarrassment and turned away her face.

The bell rang, I scratched my head and walked over to my old friend, “Xiao Bai, isn’t the first lesson math?”

“Math was already over, when the teacher called you, I said that you still have not recovered from the last incident. Teacher understood this and didn’t bother you.”

“Hmm, you stood up for me? Why?"

He didn't answer and looked away.

"What is your name?" I asked him.

“Xiao Bai!” he answered sharply.

I shook my head and said, "No real name?"

"Johnny Lee," he said wondering why I even asked his name. Shouldn't I already know this?

“Understood” - after looking at him carefully, I nodded and walked out of the classroom.

On the threshold, I stopped and told him: “Tell the next teachers that I became ill and I went home.” Leaving class. I walked calmly down the corridor towards the stairs.

“Lin Fang?! Are you going? There are more lessons!” - the girl I saw this morning in the park spoke quickly. She was wearing our school uniform. I did not pay attention to her appearance in the morning, but now looking closer, I realized that this girl is quite beautiful. Feminine features, peach eyes, pointed chin and ponytail. The slender athletic figure stood a little embarrassed.

“You… How do you know English so well?” she asked, looking into my eyes.

“Are you interested in me?” I asked playfully.

"No no. You used to study poorly, and you couldn’t even say a few words in English, but now you spoke so well that even the teacher was lost ... ”- she said looking away. "Are you going? Is something hurting you?”

I looked at her, thinking to myself how cute she is. He sighed and said in a sad voice, “My broken heart hurts.”

She looked sharply into my eyes, then turned away and said with a red face, “If you have time to joke, it’s better to spend it studying.” After that, with a quick step, she walked past me and went to the classroom.

“Ah…” I sighed smiling and headed towards the stairs. Leaving the school, I headed to the nearest mall. I don't have much money, so don't buy expensive clothes for Xiaoxiao. Having reached the nearest store, I asked the saleswoman if they had clothes for girls.

“What size clothes do you need?”

“About like this,” I showed Xiaoxiao’s height with both hands.

The seller girl looked at me with a complex look and then led me to the right size next to me.

“I need two pajamas, a few pairs of socks, a winter jacket, a hat, gloves, shoes, slippers, going out and underwear.” I listed. - “My sister's clothes were lost during the move ...” - I added with sadness in my eyes.

The girl, quickly collecting the right clothes, went to the checkout: "Your 3,500 yen."

I gave her the card. Peak! Payment was successful. I took the check, looked at the balance. Only 1000 yen. I still have a month, I need to somehow live and eat. There is clearly not enough money.

When I got home by bus, I entered the apartment, Xiaoxiao happily ran up and grabbed my hand. As if she wanted to make sure that I definitely came home. She looked into my eyes and then began to quickly gesticulate, complementing the gestures with emotions using the sound “Gu”.

“Yes, I’m at home… Uh-huh, I bought you the things you asked for. See if it's all right. No, I didn't touch your cowards. iki, the seller chose them herself, I don’t even know what they look like. I know I know, otherwise I'll have to take responsibility. Let me cook something to eat. M? Is there food in the refrigerator? Then let's buy something. I'll take you with me, it's not good for a child to sit at home all the time. Go get changed quickly.”

The girl took the packages and ran into my room closing the door. After a while she came out again. She was wearing a small white hat, a red jacket with a sweater collar sticking out from under it, a brown skirt, just below the knees, from under which warm stockings and boots could be seen. It looks like the seller gave me more things than I asked for, well, apparently it was all necessary for the girl. This saleswoman has a heart.

“Are you ready?” - I went up to the end buttoning the collar of the jacket.

"Gu" she nodded confidently.

"Then let's go."

We took her hand and left the house. Pressing the elevator button, I waited for him to go down to my floor. The doors opened and I saw a familiar face of an old man.

“Hello,” I greeted him.

The old man nodded and asked: “Are you going for a walk?”

“I want to buy groceries for home.” I replied.

"Gu" - said the girl looking at the old man.

“What a sweet girl! Is this your sister?" - Smiling, the old man pulled out a candy and gave it to the girl. She happily accepted it, smiled and said, “Gu.”

“Pay no attention to her, she loves to play Owl,” I tried to calm the old man.

“Haha, nothing. My name is Lao Qi, I live in apartment 504, on the fifth floor. I have a wife but no children, come and eat with us, my wife will be very happy.”

