Chapter 2: Fate
The night is rich, and the moon is starry.
Late at night, Rui Rui couldn't bear the sleepiness and yawned, she didn't force herself, she went to bed alone and lay down to close her eyes to recuperate, hazy, already asleep.
Hao Hao only found the sleeping Rui Rui after finishing a game, he let out a long breath, lightly covered her with a blanket, and then sat back in front of the computer in front of the screen in a daze, a pair of slender eyes seemed to reveal a trace of struggle.
Indeed, for some reason, this love that should have been vigorous has now been pushed to the forefront by him.
The sleeping girl in front of her, although her appearance is still beautiful and cute, her actual age is seven years older than herself!
Rui Rui, who had settled in Chengdu, could be said to have lived a completely princess-like life before she was fifteen years old, and her father's business achievements made her life smooth sailing, and even after the business failed that year, her material life was not greatly affected.
Needless to say, she had a father who doted on her very much, and even though he was in debt at the time, he still used his thick shoulders to carry all the pressure and let Rui Rui grow up carefree.
Yes, what a psychological blow the sudden departure of such a kind father would have on a fledgling girl.
It was the summer of 2017.
The girl was wearing loose pajamas, holding a popsicle that had just been taken out of the refrigerator in her mouth, sitting on the sofa at home and watching the TV with relish, with the cool breeze of the air conditioner, and she was in a cheerful and comfortable mood.
Buzzing!
The mobile phone that was casually thrown on the table suddenly vibrate, Rui Rui lowered his eyes and looked at the familiar number on the screen, and hurriedly picked it up: "Dad, why do you have time to call me today!" ā
The daughter's happy and brisk voice made the middle-aged man with a trace of sweat oozing from his forehead smile with relief, but then, his expression became struggling, and he said a little twisted: "Rui Rui, Dad..."
But as soon as he opened his mouth, his chest fluctuated violently, his face turned red, and after a while, he mustered up the courage to say: "Dad wants to ask you to borrow three thousand yuan... I'll pay you back three thousand and a half next week. ā
Rui Rui listened to the softer and softer voice on the phone, as if she could see her father's embarrassed appearance, which couldn't help but make her heart ache for no reason, and she couldn't help but reply in her most cheerful voice: "Okay, Dad, come and get it." ā
Rui Rui's father, that is, Lao Deng, he breathed a sigh of relief after hanging up the phone, and without Alipay, he could only drive from Deyang to Chengdu.
Everything was so normal, the meeting between father and daughter, the usual conversation, seemed to be the same as usual.
Lao Deng made a special trip to Chengdu to get money, and he didn't even have time to go upstairs to sit down and have a cup of tea and drove back to Deyang in a hurry.
Life is a slow walking progress bar, and you never know what will happen before he reaches the next node.
The sun is rising, and the sky is bright.
The whole city was shrouded in a mist, and it was five o'clock in the morning.
With the sound of heavy breathing, Rui Rui's figure quickly shuttled through the hospital, until she saw the old figure lying on the hospital bed with her eyes closed, her body seemed to be drained of strength, and the whole person was weak under her feet, and passers-by hurriedly helped her.
Everything was like a dream, whether it was the father lying on the hospital bed or the mother secretly wiping tears by the bedside, at this moment it seemed that they had suddenly aged twenty years old.
The diagnosis came out, it was a brain stem hemorrhage, and the news almost detonated directly in Rui Rui's mind**.
"Iā" she held the report in her trembling hands, her chest rising and falling violently, and she sat on the edge of the hospital bed, her eyes glazed over.
...
"This waiver requires the signature of an immediate family member."
Holding the medical notice in her hand coldly, Rui Rui only felt that her eyes were dark, and her world collapsed.
Hao Hao came back to his senses, his eyes flashed a trace of struggle, and he muttered alone: "I don't know if you can be alone in the future." ā
Nothing was said all night.
Compared with Rui Rui, Haohao's family is a real single-parent family.
His father, Lao Zhou, he couldn't help but tremble all over his body when he mentioned this name, Lao Zhou and Lao Deng are completely different, although they are both businessmen, but Lao Zhou is the kind of businessman who is really extremely strict with himself.
Hao Hao still does not forget, and even as long as he closes his eyes, he can clearly see the fierce expression in his father's eyes when his mother hysterically knocked on the door and asked his father for the division of the property.
"Haohao, people are fighting for breath in this life, if you can't get everyone to recognize you, then your life is a failure." What Lao Zhou once said to him seriously became a shackle for his life.
Lao Zhou has spent almost all his efforts on his education since he was a child, and a father who wants his son to become a Chan has also created this Haohao who does not admit defeat, this boy who never allows himself to fail.
"Ugh." Hao Hao sat on the edge of the bed, but he didn't feel the slightest sleepiness at this time.
He knew what the girl in front of him meant to him, but he also knew what he was carrying, and he definitely didn't want to see his father's disappointed expression.
The moon shadow was shining, and everything was silent, Hao Hao got up and went to the balcony to open a window, and lit a cigarette in the dark, as if all his worries were stuffed into this cigarette.
He has his ambitions, although there is still a year before graduating from university, but in fact, he already has plans for the future, the four major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen will definitely be his first choice, and although Chengdu is also a provincial capital-level metropolis, but maybe he only felt that there was still a line behind at that time.
With a long sigh, Hao Hao shook his head, took out a few pills from the drawer, stuffed them into his mouth, and swallowed them with his head up.
The conditions of a single-parent family and the pressure exerted on him by his father, even Haohao, who was originally more optimistic, became anxious, coupled with his childhood sweetheart Xiaoyang complaining to him every day about the misfortunes in his life, such an environment made his mood erratic, and this drug also helped him stabilize his mood.
Two people, a former princess, became a child of an ordinary family because of his father's business failure and death from a cerebral hemorrhage, and the other was also a former child of a wealthy businessman, but because of the breakdown of his parents' relationship, he became a single-parent family, and grew up in a growth environment where interests are paramount.
One is from Sichuan, the other is from Shandong, and the two people are even seven years apart in age, and the two people who seem to belong to the same world at all are now inextricably linked together in the city of Chengdu.
"But, I'm going to leave first." Hao Hao looked at Rui Rui, who was sleeping on the bed, and whispered apologetically.