Luo Jiuyu returned to the study and found that the cell phone on the desk was still on.
Only then did he remember that Mu Siran was chatting with him.
Three unread messages.
[We met briefly yesterday and didn’t have time to catch up properly]
Where are you currently working? How have you been these past few years?
The third message was sent ten minutes after the above message.
[I'm filming a commercial, let's meet up when we have time]
Luo Jiuyu's finger hovered slightly above the screen, and finally tapped it lightly, replying: "Something just delayed me. I'll treat you to dinner when you're free."
After sending the message, he put the phone aside, rubbed his temples, and various scenes from the past involuntarily emerged in his mind.
During these five years, he spent the first three years studying for a master's degree in the United States while starting his own business.
None of the Luo family knew that he was studying abroad. He would return to Tiancheng for a few days during holidays, and his grandparents would occasionally come to see him.
Even Li Xiang didn't know what he was doing abroad at that time.
Working hard alone in a foreign country, starting from the bottom, experiencing countless setbacks and frustrations, and experiencing the warmth and coldness of human nature.
During those difficult days, only Amo stayed with him and persevered through it.
They built the business foundation of Huanyu Group step by step.
By leveraging their professional expertise, they have an extraordinary understanding of future technological development and are able to seize the dividends of the times to develop artificial intelligence.
With this as a basis, the business will grow bigger and bigger.
During this period, his biological father Luo Mingzhe did not call him once. He did not care about what he was doing or how he was doing.
From childhood to adulthood, he had been a dispensable character in the Luo family. He was even the target of bullying by his brothers and sisters.
When I was a child, I had a family gathering. My brothers and sisters and three aunts’ children played together in the Luo family’s garden, and carefree laughter filled the garden.
He wanted to join them and play along, but was pushed and insulted.
If there were no adults around, they would beat him.
"You are a dog, you are a dog."
"Your mother is shameless and a mistress."
"Your parents don't want you, they don't like you, and we don't like you either."
"Go as far away as you can, look who likes you!"
The first time he experienced this, he was only four or five years old and in kindergarten. At that time, he was ignorant and was excluded by others, but he just cried and got over it.
Later, as he experienced this more and more, facing his father's indifference and his mother's absence, he began to doubt himself.
I doubt myself and am not a good kid, so no one loves me. I doubt myself and am not good enough, so no one likes me.
After entering elementary school, he never took the initiative to play with his older brothers and sisters again.
However, my three aunts later settled abroad, and those cousins were no longer in Tiancheng.
However, his half-brother Luo En and half-sister Luo Qingqing continued to exclude him and instructed his classmates to distance themselves from him.
Only Mu Siran treated him gently every time he saw him.
When she visited Luo's house and saw Luo En bullying him, she would pull Luo En away.
Luo Qingqing scolded him for being the son of a bad woman, and Mu Siran would hand him tissues when he hid and cried secretly.
She was the ray of light that God sent to save him in his dark childhood.
The young man of the past relied on the little warmth she gave him to lick the wounds of his youth and rely on it to heal himself.
After a while, the phone screen lit up, and it was Mu Siran's reply.
I'm looking forward to hearing your stories from these past few years. After I finish filming this commercial, can we have a late-night snack together?
Luo Jiuyu looked at the message, the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised, and there was a hint of tenderness in his eyes that was rarely seen before.
My mood, which had just been disturbed by the flowers and berries, returned to normal.
[Okay, I'll wait for you]
He was looking forward to meeting Mu Siran.
Those suppressed emotions, after last night's reunion, revived and grew wildly in my heart.
His long-silent heart suddenly became full of life, like a dead tree in spring.
Eleven o'clock.
After reading all the documents, he finally received a message from Mu Siran.
The location is around a 24-hour porridge shop, which is very famous in Tiancheng.
Luo Jiuyu came out of the study and went back to his room to change clothes.
When I passed by the living room, I found Hua Meimei sitting on the sofa, soaking her feet and watching TV.
So young and already practicing health preservation? He silently withdrew his gaze.
Hua Meimei didn't know whether she was engrossed in watching TV or was deliberately ignoring him. In short, he went from the study to the bedroom, changed his clothes from the bedroom, and came out to the entrance to get the key. She never looked at him.
Before leaving, he looked back at her.
Blossomberry noticed him looking at her out of the corner of her eye, and she looked down at the time displayed on her phone.
It's so late, and you're still going out? Are you going out in the middle of the night to meet your sweetheart?
"Blossomberry--"
He suddenly called her name.
Her back suddenly straightened and her breathing slowed.
"I was wrong about what happened tonight. I shouldn't have interfered with your interactions with the opposite sex. We were just a fake couple to begin with."
The door then closed and he left.
He actually apologized.
Her tense back suddenly relaxed, and she leaned back on the sofa, letting out a long breath.
Fake couple.
How ironic.
He is the one who doesn't want to get divorced. If he has the guts, he can get a divorce!
Who would want to be a fake couple with you?
I don't want to.
They say that taking from someone is a debt of gratitude, and she used her to offset the money the Hua family owed his family. Shortly after getting married, not only did she fail to fulfill her wifely duties, she even wanted a divorce. From an outsider's perspective, she was clearly in the wrong, acting like she was defrauding someone of their betrothal gift.
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