Chapter 354 Stand Up
At around 12 noon, Zhang Shuai finally received a call from Tian Xin.
The car came over in a few minutes and stopped steadily in front of her.
"Get in the car!" Zhang Shuai rolled down the window and shouted at her.
The weather was scorching, approaching 40 degrees Celsius. Tian Xin squatted by the roadside, her hair soaking wet and sticking to her face. She lowered her head, her arms clasped around her shoulders, seemingly exhausted.
"No, where's Lin Zhou?" Zhang Shuai opened the door and got out of the car, looking annoyed: "He just left you here in such hot weather?"
Tian Xin shook her head: "No!"
He stood up, opened the passenger door, and quickly sat in.
Seeing that she looked unhappy, Zhang Shuai followed her back to the car.
But he didn't drive away immediately. He first glanced into the community to make sure Lin Zhou hadn't come out, then asked her: "Where is he?"
Tian Xin didn't answer, but rubbed her face, without looking at him, and whispered: "Let's go!"
"Going back?"
"Do you have anything else to do later? If it's convenient..."
"Convenient!" Zhang Shuai said, "Where are you going?"
“Ancient City!”
After saying that, she leaned back, took a long breath and closed her eyes.
Seeing her like this, Zhang Shuai didn't ask any more questions and just drove away!
At the same time, Zhou Ruilian had just gone upstairs.
She opened the door with her key.
The room was quiet, without a sound.
"Xiao Zhou!"
She called out, but there was no response.
"Xiao Zhou!"
Still no response!
The living room was in a mess, with things on the coffee table spilled all over the floor.
She was startled and quickly went to Lin Zhou's bedroom.
The bedroom door was ajar.
The room was littered with portraits, their easels lying in disorder on the floor. The broken pieces of the plaster doll had not been cleaned up, and the pieces had been kicked everywhere.
Lin Zhou lay on the ground, motionless. Surrounded by scattered portraits, he felt lifeless.
A strange atmosphere instantly hit Zhou Ruilian. She felt the blood in her body rushing to her head. She rushed to Lin Zhou and hugged him.
"Xiao...Xiao Zhou, what's wrong with you? Huh?"
She burst into tears, her whole body shaking uncontrollably. She touched Lin Zhou's face over and over again, calling out to him, tears streaming down her face!
"Tell mom what's wrong? Ah? Where's Tian Xin?"
Lin Zhou's eyes were devoid of light, and he showed no reaction when Zhou Ruilian held him in her arms. He simply stared fixedly at one spot, tears streaming silently.
Zhou Ruilian had only seen this look once.
That was sixteen years ago, when she and Lin Zhenhua divorced.
"Mom is here? Don't be afraid, Xiao Zhou, Mom is here! Mom won't abandon you this time. Talk to me, Xiao Zhou, talk to Mom, don't scare me!"
Zhou Ruilian was trembling all over.
Seeing her son like this, her heart was broken, and the guilt she had felt towards her son for more than ten years once again swept over her.
Lin Zhou reached out and wiped the tears from Zhou Ruilian's face. He turned his eyes to look at her and said calmly:
"Mom, she doesn't want me anymore!"
Just one sentence and he burst into tears.
Zhou Ruilian felt a sharp pain in her heart: "Don't be afraid, son. Mom is here. I will never leave you again!"
"She doesn't want me anymore, Mom, she doesn't want me anymore!"
"I begged her not to leave, but she said she would leave no matter what." Lin Zhou burst into tears: "Mom, what should I do? What should I do?"
"This isn't your fault, Xiao Zhou. Don't be like this. From now on, Mom will be with you. We...we can find someone better..."
"I don't want it, I only want her! Mom, I don't want anyone else, I only want her, I only want her... I... I really want to be with her. For so many years, I've been alone... I'm alone... I thought I was used to being alone... But, what should I do? I can't go back... Mom, I can't go back! I... I miss her so much..."
Lin Zhou burst into tears.
At this moment, he hid in Zhou Ruilian's arms, as if he had returned to the helpless child sixteen years ago who was abandoned by his mother and had no choice but to live with his stepmother.
The pain grows wildly like a vine, from the heart to the hair, and flows to every limb.
He had never felt such pain before. It was like a blunt knife cutting flesh, one cut after another, endlessly. The pain made him breathless, as if he was suffocating and on the verge of death at any moment.
Zhou Ruilian hugged him tightly, not daring to let go for a moment.
After so many years of debt, I finally made up for it this year. But how long has it been?
"Is it because of what happened just now?" Zhou Ruilian asked, "Is Tian Xin angry because of Liang Xiao? Did she believe it?"
Lin Zhou shook his head: "No!"
"Then why? If it's not your fault, why don't you just talk it out? Why do you want to break up?"
Lin Zhou didn't answer, he just kept crying.
"Son, don't cry. Since it's not because of what happened just now, don't be afraid. Mom will go and get her back. If you want to marry her, Mom will do it for you! As long as Tian Xin is willing, Mom will do anything!"
Zhou Ruilian's eyes shifted, and she switched from the loving mother to the decisive and powerful woman on the stage.
"Come, son, get up!" She reached out and helped her son up and sat him back on the bed. She squatted down, rubbed Lin Zhou's messy hair, wiped his tears, and said, "Don't worry, from now on, as long as you want something, Mom will satisfy you! Mom will go to her house now, no matter what she wants, Mom will agree to it! As long as she agrees to marry you, Mom will agree to anything!"
"But she won't agree!"
Lin Zhou lowered his head, full of regret: "She said that being with me was too tiring and she couldn't stand it.
If I hadn't listened to my dad and insisted on going to Yiwu to help her that day, she wouldn't be angry with me. If I had stopped Liang Xiao the first time, she wouldn't have rejected my proposal.
But my dad... uses her future to threaten me and the company to pressure me, what can I do? Mom, tell me, what should I do?
"What did you say? Your dad threatened you with her? What did he threaten you with?"
Zhou Ruilian's face was filled with rage, and she gnashed her teeth in anger: "How dare he? What qualifications does he have to threaten you? This bastard has no shame!"
She stood up while cursing and grabbed the car keys that she had placed at the door.
"I'm going to go find him right now, and get Li Qingning's share back for you too!"
Lin Zhou sat on the edge of the bed, hunched over with a dejected look on his face.
Zhou Ruilian walked out and came back, patting Lin Zhou on the shoulder: "Son, raise your head!"
Lin Zhou raised his head.
"Son, cheer up, there is nothing in this world that you can't overcome!"
After listening to this, Lin Zhou lowered his head again.
She couldn't help but reach out to hold his chin and force him to lift his head up: "Son, look at me."
This sound was sonorous and powerful. Lin Zhou held her hand and straightened his body: "Yes!"
She sighed, touched Lin Zhou's head, and said earnestly: "Son, Mom knows you feel bad. But now is not the time to feel bad. Since this matter was caused by Lin Zhenhua and Li Qingning, we will go to them to settle the score.
For so many years, Mom has always been tolerant of them for your sake. If today you lose your happiness because of them, Mom will not be soft-hearted anymore!
Stand up straight! If you let them control you again, you are no longer my son, Zhou Ruilian!"
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