“Okay, Lao Qi, my name is Ling Fang, and this is Xiaoxiao,” I deliberately omitted her last name so as not to cause misunderstanding.

“Gu,” Xiaoxiao bowed.

The elevator doors opened and we said goodbye to the store.

Entering the store, I took a cart, put Xiaoxiao in it, and walked to the grocery aisle. Hmm, you need to take vegetables and meat. Even though I don’t have a lot of money now, my child should still eat well, we need natural products and vitamins. As I walked down the aisle, I heard a familiar female voice.

“Ling Fang? Have you come to buy groceries too?” asked the slightly embarrassed girl I saw earlier at school.

"A? Classmate! Yes, yes, I came to buy some groceries, I want to cook beef stew.”

"Can you cook? And who is this little girl?” she asked looking at Xiaoxiao.

"A? She is… umm… my sister. Her name is Xiaoxiao,” I said confidently.

Looking at the girl, Xiaoxiao felt a rival in her face and began to show me her thoughts with quick gestures, while often saying and threateningly repeating “Gu! Goo!" At the end, she clung to my arm and looked menacingly at the girl.

"A? Is your sister unable to speak?” the girl asked sadly.

"No no. She just loves to play Owl. She mimics her voice,” I waved my hand.

“Is that so? But wasn’t she using deaf-mute gestures now?” the girl asked thoughtfully.

“Deaf and mute? No no. She's just playing. Does she really want to ask you what's your name?". It was a good opportunity for me to find out the name of this girl, I overslept the roll call in class, and I didn’t want to ask the name directly to show that I had memory loss.

“Is that so?” - happily answered the girl. “My name is Ouyang Wei. You can call me Weiwei sister.” The girl looked at Xiaoxiao with a full sense of love for all the cute children.

As Weiwei spoke, Xiaoxiao covered her ears with both hands and began to turn her head around, clearly showing that she did not want to know her name, and frequently repeating “Gu! Goo!"

"A? Does she not want to listen? I thought she wanted to know my name,” the girl was upset, seeing that the child was rejecting her.

"No no. Xiaoxiao, very happy to be able to meet such a beautiful older sister.” I patted the child's head.

“Is that so?” Weiwei's face lit up again.

“Ahem,” I coughed into my fist with a serious face, “Looks like Xiaoxiao wants to know your phone number so she can call you when she’s bored.”

Hearing this, Xiaoxiao stood up, started stomping and shaking the cart, shaking her head negatively and repeating, “Gu! Gu!....”

“Ling Fang! Do you think I don't understand that you're using your cute little sister to get close to me? I told you already we will not meet with you. I'm only interested in studying. I admit you really impressed me with your English skills, but you have to focus on your studies. Be serious!” Weiwei quickly passed by, her eyes full of fury.

“Eh…” I sighed sadly. “Let’s go buy the rest of the groceries.”

“Gu.” Xiaoxiao said, gesturing.

“What do you understand? A woman should be next to a man. A real man must conquer the world and win the heart of a woman.”

"Gu"

“No, I don't need you around. Just eat more, grow up and leave quickly.”

“Gu” Xiaoxiao said with her arms crossed over her chest with a frown on her face.

“Let's buy some fruit for old man Lao Qi. Today he was kind to you, kindness must be repaid with kindness.”

“White peaches? I do not know what is this. Let's just take ordinary peaches.”

Leaving another 300 at the checkout yen, we went to the house. In one hand, I held the groceries, in the other hand I held the cheerfully walking Xiaoxiao.

Looking at the time 6 o'clock. “Let’s visit the old man tomorrow afternoon, it’s already late today.”

"Gu"

After entering the apartment, Xiaoxiao went to change and wash her hands. I started cooking, and soon Xiaoxiao came over, obviously wanting to help me.

“Xiaoxiao, you are still too young and can’t help me with anything, go sit on the sofa and watch cartoons, the food will be ready soon.”

"Gu"

“Cartoons for kids? Are you an adult? Okay okay, watch whatever you want.”

As I finished cooking the meat and vegetables, out of the corner of my eye I heard the news in English on TV.

“Xiaoxiao, do you understand English?”

"Gu"

“Wow, it looks like you are very smart for your age, eh, I should also think about how to send you to school.”

After I finished putting the rice on, I put the food on the table.

“Come on, sit down to eat.”

