When Gu Shengge followed the waiter into the box, he saw Han Dingsheng sitting alone at the table at a glance.

Subconsciously straightened his collar, straightened his back, and walked slowly.

Noticing that the old man sitting across the dining table suddenly lit up when he saw him, Gu Shengge bent his fingers, and finally leaned over and saluted in a formal manner.

"Chairman Han," his gaze skimmed over the old man's gradually darkening eyes, Gu Shengge lowered his eyes, and the fingers behind him were clenched into fists. "Tired of your driver coming to pick me up, really appreciated. I'm sorry to keep you waiting. ”

"Child, you ...... Sit, sit down and say. It seemed that he didn't know what kind of attitude was appropriate for a while, and the old man across the table opened his mouth, showing a little helpless, "I just now, just now I ordered a few random dishes...... I don't know, I don't know what you like to eat......"

Sitting on the dining chair at the old man's suggestion, and hearing the old man's last words, Gu Shengge couldn't help but pause, and his heart was a little sour inexplicably, "Everything is good, it's good according to your preferences." ”

"I remember ......" seemed to suddenly remember something, the old man, who was still a little cramped, suddenly bent the corners of his eyes, and even the wrinkles between his eyebrows suddenly stretched out, "I remember, when you were very young, you always liked to eat something sweet." When you were two years old, I bought you a piece of cake, and you took a bite and you were happy with me for a long time......"

As if recalling a beautiful picture, Han Dingsheng squinted his eyes and smiled slowly at the corners of his eyes, "...... At that time, as soon as I was happy, I ran out in a hurry and bought several kinds of cakes and candies for you, but unfortunately they were all ...... Your mother didn't take it away, saying she ate too many sweets and was afraid that you would have bad teeth......"

The inexplicable sourness in his heart spread silently again, looking at the old man who was immersed in memories and smiling at the corners of his lips, Gu Shengge raised the corners of his mouth and tried to smile with the old man, "Although I don't remember this, but since I was a child, I really like to eat cakes......"

Unconsciously echoing the old man's words, Gu Shengge didn't expect that before his words fell, the old man on the other side of the table would suddenly have red eyes without warning.

"You...... Are you okay? Isn't there anything wrong with you?"

"Ahem, ahem...... It doesn't matter, ahem, ahem, ahem......"

Looking at the old man opposite in a panic, he suddenly covered his mouth and coughed, Gu Shengge stood up and handed over the tissue, and picked up the teapot on the side to refill a glass of water for the old man.

"You drink slowly, it's a little hot......" Carefully handing the water cup to the old man, Gu Shengge withdrew his hand and sat back in place under the old man's eyes.

"You, do you have any ......"

"No, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter," he waved his hand to Gu Shengge, who was worried, and the corners of Han Dingsheng's eyes inadvertently floated with deep relief. The next second, as if he had gradually thought of something, he clenched his fists, and his eyes were visibly red.

"Son, there are some words, for me to speak, are really ...... I really can't open my mouth. But as I said to you the last time we met—"

looked at Gu Shengge pointedly, I don't know when it started, Han Dingsheng's eyes were already filled with tears, "I'm not one, not a qualified grandfather...... But in many things, I love you more than you think, and I understand you ......"

Looking at Han Dingsheng with tears in front of him in a daze, Gu Shengge was a little stiff, and more was afraid and dazed. The last time we met, it may have been a bit hasty for him. On that day, just knowing the truth about that contract was enough to rob him of all his ability to think. So much so that after this, he didn't listen to what Han Dingsheng said.

The old man in front of him now is his grandfather, whom he almost never knows. All he remembered about this man was the hands that pulled him away from the bedside on the day his mother died, and the old, dark orphanage.

Now that he thinks about it, all the memories given to him by the people in front of him seem to be covered with a gloomy and dark haze.

Even if he put aside the gloomy childhood that was sealed in his memory and unbearable to look back on, the old man in front of him who reappeared after many years can still easily subvert everything in his life with a contract in his palm ten years later.

And now, it's the same person. This grandfather, who turned his life upside down twice and expelled him from the family, said to him with tears in his eyes and in a humble tone-

"You won't know...... Sending you to an orphanage is the most helpless and regrettable decision in my life...... After putting you in foster care, I condemned myself every day, day and night, and almost every week, I had to go back and watch you secretly......"

Suddenly, his eyes widened, and Gu Shengge looked at the old man in front of him in a daze. His lips quivered, and his fingertips grew cold.

"I've seen ...... I've seen those kids, throwing stones at you and bullying you, and I've seen ...... The cake on your plate was snatched away by those children, gritting your teeth and holding back tears......"

