Chapter 21: Two Paths
When Mu Yi came out, it was already ten days later. He had a scruffy beard, his face was haggard, and his clothes were crumpled and dirty. Mu Yukai and Yu Qinling stood outside anxiously waiting, and when they saw him come out, both of them showed relieved expressions on their faces, and hurriedly greeted him. Yu Qinling secretly wiped her tears while sorting out Mu Yi's clothes, and muttered: "My son is such a refreshing and clean person, look at what it has become during this time...... Let's go, let's go home, you take a good bath, and Mom will cook your favorite dishes for you. β
Mu Yi let out a low "um" and looked behind them. He didn't see the person he wanted to see, and she didn't come. He couldn't help but feel a sense of loss, as if his heart had been pricked by a dense needle. He got into the car after his parents, and along the way, his parents asked him a lot of questions, and he simply answered twice. Coming out of it does not mean that he has come out of the confinement of grief, especially at this moment, when his hope is disappointed, he feels that his will is even lower. When he got home, he washed up briefly, ate something, and felt extremely tired. He lay down on the bed, wanting to close his eyes and sleep for a while, however, even if he stayed in the warmest and most secure place at the moment, he felt no different from being in the detention cell, he couldn't sleep at all, his heart was in turmoil, and there was always a voice in his head shouting: "Lin Yansheng." Lin Yansheng. β
The voice was so noisy that he finally couldn't bear it anymore, turned over, and shouted irritably: "I'm annoyed! Don't make any noise!" This sentence startled Yu Qinling, who was coming in with fruit, she stood at the door, neither in nor out, looking at her son in a daze, I don't know why.
"Mom. Seeing his mother standing at the door, Mu Yi hurriedly turned over and sat up, with a slightly apologetic look on his face, "That wasn't for you. β
Yu Qinling sighed, put the fruit on the bedside table, and said, "Mom knows." β
Mu Yi lowered his head in despair and sighed lowly.
Yu Qinling sat down on the chair in front of the desk, and stopped talking, for a long time, she looked at her son's sluggish appearance, and asked hesitantly: "You ...... with Yan Sheng"
Hearing this, Mu Yi glanced up at his mother, but he didn't say anything. He frowned, lay down on the bed again, and buried his face under the covers, as if he didn't really want to talk about it.
Yu Qinling sighed and said, "Your Aunt He has been taking care of Yan Sheng these days, and she said that Yan Sheng looks very bad. No matter what the current situation is, you still have to make it clear to Yan Sheng, what to do, the two of you still have points in their hearts, after all, you are not in love now, you have already obtained the certificate, and you can't be the same as before. β
Mu Yi was silent, still not speaking. He wanted to ask his mother, hadn't they been to see Lin Yansheng for the past ten days? He couldn't help but blame them a little, but after thinking about it carefully, he had no reason to blame his parents. This matter has nothing to do with them, and things have become like this inexplicably, they have been locked up for more than ten days, and they must have some prejudices against Lin Yansheng in their hearts. Not only them, but also himself. Thinking of this, Mu Yi couldn't help but feel irritable again, he buried his head deeper in the quilt, and said sullenly: "Got it, Mom, you go out first, I'm so tired, I want to sleep for a while." β
"Okay. Yu Qinling stood up, she took a deep look at her son, and then walked out and gently closed the door.
Mu Yi came out of the quilt, he was half-sitting and leaning on the head of the bed, looking at the photo of Lin Yansheng on the desk. After a while, he suddenly got out of bed and put on his shoes, opened the door and walked outside.
"Where are you going?" Yu Qinling, who was sitting in the living room, heard footsteps and hurriedly asked. Mu Yi strode forward and hurriedly said, "Go out." β
"You come back early!" Before Yu Qinling's words fell, Mu Yi had already gone out of the door. She looked at her son's figure with a slightly lost expression.
"Okay, don't worry, my son has his own ideas, after all, he is already an adult. Mu Yukai patted the back of his wife's hand and comforted.
"Can I not be worried?" Yu Qinling glanced at her husband and said dissatisfiedly, "If he had his own ideas, he wouldn't have been locked up in it for ten days for no reason." β
"It's all over, don't talk about it. Mu Yukai picked up the newspaper and leaned back on the sofa. He looked at his wife in the gap of the newspaper, although he said that it was nothing, but in his heart he was actually as worried as his wife. It's just that when the children are older, they have to learn to walk by themselves, and if they blindly manage it, it may backfire. He shook his head, sighed, and continued to read the newspaper, but could not read a word.
