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"Seventeen years ago, Zhang Daimei gave birth to a boy by cesarean section, weighing 5.62 kg, and his body was red."
"This child seems to be born to cause trouble. He cries in the middle of the night and wakes up every 30 minutes. No one pays attention to him. He cries until he suffocates."
Li Liang spoke in a flat tone as if he was telling someone else's story.
"Zhang Daimei's joy was like a rainbow appearing in the sky, fleeting. When the hormones faded, she felt exhausted both physically and mentally."
"She had to hold the child while walking, eating, and going to the toilet. The child would cry if things didn't go her way, and her mood would get worse and worse. Later, even through a wall, she could hear the faint cry of the child and feel her temples throbbing."
"In later words," he recalled his grandmother's loving face as she spoke of that incident, "Zhang Daimei had a tendency to suffer from postpartum depression and developed symptoms of neurasthenia."
Jiang Qing couldn't help but ask, "Is there no one else to help? Where are the baby's other relatives?"
Li Liang was stunned for a moment, then a smile appeared on his face, "Of course."
"Everyone in that family will help take care of the baby, but so what?" He said with a hint of sarcasm. "Zhang Daimei is the mother, so everyone naturally expects her to be a competent mother."
"The hospital delivery room is a large catalyst. The women who emerge from it seem to be able to destroy their past selves and reshape themselves perfectly in just a few hours."
It was difficult for Jiang Qing to describe how she felt after hearing these words. The birth of life has never been an easy thing, and it changes more than just one person's destiny.
"Some people are born with the ability to transform beautifully. They're compassionate, patient, and remarkably tolerant, and they adapt quickly to this kind of change," the boy said, looking at the pale blue road sign in the distance. "Unfortunately, Zhang Daimei isn't the type of student who does well academically. Even more unfortunate is that she's been paired with a bad kid."
"One morning when she was washing up, she looked in the mirror and found obvious green and yellow spots on her nose. This was due to the risk of erosion caused by a previous plastic surgery."
"That touch of green and yellow became the last straw that broke the camel's back."
"She screamed hysterically, shouting to send the child away. She didn't want to see the child. Even just one look at him made her feel like she was a stranger, completely unrecognizable."
"For many days, she no longer dared to look in the mirror."
"The crazy roaring and smashing continued for three days. Grandma Zhang had no choice but to take the child away. At that time, my mother... and my aunt also had a child, so the child was placed with her to be raised together."
So, that's how the story begins.
Jiang Qing: "What happened next?"
Why did Li Liang later say that he was given away, and why was he taken back after he turned ten?
"Later..." The adults avoided him and never talked about it in depth, but those few words were enough for him to piece together the truth.
"Grandma wanted to take the one-year-old child home while he was still young." The lights outside the convenience store swayed slowly in the breeze, and the boy's eyes were hidden in the shadows. "Zhang Daimei refused. She's preparing for a second nose correction surgery."
"She said she never wanted to go through the nightmare she had a year ago again."
When Grandma Zhang saw her daughter's devilish face, she felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. "I think you've fainted. Don't do it now. It will be too late to bring the child back when she grows up!"
Seeing that Zhang Daimei was indifferent, she angrily cursed before leaving, "What's the point of having a face fixed? No matter how many times you fix it, it still looks the same."
"As for the child, you might as well give it to your sister. She's not yours to raise, and she's not close to you anyway!"
Zhang Daimei had never experienced such a scolding from her mother. Her blood rushed to her head and her temper flared up. She blurted out, "Then give it to her. Go ahead. One more is not too many for her anyway."
Zhang Daiqin raised the child with great difficulty for a year. When she heard her mother say that her sister didn't want the child, she was so angry that tears came to her eyes. She decided on the spot to raise the child as her own son. Even though her sister didn't feel sorry for him, she did.
Li Guohong took a deep puff of his cigarette, came out from the inner room, hung a gold lock around the child's neck, picked up the child and walked towards the police station.
At the door of the police station, he stood there and dialed the phone. Li Mingcheng on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds. To be honest, he almost forgot that he had a child.
Almost instantly, he recalled the nightmarish days of the past, the crying of babies day and night, and the crazy screams of women.
"Since Dai Mei has made the decision," he rubbed his brows, "let's do it this way."
So, as things happened one after another, everyone was impulsive and had some irrational emotions on that day, and the child was registered under the names of Zhang Daiqin and Li Guohong.
On that day, the child officially had his own name.
His name is Li Liang.
Li Guohong's Li means bright future.
——
On the night highway, the atmosphere in the black car was eerily cold and quiet.
"Open the door." Lin Nanyan put his hand on the handlebar and turned to look at the man in the driver's seat.
"Don't talk nonsense," Lin Zhongshan sneered, "Do you think I will open the door for you?"
He glanced at the boy's half-dried hair, his eyes swept across the cake in the boy's arms, which he had been holding tightly even when several assistants were twisting him up. "You still have the time, is this for the little girl from the Jiang family?"
Lin Nanyan stared straight at the man with his dark eyes, "Did Lin Yuke ask you to come?"
"Don't think too highly of her," Lin Zhongshan said dismissively, "Although I learned your whereabouts from her, she can't hire me."
Lin Nanyan looked at his broken phone in front of the car seat with his eyes lowered.
