Chapter 73: Embrace

As soon as the money was available, the hospital was quickly put in place and Qiao Yuan's surgery was quickly scheduled.

Uncle Chen handed Tan Mo the new ID card and household registration, "You can give it to Lanlan when she comes home this weekend."

Tan Mo opened the account book and stared at Qiao Lan's name for a long time.

A clean page.

He really wanted to add another name to this little book.

His name.

Tan Mo re-closed the account book, looked up at Uncle Chen, and said, "Go to school."

Uncle Chen laughed, "Can't wait to surprise Lanlan."

"Not really," Tan Mo said as she brushed her fingertips over Qiao Lan's name, "she's been in a bad mood lately because of her family's affairs, and she can't sleep at night."

That's what Bai Yu and Tan Mo said.

Bai Yu found a particularly good novel one day, and accidentally read it in the middle of the night, and went to bed a little late at night, only to realize that Qiao Lan hadn't slept very well at night, so he turned around and told Tan Mo about it.

Tan Mo's heart ached as she watched the girl she loved so much become so tired in recent days.

Of course, besides that, he did feel a little anxious to tell Qiao Lan the good news, and to put it bluntly, Tan Mo wanted to take credit for it.

Even though they usually pretend to be calm, sometimes they are just like children.

By the time we arrived at the school, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Tan Mo stood at the bottom of the dormitory building, but hesitated.

Qiao Lan would have already slept, whether he came too late, whether his obvious attitude would let Qiao Lan see anything.

There is no evening study hall during the tutoring period, pass students don't have to go, and there is no hard and fast rule for resident students to go if they want to.

But reading in the classroom is definitely more efficient than in the dormitory. Qiao Lan and Bai Yu studied in the classroom until 9:30pm and then returned to the dormitory.

The number of students in the dormitory is not too many, and now it is only senior students, so the large dormitory looks empty. Already close to the New Year, the sky is raining fine snowflakes, dormitory under the street lamp dimly lit, will each snowflake falling pattern reflected clearly.

Qiao Lan in the dormitory after reading for a while some drowsy, out of bed to go to the small balcony, blowing the cool wind want to be slightly awake, she looked down at the rustling snowflakes falling, on the ground shallow layer of thin snow.

Someone was standing under a streetlight, quietly, seemingly thinking about something.

Qiao Lan merely scanned it, but frowned and looked away again.

The figure under the streetlight looked so familiar that she didn't even need to recognize it at a glance.

That's Tan Mo.

Tan Mo, why are you here?

Qiao Lan quickly went back to her room and ran downstairs, Bai Yu shouted after her with a dumbfounded look on his face, "What are you doing? It's snowing outside!"

"Something's wrong", Qiao Lan's voice drifted through the hallway, Bai Yu wondered what Qiao Lan was up to as he went out to the balcony.

The street lamp was dim, the teenager who shouldn't be here stood under the dim light and did nothing but stand there, not knowing how long he stood there finally turned around and walked in the direction of the outside of the school gate.

Bai Yu subconsciously and anxiously wanted to call out to Tan Mo to wait, the girl who had just rushed downstairs also appeared in the same light.

Bai Yu somehow suddenly sighed in relief.

The girl ran very fast and quickly caught up with the teenager who was walking unusually hesitantly and slowly, probably shouting out to the teenager, Tan Mo turned her head suddenly and subconsciously reached out to hold up Qiao Lan who was running very fast.

From Bai Yu's point of view, the two people are very close to each other, the light, the snowflakes, the young man, the young girl, the combination of the picture, the beauty of the picture makes Bai Yu a little heartbroken.

There are some heartbeats that want to fall in love.

Tan Mo was completely unaware of Bai Yu's chaotic thoughts, he didn't expect Qiao Lan to actually see him, and for a moment he was a bit startled, yet filled with indescribable satisfaction.

"Why did you suddenly come here so late", Qiao Lan said, "Is there something urgent? Are you alone? Where's Uncle Chen? Why don't you call me? If I didn't see you just now, I almost missed it. ......"

Tan Mo laughed softly as the corners of his lips rose uncontrollably as he watched the young girl ramble on.

I came to see you so late and so cold because I miss you.

Come here and don't call and let you know because I'm afraid you'll find out what's on my mind.

There were so many things he wanted to say to Qiao Lan, but he couldn't say anything.

He wanted to take the girl who had run too fast to even put on a jacket in his arms at this very moment, to hold her hand and try the temperature of her hand, but he couldn't do that either.

The sky was snowing, and even though Tan Mo wanted to keep talking to Qiao Lan, she felt sorry for her underdressing.

He looked at Qiao Lan and smiled, "I just took care of something with Uncle Chen, and I happen to have a surprise I want to give you, and I think it's a bit late, so I still want to give it to you tomorrow."

He has learned the art of deception, learned how to disguise the real emotions, seamlessly, Qiao Lan can not find the slightest trace of ambiguity.

Qiao Lan smiled back, "What surprise needs to be rushed."

But after receiving the object in Tan Mo's hand, Qiao Lan was completely stunned.

During the days of being pestered by Qiao's mother, Qiao Lan had looked up countless information and asked everyone she could, and she knew how difficult it was to separate a household, especially when there was Qiao's father and Qiao's mother.

But Tan Mo took care of it all.

He didn't say anything, downplaying the situation like it was all really easy.

Qiao Lan's fingers rubbed the small, dark-red book, her voice tinted with a slightly choked sound without her realizing it.

"What did you give her," Qiao Lan said, her voice shaking.

"Qiao Yuan had an operation, it's nothing", Tan Mo said, he looked down at Qiao Lan and said softly, "The court has stripped them of their custody, they will never pester you again, what's wrong, why are you crying all of a sudden", Tan Mo's smooth manner suddenly messed up, the teenager instantly became busy. "Tan Mo's easy-going attitude was suddenly in disarray, and the teenager was in a state of confusion for a split second.

Subconsciously wanted to hold the person in his arms, but in the end did not dare, could only clumsily crouch down a little to help her wipe her face, usually learned to imitate all the words learned all forgotten.

"It's really nothing, the money for an operation in exchange for your peace of mind in the future, I think it's worth it, Lanlan, don't cry, okay, the weather is cold and your eyes are going to cry."

But the voice was steeply stagnant, and the young girl who flung herself into his arms buried her tear-wet cheeks in the place of his collarbone, and the hot Tan Mo instantly lost all his words.

Qiao Lan hugged Tan Mo, still in tears.

She didn't want to cry, but she couldn't help but keep shedding tears.

For ordinary people, even if you don't have someone who loves you to the bone, and loving parents who protect you all the way, Qiao Lan has nothing, not in the last life, not in this life.

She always tried her best to run forward alone, having walked alone for so long that she had no idea what it was like to have someone to lean on.

These were the most helpless and exhausting days for her. No one knew how much will it took for Qiao Lan to attend classes every day, and no one knew that if there was another small setback, she might not be able to hold out any longer.

She thought she would be alone, but instead, another person was protecting her and saving her when she didn't even know it.

He laid out all the debris she was about to put one foot in front of the other, paving a new flowery path for her life.

It is said that there are cracks in everything, and Tan Mo, is the place where light shines in the dark world of Qiao Lan.