Chapter 77: Kiss

Aunt Chan says they don't know when Tan Mo took the photo, they only know that Tan Mo put it there himself.

Tan Mo placed Qiao Lan's photographs in an album belonging to his loved ones, which he carefully and secretly treasured.

Even if Aunt Chan doesn't say it, Qiao Lan understands that this is something Tan Mo cherishes with care.

By the time Tan Mo came back in, Qiao Lan and Aunt Chan had already put the album away and were working on how to make the bracelet.

With Aunt Chan's help, Qiao Lan learnt quickly and started to enjoy playing with them.

Qiao Lan has not only learnt how to do it, but has also been able to create new patterns, making up seven or eight strips in various colours and combinations.

Firstly, I gave Tan Mo a new one and then chose a relatively light coloured one to wear on my wrist.

Tan Mo saw a different colour but similar style bracelet on Qiao Lan's wrist, and the corner of his lips lifted slightly where Qiao Lan could not see it.

With Tan Mo's help, Qiao Lan's homework was completed three days before the start of the school year.

The remaining three days, coincidentally, coincide around the Lantern Festival and Valentine's Day, which follows the Lantern Festival.

The rest of the New Year is still buzzing and the Lantern Festival seemed to be quite a surprise, with Aunt Chan and Uncle Chan watching with great interest.

Qiao Lan sits on the sofa, fiddling with her phone, not knowing what she is looking at.

Tan Mo, however, is dazed by the fact that Valentine's Day is tomorrow.

Would it be inappropriate to take Qiao Lan out tomorrow and would Qiao Lan notice something?

Tan Mo feels deeply that he is becoming more and more uncontrolled these days, because of Qiao Lan's good nature, because she is endlessly tolerant of him, and so makes him bolder and more obvious.

Tan Mo reminds me of an online story about a child who was taught by his mother after making a mistake.

He is now in such a situation.

Knowing that what you did was inappropriate, but daring to do it next time and even trying to be a little more deranged.

He even wanted to try to see where Qiao Lan's boundaries were, how far he would go before she would really rise up and really push him away.

Although he knew it was not an ending he could afford, Tan Mo just couldn't resist the urge to try.

Qiao Lan put her phone on the table after playing with it for a while and left to go to the bathroom, and within ten seconds of leaving, her phone screen lit up.

Tan Mo swears she didn't mean to see it, but glanced at it and was drawn to the words "movie tickets" in the text message.

Tan Mo then saw that it was a message confirming the success of the online booking and the ticket collection code.

So Qiao Lan was just ordering movie tickets?

There were two text messages stating that Qiao Lan had booked two tickets and that the date of the booking was tomorrow.

Tomorrow, it's Valentine's Day.

Qiao Lan has booked two tickets for two Valentine's Day movies.

So who is she going out to the movies with tomorrow?

When Qiao Lan returned from the bathroom, she picked up her phone and confirmed the text message without mentioning the movie with Tan Mo.

Qiao Lan didn't talk to him, so it wasn't with himself, and Tan Mo's eyes trembled as he lowered his eyelashes.

In fact, the most likely candidate is Bai Yu.

It's normal for girls to go to the movies together.

Tan Mo feels hopelessly jealous of a girl now.

When Valentine's Day did come around the next day, Tan Mo was a little annoyed that no matter what software he opened, it seemed that everyone was celebrating Valentine's Day.

Tan Mo and Uncle Chan were talking in the living room when they heard Aunt Chan saying to Qiao Lan, "LanLan, you look so beautiful today, you have to go out."

Qiao Lan, who was looking more and more gorgeous with a little light make-up, smiled and said, "Well, to go out."

Tan Mo suddenly clenched his fists.

Is Qiao Lan really going out with Bai Yu? There is no need to dress up for a night out with Bai Yu.

On the few occasions when she goes out with herself, Qiao Lan never looks like herself.

Uncle Chan could see Tan Mo's distractedness at first glance, glanced around the room and then at Tan Mo's face, and quickly left Tan Mo sitting alone in the living room.

The more Tan Mo thought about it, the more upset he felt.

The phone screen lit up and Hao Ying's big stabbing WeChat message stabbed into Tan Mo's eyes.

Hao Ying wired Qiao Lan to wish her a happy Valentine's Day.

In fact, it was a normal text message, just like Happy New Year and Happy Lantern Festival, but for some reason, with the word Valentine's Day, the normal text message instantly took on a few more indescribable ambiguous colours.

It makes Tan Mo uncomfortable all over the place.

Tan Mo knows she shouldn't think too much about it, Qiao Lan couldn't have gone out with Hao Ying to watch a movie, but when she thinks of the two movie tickets, Qiao Lan, who has put on make-up, and the coincidental WeChat, Tan Mo's paranoia induced by Asperger syndrome starts to kick in again.

Although Qiao Lan does not like Hao Ying, Hao Ying has liked Qiao Lan for two years and still does.

If not Hao Ying, then who else?

