The Dark Side of the Piano Boy (21)

"So it was Jiang Ye who made you leave me for the past six years? And as a condition, you made Jiang Ye leave me as well?"

Lu Zhiran's voice was permeated with a chill that penetrated deep into the bone marrow.

Lu Ya admitted on the other end of the phone, "Yes."

…

Lu Zhiran hung up the call with Lu Ya.

He stood on the balcony, staring at the distant sky in a daze.

Finally, the motionless man slowly turned around.

However, the moment he turned around, Lu Zhiran saw Jiang Ye's figure.

Jiang Ye didn't know how long he stood behind him.

Lu Zhiran's beautiful dark pupils were startled.

After a while, Lu Zhiran returned to normal. He looked into Jiang Ye's eyes and asked, "Did you hear everything?"

Jiang Ye replied, "I guessed it."

There was no obvious emotion in either of their voices.

But the atmosphere was inexplicably strange.

Jiang Ye stared at Lu Zhiran's face motionlessly. The man's face was filled with sadness, as desolate as stagnant water. He looked so pitiful that it made people feel distressed, like a kitten or puppy that had been abandoned for a long time.

To the extent that Jiang Ye felt that Lu Zhiran resented him.

"Are you blaming me for letting your mother leave you, Lu Zhiran? I hope you can understand me. Under the circumstances at that time, I felt that letting your mother leave you was..." the best choice.

Jiang Ye had not yet finished his long speech.

Lu Zhiran on the balcony suddenly walked to Jiang Ye's side.

He interrupted Jiang Ye and said, "Jiang Ye, have you ever understood me?"

Jiang Ye was stunned for a moment.

Jiang Ye regained his normal expression and emphasized, "I did that just for your sake..."

"What I'm asking you is, have you ever understood me from my perspective?"

Lu Zhiran interrupted Jiang Ye again.

The dark pupils were so cold that it was frightening.

Jiang Ye's lips trembled, and he actually felt guilty about the man's unreasonable question.

"From your perspective, isn't it a good thing to finally get rid of a mother like that?"

This is a dimension in a book. In the original plot of the novel, Lu Zhiran hated Lu Ya to death.

The years he lived with Lu Ya were the most painful and twisted years for Lu Zhiran.

Those years drove Lu Zhiran crazy.

That's why Lu Zhiran killed Lu Ya with his own hands when he grew up.

So... isn't the most important thing to let Lu Zhiran get rid of Lu Ya, to let Lu Zhiran get rid of that twisted and terrifying education, and to grow up in an atmosphere without shadows?

Lu Zhiran's long, thick eyelashes were trembling visibly, and deep sorrow and grief appeared in the boy's eyes. He stared at Jiang Ye intently and said in a tear-jerking tone,

"But have you ever thought about..."

"What I care about is not whether Lu Ya will leave me, but whether you, teacher, will leave me."

Than being abandoned by someone you don't love...

The greatest pain is to be abandoned by the one you love.

Jiang Ye felt as if struck by lightning, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

He was shocked by the intensity and depth of the pain in the man.

Jiang Ye even thought he was a sinner.

He seemed to have committed some mortal sin.

That's why Lu Zhiran was like this... standing in front of him like a zombie, lifeless, as if his soul had been sucked away by something.

Jiang Ye heard Lu Zhiran say in his ear——

"I would rather live under Lu Ya's control forever than have you, Teacher Jiang, leave me."

In fact, what the young man could not bear was not being abandoned by his mother.

Because he never cared about the so-called mother.

What he has always cared about is the person who once brought the only warmth in his life, but who disappeared from his life inexplicably.

Jiang Ye once said to Lu Zhiran that people must find something they like in this world, and what a person likes is the stars and the moon hanging above his head.

Some people don't have anything they like, without the stars and the moon, although they can still live well, but they are walking on a night road.

Lu Zhiran once thought that he had found his own stars and moon.

He really likes his teacher Jiang.

Teacher Jiang was also very nice to him.

Even Jiang Ye himself promised that he would always be by his side.

But one day, the stars and the moon hanging above Lu Zhiran's head suddenly disappeared.

How did the boy, who was used to having a light above his head, cry his heart out on the spot, and how did he stand up after crying, and walk through the lonely and cold six years alone...

No one knows except Lu Zhiran himself.

Lu Zhiran thought, you have clearly given me warmth, why do you want to take that warmth away? You clearly said that it would always be there.

After finally knowing the reason, Lu Zhiran felt that this reason was so ridiculous that it made him want to cry.

Obviously what he wanted...

It’s always Jiang Ye.

Rather than getting rid of Lu Ya.

"In fact, Teacher Jiang has always been my armor. As long as you are here, nothing can hit me." No matter whether it is Lu Ya or anyone else, no one can hit me.

"Your leaving is the biggest harm to me."

…

Jiang Ye didn't know when Lu Zhiran left him.

When he came to his senses and realized what was happening, he reached out and touched his face, only to find that it was covered in tears.

The boy's voice still echoes in my ears.

It turns out that the decision he made six years ago was stupid, wasn't it...

Is it worth the loss?

Did Lu Zhiran feel more pain than relief from the decision he made?