When he arrived at Lin Yansheng's door, Mu Yi hesitated slightly before raising his hand and knocking on the door. He was a little uneasy in his heart, he didn't know how Lin Yansheng was doing now, and he didn't know what she would say when she saw her. Mu Yi thought uncertainly, and suddenly felt a little ridiculous, obviously it was not his fault, but he was worried and uneasy about it, he laughed sarcastically in his heart that he was not productive, and the sarcastic smile had not had time to disappear, and the door was opened suddenly.
"Aunt He, I said it, you don't have to come again. Lin Yansheng said helplessly, before the words fell, she suddenly saw Mu Yi standing in front of her, and was stunned. The red, swollen and bloodshot eyes were wide open, her emaciated cheeks tensed in surprise, and a hand hanging down at her side unconsciously clenched into a fist, and she couldn't react for a while.
Seeing her appearance, all Mu Yi's uneasiness and apprehension disappeared in an instant, and he looked at her silently without saying a word.
"You-" Lin Yansheng looked a little flustered, "When are you-"
"Whenβ" Mu Yi repeated her words, feeling suddenly disappointed in his heart. She didn't take herself to heart at all, and she didn't ask when she would come out. Presumably, these days, she hasn't thought about herself at all.
"Mu Yi. The expression on Lin Yansheng's face was extremely complicated, and self-blame, guilt, surprise and longing were all mixed together, which made her heart very confused. She glanced at him, then quickly lowered her gaze.
"Just let me stand at the door like this?" Mu Yi asked with a wry smile.
Lin Yansheng hurriedly turned sideways and let him in. She closed the door, her movements seemed a little hesitant, glanced back at Mu Yi, and leaned back against the door.
Mu Yi stood in the center of the living room, surveying his surroundings. The room is not very neat and clean, but it is not very messy, there is a blanket on the sofa, and there is a book spread out on the blanket, it seems that Lin Yansheng has just been lying here reading. Mu Yi stared blankly at the blanket and books, and asked in frustration, "Haven't you thought about me these days?"
Lin Yansheng didn't expect him to ask this, she originally thought that he would ask herself why she did that day, and she wanted to give him an explanation so that he wouldn't experience all this in a daze. She was ready to answer, and she had been ready since the day Yu Qinling looked for her, but she didn't expect Mu Yi to ask her this question first.
After reacting, Lin Yansheng lowered his head for a long time before he sighed, "I'm sorry, Mu Yi." β
Mu Yi turned to look at her and asked, "When you say sorry, is it 'sorry' that I was detained for a few days, or is 'sorry' that I didn't think of me?"
Lin Yansheng fiddled with his fingers and did not answer his words. She walked slowly towards the table, sat down in her chair, and whispered, "I'm sorry for all I owe you. β
Mu Yi looked at her in disappointment and asked, "You really haven't thought of me?"
Lin Yansheng bit his lip and said, "Yes." β
Mu Yi walked up to her, sat down, looked at her seriously, and asked, "Then, I'll ask you for an explanation." He still had a glimmer of hope, and he wasn't completely disappointed in her. Everything he saw that day, including her meeting with Peng Zhan and what she said at the police station, he never doubted her at all, although there was a temporary shock and disappointment, he always believed her, and he felt that she would not do anything to be sorry for himself.
Lin Yansheng hesitated for a moment and said, "I can only assure you that those words are not true. β
"So, those words were said by Peng Yan to blackmail you, and he used the photo to blackmail you?" Mu Yi asked, trying to convince Lin Yansheng again to face all this bravely and send the culprit to prison.
Lin Yansheng didn't seem to want to talk about this topic, she turned her head, looked at the pattern on the table, and said, "I don't want to talk about this." β
"Why?" Mu Yi said, "I didn't blame you, and you don't have to worry about me blaming you, I've always been on your side." After saying this, he himself felt a little empty, because the truth was not as he said.
"Thank you. Lin Yansheng glanced at him gratefully, "But I don't want to pursue this matter anymore." β
"So, you were threatened by him?" Mu Yi said.
"Mu Yi, I don't want to talk about this. Lin Yansheng was a little annoyed, "I've finally forgotten a little bit these daysβ"
"Why don't you want to talk?" Mu Yi was also a little angry, "It's his fault, not your fault! Would you rather bear all this yourself than share it with me? Would you rather go to see him alone and negotiate with him than tell me the pain in your heart and let me face it with you? What good will it do you to you? What good will it do to me?"
