The place where Shen and Xiao Huien met as scheduled was still in a café, not very far away.

When Shen arrived at the café as scheduled, Xiao Huien had not yet arrived, she ordered a caramel macchiato, her slightly cool fingertips against the warm wall of the cup, and it began to rain outside the window again, her heart hung in the air, she didn't know, and she couldn't imagine what kind of abyss the answer she was waiting for would push her into.

While she was thinking wildly, Xiao Huien's figure finally slowly walked towards her.

Xiao Huien took off the sunglasses on the bridge of her nose and sat down in front of Shen Ruzhi.

They looked at each other for a few seconds, it was not a warm meeting, and the opening words always needed to be considered.

After a few seconds of stagnant atmosphere, Xiao Huien took out a photo from his bag and handed it to Shen Ruzhi, with an unclear smile on the corner of his mouth, "Shen Ruzhi, do you know who she is?"

Shen Ruzhi's gaze fell on the old photo, the person in the photo smiled like stars, that face she had seen, and the appearance of the photo owned by Qin Shaoheng overlapped deeply, a thought flashed in her mind, her pupils contracted heavily, with surprise, she opened her mouth, "This person is not you?"

Xiao Huien seemed to have heard a big joke, raised his head and smiled, and said, "Shen Ruzhi, I don't know if I should sympathize with you for being deceived too deeply." I know you're hostile to me, yes, I don't deny that I like Shaoheng. However, in this photo, the person who makes Shao Heng's heart miss is not me, it is my sister Xiao Huiru, who is also Shao Heng's first girlfriend back then. ”

Shen Ru was stunned in place, she didn't imagine Qin Shaoheng's past with another person, but suddenly being said like this, her heart couldn't help but gush with a wave of frustration. She took a sip of the caramel macchiato, on a cool rainy day, she still felt a cold, as if she was going to tear down her limbs, she put down the cup, and her tone was indifferent, "And then?"

"And..."Xiao Huien seemed to have fallen into the memory of the past, glanced out the window, paused for a few seconds, and wrapped his fingertips around the wall of the coffee cup before slowly opening his mouth again, "At that time, they loved each other very much, and the people around them also blessed them, a dancer with good looks and temperament, a famous son, and they were very compatible." They were happy when they were together, and there was nothing in this world that could hinder their happiness. But at that time, they were still very young, there was an opportunity for the dance troupe to go to France for further study, and the leaders of the troupe wanted to give this opportunity to my sister, my sister felt that this was a good opportunity and didn't want to let go, but Shao Heng disagreed, they quarreled many times because of this matter, and they had a stalemate for a long time without a consistent result. Later, Shao Heng finally compromised and promised my sister to let her go to France to study dance, but after the study, she came back to marry her. My sister agreed, but on the day my sister left, the plane from Shanghai to France had an accident, and most of the passengers on the plane were missing. After Shao Heng found out, he was depressed for many years, and he was always very annoyed why he agreed to my sister to study dance. Shen Ruzhi, you really look like my sister. So, this is why Shao Heng chose you. ”

Shen Ruzhi's heart hurt as if it had been pricked by ten thousand needles, these words tightly choked her throat, she almost couldn't breathe, and her trembling fingertips skimmed over the face of the person in the photo, like? The gentleness between her eyebrows, the curvature of the smile on her lips, this face was not the first time she had seen it, but it was the first time she was so reluctant to face it.

This result is even more difficult for her to accept than knowing that Qin Shaoheng married her in order to fulfill Qin Musheng's happiness, it turned out that after two years of panic, she was just a stand-in, a stand-in that could comfort his chagrin, so every time he applied tenderness to her, every time he spared his life to save her, he did it through her, and like Xiao Huiru in the past, he had always refused to let her go to keep her as a stand-in to fill the vacancy of the person he loved deeply. The realization sent chills down her body. All kinds of words are like a fish in the throat, and the mist is clouded in the eyes.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Huien knew that her words had an effect, and continued, "All these years, Shao Heng has been looking for my sister, and just a few days ago, things finally came to an eyebrow. Shen Rucheng, if my sister comes back, you will be a stand-in, sooner or later, why don't you go decently now, it will be good for everyone. I have been able to be by Shao Heng's side all these years, because I love him so much that I can't do without it, I don't mind that he has another person in his heart, and I don't mind that he gives affection to another person, but, Shen Ruzhi, you can be the same as me, don't you mind?"

Shen Ruzhi's heart was suffocated, Xiao Huien's words made her realize a lot of things, she had persuaded herself not to mind, he had married her for a purpose, and he had other extenuating circumstances in his heart, but now she can still be frank and not mind? She thought that marriage should be like her parents, loyal and unique, not just the constraints of a marriage certificate, but from the bottom of her heart, there is only one other party. Even the last one went to his death, and no one was left behind.

