"Dad, don't say such harsh things," Huo Junyu retorted stubbornly.
"Unpleasant to hear?" Huo Zhixing sneered. "I'm telling the truth! Huo Junyu, you're the eldest son of the Huo family. Is this how you show your younger brother? You want him to learn these disreputable things from you?"
"Dad!" Huo Junyu took a deep breath, trying to suppress his emotions, and explained word by word, "First, I don't know this woman. I was attending the annual meeting that day, and it ended very late. I wasn't on guard at all when she pounced on me!"
"Secondly, I deny everything that happened before!"
"So, it was those women who took the initiative?" Huo Zhixing raised an eyebrow.
Huo Junyu nodded earnestly.
"you……"
"Dad, I have a third point to make." Huo Junyu paused slightly, and when he looked up again, a deep look flashed in his eyes.
"Even if... even if I really do have a girlfriend, it's perfectly acceptable!"
"What did you say?" Huo Zhixing was taken aback.
Huo Junyu simply poured out his heart all at once: "I know that you and Mom have always remembered the marriage agreement with the Lu family, and you hope that I will remember it too... But the Lu family's daughter is no longer here. She has been missing for eighteen years! Why are you still so stubborn?"
"Shut up!" Huo Zhixing was both shocked and angry, his emotions running high. Jiang Can quickly supported him, gently stroking his chest and constantly comforting him in his ear.
"Junyu, shut up!" Jiang Can scolded. "Your father didn't say anything wrong, why are you arguing with him? You said these news reports are fake, but you were indeed very close to them, which is why you were photographed. You weren't wronged!"
"mom……"
"And another thing," Jiang Can's voice trembled slightly, "back then, Xiao Youzi disappeared without a trace, neither alive nor dead. She simply vanished! Your Uncle Lu has been searching for her all these years!"
"Why do you insist on deceiving yourselves?" Huo Junyu felt a pang of pain in his heart. "If we could find it, we would have found it long ago!"
"Junyu!"
"Can't you two be normal for once! Do you really have to make me stick to this engagement? Every time there's news like this, you two call me back to interrogate me! Does the loss of Xiaoyouzi mean I can't have happiness in the future?"
Jiang Can was speechless after being asked that question.
Huo Zhixing was so angry that she wanted to slap him, but she gently held her hand down.
Jiang Can thought that her son was actually right. But for some reason, ever since Xiaoyouzi disappeared eighteen years ago, she always felt guilty for having two sons.
Lin Yuqing and Lu Lishan miscarried their first child, and their second child went missing.
As their good friend, Jiang Can gradually felt a strange sense of guilt about her own happiness.
She knew this was wrong... but she just didn't know how to get rid of this thought, or how to change the strange behavior it caused.
For example, although she didn't say it explicitly, she was against Huo Junyu finding a girlfriend.
“Junyu,” Jiang Can said softly, “Xiaoyouzi…she’s gone, haven’t we had clues all these years?”
"We have clues, but we just can't find them!" Huo Junyu raised his voice.
Huo Zhixing raised his hand and threw the teacup away. It fell to the ground and shattered with a loud bang.
Huo Junyu stood silently to the side.
Jiang Can looked at him quietly. Her son had been obedient since he was a child, but when he got stubborn, he was just like a bull.
She had personally witnessed several confrontations between the father and son.
Huo Junyu not only looks exactly like Huo Zhixing, but their temperaments are also identical.
He responds better to gentle persuasion than force, never shows his emotions, and disdains to explain himself.
Even the depth in their eyes is the same.
A complex feeling suddenly welled up in Jiang Can's heart.
She and Huo Zhixing always felt that they were still young, and when they worked hard at the company, they were no less capable than young people. But now, seeing how Huo Junyu has grown up, she felt as if she had suddenly aged.
Those years are still vivid in my mind, but I can never go back.
Ultimately, this "battle" ended with Huo Zhixing and Jiang Can leaving the scene prematurely.
Only then did Huo Junyang dare to show his face, using the game console to cover half of it, and secretly gave Huo Junyu a thumbs up.
"Brother, you're amazing!" Huo Junyang said with a hint of schadenfreude. "You even dare to mess with Mom and Dad!"
Huo Junyu glanced at him but didn't say anything.
"But honestly, I also think they're both acting really strange." The second child continued playing his game. "Maybe in Mom and Dad's eyes, their relationship with the Lu family is too deep! So when that little pomelo is gone, it's like they've lost their own daughter!"
"Yangyang," Huo Junyu suddenly asked him, "Do you think Xiaoyouzi is still alive?"
"Huh?" The second brother was stumped by the question. He scratched his head and replied, "Big brother, I've completely forgotten about this! I don't even remember what she looks like!"
Yes, Huo Junyu doesn't remember either, after all, Lu Xiaoyou was only a little over a year old when she disappeared.
That photo of him and her is the only thing that reminds him of what she looks like, and now it's yellowed with age.
Huo Junyu felt somewhat depressed.
For the first time in his life, he had the thought of escaping this family.
...
The door to the women's restroom at Jiangzhou University was locked from the inside by someone.
People outside couldn't get in, but they could hear shouting, cursing, and screaming coming from inside.
Several girls surrounded another girl, eager to teach her a "lesson." Although the girl being surrounded was outnumbered, she was not weak at all. Just as the girl in the lead lunged at her to slap her, she nimbly dodged, and the girl slipped and crashed into the mirror above the sink.
Luckily, the mirror glass was sturdy, otherwise she would have had to walk sideways out today.
"Jiang Mianmian, you're asking for it!"
"You're the one courting death." Jiang Mianmian's gaze was cold. "Be grateful that our school uses high-quality glass! Otherwise, your face would have been scratched by glass shards!"
"you……"
With the leader down, the remaining few dared not make any rash moves.
"Next time you want to fight, find another place!" Jiang Mianmian sneered. "At least find a place where you won't slip and fall flat on your face!"
"Ah—" Gu Zihan could only vent her anger by screaming.
The others stepped forward and forcefully pressed Jiang Mianmian, who was about to leave, against the sink. Jiang Mianmian resisted for a while, but she was outnumbered and one of them grabbed her face and pressed her hard against the sink.
"Ha, you little bitch!" Gu Zihan tugged at her hair. "You still dare to laugh at me? Laugh all you want!"
"You guys have some nerve! You actually dared to instigate supermarket owners throughout the city to boycott our drinks? You've got some nerve!"
Jiang Mianmian's face was pressed against the marble, while the other half of her face was poked hard by Gu Zihan, causing her great pain.
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