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Yang Ke learned one thing very early on: his grandpa didn't love him.

When he was young, he believed that he was not good enough, so he set very strict requirements on himself, and wanted to be perfect in everything.

The reason for the next judgment at that time was because the family and love stories told by his grandfather made him think that he must be good enough to be recognized by his grandfather.

In his grandfather's mouth, he once had an unforgettable family relationship and a love. The family relationship was Yang Ke's mother Yang Nian, and the love was a lady named Zhou Qin.

Yang Nian's biological mother had a relationship with Yang Zhongyun. She was a Christian. After breaking up with Yang Zhongyun, she found out that she was pregnant, gave birth to the child, and left it to Yang Zhongyun.

Yang Zhongyun named her Yang Nian.

He told Yang Ke that he and Yang Ke's mother depended on each other for life, and she has always been the best and kindest since childhood.After Zhao Sibei appeared, he destroyed the relationship between their father and daughter, and manipulated Yang Nian emotionally, making her feel inferior and unconfident.

So after his daughter left, he was determined not to let Zhao Sibei get involved in Yang Ke's growth process.

What Zhao Sibei and Yang Zhongyun said is like a Rashomon.

According to Zhao Sibei, the person who carried out the emotional manipulation was Yang Zhongyun.He believes that Yang Zhongyun has anti-social personality characteristics and cannot empathize with the emotions between people.

However, due to his high intelligence and strong observation ability, he can perfectly disguise and deduce his affinity and enthusiasm. People who are not familiar with him will not be able to see his true inner world clearly.

When Yang Ke was young, he felt that his father was not decent, and he didn't want to spend more time with his father even during the monthly visits. He gradually changed his view when he grew up.

Zhou Qin was a woman from Yang Zhongyun's student days, the only person Yang Zhongyun said he ever loved.

Yang Zhongyun didn't talk too much about the details and identities between the two, but repeatedly described to Yang Ke the scene when they first met and said goodbye.

"I just went to college and couldn't afford to eat, so I only ordered rice in the cafeteria," he always said. "That day in the cafeteria, I ordered rice again, and ate it with the braised pork pictorial on the cafeteria wall. I always Turning around, she walked towards me gracefully, wearing a white skirt, walking swaying gracefully. She brought me a plate of meat.

"On the day I went abroad to study, outside the airport, she also wore a white dress, and she was wearing the red string I gave her. She gave me an envelope of money, and I told her to wait for me, and she would definitely come back to marry her. But once I'm gone, I'll never find her again."

Yang Zhongyun remained unmarried all his life because of her.

Yang Ke believed Yang Zhongyun's story until he was seven years old when Yang Zhongyun brought someone home for the first time.

It was spring, and the peach blossoms in the courtyard were in full bloom.Yang Ke had just finished school, walked into the house, and saw a few large cardboard boxes piled up from the entrance to the living room. He felt puzzled, and after taking two steps, an aunt in a white dress suddenly appeared in front of him, with a picture of him The face I always see on TV.

On her hand she wore a red string with a very small diamond on it.

Seeing Yang Ke, she was taken aback for a moment, stepped on her high heels, walked towards Yang Ke gracefully, bent down, and said to Yang Ke: "Hi, are you Yang Ke? I always heard your grandfather say miss you."

Yang Ke didn't have much common sense at that time. He was stunned, thinking about the story his grandfather told, and asked her seriously: "Are you Zhou Qin?"

Her face suddenly changed, and Grandpa's voice came from behind him: "Yang Ke."

Yang Ke turned his head, his grandfather smiled at him as usual, and told him: "This is my girlfriend, Miss Shen. Starting today, she will live in our house."

Shen Jialin loves to laugh. In those few months, when Yang Ke was at home, she could often hear her laughter.She is the one who laughs the most among the few roles Yang Zhongyun brought home.But she sometimes hides and cries, and Yang Ke has seen it too.

On the day she left, Yang Ke went out of the province to participate in a tennis match and was not at home.Later, I heard from the nanny that when Miss Shen left, she threw away all her things, and she didn't take any of the things the master gave her.

In those few years, Yang Zhongyun was keen to fall in love with actresses who were a few rounds younger than him. Only half a winter passed, and a new person moved in. They all wore white skirts given by Yang Zhongyun, and their eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar.

Yang Ke watched them come and go, and found that Yang Zhongyun was indeed a person lacking emotion, as his father said.

It seems that he only loves to be the savior, above everyone else, bestowing love and wealth on others, and finally taking it back easily and without guilt.

Later, Yang Zhongyun got tired of love and stopped bringing people home. After a long time, Yang Ke forgot about these things. He never thought that one day, the old things would be brought up again.

The summer vacation before going to university is very hot, but for Yang Ke, it also has a special meaning.

Yang Ke and Yu Zhinian received the admission notice and chose the same school, and they will leave Ning City soon. It seems that they are close to freedom and Yang Zhongyun.

