memory hole

beg her? "

"Who? Uh...girlfriend?"

"How did you meet?"

"My mother's friend's daughter. We grew up together."

Zhong Xian nodded, planning to get up from the sofa.Deng Yi stood up and walked forward, took a towel and wiped Zhong Xian's left face, probably Zhong Xian's face was covered with dirt from the grass.

"You lie down and don't move. You asked me for a long time. It's time for me to ask you. I'm on a very important occasion tonight, and I'm doing a very important thing. My father is out of town, and he asked me to attend a meeting for him. Event. Turns out your phone call came at the right time. I was speaking and there was a microphone next to me."

"Ah, I'm sorry. You don't have to answer."

"I don't have to pick it up. But... I did. At times like this, I would turn off the phone, but I was doing a live event at the time, and I used my mobile phone number to draw a lottery. I went up to draw the second prize for my father-- After the host said it started, the first person to call me was the winner. Then your call came in first." After Deng Yi finished speaking, she laughed.The more he laughed, the harder he laughed until he rolled on the carpet.

"What a coincidence." Zhong Xian couldn't laugh: "You can completely ignore my call, didn't you check the number? What did I say on the phone?"

"You really don't remember?"

"I don't remember. I probably didn't say anything. Please really believe that the side effects of that medicine are getting worse and worse for me. I won't... I won't take it again." Zhong Xian didn't mean anything Emboldened.Although the side effects are serious.But he has become more and more familiar with the effects of this drug, and he can easily obtain temporary happiness by taking it.Like taking drugs.

Seeing that Deng Yi was silent, Zhong Xian asked again. "Did I say something? Probably made you feel ashamed and made your father's employees think you had a psychotic friend."

"You said on the phone that you had a terrible thing to tell me."

"I remember that. But I shouldn't have said anything. Did I?"

"You said...you almost yelled on the phone—'I love you. I know it's scary. But I love you.'"

Zhong Xian coughed, almost choked to death by the air he was breathing.After a while, he couldn't hear Deng Yi's words. He was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do, so he could only beat himself on the head repeatedly. "Damn meds. I'm really psycho. Split."

"You should be grateful for this side effect. It's lucky that you can forget what you said. It's a pity that those who heard it can't forget it all."

"It's impossible for me to say that." Zhong Xian shook his head.He understood why Deng Yi looked at him lukewarm tonight.It's really embarrassing to do such a thing.

Deng Yi laughed again.

Zhong Xian covered his face with sofa cushions. "Take it as a joke. Where should I put my face?"

From between his fingers, he saw that Deng Yi stopped laughing, and picked up the phone to look at something.

Zhong Xian said guiltyly: "When the side effects of the medicine appear, I may not even be able to tell whether I am a man, a ghost, a man or a woman. I will not take this medicine again."

"Don't make any more promises, and you don't need to explain anything to me." Deng Yi said. "How could I take this seriously. I just thought something must have happened to you. Who knew that you just took the wrong medicine."

Zhong Xian sat up straight on the sofa. "What is that important event of yours . . . and is it over now?"

"No. But it's okay. I don't like being there either. The only trouble is, my girlfriend was next to me. And my dad's assistant. Tomorrow, maybe my dad will know about it. Girlfriend's parents He is also a troublesome person. You have caused me such trouble, I will not be better in the next month, you should feel guilty about this. "

Zhong Xian raised his head and glanced at Deng Yi: "You can say that a friend is joking with you. It's not difficult to adapt to this kind of thing. Your girlfriend won't be so caring."

"She won't. But my parents will. Especially my mother. I've let her down enough."

Zhong Xian was a little puzzled: "You are so good. Why are they disappointed?"

"You don't understand. I'm an idiot who can't afford it. This is the evaluation of me behind the scenes of my family. I don't like going into business, and my mother is competitive. She forced me to give up what I wanted to do and study EMBA. I participated in my father's business. But my father and my uncle, the three brothers, discussed it from the beginning. Whichever child is capable can be used. The two uncles have 5 sons. My father only has me. And I am the most innocent I have never been integrated into their circle. Since I was born, my mother had high hopes for me, but she pushed too hard. It caused my autism that lasted ten years since my childhood. It also made me very Hate business. Five cousins, each of whom can outshine me. I can't inherit my father's business anyway. I just do what I can and want to do. I don't care, it's just my mother..."