I need to make money, I thought, adding pieces of meat to the girl's plate. In principle, making money is not difficult. But I don't know how, in the end it will affect my future life. I have no memories of myself, and I would not want to cross out my future with some actions. Although if everything is prepared, then you can do it all in a safe way.

After I finished eating, I sat down to watch TV. Xiaoxiao put her head on my lap and just quietly watched. I stroked her white hair and watched a program about space.

"Stars…. It's too far…” I said sadly.

Seeing that Xiaoxiao is already sleeping. I turned off the TV, took the girl in my arms and carried her into the room. Having covered her, I then brought and put her slippers on the floor by the bed. It's winter now, I don't want her to run barefoot on the floor.

Going out into the living room, I looked at the clock, it's already 10 o'clock, it's time to move out. I put on a tracksuit, took a cap and a face mask, and went outside.

The cold wind burns my face, but this feeling is pleasant to me, as if this is a common thing for me, something about it reminds me of home. Hailing a taxi, I said the address in the city center, there should definitely be places that I'm looking for.

I need a fatter goal, to take money from bad people to make the poor happy. Is not that great! This is the desire of any person who wants to become a hero. And by poor people, I mean myself.

Turning out my sports jacket, I put it on so as to hide the coat of arms of my school, a mask on my face, a cap. Done let's go. I boldly entered the doors of the huge KTV club. Walking down the corridor I heard laughter and screams from the doors around me. Having reached the end of the corridor, I saw two guards in black jackets standing at the door.

"Boss at home?" I asked in a calm voice.

"Who are you?" - said one of them and immediately received a blow to the jaw, then a second blow, knocked out the second guard. I picked up their bodies and put them on my shoulders.

“Why answer a question with a question?” - I said confusedly and opened the door to the room.

Once inside, I threw the two guards aside, closed the door behind me, and looked around the room. The light was slightly dimmed, a fat bald man in a white jacket was sitting at the table, holding the girls around him with both hands. Since his hands were busy, the girls served him a drink and a snack.

“Tch. He is clearly a villain!” - I thought to myself. Further along the table sat other men, someone in a white shirt, someone in a jacket, the company was of all colors and stripes. Behind them were about 10 people in black jackets. The style of dress and demeanor was clearly the same as that of the guards I had recently placed near the door.

At the end of the room, a girl was sitting on the floor, her mouth tied and her hands behind her back, and she was also collared to the wall. On the face one could see at the same time misunderstanding, despair, tears and hope.

Noise and laughter at the table ceased. And the villain in the white jacket asked: “Who are you? Did you bring the ransom?"

Ransom? Hmm, I thought to myself, looks like that girl in the corner is a hostage.

“Yes, I came for a ransom. 100 million!” - I said confidently.

“100 million? I only need 10, where did the other 90 come from?” - the man said incomprehensibly, looking around at the people who were sitting next to him.

“Do you know where this amount came from?”

“No, boss, we don't know.”

“Brother Lei, maybe this guy has the wrong room?”

“Ahem,” I coughed into my fist. “Xiao Bai, you don’t seem to understand, I didn’t come to give you money, I came to take your money in exchange for your life.”

There was deathly silence.

“You came to take my money? Boy do you know what this place is and who I am?”

“Hahaha,” laughter echoed around.

“This brat knows how to joke! Brother Lei, when did you get such a joker in your city?” one of the men next to the boss said.

“I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know. Guys, teach him a lesson and break his leg,” the boss waved his fingers without taking his hands off the girls around him.

The bodyguards behind the boss moved in my direction. The girl in the corner tried to scream something and then closed her eyes.

Coming closer, one of the guards said: “Kid, don't resist! You don't stand a chance. The boss is in a good mood today and that's why he let you live. Se we’ll break your leg right now… It won’t hurt at all… Hehehe”

With a direct kick, I broke the talker's leg, a fist in the jaw instantly sent him to sleep. Wasting no time, I moved to the edge of the crowd so that they would prevent each other from attacking me at the same time. Bam, another punch to the jaw, I dodged a fist flying at me and at the same time counterattacked with an uppercut, another guard fell. In just a couple of seconds, they had already lost three. Seriousness appeared in the eyes of the guards.

“Boy, it looks like you can do something,” one of them hissed, and they began to take out folding iron bars.

“Don’t blame us for being cruel, looks like we can’t get by with just a broken leg.”

