Be in low spirits

"It looks good, so it shouldn't taste bad, right?" They used to eat together when they were in school.

"I know everything now, but it's a pity that my parents can't see it." She felt a little disappointed, holding the chopsticks in her hand and refusing to put them down.

He patted her hair and comforted her: "Uncle Cheng and Aunt Cheng would be very pleased if they knew you are so capable."

These actions were still the same as before, making her feel that nothing had changed between them. "Try it now. If you like it, I'll send it to you every day."

"Well, Xixi, I told you that I'm married and have a child with your sister-in-law. You saw it all. Let the past be the past." He thought of what happened yesterday again and thought that she came today because she had let it go.

"I know, it's okay, I just brought you lunch, your sister-in-law won't know." She has waited for twenty years, how could she let go so easily.

"But I don't want your sister-in-law to be unhappy." He put down his chopsticks and said to her seriously. "I don't know who you are waiting for here, but I am here because your sister-in-law is here. Whether in the world or here, the only person I have been waiting for is your sister-in-law."

"Brother, I've been waiting here for twenty years, and you said you didn't know who I was waiting for? Don't you remember the promise you made to me? You said we could get married, that you would choose a wedding dress for me and put a ring on my finger. Have you forgotten all that?"

"Yes, but those were just words I said to take care of your emotions when you were seriously ill. Those were just promises made by a brother to take care of his sister. That was not love. I thought you could understand."

"Why should I understand? I have been waiting here day and night for twenty years for these promises. If this is not love, then what is it?" Her eyes gradually became moist. She thought that the regrets in her life could have a happy ending here, but he tried to shirk it by saying it was not love. If twenty years of waiting is not love, then what is?

Li Li sighed. He knew that this was a regret in their youth, but he met the love that belonged to him. "Xixi, I used to think that love might be a kind of companionship, but when I met your sister-in-law, I understood that it was a feeling. I could notice her in the crowd at a glance. Even if she was standing in front of me, I still thought about her and wanted to see her. All the time, when I saw her appear in front of me in the world, the only thing I thought of was her..."

"Stop talking! Stop talking! I don't want to listen! Shut up! Twenty years. I've waited for twenty years, not to listen to your love story." She covered her ears, tears streaming down her face. The food in front of her had already gone cold, just like her heart.

"Xixi, let the past be the past. I just hope you can understand that this world does not require me. There must be someone you are waiting for or waiting for you in front of you." The meal was not eaten and it seemed that the person was not persuaded.

Watching her running away, he felt helpless.

After returning home to coax the child to sleep at night, the two sat in front of the French window to look at the moonlight as usual. Li Li still confessed that Cheng Xi brought him lunch today.

Kong Zhixi knew that things were not that simple. "I knew it was not so easy to let go of twenty years."

"What should I do? I can't really marry her and give her a child, right?"

"I don't know. You should solve your own problems yourself. But let me make it clear that no matter which side you choose, you must discuss it with Yuanyuan in advance and don't let her think too much."

"What nonsense! What choice do you have? Haven't I given you the person and the money?" He came up again and tried to pick her up.

"Oh, you should deal with this first." She broke free from his hand, stood up and went back to her room to sleep. Li Li could only follow her.

He held her in his arms as they went to sleep and promised, "I don't have any choice. Having you and Yuanyuan is enough for me."

"Yuanyuan told me today that a boy in kindergarten said he liked her." She remembered what her daughter said to her in the afternoon.

"What? Which brat? Tomorrow I will..." He was a little excited and his voice became louder. Someone actually dared to do something bad to his daughter!

"Keep your voice down! Don't wake her up." I don't know what he was so excited about. He was just a kid, so he was just joking.

He lowered his voice and said again: "Who dares to hit on my daughter?"

She turned around, faced him and said, "Look at you, your daughter is so cute and pretty, isn't it normal for someone to like her?"

"That's right, but she is still so young. I have to have a good talk with her tomorrow. She can't be deceived." He looked at the person in his arms and felt that his daughter must be matched with the best.

"Why are you lying? Your daughter has been staying in the police station since she was a child. Who can lie to her? But you, why are you so excited?" When it was his daughter's turn, he became anxious. Wasn't he also deceived by him in the first place?

"Who dares to do that to my daughter? I will fight him to the death!" He hadn't even seen the person, but he was already angry.

"Don't embarrass your daughter. Go to sleep. You have to go to work tomorrow." She wanted to turn around and look at her daughter, but he grabbed her and refused to let go. "Okay, go to sleep." He lowered his head and kissed her.

Things are indeed not that simple. Cheng Xi goes to the detachment every day to bring him meals, and sometimes even goes to the kindergarten to look after the children.

Kong Zhixi met her again when she went to pick up her child, so she had to agree to go with her to the cake shop to talk. The child didn't like her, but couldn't resist the temptation to eat cake, so he went with her.

"I don't want to call you sister-in-law, nor do I want to hear the story between you and Brother Li. I only know that I have been waiting for him here for twenty years." She made it clear.

Kong Zhixi nodded. Twenty years is indeed not easy. "I understand. We have been childhood sweethearts for twenty years. It is normal for us to want a result."

Yuanyuan's mouth was full of cake, but she was very sober. "Mom, didn't you say that you can't force anything?"

"Eat your cake. This is your aunt's business. Don't interrupt." Kong Zhixi wiped her mouth with a tissue and warned her.

"So, can you give him back to me?"

I thought she was after the child, but she was after me. I stopped trying to snatch it and asked for it instead. "He...he has his own choice. I can't make any decision for him. And I believe you have your own judgment. Don't you have the answer in your heart whether it's worth it or not?"

"I went to see him, and he said that he could notice you in a crowd at a glance, but he didn't know that he was the only one who could notice me at a glance. He said that we would get married, and he would choose a wedding dress for me and put a ring on my finger."

"He also said that it was a brother's duty to take care of his sister, not out of love. Cheng Xi, I know that you lived a short time in this world and have many regrets, but in this cave of obsession, most obsessions are just obsessions and may not have an ending."

"What if I insist?" She felt that the imperfections in life were only temporary. Since she could wait here, it meant that God was giving her a chance.

"All roads lead to Rome, but since you haven't reached Rome yet, shouldn't you reflect on whether you've taken the wrong path? After twenty years, shouldn't you have let it go long ago?"

"Now that I'm gone, I want it no matter what the outcome is."

"Okay, since you are so stubborn, I don't want to persuade you any more. This is a matter between the two of you. I think you should solve it yourselves. The child and I will respect Li Li's decision."

After taking the child back to the office, she continued to work. The child said, "Mom, didn't you say that you had me because you loved dad very much? But just now I felt that you didn't love dad very much. That auntie asked you to give dad to her, and you said okay."

"That's because mom has Yuanyuan. Compared to dad, mom loves Yuanyuan more. Besides, mom and dad may not always be together. If dad leaves us one day, we have to accept it with pleasure, understand?"

"You're lying! Dad said you will always be together!" I don't know what Li Li promised the child again.

"Then before Daddy was gone, didn't Mommy and Yuanyuan also live together?"

"But... that was in the past, and you worked so hard before, you had to take care of me as a baby, cook, and clean. I thought it was too hard." It turns out that the child knows everything.