The dim light of the floor lamps reflected on the gorgeous vermilion carpet, spreading out, as if sprinkled with moonlight.

The fragrance of medicine is pervasive.

The record on the gramophone turned slowly, playing an old song, and the person who sang it, even if he was still alive, was gray-haired.

Even those who admire it have deep traces of time on their faces.

There was a man lying on the rocking chair, his expression was relaxed, the expression on his face was calm, but a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes, even when he was half-blind, were still fierce.

It is ruthless deeply rooted in the bones, like a fierce beast in the jungle, born with a thirst for killing.

"Tao Shenglei, just one word, no matter just two words, you can simply do it."

There was a woman sitting on the bed, with a pale face and blank eyes, in the shape of a medicine jar that had been sick in bed for a long time. She leaned softly against the head of the bed, and said one sentence in three paragraphs, and she couldn't stop gasping for breath after speaking.

The man slowly turned the jade wrench on the thumb of his right hand, and after a long time, he said lightly: "What can your unsuccessful brother do when he enters the company?" It's better to stay in the countryside in peace. ”

"You...... Tao Shenglei, don't forget that if it wasn't for me......"

"I don't have where I am today, am I?" Tao Shenglei sneered, "But I've come to this day." It was not interesting to say before, if you want to say it, just talk about what is in front of you, your diagnosis report has come out in the morning, I am sorry, but I will continue to treat you with the most expensive and effective medicine, husband and wife, I am benevolent. ”

"Husband and wife, you only have one sentence of benevolence and righteousness to me." The woman smiled bitterly, her eyes overflowed with desolation, after so many years, this man is still the same as he was at the beginning, and he doesn't care about her.

Why did you become obsessed with it in the first place, desperate, crazy about love, and marry him no matter what?

"Let me ask you again, do you care about Jun Qi's affairs, or do you care?" The woman looked at him stubbornly.

At that time, the company would not have been able to operate today without her father's investment.

That's what he owes her.

He had to pay it back.

Tao Shenglei didn't say a word, only looked at her quietly.

Songs with a sense of age circulate in it, graceful and soothing.

Eventually, she looked away.

The man's eyes were so murderous that no one dared to look at him for more than ten seconds.

She bit her lower lip, her fingers clutching the quilt tightly, and the back of her pale hand protruded slightly with dark blue veins.

The man picked up his phone resting on the coffee table and dialed the number with the highest frequency in the call log.

There was a glint in the woman's eyes, and she looked up at him, then lowered her eyes again.

"Abin, you go to Honglin Town and bring Song Junqi back."

The corners of the woman's lips twitched slightly, and she curved in an arc that she could barely call a laugh.

After succinctly explaining, Tao Shenglei hung up the phone and threw the phone back on the coffee table.

"It's hard for you to live a hundred years." The man stood up, one meter eighty tall and very burly, he walked to the side of the bed and looked down at her condescendingly, "The doctor said that your illness was caused by yourself." ”

She let out a dry laugh, but it was more like crying.

"Don't worry, I won't die so easily." She struggled to say every word, but she still had to say, "I don't die for a day, you can't go to her for a day, just for this, I'll hold on to it." ”

The man's face suddenly became a little ugly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze took on a touch of fierceness.

The woman didn't dare to look at his eyes, lowered her head, and smiled a little nervously: "Let's just consume it, it's been more than twenty years anyway, that woman won't wait for you that long, she has already married someone else and had children, I can't get it, she can't think of it, you don't want to think about it!" ”

The woman's emotions were so excited that she almost couldn't breathe, she clutched her chest and inhaled desperately, her body trembling constantly.

Tao Shenglei watched coldly as she curled up in pain, his eyes cold and ruthless.

He wished that this woman would die.

As soon as she died, he could immediately go to the woman he truly loved.

However, hate is hate, and he will still find the best doctor to treat her.

He had no love for her, but he couldn't do something ungrateful either.

Married as a husband and wife, he endured it for so long, not bad for this time.

He took his phone and turned to leave, ignoring whether the woman in the bed was dead or alive.

Fingers reached into the neckline, pulled out the pendant hanging from the necklace, pinched the switch and turned it on, and there was a small photo inside.

The man stared at the smiling girl in the photo for a long time, and the anger in his eyes disappeared, and even a hint of softness appeared.

"Yun Ruo, if you endure for a while, I will definitely go to you."

The night in Redwood is peaceful, save for tiny bugs and gray moths flying back and forth under the dim streetlights.

Hua Tao looked at Xia Sheng, and then turned her head to look at the floor-to-ceiling glass in the living room, there were a lot of moths here after nightfall, she had seen them several times, they landed on the clear glass, flew up, fell, flew up, and fell.

Attached to the light in the house.

"Why don't you speak?" Xia Sheng asked.

Hua Tao retracted her gaze and smiled: "I just made you a plate of salad, I thought I was in love with you, is no one treating you well?" ”

She picks up a thick piece of tomato with a toothpick, and the mayonnaise drips with the juice...... Well, eating this when watching zombie movies is definitely appropriate.