Spreading out again, they surrounded the enemy and rushed with clubs. I blocked their blows with batons until they gained maximum strength, after that I hit back with fists, elbows, hit in any available pain points. After that, he finished off each with a blow to the jaw or head. After five seconds, there was silence in the room.

Klatz, someone dropped a glass and it shattered on the floor.

“Who are you anyway?” the boss asked again with wide eyes.

“Hahaha this boy knows how to do something,” one of the men sitting at the table stood up saying this.

“Brother Lei, I will teach this brat a lesson on your behalf,” the man said confidently moving towards me.

“Thank you for your concern, Brother Leopard,” the boss said politely.

“What gratitude can there be between the two of us? It's just a little business," the man named Leopard said smiling and pulling a knife from behind his back. He got into a fighting stance. Cold flashed in his eyes and he made a quick lunge.

I barely managed to dodge, the blade of the knife flew past my ear. Lunge, lunge again, each strike aimed at my unprotected areas. The speed of the blows was at a high level and this one was clearly a professional in his field.

“Special troops? Looks like you've been practicing a lot,” I called out.

"How do you know?" - Leopard asked with surprise.

"Doesn't matter! Let's finish this quickly!" - I said dodging another blow.

"Now I'll be serious!" - the man croaked and in an instant, began to strike with a knife with even greater speed. Some of them passed me, some I blocked with my hands.

There were already several cuts on my arms and blood was dripping on the ground, these were not serious wounds. But the more I got hurt, the more fun I got. The heart began to beat faster, the lungs inhaled more air.

"Die!" - Leopard shouted and made a direct attack with a knife. At that moment, I had the idea to block the knife with my fist. I don't know where this idea came from, but I felt it was right, that's what I have to do now.

I threw my fist forward, time seemed to stop, as if my fist was punching through time and space itself, touching the tip of the blade, the fist continued to move, but instead of the knife entering the flesh, the knife began to break. Where the kula passed, the knife crumbled into pieces, like broken glass, the kulash went further and reached the Leopard's hand, it began to deform under the force of my blow, as if there were no bones in his hand at all. My fist went on, hand, forearm and I stopped my blow, it makes no sense to cripple his arm completely.

Time returned to normal again, the Leopard screamed in pain and fell to his knees, with a sharp blow of the elbow from top to bottom, I sent him into a deep sleep.

Silence reigned in the room again, only drip drip, drops of blood fell from the wounds on my hands.

“Xiao Bai so what about my money,” I breathed while looking at him with cold eyes.

Boss Lei understood that his life was in the balance, if he refuses now, then trouble will happen. Swallowing, he said: “Big brother, please don’t kill, here is a card with money, here is 200 million, code 8888.” Standing up and bowing at 90 degrees, he held the card in his hands.

I took the card, turned around and was about to leave. Hearing the moans of the girl in the corner, I looked at her again. I thought I saw the symbol of a red lotus between her eyebrows, but then it quickly disappeared, I felt that I had to save this girl. It was the same feeling when I went to look for Xiaoxiao.

This feeling has not let me down before, trust him again.

Coming closer to the girl, I squatted down, looked into her eyes and asked: “Do you want to come with me?”

After looking at me for a while, she nodded her head.

“Xiao Bai, I will also take this girl with me.”

“Yes yes of course big brother,” the boss said politely. “Now I have unfastened her chain.”

While he was saying this, I broke the lock on her collar, took her by the shoulder, picked her up and dragged her along. Opening the door, I went out and closed it.

“What was that black death star?” Boss Lei whispered.

There was deathly silence in the room.

I dragged the girl next to me untying her hands along the way, I lost a lot of blood and my head began to spin.

“Let's go faster,” I told her.

She removed the bandage from her mouth and quickly spoke in Korean, “Oppa you are so badly injured, you need to go to the hospital. Oppa you're almost dead. ” Started crying a lot oh she.

“I don't want to go to the hospital, the cuts will raise suspicion, help me heal the wounds,” I told her in a hoarse voice in Korean.

Coming out of the KTV gate, we went to a nearby hotel, while we were walking, I leaned heavily on her shoulder, my legs almost did not hold me.

Arriving at the front desk, the girl quickly said in Korean, “We need a room, my Oppa drank heavily and filled himself with wine. Move faster. ”

The girl at the reception smiled knowingly and quickly gave the keys to the room. I started falling asleep.

