"It's been almost twenty years."

The woman sitting in front of Qiao Shanquan was very well maintained, she raised her hand and gently brushed the unmessed sideburns around her ears, revealing smooth and delicate skin like a twenty-eight girl.

After a brief pause in that place, Qiao Shanquan lowered her eyes with a gloomy expression, and the fear engraved in the shattered memory swirled and climbed along her spine again, she could feel that her back was slightly sweaty, and then it was blown by the air conditioner in the mall, which became cold and sticky, which made people very uncomfortable.

"No, it's been seventeen years, seven months and three days since we last met." Turning her head, Qiao Shanquan put away her slightly trembling fingertips, clenched them lightly into a fist, and curled up on her knees.

No matter how you look at it, Qiao's mother is a very temperamental, slender and weak, beautiful and pitiful woman, although she is no longer young, that kind of beauty has crossed the sedimentation of time and is more and more moist and beautiful.

"You remember it clearly." Gently putting down the teacup, Qiao's mother moved impeccably, and there was no emotion in her voice, as if she was meeting an old friend naturally.

The corners of Qiao Shanquan's lips raised a sarcastic smile: "Do you know why I remember?" Because it was your wedding anniversary with your father, but after all these years, you probably don't remember it, you don't remember the poor husband you betrayed and abandoned, and you can't remember that you have a daughter......"

"Are you speculating on my thoughts?"

Qiao's mother voice was very soft.

However, Qiao Shanquan couldn't help but show a frightened expression, her body tensed and trembled unnaturally.

Yes, in the depths of her vague memory, she had heard the most vicious curses in this murmuring voice countless times......

"Why don't you die? If only I didn't have you! It makes me sick to see your face...... Don't come, don't come near me, go away! ”

A tremendous force threw the young and weak girl out, and her forehead hit the foot of the table, and blood gushed out at once.

She was so scared that she forgot to cry.

She just didn't understand why her mother, who didn't look like a real person, looked at her with that terrible gaze when no one was around.

She just instinctively wanted to be closer, longing for praise and recognition, longing to be close to the soft and warm embrace.

At first, it was just a cold and resentful look, but later it developed into a hard pinch in an invisible place, leaving a red, swollen and bruised left and right side.

When she was in a good mood, her mother would generously buy her beautiful dolls and beautiful clothes and skirts, hold her hand tightly, and drag her out of the house to meet other adults.

The children of the same age in the compound envied Qiao Shanquan, she always looked so beautiful, wearing a foreign skirt, holding a fashionable blonde and blue-eyed doll, and a mother who looked so temperamentally and elegant.

Until Qiao Shanquan found out that her mother took the opportunity to play with her friends and secretly corresponded with different uncles and uncles. Above the table, they sat politely. Beneath the table, the legs of men and women are twisted together, suggesting all sorts of unbearable deeds.

Later, things got worse, and sometimes the uncles would come to visit with expensive toys, and the mother would show that shy and sweet look on her face, and in a panic she would drag Qiao Shanquan into the toilet and lock the door, and for hours to live, with some kind of laziness and satisfaction that disgusted the young child, and open the door for her.

In the young Qiao Shanquan's heart, she sensitively understood that these things were wrong, although she didn't know very well what her mother had done with those different uncles and uncles, she just instinctively felt disgusted and scared.

Finally, when her father, who was always busy with business trips and research, came home, Qiao Shanquan would become very bad-tempered and deliberately hide her father's important briefcase, she thought that her father would not be able to leave, as long as her father was there, her mother would not become strange, and she would not go out to find those uncles and uncles......

But my father found it.

Found a secret place for children to play pranks.

Laughing and reprimanding her for being naughty and ignorant.

Qiao Shanquan was so sad that she tried to tell her father what had happened when he couldn't see it. But as soon as she opened her mouth and raised her eyes, her mother stood silently behind her like a cold ghost, looking at her indifferently.

Trembling, Qiao Shanquan swallowed what she wanted to say, and could only cry and hug her father's neck and prevent him from leaving.

Later, his father relented, and he turned down an important opportunity for further study, planning to accompany his wife and daughter to run the family well.

Qiao Shanquan found that her mother had become stranger, and she could always find a reason to blame her father and provoke a war. As soon as her father couldn't help but raise her voice at her, her mother would say a lot of hurtful and self-pitying words with that kind of complaining gaze.

