One hundred kilometers west of the small ancient city, it is the richest provincial capital city in the province. (Let's call it City A)

There is a prime location in City A, which is called the "Tsim Sha Tsui" of City A by local residents. ”

There is a villa complex within this prime location. It can be said that the people who can live here are the richest and richest people in City A.

At this time, in a villa here, a man suddenly shouted, "Xiaojun!" After that, he woke up from his dream.

Mu Hongyuan wiped the sweat oozing from his forehead and sat up. In the darkness, he leaned against the bedside and lit a cigarette, but he didn't take a few puffs, letting the green smoke drift above his eyes. The curling green smoke took his thoughts back to a long, long time ago.

"Most of my life is about doing what I should do, not what I want to do. Being born involuntarily is a part of life. This is still what Mu Hongyuan said to him when he was a child.

This sentence has sustained him until now. To this day, he holds this statement as the truth. It's just that he paid too much for this sentence.

As the saying goes, "no more than three generations are rich", but Mu Hongyuan's family is richer than one generation.

Mu Hongyuan's grandfather was the first batch of businessmen to go to the sea to do business in the great era. He started from scratch and laid a foundation in City A, becoming a well-known business leader in City A at that time.

After the old man passed away, he left the company property to Mu Hongyuan's father, who was also a business tycoon with a strong strategy. The company quickly expanded in his hands, and the Mu family's business went out of City A and went to the whole country.

However, there were unforeseen circumstances, and a huge car accident took away Mu Hongyuan's parents, and at that time, Mu Hongyuan had not graduated from college. He had no choice but to give up school and start business and take over the property in his father's hands. He was suddenly thrust into the limelight.

Twenty years have passed, and now his business is all over the country, even abroad. He has appeared on the screen countless times and has become a well-known entrepreneur in China. In City A, everyone knows about it.

Behind the aura, however, no one knew the pain in his heart. All this success was achieved in exchange for his shattered family. This is a knot in his heart that he can't untie. He asked himself countless times, "Is everything you have now worth it?" Each time, he would answer his question in a different sentence. Being born involuntarily is the normal state of life. ”

Mu Hongyuan has had two wives, and the first wife is Tian Xiaojun. The second wife's name is Sally, a woman Mu Hongyuan met abroad. Three years ago, his second marriage ended again, after which he returned to the country with his only daughter.

Mu Hongyuan and Tian Xiaojun are college classmates. At that time, Tian Xiaojun was the school flower in the school. She is not from this province, but from a rural family in another province. With hard work, she was admitted to the nationally renowned university in City A.

Mu Hongyuan's family background is illustrious, and his personal talents are outstanding. He was a celebrity in that school at the time. The so-called "talented man with beautiful woman", Mu Hongyuan and Tian Xiaojun's relationship soon became the focus of the school. Some teachers even called them the "golden boys and girls" in the school.

When Mu Hongyuan was a senior, a catastrophe suddenly struck, pulling him out of school and into the cruel business circle, and he was at a loss for a while. At that time, Tian Xiaojun had always stood by his side. Accompany him through the difficulties. Mu Hongyuan's growth rate is also amazing enough. In the business district of City A, he is like a raging flame that soon shines with dazzling brilliance.

Mu Hongyuan coughed a few times and snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, but after a few minutes he lit it again.

For a while, he didn't understand how Tian Xiaojun could make such a decision. A high-achieving student who graduated from a prestigious school, left a wealthy family, left his daughter, and went to live a hard life with a poor boy with the infamy of fornication? To be a housewife? Has human nature been reversed? He didn't understand, and he almost went crazy for it.

He is a businessman who will rationally analyze the pros and cons of everything. But Tian Xiaojun's approach made him completely incomprehensible. There have been countless nights when he couldn't sleep. can only put himself into his work completely, devote himself wholeheartedly to the raising of his daughter, and only when he is so tired that he has no time to think about it can he fall asleep.

He hated her, hated her hypocrisy. Hate her stupidity to the extreme.

After three years of marriage, Mu Hongyuan has hardly accompanied Tian Xiaojun. In Tian Xiaojun's words, he married her back as a decoration. It's like a collection at home. Or rather, just think of her as a child-giving machine.

Even when Tian Xiaojun gave birth, Mu Hongyuan was not by her side. At that time, Mu Hongyuan had an important customer to meet abroad. Although he knew that his wife was in the hospital, he couldn't go back. After returning to China, he learned that Tian Xiaojun was bleeding heavily when he was in labor. He was in a coma for three whole days.

At that time, it was He Chenggong who accompanied Tian Xiaojun. It's the poor boy who always gave Tian Xiaojun gifts when he was in college. At that time, there were many people chasing Tian Xiaojun, and Mu Hongyuan never paid attention to a role like He Chenggong.

