"Grandpa wants us to go back to the mansion for dinner, and you won't go?"

"Of course I can't go."

Cen Ximu sat on the rest chair outside, he looked indifferently at the villa road in front of him that was not too bright, the street lamp was still brand new, it should have just been replaced.

"Grandpa said that he would give you the documents if you went back to dinner together."

Cen Ximu raised his eyes to look at her, and there was no expression on his face, just a little disdain.

Li Ran leaned in front of the railing, even if the scenery in front of her was not worth appreciating, she was still fascinated, and she might not even notice Cen Ximu walking out.

"What is this?"

He asked coldly, and took out a voice recorder from his coat pocket, and the light was still on, probably already listened to by him.

Li Ran's face did not show a shocked expression, she shrugged her shoulders, walked over to turn off the recorder, and sat down on the chair on the other side.

"Haven't you heard it all? Still need to ask me? ”

She smiled, as if something had suddenly been completely released.

Today is the evening of the 8th, which is the first day of graduation.

She wore a light blue velvet dress, which the wind could not wrinkle, and when the skirt swayed, her hair also floated up, but it was a little more graceful.

Cen Ximu glanced at her, then stood up silently, and now he stood at the dark railing and stared at the unclear path.

Maybe he was looking at a darker sky.

He knew Li Ran's experience when he was a child, and she told it herself, and those dark stories also gave him palpitations, but they didn't last long, because he couldn't see sadness in Li Ran's eyes.

It's like a pair of suddenly dim eyes, the world she sees turns gray, a mirror without light, but he has also seen her eyes shine, that is when he sees Yi Huai.

She said that it was the first time she saw distress and worry in the eyes of others, and even for people she didn't know, she was still kind.

She also said that a rag doll like her that was only played with should not be given to the dirty hands again, and she also wanted to be saved by a clean angelic craftsman, and that craftsman had to be him.

Yi Huai, since he was worried about that day, this name has always been in her mind, and even the name tag she wore on her chest when she participated in the piano competition that day was ripped off by her.

She had gone to him, but he would always be followed by a girl, his gentleness and worry were never stingy for the little girl, the love she dreamed of, the little girl seemed to get it effortlessly, whether it was Yi Huai's or her parents', it made her envious and jealous.

Obviously wearing the same dress, Ke Shang Nian is always radiant and colorful, but hers is always gray, her lawn is slowly moving tall, always vibrant, but here, there seem to be a lot of hands under the ground, and from time to time they will come out to pull her, as if to warn her, you are a dark person.

"Wait a minute, aren't you going to talk to them?"

Cen Ximu didn't move, he still stood there, as if he didn't have this plan, but how to say it, his heart seemed to be biased, biased to Shang Nian's side, either right or not, or if he changed someone, maybe he really didn't have this plan.

"What if I say yes?"

When Li Ran heard him say this, she was stunned for a moment, and then smiled toothily, and when she smiled, she also had a smile in the corner of her eyes, but people couldn't understand the meaning of the smile.

"Cen Ximu, what's wrong with you? Are you the kind of meddler? ”

"Obviously not."

"So what do you mean? Have you changed? Since when have you changed? ”

The more she spoke, the more excited she became, the corners of her eyes rose slightly, the light in her eyes blended with the street lamp not far away, and the light blue velvet dress suddenly didn't look like a clear blue.

"Ranran, are you still on it? Bring the wood down, we're going to leave for my grandfather's house. ”

The voices of her parents downstairs pulled her back to reality, she closed her eyes, picked up a thin knitted jacket on the bed and put it on her body, and finally just glanced at Cen Ximu, and then went downstairs.

Cen Ximu glanced at the voice recorder on the table and followed downstairs.

The Cen family's house is quite large, a bit like a manor, I still remember the feeling of coming here for the first time, I was shocked by this magnificent sense of nobility, I will come back after many years, Cen Ximu will not feel that there is anything different here, the small black house at that time should still be there.

The group got out of the car, and someone immediately stepped forward, and they reached out to take the extra things in the owner's hand.

Cen Ximu glanced at the woman in front of him, and didn't hand her anything, but walked straight into the hall.

The Cen family has always been very wealthy, and I heard that the ancestors were engaged in ceramic trading in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they were businessmen from generation to generation many years ago.

In Cen Hualang's generation, he was a musician.

Speaking of which, that is still the only son of Old Man Cen, when he went to study abroad, he met Lin Shuxin, who was amazing in appearance and talent, at that time she was already said to be a shameless woman, and was said to be a woman who liked women and violated the way of heaven.

However, at that time, Cen Hualang resolutely stood up, he pulled Lin Shuxin, who was pointing at his backbone, behind him, he said that there is no rule in this world that you can't like the same sex, if you think you are more powerful than God, you can say that this kind of relationship is wrong.

At that time, to be able to say such a thing, how formal thinking it should be, how orthodox the three views should be.

It turns out that Lin Shuxin just advocates not discriminating against homosexuals, and what she likes is still the righteous, brave teenager, Cen Hualang.

Looking at the big round table full of chickens, ducks, and fish, Cen Ximu sat in a position farthest away from Old Man Cen, and he actually didn't have much appetite.

The family finally sat down.

I was also very tired from eating a meal, and there were only five people in total, and no one spoke during the whole meal, and the atmosphere was very weird.

After eating, the old man called Cen Ximu to his study.

