Your Most Faithful Companion

Cen Sen remembers the day when he returned to the West Lane of the South Bridge, a light rain pattered, raindrops hitting the puddles on the ground, and splashes of water jumped out. The sky was gray and uneven, like dirty water from a washed cloth.

Not only that day, but for a long time after returning to Nanqiao West Alley, he always seemed to see such a gloomy sky.

It is cool, gloomy, lifeless and invisible at a glance, but it has a strong holding force, and all the short bright colors are also cast in gray.

When he transitioned from childhood to a period of adolescence, when he was not embarrassed or embarrassed, he seemed to be covered with such a gray tone.

Being immersed in the past life that was far away from him, unilaterally rejected all goodwill from the outside world.

After a long, long time, he and Ji Mingshu's daughter Cen Zhuo grew up slowly, and they looked more and more like the quiet and reduced version of Ji Mingshu.

He would often think back when he saw Cen Zhuo, if many years ago he accepted the little girl Ji Mingshu bravely stretched out his hand to show his favor, then many of the dark times that he walked alone should have been bright.

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In Cen Sen's impression, Ji Mingshu has always been a beautiful and noisy girl. Arrogant and self-willed, arrogant, as if he could live as the center of the universe no matter where he was, and naturally required all asteroids to revolve around her.

When Cen Sen was in the third grade, Ji Mingshu was just in the first grade. During that year, Cen Sen’s probability of hearing the name "Ji Mingshu" was higher than the probability of hearing the name of the class teacher.

By the time he entered high school, the pressure of study increased sharply, and the students' interest in gossip after lunch and dinner was slightly reduced, but the middle school and high school of the affiliated high school were not separated, and Ji Mingshu was still the central figure in the school’s various conversations.

"The second year Ji Mingshu and the monitor of the next squad walked very close."

"Have you heard that the captain of the track team is chasing Ji Mingshu."

"Someone sent flowers to the second grade class during class yesterday. We will hear criticism from the whole school later in class. Lao Yang will definitely not let us write test papers. Good thing!"

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News like this circulates from Cen Sen's ears day after day, and you can always remember a few words sporadically without deliberately.

At the end of the evening self-study, Cen Sen always used to go to the library and stay for an hour or two before returning to the dormitory. Because the dormitory is no less noisy than Ji Mingshu, it is difficult to concentrate on studying after returning.

Of course, this does not mean that he will not have to suffer from the topic of non-nutrition when he comes back for an hour or two.

Talking at night when the bedroom lights are turned off, no matter what the topic is, the school girls always get around inexplicably.

One night roommates discussed:

"Hey, didn't I overslept this morning? I also met Li Wenyin and Ji Mingshu at the school gate. The point was deducted for shortening school uniform skirts. It wasn't me. Ji Mingshu is so beautiful. When I put on the short skirt, the legs are white and straight. It's so straightforward! It's not an exaggeration, I really didn't want to blink my eyes."

"Li Wenyin is also pretty good. The quality of their girls in this class is really good. Unlike our class, you can count them with one hand, right?"

"Li Wenyin looks pretty good, but it's still too far behind Ji Mingshu, a bit indifferent."

Boys in adolescence can’t help being restless, and discussions about female classmates happen from time to time. Every time someone throws up a conversation, everyone’s enthusiasm for speaking unconsciously soars exponentially. The people who are not interested in the topic of girls in the full bedroom are probably only Cen Sen and Jiang. thorough.

At that time, Jiang Che was playing information competitions, and every day he slept, he wanted to write code silently in his subconscious mind. Most of the people who were interrupted would be impatiently stunned by him.

But Cen Sen is gentle and quiet. Although there is always a sense of alienation, he maintains a good classmate relationship with most people and is still the boss in the dormitory. At the end of the discussion, most of the conversation will go to him again.

"Hey, Sen, Ji Mingshu and Li Wenyin, which type do you prefer?"

"Then you need to ask, for sure, Li Wenyin, aren't you sending sub-questions?" A roommate answered him with teasing.

Like Ji Mingshu, Cen Sen himself is also a man of the school, with fresh scandals from time to time. One of the more widely spread is that he and Li Wenyin are childhood sweethearts and their relationship is very ambiguous.

Cen Sen heard about it occasionally, but didn't take it to heart.

Li Wenyin lived in Ji's family when he was a child. If this is a childhood sweetheart, then he and Ji Mingshu seem to have no reason not to.

Usually someone interrupted the topic and ended up without a problem, but after the interruption that night, the roommate chased after Cen Sen and asked, "Hey Sen, you haven't said yet, which one do you like?"

Cen Sen lay flat on the bed, looking at the ceiling above his head with the sparse moonlight outside the window, and he usually answered, "Like Li Wenyin."

The roommates prolonged the tone of "Oh" meaningfully, followed by unexpected laughs and teasing.

But Censen responded to Li Wenyin, but in his mind he couldn't help but remember that when Ji Mingshu passed by him, his chin was slightly raised, chewing gum bubbles, and his eyes rolled secretly.

Ji Mingshu, the little girl often doesn't walk well. When she is happy, she likes to bounce with her hands behind her back and her toes briskly on tiptoe.

However, the legs under the pleated skirt were indeed the same as his roommate said, white and shiny, straight and slender.

At that time, his thoughts were extremely short, and he didn't have the mood to think about it. The more he got busy with his studies, he was so busy until he graduated from high school.

When Li Wenyin asked him to confess, he just got a letter of recommendation from the principal, and then had a relatively rare and valuable rest time.

He has reached the age when he can fall in love, and when he has time, someone confesses that it is the type he admired at the time, which is completely opposite to Ji Mingshu-then try it.

