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"What are you doing standing there stupidly, and still not opening the door?" Xi Qin said angrily, "I haven't seen you for a long time..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Xi Qingxi left without looking back. On the way, he met Fang Ruogu who was going upstairs, but he ignored her.

Fang Ruogu glanced at the door of the house, followed Xi Qingxi's footsteps without thinking.

"You know that man?"

"I don't know." Xi Qingxi's voice was very low, but it was definitely not calm, he was restraining his panic.

When he got into the car, the key failed to align with the lock several times, but Fang Ruogu took out the key from his hand and inserted it.

"Then you..." Fang Ruogu hesitated to speak, he was worried about touching Xi Qingxi's bad memories.

Xi Qingxi took a deep breath and stared straight ahead.He is a staunch materialist and never believes in ghosts and gods, but the man is so similar to that person that Xi Qingxi's first reaction was that he wanted to come and drag him to hell.

"I saw him, and I remembered my dad." These words seemed to have exhausted all of Xi Qingxi's strength, and after he finished speaking, he lowered his eyes and stared at his hands in a daze.

"They are very similar, not in appearance but in their innate elegance." Xi Qingxi let out a wry smile, "So I haven't escaped yet."

As he spoke, his fingers trembled involuntarily.

Without saying a word, Fang Ruogu covered the back of Xi Qingxi's hand and was wrapped in warmth. His hand quickly recovered the heat, but that was all.

"Xi San, you are not the helpless kid back then. You have grown up, and you are so strong that no one dares to hurt you." Fang Ruogu pretended to be relaxed and teased, "Look, even Pei Linchuan, who can cover the sky with his hands, They are all defeated by your men, so don’t be afraid, there is me.”

"Dong dong dong." Someone knocked on the car window, Xi Qingxi's heart skipped a beat, and he turned his head to meet Xi Qin's complicated eyes.

He lowered the window and looked around, but the man didn't follow.

"Don't look, I have something to talk to you alone."

……

Xi Qin found a secluded dessert shop nearby and sat by the window.The decoration of this store is very fresh, but because the location is too remote, there are not many customers, so it is best for chatting.

"His name is Xie Jingguo."

Who this "he" is is self-evident.

"You are also surprised, he looks too much like Jiang Xingchang." Xi Qin propped up his chin with one hand, and stirred the soda water in front of him with a straw.Exquisite makeup conceals the vicissitudes of her eyes, making her always noble in front of others.

She half-closed her eyes with a lazy expression: "Before I met him, I thought I had let go."

Xi Qingxi was slightly stunned, and then asked inexplicably: "Aren't you..."

Don't you love your father?

"Don't love him, do you?" Xi Qin's amorous peach blossom eyes swept over lightly, as if he could see everything, "If you don't love him, there is nothing wrong with you now."

"Sometimes I think, it might be my fault that caused your tragedy." Xi Qin's eyes fell on the looming scar on his forehead, and Xi Qingxi calmly arranged her hair to cover the scar.

"But I have never regretted it." Xi Qin said, "I don't regret falling in love with his teachers and students in college, nor regret marrying him and giving birth to you. The only regret is that I failed to fulfill my mother's responsibility."

Xi Qingxi and his mother looked at the same level, the same beautiful peach blossom eyes were like an ancient well, deep and without waves.

"If you want to talk to me about this, then it should be almost done." Xi Qingxi politely resigned.

"Xixi, my original intention was to make you feel better." Xi Qin bit her lip, "I remember you were the most clingy to your dad when you were young..."

"You also said that it was when I was a child." Xi Qingxi interrupted her mercilessly, "What happened later? What did I get from him?"

Xi Qingxi raised the corners of her lips mockingly: "Beatings? Starvation? A body full of scars? Or this mental illness that cannot be cured?"

Xi Qin's face turned pale, and her usual composure disappeared. She hurriedly said, "Our family has money, power and connections. I don't believe that your illness can't be cured!"

"Forget it." Xi Qingxi suddenly felt something pressing on the top of his head, making him feel tired, "I'm very tired, and I don't want to do unnecessary struggles."

He stood up, took two steps and then turned back: "Although I hate him to the bone, not everyone can be his substitute. I think my mother knows this better than me?"

When I came out of the dessert shop, I was blown by the biting cold wind, and the pores of my body were trembling.Xi Qingxi shrank her neck and put her hands in her pockets.

He has never liked winter, the colors of winter are too dull, it will only make him more depressed.

At this time, a thick scarf was wrapped around Xi Qingxi's neck.He turned his head to face Ruogu's smiling eyes above him.

"It's freezing, let's go, let's go home and eat hot pot."

He suddenly felt that this winter didn't seem so cold anymore.

Three days later, Xi Qingxi received an invitation from her family, which was the wedding of Xi Qin and Xie Jingguo.

He stared at the gold-plated characters on the invitation for a long time, until Fang Ruogu's hesitant voice came from beside his ear: "Why don't you...don't go?"

"Go." Xi Qingxi said, "Not only I will go, but you will go too."

A second marriage is actually not something worth celebrating, especially since Xi Qin's previous marriage ended in a disgraceful way.

The floor of the hotel where the wedding is held is not high, and the location is special.Surrounded by water on three sides and leading to land on one side, it is surrounded by seasonal flowers, and the environment is quiet and pleasant.

Xi Qingxi didn't take a good look at Xie Jingguo's appearance last time, but today he has seen enough.

If you look closely, it doesn't look like that. What's worth mentioning is that he seems to be different from those little fresh meats in the past.It can be seen that he is not good at dealing with such a big scene, nor is he good at pleasing.

During the toast, Xie Jingguo came to Xi Qingxi's table.Drunkness was already on his face, but his eyes were unusually bright, unlike a middle-aged man who was nearly forty years old, he looked like a stunned boy.

"Xixi, you may have opinions about me and think I'm not good enough for your mother, but that's okay, I'll prove it." He hiccupped and muttered, "Don't say it, I don't think I'm good enough either. she."

He grabbed Xi Qingxi and whispered: "Secretly tell you, I have never been married, I am an old bachelor... How can He De marry your mother."

Xi Qingxi smiled politely, let him talk to himself without responding, Xie Jingguo made fun of himself, and went to the next table after toasting.Xi Qingxi looked at all the guests and planned to go to the bathroom.

After going to the toilet, he went to the sink and turned on the faucet, then looked in the mirror inadvertently, and a dark shadow appeared out of thin air beside him. He turned around in shock, and the bathroom was empty.

"My dear son, he is as ungrateful and heartless as your bitch mother."

"How are you still alive?"

Xi Qingxi covered her head, desperately trying to drive this sharp voice out of her mind.

"Come on, come with me and jump from here."

"Jump down."

"Jump down!"

Xi Qingxi had a splitting headache, his eyes were so red that they almost dripped blood, he stared straight at the open window, climbed up the window sill with hands and feet, and fell vertically without any hesitation.

"Plop" water splashed, and he fell slowly in the lake.The icy lake water was poured into the lungs like stitches, and then choked out from the mouth and nose.Like a cruel executioner, robbing him of the oxygen he needs to survive.

Xi Qingxi's consciousness gradually lost, and he seemed to hear the sound of falling into the water, and someone calling his name.

He no longer fell, but fell into a warm embrace.With oxygen in his mouth, he just hugged the heat source, yearning for the warmth.

"I won't let you down."