Chapter 31: Ruthless and Merciful
Since her mother clearly objected to her relationship with Tong Keji as boyfriend and girlfriend, Xiaoxue's heart has been very heavy. My mother said www.biquge.info that she didn't want to go down her old path again, and although she didn't continue the topic, judging from the degree of her grief, her mother must have been hurt emotionally. The mother also said that she respected Tong Keji's character and would support him in his bid for the position of director of pediatrics, but if Xiaoxue insisted on continuing to date him as boyfriend and girlfriend, she would change her position - she did not want her daughter to fall in love with a divorced man with children, and she did not want to lose the reputation of supporting Tong Keji to compete for the director of pediatrics for her daughter's sake. Deep down, Xiaoxue loves Tong Keji deeply, she hopes that Tong Keji will achieve something in his career, and it is because of this love that she has decided to temporarily sacrifice her feelings - she has already told her mother that she will definitely keep her distance from Tong Keji in the future, and hopes that her mother can persuade her father to try her best to help him. This is not only to comfort my mother, but also to make a great sacrifice for my lover.
Due to Yiming Media's recent arrangement for Tong Tong to participate in the training of the TV station's children's art troupe and the preparatory work for advertising shooting, after several run-ins, Xiaoxue is no longer responsible for Tong Tong's pick-up and drop-off, but is picked up by Zhang Aimi, who plays the role of the mother in the commercial. Xiaoxue decided to take this opportunity to gradually fade out of Tong Keji's life. At the beginning, he said that he had won the key to a suite from Tong Keji in order to take care of Tong Tong, and now he wants to leave this deserted home temporarily, no, maybe he wants to leave forever, Xiaoxue's heart has too much sadness and reluctance. In this family, although Xiaoxue is not the rightful hostess, deep down she has already regarded this place as her lifelong home. Since she moved out of that house, Xiaoxue's heart has been drifting like a kite with a broken string, and she longs to love and be loved. It is precisely because Chang Huizhuang subverted the sacred fatherly love in Xiaoxue's mind that she longs for a thick shoulder to care for and love herself. When she saw Tong Keji sending Tong Tong to kindergarten for the first time, Xiaoxue was deeply moved by the infinite love and pity for her daughter in Tong Keji's eyes, which were very different from her father's eyes Chang Huizhuang. Her father's eyes were thick, cloudy, and sometimes even cold, while Tong Keji's eyes were brisk, clear, and warm, and Xiaoxue was attracted and melted by this look, and she longed for herself to live happily like Tong Tong in such eyes. At the same time, Tong Keji also evoked the great motherhood sleeping in Xiaoxue's body, she felt sorry for this man, and she was willing to share her worries for this man. Seeing Tong Keji making "male gua women's noodles" for Tong Tong, and seeing the desertion of Tong Keji's home, she really wanted to integrate herself immediately, greet Tong Keji at the door with Tong Tong when he came home from work, open the door for him, and serve him a hot meal...... She knew that she would have to overcome some resistance to make this happen, but she didn't expect it to come from her own mother in the first place, and so quickly and so unavoidable!
Xiaoxue is resting today, she knows that Tong Keji is on the day shift today, and she also knows that he doesn't have to pick up Tong Tong. Xiaoxue went to the supermarket to buy vegetables and used Tong Tong's set of keys to open the door of Tong Keji's room. She cleaned the room like a real hostess, put on her apron and started cooking at nearly five o'clock - she was going to cook dinner for Tong Keji, she wanted to experience the life role and life scene of her dreams, this was the first time, but it could also be the last time!
The time to get off work has long passed, and according to the normal time, Tong Keji should be home. However, the footsteps in the corridor and the sound of the door opening have sounded N times, but they never belong to themselves, and they do not belong to the door that they are waiting to open. "Falling in love with a person who doesn't go home, waiting for a door that doesn't open", I didn't expect that such a lyric would suddenly echo in the stream of consciousness, Xiaoxue smiled bitterly alone, thinking to herself, the helplessness of the ancients who "passed through a thousand sails and didn't go back to the boat by mistake", maybe it was none other than this? Just sitting alone at the dining table like a child with his hands on his head, the long-awaited footsteps and the sound of the door opening finally arrived! After a short period of surprise, Xiaoxue's lost milk swallow saw her mother open her arms and threw herself into Tong Keji's arms. Tong Ke was caught off guard and suddenly messed up, allowing Chang Xiaoxue to keep arching, scratching, and crying in his arms...... Tong Keji also wondered, it turned out that he did not reject Xiaoxue's body, to some extent, there was even an impulse like magma in the body, and seemed to have found a breakthrough at a certain point! But compared with Xiaoxue, Tong Keji is an "adult" after all, just like the torture Hamlet faces, Tong Keji's mind is also undergoing such torture: whether to indulge or restrict, whether to be rational or emotional, this is a question!
