Chapter 362 Chapter 362 A Big Secret
Shen Qinghuan sighed helplessly in her heart and regretted that she should not have agreed to Zhou Sinian and helped him deceive his parents.
Zhou Sinian lowered his eyes and his gaze fell on that bright little face, with a tender and gentle smile in his eyes.
But the smile was fleeting. When he raised his head, his dark eyes were calm. Zhou Sinian said coldly, "Mom, please don't embarrass Huanhuan. I was the one pursuing her all along."
From childhood to adulthood, he rarely did anything to resist his mother, and always did whatever his mother said.
This is the first and only time.
Mother Zhou's face froze, and she said sullenly, "Si Nian, come with me to the study."
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Shen Qinghuan sat obediently on the sofa and chatted with Zhou's father.
Compared to Zhou's mother's dominance and inhumanity, Zhou's father seemed much gentler, still the man Shen Qinghuan remembered. "Huanhuan, eat! Your aunt has always been like that, you don't have to worry about her."
Shen Qinghuan lowered his eyes and said "hmm" softly.
"Actually, I'm happy to see our Si Nian be with you. You're a kind-hearted child, but Si Nian has always been suppressed by her mother. Even now that she's working, her mother is still like this."
When talking about his only son, Zhou's father was filled with sighs.
Shen Qinghuan was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhou's father in surprise, "Is Si Nian's relationship with Auntie not good?"
Father Zhou thought for a moment and said, "It's not that it's bad, it's just that your aunt's control is too strong. Si Nian is the victim. Actually, it's my fault too. If I hadn't run away back then, I wouldn't have..."
He didn't dare tell Shen Qinghuan that Zhou Sinian suffered from severe depression when he was in his senior year of high school. He kept hurting himself, but later, for some reason, he got better.
As for the Zhou family's affairs, Shen Qinghuan felt that as an outsider, it was not appropriate for her to comment too much, so she could only remain silent. She just nodded and listened to whatever Zhou's father said.
"Huanhuan, Si Nian..." Father Zhou hesitated, "Let me take you to his room to have a look!"
Shen Qinghuan frowned suspiciously, not understanding why, but she still followed Zhou's father upstairs.
After entering Zhou Sinian's room, Shen Qinghuan looked around calmly. The room was decorated entirely in black, white and gray, without a single bright color. It was so depressing that it made people want to escape.
Father Zhou took out a notebook from the top shelf.
The cover of the book had turned yellow, indicating it must be quite old, but what did it have to do with her? Did she really have to read it? Shen Qinghuan pursed her lips and looked at Zhou's father in confusion.
Father Zhou smiled gently and said, "You should open it and take a look!"
Shen Qinghuan: "Oh!"
She took the notebook from Zhou's father's hand, took a deep breath, and slowly opened the cover.
This is?
Uncle Shen told me to marry Huanhuan when I grow up, and I agreed. So, I can’t break my promise. I must live well and go find her when I grow up...
Shen Qinghuan was stunned.
She looked at the words written on the inside page, then looked at Zhou's father.
Father Zhou sighed slightly and said nothing, only motioning her to continue reading.
Shen Qinghuan didn't understand, but continued to read.
Page after page...
Halfway through the notebook, she felt it was extremely hot and quickly returned it to Zhou's father.
Zhou's father smiled helplessly, did not refuse, and put the yellowed notebook back on the top shelf.
Shen Qinghuan knew that the owner of this notebook was Zhou Sinian, and that he had written it many years ago.
"Let's get out!"
After putting the notebook back to its original place, Zhou's father asked Shen Qinghuan to leave together.
Shen Qinghuan lowered her head and fell behind Zhou's father. Her bright little face was so calm that it seemed as if there was not a single fluctuation.
When they returned to the living room one after another, Zhou Sinian and his mother were still talking in the study.
Shen Qinghuan lowered her head, holding an orange in her hand. She peeled it slowly, carefully, and meticulously.
Father Zhou sighed slightly, but said nothing. However, the look in his eyes when he looked at Shen Qinghuan became different from before.
Shen Qinghuan pursed her lips, feeling a little restless.
She seemed to have learned a huge secret from that yellowed notebook.
Under the strong control of his mother, Zhou Sinian, a high school student, suffered from severe depression. Without any medication or interference from a psychological counselor, he miraculously recovered.
And this factor is actually the sentence on the inside page.
Her mind was in a mess and she wanted to escape.
But she knew clearly that if she escaped now, she knew how to face Zhou Sinian.
"Huanhuan, try this, it's good..."
Father Zhou picked up a fruit plate full of cherries and handed it to her.
Shen Qinghuan thanked him gratefully and picked up two of them. They were very sweet and had almost no sour taste.
"Not bad, right? Eat more."
"Well, thank you, uncle."
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It was more than half an hour later when Zhou Sinian and his mother came out of the study.
Zhou Sinian's expression was the same as before, gentle, with a faint smile.
But Zhou's mother was different. She seemed covered with a layer of frost, so cold that people dared not even look at her.
"Si Nian, why don't you accompany Huan Huan to visit around? What's the point of just sitting there?" Zhou's father said cheerfully.
Zhou Sinian responded in a hoarse voice: "Okay!"
He walked towards Shen Qinghuan, his eyes full of tenderness and a reassuring smile.
Shen Qinghuan's heart skipped a beat. She didn't know what Zhou's mother said to Zhou Sinian, but from the look on her face, she could tell that the mother and son were not very happy chatting. But when Zhou Sinian came out, there was a faint smile on that gentle face.
Mother Zhou glanced at Father Zhou coldly, suppressed her anger, and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Father Zhou said nothing and still looked contented.
Shen Qinghuan followed Zhou Sinian closely.
The last time she came to Zhou's house, she only sat in the living room for a while and then went back without walking around.
Zhou Sinian suddenly stopped and turned to look at Shen Qinghuan, with a smile on his face. "There's a glass greenhouse on the roof. Many flowers are blooming. They look beautiful. I'll take you there."
Shen Qinghuan smiled, "Okay!"
After a pause, she asked curiously, "Are all the flowers in the glass greenhouse planted by Auntie?"
"A small half, maybe! The other half was planted by my dad."
"Uncle also likes to grow flowers?"
"You can't tell!"
Shen Qinghuan suddenly remembered what Zhou's father said to her in Zhou Sinian's bedroom. It was enough to prove that he was a thoughtful man. It was a pity that his repressive life made him silent.
Thinking of this, she smiled and nodded, saying, "Yeah! I can't tell."
They soon reached the top floor.
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