Chapter II
He sneered coldly, "You can now make up a lie about cancer chemotherapy just to ask for money. How? You want to threaten me with death? I won't give you the money, if you want to die, you should have died!"
I just felt like my blood was frozen, and the sun was shining outside the window, but I felt like I was in the cold winter.
But Dad, I'm really going to die.
8、
My injuries were almost healed, and the day I was discharged from the hospital happened to be my birthday.
It's also my mother's death day.
As usual, I bought her favorite lilies and took the bear with me to meet her.
As I was crossing the street, I suddenly saw my mother, who was waving at me across the street.
She was still the same as I remembered, wearing a long white cotton and linen dress, and her long, slightly curly chestnut hair was scattered behind her head.
My nose was sore, and tears blurred my vision in an instant.
Is my mom finally willing to come and see me?
For so many years, she didn't even want to come to my dreams.
I walked up to her excitedly, her gentle smile getting closer and closer to me.
Just as I could touch her, there was a screeching sound of brakes.
Mom is gone.
I reached out in a hurry to grab it, but I pounced.
The driver rushed up to me, grabbed me by the shoulder, and examined me from top to bottom, in an anxious tone with obvious concern: "Child, is there any injury?"
I looked up at her in confusion, not figuring out the situation.
Her eyes were red with anxiety, and she was relieved to see that I shook her head.
Glancing at the cemetery not far from here, and the lilies in my hand, she pursed her lips, as if she understood something, and her eyes revealed distress.
I was suddenly a little overwhelmed, I didn't understand, she was in... Do you care about me?
It's been a long time since I've felt the kindness of others.
She suddenly remembered something, went back to the car and took a small cake and handed it to me, "This is my daughter's favorite cake, I just bought more, I don't know if you will like it, but you are about the same age as her, the taste should not be much worse."
The tip of my tongue tingled, and I thanked her sluggishly, and I didn't recover until she was gone.
This is... After the age of 6, I received my first cake.
A cake that belongs only to me.
It's small, but it looks sweet and tasty, and it has a pretty pink bow on top.
On the deserted road, I carefully held the cake and suddenly burst into tears.
I gobbled up the cake and tears fell on the cake, it was sweet.
Can a person like me have the tenderness of others?
9、
"Mom, I've come to see you."
Placing the lilies in front of my mother's tombstone, I babbled.
"I'm an adult today, I don't know if I've grown into your ideal daughter."
"I saw you on the road just now, don't you feel comfortable coming to see me? Don't worry, I'm doing well."
"Daddy was very nice to me."
"He'll spend two months preparing my bar mitzvah and buy me a three-tiered castle cake."
"No matter how busy he is, he will come and pick me up from school every day."
I cried and said, "Oh yes, he will buy me a limited edition bag when I am wronged, and he will accompany me to the movies."
"You can rest assured that you will take care of me when I am sick, it is just a little cold, my body is very healthy, my grades have always been at the top, and my classmates are very friendly."
I pursed my lips and tried not to cry, but I don't know why the tears kept falling, "I just, I miss you so much."
My mother in the photo kept looking at me gently, and there was a light rain in the sky, and the rain hit my mother's picture, as if she was also crying.
……
I talked with my mother for a day, and when I returned to the rental house, it was already dark.
I made myself a bowl of longevity noodles and made a wish with my eyes closed before eating, hoping that I could dream of my mother tonight.
When I swiped my phone, I found that Zhou Ning updated the circle of friends:
Positioned in Disneyland, there is a photo of her and Mickey Mouse, there are dolls and peripherals that she has piled up in the trunk of a whole car, there are very beautiful fireworks, and she is holding her mother in her left hand, my dad in her right hand, and her brother behind her, a group photo of four people standing in front of the castle, everyone is smiling so happily, she looks so happy.
The accompanying text is: Mom and Dad said that as long as I am happy, I can do whatever I want~
The headaches were getting more and more frequent, and blood was splashing in the noodle soup.
It turned out that I had a nosebleed.
I suddenly felt so tired, I thought about it, and I would be fine after a good night's sleep.
After taking painkillers, I climbed into bed with the bear in my arms, humming a ballad that my mother had coaxed me to sleep when I was a child:
"Worms fly, worms fly, who are you missing~"
It may be that the painkillers have worked, and the body is not so painful.
