After leaving the school, the car drove for a long time, bypassing many streets, and after leaving the city, it stopped at the foot of a mountain.

The car stopped at the foot of the mountain, and Gao Yala thought that Li Zheng wanted to take her up the mountain, so she was about to push the car door and get out of the car.

Li Zheng stretched out his hand to stop her.

"Aren't we going up the mountain?"

Li Zheng shook his head.

He looked at the mountainside through the car window, and looked at it for a long, long time, so long that Gao Yala thought that they would always look like this, Li Zhengcai turned his head and said to Gao Yala: "This is what I want to bring you here...... Special place. ”

Looking at the direction of the mountainside and thinking of Korean customs, Gao Yala had a faint guess in her heart.

"My parents' cemetery is buried on the side of this mountain. ”

Li Zheng's answer confirmed Gao Yala's conjecture.

She hesitated, "We ...... Won't you go up?"

Li Zheng didn't speak, just shook his head.

Gao Yala wanted to ask, but she didn't think it was appropriate, she looked at Li Zheng and fell silent.

Li Zheng didn't notice Gao Yala, he just looked at the mountainside, and after a while, he spoke.

His voice was calm and flat: "Many people know that I have been persisting all the time to fulfill my mother's dream. My efforts, my persistence, my stubbornness, my incomprehensibility...... They thought I was just trying to fulfill my mother's last life, and to give an account to my deceased mother, and even Yun Xi thought so. They persuaded me to let go, to let go, to let go, they thought it was just a shackle I had imposed on myself, but they didn't know why I insisted on it. ”

Li Zheng said quietly, Gao Yala didn't interject, she didn't interrupt him, she knew that Li Zheng didn't need to ask, he probably brought her here today to tell her all the answers.

Li Zheng looked in the direction of the mountainside, there was no sadness in his eyes, it seemed that sadness had dried up a long time ago.

His tone was calm, as if he was telling someone else's story: "My grandfather was a well-known Trot singer in Korea in the sixties and seventies, and my grandmother and I have always been dependent on each other because my grandmother died very young. Because my grandfather's house has a lot of records from his past, my mother grew up listening to my grandfather's records.

My mother has admired my grandfather since she was a child, so she has had a dream since she was a child: to inherit my grandfather's career and become a well-known Trot singer in Korea like my grandfather.

The dream is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

As my mother grew up, especially after a period of voice change, she became farther and farther away from this dream. She didn't inherit my grandfather's singing voice, and her musicality was much worse than that of many singers.

But despite this, she did not give up.

She stubbornly thought that as long as she continued to work hard, she would definitely succeed.

But there are some things that you can't force on, and some professions, if you are not talented enough, no matter how hard you try, it will only be in vain in the end.

So, although with the help of my maternal grandfather, she became a Trot singer, my mother's career was very short and ordinary, and the only fortunate thing was that during her career, she met my father by chance at an invitation to a show.

My father is Korean-American, grew up in the United States, and since he joined Samsung, he occasionally works in South Korea. After getting to know my mother, he admired my mother's personality and admired her persistence and belief in her dreams. After a long period of contact, both people have a good impression of each other, and naturally start dating.

If it goes according to normal circumstances, this should be a beautiful and complete love story.

However, when the two talked about marriage, there were unexpected twists and turns.

When my father proposed to marry my mother, my father's family sternly refused, but the reason was simple, it was only because of my mother's and my grandfather's occupations, because they were both ...... Dangdang pulls ......"

When Gao Yala heard this, her heart was full of anger, but she also felt a deep helplessness.

In South Korea, in the traditional thinking of people, artists are a group of uneducated actors who only use physical performances to please the public, and their status is very degraded. "Dangdangla" is a contempt for them.

Not only in the past, but even now, modern civilization has been very developed, but the traditional values of the whole society are still preserved. The upper and lower ranks, the dignity and inferiority of social status, can not be crossed anytime and anywhere, and it is very strict.

And in Korean society, all kinds of explicit or implicit discrimination have always existed: other industries discriminate against performing artists, and among performing artists, those who act in movies discriminate against those who act in TV dramas, those who act in TV dramas discriminate against those who sing, and those who sing discriminate against those who are funny in variety shows......

All kinds of comparisons and discrimination have always existed, no one wants to change, and no one can change it, which is the sadness of Korean society and the sadness of performing artists.

"My mother was a person with a lot of self-esteem, a sense of face, and a very paranoid personality. So, in the face of the humiliation of my father's family, she directly proposed to break up with my father. But my father loved my mother very much, and he didn't want to break up with my mother because of these social prejudices, and he didn't think that a person's occupation determines a person's value. All men are created equal, and no profession is more noble than another.