But she couldn't control the involvement in this marriage of exchange of interests, and she couldn't control her heart to sink, but she didn't expect that she was just a stand-in, and only the existence of substitute value was the appearance of the original body. A wry smile floated on his lips. She is really stupid, but she has been thinking about Xiao Huien for so long. Where does she stand and qualify?

That day in the hospital, she refuted Xiao Huien's words, Xiao Huien must have secretly laughed at her in her heart, laughed at her for being stupid and didn't know it, and laughed at her that she couldn't find the enemy. It turned out that in the end, she was a complete joke. The pain of her nails digging into the flesh of her palms made her wake up slightly, and there was a pain in her lower abdomen, and she bit her pale lips tightly as she leaned over the edge of the table.

Xiao Huien noticed something strange and frowned, "Shen Ruzhi, are you okay?"

Shen Ruzhi only heard Xiao Huien's voice as if it was floating in his ears, and he couldn't catch it, "Xiao Huien, send, send, send me to the hospital...."

Shen opened his eyes again as scheduled and found that he was already lying in the hospital, Xiao Huien looked indifferent, sat on the edge of the bed, twisted his eyebrows and looked out the window, Shen moved as scheduled, Xiao Huien heard the movement and looked back at her, with a hint of incredulity in his tone, "Are you pregnant?"

Shen nodded weakly as expected, stroked his stomach with his hand, and his lips were pale, "Well, child, how is the child?"

Xiao Huien was stunned, probably still digesting the fact that Shen was pregnant, came back to her senses, and said, "The doctor said, you just had fetal gas, nothing serious, does Shao Heng know about this child?"

Shen Ruzhi's heart settled down, and he lay down again, his tone was light, "He doesn't know, I think, you don't want him to know." ”

Xiao Huien was poked in thought, and her tone was a little weak, "If he knows, do you think you can still go?" she said this, thinking in her heart that she must not let Qin Shaoheng know about the existence of this child, and neither this child nor Shen Ruzhi could stay.

The corners of Shen Ruzhi's mouth hooked, and he felt even more pathetic, and said, "I know." ”

Shen Ru's reaction was still in Xiao Huien's expectations, and she continued, "I have helped you get all the documents, Shao Heng is busy looking for my sister now, and he has no time to take care of here, so now is the best time to go." If you don't leave, you may not have a chance. You don't want to be my sister's shadow for the rest of your life. ”

The light in Shen Ruzhi's eyes dimmed, this kind of relief was obviously what she had always wanted? Now it was really in front of her, but she didn't feel joy at all, her heart was entangled by the cold, and the hope that existed a few hours ago was now like a bubble that had been punctured, disappearing without a trace, and in just a few hours, she transformed from a wife who was full of joy to tell her husband that she was pregnant, to a sad and lamentable. She thought of Nini with a hideous face, maybe she was no different from Nini, she sank into a small hope, and finally sent herself to a point of no return. It's just that she still has a chance to escape, "Let's go tonight!" she slowly spoke.

Xiao Huien seemed to be satisfied with her answer, smiled, and said, "I'll find a place first, you can rest for a while, and then find a place to start over." ”

Shen was thinking about it as scheduled, starting again in Xiao Huien's words, and from then on, her life would no longer have Qin Shaoheng, and she would no longer be a stand-in who could only live in the shadow of others. Isn't that bad?

She nodded heavily, closed her eyes, and many images flashed in her mind, slowly shattering in her heart, which was cooling inch by inch, and she knew that once she made a decision, there was no turning back. But she made this decision.

Xiao Huien really found a place for her to recuperate, in a house in the remote suburbs, it was sparsely populated, and with Xiao Huien as a cover, this place was indeed difficult to find. Xiao Huien had all the daily necessities, and because she was afraid that the phone number would be traced, Xiao Huien gave her a new number, which only Xiao Huien knew.

Shen stayed in the house for a week as scheduled, the surrounding environment of the house was beautiful, although she had thoughts, but she was also cultivated by this beautiful scenery and recuperated well.

A week later, Xiao Huien came to pick her up as promised.

The plane ticket has been booked, and she has another new identity, so she has to leave Shanghai and go to a distant place, and she is no longer Shen Ruzhi.

Xiao Huien was still accompanying her at the airport, and the sweet voice on the radio remembered that the flight was about to take off, she took her luggage, and slowly walked to the check-in gate under Xiao Huien's gaze.

She glanced back, this city she had lived in for many years, there were many memories that belonged to her, good and bad, and now she was going to leave them behind.