Only you are so different
Chapter 11 All the Past Cannot Be Annihilated
Chapter 11 All the Past Cannot Be Annihilated
Time flies. In the past few days, Lin Mei has also finished editing "Sunshine". She spent a total of two weeks sorting out and editing the manuscript in detail.
When she printed out the carefully edited manuscript and handed it over to Su Xiuran for review, she was still a little apprehensive, and she didn't even dare to stay with Su Xiuran to directly observe the results, so she went downstairs to work to hide her uneasiness.
Su Xiuran looked very carefully, and when she wiped down the dining table three times downstairs, he slowly went downstairs with the stack of manuscripts.With a gentle smile on his lips, he smiled at her: "Very good, I agree to this modification."
Lin Mei threw away the rag in her hand in an instant, raised her hands and cheered: "Victory!"
Her changes are actually not big, even Su Xiuran's chapter titles have not been changed, only the breakpoints of the chapters have been adjusted, but when this book is released in the future, critics unanimously believe that it is Su Xiuran's first book ever written. It is the most tender book, and it can even be said that it is not just a mystery novel, but a classic love story.
Lin Mei broke Su Xiu's traditional habit of dividing chapters with suspense as the end, and placed the end and beginning of each chapter at the node of emotional exchange between the hero and heroine.
The mysterious and hazy tenderness is thus amplified and made even more impressive.
what is love?Love is that even if the sea dries up, the sky and the earth change color, even if the world changes, even if you look at it for a hundred years, there is still a complete universe between you and me.
After the trivial and tedious editing work was completed, the cover, format, and printed sheets were determined, and then the finished sample film was sent to the printing factory. Lin Mei went to the printing factory to supervise the color reproduction and the effect of the printed product in person.
Once she gets busy, she doesn't have the leisure time that she can work at home all day. She shuttles between the office, home, and the printing factory in the suburbs every day. My colleagues communicate with me about new book distribution and other matters. Every day, I go out at seven or eight o'clock in the morning and go home at seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
Fortunately, Su Xiu and then came to be obediently given seven days of liquid by Cheng Yu, obediently recuperating at home every day, and her health has improved a lot, so she doesn't need to worry.
This day was another busy day, and Lin Mei didn't come out of the printing factory until seven o'clock in the evening, which was the evening peak traffic time. She called Su Xiuran and told him that she would not be home until around eight o'clock. Let him not wait for himself to eat quickly.
As soon as he put down the phone, he received a call.
She had to answer a lot of calls in the past few days. Seeing that it was an unfamiliar call, she thought it was a contact person at work, so she immediately put on the earphones and answered it.
"Hello, Linmei, Xingwen Shu."
There was a moment of silence on the other side, and then there was a low laugh: "Hello...how should I call you?"
That voice is quite charming, deep and sweet, but even in hot weather, it can make people feel a little cold, he paused, and then spoke slowly: "Maybe it's this... My name The current girlfriend of the dead brother?"
Lin Mei was unable to speak for a long time. Listening to the voice on the phone, she tried to calm down her disturbed mind before asking, "Are you...Mr. Su Xiuyan?"
He was obviously very patient. Even though she hadn't said anything for a long time, she never hung up the phone. At this time, Lin Mei laughed happily when she heard him: "It's really an honor for me to be guessed. This proves that my dear My brother has not forgotten me."
Lin Mei didn't like Su Xiuyan's way of speaking very much. If Su Xiuran gave people the feeling of spring breeze, then Su Xiuyan gave people the feeling that it was full of thorns and thorns.
When she first guessed Su Xiuran's identity, she had found a video of Su Xiuyan being interviewed on the Internet. After all, he is the leader of a large company and can be called a public figure. Behavior can be called polite.
After living in Su Xiuran's house, she no longer paid attention to the news of Su Xiuran's family. She felt that it was due respect for Su Xiuran.
Lin Mei has always disliked people who are too strong, so she frowned involuntarily at this moment, and said in a tit-for-tat tone: "Don't worry, Xiu Ran never mentioned you to me."
The person on the other end of the phone suddenly laughed, but even though it sounded hearty, it still couldn't hide the malice in his voice.
Su Xiuyan obviously didn't intend to cover up this point, when the laughter stopped, he lowered his voice: "You really are just like I imagined, another poor little boy who was coaxed around by him."
Lin Mei couldn't help being chilled by his description for a while, Su Xiuran is obviously a novelist, why Su Xiuyan was born with a domineering president's lines, she couldn't help but sneered: "Thank you."
Su Xiuyan didn't care about her answer, and laughed maliciously: "Then Miss Lin, can you describe your impression of my dear brother?"
Lin Mei really wanted to hang up the phone directly, but she was not stingy when she praised "my man": "Polite and cultivated, gentle, upright and compassionate, quick thinking, calm and rational, and very patient. "
While talking, she complained silently in her heart: Anyway, she doesn't look like a person like you who talks eccentrically.It's also called "refinement of speech", it seems that you have to pay attention to your speech.
After Su Xiuyan heard this, he laughed softly. He had to say that no matter his appearance or voice, he was really similar to Su Xiuran, and he could only be said to be a real brother.
After laughing for a while, he finally showed mercy, and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Lin, I just made a few jokes when I talked to you the first time."
As he spoke, he paused for a moment and then said, "I'm also sorry that I found your private phone number through certain means. I feel obliged to tell you something. Originally, I planned to take the time to go to City B to have an interview with you in person. , But the business is really busy, so I can only talk a few words on the phone."
Lin Mei has a feeling that "the other party's IQ is finally on the line". Such a person has the ability to control a large consortium, and can be called the younger brother of someone like Su Xiuran. The previous style of painting is obviously wrong, okay?
With the helplessness of "You brothers really like acting", she replied: "It's okay, I don't care about such details, if you have anything to say to me, just say it directly."
Su Xiuyan stopped talking nonsense, and said straight to the point: "I know that you must distrust me more than my brother, but I hope you can understand...the reason why the Su family became what it is today is not unilaterally due to me and mom.
"We may have chosen the former between the company's interests and family affection, but that doesn't mean we have abandoned my brother. On the contrary, after those things happened, the person who kept alienating us and stubbornly chose to leave the Su family is my brother."
Lin Mei said firmly: "I don't know what happened back then that caused Xiu Ran to leave Su's family and live alone in City B, but I also know that choosing to cut off the relationship with my mother and younger brother is not a very pleasant feeling. things that no one would do without a great reason."
Su Xiuyan was silent for a while, and then said: "Miss Lin, I don't know if you have heard about my father's evaluation from the outside world. If not, I suggest you read the previous news reports. Although they are not true, But it can also be seen that my father is not a gentle and amiable patriarch.
"I don't need to hide this point. What I want to tell you is that my brother may not have shown you all of him... At that time, he was very similar to my father in terms of behavior and temperament, which was recognized by almost everyone. agree."
As he spoke, he seemed to know that Lin Mei was not someone who would listen to one side of the story, and added: "You can even verify this through many people. There is no need for me to tell such a simple lie."
What kind of person is Su Xiuran and Su Xiuyan's father, Su Daolin who passed away many years ago?
Lin Mei still remembered the reports she had read before. As a legendary figure who single-handedly controlled Shenyue Group in the most turbulent era of economic development and made it grow to the scale it is today, of course it cannot be summed up in a few simple words.
From the lines in the reports that Lin Mei read in the past few months, it can be seen that even after his death, Su Daolin's life was often criticized.What is being questioned is not his ability, skill and vision, but his cruelty, cold-bloodedness and moodiness.
When business transformation is needed, he can make thousands of employees unemployed without any hesitation. Leaving in embarrassment, the end is bleak.
The most intense criticism of him is probably the sentence: Su Daolin is a near-perfect manager, but he doesn't look like a human being with feelings.
Lin Mei was silent for a long time before she said, "Sorry, I can't talk about your family's problems."
There was no disappointment in Su Xiuyan's tone. When he stopped deliberately creating dramatic effects, he could be said to be well-mannered and impeccable in his wording. He just chuckled lightly: "Okay, then don't bother, this is My private number, if Ms. Lin is willing to save it, I will be waiting for you anytime."
Lin Mei also said goodbye politely and hung up the phone.
Unknowingly, she talked with Su Xiuyan for a long time, and after hanging up the phone, she remembered that there was another call that was not answered. She checked the call records and saw that the caller was Su Xiuran.
After taking a breath to adjust her mood, she called back and said briskly, "What's wrong? You can't wait to miss me."
Su Xiuran's voice was still gentle as always, and he smiled softly before saying: "It's nothing, it's just that I stewed chicken soup, if you have time, it's better to go home and eat."
It's always too late for Lin Mei to go back these days, sometimes when she's hungry, she doesn't wait to go home to eat, and eats casually outside.