In his view at the time, this seemed to be the same as trying to do a set of competition questions that he hadn't done before. It was a simple and no need to think about it. Including the peaceful breakup that was later felt inappropriate, the same logic was applied from his point of view.

Emotionally, Cen Sen felt that he could be regarded as an exquisite egoist. He never imagined that one day he would treat a woman unconditionally.

After peacefully breaking up with Li Wenyin, he went abroad to study. During the years of studying abroad, his time was fully arranged, but his emotional experience was blank.

After returning to China, he had an extraordinary relationship with Ji Mingshu at the reunion of classmates. Later, the reason for the extraordinary relationship was probably because Ji Mingshu had always been so attractive to him. Later, it is also a predictable result that marriage is driven by the interests of both families.

In fact, after marrying Ji Mingshu for a long time, he did not feel that the marriage had brought much change to his life, or that there was a change without knowing it. He did not notice it until he returned from Australia. The relationship between him and Ji Mingshu is not like before.

He became more and more concerned about the vase wife's every move. After he became an adult, Ji Mingshu was still as arrogant and arrogant as before. The earth seemed to be revolving around her alone to be perfect. But this arrogance seems to have more freshness that he didn't know before, which is not offensive at all, and even makes people want to obey inexplicably.

In his rational definition, this was originally a marriage that was not very important. After the Ji family's utilization value decreased, it didn't matter much to dissolve this marriage. But when Ji Mingshu asked him for a divorce for the first time, he didn't feel relieved, on the contrary, he was a little unhappy out of control.

Later, his mood was always affected by Ji Mingshu and changed uncontrollably. No matter how busy you are, as long as you are free, you seem to have something in your mind.

Really confirming his own mind was probably at the time when Ji Mingshu misunderstood him and Li Wenyin's old relationship and ran away from home.

One night when he and Jiang Che went to a bar together, he overheard someone talking about Ji Mingshu uncleanly. For the first time in his life, he worked with someone, without thinking or considering the consequences.

The funny thing is that before that, he always felt that using violence to solve problems was a very stupid thing.

After finishing his hands that night, he drove the cold wind downstairs Ji Mingshu for a long time.

Probably from that night, he knew very well that he was planted.

Recognizing this fact, his mood was not complicated, and he even smiled unconsciously in a moment of relief.

If you are planted, you will be planted.

If you live a lifetime, you should meet a destined nemesis.

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Cen Sen and Ji Mingshu formally fell in love in the third year of their marriage. They gave birth to their first baby in the fifth year and the second in the twelfth year.

Ji Mingshu was thirty-four years old when he gave birth to the second child, Zhubao. He still looked like a girl in her early twenties. His personality still had innocence that shouldn't belong to this age.

This is probably because of being too well protected. From a family of two to a family of three to a family of four, Cen Sen’s top pick has always been Ji Mingshu, a small canary baby.

In the fifteenth year of marriage, the baby canary, who has always been alive, fell ill and needed surgery.

At first, I was unwell and went to the hospital for examination, and then I found a shadow.

Ji Mingshu usually spreads her teeth and dances her claws, but she is actually a little bit courageous, and she loves to think about it, even dieting and starving can make up for an incurable disease in her brain. Waiting for the result is undoubtedly a long torture for her.

For Cen Sen, it was also a torture.

Ji Mingshu did not show the slightest strangeness in front of the child, even pretending to be relaxed in front of him, always saying "our family is so rich, what disease can't be cured", but one night, he found that Ji Mingshu got up and hid Crying secretly on the balcony.

He walked over slowly and hugged her from behind.

Ji Mingshu cried more fiercely, and she whimpered, "You said I would have cancer, in fact, I...I'm so afraid...I'm so afraid of death...I can't bear you, I can't bear the baby, I really can't bear it..."

He rubbed Ji Mingshu's head lightly, his warm breath tossed around her ears, but he could not speak comforting words.

That seemed to be the weakest moment in his first half of his life.

During that time, he and Ji Mingshu both lost a lot of weight. Later, the results of the examination revealed that it was a benign tumor and required resection.

He put down all the work on hand to accompany him throughout.

The operation was fairly simple, and it was completed smoothly, but it was a knife. After the operation, Ji Mingshu recuperated for a long time before returning to his vigorous appearance.

But Cen Sen suddenly realized that they were not as young as they were in their teens and 20s.

When Ji Mingshu was ill, he had prepared for the worst. If Ji Mingshu left first, he would take the place of Ji Mingshu to fulfill his duties as a parent and a mother, raise Cen Yan and Cen Zhuo to adults, watch them get married and start a business, and then go to her without worry.

He was lonely all his life, because Ji Mingshu, he stole a lot of warm years, so he couldn't let this coward wait for a long time alone.

I remember many years ago, he went to meet an investor named Chang in the South Bay Project. That Mr. Chang is a well-known Gu's family. He always said in conversations that money cannot be made out, and that he has to spend more time with his family.

He didn't care at that time, but now he feels that no matter how much he gets, it doesn't seem to make any sense without Ji Mingshu sharing it with him.

His work arrangements have been greatly reduced, and many things have been delegated to the younger generations of the Cen family cultivated over the years.

He will plan reasonable and healthy three meals a day for Ji Mingshu, accompany Ji Mingshu to shopping malls, participate in activities, travel with Ji Mingshu, and even plan early that Cen Yan will completely transfer the Cen family when he grows up, and the two have lived in the two-person world. Retirement life.

While traveling in Morocco, Ji Mingshu clamored to send postcards to her good sisters Gu Kaiyang and Jiang Chun.

He also sent one by the way, addressed to Ji Mingshu.

There is a sentence written in Xingkai above-

"Baby, in this life, long or short, I will be the one to accompany you to the end. Thank you for breaking into my life without warning."