Never stop
What exactly is wrong?
Jiang Qing leaned against the corner and looked forward.
The boy skillfully took a detour at a leisurely pace, standing out among the crowd of people hurrying to avoid the sudden rain.
He walked a long way, from dusk to the lights coming on, from bright lights to scattered lights, from heavy rain to the sound of rain gradually dying down. Just when Jiang Qing suspected that Li Liang would walk together forever, the boy suddenly changed direction.
He entered a small supermarket and could vaguely see the boy walking between the shelves through the transparent window.
Seeing people coming out, she quickly hid behind the billboard and waited for a while before she quietly peeked out.
Li Liang sat on a chair outside the supermarket, relaxed, and slowly unwrapped the rice ball in his hand.
Jiang Qing: ...
This person wouldn't travel all the way to this godforsaken place just to buy a rice ball.
How delicious that rice ball must be, so delicious that Li Liang must have eaten so much that his brain went crazy. But now at this chaotic time, he still has the mood to eat a rice ball.
She secretly complained, but suddenly heard the boy ask.
"Want to eat together?"
Jiang Qing held her breath instantly and shrank her body again and again.
"Jiang Qing," Li Liang looked behind the billboard. "I guess I called her that right?"
He called out every word clearly, and even the tone was extremely standard, so that Jiang Qing could no longer hide her true feelings.
She slowly poked her head out, met Li Liang's gaze, and smiled awkwardly, "What a coincidence."
"What a coincidence," Li Liang nodded. He held up the packaged rice balls on the table. "Let's eat together?"
Jiang Qing then realized that Li Liang had bought two rice balls at the beginning. At this moment, she suddenly realized that Li Liang had already noticed her following.
But why not expose it?
Jiang Qing clenched the phone in her hand and took a step forward.
Li Liang's smile deepened upon seeing this, and he pushed the rice ball over. "It's spicy cabbage flavored, you should like it."
Jiang Qing's movement of sitting down suddenly stopped.
"Surprised?" Li Liang raised his eyebrows and looked at Jiang Qing.
At this moment, Jiang Qing suddenly thought of Li Qingyun nine years later, who had also repeated her preferences word for word.
Given the relationship between Li Qingyun and Li Liang, it's not surprising that he knows about it now.
She shook her head and took a bite of the rice ball. The rice ball was heated and had the aroma of rice and a slightly spicy taste.
"Thank you," she looked at Li Liang, "it's delicious."
Li Liang looked at the girl sitting opposite him in surprise, "You and Jiang Qing are indeed different people."
Jiang Qing: "We're not the same person, so of course it's different."
No matter how similar the two people's names are, they are not the same person. Li Liang's surprised expression was as if he realized this for the first time.
"Here..." Jiang Qing pointed to her head, "Have you checked it?"
She now really suspected that the other person had something wrong with his brain.
Li Liang paused for a moment, then explained earnestly, "I'm in the top ten in my grade at No. 3 Middle School, and I've been in that position in every exam."
"Oh." Jiang Qing's reaction was very flat. Anyone who sat at the same table with a student who had always been the top student in the grade would be as numb as she was now.
People with poor brains can do so well in exams. What’s wrong with having one more good student like her in the world?
What's the matter!
The world is silent, please listen to the sound of her defense being broken.
Li Liang was choked by Jiang Qing's indifferent reaction. His explanation seemed to explain but also seemed not to explain.
In the silence, the girl raised her eyes with a serious expression and a serious attitude.
"Can I ask you a question?" she said.
Li Liang's eyes fell on Jiang Qing's left hand, which was hidden by the table. "Are you going to record again?"
Jiang Qing: "...If you don't mind."
She placed her phone on the table. The screen was lit up, clearly showing that ten minutes of recording had been made and the timer was still counting down.
"Your story is already public knowledge anyway, so recording more won't make any difference," Jiang Qing said, putting away her phone nonchalantly. "If you mind, I won't record it."
No way!
"You really are..." Li Liang thought for a suitable description and said, "You are frighteningly honest."
Jiang Qing blinked: "So..."
Li Liang looked up. The intermittent drizzle continued, and the dark clouds obscured the moon. Perhaps today would be a moonless night.
He returned his gaze to the girl across from him, "As you please."
Jiang Qing's pupils widened for a moment. She tentatively placed her phone on the corner of the table on her side. Seeing that the boy didn't react, she finally believed that he really didn't mind.
"After going through all this, do you still want to hurt Senior Jiang Qing?" She randomly picked a question.
Since she was able to record it, it meant that everything the boy said next was a lie and there was no need to talk any further.
But unexpectedly, she heard the word "yes" without hesitation in the next second.
"What?" Jiang Qing suspected that she had heard it wrongly.
Li Liang repeated good-naturedly, "I said, yes."
"My desire to hurt Jiang Qing has never stopped."
Jiang Qing's first reaction was to look at the lit screen of her phone on the table. The timer there was still faithfully recording every minute and every second, without interruption.
She suddenly looked up at the boy opposite her, and felt a chill all over her body.
——
Jiang Qing was called out by a phone call.
Looking at the deep night outside the window, Jiang Yu followed Jiang Qing like a little tail, "You're going out so late, and it's still raining outside."