But no matter how late she goes back, she can always see what Su Xiuran left for her, sometimes it's a bowl of porridge, sometimes it's half a pot of soup, showing careful care.
Su Xiuyan's phone call just now was instantly forgotten by her, and she couldn't help but lower her voice: "Okay, I'll go back soon."
It was past eight o'clock when she rushed home, Su Xiuran had eaten dinner, but was still waiting for her in the living room reading a book.
When she pushed the door and went in, he looked up at her and smiled, "Thank you."
Lin Mei shook her head and smiled back: "It's okay, it's all like this at work."
Looking at his gentle smile as before, Lin Mei inevitably thought of Su Xiuyan's words... Was Su Xiuran once a moody and unkind person?She couldn't imagine it.
Even if Su Xiuran sometimes showed some character traits other than gentleness and elegance, it was usually a temporary and purposeful behavior, such as when they met for the first time or when they pressed Zhang Guo.
Lin Mei is a sensitive person, and she always feels that those violent and vicious things that appear in his body often have a little imperceptible dissonance, which is enough to prove that it is not his original character.
But just as Su Xiuyan said, there is no need for him to tell such an easily exposed lie to discredit his "dead" brother.
Lin Mei thought about it, so she didn't go to the kitchen, but walked over and sat beside Su Xiuran, looked him in the eyes and said, "Before I came back, I received a call."
Su Xiuran still watched her walk to him with a faint smile, he could see that Lin Mei was worried, so he waited for her to speak the truth.
Lin Mei hesitated for a moment, but still said, "It's your brother calling."
The smile on Su Xiuran's lips did not change, but Lin Mei caught a fleeting gloomy look in his gaze: "Do you want to practice words?"
He didn't even ask what Lin Meisu Xiuyan said to her, as if he already knew what his younger brother would think of him, so there was no need to ask.
Lin Mei couldn't bear to see him sad, so she quickly held his hand and said, "No matter what he said, I only believe in my own judgment. I am willing to use my own sensibility and reason to find out what kind of person you are. "
Su Xiuran smiled at her, held her hand instead, and said reassuringly, "I know, I believe in you."
Lin Mei couldn't help but leaned over, hugged his body, leaned her head on his chest and said softly: "Xiu Ran, no matter what your past was, all I see is you now...you have already Good enough."
It was rare for her to say such emotional words, Su Xiuran hugged her shoulders and patted her back lightly, and said softly, "Thank you."
When Lin Mei went upstairs to take a shower after dinner, Su Xiuran dialed the number he knew by heart, and the deep voice from the other side still carried the usual coldness and sarcasm when facing him: "My dear brother, I just It's just a phone call to your cute little girlfriend, and you can't sit still?"
Su Xiuran lowered his voice: "Xiuyan, I know you still hate me, but Lin Mei is an outsider, I hope you don't disturb her."
Su Xiuyan's uncontrollable laughter came from the other end of the microphone. He laughed and said coldly: "Really? What about Jingyue? Isn't Jingyue also an outsider? Why does Jingyue, who is also an outsider, need to bear your burden?" The maliciousness of this cruel bastard, but the woman you fell in love with should be well protected? Don't you think it's unfair, my dear brother?"
Su Xiuran couldn't help closing his eyes lightly, he knew he shouldn't bring up this topic, but the so-called caring is messy, if he avoids talking about it, he really doesn't know how deep Su Xiuyan's resentment is, and he Are you going to hurt Lin Mei?
Su Xiuran took a deep breath, and said quietly: "Xiuyan, you are essentially a person with clear grievances and grievances, and I don't want you to make mistakes."
The other side was silent for a while, Su Xiuran, who knew his younger brother well, knew that he probably choked Su Xiuyan, and then he heard Su Xiuyan sneer and say as he wished: "Thank you for your compliment, don't worry, for Lin Mei, I'm sorry. It's just a good intention to remind her to stay away from you, and I won't let myself become a jerk like you."
After getting the answer I wanted, Su Xiuran secretly heaved a sigh of relief, Su Xiuyan paused for a moment, and then said in a cold tone: "Brother, thank you for your recent movements that reminded me of everything back then, and then also Let me realize that no matter how much time has passed, my hatred for you has not diminished in the slightest." He lowered his voice, and said lightly but with deep-seated contempt, "After so many years, I still feel...why do you want to come back to life? ? Why don't you die?"
After he finished speaking, he cut off the call without giving Su Xiuran any time to react.
It took a while for Su Xiuran to take out the earphones that had no sound, and lightly put the phone with the blacked-out screen on the coffee table in front of him.
He sat on the sofa like that for a long time, until Lin Mei came down from the stairs after cleaning up. After seeing his figure, she leaned over and hugged him from behind, and said with a smile, "What are you thinking? So Trance?"
He turned his head and smiled at her, his lips were still soft: "It's nothing, I'm in a daze occasionally."
Lin Mei kissed him lightly on the lips, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the Great God is also in a daze, I really didn't expect it."
Su Xiuran smiled and rubbed her slightly damp hair.
Lin Mei was very sensible, never took the initiative to pry into his past, never asked him why he would hide his name under the identity of "dead", let alone why he rarely had contact with his family.
He even guessed that she would stand by his side, imagining him as an innocent and kind victim.
After all, what she saw was only the him now, the man who had gone through all kinds of changes and seen through all kinds of life, not the high-spirited him back then.
Many people can't realize what is the most important thing in life when they are still young, so they can't help being too cold and hard.
Back then, he was raised as the heir to the family kingdom, and his father's education required him to abandon "superfluous" feelings.
His father, Su Daolin, was a ruthless ruler in the eyes of many people, but he was a strict teacher and helpful friend in his eyes.
He and Su Xiuyan are not much different in age, and when they were young, they used to play together like brothers from other families.
The father paid more attention to him as the eldest son, and took him by his side to teach him personally since he was a teenager, but the younger brother spent more time with his mother who was gentle and sentimental by nature.
Over time, there was a lot of distance and estrangement between the brothers, and even the mother kept a polite and distant distance from him.
That year, he had just officially taken over the group's affairs, and his father, who was in his prime, suddenly fell ill. He had to worry about his father's illness, but also support the company and stabilize people's hearts when his father left. The pressure was very heavy.
He remembered that it was at that time that he couldn't hold back and coughed up blood during the company's high-level meeting.
At that time, he still remembered the surprised eyes around him. An heir who couldn't appear healthy and strong at such a moment would definitely be suspected.
The top management began to panic. They were afraid that after their father fell ill, the new leader would follow in his footsteps.
I don't know who leaked this news, and attached the photos that were secretly taken, so the doubts from the outside world continued to appear, and even caused the stock price of Shenyue to plummet.
The mother only knew that she shed tears silently in front of her father's hospital bed day and night, but her younger brother, who was in college, told his family that he fell in love with a senior sister who was a grade above him.He also proposed to drop out of school, because the senior sister was going abroad soon, and if he applied for a school after graduating from university, he would be forced to be separated from her for a year, so he might as well drop out of school and apply for a foreign undergraduate degree.
He knows that his younger brother is not the kind of ignorant second-generation ancestor. In fact, his younger brother has good academic performance, no bad habits, outgoing personality, enthusiasm and cheerfulness. He is a young man who can almost win the favor of everyone.
He tried to take time out from the overwhelming affairs to talk to his younger brother, telling him that it was irrational to drop out of school. If they fell in love, even if they were separated, it would not affect the relationship, not to mention that his father was seriously ill and he couldn't leave.
However, the younger brother who was overprotected by his mother was too naive. He thought that his father's condition would improve soon, and his lover was more important than anything else at that age.
He couldn't reason with his younger brother, and he couldn't spare too much energy to deal with this matter, so he used the most crude and simple method: tell his subordinates to persuade the girl, and if necessary, she can put her study abroad plan on hold.
His assistant at the time was a capable man left over from his father's era, and he carried out his orders faithfully and efficiently. Soon his brother's lover, a girl named "Jingyue", was accused of stealing public property, not only She was fined and expelled from school on the eve of graduation, and foreign schools also refused her admission.
He didn't pay too much attention to the progress of this trivial matter in his opinion at the time. He learned about the consequences of this matter from his angry brother.
The younger brother's lover, the young girl, couldn't stand the sudden blow and humiliation, so she chose to jump to her death from the top of the school building.
In the suicide note she left before her death, there was a sentence that she said to Su Xiuyan: I didn't know the price of falling in love with you was so high, and I regret knowing you.
Facing his younger brother who was so angry that he almost collapsed, he was shocked. He never thought that his simple order would lead to such a tragic result.
But who could he blame now?Blame the subordinate who faithfully fulfilled his orders?Or blame the person who executed it for using excessive means?
That was the first time he realized that he could not fully control the power inherited from the family, and it was also the first time he felt powerless towards reality.