Since it is not, then that is Lin Chongshan’s decision.
But right now, none of that matters.
He raised his eyes, "Because I was out of control before?"
Lin Chongshan looked at Lin Nanyan with approval. He had to admit that he really had a smart son who understood things very quickly.
"Where do you want to take me?" The wind and rain outside the car window were getting stronger, and big raindrops were hitting the roof. Amid the crackling sound, the boy's voice was still clearly audible.
"Today your father will teach you a good lesson. For those who want to jump out of the cage--" Lin Zhongshan glanced at the boy, his tone dropped suddenly, and his words were full of threats, "Of course, I will throw you out with the cage. After experiencing more hardships, you will naturally know what to do and what not to do.
Lin Nanyan tightened his grip on the cake, "You want to send me abroad."
Lin Zhongshan raised his eyebrows, "You don't seem surprised at all."
"I'm surprised." Lin Nanyan said expressionlessly.
"It's rare." Although it was a bit perfunctory, Lin Zhongshan was still surprised. "Is this considered surrender?"
"I will go abroad according to your arrangements," Lin Nanyan nodded. He paused and asked, "Can you take me back today?"
"We can trade," he added.
Faced with Lin Nanyan's easygoing attitude, Lin Chongshan couldn't help but be on guard, "What's the deal?"
Without waiting for the boy to answer, he frowned and asked, "Do you think I'll be fooled?"
"You asked me to give you time, and I did. How did you repay me?"
"I asked you to get along well with the youngest daughter of the Feng family. Okay, you went, but your purpose was to take the opportunity to meet with her mother and pass on information, so that you could team up with Lin Yuke to deal with me."
"Lin Nanyan, don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"
Since his son has such a bad heart, it would be troublesome for him to stay here. He also has to be on guard against him colluding with others to plot against him behind his back. It would be better to kick him out and save himself the trouble.
Being in a foreign country where I'm unfamiliar with the place and without anyone to help me, I'm not afraid that Lin Nanyan will struggle again.
He was careless last time. He wanted to see what tricks Lin Yuke could use to deal with him without Lin Nanyan as a spy.
He stepped on the accelerator hard. "I will send someone to follow you on the plane. I'm warning you, don't try any tricks."
"I'll transfer your student status there later. Don't come back without my permission."
——
Li Liang had no idea that his fate had been completely changed one day. He grew up ignorantly, like an ordinary child, with a loving mother, a quiet father, and a naughty younger brother.
He and Li Qingyun grew up together carefree, and he was even much happier than Li Qingyun. At least he never had any worries about studying, while Qingyun had to receive his loving guidance from time to time.
When did Li Liang's world collapse?
When he was about ten years old, his grandmother brought Zhang Daimei to the Li family courtyard and drove the two children out to play.
"Qingyun and I went to the beach to pick up crabs because my mother said my aunt loves seafood, and we wanted to treat our relatives well." Li Liang still feels that the sunlight was too glaring that day, and even if he didn't look directly at the sun, his eyes hurt and he felt dizzy. "When I got home, my grandmother told me to call my aunt mom."
Jiang Qing's heart skipped a beat; it was too sudden.
For a ten-year-old child who has already established his understanding of the world, this is like the sky falling.
"Yes, the sky is falling."
Li Liang interrupted, and Jiang Qing then realized that she had been reading aloud unconsciously.
"I don't know what grandma said to my parents. That day, they turned their heads away and didn't even look at me."
Grandma Zhang's face was still kind, with a few wrinkles, but Li Liang at that time only felt scared.
He was afraid of Grandma Zhang who had suddenly become so unfamiliar, and afraid of the woman who grabbed his arm, with her face covered in white powder and a red mouth.
He was in great pain and cried breathlessly, "You are not my mother. I don't want to go with you."
With little strength, he punched and kicked in vain, struggling and looking back for help, "Dad, Mom, I don't want to leave!"
"I was taken away," Li Liang said calmly as the wind blew the rain in, the sound of the rain hitting the ground. "Because after so many years, when they wanted to have a child, they found that they couldn't conceive."
“So, they remembered me.”
"Tell me, why?" he asked seriously, "Why can they take it back just because they want to?"
Jiang Qing couldn't answer.
She could tell that Li Liang did not resent Zhang Daimei and Li Mingcheng for giving him away. He only hated the fact that it was so natural for him to be taken back.
Compared with Li Mingcheng, Li Guohong is the eternal father in his heart.
"So you hate Jiang Qing, and hate his father for taking your father's life," Jiang Qing said, trying to suppress her complicated thoughts. "But even if there's a connection, it should be Li Mingcheng, not Jiang Qing?"
Jiang Qing didn't understand why it was Jiang Qing. Why not Jiang Chengping's wife or son? Why was it Jiang Qing?
"Do you think," Li Liang's smiling face was reflected in Jiang Qing's eyes, with a malicious look, "that she is innocent?"
With a loud bang, something exploded in Jiang Qing's mind.
"What?"
Li Liang sat back without answering, and turned to look not far behind Jiang Qing.
Jiang Qing seemed to have sensed something and looked back in the direction the boy was looking. In an instant, her pupils shrank.
At the end of a narrow path that is easily overlooked, there is a small blue sign with four words written on it.
It was a name she had seen countless times on the map.
——The main road at the end of the alley.
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