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Liu Jianchun hates to see others cry.
She took out a tissue and quietly put it into his hand, then began to pretend to look at the scenery, turning her head to the other side, deliberately avoiding looking at his embarrassed look as he wiped his tears.
After a while, her hands were pried open and something was stuffed into them. When she raised her hands, she saw that it was his used tissue!
She threw it to him in disgust: "How disgusting! You actually stuffed the tissue you used to blow your nose into someone else's."
"There's no snot, it's all tears." He looked at her pitifully, "This is the first time I've cried since I can remember. I'm giving this to you to treasure."
She said she was disgusted, but she unfolded the crumpled tissue.
He was a little confused: "Don't you want it?"
"How dare I refuse?" she said seriously, folding the tissue into neat little squares and putting them in the pocket of her bag. "If even I despise you, I'm afraid you'll cry even more."
A flash of doting flashed across his eyes. Taking advantage of his pitiful appearance with wet eyes, he took the initiative to lean on her shoulder and asked softly, "Don't you hate men who cry?"
"It's so annoying." She is not a person who likes to hide things, because she can't hide it even if she wants to.
"But your crying isn't unreasonable. Your own mother doesn't care about you at all. When she saw you, she didn't even ask how you've been doing these past few years. She just kept threatening you with her life. And all you can do is watch them play out their miserable drama. Who would be happy about something like that?"
She felt her shoulders sink and something lean against them. She turned her head and glanced, only to see the other person's soft black hair, which was fluffy and smooth, making her want to touch it gently.
This boy was clearly taking the opportunity to act like a spoiled child, even leaning against her, and even trying to take advantage of her. But she thought, let him take advantage of her, what else could she do to him? Should she push him away? Could she bear to push him away?
She did not refuse, and finally acquiesced to his insolence.
He leaned on her and slowly closed his eyes, taking a short nap. The car stopped steadily in front of the hotel.
As soon as he entered the hotel, he received a call from an old acquaintance.
After answering the phone and hearing the loud male voice, Jian Zhaonan immediately put away his pitiful look.
"Brother Nan, where are you busy? Do you have time to come over for a midnight snack?"
He raised his hand to wipe away the tears that had not yet dried from the corners of his eyes, walked quickly towards the elevator, and put on a cold and indifferent expression: "It's you, Boss Wang, long time no see."
"It's been a long time since we last met. We just saw each other two days ago."
"If you still remember what happened a few days ago, why did you ask me out? I don't dare to see you. I'm afraid of being in the news again."
Old Wang laughed dryly twice and explained that the last incident was all a misunderstanding. If he had known that Liu Jianchun was his friend, he would definitely keep a close eye on his subordinates and resolve the issue in a timely manner and would never allow such a misunderstanding to happen.
Jian Zhaonan smiled slightly when he heard the word "misunderstanding," but his smile was even more chilling than his serious expression. "Tell me, what exactly do you want from me?"
"I want to sign someone for this year's Table Tennis Super League. I've already agreed, but the coach is a little unhappy. Could you help introduce him? I'd like to invite him to dinner and exchange some thoughts."
"Boss Wang, you've been running the club for years. There's hardly anyone on the coaching staff you don't know well. Do you really need an introduction?" He was too lazy to beat around the bush with Wang. "Is your offer too low?"
"Do you think I'm such a stingy person? You're really wronging me! I promised them that I would sign you, so they agreed to come. But when they heard that you didn't want to play in the Table Tennis Super League, they were not happy. I tried my best to persuade you, but I had to find a way to convince the coach."
Jian Zhaonan straightened his waist and silently endured the pain in his waist: "I can help you, but you have to do something for me."
"If I can do anything, just ask."
"Can you add a youth category to the competition your club is planning to hold?"
"Of course I can. Since you asked, of course I can. Do you know any kids who want to participate in the competition? As long as you recommend them, I will accept them regardless of their age. I will definitely send them to the provincial team."
Jian Zhaonan was silent for a moment: "It's not just one child, it's several."
"I'll take in several of them too." Old Wang finally woke up from his drowsiness after saying this. "Are you talking about the children that Liu Jianchun is taking care of?"
He didn't say a word in response, leaving Lao Wang to sing a monologue: "To pursue a woman, you can't just give yourself up. The better you treat her, the less she'll take you seriously. Brother, you're quite good-looking, but she still ignores you. It means you've spoiled her. You need to change your tactics and make her come to you on her own initiative."
"If you really like her, I have an idea for you. I heard she wants to change venues. Coincidentally, the owner of that arena is a good friend of mine. I can ask him to delay for a few days and give her some embarrassment."
"Thank you very much for your kindness."
For some reason, Wang Zhixin's words made him feel physically uncomfortable: "But she's not the kind of person you think, and there's no need to use the method you're talking about to deal with her."
