Chapter 2: The Light of Life

Although the noodles were a little mushy, Shi Mo still ate them cleanly.

And he was very satisfied, and he was the second woman besides his mother to cook noodles for him for so many years.

His birth was not honorable, and he was even spurned, because his mother was an out-and-out junior, and because of this, he depended on his mother until he was 17 years old.

His mother is a strong person, and since he was a child, he has been cultivated as the heir of the Shi family, and he wants him to take the first place in everything, and his mission is to win the Shi Group for his mother.

So for so many years, he has been like a performer walking on a tightrope, not daring to have the slightest slackness, and once he stumbles, it will end in a full plate.

He thought that this was the end of his life.

It wasn't until he met her at the age of 17.

At the age of 17, he was a sophomore in high school.

As soon as I finished lunch and was about to go back to the dormitory for a lunch break, my mother's phone called.

After a violent argument with my mother two months ago, I never went back and never contacted my mother.

His mother called him several times, but he didn't answer.

He thought about it for a while and still pinched it, and he was extremely irritable when he looked at the screen that was cut off and lit up again for a while.

Mother seems to have an insistence that if you don't answer the phone, I will continue to call until you answer.

It is not a way for him to run away from his mother all the time, he has to face her after all.

He still picked up the phone helplessly.

Before I could speak, I heard my mother say, "Shi Mo, I thought about it for a while, if I don't force you to chase the daughter of the Lin family, I will use your own way to recapture the Shi family."

How can a person who is so coercive by a "real" mother compromise so easily.

"Well, though, you're going to a banquet with me tonight."

"What kind of banquet" Shi Mo frowned, but at the age of 17, he had a vigilance that did not match his age.

"It's just an ordinary banquet, why do you ask so clearly, just come"

"If you don't make it clear, I won't come," he said and prepared to hang up the phone.

"Don't hang up the phone" She is now more and more unable to control her son, or compromised:

"A Friend's Daughter's Birthday Party"

"I won't come" He knew that his mother still didn't give up, she just found something better than the Lin family.

"This time she really just went to the banquet because her daughter is only 10 years old"

Seeing that he didn't refuse, "Then you come back early in the evening, and we'll go over together"

Without waiting for him to agree, he hung up the phone.

From 5 o'clock, his mother sent him a text message every quarter of an hour asking where he was.

When he got home, he saw his mother changing into her dress and anxiously pacing the door.

When I saw him return, my heart fell.

"Why did you come back! Hurry up and change your clothes, it's too late."

"It's too late, just don't go"

"Well, this is our business partner in the future, and he is the most precious of his daughter, so you must behave well today," she said, pushing him in the direction of the gate.

At his mother's urging, he still changed his clothes unhurriedly.

Shi Mo hates to participate in this kind of banquet, in this kind of banquet, everyone wears masks, fake talk and laughter, undisciplined compliments, everyone has a calculation of interests on their faces, hate to hate, disgust to disgust, but he still follows his mother to deal with everyone.

He also knew that from the day he was born, from the day he was Mo Qingyun's son, he would have to accept such a fate.

His birth is not blessed by the world, it is just a tool used by his mother to take revenge on his father, but what is the way, it was his mother who brought him into this world, is it only when he disappears in this world that he can be liberated.

He doesn't remember when he had such an idea, it was the first time his mother looked at his face and scolded his father for being a bad man, when he pestered his mother to play with him again and again and was reprimanded by his mother, or when he was beaten by his mother before he got the first test.

It seemed like a long time, and it seemed like yesterday.

He felt a stuffy breath in his chest that he couldn't lift.

"I'll go to the bathroom," he said to his mother, who was chatting with someone.

"Why go to the bathroom at this time, the protagonist will come down immediately" She said impatiently that he was not sensible.

"You can bear with it and go"

"I can't bear it anymore" "He's always been good at stopping it, but at this time he's really angry."

He walked out despite his mother's obstructions.

Shi Mo didn't really want to go to the bathroom, but took the opportunity to come out to breathe.

He turned on the faucet of the sink, took a few handfuls of water and poured it on his face, pouring it on his head, and the water was so violent that even the collar was wet.

In the mirror, he is obviously a 17-year-old boy, but there is no trace of anger in his eyes, like the shell of a walking corpse.

He wanted to smile at himself in the mirror, but he couldn't.

I had drawn two pieces of paper and had just dried my hands when my mother knocked on the door

"Shi Mo, you come out soon, the banquet has begun"

Seeing that no one answered, he was even more anxious, "Shi Mo, are you in there?" ”

"Shi Mo."

"Shi Mo."

The louder knocks on the door came and went, making his heart even more irritable.

Mo Qingyun didn't expect Mo to suddenly open the door, but fortunately, he grabbed the doorknob quickly to avoid falling down.

"Why did it take so long for you to go to the bathroom, the banquet has begun" She straightened her grooming and began to blame him.

Seeing that there was still water dripping on his head, she was almost angry, "Why are you making such a mess of yourself, and how do you still participate in the banquet?"

"Then I'll go back"

Watching him walk towards the door, Mo Qingyun shouted "Stop"

Shi Mo continued to walk as if he hadn't heard.

Mo Qingyun was also anxious now, "Shi Mo, you stop me, I'm your mother"

After hearing his mother's words, Shi Mo stopped, "I know, I don't need you to remind me"

"It's good to know, come back with me"

"You said it, how else to attend the banquet," he reminded her, pointing to himself.

"You did it on purpose"

"Well" Since she said it was intentional, it was intentional, and his explanation was never useful anyway.

"Come back with me" she never consulted with him, always in a commanding tone.

