Chapter 68: Day 68 of Madness All you lost was a heart...
Chapter 68
At this time, Wang Ma poked her head out from the kitchen and asked, "Is their quarrel over now?"
Tan Mo: "Why do you sound a little disappointed?"
"That's not what I meant." Wang Ma stood at the kitchen door, tiptoeing, searching the room with her eyes. "Why didn't you throw anything away today? Or did you pick it all up?"
Lu Xingjian didn't understand what she meant, "I didn't throw it away, what's wrong?"
Mother Wang sighed, "Okay, I admit I'm a little disappointed right now."
"You weren't there when Tang Yi threw the gemstones when she was going crazy? Don't worry, Tang Yi isn't Zhao Yun. She's only capable of murder and arson." Nangong Lie, who had worked with Wang Ma before, understood her well. "They've gone to the living room. You can go in and clean it up when the time comes."
Wang Ma had visibly hopeful hopes.
But Lu Xingjian understood what Wang Ma meant: "..."
Tan Mo had a smile on her lips, she understood the mentality of workers too well.
Wang Ma asked cheerfully, "There's a plate of braised fish in the kitchen. Do you want some?"
Nangong Lie, a man who loves food, never fears too much. He nodded quickly, "Thank you for your hard work, Aunt Wang."
Looking at the harmonious and peaceful scene before her, Zhao Yun almost thought that the quarrel between Bo Yanli and Tang Yi was just her illusion.
How can it be divided like this?
Zhao Yun frowned and asked worriedly, "Can you guys still eat? Yan Li is busy in there, aren't you worried?"
Tan Mo turned her head and looked over, saying seriously, "How about you have some too? If you eat a little, you won't have to worry about it anymore."
Zhao Yun: “…”
Nangong Lie turned on his sarcasm, "You're being hypocritical. When Tang Yi was worried about her son, weren't you and Bo Yanli enjoying the good life out there? Were you worried about Bo Haoran at that time?"
"That's right," Xu Xiaonian warned Zhao Yun, "We can be naive, but we can't be hypocritical!"
Zhao Yun: “…”
Tan Mo continued to eat. When Zhao Yun and Bo Yanli came back from outside, they had just started eating and were still hungry.
Zhao Yun was walking back and forth anxiously between the reception room and the lobby.
Two or three groups of people came along the way.
Tan Mo didn't know who these people were, and it was Lu Xingjian who gave them the basic information.
Lu Xingjian: "The Mediterranean man to the left of those three people is Tang Yi's uncle, the boss of the Tang family."
Nangong Lie asked: "What about the one on the right?"
"Tang Yi's great aunt."
Xu Xiaonian: "Another group of people are coming. Who is the tall woman in the middle?"
"Cousin Tang Yi."
Tan Mo concluded: "Good boy, Tang Yi brought his whole family here."
Without exception, as soon as these people entered the house, they looked at Lu Xingjian and Zhao Yun, mother and son, with cold brows and angry eyes, looking at them as if they were flies.
After entering the reception room, they engaged in a verbal battle with Bo Yanli, criticizing and scolding him, causing chaos. The main idea was to blame him for abandoning his wife and children, ignoring his sick child, and almost giving Bo Haoran a heart attack.
The commotion was so loud that Bo Yanli couldn't handle it at all.
Tan Mo and the others ate their dishes while watching with gusto. Even the two mothers in the kitchen came out with their bowls of rice.
Wang Ma: "How can a TV show be as exciting as a live broadcast?"
Xu Xiaonian: "Indeed. Netizens are now very critical of film and television dramas, accusing the screenwriters of writing scripts with their feet. Someone like Bo Yanli, who has a wife and a mistress living in a large house, must be getting razor blades sent to him."
Tan Mo sighed, "I've told you before, you can't run around with the ball for too long. The ball has to come back when it's four or five years old at most, otherwise the man would have married someone else and had children. A good ball would have become an illegitimate child."
Lu Xingjian was so ashamed that he dared not raise his head and buried his whole face in the bowl.
Tan Mo glanced at her phone screen. "It's almost 8:30. How long will this scene last? I still need to put on a face mask and get some beauty sleep."
