Volume 1, Chapter 108: I'm sorry to my parents and my children
Du Qian walked into Xu's house carrying wine. The house was pitch dark and not even a light was on.
He fumbled and turned on the living room light and waited for a few minutes, but Xu Xingzhi still didn't come down.
He shook his head helplessly, went upstairs and found him in the study.
"You knew I was coming, but you didn't even come downstairs to check. Aren't you afraid that your house might be robbed?"
Xu Xingzhi was still standing in front of the French window, looking at the people singing happily in the courtyard opposite, and said calmly: "Take whatever you like."
Du Qian sneered, walked up to him, followed his gaze, and asked, "Why don't you go down? What's the point of staying home alone?"
Xu Xingzhi: "No one invited me."
Du Qian choked and stared at him speechlessly for a long while, then sighed and said with emotion: "Sometimes I don't know whether I should envy you or be jealous of you."
Xu Xingzhi turned his head and glanced at him, mocking himself: "You're jealous of me? What are you jealous of? My wife and children have all gone to your house, and you come to mock me?"
"Who's the weirdo? The legs are on them."
Xu Xingzhi snorted, "It's your fault for giving birth to a good daughter. They are so obsessed with her that they seem to have forgotten their own last name."
Du Qian had no way to refute it, after all, his wife and children were indeed going for Du Ruo.
He stood side by side with him in front of the window, was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "I really envy you."
Xu Xingzhi ignored him.
Du Qian said to himself, "I envy you for being over 40 now, but you still seem to be the same as you were at 20, never bending to life."
"Are you bending over?" Xu Xingzhi asked back.
"Yes, I have already compromised with life. Haven't you noticed? There is some truth in the saying that people are free from doubts at the age of 40. I am very open-minded now."
Xu Xingzhi: “I didn’t notice.”
Du Qian said: "Do you remember when we were studying abroad? You, me, Lao Zhao and Lao Qu, the four of us were named the Oxford F4 by those people in the circle, but we three were very jealous of you."
Xu Xingzhi was puzzled, "Why are you jealous of me?"
Du Qian: "I'm jealous that you have a family chasing you."
Xu Xingzhi looked at him, asking what he meant.
Du Qian found two cups, poured wine into them, handed him one, and looked out the window, seemingly lost in memories of the past. He said slowly, "At that time, everyone had a bunch of girls chasing after them, but Jia Huan was different from other girls."
"We don't want to be in love, so we just say no. At least we have some sympathy for women. You are different. You have a bad temper and a cold face every day. You have made countless people cry because of your fierceness. But little girls seem to be the most susceptible to your tricks, and there are many people chasing after you."
“At first, we thought Family Fun was just one of them.”
"But who would have thought that she would pursue him for two years."
"A little princess who has no worries about food and clothing, knows you have stomach problems, so she gets up early every day and brings you a loving breakfast downstairs of your dormitory. You said you don't like Western food, so she signed up for a cooking class and cooks three meals a day for you. You ignore her, but she seems to be blind to it. She always follows you like a follower, sending you medicine when you are sick, clothes when you are cold, and small gifts of various kinds for various festivals. You are young, beautiful and enthusiastic. Who wouldn't be jealous? But you are not moved. We are jealous of you like a piece of wood."
"Although brothers are not so hypocritical, they still tell each other what's in their hearts like little girls. But even if you don't say it, we know that you are serious about your relationship. Otherwise, you'd better start it. If you decide, it's for life."
"Later, when you two got together, we were really happy for her and for you. She loves you very much, and everyone knows it. You are really blessed."
"We were not surprised at all that you got married and had children. You left your family and came to Jiangcheng to develop on your own. She supported you without hesitation. As an only child, she left the familiar city and came to the south with you to start everything from scratch. She really loved you terribly."
Xu Xingzhi picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine without making any comment. As he looked at Wen Jiahuan in the pavilion downstairs, his eyebrows and eyes softened a lot.
Du Qian also looked over and said, "This woman who loves you so much that everyone is jealous of her, from yesterday till now, I have heard her say at least ten times that she wants a divorce."
Xu Xingzhi's hand holding the wine glass tightened involuntarily, and his heart seemed to be stabbed by someone. He pretended to be calm and said in a cold voice: "She has changed."
Du Qian said: "People will change."
Xu Xingzhi: "I haven't changed. I am still the same as when she said she loved me. It's her who has changed. She doesn't love me as much as before."
Du Qian sighed, "No wonder everyone says that in love, the one who is favored is fearless. You have never tasted the taste of loss. She is a human, not a god. No matter how enthusiastic the little sun is, no matter how hot the temperature is, if it can't melt a big iceberg, it will get tired."
Xu Xingzhi sneered, "She wasn't like this before. Even after she met your good wife, she stopped cooking for me and started to quarrel with me unreasonably for no reason. Now she even talks about divorce."
Du Qian defended: "Why can't it be because she is jealous of my wife? How I treat my wife is how you treat her? People are compared. She didn't change, she just woke up and felt that she had been performing a one-man show. It seems that you never loved her."
Xu Xingzhi said unhappily, "A one-man show? If I didn't love her, why would I only date her among all the suitors? Do you have nothing better to do?"
"I work hard outside to earn money, and she stays at home to take care of the children. She complains to me every day that the children are disobedient and unruly. Fine, she can't control them, so I take care of them. I teach the children for her, but now she complains that I don't teach the children well enough."
"She said she was uncomfortable living with my dad, so I left home and brought her out to live a free life. How difficult it is to start all over again? Haven't I been holding on to give her a good life?"
"She said she didn't want to be a housewife. I knew she liked to chase stars, so I opened an entertainment company for her and poached all the stars she liked. No one could be as happy at work as she was."
"She saw you guys were having a second child and said she wanted a daughter, and I agreed. But can you blame me if the baby is still a son?"
"Now everything is my fault. She keeps asking for a divorce from me. How have I ever let her down? I've let my parents down, I've let my children down, but the only person I haven't let down is her!"
The more Xu Xingzhi thought about it, the angrier he became. He picked up the bottle and drank it all in one gulp, just like he was drinking boiled water, one glass after another.
Du Qian was stunned. He had known for a long time that every family has its own problems, and it was not easy to mix up the emotional life of a couple. But now that he was ordered to do so, he had to mix it up. He could only bite the bullet and ask, "Does she know what you are doing?"
"She has no eyes. I've done so much, can't she see it?" Xu Xingzhi said angrily.
“…”
Du Qian shook his head helplessly, patted Xu Xingzhi on the shoulder and said: "Brother, women are emotional animals. Either you speak beautifully or you do beautifully. You are a taciturn person who does not touch either. You can't blame others..."
Xu Xingzhi glared at him coldly.
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