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"good afternoon."
Bai Heqing said with a smile, and took out two highball glasses from under the bar.
"You came faster than I expected. You rushed to see me right after getting off the plane. I am really flattered.
Okay, would you like something to drink first? Water or wine? Sharon?
The person who walked into the bar was the dusty Vermouth.
She ignored Bai Heqing's meaningless nonsense, walked straight up and sat directly opposite him. Under the thick sunglasses, her eyes were serious, which was rare for her.
Just as Baihe Qing said, she indeed rushed over as soon as she got off the plane.
The reason was simple. Not long ago, she learned a piece of information from Ajing.
Shirakawa Qing found Shirley.
This was one of the things she really didn't want to see.
"Have you found Shirley?" In the dimly lit bar, Vermouth asked straight to the point.
"Oh my, you are so direct..."
This surprised Bai Heqing a little, but he didn't answer her immediately. Instead, he turned around, picked up a bottle of wine from the cabinet behind him and poured it into the glass, saying, "I originally thought you would be polite to me first..."
"when did it happen?"
"It happened at Clover Villa two days ago. To be honest, even I was surprised at the time..." Pushing a wine glass in front of Vermouth, Shirakawa Qing answered truthfully. There was nothing to hide.
"but……"
But suddenly the subject changed, Bai Heqing looked at her with a meaningful smile on his face.
"She's a child now, about six or seven years old, and looks exactly like she did when she was a child."
Vermouth's heart sank when she heard this.
If Bai Heqing said something like how beautiful Shirley is now and how fashionably she dresses, she would just think that Bai Heqing was trying to trick her again.
But he did point out that Shirley had become smaller...
This means that he really found her.
Although Vermouth knew that this day would come sooner or later, she didn't expect it to come so soon. He had only been in Japan for a few months...
"What a joke! Are you trying to say that she has regained her youth?" Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, Vermouth sneered.
Although he knew her thoughts, Bai Heqing still spoke patiently:
"Well, this does sound incredible to other people, but if it's just the two of us, I don't think we would ask such a question, right?"
"Shirley's research has failed. She doesn't have the same talent as her parents. The medicine she developed can only kill people... I think you should be very clear about this." She continued.
“That’s also true.”
Bai Heqing nodded and acknowledged what she said.
"That's what I thought before I saw Shirley in person."
"Are you sure she must be Shirley?"
"Whether it's true or not, we'll know soon, right?"
As he said this, Baihe Qing pointed to the small TV hanging on the wall.
The screen was still showing the scene of Rena Mizunashi interviewing "Akimi Miyano".
"If it's the real Shirley, she definitely wouldn't ignore her sister, right?" Bai Heqing said with a smile.
"Miyano Akemi died a long time ago. Shirley knows this very well. Your trick won't work."
Having said that, but when she saw Miyano Akemi on the screen, there was a slight change in the expression on Vermouth's face.
"But she has never seen her sister's body with her own eyes, right? She learned all this from you.
Do you think it is possible that she was holding on to that one in a million chance, thinking that her sister had escaped the organization's pursuit in a similar way to her?
I think this possibility should exist, right? "
Vermouth remained silent.
Because she knew very well that this possibility not only existed, but also had a high probability.
This is a little trick that any discerning person would notice is problematic if they think about it carefully, but Shirley is likely to fall for it.
This has nothing to do with IQ.
"What do you want to do after you catch her?" Finally, without further ado, Vermouth sighed softly and asked the question that concerned her most.
What she really cared about was not whether Baihe Qing would catch Shirley, but what he would do after catching Shirley...
"Hmm... Come to think of it, it seems like it was you, Sharon, who was asking me questions from just now?"
But once again, Shirakawa Kiyoshi stopped at the critical point.
"Since I answered all your questions seriously, can you let me ask a question now?"
"What do you want to ask?" Although Baihe Qing's words were soft, Vermouth knew very well that there was no way she could refuse.
"It's not a very important matter. I just want to know if you met any...special people when you were in Andrew Kingdom before?"