Soon, they knew the answer.
In the reception room, Bo Yanli was forced into a corner, and the chaotic scene hurt Zhao Yun's eyes.
Yanli was actually scolded like this!
"Enough!" Zhao Yun stepped forward bravely.
Since the entire living room could not be seen from the dining room, after Zhao Yun went in, Tan Mo and the others also moved to another location.
Zhao Yun stood in front of Bo Yanli and said, "Don't scold Yanli anymore! We are all civilized people and we should be reasonable."
"Okay." Tang Yi's cousin said, "If we're being reasonable, then we should put Bo Yanli in jail for bigamy."
Zhao Yun: “…”
Tan Mo opened her eyes wide, "I didn't expect this cousin to be so good at grasping the key points."
Zhao Yun squatted down and touched Bo Yanli's face. "Yanli, are you okay? Did they do anything to you?"
Bo Yanli shook his head and said, "Yun'er, please leave now. I am useless and cannot protect you."
"No, it's not." Zhao Yun shook her head even more vigorously, tears falling like raindrops. "Yanli, you've done very well. I will never forget the way you took me out to play and talked with me the other day."
After hearing this, Tan Mo almost scratched her head and complained: "What kind of top-level PUA is this?"
Afterwards, Zhao Yun stiffened her neck and said to Tang Yi's relatives, "You forced Yan Li to do this, after all, just to get a heart transplant for Bo Haoran."
"I'll give it to you! That's all right."
This was exactly what Tang Yi wanted. "Okay, when can we go to the hospital to remove the heart?"
Bo Yanli quickly grabbed Zhao Yun's hand and said, "No, Yun'er."
"Damn, what kind of love brain is this?" Nangong Lie couldn't help but exclaimed.
"This is a human heart, not chicken liver, pig lung, or cow kidney, which you can buy casually."
Xu Xiaonian followed up with criticism, "You gave your heart to someone else, so what are you going to do? Die?"
"Yes!" Bo Yanli tightly grasped Zhao Yun's hand, "Yun'er, don't be impulsive."
"I'm not impulsive, and I don't want to see you in trouble." Zhao Yunhui held his hand. "Also, I didn't say it was my heart. I just said I would find a heart for them."
Tang Yi: "What do you mean? You don't want to regret it! No way, everyone heard it."
Zhao Yun: "A gentleman's word is as good as his bond. I'm not someone who would go back on my word."
"I want to give you my son Lu Xingjian's heart."
After hearing what was said, Tan Mo: "..."
After hearing what was said, Bo Yanli threw his hand away.
Tan Mo, Nangong Lie, and Xu Xiaonian all turned around and looked at Lu Xingjian.
Lu Xingjian suddenly became the center of the conversation: "..."
"You said before that you wanted my heart or my son's heart, one or the other. You didn't specifically want me."
Zhao Yun continued to say to Tang Yi: "You said before that you wanted my heart or my son's heart, one of the two, but you didn't specifically want me."
"Now my son's heart is yours," Zhao Yun said, scanning the faces of Tang Yi's relatives with an overbearing gaze. "You should be satisfied, right?"
Tang Yi's relatives looked at each other and said nothing.
"Shut up when you're satisfied!"
Zhao Yun, who has always been gentle and tough, rarely said something tough.
However, the next second, Tan Mo said casually: "You should be the one to shut up."
Zhao Yun: “…”
Zhao Yun couldn't lose heart at this moment, so she still asked firmly, "What do you mean?"
"I mean, you're such a shrewd person. You know people die without a heart, so you don't donate it and let your son donate it, so you don't have to die, right?"
"You are so scheming. Lu Xingjian is already an adult, why can you do whatever you want?" Tan Mo was a little confused when she heard Zhao Yun ask Lu Xingjian to donate.
No one refuted such ridiculous words, and Tan Mo couldn't help but complain.
Lu Xingjian beside her looked at her steadily, his pupils as bright as ink. Tan Mo's figure was reflected in his eyes, becoming brighter and bigger.
Since she had already started complaining, Tan Mo couldn't help but vent her anger. She pointed at Tang Yi and cursed, "And you guys, you just casually asked for their mother and child's heart."