Later, Mu Hongyuan learned that He Chenggong also donated blood to Tian Xiaojun. He always thought it was nonsense. Would such a large hospital be short of blood reserves? So it happens that they are the same blood type? This was later confirmed to be true.

Mu Hongyuan was grateful to He Chenggong for saving his woman and child. But the vinegar in his heart also came spontaneously.

After that, Mu Hongyuan deliberately went back to school to check the origin of He Chenggong. He made another astonishing discovery.

He Chenggong and Tian Xiaojun turned out to be from the same village. Elementary, middle, and high school were all classmates.

Mu Hongyuan understood. They turned out to be childhood sweethearts...... And Tian Xiaojun didn't say a word about him for so many years.

The last straw that overwhelmed Mu Hongyuan was that he found out that He Chenggong's college entrance examination score could go to the first school in the capital. And for the sake of Tian Xiaojun, he resolutely chose to come to City A.

How far can a man go for a woman? Accompanied her since childhood. and she enroll in a university. Although she is married after graduation, he is still willing to take care of her and save her with his own blood. What kind of love is this?

After Mu Bingwei was born, Mu Hongyuan felt that Tian Xiaojun's heart was no longer in him. The man's jealousy made him lose his mind. He couldn't stand it just for the thought of having that person's blood in his woman's body. In the end, he personally gave Tian Xiaojun the last chance to keep him.

She finally chose to leave.

Mu Hongyuan completely lost to He Chenggong. A young man from the countryside snatched his wife from a young rich man......

Mu Hongyuan picked up the lighter again, but found that the cigarette case was empty. He looked out the window. What you see is a brightly lit night scene.

He thought that only he could give Tian Xiaojun the life he wanted, he thought that he could accompany her well after being busy for a while, he thought that Tian Xiaojun was already his own spoils. Even if he snubbed her, she always belonged to herself. But he overlooked one point. Tian Xiaojun is a person who can do and move, flesh and blood.

Later, Mu Hongyuan inquired that He Chenggong and Tian Xiaojun went to settle in the small ancient city. They started their lives all over again. And his life has been torn apart ever since. The wound had hurt him for eighteen years.

Mu Hongyuan remembered the last struggle he had made. Smoked the last cigarette in one go.

"Tian Xiaojun, divorce is okay. But you won't get a penny of my property. And you don't want to see our daughter again in this life. You must relinquish custody of your daughter. ”

Mu Hongyuan thinks that this is the price she should pay for turning her back on her family and herself. He must let Tian Xiaojun feel the heaviness of "being born involuntarily". Everyone should have his "life involuntarily". He couldn't help himself because he wanted to prop up this business that two generations had struggled for. And Tian Xiaojun should have made a wrong choice for her and "couldn't help herself".

The past of eighteen years ago was relived in Mu Hongyuan's mind. He opened the window, and a cold wind blew into his bedroom, making him shiver.

Seeing Tian Xiaojun again eighteen years later, Mu Hongyuan thought that he could be calm, but he didn't expect that it was just his appearance. In the lotus garden, when he saw that familiar face again. He almost burst into tears. At that moment, it was as if he had suddenly returned to the campus. Went back to the big willow tree they had dated......

"I should have let Bingwei see her."

After Mu Hongyuan said this, tears finally burst into the middle of the night from his eyes that had always been calm......

After a heavy snowfall, the small ancient city continued to cool down.

In the past few days, Luo Qian has not been able to continue his work of selling paintings in the lotus garden.

He had been stuffy in the house for days. When he woke up early in the morning, he forced himself to do some math problems. This time he did eight things. He felt his head blow up.

Luo Qian closed the book again and took out the oil painting from under the bed. That's his "Skirt Playing in the Water". Luo Qian put the oil painting on the bed, and put a sketch on the left and right sides.

In the corner of the left one is written "Mei Lying in Tears", which is painted by Zhang Fan. The tears were later mended by him. Because Zhang Fan shed tears after Mi Chulei left, Luo Qian followed the realistic genre, and he couldn't ignore what the model had. So when this painting was completed later, there were a few more tears on Zhang Fan's face.

That indescribable beauty was born. Luo Qian was pleasantly surprised by those few tears. It was the finishing touch, a few tears made the whole painting take a huge turn, and the beauty presented was beyond Luo Qian's own painting level. That kind of artistic conception, he can't describe in words......

For this reason, he named the painting "Tears in Tears". He plans to present this painting on canvas as well.

In the corner of the sketch on the right is the words "Viewing the lake by the railing". In winter, Lotus Lake is just a large ice surface with ice blade prints everywhere, and there is nothing to appreciate. But Luo Qian is not a person who is very good at using words, and he can't think of more beautiful words.

"Is she really Aunt Tian's daughter?" Luo Qian still felt a little incredulous.

He looked at the painting for a long time, then nodded slightly, and said to himself, "It can also be painted as an oil painting." ”