I had a long dream.
There was a white expanse everywhere, and I heard my mother's voice, pushing open an invisible door, and my mother was inside.
She took me by the hand tenderly and wanted to take me on a plane.
I stopped her in horror, "Mom, you can't get up, this plane will crash and you'll die!"
Mom touched her head, her eyes full of pity: "Baby, no, this is a plane to happiness."
To... Happiness?
Mom won't hurt me, I looked at her with admiration and sat in with her.
When the plane takes off, I will be a happy child.
10、
On a very ordinary Monday, Chu Yunchen was reading the financial newspaper in the car, he frowned tightly, and his face was very ugly.
The driver sat back in the car, and while fastening his seat belt, he said the result of getting out of the car just now: "Someone jumped off the building in the front community, and all the other side was blocked, so the traffic jam was made.
"Residents living nearby said that the person who jumped off the building was a little girl, and she lived here alone and should be an orphan. It's really pitiful, I hope she will be reincarnated into a happy family in the next life, with no worries about food and clothing, and both parents."
Chu Yunchen thought to himself, it was indeed pitiful, but fortunately, his Ning Ning parents were both healthy and growing up healthy and happy.
When I go home tonight, I will talk to Ning Ning again, I usually feel wronged and encounter difficulties, I must remember to tell my parents that my parents will always be her backing.
After the road was cleared, I arrived at the office two hours later than usual.
Chu Yunchen pinched his eyebrows irritably, and couldn't help but regret a little regret that he had taken the road in the morning and wasted a morning's time in vain.
Although he knew that it was a little immoral, he still complained that the girl who jumped off the building would really cause trouble.
Not long after he sat down, the secretary ran over with a panicked expression: "Mr. Chu, the police station called, it seems to be related to Chu Mucheng, I have already cut the phone to you."
Chu Yunchen already felt that everything was not going well today, but when he heard the name of the unfilial girl at this time, his heart was on fire, "What did that harmful spirit do again? She also went to the police station, and I think she's getting more and more promising."
The secretary looked at him again and again and left.
Chu Yunchen was puzzled by the strange look in the secretary's eyes, and he answered the phone head-on, "Hello, are you Chu Mucheng's father?"
He couldn't speak, "I am."
"Chu Mucheng jumped to his death at 6 o'clock this morning in Jinyuan Community, please cooperate with us in the investigation,"
He felt that he might have misheard, who died?
Chu Mucheng is dead? How is this possible!
He was even wondering if the unfilial girl had colluded with others to make this call, maybe it was to ask for money, or it could be a prank.
This must be fake!
Obviously he didn't believe it, but his body trembled slightly.
The phone had already slipped to the ground, he picked up the car keys on the table, and the person who usually pays the most attention to image forgot to even put on his coat, so he rushed out of the office.
11、
"We've seen her medical report, and when she was admitted to the hospital with serious injuries a month ago, she was diagnosed with brain cancer and major depression. Did you know?"
Chu Yunchen looked at the police blankly, in fact, his mind was blank since he learned the news, he didn't know how he got here, he only knew that he kept stepping on the accelerator and wanted to get to his daughter faster.
Hearing the policeman's questioning, he hesitated, and his voice was hoarse: "I don't know."
The policeman pursed his lips and looked sympathetically at Chu Mucheng's body that had been disposed of, and because the floor was not high, his body was still relatively intact.
"Chu Mucheng's attending doctor said that she has a strong desire to survive, and even when she learned that she was suffering from cancer, she never thought of giving up, and she mentioned to the doctor that she would raise money for chemotherapy. So it's very likely that she lost her sight due to brain cancer and hallucinations due to depression, so she ......."
It may be that the temperature in the morgue is too low, Chu Yunchen felt a bone-chilling chill sweep through his body, and for a moment his heart seemed to stop beating.
He was silent for a long time, until the police called him several times, and then he walked out as if he had just woken up from a dream.
After walking a few steps slowly, he stopped again, opened and closed his mouth a few times, and then said astringently, "Comrade, can you give me a copy of Chu Mucheng's address?"
The policeman looked at him in amazement: "You're her father, why don't you even know this?"
He lowered his head in embarrassment, not daring to look at the questioning eyes of others, only wishing that he could not burrow into the cracks in the ground.
"Please."
