Xiaoman listened to what he said was everything they had agreed to at the time, her eyes lit up, she looked at him seriously, and said, "I know that you still have the burden of your father on you, and you have a good family since you were young. It is almost impossible to understand what I am thinking, I really want to take a look at the outside world, I have been here for more than ten years, and I don’t want to be a bird in a cage.”

"Of course you're not a bird in a cage," Tianming was incoherent in front of her. He tried to explain, but it got worse and worse.

He said: "Xiaoman, from childhood to adulthood, all of our material conditions are basically the same, I have no business in this regard, so there is no difference with you, and, you know, the two of us, from childhood to adulthood, , are together, everything I have, you see in your eyes, even so, can't you accept me?"

"It's not the same," Xiao Shi looked at him seriously and firmly: "You have the same material conditions as mine, just because you lowered your own standards, although the external conditions seem to be the same, but The internal parts are different, and I'm really touched that you came from a good background and willing to make such a change for our friendship, so as not to make me uncomfortable."

"It's not friendship," Tianming emphasized her purposely: "It's because I like it, it's because of me, so I let myself do this since I was a child."

Xiaoman laughed lightly after hearing this, as if she had figured out something, she explained to him, "Look, you did this just to stand with me, but in the end, you It's fundamentally different from me. It's like your family is a well-known rich man in this city, and has a reputation and power, but I'm just a child brought up by a woman who runs an inn, or even an innkeeper. A restructured family."

"What does this have to do with whether we love each other? I don't understand, and I can't understand," Tianming looked at her with forbearance in his eyes. He couldn't figure out why she always restrained him with these external conditions?

But Xiaoman was different from what she thought, she looked into his eyes, full of helplessness and pain in life, she said, "I know you really want to be with me now, but it's because you have waited ten years. It's been a few years, no, you've been waiting for 20 years, Tianming, you're one year older than me, I heard that you watched me born, although we don't have any impression, but I can also be sure that , Since childhood, you really took care of me..."

The next words, Tianming's intuition, must not be what he wants to hear, because every time Xiaoman says this, it is when their feelings will enter another stage.

"Actually, I have always been grateful to my uncles and aunties for everything they have done for us. From childhood to adulthood, the house I lived in and the books I read were all funded by them. To be honest, without their support, I couldn't imagine it at all. To what I will become, maybe I will become a member of the colorful world outside, maybe some rich people's plaything, but it was the uncle and aunt who pulled me from that dark possibility come out...."

Tianming was in a hurry, so he stopped her from going on: "I know you have always been prejudiced against these, but you know my parents are really nice people, and they have watched you grow up since you were a child, and they like you very much too. , although my family is rich and not wrong, and my family is also very powerful, I will not deny these, but these are all external conditions, it has nothing to do with me loving you, if you feel that these hinder us development, then I can also abandon all of this and live the life you want with you."

"No," Xiaoman looked at him firmly: "Tianming, think clearly, maybe, for me, it's not really love, or love, but because you grew up with me, or just because of your sympathy , The reason why I don't want you to waste time on me is because I also like you, like a brother and sister, like a family member, if I see that you are not doing well, I will be worried."

In this way, it is very straightforward, and Xiaoman also used the words brother and sister, which can be regarded as completely rejecting Tianming and involving his family, which seems to be an impossible thing.