Even before, even if the stock price was out of control, there were civil strife in the group, even if his father's condition was getting worse, even if his own body was beginning to be overwhelmed... He never felt this kind of powerlessness.
He was forged into a powerful and cold existence, and it is precisely because of this characteristic that he can take on great responsibilities in his 20s, but no one has ever told him that rigidity is extremely fragile, too sharp, and it will eventually kill him. People hurt themselves.
However, even though he was shocked and stunned, regretful, at that time, he really didn't have too much time and energy to allocate to his heartbroken brother.
He apologized to his brother, but it was considered posturing.He made people focus on taking care of the dead girl's parents and relatives in all aspects, but he was considered hypocritical.
He didn't know how to face his younger brother whose body seemed to be covered with sharp thorns overnight, and these sharp thorns were only pointed at him.
In front of other people, apart from being a little depressed, the younger brother was still that enthusiastic young man. He even spent more time by his father's bedside, trying his best to make his father, who was often in a coma, happy.
He felt a little relieved at that time, if his younger brother's hatred could be vented on him, it would make his younger brother feel better, that would be fine.He also thanked his younger brother for being able to replace him, who was incapable of doing things, and let his father enjoy the family happiness at the end of his life.
Less than two months after that incident, the seriously ill father passed away.
From the advanced stage of liver cancer to his death, my father persisted for half a year, which is not too short for similar diseases, but he was only in his 50s, so he died young.
Immediately following the death of his father, what remained was the handover of inheritance and shares, as well as the arrangements for the funeral.
He survived the darkest and most difficult time, but when everything was getting better and better, he passed out in the car on the way home late at night.
At that time, his body had actually issued multiple warnings, repeated hemoptysis, frequent chest cramps, and several brief faintings, all of which he forced himself to ignore.
Thinking about it afterwards, he often looked at himself at that time with condemning eyes. When he was young, he always liked to think that he was a lonely hero, walking on a road full of thorns and imagining that he would overcome everything.
But where is he a hero?He was just an ordinary person who couldn't even take care of himself. He didn't fully realize his insignificance until he collapsed alone and was sent to the operating room on the verge of life and death.
He underwent surgery and spent two weeks in the intensive care unit before fully regaining consciousness.
On the verge of death, he kept ordering himself to persevere, not to leave his mother and younger brother, who had just suffered the pain of their father's death, and did not need to bury another relative.
But when he completely got rid of the shadow of death and regained his senses, the mother who came to his bedside said to him hesitantly: After he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, the company mutinied and the pressure from outside public opinion was great.Because he has not been out of danger for a long time, the doctor also said that his situation is not optimistic. In order to stabilize people's hearts as soon as possible, she and Xiuyan announced his death.
After listening to his mother quietly, he found himself in an unimaginable embarrassing situation. When he still encouraged himself to live with his mother and younger brother, they had already given up on him.
He was silent for a long time, partly because he had just woken up and really didn't have the energy to say too much, partly because he didn't know what to say.
Then he saw some twinkles in his mother's eyes, and she was a little afraid. She avoided his gaze, not because she couldn't bear to see him sad, but because she was afraid of him... simply afraid, as if he was not her son , but some unreasonable tyrant.
Just waking up from a coma, he looked at his mother who was sitting in front of him, but still maintained a polite and distant attitude, and searched his memory carefully, hoping to find evidence that he was angry with her or spoke rudely.
But even though he was a little indifferent to others after he was a teenager, he never lost his temper with anyone, let alone his mother, even if he didn't express it all the time, he still respected her and loved her.
So mother is afraid of him because of his toughness and coldness on weekdays?Or unconsciously, the estrangement between their mother and child has reached the point where they cannot understand each other?
In the end, he still couldn't find a word to respond to her, so he could only close his eyes and let himself fall back into a deep sleep with the help of the weakness in his illness.
It has been two days since he woke up again, maybe because of his cold reaction, my mother didn't try to talk to him anymore, but every day when he was awake, she came to sit by his bed for a while, then got up and left.
Except for the customary greeting or two, neither of them said anything else.
He didn't ask what was going on with the company anymore, and he didn't care about the subsequent transfer of power. Since he was already "dead", the subsequent arrangements naturally had nothing to do with him.
This situation continued until more than a month later, when he recovered enough to go out to the fields, and he saw his younger brother for the first time after his illness.
In just one month, Xiuyan seemed to have lost his greenness overnight. He was wearing a dark suit and tie, and combed his hair back.
He was in a daze for a moment when he saw Xiuyan, and then realized that Xiuyan looked a lot like him...or himself before he fell ill.
After all, they are brothers connected by blood. Whether it is body shape or facial features, Xiuyan is seven or eight points similar to him, but he is always half a head taller than Xiuyan, and his shoulders are wider. After deliberately dressing up, he looks Will be more aggressive.
Standing in front of the window, seeing his younger brother who came unexpectedly, he couldn't help smiling at him, but his expression obviously angered Xiuyan.
The younger brother strode up to him, showing an extremely sarcastic smile: "Dear brother, are you very disappointed to find that the world can still function well without you?"
He seldom talked to people in those days, his voice was hoarse, and his words were a bit astringent: "Sorry."
What Xiuyan said next, he did not deliberately remember, but he never forgot, because the younger brother at that time, with such a sad expression and deep hatred, said to him slowly to ensure that he could understand every word. Can hear clearly: "I almost forgave you... brother... when I knew you were likely to die."
Xiuyan looked at him with pity: "Why can't you just die like that? If you died, I might have forgiven you, and maybe I still have a little bit of brotherhood towards you. Why do you want to come back alive? Don't you know that death is the best ending for you?"
Maybe he said "sorry" again, or maybe he couldn't say anything.
Then Xiuyan turned around and left. For the next few years, he never saw his younger brother again. Even if he was finally discharged from the hospital and left City S, the only one who came to see him off was his mother who still had a polite and cautious smile on his face.
Probably there will be no one who failed more than him, right?He once thought that he was indispensable, and he was unwilling to leave this world. However, when he really survived, he found that he was not loved by anyone, nor needed by anyone.
He never went back to Su's old house. Before he was discharged from the hospital, he suggested to his mother that since the news of his death had been announced to the public, there was no need to change it to make everything look like a farce. He still left City S and went to Living in other places, it is better not to set foot in the business circle.
It can be seen that at that time, she carefully concealed the relief and surprise in her heart, and asked him with some worry whether it would be very hard to be outside alone.
He smiled and said that it was just a matter of time to take a rest. It was not hard work, but it was more conducive to recuperation.
So my mother didn't object anymore.
After leaving S City, he realized that before marriage, his mother was an excellent professional woman, who was valued by her father because of her outstanding looks and talent, but she was imprisoned in a cage-like exquisite house for many years after marriage. Forced to be a good wife and mother.
After he left, Shenyue would certainly not collapse. With the help of his mother, Xiuyan supported the whole group. It has been thriving and prosperous for many years. Even if he is here, he will not do better than them.
It's just that after so many years, Xiuyan and his mother are still worried about him. His past performance may make them think that he will not be willing to hand over his power and status to others.
They are still monitoring his life by various means. He knows that there are always some people around who are quietly watching him after moving twice.
He always wears sunglasses and a mask carefully when he goes in and out, to prevent himself from being recognized and to reassure them.A low-key and cautious person who never shows his face naturally poses no threat.
In the past eight years, Lin Mei was the only exception. He actually fell in love and let a woman stay by his side for a long time.
He knew that he was testing their bottom line with various intimate actions... Now that he has cut off the connection with the past in terms of money and identity, will they allow him to start a new life?
He is not using Lin Mei, he is more eager than anyone else to protect her, but he really has no way to let go of the only person who may be the only one in his life.
If not, he would not have bought Lin Mei's rented house in a hurry when he was sure that he had a crush on Lin Mei, and let her move in with him.
If he didn't, he was afraid that Xiuyan and his mother would try to transfer Lin Mei away from the Xingwen book and kill their budding relationship.
Lin Mei turned sideways and kissed Su Xiuran's cheek again, and looked at him from a certain distance belatedly: "Are you feeling unwell, your complexion is a bit bad."
He lightly pinched the edge of her palm, shook his head and said, "It's okay, maybe it's because of the lighting."
Lin Mei raised her eyebrows: "Don't fool me, the light is the same color every day, and your face changes from time to time."
She has always been so smart and direct, Su Xiuran couldn't help but laugh, pulled her over to sit beside him, lowered his head and kissed her forehead lightly: "Lin Mei, thank you for coming to my side."
Although Su Xiuran has always been a master of love talk, if he doesn't make a move, it's nothing but a big move, but his confession this time is still too sudden, Lin Mei didn't have time to think about why he said that suddenly, she just blushed slightly, going He drilled into his arms: "Don't be like this It's kind of embarrassing."