12、
Follow the navigation and drive towards Jinyuan Community, the closer to the destination, the faster Chu Yunchen's heart beats.
He had already recognized that this was the place in the morning traffic jam.
It turned out that the orphan girl who jumped off the building in everyone's mouth was his daughter.
And not only did he not know, but he also secretly disliked that she was dead and wanted to cause trouble to others.
There was no elevator in the dilapidated old neighborhood, so he took the stairs to the top floor.
The whole room was filled with a musty smell, a bowl of uneaten noodles was on the small dining table, and the door to the rooftop was wide open, and a cold wind was blowing in.
Looking at the bowl of noodles, he suddenly remembered.
Yesterday, it seemed to be my daughter's birthday.
There is a month difference between her daughter and Zhou Ning, so she should be 18 years old this year.
Today is her first day of adulthood.
While he accompanies his stepdaughter on a Disney trip, his daughter is dying alone and desperately.
There was a violent tearing sensation in his heart, and Chu Yunchen bent down unbearably, he felt that he was about to lose his breath.
Suddenly, he heard the ringtone of the text message prompt, and he followed the sound to see his daughter's charging phone.
The remark is "stepmother", and the content is: Starting next month, I won't give you living expenses, which is also what your father meant.
Swiping up, he saw the transfer record of 1,000 yuan per month, and the top one, "There are so many living expenses, your father hates you very much, I think you also know that he has fulfilled his father's obligations, you are only worth so much, people must know how to be grateful." ”
He obviously told his wife to transfer 200,000 yuan to his daughter every month, and the family was not short of money, and he never thought of treating her badly in material terms.
No wonder his daughter lives in such a cheap rental house.
No wonder his daughter would suddenly call him and ask for money.
But what did he say, he said that she deliberately made up lies about her cancer chemotherapy in order to ask for money, and told her to die as soon as possible.
He said a lot of ugly things, but that phone call was the last conversation between himself and his daughter.
He remembered the last time he saw his daughter, he scolded her for being a wolf, giving her doll to Zhou Ning, and didn't even give her a chance to explain why her grades had dropped.
Has my daughter had physical problems since then?
He didn't know, and no one was going to give him an answer.
He seems to have never spoken to his daughter since she was 6 years old, but everything he says is ridicule, criticism and suppression.
Why is this happening?
Obviously, when his daughter was born, he also vowed to love this lovely little group of Yuxue for the rest of his life, he couldn't sleep when he thought of the name, and finally finalized the word Mu Cheng, Chu Yunchen loves Mu Chenglin, this name contains all the love of his parents, she is the crystallization of the love of two people.
Why did he blame Cheng Lin's accident on a 6-year-old child?
At first, it was to vent the pain of losing a beloved.
Later, I couldn't face my change of heart.
He felt that if his daughter hadn't killed Cheng Lin, he wouldn't have fallen in love with another woman after Cheng Lin's death, he broke his promise to love each other for a lifetime, and he was ashamed of empathizing with himself.
He poured all his negative emotions out on his daughter.
God, what did he do?
A strong sense of remorse corroded his heart.
Chu Yunchen collapsed in the dilapidated rental house, constantly hammering the ground with his hands, crying hoarsely.
13、
He stayed in a rental house.
Because he was desperate to know more about his daughter.
He turned the house upside down and found a lot of things.
The bear doll he gave to Zhou Ning, with traces of re-sewing, was lying quietly on the bed.
There was an abusive note in the schoolbag, which was Zhou Ning's handwriting.
He saw Zhou Ning's chat record with his daughter, who had been puaxing her daughter over the years.
The luxury cars, sachets, jewelry, and private jets in her circle of friends are in stark contrast to her daughter's slum-like living environment, and Chu Yunchen feels very disconnected and ridiculous as she sits in a dilapidated rental house.
In his daughter's mobile phone bill, the expenditure information of as little as one or two yuan and as much as a dozen yuan made him feel like a piece of his heart had been forcibly ripped off, and the feeling of suffocation came and tore his entire soul to pieces.
He also found his daughter's diary on the desk, a very thick one, and the shell was a little damaged.
At the beginning, the handwriting was still very immature, full of love for parents, my mother sang very well, my father worked hard, I wanted to be an obedient child, and today was also a day to love my parents.