"No...... Stop it...... Say no more......"

In the blurred vision, the old man opposite began to burst into tears at some point, and continued to whisper something without crying.

Gu Shengge, who was sitting on the other side of the dining table and holding his head tightly, had already firmly covered his ears and couldn't listen anymore.

A terrible darkness suddenly descended, and he could not help but say something. The moment a clear cracking sound came from his heart, Gu Shengge closed his eyes and cried out almost collapsed-

"Don't- don't remember again—"

"Don't ......"

Once upon a time, memories sealed in the deepest depths of the darkness waved their wreaking claws and once again broke through the earth. Closing his eyes tightly, Gu Shengge's body trembled uncontrollably. But even if he closed his eyes tightly, those pictures that he had thought he had forgotten were still unfolding unfolded unscrupulously and clearly in front of his eyes-

"Don't come here!You're just a wild child that no one wants!!"

The dilapidated and gloomy courtyard, with a boy with a blood-stained face cowering in the corner of the yard covered in mud. Hard, small stones kept hitting him, cutting wounds of varying lengths.

"Don't throw it in your face! the dean is the most partial to him...... Throw it at him! Kill him!"

"Why does the dean want to give him milk?!

"I hate his fake look the most! I want to see if he can cry!"

"Smash him!

"He's moving! Don't let him run......"

The picture in front of him gradually distorted, Gu Shengge tightened his body, and trembled uncontrollably.

His vision was once again covered by darkness, and when the light reappeared, he was horrified to find himself back in the dark, damp classroom.

"Hand over the cake!

The voice is immature, but it is almost cruel. The boy curled up in the mud cuffs of the small piece of cake behind him, and took a small step back.

"I, didn't steal...... It's mine, really, my piece of ......."

Some voices were low, some trembled, but with an inexplicable firmness. His mother used to take him to eat the cakes, but since he came here, he can only get them once a month.

A small piece of sweets has become the biggest covet of almost all children. Holding his piece of cake tightly behind him, rubbing the wound on his cheek that had been removed, the boy shook his head and stepped back as his companions approached.

"I didn't steal...... No, it's my share, I ...... Ugh!"

Suddenly, the person behind him took away the plate in his hand, and the boy turned his head in a daze, looking for it anxiously. Several hands suddenly appeared behind him and pushed him hard.

As he knelt on the ground, the boy didn't have time to glance at his bruised knee when he heard a familiar laugh behind him—

"People like you don't deserve to eat cake!! And say it's not stealing!

"If I knew this would happen, why didn't I hand it over early! Dirty, stupid, stupid, wild child that no one wants!"

"Let's divide this cake and leave it for him at all!"

"Oh, look, see if he's going to cry! Hahaha, he's finally going to cry......"

"He deserves it! Let him pretend to be pitiful and please the dean!"

"Deserved......"

Grabbing the corner of his coat and biting his lip tightly, the boy on his knees struggled to get up and limped out of the classroom with his head down.

Behind him was an even more unbridled laughter, and the boy gritted his teeth and did not look back until he ran behind the huge stone in the small courtyard, and then crouched down and stopped.

The white moonlight fell on his young shoulders, reflecting his red eyes, glowing with a bleak white.

Gritting his teeth and hugging his knees, the boy curled himself up into tiny balls. After desperately taking a few deep breaths, he hung his head and trembled and patted the dirt off the wound.

There was a burst of pain from the dirt-stained wound, and he lowered his eyes, followed the appearance of his mother in his memory, and exhaled softly in the direction of the wound.

There are some familiar touches, warm and warm. A mother's smile appeared in front of him, and the boy lowered his eyes and clenched his fists tightly.

Can't cry. He couldn't cry out.

It's okay, it's okay.

When the day dawns, he will be able to forget everything about today.

Like every time before, try to forget all this.

"Shengge, Shengge—"

Letting his body be immersed in endless darkness, watching the boy in the picture gradually disappear, Gu Shengge opened his eyes and suddenly heard someone in his ear calling for something urgently.

The space around him suddenly changed, and between the ups and downs of his eyelashes, what caught his eye again was Han Dingsheng's anxious face.

"Shengge, child! this is, what's going on?...... You're shaking so much... and thou shalt not be ...... Child, go, let's go, let's go to the hospital now......"

"No...... No need......" Slowly dialing Han Dingsheng's outstretched hand, Gu Shengge suddenly raised his eyes, and moved away in a daze.

Everything has changed.

Nothing has changed.

It took him two lifetimes to seal those unbearable memories.

But in just an instant, all the gloom that had been there spread out and overwhelmed him. 166 Reading Network