Deng Yi paused excitedly, probably speaking too fast.Obviously this is something that is extremely distressing in his heart.

"Your mother has been pushing you. She doesn't want you to fall behind from this family cake." Zhong Xian added for him.

"I can't do it." Deng Yi said. "I sometimes wish I could do it for her. My dad is fine. He doesn't push me. He grew up thinking I didn't exist."

Instead, Zhong Xian regained his spirits: "There are 5 strong competitors... It is difficult. However, it depends on where you want to be. Your father and two uncles, who is the number one?"

"My father."

Zhong Xian suddenly smiled.

"Smile."

"You have the right time and place."

"No. My father regards my uncle's five sons as his own, but I seem to have picked them up. You don't know how he treated me when I was a child. Let me go naked in the snow alone, saying it was to exercise my strength. Will. Don’t give me money. When I was an adult, I thought I could spend his money, and said that I could only spend what I earned. He never did this to five cousins. You know what everyone thinks? Powerful, it took away the essence of my genes, so I have no business talent. And my father...doesn't recognize me anyway."

"I have a different opinion." Zhong Xian's eyes became brighter. "Have you ever thought about... well. Let me analyze it for you. Your father always said that he didn't like you the most, but liked your five cousins, didn't you? He has always been very strict with you, strict enough Favor, you are a rich second generation, but you have no money to spend at all, do you? There is a Porsche in the garage in the basement of your villa. Is it yours?"

"En." Deng Yi nodded.But immediately shook his head. "Just a car. My mother's."

"Do you want to inherit your father's business empire? Tell me the truth."

"What inheritance. My father is in his prime. What are you thinking about?"

"It's impossible for a family like yours not to think about this problem? Your mother has been thinking about it since you were born, do you want to deny it? What she's afraid of is your father's last effort, which didn't fall into your hands, but was given to your cousin."

"Don't divide my family. My cousin is very good to me. Why are your eyes so bright? Why are you so excited? To be honest. I don't think I'm lucky. If I were in an ordinary family, I would be considered excellent. People. In our family, I have almost become a negative example. I do what I want to do, and in my mother’s eyes, I seem to be mentally handicapped.” Deng Yi smiled self-deprecatingly. "Do what you love, be friends with who you like, love who you want to love. Be free. I will be at ease in poverty."

"It means you have never been poor." Zhong Xian said. "You think you haven't spent your father's money. But you've never been short of money. You don't know what poverty is. You don't know what it's really like to be short of money."

Deng Yi didn't argue with him: "I want to be free, it must be right."

"Do you think that you can gain freedom by being poor? Do you know why people like us desperately want to become rich? People who are born poor just think that only when they have money can they be free."

"Forget it. It's all about me." Deng Yi said. "Let's talk about your affairs while you are in a normal state of mind."

"You said you had autism?" Zhong Xian said thoughtfully.He had to admit that he was really excited when he learned about Deng Yi's life experience.As if he had been injected with a booster, his brain not only returned to normal, but also began to function.No matter how Deng Yi confides his "unfortunate" growth history.Zhong Xian felt that it was a dreamlike paradise.

"Mainly because of my mother. Because of 5 good cousins, she made a terrible growth plan for me. Because it was too cruel, I was scared out of my mind by the strict training process when I was five or six years old. Let's not mention this .” Deng Yi said, looking around with clear eyes.Zhong Xian stared at him intently.

"You don't look like someone with autism," he pointed out directly.

Deng Yi's eyes turned back and fixed on Zhong Xian's face. "It's so smart. I came up with a trick when I was six years old, pretending to be sick, and resisting the exploitation of freedom. Don't let my father know about this. He finally gave up on me. He also felt that if he forced me again, he would kill me. So I gave up. I pinned my hopes on my cousins."

"Okay. You haven't answered my question yet. Do you really not want to be the ultimate successor? Do you really want to be a normal person?"

Deng Yi nodded again. "Even if I wanted to, I don't have the ability."

Zhong Xian drove forward from the sofa and looked at Deng Yi seriously. "If you want. You can do it."

Girlfriend

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In Zhong Xian's eyes,

The background behind Deng Yi,

Like a huge oil painting being continuously rendered by invisible strokes.

With Deng Yi talking about his growth and life experience