He seemed to have gone back to the old days, smiling happily.
Flipping back, the daughter's diary began to appear frequently with water-stained handwriting, which was tear stains, and she was crying to write these words.
Her mother's self-blame for her death and her father's indifference to her made her more and more closed to her heart.
The jewelry that appeared in her room for no reason, her stepsister wronged her for stealing, and her father's distrust made her even more disgusted with herself.
The stepbrother who always touched her room in the middle of the night scared her very much, but her father only listened to the stepbrother's side of the story and thought she was a liar. In desperation, she moved out and began to live like an orphan.
Chu Yunchen looked at his daughter's diary again and again, crying and laughing, like a mad demon.
He didn't dare to sleep, he closed his eyes and looked like his daughter, when he was a child, he was beautiful like a doll, he called himself father sweetly, and his lotus-like arms wrapped around his neck and imprinted a big kiss. Then she suddenly grew into a big girl, with her back to herself, and she went farther and farther, and he couldn't catch up with him.
Guilt was about to overwhelm him.
He felt like he was crazy.
His daughter is dead, and whoever hurt her should go to hell with him.
14、
Others say that it is difficult to be a stepmother, but Guo Yu has never had this trouble, Chu Yunchen does not like her own daughter, but she treats her own children as her own, and she often feels complacent about it.
What about her own daughter, the gap between father and daughter has become bigger and bigger over the years, and it can't be repaired, Chu Yunchen has a deep relationship with herself, and her pair of children are very good at behaving and ingratiating, and there is no suspense about the distribution of family property.
But these days, she is faintly uneasy, she has not been able to contact Chu Yunchen for three days, she does not answer the phone, and she does not reply to WeChat, which has never happened before.
On the morning of the fourth day, two pieces of news topped the hot search in H City:
"The real identity of the girl who jumped off the building turned out to be the biological daughter of the richest man Chu Yunchen!"
"Chu Yunchen donated all his property to the welfare home and Hope Primary School in the name of his deceased daughter Chu Mucheng."
Guo Yu's eyes widened in disbelief, Chu Mucheng died when he died, and she didn't kill him anyway. But how could Chu Yunchen donate all the property in his name, didn't he even want his own family for the sake of a dead man?
Ning Ning wants to study abroad, Zhiheng has to marry a wife, and he is used to living the life of a wealthy lady, where does he not need money?
Guo Yu couldn't sit still at all, she asked the driver to send her to the company, and she wanted to ask Chu Yunchen in person.
But she pounced, Chu Yunchen was not in the company, the front desk stopped her from letting her in, and the security guard at the door said that the company had changed its boss and was no longer the Chu Group.
She didn't believe it, so she had to break in, and she was kicked out, and she lost face.
Sitting on the steps outside the company in embarrassment, when the six gods were gone, she suddenly remembered that her son was interning in the Chu Group, and hurriedly called her son, but her son's mobile phone kept turning off.
When I came back to my senses, I don't know when there were people standing in front of me, they were pointing at themselves with their mobile phones, and someone shouted, "It's her!" The vicious stepmother, the rent in H City is so expensive, she only gives 1,000 yuan to the little girl, forcing people to live in cheap rental houses, she and her children are comfortable occupying the magpie's nest and living in high-end villas!"
The rotten eggs smashed all over the place, and the egg liquid was pasted on Guo Yu's face, she screamed, fled in all directions, and finally ran back to the car, and was kicked by high heels.
Sitting in the car, she turned on her mobile phone and saw Chu Yunchen's latest release, which was his confession, which was densely filled with the harm caused to Chu Mucheng by their family of four, and also listed a lot of evidence, screenshots of her transfer, and her daughter's chat history, which were also impressive.
Chu Yunchen's confession is written with deep affection and meaning, which makes people cry.
Guo Yu just wants to laugh, when people are alive, he snorts and drinks, and when he dies, he regrets it.
What's more, what does this have to do with her Guo Yu, and what does it have to do with Ning Ning and Zhiheng, Chu Mucheng is originally an outsider, why should she treat his ex-wife's daughter well? Is it wrong for Ning Ning to want to monopolize her father's love? Zhiheng was still young at that time, so what was wrong with being interested in the body of the opposite sex?
Everyone did not cause substantial harm to Chu Mucheng, it was the little girl who was too psychologically fragile to commit suicide by jumping off the building.