This is indeed a problem. No matter what you choose, it will be painful in the end, but some will face long-term pain after a short period of pleasure, and some will soon enter a painful state, and it may not be short-term. However, Tong Keji chose the way that both he and Xiaoxue were willing to accept, but it was also the most cruel way: indulge first, then restrain it! Because Tong Keji couldn't bear to let Xiaoxue enter a state of pain immediately, he wanted to delay her pain as much as possible. Of course, there is a bottom line for indulgence, Tong Keji longs for Xiaoxue's body, eager to explore the secrets in that body. But he also knew that the body did not belong to him, and he had no right to do whatever he wanted.
Compared with Tong Keji's heavy heart, Xiaoxue seems to have forgotten the fact that she is here to say goodbye today, she kisses and hugs greedily, is kissed, and is hugged, she is surprised to find that she is 100,000 afraid of what her father will always do to her, but she is 100,000 desperate for Tong Keji to do the same! She was a little unhappy for Tong Keji's hesitation, she encouraged him and encouraged him with the twisting and breathing of her body, but Tong Keji suddenly stopped incomprehensibly!
Every time you get drunk, you have to go back and face the reality that you want to escape before you get drunk. Although Tong Keji has never been close to a woman's body since Fei Shuqing left, Tong Keji still pushed Xiaoxue's body out like breaking two magnets that were adsorbed together! For a normal man, it is painful and cowardly to do so, but for a man with a sense of responsibility and love, it is necessary and brave to do so! Because he has overcome his own selfishness and greed!
"Thank you Xiaoxue, for making so much delicious food for me!" Tong Keji diverted Xiaoxue's attention like a child, and carefully placed Xiaoxue on the dining chair as if he was holding a delicate and fragile treasure.
The two sat opposite each other at the table, but neither had the appetite or heart to eat. "I'll tell you a word!" said the two of them in unison, almost as they sat down, and after saying that, they both were startled, and then they both fell silent. "You say it first!" Tong Keji took the lead in breaking the deadlock and made a gesture of Xiaoxue first. "No, you say first!" "First, because you're a child and I'm an adult, I have to let you, and second, you're a lady, Ladyfirst!" "No, just say it first!"
Although what Tong Keji said to Xiaoxue was exactly what Xiaoxue wanted to say to Tong Keji, Xiaoxue still cried when she heard Tong Keji say that she wanted to have a clean relationship with herself. He knew that Tong Keji was for his own good, just as he decided to leave him temporarily out of kindness to Tong Keji. But why is life so cruel? Why is it all for the good of each other, but they choose to leave each other instead of having each other......? Why do people have to do such a ruthless thing? The two of them silently ate the "Last Supper" made by Xiaoxue herself, and truly experienced the unpleasant taste of food. They eat very slowly, and subconsciously have the intention of delaying the separation. I remember a poet once said: "Not all the waiting in the world is anxious and sweet / What makes people unwilling to bear fruit is waiting for separation / The result is irresistible / Just like winter comes and you can't stay in autumn".
For Xiaoxue, parting is painful. It was precisely because she thought that she might never have the chance to enter this room again after leaving, that Xiaoxue threw herself back into Tong Keji's arms again and again. For Tong Keji, parting is tangled. He couldn't bear to watch Xiaoxue suffer and be indifferent, but in order not to hurt her more deeply, he had to let Xiaoxue endure this temporary pain alone. It's like treating a little child, letting her endure the pain of injections for a while, but for her health and happiness in the future. When Xiaoxue finally hid her face and rushed out of the room, Tong Keji really wanted to chase her back, hold her in his arms, gently wipe away the tears on her face, and then said to her very gentlemanly: "I don't care what your mother opposes, I don't care what kind of bullshit director, I want to be with you!" He even thought of reciting a poem by Kitajima for Xiaoxue - "Stretch out your hand to me / With a kiss and every sigh / Let my shoulders block the world / No longer disturb you!"
However, Tong Keji is a mature man after all, he can't do this! Because he knows that his shoulders can't block the world that disturbs Xiaoxue! In this sense, mature men are not as good as the kind of raw melons and eggs who don't know the world, they only know love, they believe in "Love is Love", they don't care what the price is, they don't care whether they have the ability to bear love! Therefore, maturity is not necessarily a good thing, sometimes you will feel that maturity is really not a fucking play!