Chapter 1295 Day after Day, Year after Year
Siyan and Sixu froze as soon as they got out of the car and didn't dare to go in.
Li Jin took two steps, stopped, and turned to look at them. The light from the street lamp above his head shone down, forming a flickering silhouette on Li Jin's face. The blending of light and dark made his face look sharper and deeper, and those eyes were like a beast hiding in the dark. Once you looked into their eyes, it was chilling.
Si Xu was frightened and held her brother's hand tightly.
Si Yan was also afraid, but thinking of his brother behind him whose wounds had not yet fully healed, he gritted his teeth and moved his feet.
As soon as he leaves, Sixu will follow him.
The two brothers followed Li Jinxing closely, one in front and one behind.
After entering, Siyan also noticed that the entire patch of pink roses had been replaced with red roses that had no fragrance. There were also two small trees planted in the yard, and it was unknown what kind of flower seedlings they were.
"From now on, you all live here and we will start a new life." Li Jinxing's voice seemed to float into the ears of the two children with the cold wind. The weather today was extremely cold, and even if they were wearing bulky down jackets, they could not keep out the cold.
Li Jinxing called the two children to his side and said to them, "From now on, you must take good care of these two seedlings, especially this one." He pointed to one of the trees and said.
There was a very obvious small mound of soil under the seedling, and there were no weeds around it. It was obvious that it was well taken care of.
Si Yan always felt that the scenes before his eyes were filled with an inexplicable weirdness. He swallowed and asked, "What kind of tree is this?"
"This is a camellia, which she...likes."
Si Yan and Si Xu instinctively knew that "she" was Gu Wanqiu, but they didn't dare to mention the word "mother".
Next, their lives changed. After living together, they clearly felt that Li Jinxing had a strong desire for control.
Especially when they were at home during the recent holidays, Li Jinxing began to customize various courses for them, and they were studying for at least twelve hours a day out of twenty-four hours.
Li Jinxing would interrogate them as soon as he got home from work, and then ask them what they had done during the day. After asking, he would turn on the surveillance camera in front of them. The surveillance camera had no blind spots and clearly captured the two of them, leaving them with no privacy at all.
If any of them were caught lying, they would be locked up in the basement tonight.
At the beginning, both children were very afraid of the basement. Siyan had been locked up there before and had psychological trauma. Now he had been locked up there twice.
Li Jinxing said that he had to accept punishment if he did something wrong, but he didn't know where he went wrong.
Later he discovered that sometimes, Li Jinxing was just in a bad mood and he needed to find an outlet to vent, and this outlet happened to be him and his brother.
He wanted to protect his younger brother, but his younger brother was not spared. When his younger brother was imprisoned for the first time, he begged his father for a long time, kneeling on the ground to beg him, but his father did not show any mercy.
The next morning, his younger brother came out of the basement. The first thing he said when he saw him was.
"Brother, it's so dark down there, why didn't you tell me at the beginning?"
At that moment, they knew that there was no going back.
Their world has become dark since then, as if there is no light. An atmosphere of despair and oppression hangs over their heads, and there is an area here where the dawn will never come.
I used to look forward to the holidays, but now I hope to go to school as soon as possible.
But after going to school, they did not fall behind in their studies. Li Jinxing not only sent people to school to monitor them, but also asked them how they spent the day at school and whether they had any friends after they came back.
Of course he has friends, but Li Jinxing will tell them.
They don't need friends now. Any friends they want to make must be approved by him and must be strictly selected. They cannot be from ordinary families. They must be profitable.
If it has no use value, there is no need to even look at it.
And the people they thought they were good friends even called them wild children without mothers behind their backs.
Li Jinxing shattered everything they thought was beautiful and taught them from a young age that human hearts are treacherous.
Now it is time to separate their friendship, and the next step will be family affection. Li Jinxing believes that Siyan is good at protecting Sixu, and Sixu is also used to hiding behind Sixu. In the long run, Sixu will not be able to stand on his own and will become a waste.
He planned to separate the two of them, and this separation meant emotional separation, only in this way could they quickly become independent people.
The first thing they did was separate their rooms. Li Jinxing's parenting style was a rewards-and-punishments model. Whoever performed well on the same task was rewarded, while the poorer one was punished. This polarized relationship, and to avoid being punished, naturally led to a desire to become stronger. Comparison fosters competition. Li Jinxing felt that rivalry, rather than brothers, was a better tool for improvement.
