Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Breakup
Tang Ningyue is gone.
Despite his repeated pleas, she still left, leaving behind only a light sentence: "Stop making trouble."
She had a hundred reasons to reject him, and countless excuses to avoid him, but she said nothing. She just casually said something like coaxing a child and got it over with, not even bothering to be perfunctory.
Li Jinglang knew exactly how to write the words "disoriented and dejected." These were the only words he knew how to write.
She had tried every trick she could think of: the self-torture tactic, the alienation tactic, even the hard-to-get tactic... but nothing had worked. He was the man she had spent the most time with, the first man she had kissed, and everything was rightfully his.
She just thought he was being pretentious.
Sheng Shiyang's car was downstairs. Li Jinglang only needed to lift the curtain to see the smiling Tang Ningyue being hugged and kissed by the man whom Li Jinglang wished to cut into pieces.
His temples were throbbing violently, and Li Jinglang felt increasingly out of control, trembling all over.
He had stopped taking his medication for a long time, but no one knew about it and no one cared. They just let his condition worsen.
The snow outside was so heavy that it was about to submerge the tires. Everything was covered in white. Beining hadn't seen such heavy snow in a long time. It seemed that there were endless grievances that had nowhere to be resolved.
When Li Jinglang rushed downstairs in thin home clothes and cotton slippers, Sheng Shiyang's car had already started. The headlights carved a path in the dark night. There was no one around, only a thin and tall shadow standing in the snow, swaying.
Li Jinglang didn't remember how he walked to the front of Sheng Shiyang's car. He stood there stiffly like a stone stuck in the snow. He didn't come to his senses until Tang Ningyue in the car shouted to stop.
The car stopped two meters away from him. Li Jinglang pulled the corner of his mouth but couldn't laugh. The strong wind slapped his back, and every inch of his skin became stiff. His exposed ankles were wrapped in snow. He was a person who was very afraid of cold, but at that moment he didn't feel anything, only his heart was cold.
Tang Ningyue looked at the person in front of her through the windshield. The vast white snow rushed down and landed on Li Jinglang's straight shoulders. For the first time, she realized that Li Jinglang was no longer a child, but a man, a grown man who was stronger than her and like a beast.
"Jing Lang?" It was Sheng Shiyang who got off the car. His tone remained the same, as if he was irritated by an unreasonable teenager. "What are you doing in this freezing weather?"
"get off."
Ignoring him, Li Jinglang stared at the woman sitting in the car.
"Jinglang?" Sheng Shiyang approached him, his tone angry and anxious. Despite his irritability, he still maintained his usual gentle attitude. "Can you tell me what's going on? Don't be like this. Don't scare me."
"get off."
Li Jinglang still ignored him, his dark eyes fixed on her like needles.
The heater in the car was turned up high, and the warmth surrounded Tang Ningyue. She frowned and let out a helpless breath.
She truly regretted it, not that she regretted returning to China, but that she regretted returning to Aunt Zhou's house. She knew clearly that they could never go back to the way they were before, and that they had never been a family, yet she insisted on creating the illusion of a family here. What was she hoping for?
Tang Ningyue still didn't get out of the car. Her mother was right. Both she and her daughter were cold-blooded and heartless. Even if the situation was so bad that it was out of control, she could still sit down and eat calmly.
What are you worried about? The sky isn't falling yet.
She was just annoyed that someone had disrupted her schedule and plans.
Tang Ningyue took out her cell phone and looked for Zhou Su's number in the address book. He had been on a business trip for so long and didn't know whether he would be back for the New Year. While she was still thinking about these things, the two people outside had already started arguing fiercely.
Outside the window, where heavy snow was falling, Sheng Shiyang and Li Jinglang were facing each other. Although they didn't say a few words, the flames had reached their peak, and it seemed as if a volcano was about to erupt. Tang Ningyue was still organizing her words in her mind, thinking about how to tell Zhou Su later, when the next second, the sound of someone falling to the ground with a "bang" completely woke Tang Ningyue up from the car.
"Yue'er? What's wrong?" A familiar female voice came from the receiver of the phone, but Tang Ningyue paused.
Snowy nights are quieter than usual. The sky is gray and nothing can be seen. The earth seems to be shrouded by something, and the only sound in my ears is the echo of my own voice.
"Jinglang!"
The person lying in the snow was actually Li Jinglang. Tang Ningyue was worried that she had the wrong person. When she rushed out of the car, Li Jinglang was still reaching out to grab her hand, just like when he was a child, with pleading in his eyes and red eyes, and he would lie and say that he didn't cry.
The whistling sound of the wind in Tang Ningyue's ears was too loud, and she had a tinnitus.
She seemed to hear the childhood Li Jinglang talking to her again.
"I want to be with you..."
"Don't follow me! Li Jinglang!"
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Li Jinglang didn't know how he got to the hospital. Anyway, he was already a regular customer of the hospital. He was not surprised to see the white patches when he opened his eyes. It was funny that he always felt that the smell of disinfectant made him feel more at ease than the smell of home-cooked food.