Although she said she was fine, Lin Mei keenly noticed that Su Xiuran had a low fever again before going to bed.
In fact, he concealed it quite well, his expressions, movements, expressions and tone were all the same as usual, and he also cleverly avoided direct skin-to-skin contact with Lin Mei, so that she would not notice the strangeness.
But Lin Mei, who was born with the keenness of a detective, still saw something wrong from his unnatural complexion and slightly slack eyes, and forced him to the bed, took a temperature measurement, and sure enough—37.9 degrees, barely stuck On low fever.
Lin Mei gave Su Xiuran a slanted look, but fortunately the Great God can bend and stretch, so she specially bent her eyes and smiled at her, her voice was also very soft: "The temperature in spring is changeable, so it's easy to catch a cold..."
Lin Mei wanted to say that if she was sick, she would blame the weather, and the weather is also very innocent, have you ever thought about it!But thinking that he is the one who is sick, and he is the one who is suffering, it seems a bit too cruel to scold him by himself, so he can only sigh and look at him: "Take your medicine well, if you still have the fever tomorrow morning, I will call Dr. Cheng over. "
Su Xiuran quickly nodded in response, very cooperative: "The fever will definitely subside tomorrow morning, I have experience."
Lin Mei squinted at him, her gaze was clearly saying: Are you experienced because of your illness, or are you experienced because of being frightened by Dr. Cheng?Hearing that he is going to have a fever, you can retreat in an instant?
She was complaining crazily in her head, how could Su Xiuran not see it, he held her hand with a smile, and shook it lightly: "Don't worry, it's fine."
Lin Mei had some experience in dealing with the coquettish Su Dashen. She looked at him for a while, and finally leaned over and kissed the corner of his pale lips, "Good boy."
Chun Shenjun who didn't know when he ran upstairs suddenly jumped from the end of the bed to the head of the bed, then stepped on Su Xiuran's chest and raised his chin to give him a benevolent cry, then stretched out Lazy, curled up in a circle on the spot and lay down.
Lin Mei looked at the big hairball that was entangled in Su Xiuran's chest, squinting and started snoring, and then went to Su Xiuran again: "Is your chest tight? Are you panicking?"
Su Xiuran smiled calmly, nodded and said reservedly: "It's boring, it's so heavy."
Then you specially adjusted the posture, lying flat and pressing it?Lin Mei felt that Su Xiuran was working hard as a slave.
Su Xiuran smiled, feeling a little out of breath, but insisted: "It comforts me, I know... Whenever I feel uncomfortable, it will come to sleep with me."
God, are you sure you weren't directly crushed by it before and passed out?Or the master simply wanted to replace such a weak and sick slave if he crushed him to death?
Lin Mei thought about it for a while, and suddenly felt that the intimacy of a person and a cat was a bit of an eyesore, so she simply picked up Chun Shenjun and put him back at the end of the bed, while she went to bed and lay beside Su Xiuran, put her arms around his waist and said: "I decided to sleep with you tonight and monitor whether your fever has subsided."
Chunshen Jun calmly maintained his aura as the master, even if he was moved to the end of the bed, he just took a look at Lin Mei and then lay down and formed a circle.
Su Xiuran smiled and patted her shoulders: "Okay, thank you supervisor."
It's been a cold spring these days, and it's raining outside again. The cold and humid weather is not so cold that we need to turn on the heater, but it's really suitable for everyone to huddle together and sleep.
All the living creatures in the house had a good night's sleep in one bed in tacit agreement that night.
Maybe it was because Cheng Yu's deterrent effect was too great, or maybe it was because Su Xiuran really just had some cold symptoms. The next morning, his fever really subsided, and his spirit seemed much better.
Lin Mei looked at the thermometer with satisfaction and praised him: "As expected, I won't complain to Doctor Cheng."
After the alarm of the defendant was lifted, Su Xiuran became more calm and relaxed, and smiled gently with the corners of his lips bent: "I said it earlier."
Lin Mei was in a hurry to go out and didn't have time to complain about him, so she gave him an encouraging kiss: "Stay at home and rest obediently today!"
After sending away Lin Mei who seemed to be in a good mood humming a little song, Su Xiuran received a call when he was alone at home.
That was the landline phone number of Su's old house, which had remained unchanged for many years, and since he left, it has also maintained the frequency of calling at the beginning of every month for many years.
Today is not the day of the regular call. In fact, it has only been ten days since the last courtesy call, and there are still ten days before the beginning of next month.
At this time, the mother would choose to call, and it might have something to do with the phone call between Su Xiuyan, Lin Mei and herself yesterday.
Su Xiuran looked at the familiar number and sighed, paused for a moment before picking up the phone, and asked in a low voice, "Mom, how are you doing?"
The opposite was indeed his mother, Qu Yan, who hesitated for a while before replying, "Everything is fine, how about you, Xiu Ran?"
Su Xiuran still gave the same answer for many years, and said with a low laugh: "I am fine, I miss you."
He has kept in touch with his mother for many years, repeating these few polite words over and over again, but since the speaker is not bored, the listener can only follow suit.
Occasionally, he would feel a little helpless and tired. In the past eight years of greeting each other politely, Qu Yan never mentioned meeting him, let alone asking him to go home and have a look.
Even the Lunar New Year, which is the most important thing for Chinese people, on this day, how many relatives who seem to be far away from each other have to let go of their estrangement and forcefully squeeze out some joy of family reunion. His only two relatives left in this world have never thought of him.
How long is eight years, his mother and younger brother are public figures, and he can still see their handsome figures in various TV reports and magazine interviews, but they have never seen him again.
Maybe someone in charge of monitoring him secretly took photos of them... He is not very clear about this, and he doesn't know if his mother and younger brother are so disgusted that they are only willing to find out a little bit of his movements, or they will take a look at him by the way photo.
Today's phone call was the first exception in many years. Su Xiuran was silent after asking. Qu Yan is not the kind of person who suddenly thinks of someone to chat with when she has time. She must have a purpose for calling.
Sure enough, Qu Yan said, "Xiu Ran, I know from Xiu Yan that you have a girlfriend?"
Su Xiuran didn't intend to hide this point, he replied softly, with a bit of softness in his tone: "Yes, Lin Mei is a very good person."
Qu Yan was silent for a moment before continuing: "Xiu Ran, you also know that Xiu Yan has been single for so many years, and he hasn't given up on the matter of Jingyue back then..."
She hesitated to speak, but Su Xiuran sensed the signs, and said softly: "Mom, you can speak directly."
Qu Yan seemed to sigh, and said with some embarrassment: "Xiuyan is very angry about this matter, I am afraid that he will lose control of his emotions and do something irrational... The recent incidents in the Australian branch have also made him very tired .”
Su Xiuran felt a little ridiculous, rubbed the center of his brows, and tried to maintain a gentle voice and said to Qu Yan: "So what do you want me to do, Mom?"
Qu Yan hesitated for a moment, then continued: "So Mom wants to ask you to get a girlfriend later, in two years? Or in three or four years? Xiuyan won't be stuck in it all the time. A little forgotten, but recently I started to care..."
Su Xiuran couldn't answer her, maybe he had been away from the Su family for too long, and he had already moved away from the logic that is unique to the Su family.
He also reflected on himself, to see if there was something wrong with him, or what he said, that made Qu Yan feel that the matter of falling in love can be negotiated in such a way for him.
He thought for a while before whispering, "I'm sorry Mom, I can't promise you."
He wants to explain that meeting someone and falling in love with someone is not something that can be controlled, and since he is already in love, there is no reason to give up Lin Mei for the sake of his younger brother's feelings, it is too unfair to him and Lin Mei.
In the end, he still felt that the explanation was futile, so he repeated his insistence in a low voice: "Mom, I will not give up on Lin Mei, and I hope that you and Xiuyan can look at this matter rationally."
Afterwards, Qu Yan didn't say anything else, just said something about taking care of her health due to bad weather recently, and ended the call.
Although the phone call with Qu Yan only lasted a few minutes, Su Xiuran felt exhausted. Fortunately, Chun Shenjun, who was lying beside him, kept snuggling up to him with his warm little body, giving him comfort in the cold. Brings some warmth.
Putting down the phone, Su Xiuran stroked his chest with his hands. Fortunately, the heart surgery he underwent was very successful, and there have been few cases of angina in the past few years.
Even Cheng Yu also said that his prognosis is very good, as long as he pays attention to maintenance, it can basically be said that he has got rid of the influence of heart disease.
He laughed at himself as he thought about it, if it wasn't for knowing that his body had basically recovered and would not be shrouded in the shadow of death at any time, he wouldn't dare to let go of his heart and fall in love with someone.