Her heart tightened instantly. She had never expected Shirakawa Qing to ask this question, and Vermouth almost couldn't control her expression.
[How could he...]
"I have already reported to you about the affairs of the Andrew Kingdom." Belmode suppressed his inner excitement and spoke in a calm tone.
"Nothing missing?"
"No."
"Ugh……"
Looking at her serious and extremely certain expression, Bai Heqing shook his head slightly and sighed.
"Sharon, you can actually relax a little... I think I have a good personality, right?
I really don't know why, every time you lie to me, you always tense your face, as if you are facing a great enemy... Am I really scary?"
His words immediately put Vermouth at a loss as to what to do.
But before she could figure out how to respond, Bai Heqing seemed to lose interest in continuing to ask questions.
He supported his cheek with one hand and held up the goblet in the other, looking at the red wine in it that he had not drunk a drop of, with a gloomy expression.
"It's been thirty years, and your little flaws haven't changed at all."
Second, evening.
Chapter 360: First Encounter Forty Years Ago
Thirty years?
In the dim little bar, when Vermouth heard the number uttered by Shirakawa Qing, she was slightly dazed. Countless memories that had been buried deep in her memory came flooding back at this moment, which was extremely special for both of them.
Both of them seemed to be lost in memories at the same time. Bai Heqing looked at the red wine glass in his hand with his eyes lowered. This was his usual reaction when he was thinking or distracted.
And Vermouth just looked at him quietly, with a complicated look in her eyes.
For a moment, the air around the two of them was extremely quiet.
In fact, the time of thirty years is not entirely correct.
Or rather, it's not right for Vermouth.
Shirakawa Kiyoshi is a person with extremely high psychological defenses. He rarely truly opens his heart to other people. Even though he always seems to be making similar moves, that's just because he's good at acting.
Everyone says that she is an international superstar with superb acting skills, but in Vermouth's opinion, Shirakawa Kiyoshi is the one who is better at acting than her.
Of course, all this has only changed since thirty years ago.
Before that, Shirakawa Kiyoshi was a very "straightforward" person.
And he is the kind of person who will express his indifference directly without any scruples.
There was no doubt that she was scolding him.
Bai Heqing had completely different personalities when he was young and now. Among the little ones, the current Ajing is most similar to Bai Heqing when he was young. They both look very close, but actually have a natural indifference.
The only difference is that when he was young, Shirakawa Kiyoshi never concealed this fact.
Even Vermouth, it was only after they had been together for a long time that Shirakawa Qing truly accepted her, just thirty years ago...
So for Shirakawa Kiyoshi, he really likes to say the word thirty years, especially in front of her, because for him, this is indeed the time when he truly accepted Vermouth.
But for Vermouth, this time was much earlier.
Very early.
She had never even mentioned to Shirakawa Kiyoshi the scene when they first met...
She was just in junior high school at that time.
It was a very cold winter. She had lived and studied in the United States for a long time. After growing up, she returned to Japan for the first time with the head of the family. This was the small island country that was her nominal homeland.
In fact, at that time, Vermouth did not know the real reason why the master returned to Japan. She just heard that the destination was Japan, and out of curiosity because she had never been there, she clamored to go with them.
Unlike the modern atmosphere of the United States with skyscrapers everywhere, Japan is indeed a very narrow island country, and the narrowness brought about by this land seems to be deeply reflected in the blood of the people on this land.
Therefore, when she first arrived in Japan, Vermouth was actually not used to the environment here, and was not used to every aspect of it.
Except that one person.
Forty years ago.
"Ms. Karasuma, please follow me."
Walking into the Hatoyama family's house, the snow-covered courtyard was completely white. An elderly housekeeper came forward to greet her. He respectfully stretched out his hand in front of her and motioned for Belmod to go in the other direction of the courtyard. go.
"Where is the head of the house?"
Instead of leaving with the old butler immediately, the young Vermouth looked at Karasuma Renye who walked into the house from the main door led by other servants, and asked in confusion.
"Mr. Karasuma has important matters to discuss with our family head."
The old housekeeper answered her patiently, bent down, and said in a gentle and kind voice: