Chapter 53 Chapter 53 Dreams and reality are opposites...

After Ye Anyu fell asleep, Lu Mingzhou recited the Heart Sutra many times in his mind, finally extinguished his anger, and fell asleep in a daze.

After sleeping for about four or five hours, he was suddenly awakened by a cry of "Why?" He thought it was time to get up and go to work, but when he opened his eyes, he found that it was still dark outside the window.

It turned out that Ye Anyu was talking in her sleep. He approached Ye Anyu in the dim light and touched her face to comfort her. He didn't know until he touched her that Ye Anyu was crying.

Lu Mingzhou was suddenly at a loss and could only pat her shoulder gently as if to coax a child.

When Ye Anyu woke up, she felt Lu Mingzhou's comfort. Her tears were still wet, but she didn't want Lu Mingzhou to notice her crying. She paused before saying, "I'm sorry, brother, for disturbing your sleep."

Lu Mingzhou held her in his arms, comforting her while saying, "An Yu, it's okay, it's okay."

Hearing Lu Mingzhou's words that sounded like coaxing a child, Ye Anyu finally escaped from the nightmare. She couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother, are you coaxing me like a child?"

Lu Mingzhou did not deny that, whether in the past or now, in his eyes, Ye Anyu was a child who had not grown up yet.

Ye Anyu lay in Lu Mingzhou's arms. After a moment, he asked, "Brother, aren't you going to ask me what I dreamed about?"

Lu Mingzhou followed her words and asked, "What did you dream about?"

Ye Anyu said: "It's not a good dream." But it is a microcosm of her life over the past twenty years.

Lu Mingzhou said, "As the saying goes, dreams and reality are opposites, and things in dreams should not be taken seriously."

Ye Anyu said "hmm" softly.

Lu Mingzhou said, "An Yu, I haven't heard you talk about your mother yet."

Ye Anyu had indeed never mentioned her in front of Lu Mingzhou. Although Ye Anyu was young when she first arrived at the Lu family, she knew some of the ways of the world, so in this new home, she had never mentioned her biological mother.

Ye Anyu said: "Brother, do you want to listen?"

Lu Mingzhou said softly: "Well, can you tell me about it?"

Ye Anyu changed her posture and rubbed against Lu Mingzhou's arms. Her whole body was surrounded by Lu Mingzhou's breath. After pausing for a moment, she finally spoke.

Ye Anyu actually doesn't have many memories about her biological mother, Lin Yiman. She was very young at the time, and after arriving in her new home, she was timid and frightened all day long. She only recalled her mother many times in the middle of the night when she couldn't sleep.

Ye Anyu's mother, Lin Yiman, met her ex-husband, Ye Heshuo, at university. Lin Yiman was very smart since she was a child and was the first person in her small town to be admitted to a prestigious university.

Lin Yiman not only has good academic performance, but is also tall and gentle, especially her big watery eyes, which anyone who sees them cannot help but praise. So people in the town say that Lin Yiman does not look like a girl from a small town, but more like she grew up in a scholarly family.

When Lin Yiman went to the city for university, the people in the town really said good things about her, because even among the girls in the city, there were few who could compare with her. Even if she didn't dress up, she would be the focus of everyone's attention when she stood at the university gate wearing clothes bought in the town.

In addition, she attended one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and when she stood at the school gate, she looked even more gentle and charming.

This is how he met Ye Heshuo. To be more precise, it was under such circumstances that Ye Heshuo approached her.

To be honest, Ye Heshuo is a handsome guy. Moreover, city people know how to dress up, which forms a sharp contrast with those unsophisticated boys in the town. Lin Yiman couldn't help but have a good impression of him.

The result is predictable. Under Ye Heshuo's persistence, Lin Yiman agreed to be his girlfriend when she was in her sophomore year.

In any case, in the eyes of outsiders, the two are still a perfect match. They were in love passionately in college. Although they broke up several times and were obstructed by their grandmother when they were talking about marriage, they finally couldn't persuade her and the two finally entered the palace of marriage.

One of the reasons why their marriage was obstructed at that time was that the two were not from the same social class. Lin Yiman was just a small town girl, while Ye Heshuo was a rich second-generation. After graduating from university, Ye Heshuo followed in his father's footsteps and joined his father's company, and Lin Yiman followed him in.

It can be said that the two were in harmony when they got married. Not long after, Lin Yiman became pregnant, and now she is Ye Anyu. After she became pregnant, Ye Heshuo asked Lin Yiman to resign from the company and stay at home to take care of the baby, and had a nanny serve her with delicious food and drink every day.

Although she felt physically uncomfortable during pregnancy, Lin Yiman still felt that she was very happy.

After Ye Anyu gave birth, Ye Heshuo stopped Lin Yiman from going to work, saying that if both of them went to work, who would take care of their daughter? They were not a family short of money. Lin Yiman thought about it and felt that Ye Heshuo was right. Plus, her parents-in-law also wanted the same thing, so Lin Yiman decided to stay at home and be a full-time housewife.

Perhaps rich men, with material abundance, have time to think about other things. Lin Yiman discovered that Ye Heshuo had someone outside when Ye Anyu was three years old.

What's ridiculous is that Lin Yiman knew that person. He was a good friend of Lin Yiman in college. It was Lin Yiman who figured out when they got together.

They had been sleeping together at least a year before they got married, because when Lin Yiman found out, the woman had already given birth to a son and a daughter for Ye Heshuo. The son was one year older than Ye Anyu, and the daughter was one year younger than Ye Anyu.

This was the first time Lin Yiman had experienced such a thing, and she broke down emotionally. Ye Anyu was still young at that time, and only had vague memories in his mind, but this kind of thing was undoubtedly a huge blow to anyone.

Anyone else would cry and curse, and Lin Yiman wanted to do the same, but she suddenly calmed down. She thought of what her mother, Ye Anyu's grandmother, said before she decided to marry Ye Heshuo.

"Manman, it's not that I don't want you to marry Ye Heshuo, but the conditions of our two families are too different. A marriage between people from different social classes is bound to have one person compromise, and that person will most likely be you."

Lin Yiman was young and energetic at the time, and free love was advocated at that time. She had never experienced these things, so how could she listen to her mother's warnings? In the end, she married Ye Heshuo regardless of the consequences.

Lin Yiman is a decisive person. When she saw Ye Heshuo's true face, she immediately decided to divorce. She immediately collected evidence, sorted out her resume, and applied for a job, so that she could take Ye Anyu with her when she divorced.

Finally, half a year later, when Lin Yiman had enough savings and a stable job, she filed for divorce from Ye Heshuo.

Ye Heshuo disagreed at first and pretended to be affectionate. Later, when Lin Yiman threw the evidence in his face, he realized that what he did was not perfect. Finally, after a long divorce lawsuit, Lin Yiman took Ye Anyu away from that home.

Lin Yiman is not a self-pitying person. She has strong execution ability, graduated from a prestigious university, and has strong working ability, so after the divorce, she no longer plans to rely on men.

Lin Yiman first sent Ye Anyu back to the town and asked her mother to help raise her for more than a year. A year later, she bought a house in the city and brought her mother and Ye Anyu over. They lived a happy and leisurely life in the intervening years.

Until Ye Anyu's grandmother fell ill. She had a son and a daughter, so Ye Anyu had an uncle. However, that uncle went abroad after graduating from university and later married a foreign wife. He rarely returned home afterwards.

People of my grandmother's age had poor family conditions when they were young and suffered a lot. In addition, after divorcing her husband, she raised two children alone, which caused her to become ill from overwork and her health has always been poor.

When her grandmother was ill, Ye Anyu was already over six years old and knew a lot of things. In addition, she was sensible and had a deep affection for her grandmother, so during that time, she often took care of her grandmother at her bedside during the summer vacation.

In order to treat her grandmother's illness, Lin Yiman almost spent all their savings and even sold the house they bought, but in the end she still failed to bring her grandmother back from the brink of death.

The mother, Lin Yiman, was deeply shocked by this incident. Perhaps she felt that it was because of her disobedience at the time that this result occurred. She was depressed for a long time.

However, for the sake of her daughter, Lin Yiman cheered herself up again, but the blows from one thing after another were too great for her. Within two years, Lin Yiman also fell ill, and it was an incurable disease.

Looking at her daughter who was not even ten years old, Lin Yiman could no longer hold back and broke down crying.

Not long after crying, Lin Yiman contacted Ye Heshuo again. After all, Ye Anyu was his daughter.

After Ye Heshuo learned about Lin Yiman's situation, whether out of pity for Bai Yueguang or for his own daughter, he gave Lin Yiman some money for her medical treatment and promised to take good care of his daughter.

Lin Yiman did not survive in the end and passed away when Ye Anyu was ten years old. After borrowing money from her father to take care of her mother's funeral, the ten-year-old Ye Anyu was taken back to Bei'an, to a strange place called home.

At the same time, she was also told that she had to repay her father's kindness to her mother with her marriage. It was under such circumstances that she, anxious and afraid of the unknown, met the sixteen-year-old Lu Mingzhou on the rooftop in the dark.

Before she was ten years old, Ye Anyu felt that she lacked luck in her short life. After she turned ten, she discovered that her luck didn't seem to be particularly bad.

Until now, she can say with certainty that God has been kind to her by letting her meet Lu Mingzhou.

When Ye Anyu talked about these things, he did not look bitter or resentful, but his tone was very relaxed. However, the more he did so, the more distressed Lu Mingzhou felt.

He hugged Ye Anyu tightly in his arms, his eyes dark and deep, full of regret and annoyance. Why didn't he treat her better earlier?

Ye Anyu noticed Lu Mingzhou's mood and smiled, "Brother, none of this has anything to do with you. On the contrary, I'm lucky to have you. It's you who gives me the motivation to keep moving forward."

Lu Mingzhou stroked Ye Anyu's long hair and said, "Anyu, can you take me to see my mother when you have time?"

Ye Anyu's mother, Lin Yiman, was confined to the hospital ward shortly after she fell ill and has never regained consciousness. She is now in a nursing home in Bei'an.

Ye Anyu nodded and said "hmm" softly.

Before I knew it, it was already bright outside the window and the sun jumped out from the earth.