Without tomorrow's love, where is love?It's just another torture.
(End of this chapter)
Time flies. In the past few days, Lin Mei has also finished editing "Sunshine". She spent a total of two weeks sorting out and editing the manuscript in detail.
When she printed out the carefully edited manuscript and handed it over to Su Xiuran for review, she was still a little apprehensive, and she didn't even dare to stay with Su Xiuran to directly observe the results, so she went downstairs to work to hide her uneasiness.
Su Xiuran looked very carefully, and when she wiped down the dining table three times downstairs, he slowly went downstairs with the stack of manuscripts.With a gentle smile on his lips, he smiled at her: "Very good, I agree to this modification."
Lin Mei threw away the rag in her hand in an instant, raised her hands and cheered: "Victory!"
Her changes are actually not big, even Su Xiuran's chapter titles have not been changed, only the breakpoints of the chapters have been adjusted, but when this book is released in the future, critics unanimously believe that it is Su Xiuran's first book ever written. It is the most tender book, and it can even be said that it is not just a mystery novel, but a classic love story.
Lin Mei broke Su Xiu's traditional habit of dividing chapters with suspense as the end, and placed the end and beginning of each chapter at the node of emotional exchange between the hero and heroine.
The mysterious and hazy tenderness is thus amplified and made even more impressive.
what is love?Love is that even if the sea dries up, the sky and the earth change color, even if the world changes, even if you look at it for a hundred years, there is still a complete universe between you and me.
After the trivial and tedious editing work was completed, the cover, format, and printed sheets were determined, and then the finished sample film was sent to the printing factory. Lin Mei went to the printing factory to supervise the color reproduction and the effect of the printed product in person.
Once she gets busy, she doesn't have the leisure time that she can work at home all day. She shuttles between the office, home, and the printing factory in the suburbs every day. My colleagues communicate with me about new book distribution and other matters. Every day, I go out at seven or eight o'clock in the morning and go home at seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
Fortunately, Su Xiu and then came to be obediently given seven days of liquid by Cheng Yu, obediently recuperating at home every day, and her health has improved a lot, so she doesn't need to worry.
This day was another busy day, and Lin Mei didn't come out of the printing factory until seven o'clock in the evening, which was the evening peak traffic time. She called Su Xiuran and told him that she would not be home until around eight o'clock. Let him not wait for himself to eat quickly.
As soon as he put down the phone, he received a call.
She had to answer a lot of calls in the past few days. Seeing that it was an unfamiliar call, she thought it was a contact person at work, so she immediately put on the earphones and answered it.
"Hello, Linmei, Xingwen Shu."
There was a moment of silence on the other side, and then there was a low laugh: "Hello...how should I call you?"
That voice is quite charming, deep and sweet, but even in hot weather, it can make people feel a little cold, he paused, and then spoke slowly: "Maybe it's this... My name The current girlfriend of the dead brother?"
Lin Mei was unable to speak for a long time. Listening to the voice on the phone, she tried to calm down her disturbed mind before asking, "Are you...Mr. Su Xiuyan?"
He was obviously very patient. Even though she hadn't said anything for a long time, she never hung up the phone. At this time, Lin Mei laughed happily when she heard him: "It's really an honor for me to be guessed. This proves that my dear My brother has not forgotten me."
Lin Mei didn't like Su Xiuyan's way of speaking very much. If Su Xiuran gave people the feeling of spring breeze, then Su Xiuyan gave people the feeling that it was full of thorns and thorns.
When she first guessed Su Xiuran's identity, she had found a video of Su Xiuyan being interviewed on the Internet. After all, he is the leader of a large company and can be called a public figure. Behavior can be called polite.
After living in Su Xiuran's house, she no longer paid attention to the news of Su Xiuran's family. She felt that it was due respect for Su Xiuran.
Lin Mei has always disliked people who are too strong, so she frowned involuntarily at this moment, and said in a tit-for-tat tone: "Don't worry, Xiu Ran never mentioned you to me."
The person on the other end of the phone suddenly laughed, but even though it sounded hearty, it still couldn't hide the malice in his voice.
Su Xiuyan obviously didn't intend to cover up this point, when the laughter stopped, he lowered his voice: "You really are just like I imagined, another poor little boy who was coaxed around by him."
Lin Mei couldn't help being chilled by his description for a while, Su Xiuran is obviously a novelist, why Su Xiuyan was born with a domineering president's lines, she couldn't help but sneered: "Thank you."
Su Xiuyan didn't care about her answer, and laughed maliciously: "Then Miss Lin, can you describe your impression of my dear brother?"
Lin Mei really wanted to hang up the phone directly, but she was not stingy when she praised "my man": "Polite and cultivated, gentle, upright and compassionate, quick thinking, calm and rational, and very patient. "
While talking, she complained silently in her heart: Anyway, she doesn't look like a person like you who talks eccentrically.It's also called "refinement of speech", it seems that you have to pay attention to your speech.
After Su Xiuyan heard this, he laughed softly. He had to say that no matter his appearance or voice, he was really similar to Su Xiuran, and he could only be said to be a real brother.
After laughing for a while, he finally showed mercy, and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Lin, I just made a few jokes when I talked to you the first time."
As he spoke, he paused for a moment and then said, "I'm also sorry that I found your private phone number through certain means. I feel obliged to tell you something. Originally, I planned to take the time to go to City B to have an interview with you in person. , But the business is really busy, so I can only talk a few words on the phone."
Lin Mei has a feeling that "the other party's IQ is finally on the line". Such a person has the ability to control a large consortium, and can be called the younger brother of someone like Su Xiuran. The previous style of painting is obviously wrong, okay?
With the helplessness of "You brothers really like acting", she replied: "It's okay, I don't care about such details, if you have anything to say to me, just say it directly."
Su Xiuyan stopped talking nonsense, and said straight to the point: "I know that you must distrust me more than my brother, but I hope you can understand...the reason why the Su family became what it is today is not unilaterally due to me and mom.
"We may have chosen the former between the company's interests and family affection, but that doesn't mean we have abandoned my brother. On the contrary, after those things happened, the person who kept alienating us and stubbornly chose to leave the Su family is my brother."
Lin Mei said firmly: "I don't know what happened back then that caused Xiu Ran to leave Su's family and live alone in City B, but I also know that choosing to cut off the relationship with my mother and younger brother is not a very pleasant feeling. things that no one would do without a great reason."
Su Xiuyan was silent for a while, and then said: "Miss Lin, I don't know if you have heard about my father's evaluation from the outside world. If not, I suggest you read the previous news reports. Although they are not true, But it can also be seen that my father is not a gentle and amiable patriarch.
"I don't need to hide this point. What I want to tell you is that my brother may not have shown you all of him... At that time, he was very similar to my father in terms of behavior and temperament, which was recognized by almost everyone. agree."
As he spoke, he seemed to know that Lin Mei was not someone who would listen to one side of the story, and added: "You can even verify this through many people. There is no need for me to tell such a simple lie."
What kind of person is Su Xiuran and Su Xiuyan's father, Su Daolin who passed away many years ago?
Lin Mei still remembered the reports she had read before. As a legendary figure who single-handedly controlled Shenyue Group in the most turbulent era of economic development and made it grow to the scale it is today, of course it cannot be summed up in a few simple words.
From the lines in the reports that Lin Mei read in the past few months, it can be seen that even after his death, Su Daolin's life was often criticized.What is being questioned is not his ability, skill and vision, but his cruelty, cold-bloodedness and moodiness.
When business transformation is needed, he can make thousands of employees unemployed without any hesitation. Leaving in embarrassment, the end is bleak.
The most intense criticism of him is probably the sentence: Su Daolin is a near-perfect manager, but he doesn't look like a human being with feelings.
Lin Mei was silent for a long time before she said, "Sorry, I can't talk about your family's problems."
There was no disappointment in Su Xiuyan's tone. When he stopped deliberately creating dramatic effects, he could be said to be well-mannered and impeccable in his wording. He just chuckled lightly: "Okay, then don't bother, this is My private number, if Ms. Lin is willing to save it, I will be waiting for you anytime."
Lin Mei also said goodbye politely and hung up the phone.
Unknowingly, she talked with Su Xiuyan for a long time, and after hanging up the phone, she remembered that there was another call that was not answered. She checked the call records and saw that the caller was Su Xiuran.
After taking a breath to adjust her mood, she called back and said briskly, "What's wrong? You can't wait to miss me."
Su Xiuran's voice was still gentle as always, and he smiled softly before saying: "It's nothing, it's just that I stewed chicken soup, if you have time, it's better to go home and eat."
It's always too late for Lin Mei to go back these days, sometimes when she's hungry, she doesn't wait to go home to eat, and eats casually outside.
