Mu Lianshen raised his eyes to look at him, his voice was dazed, "Don't you remember? I looked for you, I asked you to beat me up to vent your anger, I asked you to speak your mind,"

His voice was almost out of control. "You scolded me, you hit me, you took out your anger on me,"

"Zhai Jiu, you didn't do anything and still chatted happily with us. I thought you had let it go."

"You've been awkward for twenty years!!!"

"I asked you to open your heart more than once, but you just looked at me with calm eyes, and spoke and acted without any grudges."

"When did you become so patient?"

Once again the air was silent...

They looked at each other in silence.

The mood calmed down a bit, and conversation could be heard again in the quiet garden.

"Besides," Mu Lianshen's eyes darkened, and he continued, "Your transfer had nothing to do with me."

"I didn't know before that the woman in your heart was Shushu,"

"When I found out, Shushu and I were already in love with each other. Feelings are not something that can be given away easily..."

"The most important thing is that Shushu has no interest in you, Xiaojiu, you should understand that,"

"I have never done anything wrong to you. Over the years, I have done everything I should do as a brother. If you really can't let go, then let's... just... do this."

Mu Lianshen's breathing became rapid. He looked at Zhai Jiu and realized that he was lowering his head.

Zhai Jiu pursed his lips tightly, as if he was trying hard to control his emotions, and a storm was gathering in his deep eyes.

The transfer had nothing to do with him?

Yes, it should have nothing to do with him.

Mu Lianshen is a person who would never do such a thing.

"Zhai Jiu..." Mu Lianshen frowned and said in a deep voice: "Did you listen to what I said?"

Zhai Jiu lowered his eyes to suppress the surging emotions in his eyes, raised his head to look at him, and smiled bitterly, "I know she has no intention of me in her heart,"

"Even if she marries you and has a miserable life, or even loses her life, you are still the only one in her heart."

Mu Lianshen's expression suddenly froze, and the color in his face gradually faded. "Yes, he lost his life."

"What did she tell you at that time..."

"Tell me," the voice was still low, but for some reason one could hear a plea in it.

Zhai Jiu stood with his back to Mu Lianshen, his hands hanging down. "After you got married, I felt very uncomfortable and wanted to escape and go to a faraway place to make a living."

"I don't want to hear about your love affair, nor do I want to hear the nagging at home, so I will cut off all news from Beijing."

"I didn't expect that..." Zhai Jiu raised his head with a mysterious expression.

Unexpectedly, when I got the news again, everything had changed.

"I searched for a long time and found her. At that time, Jingshu had given birth to a child for more than a year."

"She looked like a completely different person. Although she still looked the same as before, I could see that she looked very bad."

Even though she was able to move freely, even though she was still working as a doctor, he could still see from her eyes that she would not live long.

Zhai Jiu was furious at that time. The woman he could not let go of became like that.

The anger in my heart could hardly be suppressed.

He said indifferently, "I wanted to drag you to her to atone for your sins. I don't care if you have just recovered from a serious illness or if you have other hidden secrets. It is a fact that you did not take good care of her."

Mu Lianshen's heart was tightly gripped.

All of a sudden, there was a suffocating silence. Only the dim light in the corner was struggling to support the light of this world, shining on the faces of those confused, painful and lonely people.

After a long time, Zhai Jiu suddenly said, "She stopped me from coming to you and told me to pretend that I had never seen this and not to interfere."

Mu Lianshen was shocked and he suddenly looked at Zhai Jiu.

Zhai Jiu looked into the distance, as if he was looking at a deceased friend. Although the woman looked haggard, she was still as calm as ever.

The look he gave the child was full of tenderness and reluctance.

"She said, you'll find out sooner or later,"

"She said you are very smart and will understand her intention."

"She said it's not your fault, it's her own choice."

"She said that even though she made that choice, you are the only one in her heart, no one else."

With each sentence, Zhai Jiu's voice became lighter...

He retracted his gaze, turned around and looked at Mu Lianshen who had already been unsteady on his feet, "Look, even if she was harmed like this because of you, she still has you in her heart."

"As for that choice, Mu Lianshen, as smart as you are, you should have guessed it long ago, right?"

"Even if I'm hiding it from you, I'm probably doing it for your own good, because I can't stand seeing her like that. If you saw her, would you be able to bear it?"

"She was afraid that you couldn't bear it, so she told me not to look for you. Since you already thought she was dead, I won't let you suffer the pain of losing her again. She won't live long anyway."

"She would rather die than give birth to your child,"

His gaze turned back to Mu Lianshen, whose eyes were bloodshot, and his slightly cold lips curled up in a mocking arc.

"I wonder if she has been thinking in her heart that you will soon discover the truth, without anyone reminding you, and find out that something is wrong, find your children, and punish the murderer who killed them."

"But you haven't discovered the problem in more than ten years."

Zhai Jiu's pupils were dark, like a bottomless whirlpool, emitting a biting chill.

"Why..."

"Mu Lianshen, why would such a beautiful woman suffer this disaster because of you, but still not blame you?"

"I'm jealous beyond belief, because we are still brothers. I want to kill you to avenge her, but I can't because your last name is Mu and mine is Zhai. We can't even become enemies."

"After I retired from the army, my family always used you to suppress me. Whenever you made achievements in the army, I was always the first to know."