“Oppa you need to wake up…. I need a pharmacy number…. Bring me bandages, antibiotics and a stapler, and quickly my room number .... Oppa will be hurt, but you have to endure, I need to treat your wounds…. I need to check if there are any other wounds all over your body…”

“This girl…” - mentally spitting blood, I fell into a dream. Opening my eyes, I saw that my hands were bandaged, My throat was dry, I need to drink water. I tried to get up and felt something soft next to me. It was a girl, the same girl I saved yesterday, her long hair trailing down the pillow. And judging by the contours, she was naked under the covers.

Stop! Why am I naked too? From clothes on me only bandages. I ran through the memories in my head, but I couldn't remember anything. Looking at the floor, I saw my pants and quickly put them on. I hope I didn't do anything to this girl? Although what could I do, I was on the verge of death ...

When I reached the table, I took a bottle of water and drank half. Medicines, packs of bandages and plasters were scattered on the table. Looking at my hands, I noticed that the bandages were applied with high quality, and the wounds should heal soon. All the same, I did not have serious wounds, just a large number of small ones.

“Oppa! Are you awake? I'm so glad you're alive! I thought you died! Woo woo.” The girl ran up, hugged me and started crying.

“Oppa yesterday you were covered in blood, I took off your clothes to treat the wounds, then took off all your clothes to see if there were any wounds anywhere else. You were so cold, I took you to the bath and started pouring hot water over you. Oppa, you didn't react at all. Woo woo. Then I took you to bed, covered you, but you were still cold, so .... so I sacrificed myself and warmed you with my body.” Having said the last words, confusion appeared on her face.

From her words, it seemed to me that the wounds on my body reopened, there was even a feeling that I had received even more damage. She ran ten meters towards me without a drop of embarrassment, but after a couple of words, did she become embarrassed? What do you think, am I an idiot?

I need to defuse the situation and get away from her.

“Well, don’t cry, I patted the girl on the back. You wanted to save me, you did everything right, in your place I would have done the same ... ” Thoughts arose in my head as I dragged her around the room and then poured a shower.

"Is it true?" The girl looked into her eyes with relief.

“Yes, thank you, thanks to your help, I survived,” I deliberately avoided the word “victim”.

“Oppa, someone called you yesterday, when I picked up the phone, I only heard “Gu”, it looks like someone was playing on the phone, I said that you were in the shower and hung up. Oppa do you know who that was? I was afraid that it would be yesterday’s bandits, I was very scared.”

“It's okay, I don't know who it was, maybe they just got the wrong number…” I said soothingly.

“Well, I saved you yesterday, after you saved me…. We are quits, if fate allows, let's meet again ... Saying this, I put on a bathrobe and slippers of the hotel, took the phone, a card with money and left. Behind me, I heard her scream: “Please call me, I want to thank you.”

Standing in the hotel room, the girl smiled thoughtfully, “Ling Fang, do you think you can run away from me…”

Somewhere in the living room, a little girl with white hair and blue eyes was standing, gritting her teeth: “Ling Fang, are you already eating cooked rice at home and are you not enough? I can no longer be silent.”

Sitting in a taxi, I sneezed twice, probably because of the shower I caught a cold. The taxi stopped at the school gate. Quickly in a dressing gown and slippers, I walked towards the classroom. Sitting at my desk, I decided to take a nap before class started.

“Ling Fang! Ling Fang!”

"A?" - I shouted and stood up sharply, said: “Here!” - wiping his mouth from saliva.

The English teacher looked at me again.

“Ling Fang, why are you dressed like that, where is your school uniform?”

“I… I washed it and I had nothing to wear,” I replied.

"What? And that's why you came in a robe?" she said accusingly.

“Teacher, knowledge is above all, I didn’t want to miss your lesson, so I was in a hurry so as not to be late, I was so nervous that when I came and sat down at my desk, only then I noticed that I had come in a dressing gown. It won't happen again!" I replied.

"Nevermind. You have a good knowledge of English, as a teacher I have nothing to teach you, I hope that you will focus on other lessons and study well, do not forget you need a high score in other subjects to enter the university.”

“Yes teacher, I will follow your words,” I nodded confidently.

“Okay kids, the lesson is over, you can start preparing for the next lesson.”

The teacher collected When I left the classroom, Johnny Lee came up to me and looked at my hands and asked: “Big brother, what’s wrong with your hands? Where did you get so hurt?”