"Then if I feed you, do you think I want to marry you?" She did bring the tomato slices to his lips and looked at him defiantly.

Xia Sheng opened his mouth and ate it in one bite.

"Give me a piece of advice from your conscience," the noble prince chewed a few times with a painful face, and swallowed, "Don't give your sweetheart food." ”

Hua Tao: "......"

Having said that, Xia Sheng still finished the plate of tomato salad without any leftovers.

He took out a piece of paper to wipe his lips and hands, and couldn't help but look at her and ask with a smile: "It is said that your daughter should be rich, so your family raised you to a small public act that does not touch the spring water with ten fingers, right?" ”

"That's not it, my mom loves me, but she's not a pet." Hua Tao picked up the empty plate and walked to the kitchen.

Xia Sheng followed behind her with a smile, leaning his back against the door panel, watching her neatly wash the dishes: "Loving mother and strict father? ”

Hua Tao rinsed the dish twice under the faucet, wiped it with a dishcloth, put it away, squeezed some dish soap and washed her hands, then turned around and looked up at Xia Sheng.

"I don't have a dad." Her expression was calm, and her tone was light, "To be exact, I haven't met him." ”

Whether he is dead or alive now is a mystery.

Xia Sheng was a little stunned, and his beautiful jade-like eyes were propped up into an almond shape.

Hua Tao couldn't help but smile: "Mr. Xia, haven't you heard of single-parent families?" ”

She walked out of the kitchen and passed by him, her ponytail flicking in his face, it smelled and itchy.

Hua Tao is reluctant to talk to others about family matters.

This has been the case since childhood.

Because her family is incomplete, everyone else has a father and mother, and she only has a mother.

Not even relatives who came and went.

When she was a child, she didn't understand anything, and her mind was filled with 100,000 whys, she asked Hua Yunruo where her father had gone, Hua Yunruo just smiled softly and told her that her father had a last resort, so he couldn't live with us.

There is no complaining or grief between the words, only a very faint sadness.

It wasn't until Hua Tao fully grew up that she began to slowly understand the bitterness and helplessness in Hua Yunruo's eyes.

Fate is like this, she admits it, but she doesn't regret it, and she doesn't complain.

Hua Tao knew that her mother must be in love with her father.

The love is deep.

If she has her mother's blood in her bones, then she must also be a single-minded person.

Either don't love.

Either you are in love and have no regrets.

Xia Sheng walked back to the living room and sat down next to Hua Tao, he always thought that the other party was a child who grew up under the pampering of his parents.

Because she has a pair of eyes that love to smile.

Clean and clear, no clouds.

Didn't experience any sadness.

"Are you going to start sympathizing with me, Mr. Xia?" Hua Tao turned her head to look at Xia Sheng, feeling that the way he looked at her suddenly became very gentle.

But, she didn't want mercy.

Xia Sheng couldn't help laughing, leaning his head on the back of the sofa, his feet resting on the coffee table casually, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket, but was held down by Hua Tao with one hand.

"I don't order it, I just have a good time." He doesn't actually have a smoking addiction, but I don't know why, at this moment, he just wants to smoke one.

But since Hua Tao doesn't like him to smoke, it's okay not to smoke.

He really put the cigarette in his mouth, didn't light it, and bit it lightly with his teeth.

Hua Tao was still waiting for his answer, looking at him without saying a word.

He hooked the corners of his lips and smiled slightly: "Why should I sympathize with you, you have such a good mother, I envy you." ”

Hua Tao unconsciously remembered what he had said when he was drunk, his mother, abandoned him.

At that time, he woke up and couldn't find his mother again, did he cry?

"Is it your turn to sympathize with me now?" Xia Sheng glanced at her, with a faint smile on the corner of his lips, like a faint cloud on a clear summer sky.

Hua Tao really couldn't answer for a while.

Sympathy?

Otherwise, why do you feel that little Xia Sheng is very pitiful?

She wanted to go back in time, hold the green-eyed little ball in her arms, and kiss his moist eyes.

"I don't know." Hua Tao is honest and authentic.

The thick eyelashes drooped, hiding the flickering loss in the green eyes.

He spit out the cigarette in his mouth and smiled lazily: "It doesn't have to be like this, in fact, I am living quite well now, I have money, a house, a woman, and a lot of romantic time." ”

A miserable childhood is nothing, and his childhood is not that miserable.

Being young is always ignorant, and ignorance doesn't matter.

Hua Tao turned her head sideways, her head resting on the back of the sofa, and a faint sadness appeared on her face: "It would be nice if I could meet you earlier." ”

He was slightly stunned, and the loss in his heart was actually calmed down because of this sentence.

A shallow warmth flows slowly through the heart.

Human emotions are so many and so complex, and they have never been simple.

Where to sort it out.

But he at least understood a little.

She felt sorry for him.

That's enough.

The four eyes are facing each other, as if the positive and negative poles of the magnet are attracted to each other, and no one can take their eyes off first.

They were all stunned.

He leaned over slowly, smelling the faint scent of shower gel on her body.

And she also smelled the warm mint smell.