The next day, I woke up early, ate a bowl of hot dry noodles at a food stall outside the alley, and then took a taxi to the parking lot at Xuanwumen to get my car back.

On the way to pick up Su Han, I called Qiao Ye. Although it was only half past six in the morning, Qiao Ye had already gotten up, so he didn't wait long for him to connect the phone. I asked him, "How are you preparing over there, I told Su Han to drive over Nanjing at seven o'clock." ”

Qiao Ye replied a little angrily: "I have already booked a bed, and I am going to move some daily necessities over at this time, so you can come over with confidence, I have everything here." ”

"Okay, then let's say that first, I'll hang up the phone."

"Wait...... Did Su Han mention to you about taking the road back to China, if she still refused to take it, wouldn't I have wasted so much effort! ”

I comforted: "Don't worry, Su Han, she is not a ruthless woman, you are like this, she will not bring Youlu back." ”

"That's good, that's good...... Pay attention to your safety when driving on the road, and I'll make up for sleep first, it's been a busy night! ”

I sighed: "I thought you were up early, but you didn't sleep all night!" ”

Qiao Ye sighed and replied: "I also thought a lot about it this night, I don't know if it's right to toss like this, but I just can't stop the mood of wanting to see the child...... Sometimes when I think about it, I really feel very lonely, and I can't see my own son in the United States for the rest of my life. Even if you adopt one in China, after all, it is not biological, and you can't identify with it emotionally...... Alas! ”

I persuaded: "People have such a long life, there are too many uncertain things, and there may be a turnaround in the future...... Don't overthink it, just rest for a while. ”

Qiao Ye seemed to think about it, and replied: "I still don't sleep, staying up all night like this is sick." Actually, I'm afraid she won't believe it! ”

I don't know this Qiao Ye who is suffering from gains and losses and is still cautious. Although I can understand his feelings about wanting to see the child, he is really sick and psychological.

……

At seven o'clock, I came to the Korean hotel where Su Han was staying, and although I was on time, she seemed to have been waiting for a long time and was very urgent, so she immediately found my car and got into it.

Before I got on the highway, I kept my brows on my brows, didn't speak, and tried to look heavy. Gradually, I realized that I didn't need to do it on purpose, I just had to think of the past and present of myself and Xiao Ai, and my heart was heavy.

Although we have avoided the rush hour for work, we still drove on the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway at eight o'clock.

At this time, I finally opened my mouth and asked Su Han, who was sitting in the passenger seat, "When are you going to return to the United States this time?" ”

Su Han lowered his voice and asked rhetorically, "You actually care about when I bring Youlu back to China, right?" ”

I nodded, not in denial.

"Don't worry, I'm not a heartless person, I'll lead the way back...... But my biggest concern right now is his physical condition. I heard that if it is liver cancer in the early stage, there is still hope for cure, but is it early or middle and late? ”

I looked at Su Han and muttered in my heart: Is it early or mid-to-late stage?

My heart began to be bottomless, I wanted to fool the past, but I felt that as Qiao Ye's closest friend, I didn't even figure out such an important matter, it would be too fake. So, I was heartbroken and replied, "Late ...... Unfortunately, it was discovered too late! ”

Su Han covered her face with her hands in pain, and then tears fell down her hands. She was crying in a state of collapse...... My heart was so chaotic and full of guilt that I almost said stupid things like "people can't be resurrected after death" to comfort her.

I'm afraid that if I say too much, I will lose, so I just increase the throttle, hoping to end this psychological torment dragged down by guilt soon.

After driving almost 20 kilometers ahead, Su Han put down the hand covering his face, and then said to me in a choked voice: "Jiang Qiao, as a bystander, you are also a mutual friend of Qiao Ye and me, can you tell me...... Who are we doing wrong all these years? How did things get to the way they are? ”

I replied after a long time: "You, Qin Miao, and Qiao Ye are not evildoers, so I don't think there is a so-called right or wrong between you, it can only be regarded as fate......" After a pause, I said again: "Actually, it's not just you, but I myself...... Over the years, the reason why I have been reluctant to despair is because I believe that there is still hope for the future...... However, for some people, this hope suddenly became slim, but the days of life have been ruined by themselves, I think this is Qiao Ye's biggest injury! ”

"I knew this was the case, why was he reluctant to go to the United States with me in the first place...... If he could live happily all these years and not have to run around every day, maybe he wouldn't have such a disease! ”

I shook my head, and said to Su Han, who was a little out of control, and said, "It may not be that he can be happy when he goes to the United States, because there is still a Qin Miao in China that he can't let go...... He has established the reputation of a scumbag in his life, because between you and Qin Miao, he will always fail someone. But whose fault is this? ”

After I said these words, Su Han didn't speak again all the way, and the silence between the two of us lasted until the cancer hospital in Shanghai.