Lin Yan stood up suddenly, she looked at him, trembling slightly, "You are not me, of course you don't know what good this will do me!"
"I don't know, won't you tell me?" Mu Yi also stood up and looked at her condescendingly, he was a little upset, and he didn't care about what he said, "You are always like this, you hold everything in your heart and don't say anything, can I guess if you don't say it?" You have to bear it alone, you don't want to tell me these things, so have you thought about how I feel in my heart? Won't I feel bad if you are like this?"
"Where can I care about your feelings now?" Lin Yansheng shouted, "I'm already too busy to take care of myself!"
"That's why I want to share it with you!" Mu Yi also shouted, "Or do you mean that I am completely useless in your heart, and I am not qualified to stand with you and share these difficult things?"
"You know I don't think so!" Lin Yansheng said, her chest rising and falling rapidly, she has rarely been so emotionally out of control, "Of course I have my own thoughts." β
"What do you think?" Mu Yi asked, "You tell me, you let me know." β
Lin Yansheng stopped talking and didn't talk anymore.
Mu Yi looked at her stubborn appearance, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, the room was quiet for a few seconds, and he asked, "You just said the benefits, can you tell me what the benefits are?"
Lin Yansheng still stubbornly did not speak.
Mu Yi felt a strong sense of jealousy and annoyance in his heart, the scene he saw in the hotel appeared in front of his eyes again, under the hypnosis of jealousy, he had forgotten the fact that she was stunned, and his mind was full of her slightly blurred appearance under Peng Zhan. He sneered: "What, are you happy to do that with Peng Zhan?"
Lin Yansheng turned her head to look at him, her face was full of shock, she didn't believe that he would say such a thing, and she couldn't react for a while.
Mu Yi was dizzy with anger, he couldn't take care of anything, he had paid so much for her, but he couldn't even get the most basic return, he just wanted to bear it with her, he just didn't want her to be so tired, why was she so reluctant?
"At the police station that day, you were telling the truth. Mu Yi felt as if his head had been numb by an electric shock, and the words couldn't help but pop out of his mouth word by word, "Is it because what you said is the truth, so you decided not to pursue it? Is he so important to you? Don't you dare to refute or tell me if it's important?"
"Mu Yi!" Lin Yansheng called, she trembled even more, her eyes were full of tears, and they would fall at any time.
"What are you crying for?" Mu Yi sneered, "Lin Yansheng, if I die in front of you now, won't you relent?" I've been with you for almost six years, but it's not as good as a Peng Zhan who came out halfway?
Lin Yansheng looked at him in disbelief, his hands clenched tightly into fists at his side.
Mu Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I really don't know what's wrong with me, I've persuaded myself over and over again to be good to you, you are the first in everything, I put my own feelings last, I'm so good to you, and now I'm like you? But don't forget, I'm also a person, I'm your boyfriend, I'm your husband, I have the right to know everything, and I also have the right to ask you to share it with me, instead of letting you bury me in the dark and not know anything!" Before his words fell, Lin Yansheng suddenly raised a hand and roared at his face. After a crisp sound, he froze, sobered up from his anger, and looked at her with wide eyes.
Lin Yansheng raised one arm and pointed at the door, trembling and shouting, "Get out!
Mu Yi looked at her stunned, neither expecting that he would say such words, nor did he expect her to beat herself. Two seconds later, he calmed down, and looking at Lin Yansheng's tearful appearance, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll get out." β
Lin Yansheng turned around and didn't look at him, she was crying, her back trembling slightly. Mu Yi strode towards the door, and when he came to the door, he stopped again, he turned around, and saw that she didn't keep him, and was slightly disappointed. But his words had already come out of his mouth, and the complaints that had been in his heart for years suddenly popped out at this moment, so that he couldn't soften her to coax her. He thought fragilely, now I want you to coax me, you come and coax me once, just this once, okay?
But Lin Yansheng didn't coax him as he imagined, she just sobbed, not realizing that he hadn't left at all.
The two of them stood in this strange and weird atmosphere for a while, Lin Yansheng finally stopped crying, she could control her emotions, and wanted to go to the bathroom to wash her face. Turning around, she saw that Mu Yi was still standing by the door, she was stunned, her expression quickly turned cold, and she hurriedly looked away and walked towards the bathroom.