In such an environment, the two brothers' moods changed quietly and their relationship gradually drifted apart.
Children aged six or seven are dependent on their environment to grow up, and their personalities can be easily led astray, especially with Li Jinxing's deliberate guidance.
They themselves didn't notice that they smiled less and less, and became more and more indifferent to the people around them. They became heartless and seemed to be more and more like Li Jinxing. They were almost forgetting Gu Wanqiu and had no time to visit their sister.
Yes, I am on edge every day. Not only do I have to face Li Jinxing's control, but I also have to learn all kinds of things. After finishing school, I come back to continue studying. I don't even have time to rest, so how can I have the extra energy to think about other things?
In their minds, the so-called "mother" became a simple word. Their impression of this word became increasingly faint, and they could no longer remember what Gu Wanqiu looked like.
It's autumn again.
One day, Siyan woke up in the middle of the night and was thirsty. When he went out of the room to drink water, he was attracted by the moonlight outside the glass. He walked over and stood by the window, looking down from the sky. In the yard, he saw Li Jinxing.
Li Jinxing was squatting next to a camellia tree. The camellia had grown a bit taller after being planted for a year, but it still hadn't bloomed.
Li Jinxing sat on the ground, opening and closing his mouth as if he was saying something.
Si Yan watched indifferently. This was not the first time he saw Li Jinxing talking to a tree. It was just that every time he spoke to the camellia tree, a hint of humanity would appear on his face.
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Year after year, spring goes and autumn comes.
Siyan and Sixu went from elementary school to junior high school, graduated from junior high school, and were admitted to a famous high school in Haicheng.
They started living on campus, but they still couldn't escape Li Jinxing's surveillance, but they had gotten used to it.
As for Gu Sui, she received much more love than her two brothers, and Li Jinxing was not too harsh on her. She looked very similar to Gu Wanqiu, and sometimes Li Jinxing couldn't help but stare at her face in a daze.
After all, he is Gu Wanqiu's biological son. He has been too good to Gu Sui. In addition, he believes that men are more suitable to take on family responsibilities. In the future, the Li family will be inherited by Si Yan and Si Xu. They just need to be responsible for becoming stronger. As for his daughter, it doesn't matter if she is raised in pampering. She will get married anyway.
But when he thought about Gu Sui getting married and looked at the face that looked very similar to Gu Wanqiu, Li Jinxing couldn't bear to let her go to another family.
He would also talk nonsense. When Xiao Sui was ten years old, he said to her, "Xiao Sui, don't get married and stay with daddy forever, okay?"
Gu Sui still doesn’t understand the meaning of getting married, and she doesn’t like the boys in her class. They are not as good as her father, who is the most handsome man she has ever seen.
So the young Gu Sui nodded and agreed.
Li Jinxing also got angry with Gu Sui when Gu Sui mentioned her mother.
Her father, who had always been gentle to her, suddenly turned cold.
As far as she could remember, no one in her family, including her brother, had ever mentioned the word "Mom". She didn't even know her mother's name, nor did she know the origin of her name. She heard that her father's lover's surname was Jiang.
She often wondered, other people's families all have mothers, why didn't she have one?
This question stayed in her mind. After she asked it, everyone around her was unhappy. She began to wonder if her mother had done something to let her father down.
After her two brothers repeatedly reminded her not to mention "Mom" at home, she took it to heart and treated her mom as if she was dead. She now had a dad, and the person she loved the most was her dad. She didn't want her dad to be sad.
Entering high school is the stage when adolescent love begins to sprout.
Siyan is no exception.
The two brothers became legends in the same school. They were good-looking and smart, and more importantly, their father was Li Jinxing.
He is the richest and most powerful man in Haicheng. Everyone who sees him must be polite to him.
Wherever they go, they attract a lot of attention. Despite the brothers' cold personalities, they still receive countless love letters every day.
Si Yan received many more love letters than Si Xu. One of the main reasons was that as the eldest son of the Li family, there were rumors that the inheritance rights of Li Jinxing would be passed to the eldest son in the future.
Li Jinxing did have this idea. During these ten years, his education of his two children was more like an experiment.