I accompanied Su Han into the ward. What I didn't expect was that although Qin Miao was not there, Qiao Ye's parents were there, which undoubtedly increased the credibility. And Su Han cried and fell on Qiao Ye's body, and Qiao Ye's parents did not stop or disturb the whole process. Perhaps, at this moment, they are also reflecting on whether the marriage arranged for Qiao Ye back then was a wrong start!

When I got here, I felt that I had finally lived up to Qiao Ye's entrustment, and the rest was between him and Su Han.

I stood alone near the window for a while, and in addition to Su Han's endless grief, I also saw Qiao Ye's helplessness below life...... But there was never a seed between them that could sprout.

Before leaving the hospital, I sat on the lawn in front of the hospital square for a while, and I couldn't help but think of the days when I accompanied my grandmother on the last journey of her life in this hospital a year and a half ago. Then I thought about the chaos in front of me. I felt like I really needed a guide, but the person who could give me the best way was gone...... I was caught up in a state of anxiety that I could only do on my own.

……

At noon, I went to the "Dream Tree". Jin Qiu was very surprised by my arrival, so I told her about the cowardice I had done with Qiao Ye. Surprisingly, she didn't say anything about it, just took me to the open-air restaurant that Dream Tree had just developed, and then asked the kitchen to bring us a table of Subang dishes.

When she started to eat lunch, she said to me: "Jiang Qiao, in fact, Qiao Ye doesn't need to do this, after all, the custody is not in the hands of him and Qin Miao, even if it takes so much trouble to meet the child, it is just to drink to quench his thirst, and it can't solve the fundamental problem." ”

I replied, "He knows this, but he can't help but want to see the child." ”

After Jin Qiu was silent for a while, he said, "I think that there are almost two years in between, and I can try to get back the custody of the child from Su Han...... Legally, there is a common principle regarding the ownership of custody, that is, it is conducive to the healthy growth of children. Now, no one knows whether Su Han's economic situation is the same as two years ago...... If there is a problem with her economic situation and it affects the child's growth environment, Qiao Ye still has hope to get back custody...... Therefore, starting with investigating her financial situation may be rewarding. As far as I know, she has been making money by making small investments all these years, in fact, the most risky ones are small investments...... You know what I mean? ”

I was stunned, but then I understood. To say, there are still means to do things. I also heard another possibility from her words, if Su Han's economic situation is still very good, then it will be artificially destroyed...... With Qiao Ye's family in a big way, it is not difficult to change Su Han's economic situation even within the scope of the law, but should I really remind Qiao Ye to do this immoral thing once and for all?

As if seeing through my thoughts, Jin Qiu said again: "Anyway, this is Qiao Ye's private matter, you don't need to make it too difficult for yourself to be caught in the middle...... By the way, I heard that you want to do some landscape projects recently, so I'll help you inquire about it...... In our Yuhuatai District of Nanjing, there is a landscape design company called Tianyu that has a lot of financial problems, but the team building is really good...... Personally, I recommend that you take over so that you can get the project you want to do up and running quickly. ”

There was a lot of emotion in my heart because there was a woman standing next to me who would always follow me in my career and help me. I wanted to say "thank you" to her, but I didn't think it was necessary, she was my fiancée.

At this time, she said to me again: "Jiangqiao, don't worry about doing what you want to do...... If you fail, I'll accompany you; You're tired, I'll top you! ”

I looked at her, and my heart swelled up with emotion. I finally know why all the people around me want me to marry her, because she is really a woman who can give people a lot of security, and she can satisfy all the beautiful fantasies that a man has about women!

Therefore, for me now, she is another window into the world, and I even begin to miss the feeling when I walked on Tulip Road and went to Nanjing University to find her. On that day, passers-by wandered in the familiar city, touching the cold corners...... Perhaps, from the first day we met, our story was condensed!

……

On this evening in Shanghai, I put a grief-stricken Su Han on a plane to Boston, and she was not able to attend Xiao Ai's concert in Nanjing. And everything is happening in a criss-cross......

In Nanjing, Xiao Ai exudes the most wanton light on the stage; Shanghai, I almost had a relationship with Jin Qiu.

We sat down by the fountain pool behind the music bar and drank a drink, and watched the lights turn and turn around the city, and the people were confused...... In the past two years, the emptiness and spiritual loneliness on my ** seem to have been drained by the mature woman's breath on her, which almost made me unable to help myself......

It was also on this night that Jin Qiu told me...... Her first time is gone. I'm the same, for the first time in my life, I gave the woman who stayed in Nanjing at the moment, but would eventually leave with a dazzling light!