In the end, the father could not bear his wife's eccentric and endless criticism and blame, and left the house in despair.

In vain and desperate, Qiao Shanquan watched as her mother began to meet more frequently in private with those uncles and uncles.

Finally, one person offered to take her away and "escape from this home where you can't breathe, feel depressed and miserable."

In the eyes of adults, children are ignorant, and children are their property and can control their thoughts and feelings at will.

Immersed in the upcoming romantic elopement, Qiao's mother naturally forgot about her daughter, and even on a cold winter night, in order to let her lover come over, she ruthlessly pulled her daughter up from the bed, pushed her out of the door, and locked behind the door leading to the rooftop.

Severe pneumonia almost took Qiao Shanquan's life, and when she woke up and saw her father's tired face, she suddenly found another way to let her father "go home".

In that half a year, Qiao Shanquan tried her best to torture herself, making herself sick and injured, trying to keep her father by her side.

After repeated attempts, finally one time, my father broke through my mother's secret □□.

The man who was immersed in academics and retained the nobility and recklessness of a scholar reaped the most unspeakable failure in his life and left in a hurry, leaving behind a signed divorce agreement and a back that refused to leave in the rain.

After her father left, Qiao Shanquan knew that no one and the power could stop her mother, she watched her mother with no expression as her eyes bloomed, getting into an expensive car, she never looked back at the house she once lived in, forgot the place that was once called home, and forgot her daughter.

……

"You seem to be doing well all these years." Qiao's mother looked at her daughter carefully, and saw the brilliant diamond light between her fingers, and her expression was a little loose.

Qiao Shanquan woke up from the memory, her face was pale, and a layer of fine sweat broke out on her forehead. She forcibly held the mask of calm: "When I was a child, I learned to take care of myself. I don't think...... What makes the difference between having one more mother or one less. ”

"How can you say that?" Holding her chest, Qiao's mother made a hurt heartbroken expression, "I really care about you, even though I know you hate me." Quanquan, you always hate me, don't you? Hate me for leaving you back then...... But Tsuen Quan, mom has to do that, no man will like a woman with children, I have to think about the future......"

"Enough!" Qiao Shanquan stopped with a trembling voice, her eyes were red, and her lips were bloody, "You are only thinking about your future alone, and I am a burden to you, isn't it?" Put away your belated motherly love, I don't need it anymore. ”

"Quanquan, you are so old, why are you still so childish," Qiao's mother smiled, recovering her elegant and perfect posture, "In those days, going abroad was not an easy task, I just chose a path that was more promising for myself." I'm doing well, and you have a light on your face. Do you want your mother to be an uninformed woman all her life, trapped in tedious and boring housework, and turned into a yellow-faced woman? Look at you, now that you are out of the country, you can't deny that you have my blood in you and will follow the same path as me. ”

Qiao Shanquan couldn't believe what she heard, this woman ...... How can you be so reasonable? But at the same time, she also had an indescribable panic, could it be that she went all the way abroad to study and settled overseas, all along a certain predetermined destiny trajectory, and she unconsciously walked on the same path as her mother?!

No, calm down, Qiao Shanquan ordered herself like this in her heart.

Of course, she will never become the most hated kind of woman!

Taking a deep breath, Qiao Shanquan adjusted her expression, and she even squeezed out a little smile, even though she was desperately shouting in her heart, she was very uneasy, and she needed Ferry to give her the strength to settle down more than ever.

"What path I will take is my own business. You didn't do your mother's duty back then, and now you can't continue to interfere in my life. ”

Qiao's mother blinked unexpectedly, God knows how a woman of this age could be as innocent as a sixteen-year-old girl, she bit her lip and said in embarrassment: "That's not good, I'm your mother, you have to listen to me." Don't mention any more stupid things like severing contacts, you see, I'm going to invite you to my wedding. With that, she happily took out an invitation card from her bag and pushed it in front of Qiao Shanquan.

As if she was burned, Qiao Shanquan's eyes were hot, she couldn't bear it anymore, and stood up suddenly.

