“We alone are not enough. Sooner or later she will be driven crazy by the lonely life in the mirror!”

“As you wish, go away.”

Lin Youxi wanted to bypass Mei Fang, but was blocked by Mei Fang.

“I have already severed my friendship with Xia Yuan. Whether she lives or dies, becomes a Buddha or emerges from the mirror, I have no right to control her.”

Lin Youxi said coldly, “Whether it’s Xia Yuan or you, Mei Fang, I can’t control it.”

“But, Youxi, we——”

Lin Youxi pushed Mei Fang away when she came closer.

“Stop calling me that.”

“Come on…who do you think you are?”

Lin Youxi’s harsh words pierced Mei Fang’s heart like a nail, and also stopped him from moving forward and getting closer to Lin Youxi.

“After all, I only came into contact with you because of Xia Yuan. We are not from the same world. I have never considered you a friend.”

“If Xia Yuan doesn’t want to live anymore, there’s no need for me to have anything to do with her, and there’s no need for me to continue talking to you…”

“Don’t talk to me anymore.”

“Just treat me as a dead person too.”

“that’s it.”

“If you come any closer I will kill you. I can do it.”

Lin Youxi showed Mei Fang the marks under her bracelet.

Mei Fang watched Lin Youxi turn and leave, and wanted to go forward and hold her hand, but his body was already filled with surging fear.

Yes, yes.

I had no way of getting to know Lin Youxi. I, I…

Mei Fang clenched his trembling right hand tightly, watching Lin Youxi’s figure gradually disappear at the corner of the intersection.

Mei Fang did not chase after him.

He stood there in a daze for a while, then remembered that Xia Yuan was still at home with no one to accompany her, so he ran back home like a flash, quickly opened the door and returned to the bedroom. Xia Yuan in the mirror seemed to be concentrating on writing something again.

The birthday hat was also put aside.

“Yuanyuan.”

Mei Fang called Xia Yuan’s name softly.

Hearing Mei Fang’s call, Xia Yuan rubbed his eyes first, then coughed a few times, and then turned around with his hands behind his back.

“As expected, they still had a quarrel…”

She raised her head, revealing her peach-like eyes that were red from crying. Then she raised her head and saw the blood streak on Mei Fang’s face, and tears suddenly flowed out uncontrollably.

“Does it hurt, Ah Fang…”

“It’s okay. I wouldn’t feel anything if you didn’t tell me.”

Mei Fang smiled and said, “Youxi, let her calm down first. She said that because she still cares about you. Let’s celebrate her birthday first.”

“Ah Fang… come in for a moment… put your face in here.”

“how?”

Mei Fang followed Xia Yuan’s request and leaned into the mirror, and then Xia Yuan held her cheek. She gently rubbed the injured part of Mei Fang and applied a Band-Aid to Mei Fang.

“Oh, no need. You can’t take this out…”

“I, I just want to do something for you…”

Xia Yuan sobbed while leaning her cheek against Mei Fang’s.

“Youxi is a very stubborn person. Ah Fang must have been wronged.”

“No, nothing happened… She’s just angry that we didn’t tell her about this. It will be fine once she calms down.”

Mei Fang said, “Don’t take the harsh words Youxi said to you to heart.”

“I didn’t take it seriously! But you too…”

Xia Yuan said softly, “She cares about you too, really cares about you…”

“So, don’t listen to the harsh words she says to you.”

“When she said that, she must have been carrying more pain than you.”

“She’s just…she’s just…that’s just the way she is, you know.”

“What you say and what you think are not the same thing.”

Xia Yuan was very gentle when she whispered these words into his ear.

So gentle that Mei Fang’s heart, which was originally broken by the hurt she had suffered from Lin Youxi, was broken.

It was at this time that the wound began to heal slowly.

Mei Fang didn’t dare to respond to Xia Yuan, but just took the initiative to caress her tighter.

Because if I open my mouth, I will find myself choking.

Yes.

Is such that.

He knew Lin Youxi was like this.

But after being hurt in person, he couldn’t help but doubt himself.

Are you just being too sentimental?

Is it just as Lin Youxi said?

However, Xia Yuan’s words made him put aside those distracting thoughts.

There’s nothing to worry about.

Yes.

It’s nothing.

Except for Xia Yuan in the mirror world, no one knows that child better than you.

But, let her calm down now…

“Let’s just continue celebrating your birthday, Alfon.”

“Ah.”

Mei Fang picked up the bracelet that Lin Youxi had thrown away from the floor beside her and saw a small jewelry box rolling on the ground.

“Um, this is the birthday present that Youxi prepared for me, right?”

“Guess so.”

“Open it and take a look, Ah Fang…”

Mei Fang gently opened the jewelry box, and there was also a piece of jewelry inside.

It’s just a pendant.

A pendant shaped like a thousand paper cranes.

The thousand paper cranes are inlaid with several exquisite sapphires. They do not look like cheap accessories from a boutique, but rather carefully crafted jewelry.

For some reason, when Mei Fang saw the pendant, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity and a dull pain in his chest, but the feeling quickly dissipated.

“What a beautiful pendant! Youxi must have spent a long time choosing it.”

Xia Yuan asked Mei Fang to pick up the pendant and show it to Xia Yuan.

Before Mei Fang brought the pendant into the mirror world, Xia Yuan asked softly:

“Fang, do you know the meaning of the thousand paper cranes?”

“It’s not very clear… you know?”

“The thousand paper cranes represent ‘good wishes’.”

Xia Yuan’s voice was very gentle. “My mother once said that if you can’t speak the words in your heart, you can put your feelings on a thousand paper cranes.”

“Because Youxi has been an introverted and quiet child since she was young, I always encourage her to do this and tell the paper cranes what she wants to say.”

Xia Yuan said softly, “In that case, the thousand paper cranes will convey what you want to say and the feelings you want to convey to the person you want to tell.”

“So that’s it.”

Mei Fang nodded gently. “Come to think of it, the fact that we can touch and see each other is probably due to the power of the paper cranes.”

“So that’s what I’m saying…”

Xia Yuan pursed her lips and said, “The paper crane is my favorite handicraft. When I was in kindergarten, I loved folding paper cranes with Youxi the most.”

“No wonder.”

Xia Yuan stared at the pendant in Mei Fang’s hand.

“Come on, Ah Fang… help me put on the pendant.”

“it is good.”

Mei Fang reached in and put on Xia Yuan the birthday gift from Lin Youxi.

He listened to Xia Yuan talk about many stories from the past and the good memories he had spent with Lin Youxi.

She just kept talking and he listened carefully.

When Xia Yuan said he was tired, Mei Fang began to light the candles and handed the cake to the mirror world where Xia Yuan was.

“Happy birthday, Yuanyuan.” Mei Fang said gently, “Make a wish.”

“it is good.”

As Mei Fang hummed the birthday song, Xia Yuan closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, made a wish, and then blew out the candles.

At the same time, the thousand paper crane pendant hanging on Xia Yuan’s neck suddenly flashed.