After dinner, Xiaosi played happily with the other children, while Xiaonian remained seated to the side, maintaining his usual cool demeanor. As he watched Xiaosi playing with the group, he found his peers—and even those a few years older—to be far too childish.
While the children were occupied, An Ruoxue went alone to the swing beneath the large banyan tree. Four years had passed, and standing before the tree once again, she felt a slight surge of emotion. Gazing at the banyan, which remained exactly as it had been four years ago, the memories she had long buried were suddenly stirred up by the wind. Her thoughts played out like a film reel, rewinding continuously until they stopped at a scene from four years past.
Even now, An Ruoxue clearly remembered the first time she and Rong Che had watched the stars together right here, under this very tree. She tilted her head back, looking up at the towering, straight trunk, and felt an inexplicable ache in her heart.
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