The night was deep, and the sound of the rain knocked on the windows from time to time, making the night even more lonely.

The faint light outside the window projected through the glass, bringing a little faint light to this room, Cheng Qixin lay quietly on the bed alone, and the scene he saw in the playground during the day began to appear in front of his eyes again-

"Zhixiong doesn't cry anymore! We, Zhixiong, are a man! ”

The gentle voice of the boy's mother echoed in his ears over and over again.

Gradually, the clear voice gradually changed in my mind, and began to become blurred.

"Zhixiong - don't cry, man, don't cry - manly ......"

The voice echoing in my ears became more and more distant, but another voice began to appear in my mind and became clearer and clearer.

It seems to be both awake and dreamy, when the voice in his ears finally disappears, in the boundless darkness around him, in the cold rain outside the window, the voice that seems to be incomparably distant but goes straight to the heart, Cheng Qixin finally heard it clearly-

"Qixin stopped crying! Because, Qixin is a man! ”

There was something cold dripping from the corner of his eye, and the past that he had not thought about for a long time resurfaced inadvertently on this cold and rainy winter night.

Cheng Qixin closed his eyes, and there were many disorganized fragments in his mind one by one, although these fragmentary memories were vague, the traces left in his heart all had one thing in common, that is, sadness and unhappiness!

I can remember it clearly, but only after the age of five.

Cheng Qixin clearly remembers that on the day he and his mother were kicked out of the house, it rained heavily - he was only five years old, standing at the gate with his mother, helplessly watching the tall iron gate gradually close in front of them.

After that, the mother took her by the cold hand and silently left the tall and gorgeous house behind her.

The bean-sized raindrops hit his thin raincoat heavily, and then slowly slid down his cheeks, and the wet and cold wind raged through his body, making him feel the cold to the bones at a young age.

Step by step, in the wind and rain, two lonely backs, one big and one small, left the familiar place, and gradually walked away with the fear of the unknown ahead.

The slippery road is so long that it seems like there will never end. A cold wind blew, the rain curtain covered his eyes, his tired steps staggered, and his weak body fell into the muddy water.

It seemed that all the grievances poured out in this fall, and he, tired and tired, just lay down in the muddy water and cried.

It was at this time that his mother bent down to help him up, and then said to him in a soft but firm tone: "Qixin is not crying! Because, Qixin is a man! ”

Cheng Qixin remembers very clearly, since that time he was helped up by his mother in the rain, no matter what happened to him from then on, he never cried again.

Even if—

When you face the fear of death.

Even if—

When the mother left.

The complicated past ripples in the heart like the dense raindrops outside the window in the night, making the heart that longs for peace unat peace - time is slowly passing, and the memories that have been sealed for a long time are revealed little by little.

When the clear light of the morning sun shone in through the window railing, Cheng Qixin finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When Ye Xiaojing returned to Cheng's house again, even with hesitation and hesitation, she felt that something was wrong in the surrounding atmosphere.

After not seeing each other for a few days, Cheng Qixin seemed to have become a lot silent all of a sudden, and when he made contact, the cold meaning that had not appeared for a long time seemed to emanate from him again.

Although Ye Xiaojing doesn't know what happened to Cheng Qixin in this New Year, what she knows is that the best thing at this time is not to say anything and do nothing.

Therefore, after a simple greeting, she left Cheng Qixin's study and returned to her room.

After packing the luggage she brought, Ye Xiaojing began to sit on the chair in a daze, and the situation of going to Guan Wenxiang's house yesterday as a guest came to mind one by one.

As Yue Lei said, there is actually nothing to hesitate about this kind of thing, but when Ye Xiaojing calmed down and thought about it, she had to hesitate.

According to Yue Lei, the total time for surgery and subsequent rehabilitation will take about half a year. If that's the case, there's one of the most serious issues in front of you, and that's money!

If you don't have any income for more than half a year, it means that during this period of time, your sister's income must cover all their living expenses and debts, not to mention the cost of post-operative rehabilitation and recuperation, which is too much of a burden for my sister!

And, the more serious question is, can she really find a better job than she is now when she returns to normal after surgery?

During the period of working as an assistant to Cheng Qixin, Ye Xiaojing also learned more or less about the company's operations.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiaojing couldn't help but smile bitterly.

However, it seems unreasonable to be cheeky to continue to be Cheng Qixin's little assistant who doesn't play much role!

What should I do?

Ye Xiaojing's eyes turned to the desk, there were still a few books on economics that she hadn't had time to read, she walked over, picked up one of them, and flipped through it casually-

Inadvertently, a piece of paper suddenly fell out of the page and fell to the ground.

Ye Xiaojing picked up the piece of paper, and then she was shocked to find that what she picked up was actually half a photo.

In the photo, a beautiful and quiet woman is smiling there.

Ye Xiaojing looked at the woman carefully, and suddenly was slightly stunned, this woman, she seems to have seen it before?

Hurriedly opened the pages of the book, and sure enough, on a certain page of the book, I found another half of the man's photo.

This photo that was torn in half by someone is the one that Ye Xiaojing accidentally found when she was looking for a book in the Cheng family's library for the first time.

Pulling out the glue from the drawer of her desk, Ye Xiaojing carefully glued the two broken photos back together, and soon a complete group photo appeared in front of her eyes.

The hand gently stroked the photo with a bit of roughness, looking at the two people who looked extremely harmonious on it, Ye Xiaojing sighed softly.

The person who tore up this photo should be Cheng Qixin, right?

Because of poverty, I and my sister had a very difficult life before; However, people born in wealthy families are not all going well, thinking of this, Ye Xiaojing unconsciously raised her head and looked at the door.

Young master, he is actually a poor person.