Zhou Su bought the nearest flight back and originally planned to come back the day before New Year's Eve. Unexpectedly, Li Jinglang couldn't even hold on for these few days before something happened again.
"Kyolang, how's it going?"
Seeing Li Jinglang open his eyes, Zhou Su came to his senses, straightened up and brushed away the loose hair that was blocking his view.
Li Jinglang is a cause for concern, but he is her biological son after all. No matter how he is on a normal day, she feels sorry for him now that he is lying in the hospital bed in misery.
"What about her?"
After saying two words, he felt his throat smoking. Li Jinglang didn't even bother to drink water. He looked around for Tang Ningyue's shadow. Finally, he found her new bag in the corner of the sofa and felt relieved.
When he withdrew his gaze from her bag, his eyes met Zhou Su's. Li Jinglang blinked guiltily and tried to sit up.
"Don't move around, just rest well." Zhou Su pressed his shoulders to stop him.
"Drink some water." He said, "I'm fine..."
Zhou Su sighed, handed over the warm water at hand, and said helplessly: "You didn't listen to Dr. Hailin at all. He told you to rest at home. You ran out in the middle of the night in the snow to stop a car. What are you doing? Don't you want to live?"
“.....”
If it were in the past, when Tang Ningyue had not returned yet, when Li Jinglang heard such a question, he would definitely answer coldly - Yes, I don’t want to live anymore.
But now, today, he wanted to live for a very long time and stay with Tang Ningyue forever.
"I'm sorry, Mom, for making you worry."
His attitude was so sincere and his apology was so quick that Zhou Su didn't react at all.
"...You...Sigh, Shi Yang is the same. I don't usually think he's so impulsive. How come he started hitting people?" Zhou Su glanced at the wound on Li Jinglang's forehead and pursed his lips in anger. "He did apologize to me, but you didn't wake up. He's outside the door now. Your sister Ning Yue talked to him about it. He said he'd apologize to you in person when you woke up."
"No." Li Jinglang put the cup back and lay down again. "I don't want to see him."
"The sight of him makes me sick to my stomach."
"Okay, okay, I won't see you." Zhou Su tucked the quilt in for him and patted his shoulder to coax him, "Sleep a little longer. I'll go answer a call."
"Hmm..." Li Jinglang responded muffledly and closed his eyes.
Li Jinglang was actually fine. He had just said some harsh words to deliberately anger Sheng Shiyang, and Sheng Shiyang grabbed his collar and pushed him. The force was not that strong, and he could obviously stand on his own, but he didn't fight back or move at all. He even didn't try to grab anything to maintain his balance when he fell down. He just fell down like that, and even Sheng Shiyang was startled.
He was mentally unstable to begin with, and he's been off medication for so long and managed to hold on until now, but today... I can only say that Sheng Shiyang is unlucky.
Li Jinglang was a little timid when being with Zhou Su. Zhou Su understood his situation. It was not once or twice that he secretly threw away his medicine. It was also not uncommon for him to be so emotionally excited that his body became abnormal and faint. Perhaps there were some factors caused by Sheng Shiyang, but it was just a fuse.
Otherwise, how could Zhou Su forgive the person who hurt her son so easily? She has always been the most protective of her children, and of course, most of the time she protects Tang Ningyue.
Zhou Su has always been clear-headed. She would neither expose things nor overreact. She simply pushed the matter away and let Tang Ningyue solve it. Sheng Shiyang had problems, and her son had even bigger problems.
She can't control this matter.
But Tang Ningyue is not a pushover, and she is too lazy to think about how to resolve the situation cleverly. She just fights violence with violence and ends things rudely, the same every time.
"Let's separate for now."
"I'm tired enough."
When Tang Ningyue said this, she was still replying to work messages, typing busily, and breaking up at the same time.
"Ning Yue, I was impulsive. I apologize. You can ask me to do anything." Sheng Shiyang's mind was like a paste. A lot of things were happening at once, and he couldn't control his speaking speed.
"Don't break up, okay? Don't leave me."
"Stop talking." Tang Ningyue didn't want to listen any further. She just wanted to quickly understand the matter and give Zhou Su an explanation, otherwise she would be too embarrassed to go home tonight. Sheng Shiyang was the first man around her to make such a fuss.
It’s not that this matter is serious. Tang Ningyue has seen many things more exaggerated than his. It’s just that this matter happened in the place where she least wanted these men to get involved. It is related to her private family affairs. It would be fine if it happened outside, but it happened to involve the family she cared about the most.
"I really didn't use any force, I just wanted to scare him." Sheng Shiyang collapsed a little, "He said, you, you are just playing with me, using me to entertain yourself, anyone can take my place..." Sheng Shiyang couldn't repeat the more vicious words that followed, he felt breathless just thinking about it.
"So you pushed him?" Tang Ningyue frowned tightly, "Just for such a small matter? You made him like this?"
"You should be glad that he's okay. If anything happens today, I won't let you go, Sheng Shiyang."
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