Guo Yu was furious and found Chu Mucheng's address from the news, Chu Yunchen must be there.
Sure enough, the door on the top floor was open, as if waiting for her arrival.
15、
After three days of not seeing her, she couldn't recognize anyone, Chu Yunchen's thin cheekbones were prominent, his eyes were bloodshot, he stared at her gloomily, and his smile was crazy and weird.
She subconsciously wanted to run, but was pulled back, "Run, run, this is our future home."
"Why are you crazy, you don't live in a decent villa, you have to stay in a rotten house like this that dogs can't live in?"
Chu Yunchen laughed maniacally: "You also know that it's a rotten house? It's not because of you that my daughter lives here! All the properties in my name have been sold by me, and you can only live here with me now!"
Guo Yu looked at him in shock and slapped him angrily, Chu Yunchen hadn't eaten or slept for the past few days, and his body was so empty that he was knocked to the ground by her without noticing for a while.
Still feeling that it was not enough to relieve his anger, Guo Yu walked over and kicked him hard with his high heels, "I was really blind to see you as a wreck, isn't it just the death of a daughter, as for the sky falling? You still have Ning Ning and Zhiheng, it's really not good, we can still have another one, hurry up and recover all the money, otherwise I will divorce you! Who wants to be with you if you don't have money!"
Chu Yunchen glared at Guo Yu viciously, this woman he had empathized with, the virtuous wife he thought he had, turned out to be so ugly.
He seemed to think of something suddenly, and a hint of anticipation flashed in his eyes: "Isn't it just the death of a daughter? I wonder if you'll be able to say such things after learning the news about your scumbag son? He was given by me to a big guy who likes men, and what happens in the future depends on his fate."
Guo Yu let out a sharp howl, she picked up the bag in her hand and smashed it wildly at Chu Yunchen.
Chu Yunchen broke out in a cold sweat in pain, but his expression was very excited, and his eyes were crazy: "Guo Yu, isn't it just that a son died? Can you still say such things now? You say!"
"My daughter, who was killed by us together, go to hell with me, Guo Yu."
Guo Yu lost her mind and picked up the knife on the dining table and stabbed it on Chu Yunchen's body again and again, her eyes were red, and she muttered, "Bastard! Scum! You killed my son! You've ruined everything for me! Go to hell! Die!"
Chu Yunchen didn't struggle, he looked in the direction of the rooftop, and the corners of his mouth squirmed: "Mu... Mu Cheng, Dad, I'm here to accompany you."
A tear slipped from the corner of his eye, and with a relieved smile on his lips, he closed his eyes forever.
……
Zhou Ning felt that everything today was like a nightmare.
First, when she was in school, the news of Chu Mucheng's death broke out, so that everyone knew that she was just Mr. Chu's stepdaughter, and Chu Mucheng was Mr. Chu's biological daughter.
Then came out of Mr. Chu's confession, which described her evil deeds in detail.
The classmates were unusually angry.
No one wanted to talk to her, everyone was whispering behind her back, and what everyone said was simply unpleasant. As soon as she gets out, the table becomes messy, her bag is mischievously thrown into the sink, and she is locked in a cubicle when she goes to the bathroom.
This made her feel very uncomfortable when she was usually held by the stars, she felt very aggrieved, this was obviously Chu Mucheng's "treatment" before, why is it her turn now?
She didn't understand, but she didn't feel like she was at fault.
Why didn't anyone love Chu Mucheng when she was alive, and the whole world loved her after she died?
She decided to go home and tell her parents that she would go to study abroad tomorrow, and she would not be able to stay in this school for a day.
When it was about to be the end of school, the teacher came with the police, and she was called out.
The police uncle said that her brother was missing, her father was killed by her mother, and her mother was going to jail.
She felt that she might not have woken up yet, otherwise she knew every word, but she couldn't understand it when they were put together.
After being stunned for a long time, she walked out of the campus in a daze, and suddenly found herself homeless.
As soon as I turned on my phone, the comment area on the social software had already fallen.
Full screen of invective.
What a slut, rotten goods, no shame, born a bad seed.
Those words she used to insult Chu Mucheng were suddenly used to attack herself.
Today is a really bad day.
But she didn't know that every day in the future would be a little worse than today.