But no matter how late she goes back, she can always see what Su Xiuran left for her, sometimes it's a bowl of porridge, sometimes it's half a pot of soup, showing careful care.
Su Xiuyan's phone call just now was instantly forgotten by her, and she couldn't help but lower her voice: "Okay, I'll go back soon."
It was past eight o'clock when she rushed home, Su Xiuran had eaten dinner, but was still waiting for her in the living room reading a book.
When she pushed the door and went in, he looked up at her and smiled, "Thank you."
Lin Mei shook her head and smiled back: "It's okay, it's all like this at work."
Looking at his gentle smile as before, Lin Mei inevitably thought of Su Xiuyan's words... Was Su Xiuran once a moody and unkind person?She couldn't imagine it.
Even if Su Xiuran sometimes showed some character traits other than gentleness and elegance, it was usually a temporary and purposeful behavior, such as when they met for the first time or when they pressed Zhang Guo.
Lin Mei is a sensitive person, and she always feels that those violent and vicious things that appear in his body often have a little imperceptible dissonance, which is enough to prove that it is not his original character.
But just as Su Xiuyan said, there is no need for him to tell such an easily exposed lie to discredit his "dead" brother.
Lin Mei thought about it, so she didn't go to the kitchen, but walked over and sat beside Su Xiuran, looked him in the eyes and said, "Before I came back, I received a call."
Su Xiuran still watched her walk to him with a faint smile, he could see that Lin Mei was worried, so he waited for her to speak the truth.
Lin Mei hesitated for a moment, but still said, "It's your brother calling."
The smile on Su Xiuran's lips did not change, but Lin Mei caught a fleeting gloomy look in his gaze: "Do you want to practice words?"
He didn't even ask what Lin Meisu Xiuyan said to her, as if he already knew what his younger brother would think of him, so there was no need to ask.
Lin Mei couldn't bear to see him sad, so she quickly held his hand and said, "No matter what he said, I only believe in my own judgment. I am willing to use my own sensibility and reason to find out what kind of person you are. "
Su Xiuran smiled at her, held her hand instead, and said reassuringly, "I know, I believe in you."
Lin Mei couldn't help but leaned over, hugged his body, leaned her head on his chest and said softly: "Xiu Ran, no matter what your past was, all I see is you now...you have already Good enough."
It was rare for her to say such emotional words, Su Xiuran hugged her shoulders and patted her back lightly, and said softly, "Thank you."
When Lin Mei went upstairs to take a shower after dinner, Su Xiuran dialed the number he knew by heart, and the deep voice from the other side still carried the usual coldness and sarcasm when facing him: "My dear brother, I just It's just a phone call to your cute little girlfriend, and you can't sit still?"
Su Xiuran lowered his voice: "Xiuyan, I know you still hate me, but Lin Mei is an outsider, I hope you don't disturb her."
Su Xiuyan's uncontrollable laughter came from the other end of the microphone. He laughed and said coldly: "Really? What about Jingyue? Isn't Jingyue also an outsider? Why does Jingyue, who is also an outsider, need to bear your burden?" The maliciousness of this cruel bastard, but the woman you fell in love with should be well protected? Don't you think it's unfair, my dear brother?"
Su Xiuran couldn't help closing his eyes lightly, he knew he shouldn't bring up this topic, but the so-called caring is messy, if he avoids talking about it, he really doesn't know how deep Su Xiuyan's resentment is, and he Are you going to hurt Lin Mei?
Su Xiuran took a deep breath, and said quietly: "Xiuyan, you are essentially a person with clear grievances and grievances, and I don't want you to make mistakes."
The other side was silent for a while, Su Xiuran, who knew his younger brother well, knew that he probably choked Su Xiuyan, and then he heard Su Xiuyan sneer and say as he wished: "Thank you for your compliment, don't worry, for Lin Mei, I'm sorry. It's just a good intention to remind her to stay away from you, and I won't let myself become a jerk like you."
After getting the answer I wanted, Su Xiuran secretly heaved a sigh of relief, Su Xiuyan paused for a moment, and then said in a cold tone: "Brother, thank you for your recent movements that reminded me of everything back then, and then also Let me realize that no matter how much time has passed, my hatred for you has not diminished in the slightest." He lowered his voice, and said lightly but with deep-seated contempt, "After so many years, I still feel...why do you want to come back to life? ? Why don't you die?"
After he finished speaking, he cut off the call without giving Su Xiuran any time to react.
It took a while for Su Xiuran to take out the earphones that had no sound, and lightly put the phone with the blacked-out screen on the coffee table in front of him.
He sat on the sofa like that for a long time, until Lin Mei came down from the stairs after cleaning up. After seeing his figure, she leaned over and hugged him from behind, and said with a smile, "What are you thinking? So Trance?"
He turned his head and smiled at her, his lips were still soft: "It's nothing, I'm in a daze occasionally."
Lin Mei kissed him lightly on the lips, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the Great God is also in a daze, I really didn't expect it."
Su Xiuran smiled and rubbed her slightly damp hair.
Lin Mei was very sensible, never took the initiative to pry into his past, never asked him why he would hide his name under the identity of "dead", let alone why he rarely had contact with his family.
He even guessed that she would stand by his side, imagining him as an innocent and kind victim.
After all, what she saw was only the him now, the man who had gone through all kinds of changes and seen through all kinds of life, not the high-spirited him back then.
Many people can't realize what is the most important thing in life when they are still young, so they can't help being too cold and hard.
Back then, he was raised as the heir to the family kingdom, and his father's education required him to abandon "superfluous" feelings.
His father, Su Daolin, was a ruthless ruler in the eyes of many people, but he was a strict teacher and helpful friend in his eyes.
He and Su Xiuyan are not much different in age, and when they were young, they used to play together like brothers from other families.
The father paid more attention to him as the eldest son, and took him by his side to teach him personally since he was a teenager, but the younger brother spent more time with his mother who was gentle and sentimental by nature.
Over time, there was a lot of distance and estrangement between the brothers, and even the mother kept a polite and distant distance from him.
That year, he had just officially taken over the group's affairs, and his father, who was in his prime, suddenly fell ill. He had to worry about his father's illness, but also support the company and stabilize people's hearts when his father left. The pressure was very heavy.
He remembered that it was at that time that he couldn't hold back and coughed up blood during the company's high-level meeting.
At that time, he still remembered the surprised eyes around him. An heir who couldn't appear healthy and strong at such a moment would definitely be suspected.
The top management began to panic. They were afraid that after their father fell ill, the new leader would follow in his footsteps.
I don't know who leaked this news, and attached the photos that were secretly taken, so the doubts from the outside world continued to appear, and even caused the stock price of Shenyue to plummet.
The mother only knew that she shed tears silently in front of her father's hospital bed day and night, but her younger brother, who was in college, told his family that he fell in love with a senior sister who was a grade above him.He also proposed to drop out of school, because the senior sister was going abroad soon, and if he applied for a school after graduating from university, he would be forced to be separated from her for a year, so he might as well drop out of school and apply for a foreign undergraduate degree.
He knows that his younger brother is not the kind of ignorant second-generation ancestor. In fact, his younger brother has good academic performance, no bad habits, outgoing personality, enthusiasm and cheerfulness. He is a young man who can almost win the favor of everyone.
He tried to take time out from the overwhelming affairs to talk to his younger brother, telling him that it was irrational to drop out of school. If they fell in love, even if they were separated, it would not affect the relationship, not to mention that his father was seriously ill and he couldn't leave.
However, the younger brother who was overprotected by his mother was too naive. He thought that his father's condition would improve soon, and his lover was more important than anything else at that age.
He couldn't reason with his younger brother, and he couldn't spare too much energy to deal with this matter, so he used the most crude and simple method: tell his subordinates to persuade the girl, and if necessary, she can put her study abroad plan on hold.
His assistant at the time was a capable man left over from his father's era, and he carried out his orders faithfully and efficiently. Soon his brother's lover, a girl named "Jingyue", was accused of stealing public property, not only She was fined and expelled from school on the eve of graduation, and foreign schools also refused her admission.
He didn't pay too much attention to the progress of this trivial matter in his opinion at the time. He learned about the consequences of this matter from his angry brother.
The younger brother's lover, the young girl, couldn't stand the sudden blow and humiliation, so she chose to jump to her death from the top of the school building.
In the suicide note she left before her death, there was a sentence that she said to Su Xiuyan: I didn't know the price of falling in love with you was so high, and I regret knowing you.
Facing his younger brother who was so angry that he almost collapsed, he was shocked. He never thought that his simple order would lead to such a tragic result.
But who could he blame now?Blame the subordinate who faithfully fulfilled his orders?Or blame the person who executed it for using excessive means?
That was the first time he realized that he could not fully control the power inherited from the family, and it was also the first time he felt powerless towards reality.