When Qiao Lan came out of the room, she saw Tan Mo sitting on the sofa with a scowl on his face.

Qiao Lan walked over and sat next to Tan Mo, "What's wrong? You look so pale all of a sudden."

Tan Mo turned his head and the two faces were only twenty centimeters apart. The girl's makeup made her features more and more delicate, making Tan Mo's heart stutter. "

Tan Mo was stunned and Qiao Lan's eyes curled in a smile, "I don't want to go, but if you don't go, I won't have anyone to go with."

The girl's voice was soft, mixed with an indescribable tone of pampering. When faced with such a Qiao Lan, Tan Mo felt that he could give her his life, not to mention a simple request.

Not to mention the fact that it was something he had been begging for.

So she had dressed up and bought her ticket specifically to go out with him.

But today is Valentine's Day.

Does she know.

Going to a love movie on a day like this, did she know that it would make it even harder for him, who was already full of lust, to rest.

Tan Mo doesn't want to think about it, but he can't help thinking about it.

She had loved this girl for so long that she wanted to rub her to the marrow of her bones, and God knows how Qiao Lan's slightly ambiguous gesture would have crumbled his already weak faith.

But Qiao Lan doesn't seem to know that.

She went out with him, just like the other couples who walked into the cinema together.

Qiao Lan bought tickets for a special Valentine's Day screening of a romantic movie.

There were so many people that there was not a single empty seat in the screening room, which was almost entirely filled with couples, each with the happy smell of love on their faces.

Sit and watch a love movie with the one you love on Valentine's Day.

This is a school love film, a warm romance filled with youth, ignorance and crushes.

Tan Mo doesn't really like these kinds of movies, he prefers excitement and brain-burning, but today, he watched this movie with more seriousness than ever before.

He watched the film's heroine, a not-so-pretty-not-quite-good girl who keeps trying because she likes a dazzling boy, with a heartbreaking yet touching crush.

But the ending of the film is beautiful, because the dazzling hero has actually long loved the little girl who silently followed him. The final scene of the film rests on the girl leaning on the boy's shoulder, the boy lowering his head and kissing the girl shallowly on the lips, the sunset reflecting on the two figures, beautiful and warm.

Tan Mo saw a couple sitting in the front row who couldn't help but kiss as well.

After leaving the cinema, it was already dark, but the streets were still full of people.

A little girl who was buying flowers ran up to Qiao Lan and Tan Mo, calling out sweetly to them, "You look great, brother and sister," and asking if they wanted to buy flowers.

Qiao Lan snorted with laughter. Kids nowadays are so sweet-talking that they have to compliment you on your beauty before buying flowers.

Qiao Lan graciously bought one, turned her head and handed the rose to Tan Mo with a smile, saying, "Happy Valentine's Day, MoMo."

Tan Mo took the flowers neatly, hardly daring to look Qiao Lan in the eye.

From the moment he walked out of the cinema, from the moment Qiao Lan handed him the flowers, he, Tan Mo, was afraid that if his willpower was just a little bit less, he would grab the girl in front of him tightly into his arms and bite her lips heavily.

Tan Mo squeezed the fragile stems of the flowers, struggling to contain herself, and said Happy Valentine's Day to Qiao Lan as well.

"It's still early, let's get something to eat and then go for a stroll", Qiao Lan said, "School starts the day after tomorrow and we won't have a chance to hang out again for the remaining six months."

"Good," Tan Mo said, lowering his voice before he could barely keep the tremble out of it.

As they walk through the night, eating ice creams, their hearts burning hot despite the cold, a photographer wanders through the streets, recording every beautiful moment, and Qiao Lan and Tan Mo burst into his lens.

An unusually pretty little couple, the boy gazing at the girl with eyes that seemed to envelop the whole world.

"Qiao Lan said thank you to the man and then looked at the clock to see that it was 10pm.

It was getting late and it was time to go home. Tan Mo was about to call Uncle Chan to ask him to pick him up when Qiao Lan pulled Tan Mo onto a bus that happened to be passing by.

It was the last trip of the evening, and it was so late that there was hardly anyone on the bus.

"Qiao Lan pulled Tan Mo to sit in the last row by the window, "This bus will take you straight to your door."

Tan Mo has indeed never sat on one.

The car is far worse than Tan Mo's family car, it is noisy and bumpy, but the space and the feeling are different, but Tan Mo feels a different kind of romance.

Qiao Lan drifted off to sleep on Tan Mo's shoulder as snow flurries drifted outside the window.

She was really sleepy and rested her cheek on Tan Mo's shoulder, being as good as she could be.

Tan Mo didn't even dare to move, at this moment he just wanted the car to never stop, just like that for the rest of his life.

Tan Mo turned his head carefully to look at the girl, who was still sleeping peacefully, and tried to wake her up, but at that moment he stopped again.

At that moment, the girl who had been sleeping woke up at some point and wrapped her arms around the teenager, with a light smile, pulled the person down and gently bit the teenager's cold lips.