When he arrived at the new working environment, Su Jingyi was very busy, but fortunately, this busy day allowed him not to think about other things for the time being, not to think about An'an, about Xue Wanqing. Until a stranger called.

"Hello? Is it Su Jingyi? ”

"Hey, I am! Who are you? ”

"I'm Xue Wanqing's friend of her father, are you free now? I want to meet you. ”

As soon as he heard Xue Wanqing, Su Jingyi immediately became nervous, could there be any secrets he didn't know? "How did you know about me?"

"I heard from Lin Mo, can we meet and talk? You make an appointment somewhere. ”

"Okay, let's go to the RED coffee shop downstairs in our company. I'll send you the address. ”

"Okay, yes, I'll go now."

Su Jingyi waited in the café for a while, and a man walked towards him.

"May I ask if you are Su Jingyi?"

"I am!"

"Hello, I'm the one who just called you."

"Oh, you go down first, what do you need to drink?"

"Whatever."

"Waiter, have a cup of coffee."

"Yes, sir."

"Then I should call you uncle. Are you looking for me for Xue Wanqing's business? ”

"No, I'm here for Xue Wanqing's sister."

"Are you looking for Xue Wanqing's sister?"

"Lin Mo told me, the information is here."

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to take the information, I just wanted to see, I want to know where the sister of the late Qing Dynasty is now?"

"Are you going to find her? You know that Aunt Lin has been guarding this secret, and now that the late Qing family has passed away, if she knows the truth, do you think a girl can withstand this kind of blow? ”

"Don't worry, I will keep it secret, if I really want to expose the truth, Lin Mo will not tell me."

"How can I trust you?"

"I know it's hard for you to believe me, and now there's really nothing to prove that what I'm saying is true, just tell me where she is now, how is she doing? Lao Xue saved such a child, I have to keep her, if she encounters any difficulties, I hope I can help her. ”

"She's fine now and doesn't need your help."

"So you've already found her?"

"Yes. But I won't take you to meet her, so please understand. ”

"Well, I can understand, I'm also very relieved that you can think of her so much, Lin Mo really didn't see the wrong person."

"Since you are a friend of your father in the late Qing Dynasty, do you know anything? It is said that he was holding the wrong child at the beginning. ”

"Here's the thing......"

One day, twenty-one years ago, a man was hospitalized with a heart attack.

"Lao Xue, I don't think your situation is optimistic."

"It's okay, you say, I can handle it."

The doctor sighed, "I'm afraid time is running out." ”

"Can you hold on until my wife gives birth?"

"That should be fine."

"Then I have no regrets. But I'm worried about whether my child will inherit my heart disease? ”

"This is because you have congenital heart disease, which is possible by genetics, but it can't be determined."

"If it were hereditary, would it be as short-lived as mine?"

The doctor did not speak, and his face was gloomy. "Lao Xue, don't think nonsense, spend the rest of your days with your wife."

"I regret that she married me now, her family's opposition is right, what good life can I have with me, a person who sleeps and doesn't know if he can wake up tomorrow."

"Don't say that! If you have a better attitude now, you can live a little longer. ”

"I'm gone, can you take care of her and the child for me?"

"Don't worry, I will, I've been friends with you for so many years, do you still need to say this?"

"Well, I know, I have no regrets about making friends like you in this life."

"God is still very good to you, your wife has a pair of twins in her belly, daughter!"

"Really? Great, my most hopeful thing is to have a daughter, and I pray every day that I can give me a healthy child. I don't want to die without anyone with her, I'm afraid she'll grow old alone. ”

"No, old Xue, don't think so."

"Well, I know, I'm going to be in a good state of mind every day, I'm going to watch them be born."

Lao Xue's woman stewed soup every day and sent it to the hospital for him to drink.

"Don't work too hard, you have to think about the child in your belly." His eyes were full of distress.

"It's okay, I'm not tired at all. You have to get better quickly, and you have to take care of me and the child. ”

"Well, don't worry, Lao Zhang said that he was sick this time because he was too tired, so just pay attention next time." He reassured.

But his body became weaker and weaker, and there was no way to leave the hospital until his wife gave birth. The day before he died, he called his friend to him.

"I know I'm dying, I have a secret to tell you, and you're going to keep it secret for me."

His friend's tears couldn't stop flowing, and he kept nodding his head in agreement, "You say, I'll listen." ”

"I changed the child on purpose, not by another nurse. I'm worried that if both children inherit my disease, she will really be driven crazy in the future, and I can't afford to gamble. Old Xue Yiruo said.

"What? Did you deliberately hold the wrong child? Lao Zhang wiped his tears, he couldn't believe that he would make such a decision.

"It's a pity that Lin Mo actually found out about this, otherwise no one would have known. Now that you know, you will be wrong, you have to keep it secret for me, I am afraid that she will hate me and not understand me. ”

"Old Xue, why are you doing this? That's your own flesh and blood! ”

"I don't have a choice, I watched the couple walk away with the child in their arms, and I was also in pain, but I can only gamble with God like this, I don't want both children to inherit my disease, and finally leave her alone."

Lao Zhang didn't say a word, looked at Lao Xue on the hospital bed, and burst into tears.

Later, Lao Xue left, leaving behind two children and an exhausted woman, who washed her face with tears every day, and was not in the mood to take care of the children, and only thought about going with her husband.

The only fortunate thing is that the husband has left a large amount of money for himself, and he has a basic guarantee for his life with his children in the future, and he is not too desperate.

So the woman threw the child to the grandmother who was still there, worked two jobs by herself, was so busy every day that she was dizzy, and slept for a few hours, which is such a fast-paced life that can numb herself and forget the pain.

But depression is like a tenacious poison that erodes a person's will to live little by little, and then completely engulfs it in a dark and boundless night.