Even before, even if the stock price was out of control, there were civil strife in the group, even if his father's condition was getting worse, even if his own body was beginning to be overwhelmed... He never felt this kind of powerlessness.
He was forged into a powerful and cold existence, and it is precisely because of this characteristic that he can take on great responsibilities in his 20s, but no one has ever told him that rigidity is extremely fragile, too sharp, and it will eventually kill him. People hurt themselves.
However, even though he was shocked and stunned, regretful, at that time, he really didn't have too much time and energy to allocate to his heartbroken brother.
He apologized to his brother, but it was considered posturing.He made people focus on taking care of the dead girl's parents and relatives in all aspects, but he was considered hypocritical.
He didn't know how to face his younger brother whose body seemed to be covered with sharp thorns overnight, and these sharp thorns were only pointed at him.
In front of other people, apart from being a little depressed, the younger brother was still that enthusiastic young man. He even spent more time by his father's bedside, trying his best to make his father, who was often in a coma, happy.
He felt a little relieved at that time, if his younger brother's hatred could be vented on him, it would make his younger brother feel better, that would be fine.He also thanked his younger brother for being able to replace him, who was incapable of doing things, and let his father enjoy the family happiness at the end of his life.
Less than two months after that incident, the seriously ill father passed away.
From the advanced stage of liver cancer to his death, my father persisted for half a year, which is not too short for similar diseases, but he was only in his 50s, so he died young.
Immediately following the death of his father, what remained was the handover of inheritance and shares, as well as the arrangements for the funeral.
He survived the darkest and most difficult time, but when everything was getting better and better, he passed out in the car on the way home late at night.
At that time, his body had actually issued multiple warnings, repeated hemoptysis, frequent chest cramps, and several brief faintings, all of which he forced himself to ignore.
Thinking about it afterwards, he often looked at himself at that time with condemning eyes. When he was young, he always liked to think that he was a lonely hero, walking on a road full of thorns and imagining that he would overcome everything.
But where is he a hero?He was just an ordinary person who couldn't even take care of himself. He didn't fully realize his insignificance until he collapsed alone and was sent to the operating room on the verge of life and death.
He underwent surgery and spent two weeks in the intensive care unit before fully regaining consciousness.
On the verge of death, he kept ordering himself to persevere, not to leave his mother and younger brother, who had just suffered the pain of their father's death, and did not need to bury another relative.
But when he completely got rid of the shadow of death and regained his senses, the mother who came to his bedside said to him hesitantly: After he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, the company mutinied and the pressure from outside public opinion was great.Because he has not been out of danger for a long time, the doctor also said that his situation is not optimistic. In order to stabilize people's hearts as soon as possible, she and Xiuyan announced his death.
After listening to his mother quietly, he found himself in an unimaginable embarrassing situation. When he still encouraged himself to live with his mother and younger brother, they had already given up on him.
He was silent for a long time, partly because he had just woken up and really didn't have the energy to say too much, partly because he didn't know what to say.
Then he saw some twinkles in his mother's eyes, and she was a little afraid. She avoided his gaze, not because she couldn't bear to see him sad, but because she was afraid of him... simply afraid, as if he was not her son , but some unreasonable tyrant.
Just waking up from a coma, he looked at his mother who was sitting in front of him, but still maintained a polite and distant attitude, and searched his memory carefully, hoping to find evidence that he was angry with her or spoke rudely.
But even though he was a little indifferent to others after he was a teenager, he never lost his temper with anyone, let alone his mother, even if he didn't express it all the time, he still respected her and loved her.
So mother is afraid of him because of his toughness and coldness on weekdays?Or unconsciously, the estrangement between their mother and child has reached the point where they cannot understand each other?
In the end, he still couldn't find a word to respond to her, so he could only close his eyes and let himself fall back into a deep sleep with the help of the weakness in his illness.
It has been two days since he woke up again, maybe because of his cold reaction, my mother didn't try to talk to him anymore, but every day when he was awake, she came to sit by his bed for a while, then got up and left.
Except for the customary greeting or two, neither of them said anything else.
He didn't ask what was going on with the company anymore, and he didn't care about the subsequent transfer of power. Since he was already "dead", the subsequent arrangements naturally had nothing to do with him.
This situation continued until more than a month later, when he recovered enough to go out to the fields, and he saw his younger brother for the first time after his illness.
In just one month, Xiuyan seemed to have lost his greenness overnight. He was wearing a dark suit and tie, and combed his hair back.
He was in a daze for a moment when he saw Xiuyan, and then realized that Xiuyan looked a lot like him...or himself before he fell ill.
After all, they are brothers connected by blood. Whether it is body shape or facial features, Xiuyan is seven or eight points similar to him, but he is always half a head taller than Xiuyan, and his shoulders are wider. After deliberately dressing up, he looks Will be more aggressive.
Standing in front of the window, seeing his younger brother who came unexpectedly, he couldn't help smiling at him, but his expression obviously angered Xiuyan.
The younger brother strode up to him, showing an extremely sarcastic smile: "Dear brother, are you very disappointed to find that the world can still function well without you?"
He seldom talked to people in those days, his voice was hoarse, and his words were a bit astringent: "Sorry."
What Xiuyan said next, he did not deliberately remember, but he never forgot, because the younger brother at that time, with such a sad expression and deep hatred, said to him slowly to ensure that he could understand every word. Can hear clearly: "I almost forgave you... brother... when I knew you were likely to die."
Xiuyan looked at him with pity: "Why can't you just die like that? If you died, I might have forgiven you, and maybe I still have a little bit of brotherhood towards you. Why do you want to come back alive? Don't you know that death is the best ending for you?"
Maybe he said "sorry" again, or maybe he couldn't say anything.
Then Xiuyan turned around and left. For the next few years, he never saw his younger brother again. Even if he was finally discharged from the hospital and left City S, the only one who came to see him off was his mother who still had a polite and cautious smile on his face.
Probably there will be no one who failed more than him, right?He once thought that he was indispensable, and he was unwilling to leave this world. However, when he really survived, he found that he was not loved by anyone, nor needed by anyone.
He never went back to Su's old house. Before he was discharged from the hospital, he suggested to his mother that since the news of his death had been announced to the public, there was no need to change it to make everything look like a farce. He still left City S and went to Living in other places, it is better not to set foot in the business circle.
It can be seen that at that time, she carefully concealed the relief and surprise in her heart, and asked him with some worry whether it would be very hard to be outside alone.
He smiled and said that it was just a matter of time to take a rest. It was not hard work, but it was more conducive to recuperation.
So my mother didn't object anymore.
After leaving S City, he realized that before marriage, his mother was an excellent professional woman, who was valued by her father because of her outstanding looks and talent, but she was imprisoned in a cage-like exquisite house for many years after marriage. Forced to be a good wife and mother.
After he left, Shenyue would certainly not collapse. With the help of his mother, Xiuyan supported the whole group. It has been thriving and prosperous for many years. Even if he is here, he will not do better than them.
It's just that after so many years, Xiuyan and his mother are still worried about him. His past performance may make them think that he will not be willing to hand over his power and status to others.
They are still monitoring his life by various means. He knows that there are always some people around who are quietly watching him after moving twice.
He always wears sunglasses and a mask carefully when he goes in and out, to prevent himself from being recognized and to reassure them.A low-key and cautious person who never shows his face naturally poses no threat.
In the past eight years, Lin Mei was the only exception. He actually fell in love and let a woman stay by his side for a long time.
He knew that he was testing their bottom line with various intimate actions... Now that he has cut off the connection with the past in terms of money and identity, will they allow him to start a new life?
He is not using Lin Mei, he is more eager than anyone else to protect her, but he really has no way to let go of the only person who may be the only one in his life.
If not, he would not have bought Lin Mei's rented house in a hurry when he was sure that he had a crush on Lin Mei, and let her move in with him.
If he didn't, he was afraid that Xiuyan and his mother would try to transfer Lin Mei away from the Xingwen book and kill their budding relationship.
Lin Mei turned sideways and kissed Su Xiuran's cheek again, and looked at him from a certain distance belatedly: "Are you feeling unwell, your complexion is a bit bad."
He lightly pinched the edge of her palm, shook his head and said, "It's okay, maybe it's because of the lighting."
Lin Mei raised her eyebrows: "Don't fool me, the light is the same color every day, and your face changes from time to time."
She has always been so smart and direct, Su Xiuran couldn't help but laugh, pulled her over to sit beside him, lowered his head and kissed her forehead lightly: "Lin Mei, thank you for coming to my side."
Although Su Xiuran has always been a master of love talk, if he doesn't make a move, it's nothing but a big move, but his confession this time is still too sudden, Lin Mei didn't have time to think about why he said that suddenly, she just blushed slightly, going He drilled into his arms: "Don't be like this It's kind of embarrassing."
