Perhaps it was because Tong's mother had already felt that her body was dying, thinking about it, and unwilling to die with her son's resentment and misunderstanding of herself, so she told him what Tong's father had done to her over the years in the early morning of July 2018, a month before she died.

He never knew that she had endured so much torture silently by herself over the years, even after the divorce, Father Tong's life was not going well, and he would occasionally take advantage of his absence to come to her unreasonably to vent his anger.

But occasionally when she disappeared inexplicably, Tong Minkun instinctively thought that she was going out to find a wild man......

I always thought that Tong's father was a good man, and even when his wife was green, he generously left the house to their mother and son.

It was also at that time that Tong Minkun learned that Tong's father was generous on the surface, but behind his back, he had come to Tong's mother every month to ask for the "rent" he claimed.

However, in the face of Tong's mother's unreasonable financial constraints, Tong Minkun actually deduced self-righteously that she was a wild man who took her salary to raise outside.

Only then did he know that what he had always thought was a good father was actually just a scoundrel and pervert with two faces, which was abhorrent!

Early that morning, Tong Minkun recalled his cold attitude towards his mother in those years, and couldn't help crying in front of his mother for the first time.

Until he learned the truth, Tong Minkun couldn't help but speculate countless times that perhaps it was because of her mother's excessively suppressed and depressed emotions over the years that she died of breast cancer at a young age.

After all, since her mother had contracted the disease, he had looked up some information about breast cancer.

He vaguely remembers where he accidentally read an article about breast cancer, which mentioned the link between mental trauma and breast cancer, and believed that people who are introverted, depressed, and depressed are more likely to suffer from this disease. People call it the "breast cancer personality".

It is also mentioned that traditional Chinese medicine believes that the seven emotions of internal injury: joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock, cause liver qi stagnation, which is the main causative factor of breast cancer......

After his mother's death, he moved out of Ewha City without saying hello to his father, and he was completely cut off from him.

Tong Minkun once congratulated himself that he cared about the blood relationship between mother and son, and he was soft-hearted, although he had a deep resentment towards his mother, he still couldn't leave her alone, and he had been by her side for so many years.

At the same time, he was remorseful, because he couldn't distinguish between good and evil, couldn't see the truth clearly, and he never loved her well.

In this life, mother and son have been together for nearly 30 years, and his mother has loved him for nearly 30 years......

At this moment, Tong Minkun and Tong's mother sat on the sofa together, looking at her who was sad and crying for the heroine in the TV series, and listening to the sentence in her mouth, "It's all because this TV shoots this woman too bitterly", his heart was naturally sour, and he turned his head and fell on the TV screen.

Mom, you're bitter too......

Thinking of this, Tong Minkun couldn't hold back, and a tear slipped down.

As soon as the tears crossed her cheeks, Tong's mother picked up the pack of tissues that her son put on the coffee table, took out one and handed it to him.

"You just said Mom? How could I cry myself? ”

There was a rare hint of ridicule in the mother's tone.

"This woman is indeed too bitter."

Tong Minkun wiped his tears, eased his emotions, and said such a sentence lightly, and he didn't know if he was talking about TV or evaluating the life of the women around him.

Tong's mother, who didn't know the mystery, only thought that her son's tears were flowing because of the TV, patted him on the back, and the feng shui took turns, this time she comforted him, "Look at you stupid child, it's just TV, and you cry ...... too"

Probably reluctant to cry her baby son, as she spoke, Tong's mother picked up the remote control and changed to a variety show.

In an instant, all kinds of laughter from the TV changed the originally dull atmosphere in the living room to another tone, and it was a lot lighter and more enjoyable.

The two were happy about the ridiculous picture on TV, and Tong's mother inadvertently caught a glimpse of the time on the clock, which was almost ten o'clock.

Looking at her son who had not taken a shower for a long time and had not even changed his school uniform, Tong's mother was a little curious.

Usually the first thing he does when he gets home is to take a shower, but today is really abnormal!

"Little Quin, you kid has always loved cleanliness, why didn't you go to the bath today?" Tong's mother suddenly spoke.

Tong Minkun glanced at his mother slightly, his eyes were a little strange and flickering, and he touched the tip of his nose, "Oh...... I don't want to wash it today. ”

Tong's mother always felt that something was wrong with her son today, but she couldn't say what was wrong.

"Don't wash? It's not too early, you're young now, your body is still growing, go back to your room and sleep early. ”

Seeing that the other party seemed reluctant to say, she didn't want to ask too much, but out of concern, she wanted him to rest earlier.

However, there is a reason why he hurried home as soon as school today, and he has been guarding his mother close to him every inch, so he naturally refused to leave.

Thinking back to the past, on the morning of September 25, when he and Xiaoman returned home after parting ways by the river, his mother had disappeared for several days inexplicably.

At this moment, Tong Minkun has always been by Tong's mother's side like a needle in the sea, and he is determined to protect her.

The boy glanced at the fruit bowl on the table, and there was still the last red apple left, which his mother had bought during the supermarket sale.

Bending over to pick up the apples and picking up the fruit knife on the coffee table, Tong Minkun hooked the fruit knife between his fingers without saying a word, and sliced the apple skin with great skill.

The bright red peel quickly and evenly lengthened along the silver gleaming fruit knife, hanging in mid-air.

Under the surprised gaze of Tong's mother, in just a few seconds, Tong Minkun had already perfectly peeled the apple and handed a snow-white apple that had not had time to be oxidized and yellowed in front of her.

"Mom, eat an apple. I don't want to sleep yet, so I should be able to go to bed later today, right? Tong Minkun's tone was rare with a bit of coquettishness.

"Oh...... Good. ”

Mother Tong Ying was careless, glanced at the apple in her hand, and her expression was a little mysterious, "Xiao Kun, you used to let you peel the apple with a peeler, you have the ability to peel the apple into potholes, this is ......"

Tong Minkun can understand Tong's mother's confusion, after all, he later peeled more apples when he was with her in the hospital, practice makes perfect, and at the age of 14, he didn't even hold a knife a few times......

He just smiled and sloppily eyes, "Maybe it's talent." ”

Tong's mother didn't ask any more, looked at the empty fruit bowl, silently picked up the fruit knife, cut the apple into two parts, gave half of it to her son, and said with a smile, "Xiao Kun, you eat it too." My mother didn't pay attention to the fruit at home, and my brain was really bad.

Mom will go to the supermarket tomorrow to see if there is a discount, and then buy some later. ”

"Hmm."

Tong Minkun echoed and took a bite of the apple, which was particularly sweet and crisp.

In the blink of an eye, another half an hour passed, and it was time for my mother to go to bed.

Tong Minkun looked thoughtfully at the door of the living room, and no one had ever visited late at night, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

It's strange, didn't he come to the door today?

What's going on? It shouldn't be......

Mother and son got up from the sofa, turned off the TV, turned off the lights in the living room, and went back to their respective bedrooms.