Chapter 31
Li Xingyuan came back to his senses from the heavy memories and looked at Lin Sen beside him. His smile was still bright, like a warm lamp in the winter night.
"Who is the brother?" Li Xingyuan asked.
Lin Sen immediately replied with a smile: "You are my brother, you are my lover~"
Li Xingyuan couldn't help but curl his lips, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Thank you today."
If Lin Sen hadn't rescued him, he would really have fallen into Ling Feng's trap.
Lin Sen said: "How can you say thank you to your wife?!"
Li Xingyuan looked towards the dark forest and asked, "Lin Sen, aren't you afraid that you might be helping the wrong person?"
Lin Sen's heart suddenly ached.
The fact that Li Xingyuan asked such a question showed that he didn't really think that he was a good person.
So over the years, even he himself thinks of himself as a villain.
But how can we blame him for what happened in the past?
Lin Sen looked at his eyes with heartache, wishing he could get into his consciousness to experience his pain firsthand.
In the novel, the description of Li Xingyuan's past is only two short chapters, but it is enough to make all readers feel regretful.
Before he was ten years old, Li Xingyuan always felt that he was happy and lucky.
He is happy because he has a good family with both parents. Although his father is a little strict, his mother is very good to him.
Sometimes when he didn't get a perfect score on both the exam and the test, his mother would help him hide it from his father and sign for him on her own initiative. Even if his father wanted to punish him for making a mistake, his mother would stand in front of him and plead for him.
He always felt happy to grow up in such a family.
Fortunately, he discovered by chance that he was adopted.
One time he went to his parents' room to look for something and accidentally saw two documents in the drawer, one was his mother's infertility diagnosis, and the other was his adoption certificate.
But his parents never mentioned this. Being sensible, he understood that his current happiness was hard-earned, so he worked harder to behave and be a good son.
His tenth birthday was a Friday. After school, he was alone at home waiting for his parents to come home from get off work to celebrate his birthday.
All day long, he was secretly guessing what birthday present his mother would buy him, and whether the cake would be in the shape of a car.
However, he waited until after ten o'clock in the evening, but what he got was not gifts and cakes, but a beating from his mother.
His mother was like a madman. She slapped him several times as soon as she entered the door and called him a bastard. Li Xingyuan was stunned. When he came to his senses, his first reaction was to reflect on whether he had done something wrong.
He wanted to ask his mother why she hit him, but his mother did not give him any chance to speak. She hit him with everything she could get her hands on. Several vases broke on his head, and his head was bleeding.
Dad came back and saw this scene, and hurriedly stopped her, yelling: "Ye Meiyue, are you crazy?!!"
The mother screamed hysterically: "Yes, I am crazy, I have been deceived by you for ten years! Li Wanhong, I raised him as my own child for ten years, and you treat me like this??"
Li Xingyuan was lying on the ground covered in blood, and his father picked him up: "Xingyuan, Xingyuan, Dad will take you to the hospital!"
Ye Meiyue stopped them, holding a fruit knife in her hand, and said bitterly: "Li Wanhong, you left your illegitimate child with me and asked me to raise him for you for ten years! Today, I will die with you and your son!!"
After saying that, she suddenly stabbed Li Wanhong and Li Xingyuan with a knife, and both father and son were stabbed. Li Wanhong finally subdued her, locked her in the bedroom, and called the Ye family.
Ye Meiyue's dress was stained with the blood of Li's father and son, and she was taken away by her parents.
Li Xingyuan always remembered the look Ye Meiyue gave him when she left the house.
He still remembers it till now, and is tortured by it repeatedly in his dreams.
That day, Li Xingyuan understood one thing from the quarrel between Li Wanhong and Ye Meiyue - Ye Meiyue was infertile and could not give birth to a child for the Li family, but Li Wanhong could not divorce her because the business dealings of the two companies had long been impossible to divide, and divorce involved the division of many items of property, which would do more harm than good to both families.
So Li Wanhong secretly found a woman outside, had a son, and then staged a play to adopt the child with Ye Meiyue.
This child is Li Xingyuan.
Originally, Ye Meiyue felt guilty towards Li Wanhong for being infertile, so she had been devoted to raising Li Xingyuan over the years, hoping that this child would be able to take on the responsibility of leaving the family when he grew up.
But when she knew the truth, she felt that she had been fooled. It turned out that everything was a scam. She was just like a sucker, raising an illegitimate child for Li Wanhong for ten years!
She became a madman and wanted to kill the son whom she had loved for ten years and treated as her own son, as if only this could make her feel better.
Li Xingyuan was seriously injured. After returning home from the hospital, Li Wanhong explained the facts to him, but it was just a notification.
Li Wanhong said that the Li family was a big family with a lot of wealth, and it was impossible to train a child who had no blood relationship to inherit the family business, so he had to resort to this bad idea. As his only son, Li Xingyuan had to work ten times harder than an ordinary person to live up to his expectations.
Since then, Li Xingyuan became a puppet, studying and living numbly.
Li Wanhong and Ye Meiyue are still together, but Ye Meiyue no longer comes to live in Li's house. When she comes occasionally, it's only because she is overwhelmed by hatred and wants to vent her anger on Li Xingyuan.
Before he was twelve years old, Li Xingyuan would hide in the closet when he heard Ye Meiyue coming back, but it was no use, as Ye Meiyue would still find him and beat him up.
Later, he grew up a little, and was about the same height as Ye Meiyue. When Ye Meiyue hit him, he pushed Ye Meiyue with his hand. Ye Meiyue fell to the ground, laughing and shouting like a madman: "Hahahaha... a bastard can fight back! Li Xingyuan, remember, you are a bastard. People like you don't deserve love. No one will ever be nice to you again!"
"Everyone who treats you well will get retribution like me!!"
"Just prepare to die alone!"
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Under the faint moonlight, Li Xingyuan saw heartache and blurred tears in Lin Sen's eyes.
Lin Sen took a long time to answer him: "Don't be afraid, as long as I help you, it won't be wrong."
Li Xingyuan's heart stopped and his breathing stopped. He was afraid that he had heard it wrong.
Lin Sen continued: "Li Xingyuan, no matter what happens, I will stand by you unconditionally."
Li Xingyuan's eyes felt slightly hot. It was the first time in his life that someone said something like this to him. It was as if a punch had broken Ye Meiyue's curse on him.
Li Xingyuan's somewhat helpless look made Lin Sen want to hug him.
He opened his arms slightly to test, and Li Xingyuan did not refuse like before, so he bravely hugged Li Xingyuan gently.
"Li Xingyuan, you are not wrong. Believe me, it is not you who is wrong. I will love you well, treat you very well, and will not let you be alone. Don't be swayed by the past. I will accompany you for the rest of the journey."
Li Xingyuan raised his hand slightly, paused in the air for a moment, and finally hugged Lin Sen back.
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