If it weren't for worrying about these two children, she would have left this world a long time ago, and she no longer had any expectations for this world, only endless despair and pain. At the beginning, despite the opposition of his family, he resolutely followed him out of his hometown, and even broke with his parents, but in exchange for such an ending.

Sometimes she misses her parents and family very much, but she has no face and no courage to go back, and it was not until the children were older that she thought about taking them back to meet their grandparents. After that, Lao Zhang lost contact with them.

The man in front of him told Su Jingyi everything about the past, and Su Jingyi was shocked, it turned out that all this was caused by Xue Wanqing's father himself.

So the mother of the late Qing Dynasty never knew about it. Kept in the dark?

"Only me and her father in the late Qing Dynasty know about this matter, and no third one knows, not even Lin Mo knows. For so many years, Lin Mo and I have been looking for the sister of the late Qing Dynasty. ”

"What about the other child? The child who hugged the wrong one. ”

"The mother of the late Qing Dynasty felt that it was unbearable to take two children alone, so she gave the other child to a rich family for adoption, the family was quite rich, I have seen the child, and now it is very good."

"Is it the Xiaoxiao in the diary of the late Qing Dynasty?"

"Yes, where is she now?"

"Studying at Z University in Rock City, called Yan Xiaoxiao."

Su Jing thought for a while, and suddenly realized, Yan Xiaoxiao, is it the girl in the school flower competition? The world is so small!

"Then does Yan Xiaoxiao know about this matter? She knows that she is not a child of the Xue family? ”

"She should know, otherwise she wouldn't have been adopted and never came back to see Wanqing and her mother in the future."

"Lao Xue must never have expected that it would end like this in the end."

"Uncle, it's not that I don't trust you, but you know, this matter will really hit my friend hard, so I think it's better for everyone to keep it a secret."

"Late Qing's sister is your friend?"

"Yes, it's such a coincidence, I met her first before I met the late Qing Dynasty."

"I know, I know what you mean, and you're doing the right thing."

"Can you tell me what her name is?"

"Her name is Rose, and she's already out of the country."

"Oh, so does her family know she's not biological?"

"She probably doesn't know, at least she doesn't know about it at all."

"That's good, poor boy. It's good that I can live well now, and Lao Xue has no regrets if he knows it. ”

"Okay, then I won't bother you for now, you can go to work! I pay for the coffee! ”

"No, uncle, I'll come, you go slowly."

"Okay, then I'm not going to be polite to you. See you next time! ”

"Well, goodbye, thank you."

Su Jingyi sent the man out of the coffee shop and sent a text message back to Lin Mo, "Auntie, that uncle just left, I did a good job of keeping it secret, don't worry!." ”

One on the information page reads: Su Jingyi, Auntie has something to ask you, Xue Wanqing's father's friend asked me about the news of my sister in Wanqing, and I couldn't refuse directly, so I shirked it to you. It's not that he wants to hide it from him, he must want to take care of his daughter if he has such a good relationship with Lao Xue, but I'm afraid that he will be emotional, and the best protection for An An is not to take care of her, but not to let her be hurt. I'm sure you understand that. It's up to you.

As soon as Su Jingyi walked out of the café, the leaves had already fallen all over the street, and the weather was getting colder, he suddenly remembered Rose, for a long time, he had not been in touch, and he didn't know if she was doing well now. When the man asked him what the name of Xue Wanqing's sister was, apart from An An, the only thing he could think of was her.

He went back to his office, turned on his computer, and sent her an email: Rose, how are you doing?

At this time, Melbourne has entered the night. When Rose just finished washing her face and applied a mask to the computer and swiped the web page, the computer prompt sounded, Rose clicked on the email, saw a familiar account, was dull for a moment, confirmed that it was Su Jingyi, and then clicked on the content.

It was only a simple sentence, but she had waited too long. She picked up the cup of warm water on the table and rubbed it repeatedly, thinking about how to reply and what to say. The water in the cup swirled, like her mood turning, as if she had a lot to say, and finally it was reduced to a sentence "I'm fine, how about you?" ”

When Rose sent this email, Su Jingyi had been waiting in front of the computer for nearly ten minutes, so he thought that according to the time difference in Melbourne, he might have fallen asleep now, so he turned around and went to do things by himself.

So this night, Rose had insomnia, and she was very happy that Su Jingyi could find her, although it was just a short sentence, although he didn't reply again, probably busy. Many times she wanted to take the initiative to contact him, but she didn't know how to say or what to say.

Now that they are on opposite ends of the world, the distance between her and Su Jingyi is not only separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, separated by the different scenery they have seen and everything they have experienced, and separated by the time difference of black and white, there are too many emotions that cannot be transmitted to each other on time.

She regretted saying something like that to Su Jingyi, she was too willful, she was paying for her willfulness now, she felt hypocritical when she remembered what she said to Su Jingyi that night, if Su Jingyi really liked her, there should have been some traces to be found. As for whether he really can't forget Xue Wanqing or has already empathized and fallen in love with An An, it doesn't make sense to her anymore, she will be angry with An An, she feels quite ridiculous, she knows that her emotions can't be vented, all vented to An An, she can't hate Su Jingyi, all pretend to hate An An.

This night, she had insomnia, tossing and turning, and when she closed her eyes, she would think of those days when there was Su Jingyi, and the time she spent with An An, one scene after another disturbed her to sleep. She sat up, turned on the bedside lamp, got up and walked to the living room, the curtains in the living room forgot to close, and the bright moonlight poured in through the floor-to-ceiling glass window, and she couldn't bear to turn on the light to spoil the beautiful scenery in front of her. She walked through the window and looked up to see that the sky was already full of stars.