"Have you gone for a matching procedure? Have you had your health assessed? Has the donor's heart function been tested?"
"You say you're worthy, right? You're not even as good as a pig."
Tang Yi felt guilty after being pointed at and scolded.
She actually just wanted to kill Zhao Yun and her son, so she didn't care about anything else.
And no one told her!
She actually met someone with brains. In the past, Bo Yanli believed whatever she said.
Tang Yi said weakly, "It must have been matched before."
"Who matched it? Where did you get it? Bring it here and let me see it."
The question was so detailed that Tang Yi changed the subject. "Haoran's attending physician is my relative. How could I lie to him? Why should I tell you anything else?"
She turned to Zhao Yun, "Zhao Yun, you're disgusting. If you don't want to give my son your heart, then don't give it to him. Are you trying to get people to praise you for your righteousness?"
Zhao Yun was successfully provoked, "Nonsense, I'll give it to you if I say so, just wait."
Zhao Yun looked at Tan Mo again, "Xingjian is my son. I gave birth to him and raised him. Without me, he wouldn't exist. Whatever I ask him to do is between us, mother and son. What's it to you to interfere?"
Then he turned to Lu Xingjian, "Xingjian, please help your mother. You only lost your heart, but your mother lost her love and self-respect."
Tan Mo was shocked again.
What’s the difference between this and “You only lost a leg, but Zi Ling lost her love!”
Lu Xingjian was silent.
Tan Mo felt that Lu Xingjian would most likely not refuse.
According to her observations during this period, Zhao Yun was deeply influenced by Bo Yanli's PUA, and Lu Xingjian was deeply influenced by Zhao Yun's PUA.
Whenever Zhao Yun felt resentful or unhappy with Bo Yanli or Tang Yi, she would ask for help from Lu Xingjian, who should have relied on her parents.
She took out all her resentment on Lu Xingjian.
The relationship between mother and son is upside down.
Zhao Yun became the daughter who needed protection, while Lu Xingjian became the father who took on everything.
When he faced Zhao Yun, silence was more effective than words.
But to Tan Mo's surprise, Lu Xingjian took two steps forward, met Zhao Yun's gaze, and said, "Oh, then let's not have love and self-respect."
Zhao Yun, who was resisted, was stunned for a few seconds, and couldn't believe that these were the words that Lu Xingjian, who had been obedient since childhood, would say.
"You...you..." Zhao Yun couldn't form any words for a long time and asked in a trembling voice, "Did someone teach you to say that?"
"No." Lu Xingjian took a deep breath. "I've wanted to say this a long time ago. I hate it when you complain to me every time you have a fight with Bo Yanli. You make all the decisions for me without asking if I'm willing or not, or if I'm tired or busy. Am I just your trash can?"
"You're annoying."
Zhao Yun couldn't believe it. She looked unhappy at being humiliated in public.
Tang Yi stood up and said, "The focus of the discussion now is not the issue between you and your son. I don't care what your problems are. You have to give me a choice and go to the hospital to donate a heart tomorrow."
Zhao Yun didn't even think about it. "I already told you, my son will go."
He is so selfish and won't listen to any advice.
Tan Mo nodded her chin at Bo Yanli and said, "If Lu Xingjian's heart is gone, then the marriage between our two families will end here."
Nangong Lie: "The Nangong family will never want a useless person."
"Of course, of course." Bo Yanli nodded solemnly, "I'll let Zhao Yun donate."
"Yanli, what are you talking about?!" Zhao Yun was really unlucky today, and was shocked one after another.
"I took you out for a meal a couple of days ago. You can't just give me nothing, right?" Bo Yanli said, "Didn't you say before that you were willing to give me everything?"
"I just want your heart, not your death."
Zhao Yun: "But if I lose my heart, isn't that the same as being dead?"
Tan Mo raised her eyebrows in shock. It turned out that Zhao Yun knew!
Then she also asked Lu Xingjian to donate his heart.
Bo Yanli assured her, "Don't worry, no matter what the cost, I will let the doctors and scientists keep you alive."
Tan Mo mercilessly added fuel to the fire, "A vegetative person is also alive."