Li Siyan does things better than Li Sixu. He acts steadily. No matter good or bad, rewards or punishments, Li Siyan always ranks ahead in many competitions and exams.
I don’t know if it’s because he was punished too much, but being locked in a small dark room, Li Sixu’s personality became darker and darker, and he rarely spoke outside. He was equally outstanding, but the attention on him was never as much as his brother. He became a foil. Who would always want to play a supporting role?
…
After comprehensive consideration, Li Jinxing decided to put more attention and energy on Li Siyan and pay more attention to him.
On this day, a seventeen-year-old boy was walking in sync with a girl. Not knowing what the girl said, Li Siyan lowered his head and smiled faintly.
He didn't know what love was yet, he just felt happy walking with this girl.
It’s hard to learn “love” in the Li family
Does Li Jinxing love Gu Wanqiu? It seems that he does, but their way of loving is different from what is taught in the books.
Rumor has it that after "Mrs. Li" died, Li Jinxing completely changed into a different person. He educated his two children strictly and believed that "love" was the most useless thing and would become a weakness.
The girl traveling with Li Siyan is called Lu Weiwei.
Li Siyan seemed easy to get along with at school, but in fact he always kept a distance from the people around him. The Lu Weiwei in front of him was very different from the people he had met before. She had a carefree personality and was never afraid when looking into his eyes. She would tell jokes to make him laugh, but she would often laugh before the joke was finished, and she had two dimples on her face when she smiled.
Li Siyan likes to see her smile.
Li Siyan's personality now has five points of Li Jinxing's. He is also expressionless. But no matter how good he is at hiding his thoughts, when he meets someone he likes, the light in his eyes cannot be hidden.
He envied Lu Weiwei for being able to laugh as she pleased, not care about her surroundings, and live the way she wanted, freely. These were things he didn't have.
The heart seemed to be ignited by a ball of fire. Li Siyan and Lu Weiwei talked too much, and there were rumors in the class that he and Lu Weiwei were in love.
When he heard these rumors, a strange feeling arose in his heart. He did not explain and let the rumors spread until they reached Li Jinxing's ears.
When he returned home on holiday, perhaps influenced by Lu Weiwei, Li Siyan smiled more often and often stared blankly at his mobile phone, the boy's thoughts could not be hidden.
Li Sixu was the first person to remind him: "From childhood to adulthood, the most important thing Dad taught us is not to like someone when you don't have the ability. It will not only hurt yourself but also hurt others."
As if being woken up by a bucket of cold water, Li Siyan said with a sullen face: "I understand."
Before he could calm down, Li Jinxing knew it.
The housekeeper He said to him, "The eldest young master seems to be worried about something recently. He seems absent-minded. Could he be in love at school?"
In just one day, Li Jinxing finished investigating everything that had happened to Li Siyan in school in the past month.
The female student named Lu Weiwei was also found.
Li Jinxing only did one thing, which was to dismiss the student. With just one sentence, he asked the family to move to Haicheng.
When Li Siyan returned to school and didn't see Lu Weiwei, he found out that she had completed the withdrawal procedures and left, not only leaving here but also leaving Haicheng.
What's there to not understand? This kind of thing happened in elementary school. It was the first time Li Siyan skipped school.
He returned to Qiule Manor and found Li Jinxing, asking, "Did you do this?"
This sounded nonsensical to others, and Li Jinxing, who was eating, put down the cutlery in his hand.
"I remember you should be in English class at this time."
Li Siyan repeated: "Did you do it?"
What did he do? Li Jinxing naturally knew. He found his former self in Li Siyan's face, the unwillingness to accept the sudden departure of the woman he loved, the hatred in his eyes towards others.
"If you don't have the ability to protect her, don't try to get involved. This is what I taught you at the beginning. After so long, have you forgotten it?"
"Does that mean I can never like anyone else in my life? Without love, I'll be like a piece of wood, at your mercy?"
Li Jinxing sneered: "No, unless you become stronger than me, then you can decide whatever you want, but can you do that now? As you are now, these people will only become your weaknesses."
Li Siyan gritted his teeth and spoke out what he had been suppressing in his heart. "You always use your thoughts to manipulate us and force your views on me. You do this simply because you failed to protect Mom and caused her death, and you're trying to make up for your own brainwashing! What are you trying to prove? To prove that you're useless, then just punish yourself and see. Why do you want us to be punished for you?"
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