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Zhang Zijun patiently listened to He Li's sleep talk. He leaned close to He Li's ear and said softly, "Auntie He Li, don't worry. I will never leave you, for my entire life."

After saying that, he quietly put on his clothes and walked out of the room. The bright and beautiful morning sunlight shone in from outside the window, bathing everything in a warm glow and making it seem as if everything was filled with hope.

He opened the door and went out.

It had been a long time since he had woken up so early. Today, he had an opportunity to wake up so early, so he naturally didn't want to miss such good weather. He planned to train in the morning.

When they arrived outside, they saw that everything in the city was still in a deep sleep. There were only two security guards in the small district, walking side by side.

When he looked up, he saw that the leaves had already fallen off. It was autumn.

The northeast was not like the south. The autumn in the south might still be summer, but the autumn in the northeast was a symbol of withering and withering.

Zhang Zijun suddenly looked back, and all the leaves on the willow tree above dropped onto his head and shoulders.

A gust of cold wind came along with it, taking away all the gloom and displeasure of the year. He looked at the world outside the district and planned to walk forward along the street where there were fewer people.

He didn't know where he was going, but he kept walking and didn't even look back.

He put his hands in his pockets, suddenly feeling for the female cigarettes and the lighter that he got from He Li. Taking out a cigarette from his mouth, he lit it up and took a deep breath, then started to move forward.

As Zhang Zijun had been following behind He Li all day, besides He Li and He Lu, the other two sisters, the other girls that were raised and lived well like Sun Liman and Xie Xiaodan. As time passed, he no longer understood the appearances of the people living in the lower classes.

While the entire city was still in a deep sleep, there were already quite a few people running about for a living.

These people were usually very old, and of course, there were a few around his age. However, when one looked at their entire bodies, they were in a sorry state, with not a single bit of good looks.

Zhang Zijun kept walking, the sun had already risen higher and higher, and there were more and more people on the street. Unknowingly, he had arrived at the only railway station in the city.

Standing in front of the train station, he instantly recalled the night Sun Liman left that day. He suddenly realized that even though Sun Liman had walked for so long, he had never contacted her once, and she didn't even know where she had gone to, nor did she know what she had done now.

Although his heart had long been given to Aunt He Li, but no matter what, Sun Liman was still her lover, her bedmate. Perhaps, at that time, he did not feel that anything was amiss, but now, in this lonely morning, his heart could not help but think, was she being too heartless to Sun Liman?

Sun Liman treated him with infatuation, with sincerity that could be seen from the sun and moon, yet he herself treated her with absolutely no feelings.

Thinking about it carefully, she was currently wandering in a remote place. There was a home that she could not return to, and she was traveling alone. The little girl's family wasn't that old either, so he really didn't know what she felt out there.

With that in mind, Zhang Zijun took out his phone and found Sun Liman's number in the contact list. Without thinking, he quickly dialed it.

In his mind, he thought about how he could express his thoughts to Sun Liman later. He even thought that if she was not well outside, then he would go find her. As long as she was better off, it wouldn't matter if he wasn't by Aunt He Li's side.

After a long while, Sun Liman's pleasant voice did not come from the other side of the phone. All he heard was the system notification: The number you have dialed is empty …

Empty number?

Zhang Zijun was stunned, he placed his phone by his ear and raised his head to look at the train station, his heart a mess.

He thought: How could it be an empty number? What was going on?

This was really out of his expectations. In her memories, Sun Liman practically treated herself as her life, if she changed her phone number, then she would definitely tell him.

Now that she was suddenly informed by the system that it was an empty account, it was likely that something had happened outside.

Thinking of this, Zijun's heart suddenly filled with mixed feelings. He sat down on the side of the road in a dejected manner, and soliloquized: "Yes, yes, she's a girl, he must have encountered something outside! The phone was empty. Maybe someone had tried to kill her or forced her to be a little miss. After dirtying her body, that person had broken her phone card into two and thrown it into the air …

The more Zhang Zijun thought about it, the more his heart ached.

He took all this as the truth. In the end, he had slapped himself in the face, thinking that he was the cause of all this.

The cute smile that Sun Liman had in her memory would probably never appear in front of him again.

At this moment, a sad song came from the old stereo outside a breakfast shop on the street. The lyrics of "Those Love Things" were like this:

From then on, there was a new name for loneliness. Love was used to decorate different stories, and they were all locked in the same place.

Thus, the things that they loved were treated as a ceremony of growth. As long as he wished for the next time, he wouldn't be able to recall anyone's appearance.

It's just that I loved you once, but it was like following my shadow. It's a pity you can't see that I'm still in love with you.

He stumbled back home for three hours and when he was almost in the house, he kept looking back. He really wanted Sun Liman to appear in front of him and tell him that she had accidentally lost her phone.

However, what he had hoped for did not appear. Ye Zichen walked towards his home along the corridor, and when he reached the door, he suddenly heard a fierce quarrel in his house.

He stood at the door in a daze. Because the sounds of the argument were too loud, his neighbors were all leaning on the door to watch the scene.

He knocked hard on the door. "Open the door, quick."

After a long while, He Lu opened the door for him. She saw her mother pointing at He Li who was sitting on the sofa and cursing at him.

The neighbors scrambled to be the first to peek through the open door …