Zhao Yun: “…”
*
"Bo Yanli is such a fickle person. He just took Zhao Yun to enjoy some time alone together, and the next moment he wanted to dig out her heart." Although Xu Xiaonian was sitting in Tan Mo's study, her mind was still on the farce that happened not long ago.
The farce ended in a bad mood and temporarily ended with "Bo Yanli trying to dig out Zhao Yun's heart, Zhao Yun was shocked, but reluctantly agreed to go to the hospital tomorrow."
Nangong Lie: "I can't quite understand it either. If Bo Yanli loves Zhao Yun, how could he bear to dig out her heart? Everyone knows that digging out her heart would kill her."
"Is it possible that Bo Yanli taking Zhao Yun out to play doesn't necessarily mean he loves her?" Tan Mo, feeling a little tired from standing and watching the farce, now completely laid out on the single sofa, said lazily, "It's like giving Zhao Yun a date, making her willingly serve him."
"You guessed right." Tan Mo had just finished speaking when Lu Xingjian continued, "He often uses this trick on my mother. My mother is the most susceptible to it, and it always works."
As he spoke, his soft and clean gaze turned to Tan Mo, making Tan Mo feel a burning sensation of being watched.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that Lu Xingjian was looking at her more silently tonight than before.
Before, when he looked at her, he always felt like he was trying to be funny and make her happy. But now, as long as Tan Mo met his gaze, the corners of his mouth would always be filled with the most gentle and devoted smile.
Tan Mo deliberately moved her body to the side to block the view and continued, "Actually, Bo Yanli has already figured out whose heart he wants to steal. Everyone knows it. Taking Zhao Yun out to play is just to make her more willing."
Xu Xiaonian was stunned, as if she was reflecting on Tan Mo's words. "I didn't expect Zhao Yun to want Assistant Lu to die."
A chill ran down her back, and she was shocked. "Bo Yanli's thoughts are really deep."
"But I think Zhao Yun is so naive that it makes my hair stand on end. If she doesn't want to die, she can let Assistant Lu die. It's speechless. This is the first time I see someone being a mother like this." Nangong Lie complained.
Their eyes met in mid-air, and they said in unison, "We must not be so crazy, it's too scary."
"good!"
Tan Mo listened to the two people's oath: "..."
Xu Xiaonian didn't care about other people's gazes and asked, "By the way, Tan Mo, how did you know that Bo Yanli wanted to steal Zhao Yun's heart?"
Tan Mo suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
"Because she won't allow it." Nangong Lie said bluntly.
Even if the Nangong family wanted to form an alliance, they would not marry someone who was heartless.
What's more, Lu Xingjian is still useful to Bo Yanli.
But after Xu Xiaonian heard it, it became another meaning: Tan Mo is indeed deeply in love with Assistant Lu, and she doesn't allow it. What a domineering woman, she protects her husband in a domineering way, she likes it!
Xu Xiaonian held her heart with her hands and made bubbles towards Tan Mo.
Tan Mo wished she could disappear right then and there.
Nangong Lie was too familiar with Xu Xiaonian and knew at a glance that she had wrong ideas.
He was a staunch opponent of marriage, and Lu Xingjian was the son of a rival family. Nangong Lie felt it necessary to make things clear with Xu Xiaonian.
He cleared his throat, breaking Xu Xiaonian's fantasy, and pulled her hand out, "Let's go, go back and rest, it's already late."
However, she hasn’t had enough of watching the domineering female president.
Xu Xiaonian looked at Tan Mo with stars in her eyes, until Nangong Lie asked her if she wanted to read more, then Xu Xiaonian left reluctantly.
Huh~
The suffocating atmosphere in the room finally disappeared, and Tan Mo slowly exhaled.
But when she retracted her gaze and unconsciously glanced at Lu Xingjian, it was still tormenting.
Tan Mo sat up from the sofa and ordered him to leave with a scorching gaze, "I need to rest too, can you please..."
Normally, at this point, the affable Lu Xingjian would immediately understand what she meant and leave, but this time, he said, "I have something to tell you."
Quite serious.
Tan Mo couldn't help but sit up straight.
Lu Xingjian said, "Thank you."