"It's okay," Jiang Qing lowered his head to change his shoes, "The rain has lightened up."
Jiang Yu grabbed her clothes and said, "The college entrance examination is tomorrow. Do you really have to go out?"
Jiang Qing gently rubbed his brother's head, but his tone was firm, "I'll be back soon."
Jiang Yu couldn't persuade his sister, so he had to watch her leave. He worriedly told her, "Call me if it rains heavily, and I'll pick you up."
Jiang Qing turned around and waved, "I see. Go back quickly and don't catch a cold."
At the same time, Li Qingyun rode out on a motorcycle.
Zhang Daiqin leaned against the gate, looking worried. "I hope it doesn't rain again soon. You might as well not go, or take a bus."
Li Qingyun patted the seat behind him and said, "I brought a raincoat. Motorcycles are very fast."
He looked up at the sky. There was no moon or stars, and he couldn't tell what the sky would look like in the future.
He looked away and said, "If it rains too hard, I'll park my motorcycle in a roadside shed and ride back when the weather clears up."
The roar of a motorcycle suddenly sounded, and the exhaust fumes rose up, and Li Qingyun quickly disappeared at the end of the alley.
Zhang Daiqin reminded him from a distance, "Ride slowly and be careful on the road."
"I know."
Echoes echoed in the alley.
——
"Why?"
Jiang Qing didn't understand, "Why do you have to pick on Jiang Qing?"
She could understand Li Qingyun and Jiang Qing's grudge, but what about Li Liang? Why was his reaction even stronger than Li Qingyun's? It was as if he was harboring a hatred unknown to anyone, buried deep underground, yet it had never diminished in the slightest.
I will never put down my sword until I see blood.
Li Liang raised his eyes and said, "She killed my father."
"Your dad?" Jiang Qing was bewildered. Was Li Mingcheng dead? When did he die?
"My dad, Li Guohong."
Jiang Qing: ???
Her mouth opened wide in shock. "You and Li Qingyun are half-brothers?"
"Does Li Qingyun know about this?" she asked hurriedly, "Does your mother know? Does Li Qingyun's mother know?"
Li Liang's facial muscles twitched imperceptibly. He said with a blank expression, "...half-brother."
Jiang Qing's frightened heart finally returned to normal. She replied dryly, "Oh...oh, I'm sorry."
"Before he was ten, I called him dad," Li Liang chose to ignore the girl's reaction. "After he turned ten, they all told me to call him uncle."
"But why?"
This problem has troubled Li Liang for many years.
"Why can they give away children as easily as puppies when they no longer want them, and snatch them back without a care in the world when they want them back?"
"Why?" He seemed to be asking Jiang Qing, but also seemed to be asking himself.
——
Countless times in his dreams at midnight, Chen Heng wanted to rush out and ask in front of people.
Why was he born to be a vassal? Why was his entire life planned to revolve around Chen Xu? Why could he only make choices after weighing the pros and cons?
The mouth opened and closed as many times as it did so.
He forced himself not to think about it, forced himself not to ask, but Chen Heng knew better than anyone that his escape was simply due to his fear of a more cruel truth.
He was afraid to hear the answer from his family.
After night after night of sleeplessness, Chen Heng finally chose to stay away.
As long as he stayed away, he could pretend he was free.
But Jiang Jiang was right. He had never really faced his own heart, nor had he ever truly seen himself clearly.
Beneath his seemingly carefree appearance lies his self-isolation and ignorance.
If you can't look at the past, how can you talk about the future?
Chen Heng stood there and thought for a long time that day. What was medicine to him?
He couldn't answer it in the past, but now he can say it with certainty.
It was love at first sight, and I was attracted to you involuntarily.
In a trance, Chen Heng remembered what Lin Nanyan had said to him: liking someone is liking them, nothing else matters.
He likes medicine, nothing else.
There was a dazzling light in the boy's eyes that had never been seen before, and he wanted to live for himself from the bottom of his heart.
He found something more meaningful and valuable and was ready to devote his life to it.
Those complicated, obscure, stumbling and redundant emotions could no longer trap him.
From now on, the sky is high and the sea is vast, allowing birds to fly freely.
Chen Heng's eyebrows and eyes were raised, and he was full of vigor and spirit, and he was free and easy.
"One year later, when I become an adult, I will donate one of my kidneys to Chen Xu, on the condition that—"
The boy said in a deep voice, "Don't bother me again unless necessary."
Even without his dispensable kidneys, Chen Heng was still able to devote himself to his medical career in good health.
Even if he is not taken seriously, Chen Heng will live a wonderful life without the need for others to witness it.
A black car was speeding on the straight road.
There were three people sitting in the car. Qian Ying, who was driving, was checking the map. She was not very familiar with the road conditions in this section of Jiangyuan.
Startled by the sudden cold voice, she frowned reflexively, "Speak nicely, don't be sarcastic!"
Only after she said this did Qian Ying realize that something was wrong.
"What did you say?" She confirmed again, "I think I was hallucinating just now. What did you say you were going to do?"
Chen Xu looked at Chen Heng with a blank expression and replied blankly, "Heng Heng said he wanted to donate a kidney to me."
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