The old community is full of the atmosphere of life. The mottled wall surfaces, slightly bumpy roads, as well as the dim lamp posts, bulletin boards, and slightly messy green plants are all completely different from the new environment full of modern style of Kang'an International. Even the people walking during the period are different.

Sheng Yao returned to the rental house, looked at the narrow house, and listened to the hustle and bustle of the old and young outside, and did not feel the calmness of returning to the familiar environment.

Bai Xiao was silent all the way, as if he was still recalling the baby she first met today.

"I'll go cook." Bai Xiao suddenly said and hurried into the kitchen.

Sheng Yao looked at her slender back and stood silently for a while before going to the living room to sit down.

He could not see the kitchen scene, but he could hear the intermittent movement in the kitchen, and he could even feel the gaze that Bai Xiao was coming - although Bai Xiao must not see him.

Sheng Yao closed his eyes, not knowing what to do for a moment.

On the other hand, in the kitchen, Bai Xiao absent-mindedly washed and cut vegetables. The vegetables were something he bought two days ago, and the variety and quantity were not large. When they first arrived, they lived here with a travel attitude. They either went to a restaurant or ordered takeout for three meals a day. The things they bought were mostly fruits and snacks. There were no kitchen utensils and seasonings in the rental house. Until the baby happened, Sheng Yao was busy tracking and surveillance. Bai Xiao was alone at home. In order for Sheng Yao, who could come back at any time, he prepared kitchen supplies and some ingredients.

They left the Monster Clinic, but overnight, it seemed like they were back to their life at that time.

Click.

The kitchen knife fell down and cut the whole potato in half.

Bai Xiao looked at the section of potatoes, and the skin squirmed on the fingers holding the kitchen knife. She stared at it for a while, then slowly turned her head and looked at the kitchen door.

From the position where she was standing, she could only see a corner of the TV. She could not see the sofa, and naturally she could not see Sheng Yao sitting on the sofa. But her gaze seemed to penetrate the wall, and she could see Sheng Yao sitting there.

A bunch of black fog appeared in her eyes, like dense swarms of insects, covering the whites of her eyes.

The skin exposed outside the clothes is like fingers, wriggling constantly, as if the entire human body is a gathering of insects covered with a layer of skin.

Bai Xiao opened his mouth, stretched out his weird long black tongue, licked his somewhat chapped lips, and closed his eyes.

Those visions faded from her.

She lowered her head and stared at the potatoes on the chopping board. After a while, she picked up the kitchen knife again.

Click.

Click.

...

Sheng Yao and Bai Xiao were not interested in a simple meal. After putting down the chopsticks, the two of them did not rush to clean the table.

Bai Xiao looked up at Sheng Yao, "Husband, let's go home."

Sheng Yao was stunned, then nodded in agreement, "Okay."

After saying what he agreed, Sheng Yao paused, "I'm sorry..."

Bai Xiao chuckled, "What apologize? You did nothing wrong. You can only say... that child has no fate with us." She sighed, and quickly restrained, "Let's go back early."

"Yeah." Sheng Yao calmed down, cheered up for a while, and frowned again, "If you go back... If you go back from here, you need to buy your ID card when taking the high-speed rail or plane, and you also need to check your ID card for a long-distance bus..." He thought for a while, "Otherwise, you can only try the bus between urban and rural areas..."

There are always some bus lines or cross-provincial subway lines between nearby provinces. As a tourist city, the commuting demand between Longcheng and surrounding cities is very low. If you want to find such public transportation, you will inevitably detour. You have to go back to their homes all the way, and you have to plan well.

Sheng Yao never thought about driving on the highway. This simplest option did not appear in his thinking from the beginning.

Bai Xiao didn't think of this most convenient way, but she thought of another particularly convenient option, "Why don't you leave the clinic? Just like when we came, we can go back like that."

Sheng Yao opened his mouth, "The clinic cannot appear at any time..."

"You can try it." Bai Xiao smiled.

"Well...you can try it." Sheng Yao looked at Bai Xiao.

Bai Xiao was unaware of anything and stood up and said, "We don't have much luggage. If we see the clinic, we can go home directly. If not... it's okay to stay and play for a while." She said, while packing up the dining table, not rushing to go home.

Sheng Yao suddenly had a light of inspiration, and he felt as if he understood Bai Xiao’s thoughts.

He stood up and helped Bai Xiao clean up the dining table, but he could no longer say the words of apologizing.

Bai Xiao is different from him. Bai Xiao didn't see what the baby did. She was just told by him that she could not adopt the baby. Bai Xiao was understanding and didn't ask anything. In Bai Xiao's opinion, her husband acted strangely, but she still chose to be tolerant.

Similarly, the Monster Clinic was not a hidden danger to Bai Xiao, but a benefactor who saved her life. She was not as suspicious, fearful, and alert as he was.

Among the two, perhaps he is the suspicious and abnormal person.

No……

Sheng Yao looked at the running water in the pool and couldn't help but think of the toilet he had seen before.

Blood-red toilet with twisted human body...

"I'll wash the dishes. You dumped the garbage." Bai Xiao pushed Sheng Yao in a daze.

Sheng Yao wanted to say something, but looking at Bai Xiao's quiet side face, he couldn't bear to break her peace.

He thought of that rainy night again, Bai Xiao who was standing behind the glass door and looking at him silently.

He was unwilling to admit it, but since then, there has been some invisible gap between the two. Now, he has to face the heavy rain and the glass between them.