“I just… hmm fell down, it was an embarrassing moment of my life, now I want to turn this piece of paper over and just move on.” I waved it off.

I turned away and looked out the window ... It was a hard night, I almost died, but now I can arrange my life.

“Children, we have a new student. This exchange student is here, greet her.”

“Hello, my name is Li Bo Na, I will study with you,” the words were spoken in broken Chinese, but the voice was familiar. Cold sweat distracted me from my thoughts, I turned away from the window and saw the familiar face of a girl, a Korean woman. I thought that I would never see her again, my heart was pounding and my eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

“Oppa!” - the girl shouted and joyfully ran up to me.

“Oppa! Now we are in the same class, I will always be with you! Are you happy? she said with shining eyes.

“Yes… yes, I'm very glad,” I answered with a forced smile.

In the classroom, other children whispered, “Is this Ling Fang's girlfriend? She's very pretty, she's a model. How does Lin Fang know her? And they speak Korean?”

Another teacher entered the class and said, “Children! We've got another student! Hmm, this child is a little special, he is a child prodigy, he was able to pass all the tests and therefore, despite his young age, he was able to immediately enter the last class. We wanted to transfer her to another class, but she insisted that she wanted to study here.”

A small figurine of a girl entered the classroom. For some reason she looked familiar to me.

“Hello, my name is Yu Xiaoxiao, now I will study with you!”

"Crap! Crap! It can't be true, can it?” I thought, praying to myself.

“Ling Fang, isn’t this your little sister?” Weiwei looked at me.

I looked at her with a look as if I had been thrown off a cliff.

"Husband!" - shouted, a little girl ran up and leaned her cheek against my shoulder. Her face was very pleased and full of happiness, as if we had not seen each other for a lifetime.

“Who is your husband? Oppa tell me what's going on?" Li Bo Na yelled at Xiaoxiao pulling away from me.

“Let me go old fox!” Xiaoxiao screamed. “Ling Fang is my husband!”

“No, Oppa is my husband, at night I helped him wash up and we slept in the same bed.”

"So what? Ling Fang slept with me before you, and he… he even gave me underwear afterwards,” she said in embarrassment and turned away.

Each of them pulled me from side to side, and I just wanted to die.

“Girls, please save me some dignity… We are at school and my classmates are here, because of your words, they will misunderstand me. Did I offend you somehow in a past life?” I cried.

“Ling Fang, forgive me”

"Oppa don't be mad"

They spoke together, but for some reason their words did not make me feel better and I felt that the whole class was looking at me like garbage, except for Johnny Lee. In his eyes, I saw approval and even a little admiration.

“Ling Fang, I made you lunch,” Xiaoxiao said as she took out a box of food. “Here, eat and you will feel better.” Opening the lid, she showed a carefully prepared meal, there were scrambled egg rolls, vegetables, meat and rice. A heart was neatly drawn on the rice.

I looked at Xiaoxiao with a soulless look and said, “Thank you Xiaoxiao, but you shouldn’t cook, you’re still too small and you might get hurt.” As I said this, I stroked her head.

“Ling Fang, are you injured? Who hurt you?" Xiaoxiao asked anxiously.

“Oppa yesterday for me…”

“I fell,” I said, interrupting her.

Xiaoxiao looked at Li Bo Na, then at me and asked, “Are you in pain? Do you want me to feed you?”

"No! Oppa I have to feed you!” She quickly grabbed her chopsticks and shoved food into my mouth. I didn't resist and just opened my mouth. My dignity has already been irreparably damaged anyway, and eating out of my hand won't make it any worse.

Xiaoxiao quickly looked at Li Bo Na, then at me, then she seemed to have an idea, she took out more chopsticks from her skirt pocket and began to feed me too. I didn't resist, I just ate, and I only thought about one thing, Xiaoxiao carries chopsticks in his pocket.

After finishing the most shameful meal of my life, I looked at Xiaoxiao and asked, “Have you decided to start talking?”

“Yes, husband, yesterday when I heard the voice of that fox, I realized that I was losing you…” Xiaoxiao said sadly. “If I don’t take action, then another woman will take you away from the family…”

“Xiaoxiao, I am very glad that you are speaking again, although it was not a problem for me to communicate with you, but if you continued like this, you would not be able to open your heart to others,” I said with a kind smile.