Although she said she was fine, Lin Mei keenly noticed that Su Xiuran had a low fever again before going to bed.
In fact, he concealed it quite well, his expressions, movements, expressions and tone were all the same as usual, and he also cleverly avoided direct skin-to-skin contact with Lin Mei, so that she would not notice the strangeness.
But Lin Mei, who was born with the keenness of a detective, still saw something wrong from his unnatural complexion and slightly slack eyes, and forced him to the bed, took a temperature measurement, and sure enough—37.9 degrees, barely stuck On low fever.
Lin Mei gave Su Xiuran a slanted look, but fortunately the Great God can bend and stretch, so she specially bent her eyes and smiled at her, her voice was also very soft: "The temperature in spring is changeable, so it's easy to catch a cold..."
Lin Mei wanted to say that if she was sick, she would blame the weather, and the weather is also very innocent, have you ever thought about it!But thinking that he is the one who is sick, and he is the one who is suffering, it seems a bit too cruel to scold him by himself, so he can only sigh and look at him: "Take your medicine well, if you still have the fever tomorrow morning, I will call Dr. Cheng over. "
Su Xiuran quickly nodded in response, very cooperative: "The fever will definitely subside tomorrow morning, I have experience."
Lin Mei squinted at him, her gaze was clearly saying: Are you experienced because of your illness, or are you experienced because of being frightened by Dr. Cheng?Hearing that he is going to have a fever, you can retreat in an instant?
She was complaining crazily in her head, how could Su Xiuran not see it, he held her hand with a smile, and shook it lightly: "Don't worry, it's fine."
Lin Mei had some experience in dealing with the coquettish Su Dashen. She looked at him for a while, and finally leaned over and kissed the corner of his pale lips, "Good boy."
Chun Shenjun who didn't know when he ran upstairs suddenly jumped from the end of the bed to the head of the bed, then stepped on Su Xiuran's chest and raised his chin to give him a benevolent cry, then stretched out Lazy, curled up in a circle on the spot and lay down.
Lin Mei looked at the big hairball that was entangled in Su Xiuran's chest, squinting and started snoring, and then went to Su Xiuran again: "Is your chest tight? Are you panicking?"
Su Xiuran smiled calmly, nodded and said reservedly: "It's boring, it's so heavy."
Then you specially adjusted the posture, lying flat and pressing it?Lin Mei felt that Su Xiuran was working hard as a slave.
Su Xiuran smiled, feeling a little out of breath, but insisted: "It comforts me, I know... Whenever I feel uncomfortable, it will come to sleep with me."
God, are you sure you weren't directly crushed by it before and passed out?Or the master simply wanted to replace such a weak and sick slave if he crushed him to death?
Lin Mei thought about it for a while, and suddenly felt that the intimacy of a person and a cat was a bit of an eyesore, so she simply picked up Chun Shenjun and put him back at the end of the bed, while she went to bed and lay beside Su Xiuran, put her arms around his waist and said: "I decided to sleep with you tonight and monitor whether your fever has subsided."
Chunshen Jun calmly maintained his aura as the master, even if he was moved to the end of the bed, he just took a look at Lin Mei and then lay down and formed a circle.
Su Xiuran smiled and patted her shoulders: "Okay, thank you supervisor."
It's been a cold spring these days, and it's raining outside again. The cold and humid weather is not so cold that we need to turn on the heater, but it's really suitable for everyone to huddle together and sleep.
All the living creatures in the house had a good night's sleep in one bed in tacit agreement that night.
Maybe it was because Cheng Yu's deterrent effect was too great, or maybe it was because Su Xiuran really just had some cold symptoms. The next morning, his fever really subsided, and his spirit seemed much better.
Lin Mei looked at the thermometer with satisfaction and praised him: "As expected, I won't complain to Doctor Cheng."
After the alarm of the defendant was lifted, Su Xiuran became more calm and relaxed, and smiled gently with the corners of his lips bent: "I said it earlier."
Lin Mei was in a hurry to go out and didn't have time to complain about him, so she gave him an encouraging kiss: "Stay at home and rest obediently today!"
After sending away Lin Mei who seemed to be in a good mood humming a little song, Su Xiuran received a call when he was alone at home.
That was the landline phone number of Su's old house, which had remained unchanged for many years, and since he left, it has also maintained the frequency of calling at the beginning of every month for many years.
Today is not the day of the regular call. In fact, it has only been ten days since the last courtesy call, and there are still ten days before the beginning of next month.
At this time, the mother would choose to call, and it might have something to do with the phone call between Su Xiuyan, Lin Mei and herself yesterday.
Su Xiuran looked at the familiar number and sighed, paused for a moment before picking up the phone, and asked in a low voice, "Mom, how are you doing?"
The opposite was indeed his mother, Qu Yan, who hesitated for a while before replying, "Everything is fine, how about you, Xiu Ran?"
Su Xiuran still gave the same answer for many years, and said with a low laugh: "I am fine, I miss you."
He has kept in touch with his mother for many years, repeating these few polite words over and over again, but since the speaker is not bored, the listener can only follow suit.
Occasionally, he would feel a little helpless and tired. In the past eight years of greeting each other politely, Qu Yan never mentioned meeting him, let alone asking him to go home and have a look.
Even the Lunar New Year, which is the most important thing for Chinese people, on this day, how many relatives who seem to be far away from each other have to let go of their estrangement and forcefully squeeze out some joy of family reunion. His only two relatives left in this world have never thought of him.
How long is eight years, his mother and younger brother are public figures, and he can still see their handsome figures in various TV reports and magazine interviews, but they have never seen him again.
Maybe someone in charge of monitoring him secretly took photos of them... He is not very clear about this, and he doesn't know if his mother and younger brother are so disgusted that they are only willing to find out a little bit of his movements, or they will take a look at him by the way photo.
Today's phone call was the first exception in many years. Su Xiuran was silent after asking. Qu Yan is not the kind of person who suddenly thinks of someone to chat with when she has time. She must have a purpose for calling.
Sure enough, Qu Yan said, "Xiu Ran, I know from Xiu Yan that you have a girlfriend?"
Su Xiuran didn't intend to hide this point, he replied softly, with a bit of softness in his tone: "Yes, Lin Mei is a very good person."
Qu Yan was silent for a moment before continuing: "Xiu Ran, you also know that Xiu Yan has been single for so many years, and he hasn't given up on the matter of Jingyue back then..."
She hesitated to speak, but Su Xiuran sensed the signs, and said softly: "Mom, you can speak directly."
Qu Yan seemed to sigh, and said with some embarrassment: "Xiuyan is very angry about this matter, I am afraid that he will lose control of his emotions and do something irrational... The recent incidents in the Australian branch have also made him very tired .”
Su Xiuran felt a little ridiculous, rubbed the center of his brows, and tried to maintain a gentle voice and said to Qu Yan: "So what do you want me to do, Mom?"
Qu Yan hesitated for a moment, then continued: "So Mom wants to ask you to get a girlfriend later, in two years? Or in three or four years? Xiuyan won't be stuck in it all the time. A little forgotten, but recently I started to care..."
Su Xiuran couldn't answer her, maybe he had been away from the Su family for too long, and he had already moved away from the logic that is unique to the Su family.
He also reflected on himself, to see if there was something wrong with him, or what he said, that made Qu Yan feel that the matter of falling in love can be negotiated in such a way for him.
He thought for a while before whispering, "I'm sorry Mom, I can't promise you."
He wants to explain that meeting someone and falling in love with someone is not something that can be controlled, and since he is already in love, there is no reason to give up Lin Mei for the sake of his younger brother's feelings, it is too unfair to him and Lin Mei.
In the end, he still felt that the explanation was futile, so he repeated his insistence in a low voice: "Mom, I will not give up on Lin Mei, and I hope that you and Xiuyan can look at this matter rationally."
Afterwards, Qu Yan didn't say anything else, just said something about taking care of her health due to bad weather recently, and ended the call.
Although the phone call with Qu Yan only lasted a few minutes, Su Xiuran felt exhausted. Fortunately, Chun Shenjun, who was lying beside him, kept snuggling up to him with his warm little body, giving him comfort in the cold. Brings some warmth.
Putting down the phone, Su Xiuran stroked his chest with his hands. Fortunately, the heart surgery he underwent was very successful, and there have been few cases of angina in the past few years.
Even Cheng Yu also said that his prognosis is very good, as long as he pays attention to maintenance, it can basically be said that he has got rid of the influence of heart disease.
He laughed at himself as he thought about it, if it wasn't for knowing that his body had basically recovered and would not be shrouded in the shadow of death at any time, he wouldn't dare to let go of his heart and fall in love with someone.
Without tomorrow's love, where is love?It's just another torture.
(End of this chapter)
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