He should have walked through the rain curtain, pushed open the door, and hugged Bai Xiao again, but...

Sheng Yao looked down at his wet hands.

Another pair of hands appeared in sight.

Bai Xiao took a clean dry rag, wiped Sheng Yao's hand, and laughed: "Why are you like a child? The water has dripped on the ground. OK, wipe it dry. Go and throw the garbage quickly."

Sheng Yao pulled the corner of his mouth, "Yes."

He walked out of the door with a garbage bag, threw away the garbage, but did not return immediately.

Sheng Yao sat down on the bench in the community.

Sheng Yao didn't think about anything, just simply didn't want to go back to the rental house. He emptyed his brain, but his instinct prompted him to escape and stay away from Bai Xiao.

Without thinking about Bai Xiao, his brain became blank for a while and involuntarily began to operate. Especially at this point in time, in this old community, Sheng Yao inevitably saw the children jumping and heard the children's laughter and crying.

Sheng Yao thought of that baby.

He sent the baby who had lost the power of the Monster Clinic back to the ward. In just a few seconds of his hand removal, he looked at the unconscious baby, with a moment of hesitation.

He could kill Zheng Yichao who turned into a monster without hesitation, and fight Liu Yu who grew the monster limbs without hesitation, but he inevitably hesitated when facing a baby who could be held in his palm. Although he had decided to deal with this "monster" more than ten minutes ago.

It is difficult to tell whether he was influenced by Bai Xiao or because he had stripped the baby of the things...

Sheng Yao looked at his hands in a daze.

The ring on the ring finger of the left hand is shiny enough even without the diamond embellishment of the female ring.

He seemed to be able to see another pair of hands, another pair of slender hands wearing diamond rings.

The hands were soft and delicate, and they were slightly unfamiliar. They were not as delicate as the baby's skin, but they were much smoother than Bai Xiao's hands before. Bai Xiao once said that before graduating from college, she almost didn't touch her fingers, and she didn't really do any housework, but her family's chores were basically all taken care of by her parents-in-law. At most, she occasionally washed fruits, washed dishes, and cleaned her room. Before graduating from college, she was in similar condition, with only thin calluses left by writing for a long time. Of course, as a boy, he was still a little rougher than Bai Xiao. Because he joined the football team before, his skin was tanned. Even if he didn't exercise for a while and his skin turned a little white, he was inevitably as rough as a boy.

Two such people lived together as soon as they graduated, cooked and blackened the wall, and learned how to live with a bumpy and their hands inevitably became rough and new cocoons appeared.

These are the traces left by time and are proof of life.

Only newborn babies will have no trace.

No, it's not entirely true.

Congenital diseases, differences caused by genes...

Sheng Yao was thinking randomly until the ringtone of his cell phone interrupted these chaotic thoughts.

He took out his cell phone and saw the photos and messages sent by Tong Bin.

Tong Bin just finished a blind date and "reported" the results to him. A more appropriate statement should be to complain to him: Tong Bin failed to go on a blind date again, this is his second blind date and his second failure.

Tong Bin fell into a tangle. He didn't know whether he should continue on a blind date, nor did he know what he would do if he didn't.

Sheng Yao called Tong Bin as a devil.

Tong Bin quickly answered the phone, "...ah." His sigh came to an abrupt end. He quickly changed his self-deprecating tone, "I don't know who to talk to about this matter... I have sorted out my relationship with Yaya before and wanted to have a new beginning soon, but I seemed...it seems to have chosen the wrong way."

Sheng Yao did not answer immediately.

Tong Bin was a little confused, "When I told my parents, they breathed a sigh of relief and arranged a blind date for me. The woman was not bad either... Oh, the first one was for the purpose of getting married, very...motivated...the other one was not interested in me. The second one was today, to deal with my family. I apologized to me when I contacted me before and said I would treat me to dinner. The store she chose today was also very good, the food was delicious, and the environment was also good. We had a very happy chat. But she has no plans to fall in love and get married for the time being, and she is very busy with work. She is in the import and export business and has to go abroad on business from time to time, and travels all over the country in China."

Tong Bin's narrative was as usual, fragmented and poured out all the information.

After hearing this, Sheng Yao felt unexpectedly calmed down.

"Do you like her?" Sheng Yao asked suddenly.

Tong Bin was stunned and wandered, "It's not... right? It's the first time we met, and I only sent a few messages before... She was very cheerful and generous. Um... she looks a bit like Yaya, but more outgoing than Yaya. She is basically talking about introducing food and introducing her job. She has been to many countries, but she always goes to work. She starts busy as soon as she gets off the plane, and she doesn't have the chance to stroll around the local area. However, she doesn't seem to care about this kind of thing. When talking about these, it's quite, well, quite brisk. She likes work very much."

As Tong Bin said, his voice lowered, "I probably feel a little envious. She has a clear goal, something she likes, and doing what she likes... Now, I don't know what to do." He laughed at himself again, "Although I didn't know what to do before..."

After hearing this, Sheng Yao couldn't help but lose his mind.

He remembered the years when Bai Xiao left him.

Like Tong Bin, he didn't know what to do. He originally had a clear goal, someone he liked, and did what he liked. He worked hard with Bai Xiao to build their home.

Then, everything was gone.

Now, everything is lost and gained again.

He has Bai Xiao again.

Sheng Yao lowered his eyes and looked at the ring on his left hand.
To be continued...