"What? You're getting married? This is the first time you have been married, does the other party know that you have such a rich emotional experience? Ha, you go from this man to the next man, how can they still dare to believe you and dare to marry you? You're a cold-blooded monster with no heart! When you are immersed in happiness, have you ever thought about the daughter you abandoned, and the husband who was hurt and betrayed by you? You don't care about your husband, your daughter, and you don't care about the meaning of family and marriage. You only have yourself in your heart! After you ruthlessly destroyed that home, how could you be embarrassed to pursue happiness in a grand manner? People like you deserve hell! ”

"Smack!"

Hearing this, the graceful and elegant woman couldn't bear it, she got up and slapped Qiao Shanquan with her backhand.

Meanwhile.

Second floor.

"What the hell are you up to?"

Mr. Hawke was a little hurt by the coldness and suspicion that ejaculated from his son's beautiful brown eyes.

He rubbed his fingertips and tried to explain: "I have investigated the matter about you, and of course I hope you can understand the feelings of a poor old father who has completely missed the twenty or thirty years of his son's life...... You're married and have a child, and I'm so happy for you. Haven't you thought about it? If you agree to my proposal, at least you will have access to the power of the Borromeo family, and you will easily give your son the best elite education and raise him to be a perfect gentleman; You can also get your wife through that lawsuit, and you can even take the entire AJ Group into your pocket, making her a design director and one of the world's most famous designers...... All this, for us, is not a problem at all. ”

For a brief moment, Ferry had to admit that he was very moved.

If nothing else, just to completely solve the insults and injuries that AJ Group brought to Qiao Qi. He was more than willing to see those people, like Jayront, have a wonderful look on their faces when they see Georgie easily take his place.

But Ferry didn't reveal any emotion, he still maintained a somewhat arrogant expression on his face, and looked back at his blood father indifferently.

"As I said, I don't want to have anything to do with you."

"Why? I am your father. ”

"I don't believe you."

"Your stubborn temper is exactly the same as that of the Borromeo family," Hawke pinched his brow helplessly, "so you may understand, and I will stick to my opinion until you agree." In fact, maybe you shouldn't be so resistant to meeting your real family, some of whom will be very friendly to you. They are ready to meet you and show you the passion to accept you as a member of the family. ”

Ferry sneered, "I've had enough of the troubles that my so-called family has caused me in my life, oh, since you've investigated my affairs, I'm afraid you should read the above carefully, I don't want to cause trouble for myself anymore, especially from my family." ”

Hawke looked at Ferry with an expression that looked like a naughty toddler, and he smiled tolerantly, "Oh my child, that's because of your lack of strength. If you have enough power, you won't make yourself so bad, and you will find that when you have enough power, those who will get you in trouble will either be solved by others, or they will cling to you and dare not disobey your will...... Think about it, my child, you shouldn't have blinded yourself with your stupid stubbornness. ”

Ferry simply had nothing to say, he didn't need stronger strength at all, he just wanted to live a peaceful little life in the manor with Georgie and Juan. And his thoughts, in the eyes of the other party, are incorrigibly stupid and stubborn?

Shaking his head, Ferry gave up arguing with the other party, he knew that the other party's theory could not convince him, and he could not convince the other party to understand his thoughts.

Taking his son's silence for some kind of compromise, Mr. Hawke rejoiced, smiling and holding out his hand to the bodyguards and motioning for them to hand over the invitation.

"I'm here today, just to stop by, I'm going to choose a ring for my fiancée that will compliment her beauty and elegance, my child, and my wedding in a month's time, and I hope that you will be present at that time, and bring me a satisfactory answer.

Ferry was shocked: "What, you're getting married?" ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a commotion downstairs,

Sensing something, Ferry quickly turned to look, his face changed drastically, and he was about to jump down while holding on to the railing.

Garcia, who was completely ignored, desperately hugged his waist, and the man's leg was grabbed and dragged back by the bodyguards who rushed to him.

"What are you doing? Ferry, are you crazy? ”

"Let go of me!"

Shaking them off, Ferry took three steps and two steps, jumped up the escalator, and ran to the first floor booth.

"Georgie! Are you okay? Damn, who hit you? Is that her? This hateful old witch, she actually hurt you! ”

Ferry was furious, turned into an angry male leopard, and jumped up, grabbing Qiao's mother, who couldn't see her specific age and had a pitiful temperament. 166 Reading Network