After taking the initiative in that major surgery, Yang Zhongyun gradually withdrew from the company's affairs and distributed the power to several successor executives.

At the beginning of July, he took Yu Zhinian to the mountains to recuperate, saying that Yu Zhinian should spend more time with each other in the last two months before going abroad.

On this afternoon in mid-August, Yang Ke was swimming, and Yang Zhongyun took Yu Zhinian home.

He came out of the swimming pool with a bath towel on. After seeing the lush bushes, two cars drove in. He got closer to the floor-to-ceiling glass, and the heat from the outside spread to his body.

He had received the news that Yu Zhinian was "going home" in the morning, and watched Yu Zhinian get off the car from a distance, wearing a white T-shirt, supporting Yang Zhongyun, and slowly walking into the gate.

It was time for dinner before Yang Ke went to the restaurant.

Dinner was much lighter than usual, and Yang Ke felt sympathetic when he thought of Yu Zhinian eating such tasteless meals for dozens of days in the recuperation place.

While eating, Yang Zhongyun suddenly looked at Yang Ke for a while, and said that Yang Ke seemed to have grown taller again, and asked Yu Zhinian and Yang Ke to stand together, and he would compare who was taller.

Yu Zhinian obediently stood beside Yang Ke. Yang Ke usually didn't listen to Yang Zhongyun very much, but he didn't want to embarrass Yu Zhinian, so he stood up.

Yu Zhinian was half a head shorter than Yang Ke, a lot thinner, with thin wrists, and his shoulders and back seemed to be thin.It's time for a haircut. It's long and soft against the fair skin.

He raised his head slightly, looked at Yang Ke, and said stiffly, "It doesn't seem to be much taller than me."

Yang Ke smiled and asked him, "You think so?"

He showed a devastated expression.

After the meal, Yang Zhongyun called Yang Ke: "Come to my study."

Yang Ke didn't know what he wanted to do, so he went upstairs with him, and sat across from the desk at his request.

I don't know when, Yang Zhongyun became thinner and thinner behind this big desk, showing the appearance of an old man, and he had to lean on the back of the chair when he sat down.

Yang Ke looked at him from two or three meters away, Yang Zhongyun seemed to be looking at the void, and after a while, he turned his gaze to him.

"Yang Ke," he said, "love is precious and priceless."

Yang Ke didn't know why, but felt that his words were disgusting, so he didn't respond.

The afternoon sun shines on the carpet from the window of the study, as if scorching the air in the room.

"Ever since I got sick, I've been thinking about the will, and I've discussed several versions with Li Lu," Yang Zhongyun said slowly, "Finally, I decided on a very special one."

"Do you still remember Zhou Qin?" he suddenly asked Yang Ke, "I don't think I told you that Zhinian is Zhou Qin's grandson."

Yang Ke looked at Yang Zhongyun, with a contented smile on Yang Zhongyun's face. His skin was wheat-colored, but somewhat transparent, with wrinkles and spots here and there, like a disease that spreads on the skin surface.

"After returning to China, I kept looking for Zhou Qin, but it was too long, and it was very difficult to find. Until a few years ago, your father's colleague published an ethnography of Sanwen City, which talked about Zhou Qin who died young. piano thing.

"She only left one offspring, Zhinian, so I tried to find a way to bring Yu Zhinian over."

"I forgot if I told you, but she actually came to work in our university cafeteria." Yang Zhongyun narrowed his eyes slightly, like an ordinary old man caught in memories, "When I left, she gave me the money. She took the gift money from someone else. So after giving it to me, she went home. Her health was not very good, and she died in her 30s."

"She is my benefactor and my only lover. I should repay her both emotionally and rationally." Yang Zhongyun looked at Yang Ke and said, "I asked Zhinian. He likes you very much. It's love." That kind of thing, he is very willing to accept my happy arrangement and accept my inheritance."

"After a few years, when I leave, no one will be able to look after you and take care of you," Yang Zhongyun said. "Thinking about it this way, I really don't want to leave."

Due to the sunlight and air-conditioning, the study room was hot and cold.

He picked up a document from the desk, handed it to Yang Ke, and smiled: "Come on, Yang Ke, take a look at Grandpa's will."

Yang Ke walked out of his grandfather's study, just as Yu Zhinian came up from downstairs.

Yu Zhinian was wearing slippers, a loose white T-shirt, and on his wrist was a red rope that Yang Zhongyun gave him at some point.Seeing Yang Ke, Yu Zhinian seemed shy, smiled lightly, and said, "Have you finished chatting with grandpa?"

The voice of Yang Zhongyun telling stories to him when he was young suddenly appeared in Yang Ke's head, as well as the laughter of the women who came to the house in his childhood.

"As soon as I turned my head, she walked towards me gracefully."

"She brought me a plate of meat."