At this moment, Jiang Ye suddenly remembered that when he left six years ago, the system told him that after he left, Lu Zhiran would be alone.

That year he left, and Lu Ya also left. The two most important people in Lu Zhiran's life left, and Lu Zhiran's life may have fallen into a blank.

Because of him, Lu Zhiran became a complete human being.

A person grows up, and a person comes to this day.

"I really...it's all for you."

"I've always wanted to do good for you... Lu Zhiran."

Jiang Ye stood there, talking to the air.

The tone was lonely and weak.

——

Lu Zhiran disappeared from Jiang Ye's life.

Jiang Ye didn't know what Lu Zhiran was thinking right now, but he probably still blamed him...

Otherwise I wouldn't have left him.

However, although Lu Zhiran left him, Jiang Ye still had important things to deal with.

Jiang Ye returned to the cram school and confessed his true thoughts to Wen Anan, and expressed the hope that Wen Anan could find a new and more suitable job in the future.

I also wish him to find a partner who is truly suitable for him.

Although Wen Anan was very sad, Jiang Ye had already said that, so she had to give up.

After Wen Anan left, Jiang Ye recruited two new team members.

Jiang Ye had a heavy heart and it was difficult for him to calm down and work steadily, so after two new members joined the cram school, he temporarily handed the work over to another teacher.

After that, Jiang Ye left the city and went to City A six years ago.

…

After arriving in City A, the first thing Jiang Ye did was to return to the rental house he had lived in.

Jiang Ye happened to meet his landlord from that year while still downstairs of the rental house.

The landlord is still the fat aunt, but after six years, she has obviously aged, and her gray hair reveals the ruthlessness of time.

It is clearly a familiar place, clearly the place where I once lived, but everything feels desolate and no longer the same as it was before.

When the landlady saw Jiang Ye, her eyes widened in surprise and she recognized him at the first moment.

"Xiao Ye! Why are you back?"

Jiang Ye smiled politely and said, "I haven't been back for a long time. I came back to take a look."

"Who are you kidding? How could it be such a coincidence? How come you came back not long after Lu Zhiran did? I think you came back just for Lu Zhiran!"

I didn’t expect that the landlady actually knew Lu Zhiran.

Jiang Ye was a little surprised and asked inadvertently, "Auntie, do you know Lu Zhiran? Are you also interested in the piano?"

The landlady glanced towards the second floor and asked Jiang Ye, "How could I not know Lu Zhiran? He has lived above me for the past few years, and I see him every day!"

Jiang Ye was shocked.

He blinked his eyelashes, "...Has he lived here all these years?"

In the past few years, Jiang Ye didn't know where Lu Zhiran lived.

But he thought, even if Lu Ya gave up Lu Zhiran's right to education, she would definitely support Lu Zhiran with money. Lu Zhiran had money, so at least he wouldn't live too badly.

Even if the place you live in is not good, it will not be the place where he lived.

"Yes, he lived here for four or five years. Later, he became famous by participating in piano competitions and was often busy outside. In the past one or two years, he has not been back for long."

"But he came back a few days ago. I don't know why... and looking at him like that, I'm afraid he's suffered some kind of trauma. He looks really pitiful."

When Jiang Ye heard this, his heart suddenly ached.

So over the years, Lu Zhiran has been living in the house he once rented.

Jiang Ye was about to go upstairs when the landlady suddenly grabbed his hand excitedly.

"Hey, wait a minute!!"

Jiang Ye stopped and turned to look at the middle-aged woman.

The landlady spoke up, "Let me tell you, this child has a miserable life. His mother didn't want him when he was only thirteen or fourteen. He lives here alone, does his own laundry and cooking, and spends the Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year alone."

"I haven't seen him smile in years."

"He told me once before that if he wasn't there when you came back, he should call me."

"Jiang Ye, I think he has been waiting for you all these years."

"If you come back to look for him, please treat the child well. He has a miserable life. I feel sorry for him. I watched him grow up and suffer. As I get older, I can't stand seeing pitiful people..."

…

Jiang Ye used the key given by the landlady to open the iron door of the rental house.

The moment he opened the iron gate, Jiang Ye was suddenly stunned.

Everything in the room is the same as it was back then.

Same lamp, same sofa, same table.

The next time he looked, Jiang Ye saw the young man sleeping on the sofa.

Jiang Ye originally thought that Lu Zhiran was sleeping, but the moment he walked in and closed the door, the young man on the sofa suddenly turned around and sat up from the sofa.

I haven't seen him for more than half a month, and Lu Zhiran's handsome face now looks a little messy and sloppy.

The boy is good-looking, even though he has tortured himself into this state...

But it is also filled with a different kind of decadent beauty.

"Have you eaten yet?"

After more than half a month, Jiang Ye saw Lu Zhiran again, and the first thing he asked was, "Have you eaten?"

Lu Zhiran was stunned. Perhaps he himself did not expect that Jiang Ye would cross several cities and suddenly appear in front of him.

He rubbed his sleepy eyes, leaned back on the sofa, and looked at Jiang Ye with delicate features, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself.

After a while, Lu Zhiran spoke.

"Not yet."