Mu Yi stood dumbfounded, his body stiff. By this time, he really didn't know what to do, although he had been unable to do anything about her.
He waited for Lin Yansheng to come out after washing his face, but he still didn't come up with any way to face her. Lin Yansheng walked to the sofa and sat down expressionlessly, her eyes hanging above the coffee table, not knowing what she was thinking. After a while, she said, "Let's go." β
Hearing her words, the injustice in Mu Yi's heart rose again, he frowned, but this time he controlled his temper and didn't say anything ugly, "Can't we communicate well?"
"It's my business, there's nothing to communicate about. Lin Yan said stiffly, his expression looking extremely cold.
"Your business?" Mu Yi narrowed his eyes, and he asked repeatedly, "Your business?"
Lin Yansheng glanced at him coldly and said, "Thank you for helping me these days, but I don't want to say anything now, you can go." β
"Lin Yansheng. Mu Yi said, the fire in his heart seemed to have been poured with a bucket of cold water and completely extinguished. In the days of detention in the detention center, he tried hard not to let this little flame in his heart go out, he was so careful to protect it, but he didn't expect that it was the person he loved the most who put it out in the end, "You can't-" The words came to his lips, but he swallowed back, "Okay, I'll go, don't regret me when I'm gone." β
"Regret?" Lin Yansheng sneered, "I, Lin Yansheng, have never regretted anything. β
Mu Yi saw that she was still stiff-mouthed at this time, obviously angry with herself, but although he knew that she was angry with herself, her heart still hurt fiercely, and she was even more depressed and uncomfortable than when she saw that scene in the hotel before. He raised a hand against the wall and muttered, "Is what you said true?"
Lin Yansheng turned his head away, looked out the window stubbornly, and didn't say a word.
"Good, good. Mu Yi's expression was gloomy, he turned around, opened the door, hesitated, and walked out resolutely.
After the door was closed, Lin Yansheng suddenly collapsed like a puppet with a broken thread. She looked at the teapot on the coffee table, her chest rising and falling rapidly, and in such a short moment, it was as if she had gone through the process of going from the ground to hell. She remembered everything she remembered, from the time she first met Mu Yi, to the time when they were together, and then to after the incident that happened to her, the scenes of this kind of process came to her mind, and every detail was so clear and vivid. One of the more obvious is that she saw herself in the photo sent by Peng Peng, at that moment, she didn't seem to know the person in the photo, she was the same as the face, but she felt very strange. She felt in her heart that it would definitely not be herself, she would not show that kind of expression, and she would not encounter that kind of thing. Immediately, Yu Qinling's face popped up in her mind, and that night, in the dark night, in the quiet space, Aunt Yu, whom she had always felt cordial and relied on, said such things to her. Although he couldn't see her face clearly in the dark night, Lin Yansheng could still imagine that while saying those words, she must have had a look of disdain and disdain on her face. Lin Yansheng had never seen others show such a look to herself, especially in the people close to her, which made her feel even more vulnerable and unbearable.
Now, even Mu Yi, who had always promised to be by her side forever, said these hurtful words to her. Lin Yansheng clutched the clothes on her chest tightly, and felt her heart twist and pain, almost making her unable to breathe. In fact, she never thought that he would have such a reaction, the night it happened, he avoided himself like that, and he seemed to be contaminated with something unclean at his touch. That short scene will remain in her heart forever, and it will keep piercing her heart. She couldn't trust Mu Yi's promise anymore, he wouldn't love her as much as he said and accompany her without any knots as before. Things have happened, and there is no going back to the past, something between them has completely changed.
And today, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and said what was in his heart. Lin Yansheng smiled bitterly, but his smile was so helpless and desperate. This is what he really said in his heart, and what he said before was to coax her and comfort her. Who would tolerate this kind of thing happening? Even she couldn't tolerate it, how could she ask Mu Yi to completely accept the consequences of this incident? Maybe this result would be the best, and it would be a relief for her and Mu Yi. She has always felt guilty about Mu Yi's unreserved love, she has never loved him unreservedly, and after this incident, she can no longer let herself accept his unreserved love, even if this unreserved love has now become incomplete, and she has no confidence.
When his mood finally calmed down, Lin Yansheng picked up the mobile phone that he threw aside. The phone's screen was still torn apart, and she wasn't going to fix it. She opened the text message page, edited a text message, and sent it to Mu Yi.
"Let's separate. The text message reads.