My father sought the help of my grandfather on the one hand, and had a showdown with my grandfather and grandmother on the other, and finally at my father's insistence, my grandfather and grandmother finally agreed to my father's marriage to my mother, but on the condition that my grandfather and my mother gave up their careers as singers.

For the sake of my mother's happiness, my grandfather finally agreed to this condition, and my mother, under the persuasion of my grandfather and my father's persistence, finally chose to accept.

After my father and my mother got married, at the request of my grandfather and grandmother, my father left Korea and returned to work at the Samsung branch in the United States with my mother.

My grandfather gave up his favorite career as a singer for my mother, and because of the discrimination of my father's family and my mother's departure, he died less than two years later.

After my grandfather died, my mother was even more haunted by my grandfather's death because of the refusal and persecution.

And after my father and my mother got married, they thought that everything would be fine and there would be no more twists and turns. But the troubles after marriage have always existed. My grandfather and grandmother looked down on my mother as a singer, and my mother couldn't stand the discrimination. After my grandfather died, my mother's personality became more and more paranoid and sensitive, and there were endless quarrels every day of my father's family.

It wasn't until I was three years old that my mother and my grandmother had another big fight, and eventually it went to my little aunt.

After this incident, the atmosphere in the family became even more tense, and although my father kept trying his best to make amends, everything was to no avail.

In desperation, my father applied to Samsung again, left the United States, and transferred to South Korea.

After returning to Korea, my mother's personality became much more cheerful and she no longer lost her temper like she did in the United States. Except for one time when she came back from a high-level party at Samsung, she had a big fight with my father, and she never had an argument with my father since.

This atmosphere of harmony continued until the death of my father......"

Li Zheng paused, his eyes looking at the mountainside.

"On that day, my father took me and my mother to Samsung's annual meeting, and my father and I wore black dresses and my mother wore a blue printed dress. She hasn't been to any of my father's company meetings since she came back to fight with my father at that high-level party at Samsung. She was there that day because I ...... She went because I begged her......"

Li Zheng's voice trembled slightly, but he didn't stop, but continued to speak.

"It was a very lively year's party that day, I was chatting with a few little playmates on the guardrail on the second floor of the hotel with a fruit bowl, and then I suddenly saw my mother running out from the direction of the bathroom on the first floor, she stumbled and ran, hitting several people in a row, but she didn't stop, she ran through the crowd, just ran out of the hotel, followed by my father anxiously chasing after her......

I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I was scared, so I ran down from the second floor and ran out of the hall after them.

After running out of the hotel, before I could find them, I heard a sharp brake sound, followed by my mother's heart-rending shout.

I was so scared that I ran in the direction of the sound, and then I saw it...... I saw my mother on her knees and my father lying in a pool of blood while there were a lot of people watching...... A lot of people ......

I ran quickly to my father, who was spitting blood from his mouth, but with great difficulty his hand was raised and pointed at my mother, who was kneeling not far away...... I knew he wanted me to go and see my mother, but all I knew was crying, all I knew was hugging him, I was scared, I was really scared, I was afraid that if I let go, he would leave me......"

Gao Yala was already in tears when she heard this, she stretched out her hand and held Li Zheng tightly, but Li Zheng seemed to be unconscious, and continued to speak.

"I was holding my father like that, and I don't know how long it was, it seemed fast, it seemed slow, and the ambulance finally came...... The doctor snatched my father from my hand and put him on a stretcher, and that's when I remembered to go see my mother...... She just sat there on her knees, as if she was stupid......

I called her, she shouldn't, I pulled her, she didn't move, she just stared at my father's blood on the ground in such a daze, she didn't move, as if she had no soul......"

Li Zheng spoke slowly, his tone was very gentle, but his lips kept trembling.

"My mother seems to have lost her soul, my father was carried into the ambulance, I look at my father, I look at my mother, I am only one person, I don't know what to do...... I ended up leaving my mother behind, leaving an older sister I knew to take care of her, and I sat in an ambulance to accompany my father, but in the end, I ...... My father still didn't get to the hospital......

He was gone, right in the ambulance......

Before he died, he gently shook my hand, and he told me that birth, old age, sickness and death are natural, and he does not blame anyone, nor does he want me to resent others. He just hopes that after he leaves, I can take care of my mother instead of him, my mother has lost a lot for him, but he gives very little, he just hopes that I can take care of her and protect her instead of him, he just hopes that my mother and I have a new beginning, he just hopes that ...... We...... It's all alive and well......"

Li Zheng paused, closed his eyes slightly, and then continued.