"Yes, as long as you think I won't disgrace you"

"It's okay, I'll ask Lao Chen to prepare clothes for you" Mo Qingyun looked like I had already prepared.

Shi Mo was helpless, and returned to the banquet hall with him.

He didn't go to change the clothes that Lao Chen had prepared for him, but found a place in the corner to sit down and close his eyes to recuperate.

Although his eyes were closed, he never let his guard down for a moment.

So when Mu Yishi took the towel and was about to wipe the droplets of water dripping from his forehead, he suddenly opened his eyes.

At that moment, he felt that he had seen angels that had taken him from the darkness to the sun.

A faint soft light shrouded the girl's body, dense silky black hair draped over the sides of the shoulders, and the girl wore a pure white dress, under which were a pair of crystal clear feet, exposed in the air.

The long eyelashes on the black eyes sparkle like summer butterflies, the pink lips, and the delicate facial features can't find a single flaw.

It may have been the anger in him that scared her.

She pursed her lips slightly, as if she had been greatly wronged

"Brother. I just wanted to wipe the water on your face."

Her voice was like a spring in the mountains, trickling down, as if there was a magical power.

He couldn't help but feel more comfortable listening to it, he had never felt this way before.

There is no purpose, no expectation, just a simple desire to help him.

"Yes"

For the first time, he was unsuspecting and wanted to get a man close.

"I'll do it myself," he said, taking the towel from her hand.

"Brother, are you also here for my birthday party?"

It turns out that she is tonight's birthday boy

"You don't really like it here, do you?" she guessed as she watched him alone in the corner.

"Actually, I don't like it either, but Mom and Dad must do it for me," she hung her head in distress and looked at her toes.

Her big eyes flickered, as if she remembered something, and grabbed his hand, "Brother, let's go out!" I'll take you to fun places."

Watching him stop where he was, "Don't you want to go?" ”

Mu Yishi looked at him expectantly, making him unbearable to refuse.

Shi Mo shook his head, "No"

He pointed to her bare feet.

She reacted and breathed a sigh of relief

"Wait a minute, I'll go put on my shoes"

Mu Yishi took Shi Mo to the terrace outside her room.

"Brother, this is the terrace outside my room, I sit there alone at night, counting the stars"

She said, pointing to the swing next to the table.

"And this telescope can see the starry sky tens of thousands of miles away," she handed him the telescope as if offering a treasure

"Look at it"

"Do you feel like the whole starry sky belongs to you?"

Although it was Mu Yishi who was talking all the time, Shi Mo didn't feel bored, but felt a kind of happiness that he had never had.

"Tell me what you see"

Seeing Shi Mo shaking her head, she was in a hurry, took the binoculars, looked at it herself, and only saw a pitch black patch.

"What! There are no stars tonight."

"Brother, do you think I'm lying to you, saying it's a fun place but not letting you see anything"

Seeing her hang her head in frustration, Shi Mo's heart felt a little distressed.

Once you've felt the warmth of the sun, you'll never want to go back into the darkness again.

For Shi Mo, this girl who has only known her for less than half an hour, at this moment, he feels that it is the sunshine that he wants to keep all his life.

"No, it's really beautiful here, it's a good place to see such a beautiful night view"

"Really?" Her eyes lit up.

"Yes"

"Brother, what's your name, my name is Mu Yishi, my name was obtained by my father, it seems to be taken from a poem"

She thought for a while, "I remember, my father said, 'The autumn wind, floating and painting, Mu Yu also becomes a poem'"

"Yes, my name is taken from this poem"

"Brother, what about you?"

"Shi Mo"

"Is it the Mo who is on the smoke and rain?"

"Yes"

"And what about a poem in both of our names?"

"No, Mo is my mother's surname" He never explained his name to others, because he didn't think it was necessary.

But he wanted to explain it to her, and he only explained it to her.

"Oh!"

"Brother, you're so tall"

"Yes"

"I want to grow taller too," she looked at him enviously

"Then eat well," he said, touching the top of her furry head

"You speak in a tone like Daddy," she said with an innocent smile as she looked at him

"Really?"

"Well, because my father touches my head every time and says, 'Shishi, eat more to grow taller'"

She imitated her father's tone and made Shi Mo laugh.

"Brother, you smiled"

Shi Mo even felt surprised himself, he hadn't smiled for many years, and for a while, he wondered if his face was paralyzed and couldn't make a laughing expression.

"Brother, just smile more, you look very good when you laugh, like a prince in the movie"

Although she was only 10 years old, she could sense that he was unhappy.

"Poetry. Shishi, are you in it? Mu Yishi's mother, Liu Ying, called her outside the door

"Hey, I'm here." Before she finished speaking, she was covered by Shi Mo.

"Don't say yes, it's not good for your mother to see us here" He looked around to see if there was a place to hide.

"Poetry. Shishi" shouted twice outside, and when he saw that no one answered, he left, and said as he went

"Where did it go?"

Listening to the footsteps that were gradually moving away, Shi Mo let go of Mu Yishi

"Why, brother"

Shi Mo's face was a little red, as if he had been caught by someone else in his early love.

"You'll know it when you grow up"

"Oh! So what should my mom do if she looks for me?"

"You go out later, and then I'll come out later."

"Oh! Okay, brother, then I'll go out first."

"Yes"

Shi Mo did not go out of Mu Yishi's room later, but climbed to the first floor through the window of the terrace.

It was the first time in his life that he climbed the window without leaving the door, in fact, many years later, he thought that if he swaggered out at that time, no one would find out, but at that time, he just felt that he couldn't give others the opportunity to say Mu Yishi.