After Jian Zhaonan returned to the hotel, he had a sleepless night.
The back pain was only one aspect. When he thought of what happened in the hospital, his mind would keep flooding with the image of his mother lying on the hospital bed.
It was a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
Compared with his younger brother, he looks more like his mother. Two years ago, when he returned to his hometown to sort out the remains after the funeral, he accidentally found a photo of his mother when she was young. She had short hair and a bright smile at that time. He was in a trance for a moment and thought he saw his teenage self.
All his memories of her came from photos. She was beautiful, young and full of energy in the photos, but the woman lying in front of him looked haggard.
In fact, he was a little dazed. Was she really his mother?
It turns out that time can make him grow from a baby in swaddling clothes to an adult, and it can also push his mother from a young girl to the end of her life.
It didn't seem like very long as he tossed and turned thinking about it, but a little light from the morning sun was already peeking through the gap between the curtains.
The surgery cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, which was a huge sum of money that could crush the entire family. But it was not much for him. If it was a stranger who needed money for life-saving today, he might have donated without hesitation, but since it was his mother, he hesitated.
He also wanted to laugh at himself for being such an ungrateful person.
So this ungrateful man decided to give his mother one last chance. As long as she was willing to acknowledge him as her son and didn't treat him as a plague or an ATM, he would be willing to save her.
Since he couldn't sleep anyway, he got up early and went to the hospital. Before he even walked in, he heard a woman's voice coming from the ward.
"You little brat, you're lying. Your school clearly doesn't have summer vacation. Your teacher said you haven't been to class for a week because you were taking care of your mom. Today is Monday, you should go back to class first. I'll take your place here."
This is...how did she come here?
He walked quickly into the ward and saw her unpacking the breakfast she had just bought one by one and asking her brother what he wanted to eat.
Jian Zhaonan rarely put on a cold face in front of her: "What are you doing here?"
Seeing him, she was no less surprised than him, but the surprise only flashed across her eyes for a moment. She continued to arrange the breakfast in her hands, ignoring his cold face: "You can come, but I can't? I thought you were a busy man, and I had some free time, so I came over to help."
As she spoke, she picked up a bun and handed it to him: "Your favorite cabbage filling, eat it while it's hot."
"That's not what you said last time. You said you were very busy and had no time to help me."
Liu Jianchun thought for a moment before remembering what happened that day. He smiled awkwardly, "It was an accident. I was too anxious at the time... But I'm not free every day. It just happened to be my day off today."
"Since it's vacation, go home and rest. What's happening here has nothing to do with you. Don't come here too often in the future."
Facing his cold words, she originally had a hundred ways to retort, but she swallowed the words back when they reached her lips. She only took her tofu pudding, said "oh" and turned away.
Jian Zhaonan stood upright without even turning his head. Instead, his younger brother became anxious and chased out with a bun in his mouth, following behind Liu Jianchun and shouting "Sister, sister".
She suddenly stopped and her brother bumped into her. She glanced at him angrily: "Your brother is angry with me, so you want to murder me too?"
"No." Enveloped by the sweet fragrance of Liu Jianchun, the younger brother's face flushed instantly. He lowered his head and dared not look at her. "My brother certainly doesn't want to anger you, sister-in-law..."
"What did you call me?"
The younger brother realized that he had misunderstood their relationship and immediately changed his words: "Sister! Sister! My brother is a good man. I've seen him on TV. He is so awesome and has shaken hands with some big shots." The younger brother also grew bolder and dared to look up at her. When he talked about how "awesome" his brother was, his eyes suddenly sparkled.
"Is this what your mother told you?"
Liu Jianchun crossed her arms and looked at the boy in front of her with a new perspective. She suddenly felt that this boy was not so annoying. At least he could distinguish between good people and bad people.
"No, my uncle told me." The younger brother's voice became weaker and weaker.
Hearing it was his uncle, Liu Jianchun immediately understood what was going on. The man must have told the kid that his brother was a big star and a wealthy man, and that if he ever got stuck, he could go and live with his brother.
His uncle is really cunning.
"Sister, how did you know I took leave?"
"Stupid." She pointed at the short-sleeved school uniform he was wearing. "You have the school badge here. I happen to know someone from your school. You're the only one your age whose mother was in a car accident."
"How can this be possible?"
The two chatted casually, and soon they walked to the elevator. Just then, a door opened, and a middle-aged man with a cheerful face walked out. When the man saw his younger brother, he immediately waved: "Xuyunduo——"
Liu Jianchun turned around and looked, only to feel that he had seen this man somewhere before, as if...
"Second uncle." The younger brother walked towards the man.
When Liu Jianchun heard who the other person was, he instantly became alert, fearing that this guy would be as difficult to deal with as that day, and he would have to call the guards to drive him away.
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