"After my father died, for a while, my mother felt like she had lost her soul, and she held a picture of my father, and she didn't eat or drink, but she would keep saying that everything, everything was just her fault...... If she hadn't been stimulated to run out at the annual meeting if she hadn't heard someone else mocking the play, my father wouldn't have chased her out. If my father hadn't chased him out, he wouldn't have let himself be hit by a car when he hit her and pushed her out of the way to save her, and if he hadn't been hit by a car, my father wouldn't have died......

After a long time of confusion, one day my mother came back from outside, and suddenly her whole person changed completely.

She is no longer as muddled as in the past, but her thoughts have suddenly gone to the other extreme.

She thinks that all these tragedies happened just because she wasn't famous enough, because she didn't become the top artist.

If she had been a top star, things would have been completely different, my grandfather wouldn't have given up his career as a singer for her and ended up depressed, she wouldn't have been discriminated against when she married my father, she would have been ridiculed and ridiculed in the eyes of others, and my father wouldn't have had a car accident to save him.

She thinks it's all just because she didn't make it to the top star.

But none of this is her fault!

She has the ability, but she lacks the opportunity to show.

But she can also make amends, she wants to train me to be the top star, so that those who look down on her and discriminate against her know that she is no worse than any of them.

When I heard what my mother said, I knew in my heart that she had lost her mind. My father taught me early on that all men are created equal, and that no profession is more noble than another. Those who think they are nobler than others are full of prejudices, they are narrow-minded and will not change because of your elevated status.

Although I was very young at the time, I knew that my mother's idea was wrong. When my father was studying in the United States, he wanted to be admitted to Yale University's business school, but for some reason he didn't succeed, and I used to promise him that when he grew up, I would help him realize this wish, and I took a photo with him in front of Yale University wearing a Yale University bachelor's hat.

So at that time, I just wanted to study hard, and then follow my father's instructions before he died, live well, and take good care of my mother.

But my mother didn't think so, she just wanted to prove herself.

Prove that she is no worse than anyone else!

After many shirks from me, one day, she finally couldn't take it anymore.

She grabbed my shoulders with both hands, her eyes glared at me, and she said to me...... She said to me......"

Li Zheng's lips trembled, and his voice gradually lowered.

She said to me...... I was completely to blame for my father's death...... If I hadn't begged her to go to the party that day, none of this would have happened...... So, that's what I owe her. ”

Hearing this, Gao Yala subconsciously covered her mouth in shock, she really couldn't understand what kind of extreme personality could make a mother say such a thing to her son, and then there was an unspeakable bitterness and deep heartache for Li Zheng.

"Since that day, my life has changed.

My mother sent me to the best school, hired the best dance and music teachers for me, and after learning all of this every day, I also had swimming lessons, physical fitness classes, and I had a full schedule every day.

And so it went on for five years.

I would have more and more things, my father's previous savings were getting smaller and smaller, and my mother was getting thinner and thinner, even losing her human form......

It wasn't until that time that I finally knew that my mother had a malignant tumor five years ago, but she was unwilling to treat it, and spent very little money to maintain it, but spent all the money on me......"

Gao Yala didn't know what to say when she heard this, she couldn't judge Li Zheng's mother, and she didn't know how to judge.

Li Zheng was still talking, but his voice was getting deeper and deeper.

"Before my mother died, I knelt beside her, she was lying on the bed so weakly, her whole hand was thin to the bone, but she held my hand tightly, her nails were embedded in my palm, she stared at me, she looked at me fiercely, she made me swear: if I can't become the top star in Korea, if I can't fulfill her dream, if I can't do this, I won't go to her grave for the rest of my life.

Because......

Even if she died, she would never forgive me. ”

At the moment when he said this, Li Zheng's tears finally fell.

He didn't cry wantonly, all he had was silent sadness, but it was this silence that knocked Gao Yala to pieces, she didn't know how to comfort, maybe she didn't need her to comfort at all, she just silently accompanied Li Zheng, accompanied Li Zheng to tears, let the tears break through her eyes and wreak havoc on her face, she just stretched out her hand, held Li Zheng's hand, held it tightly, held it tightly.

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Let's talk briefly: First, I really don't know what title to take for this chapter, and I don't feel appropriate after thinking about it a lot, and finally I still feel that only the word untitled can summarize this chapter. Two, I changed it twice and still felt that part of the text was a bit dry, but I didn't want to wait a few more days to have an idea and upload it after perfecting, so I updated it first. Third, after writing this chapter, it can be regarded as an explanation of why Li Zheng insisted on his mother's dream, and it can be regarded as the completion of a main plot. I originally wanted to write about the confrontation between Gao Yala and Lee Yunxi, but suddenly I felt that it was not time, so the plot of this love relationship is temporarily over, and the next update is the filming part. Hehe, it can be regarded as a preview for everyone.