The study was very clean, I think I would come often, and on the table was a family portrait, the old man was still very young, my father and aunt were still very young, and the grandmother who had been dead for a long time.

As soon as he saw her, Cen Ximu seemed to be able to feel the darkness and dampness of the dark room, especially in autumn, when the autumn wind came in through the window at night, and the wound during the day was blown by the dusty autumn wind, and his eyes were full of gold.

"Are you still blaming your grandma?"

The old man stared at the picture on the table, then sat down in his chair.

Cen Ximu didn't speak, he didn't know what to say, why shouldn't he blame him? He is not a saint, even if she is for her son, she should think about her son, but she uses the most vicious language to hurt the woman her son loves the most, and she uses the most vicious means to hurt her son's favorite child.

She may be a good mother, but she's not a good woman.

"If you have anything to say, just say it, I graduated today, and my classmates are still waiting for me."

The old man was silent, just sitting there and angry with himself.

"Ximu, no matter how you are a member of the Cen family, I gave you the huge insurance premium left by your parents, but should you also keep your hukou."

Cen Ximu raised his head indifferently and looked at the old man's gray hair, and there was still a hint of a father's appearance on his face.

The insurance premiums for the two famous musicians are huge, but the documents say that the two children will be half and half each, and they will not get it until they graduate from high school.

Already given to him?

Didn't Li Ran say that he would give it to him only if he came back for dinner?

"Let's talk about the hukou, do you have my documents here?"

Seeing that he was a little relieved, the old man was not ready to press step by step.

"I gave it to Li Ran, and she said she could let you come to dinner, so I gave her the paper."

Cen Ximu frowned suddenly, and he thought about all the bad situations in his mind.

"Take care of yourself, I'll go first."

He didn't take the recorder, he felt that Li Ran was going to do it, it was not today, but now he had a strong feeling that today was destined to be an extraordinary graduation party.

As soon as he walked out of the big iron gate, Cen Ximu first glanced at the underground parking lot on the side, and when he started, the car driven by his uncle was still there, indicating that Li Ran went out by himself.

He was standing outside the cold iron door, and there he was, wondering why he was so anxious.

But he couldn't give him much time at all, so he hurriedly called Shang Nian.

The phone rang for a long time, but it was not connected, his heart seemed to be raised all of a sudden, and he began to rummage through Yi Huai's phone in the student book again, but it was also not connected.

Although he knew that Li Ran would not answer the phone, Cen Ximu still tried it with luck.

Unexpectedly, she took it.

As soon as the phone was connected, Cen Ximu began to ask a little anxiously.

"Where are you? Don't do anything stupid. ”

It didn't last long, and it seemed to be a little excited.

"Silly? If I wanted to do something stupid, when I knew how disgusting it was for those men to put their hands in my clothes, I would have done it a long time ago, I was so miserable, what happened to me if I wanted a Yi Huai? ”

Her voice sounded normal, but fortunately she hadn't lost her mind too much.

"Everyone's life is different, if you want to make yourself happy, it depends on what kind of person you are, you will only make him hate you if you do this, you are a good girl, you can use your other side to impress him."

Cen Ximu tried his best to stabilize her, but the person was already in the taxi.

With his memory, he probably knew that today's meeting place was in heaven on earth, although I didn't know if Shang Nian and Yi Huai would go.

He also called Tian Xiaohui and Tan En, but no one answered, at least it shows that they are all in the same place now, and there are no problems.

"What are you kidding? Do you even want to do that? Impress him? Is it to take my broken childhood, or to my ruined body? ”

"As long as you are happy, no one will think that you are any different, Li Ran, you think about the consequences, everyone has a past that they don't want to look back on, but that's just the past, it's good for you to abandon the past, don't be entangled by the past."

"......" Li Ran stopped talking, there was silence between the two, Cen Ximu was also a little nervous, all along, he didn't care about idle things, no matter whose it was, but it seemed that suddenly he changed, and he didn't know when it started.

Maybe it was on his birthday, a cake suddenly appeared on the table, and the elegant and graceful font on it could be seen at a glance who wrote it.

Or, when the experiment was grouped, Shang Nian would always put himself in her group, obviously he was always so cold, and after the library, he didn't even say much.

Or, she said, I think it's cool to be able to express your own opinions different from most people in front of everyone, just like the famous musician Lin Shuxin, love is love, what kind of men and women, whether true or not, others have nothing to do with it.

It was her speech in language class, and it was also what she said when she knew who he was, although not to him.

For so many years, he habitually looked at her back, she was always positive, unlike his darkness, she was too bright.

"Cen Ximu, you won't like Shang Nian, right......"

There was a lot of traffic outside the window, and the light hit his face through the windowpane, and his hand holding the phone couldn't help but clench a little, and a trace of discomfort suddenly crossed his indifferent face.

Before he could say anything more, the phone had already hung up.

Cen Ximu calmed down and thought about it, he really didn't want Shang Nian to be hurt, but he liked it, it seemed to be very strange, and he never knew what it was like.

When the car stopped in front of heaven on earth, there were many student-looking people standing at the door, probably happy, accidentally drinking too much, and vomiting vigorously.

He walked upstairs, there was a smell of tobacco and alcohol, and it was full of sad parting songs, he pinched his nose uncomfortably, he wanted to find them one by one, but fortunately he saw a classmate in the class when he looked at the first room.