Chapter 131: Thoughts, thoughts of my beloved... (Thirty years later, extra chapter)
"I want to see you, only you, in the future and the past, I only want to see you, traveling through thousands of timelines, relying on each other in the sea of people...
Are you, like me, waiting for the words, "I do..."
A love song was playing on the car radio. In the back seat, a man in a black suit had a look of deep fatigue between his eyebrows.
He looked out the car window and saw a flower field in full bloom next to the artificial lake halfway up the mountain.
But his life is already withering.
His Adam's apple rolled slightly, he closed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "It's turned off."
Qiu Changan, who was driving, quickly turned off the radio.
Then, he glanced through the rearview mirror at Xie Yanwen, who looked exhausted in the back seat. After a moment of silence, he couldn't help but ask, "Fifth Brother, what did the doctor say this time?"
Xie Yanwen didn't say anything, he was very quiet with his eyes closed. Qiu Chang'an waited for a while, but when he didn't get a response, he didn't dare to say anything else.
Xie Yanwen's thoughts had been drawn to a faraway place because of the song just now.
Sometimes, the older people get, the clearer their memories of the past seem to be, as if when life is about to come to an end, it always makes you take a good look at your past.
And his past...
Xie Yanwen felt that before the age of 35, there was nothing worth recalling or examining.
The disharmonious family, his mother killed by his father, and their illicit thoughts led him to extremes starting at the age of 85.
Physical injuries may heal one day, but psychological problems only seem to get worse, causing people to fall into the abyss.
Until one day, Ruan Yunheng, who had not seen him for a long time, found him.
It's been a long time.
It's been about ten years.
After the Ruan family completely fell into decline, Ruan Yunheng left Haidu. No one knew where he went, and Xie Yanwen didn't care. After all...
His relationship with Ruan Yunheng can be traced back to kindergarten, and it was not a good one.
However, in the coffee shop, when the two middle-aged men sat face to face, Xie Yanwen still felt some emotion in his heart.
Ruan Yunheng, the little bully in kindergarten who was a few months younger than him, now has gray hair and a haggard face.
She looked more than ten years older than him.
He sat in front of him, his back slightly hunched, his head lowered, looking at the untouched cup of coffee in front of him, his voice hoarse: "I know this request is a bit abrupt, but right now, I can't think of anyone else to turn to except you."
The Ruan family had long been impoverished, and the remaining relatives were like jackals. At least he left something for Yiyi. If he handed Yiyi over to those relatives, she would probably be eaten to the bone.
Xie Yanwen asked the key question: "Whose child?"
Ruan Yunheng closed his eyes and murmured, "The one from the Xu family."
Xie Yanwen understood immediately: "Xu Shu."
Ruan Yunheng did not deny it.
Xie Yanwen nodded.
Over the years, of course, he had already thoroughly understood Xu Shu's identity. She had a face similar to Xu Anyu's back then, but she was not Xu Anyu.
It is naturally curious.
Xie Yanwen had already looked it up and had a rough idea of it.
When Xu Shu appeared that year, she had a face similar to Xu Anyu's, but she had disguised herself.
But Xie Yanwen didn't expect that Xu Shu and Ruan Yunheng had a child.
Xie Yanwen leaned back in his chair, folding his arms. "Does she know?"
Ruan Yunheng nodded. "Of course I know, but this child was conceived through artificial insemination. Xu Shu and I have no relationship. She never thought of recognizing this child, and I didn't want to give the child to her. You know what the Xu family is like. I can't let Yiyi be ruined by her."
Xie Yanwen was a little surprised.
Ruan Yunheng smiled bitterly, "Why do you think she disguised herself as Xu Qi?"
Xie Yanwen nodded: "I was curious, but I don't care much."
Anyway, it has no effect on him.
Ruan Yunheng: "Just to get close to me."
Xie Yanwen: "So she succeeded."
Ruan Yunheng closed his eyes: "Her appearance made me realize that I really liked Xu Qi, but I was indeed young and impetuous at that time. What I didn't understand was that I didn't have the ability to protect Xu Qi at that time."
At that time, his father was also seriously ill.
So, when they used Xu Qi's safety to force him to give up his child, he compromised.
He thought that this would save Xu Qi.
But unexpectedly, it pushed Xu Qi into a deeper abyss.
When she found out what he had done, she committed suicide.
At the seaside.
Xu Shu then became the seventh lady of the Xu family with Xu Qi's face.
Then, she gave birth to his child.
At that time, Ruan Yunheng was in pain from losing both his father and his lover at the same time, and he was completely confused.
Xu Shu used the child to claim that she was his fiancée, and secretly took away many things from the Ruan family, even the shares he held.
When Ruan Yunheng woke up, it was too late.
Xu Shu no longer needed to use him, so she left the child to him and turned around and pretended not to know him.
When Ruan Yunheng took Xie Lianjun and Xu Nianyi away from Haidu, he held a crying girl who was less than half a year old, thinking that he would never come back.
He didn't expect that God could be even more cruel to him. His mother's health collapsed due to the sudden change and she died within two years.
Fortunately, he still has a daughter.
As his daughter grew up, she became lively and lovely, and her painful life became much happier.
He and she depended on each other, and just when their lives were getting better and better, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Not for a few months.
To him, it was as if this hopeless life was finally coming to an end.
But his intention was to be left alone in this lonely world.
He couldn't bear to do it.
So when he saw Xie Yanwen in a magazine one day, he finally shamelessly looked for him.
If there is anyone else in this world whom he can trust with peace of mind, Xu Nianyi.
Surprisingly, there was only Xie Yanwen.
Only he can protect Yiyi.
What's more, Xie Yanwen has never married or had children, and there is no one around him. No one will bully or hurt Yiyi just because they don't like her.
Xie Yanwen listened in silence.
He seemed to understand the pain Ruan Yunheng had suffered over the past decade, and even felt that compared to himself, Ruan Yunheng might be even more miserable.
But why doesn't Ruan Yunheng have any psychological problems?
Xie Yanwen thought silently.
Could it be that his mental problems were actually passed down from his mother and are part of his genes?
After a long silence, Xie Yanwen stirred his already cold coffee and suddenly asked, "Why is she called Xu Nianyi?"
He raised his eyes to look at Ruan Yunheng: "Since you and Xu Shu have no feelings for each other, why is her last name Xu?"
Ruan Yunheng drank the cup of cold black coffee in front of him.
Enduring the severe pain in his stomach, he whispered, "Xu, it's Xu Qi's Xu. Nianyi..."
His Adam's apple rolled and his voice was hoarse. He said, "I'm thinking of the one I love."
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