Zhou Qian looked at the white-haired man in front of her, and many unbearable memories from the past flooded into her mind, as if reminding her all the time to hate this man.
But in her shallow memories, she also hid Zhou Zhicheng's kindness to her. Before she was about five years old, Zhou Zhicheng also gave her a happy childhood.
For example, every day after get off work, I would bring her small gifts and delicious food to make her happy; no matter how busy or tired I was, I would take her out for a walk every day.
Because she hurt her knee while fighting with a kid for something, Zhou Zhicheng rushed over without asking any questions, picked up the kid and banged the soles of his shoes on him.
In his eyes, no one can bully my daughter, even if it's the king, he will beat him up.
Because of that incident, the kids who usually played with her stopped playing with her, which made her cry for several days.
As for Zhang Landi, in Zhou Qian's memory, Zhang Landi had always been indifferent to her.
"I'm really not your biological child?" Zhou Qian asked with difficulty.
"Xiao Qian..."
"Do you just need to say yes or no?" Zhou Qian interrupted him. She didn't want to hear "sorry" or some confession.
Zhou Zhicheng lowered his head and said guiltily, "No, no."
Hearing the answer with her own ears, Zhou Qian's heart ached. She asked in a trembling voice, "Why?"
"Because your mother and I are infertile, so..." Zhou Zhicheng choked up when he said this.
"So you can deprive others of their children and deprive me of my life?" Zhou Qian said with some excitement.
"Xiao Qian, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm the one who let you down." Zhou Zhicheng sank to his knees. "You're sending me to jail now, and I don't have a single complaint. I just hope you don't hold a grudge against Landi. She's never had a good life with me."
"It was my idea to keep you here. Hate me if you want."
Zhou Qian had a blank expression on his face. "I hate you. If I send you to jail, what can I do to save you?"
"I'm sorry for you."
Zhou Qian looked at Zhou Zhicheng, who was crying with his hands covering his face. Even though she had hatred in her heart, she couldn't say anything heartless. "I won't forgive you, but don't worry, I will take care of Zhang Landi."
Zhou Zhicheng has no problem making a living now, so it is impossible for him to bear Zhang Landi's medical expenses, and she can't bear to watch Zhang Landi being abused to death.
Zhou Zhicheng quickly explained, "That's not what I meant. I will take care of your mother and Landi from now on. You don't need to bother me anymore."
Zhou Qian felt a pain in his heart. The word "trouble" widened the distance between them from then on.
…
Zhou Qian left Zhou Zhicheng and went downstairs. She saw Lu Jing leaning against a street light smoking from a distance, but she didn't go over immediately.
Before she left, Zhou Zhicheng suggested that after she reunited with her biological parents, he wanted to meet them and apologize to them in person.
However, Zhou Qian refused. She thought that Liang Hui and his wife probably didn't want to see him either.
Zhou Zhicheng and Zhang Landi hurt her, but they also made her grow up in a happy family. Regardless of whether she was happy or not, she was at least much luckier than those single-parent children and orphans who were looked down upon.
It is also undeniable that it was Zhou Zhicheng and his wife who supported her. She could not hate them, but she could not forgive them either.
So, she could only reconcile with herself.
After all, there is still a long way to go in the future, with relatives she has yet to meet and happiness waiting for her...
Zhou Qian looked at the man who was also looking at her under the street light, and all the emotions in her heart were soothed by his gaze at this moment.
She smiled and walked towards him quickly. As she walked, she suddenly started running and flew into the man's arms.
"Lu Jing..." Zhou Qian buried her face in the man's arms greedily, calling his name.
Lu Jing hugged her tightly and kissed her temples, "Are you still sad?"
Zhou Qian nodded in his arms, then shook her head.
Lu Jing chuckled and rubbed her hair lovingly, "It's okay, I'll stay with you."
The two of them hugged each other for a long time on the cold street. Lu Jing was worried that she would be cold, so he carried her into the car.
On the way back, Zhou Qian tilted her head and looked out the window without saying a word. Lu Jing looked at her several times, wondering what she was thinking.
…
It was already late at night when the two returned home, but Zhou Qian still didn't feel sleepy at all. She sat on the sofa and was in a daze for a while.
Lu Jing came over and hugged her, kissing her on the forehead, "Are you not going to sleep yet?"
"Can I drink?" Zhou Qian looked at him.
Lu Jing raised his eyebrows, stood up and took out two bottles of low-alcohol cocktails from the refrigerator, "Come here."
He took the wine to the balcony, Zhou Qian got up and went over, and the two of them sat side by side on the carpet.
Outside the window, the scenery of half of Yunzhou is in sight. The night shrouds the city, and the stars in the night are like bright gems, embellishing the beauty of the night.
"You can't drink anymore. I'll take you to the Liang family tomorrow."
Zhou Qian clenched her grip on the bottle of wine tightly. She didn't know why she felt so resistant. She should be happy to have found her family, right?!
Lu Jing took her hand and held it in his, encouraging her, "I will always be with you. Don't be nervous or resist. They all like you very much. You saw it yourself that day."
Zhou Qian still didn't speak.
She finally understood why Liang Hui and his wife were so enthusiastic towards her that day and why they looked at her with that kind of eyes. It turned out that they already knew at that time that she was their long-lost daughter.
Thinking about it now, they were extremely patient not to be so excited as to hug her and recognize her.
After a while of silence, Zhou Qian was a little dazed from drinking. She leaned towards Lu Jing and leaned on his shoulder.
"Lu Jing, can you tell me about your childhood?"
Lu Jing lowered his head and glanced at her. "If you want to hear it, I'll tell you."
"Think about it, you know everything about me, but I know nothing about you."
"It's not like I'm completely clueless." Lu Jing took a sip of his wine and spoke slowly, "I've been living with my mother since I was a child. I've been wandering around because I had to avoid being hunted by Lu Jianhong's men."
Zhou Qian frowned fiercely and looked up at him, "Why is he so cruel to you and your son?"
"To be precise, it was Lu Jianhong's wife who couldn't tolerate us. Of course, Lu Jianhong also acquiesced." Lu Jing looked at the night outside the window with a calm tone.
Zhou Qian was furious, "He's worse than an animal."
"Whenever my mother hurriedly took me away from home, the thought of killing that man became ingrained in my mind."
Although he was clearly filled with hatred in his heart, his expression remained calm. This was a sign of his growth over the years.
Zhou Qian looked at him distressedly and reached out to hold his hand. "So you must have had a very unhappy childhood."
Lu Jing glanced at her and said, "That's not the case."
As he drank, his memory slowly drifted back to the distant past. "When I was eight, we fled to a remote town where I met a little girl. She was like a ray of light in my dark childhood, illuminating me for many, many years to come."
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