Chapter 1 The love of a lifetime
Xu Yiyang is a typical late bloomer in the eyes of relatives and friends.
He graduated from an undergraduate college in 2003 and went north to Yanjing to look for job opportunities.
It wasn't until he was 27 years old that Xu Yiyang met the love of his life, Gu Sijia, and his ordinary life trajectory began to change dramatically.
At that time, Xu Yiyang was working as a project manager for a listed education group in Yanjing.
The company spent money to borrow the name and resources of Cambridge University to build an online education platform in China.
In order to facilitate work docking, Cambridge found a girl from Huaxia from our school to work with Xu Yiyang.
This girl from Huaxia is Xu Yiyang's future wife, Gu Sijia.
Gu Sijia, who is very outstanding in all aspects, is the same age as Xu Yiyang, who was studying for a doctorate in Cambridge at the time, and had just got the opportunity to intern at the school, so he met Xu Yiyang because of this cooperation.
In order to facilitate remote work docking, the two added QQ friends to each other.
In the first half year of their acquaintance, the two had never met, and only had work-level communication online.
The change in the relationship originated in the winter of 08, a personalized signature on Gu Sijia's QQ:
The autograph probably said that it was her fifth birthday in the UK, and she dreamed of eating Sichuan-Chongqing style butter hot pot.
This signature only existed for less than ten minutes and was quickly deleted by Gu Sijia.
Later, Xu Yiyang learned that Gu Sijia didn't want her parents to feel sorry for herself after seeing it, so she hurriedly deleted it.
However, it was these ten minutes of existence that happened to be seen by Xu Yiyang.
Xu Yiyang didn't even know what Gu Sijia looked like at that time, but he simply felt that it was not easy for a girl to drift alone in a foreign country for so many years.
It happened that there was a leader of the company at that time who was going to Cambridge to sign a contract, so Xu Yiyang asked him to bring Gu Sijia a few packets of Sichuan-Chongqing style hot pot base.
Xu Yiyang thought that this was just a little etiquette in business work.
But I didn't expect that it was my unintentional act of inserting willows that accidentally knocked on Gu Sijia's heart.
Subsequently, the relationship between the two became closer and closer.
first from a friend, to a confidant who talks about everything;
and then developed from a confidant to a couple of online dating.
After a year-long online dating, Gu Sijia successfully got her doctorate, and resolutely decided to give up the opportunity to stay in Cambridge to work, and returned to China to meet Xu Yiyang.
Gu Sijia is an authentic Zhonghai girl, not only is she beautiful, her own education level is high, but her family background is also quite solid, and her conditions are much better than Xu Yiyang in all aspects.
At the beginning, her parents strongly opposed her decision, and used various means to force her to break up with Xu Yiyang.
But Gu Sijia is the kind of girl who will never look back if she sees it.
When the struggle reached a white-hot stage, it was she who decided to use the method of getting pregnant unmarried to force her parents to accept Xu Yiyang.
In this way, when Gu Sijia's parents reluctantly came to Xu Yiyang's hometown to attend the wedding of the two, Gu Sijia's belly was already pregnant.
A few months later, his son was born safely.
The moment he saw his son, a strong sense of responsibility that he had never had before prompted Xu Yiyang to make a decision: he must work hard to give his wife and children a better life!
So, approaching the age of 30, he resolutely resigned from his 9-to-6 job and joined the vast entrepreneurial army.
Xu Yiyang is actually very smart, but he has always been unambitious and pursues comfort.
And when his will to fight was stimulated, he quickly made a career.
He first used his experience working in the education and training industry to set up a small English language training school.
Because of Gu Sijia, a Ph.D. wife who studied in the UK, his training school started with IELTS training from the beginning.
Because of his clear positioning, Xu Yiyang quickly earned his first pot of gold.
With the support of Gu Sijia, Xu Yiyang used the first pot of gold to continue to expand the scale of entrepreneurship.
In a few years, Xu Yiyang earned tens of millions.
He bought a house and a car in Yanjing, bought a new house for his parents in his hometown, and helped his sister open a bilingual kindergarten in his hometown.
At this time, Xu Yiyang was 38 years old and finally touched the corner of his successful clothes.
After that, Xu Yiyang's career went smoothly.
At the age of 39, he replaced the house with a small villa, and was ready to take his parents to Yanjing to enjoy Qingfu.
But just when the decoration of the villa was about to end, Xu Yiyang's mother had a heart attack late at night and died.
Xu Yiyang received a call from his sister at three o'clock in the morning, and when he heard in a daze that his mother was being rescued in the hospital, he got up and drove to his hometown.
However, before the car left Yanjing, my mother was gone......
Xu Yiyang didn't make it to see her for the last time.
The unexpected death of his mother hit him very hard.
His parents have suffered for most of his life for the growth and study of him and his sister.
And he, since he was admitted to college, has left home, worked for all these years, can only go home once or twice a year, and has never been with his parents well.
finally had the ability to let my parents come to Yanjing to enjoy the blessings, but my mother couldn't wait for that day.
After returning from the funeral in his hometown, Xu Yiyang collapsed.
He suffers from insomnia at night, and often hides on the balcony alone in the middle of the night to drink heavily to relieve the pain and guilt that has been dissipated in his heart for a long time.
Every time he got up from bed late at night, Gu Sijia beside him knew it, but she never stopped him.
It was only after Xu Yiyang drank too much that she went to the balcony to gently hug him, coaxing him back to sleep like a son.
Xu Yiyang sometimes took advantage of the strength of wine to lie on Gu Sijia's shoulder and cry.
Gu Sijia persuaded every time, but she always couldn't persuade a few words, so she cried with him because she felt too sorry for him and cried with him.
Later, Gu Sijia made a decision, she wanted to give Xu Yiyang another child.
She knew that the regret and pain in Xu Yiyang's heart were difficult to erase.
The best thing to do is not to persuade him to forget, but to cheer him up.
She felt that Xu Yiyang cheered up for the first time in his life because of the birth of his son, and if he gave him another child, he should find that feeling again.
So, after several initiatives, she got pregnant.
At the age of 38, she is already a standard advanced maternal age, but she has no regrets at all.
She felt that as long as she could get her husband back on his feet, it didn't matter if she suffered a little sin.
The moment Xu Yiyang saw the results of the pregnancy test, he finally realized that although his mother was gone, there were still many responsibilities waiting to be borne in life.
Then he picked himself up and plunged headlong into his own business.
When Gu Sijia was eight months pregnant, he had brought the company to a new height and made it one of the top ten in the country.
It's just that he didn't expect that a long period of sub-health, as well as a lot of drinking, staying up late and working overtime, would have destroyed his fragile middle-aged body.
Once again, he worked overtime in the company until late at night, and Xu Yiyang suddenly received a call from his mother-in-law.
On the phone, the mother-in-law said hurriedly: "Yiyang, come back soon, Jiajia has started regular contractions!"
Regular contractions are a sign of labor!
Xu Yiyang stood up excitedly and blurted out: "Mom, don't panic, take care of her, I'll come back!"
After speaking, he only felt a buzz in his head, as if the blood in his body had been added to the pressure, and it rushed to the top of his head in an instant.
Then, he felt as if time had slowed down a lot.
He could feel the phone slipping from his hand and his body falling to the ground.
The moment he fell to the ground, he seemed to have hallucinations, and 39 years of life seemed to pass by the speed of light in his brain all of a sudden.
Then, time slowly stopped, the light faded, and the body gradually lost consciousness.
The whole person seems to have fallen into an endless abyss without light......