"Well?"
"When my mother pushed me out and said she was going to dig out my heart, you scolded her for me."
"This..." Tan Mo scratched her head stiffly.
After all, Zhao Yun is Lu Xingjian's mother, and Tan Mo actually felt that it was a bit inappropriate after scolding her.
"If you cursed harder, I might feel better."
"Huh?" Tan Mo raised her eyebrows slightly.
Lu Xingjian chuckled silently. He looked away and said, "Actually, I really want to do that. When my mother, Bo Yanli, asks me to do all sorts of outrageous things, I just want to yell back at her."
"When I was little, I felt so sorry for my mom. She raised me single and felt emotionally empty. Even though Lu Jingtang helped us, our home was always dirty and messy."
"My mother always told me that she worked very hard to earn money to support the family and had no energy to take care of the house. If I wasn't there, her life would be much easier. She worked so hard for me. So from the age of five or six, I was very sensible and helped my mother with things to the best of my ability."
"Gradually, I was the one who cooked the meals, cleaned the house, and washed the clothes. In short, I took care of all the housework that could be done. My mother and Lu Jingtang always praised me for being sensible and capable, but I just felt that my mother worked too hard."
"When I was in my second year of high school, my mom and Bo Yanli got to know each other. Even though they were both crazy, I was happy for my mom because what she had been hoping for finally came true."
"You probably don't know, right? Although my mother and Bo Yanli have been separated for so many years, Lu Jingtang has always been very good to her, but the man she wants to love most is still Bo Yanli." At this point, Lu Xingjian laughed sarcastically.
"It wasn't until later, when Bo Yanli took her back, that we learned that he had married and had a child the year after they separated. My mother foolishly believed that Bo Yanli had been looking for her and waiting for her all these years."
"We were forced to become mistresses and illegitimate children who destroyed other people's families. I couldn't bear the immense pressure from public opinion. I told my mother to leave quickly, move out of the Bo family, or go back to our small house, but she wouldn't listen."
"She's become so caught up in the sadomasochistic drama she wrote, directed, and performed herself that she's been acting out. She and Bo Yanli's outbursts have become more frequent. Previously, these outbursts might have been meant as flirtations, but now they're just a way to vent her vicious anger."
"Oh." Lu Xingjian said in a disoriented tone, "I forgot. In this sadomasochistic love story, not only are they mentally unstable, but Lu Jingtang and Tang Yi will also be involved. The Bo family is always as noisy as the 8:30 o'clock melodrama."
"Whenever my mother gets into a fight with Bo Yanli or Tang Yi, she complains to me. At first, I try to explain things to her, comfort her, and make her feel better. But then she gets entangled with them again."
"It's like I've entered an unbreakable vicious cycle. I'm feeling more and more disgusted and disgusted."
"The more I hated this environment, the more I felt my mother had no ability to live. She worked, but her salary was only two or three thousand yuan; she cleaned, but I had to do it all over again; she cooked, and we both got acute gastroenteritis. She only complained to me, saying that it was all because of me."
Lu Xingjian kept his head down, his eyes sparkling with a moist luster.
Tan Mo heard the trembling in his voice.
One can imagine the sadness he felt and the difficulty he experienced growing up with the responsibility and guilt.
"I know she's not doing this for me, but for her own selfish desires. But every time she comes to me, I remember when we were little and supported each other, and I can't refuse her."
"The time when I was away studying and working with you was the most relaxing and happy time of my life, because I could stay away from my mother and all these messy and abnormal relationships."
Lu Xingjian slowly raised his head. "Especially when I was your assistant, watching you handle the relationship between Nangong Lie and Xu Xiaonian, I thought you were amazing."
"Can do things I can't do."
Tan Mo's heart sank and she met Lu Xingjian's gaze quietly.
His puppy eyes were wet, dark, and yet secretly lively.
"So I feel really good about you scolding my mom."
"I know you didn't come to my house to marry me. You have your own purpose."
Tan Mo was horrified and almost thought that her systematic secrets were exposed.
"It's okay, I don't blame you."
Lu Xingjian raised the corner of his mouth to smile, as if he had made up his mind, "Everything is almost over."
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