Huo Jianan always got up very early. It's just that today... It was earlier than expected, and when he opened his eyes, it was still dark. At this time, it was only after five o'clock.
He sat up from the bed and straightened his messy hair. Even if he didn't look in the mirror, Huo Jianan knew that his eyes must be bloodshot.
In Huo's house, everyone's bedroom has an independent bathroom. He went to the bathroom, washed up, and changed into a set of sportswear for himself. Then, he walked out of the room, planning to go for a morning run.
At this moment, there was silence in the villa. But he knew that by this time the cook should have gotten up and prepared breakfast in the kitchen.
Today... I'm afraid there will inevitably be a storm at home.
Huo Jianan asked himself, in terms of character, he was more inclined towards ostriches. In many cases, he would rather choose to escape than face it.
Huo Jianan never liked to fight for anything, and he never thought about becoming a doctor. However, his father asked him to become a surgeon. He said that as soon as he was admitted to a medical university and a doctor's license, he would be arranged to work in a private hospital under the name of the Huo family consortium.
He still remembers his father's extremely disappointed eyes when he failed to get into the medical university.
Don't you have to be a doctor to be successful
For his father... he can only go to medical school for another year. But during the exam in the second year, something happened to my younger sister, Jialan. After graduating from high school, Jialan gave up going to college and got married. At that time, Jianan was also an opponent of this marriage. He didn't want his sister to marry a scumbag who could easily change his mind, let alone give up college because of marriage. However, my sister didn't know why she was so determined. In the end...he himself still didn't perform well, and failed to enter the medical university again.
He walked along the dim corridor to the door of the villa.
Huo Jianan suddenly felt that the house was really depressing, and after opening the door, he felt that the air outside was much fresher.
He put on his sneakers at the door, rushed out, closed the door, and started his morning run.
Running is one of his ways to relieve stress, and another... is football. At that time, he really wanted to join the school football team, and even wanted to go to a training camp in the city with the school, but his father objected to his participation in the training camp on the grounds that sports affected learning.
"Don't you know how bad football is in our country? What's the use of playing the best football? Can it be compared to being a doctor?"
In this way, Huo Jianan had to give up his favorite sport... He used to play as a striker in the school football team and contributed goals many times, but later... he was abandoned. Later, he could only watch the World Cup and the Premier League Bundesliga broadcast, but he could no longer participate in it. He can recite countless of the most classic goals and players in dozens of World Cups, and everything related to football can make him crazy... But medicine can't make him feel this way.
About ten years ago, my father finally realized that it was impossible for the second son to put on a surgeon's white coat and pick up a scalpel like the eldest son. So, I started to let him go. And Huo Jianan eventually gave up going to college like his younger sister, and his current job...is to become a translator. In order to be able to study medicine well, he also studied English very hard, because his father said that English is indispensable no matter whether he writes papers or reads foreign medical journals in the future. He can't learn anything else well, but he is a little talented in language learning, and in the end he can learn English well. So now he accepts foreign translation work at home, and he can work as long as he has a laptop. However, because he failed to become a doctor as his father wished, he could see that his father had always treated him extremely coldly over the years, and the same was true for his third sister, Jialan, who stayed at home after marriage.
He was running on the forest path. At this moment, he hardly felt tired from running, and he even wished that he was more tired.
It didn't take long before the surroundings gradually began to be crowded, and he had already started running on the streets of Blue Bay Town. At this time, some breakfast stalls had begun to be set up, but most people were still asleep, so the surrounding area was quite quiet.
"Huo Jianan?"
At this time, Jianan heard a familiar voice behind him, and he immediately turned his head to look.
The person who came behind was none other than Charlene, who had been his classmate for a year when he applied for the medical university for the second time.
"Xia... Charlene?"
"It's rare... You actually came for a morning jog?" Charlene, like Huo Jianan, was also jogging in sportswear, but the difference was that she was running while holding a bottle of mineral water in her hand.
"Yeah." Charlene slowed down and ran almost parallel to him: "It's been a long time... I haven't seen you."
Back then, when he applied for the medical university for the second time, he was in the same class as Charlene, who also volunteered to enter the medical university. At that time, my younger sister, Jialan, was not given the will to be a doctor by her father. She planned to study liberal arts at that time. Even so, the relationship between Charlene and Jialan is quite good. With this relationship, Charlene will often help Jialan make up lessons. After all, her father is a surgeon. She has been exposed to it since she was a child, and because her mother died of illness, she has a stronger desire to study medicine. At that time, Huo Jianan really admired Charlene. For him, those medical terms that seemed like bibles were at his fingertips for Charlene. He would often tell Charlene that if she was his father's daughter, he would probably wake up with a smile.
After graduating from high school, Charlene was admitted to the medical university of her choice, but when she was admitted to the doctor's license, she returned to the small town of Blue Bay to work in her father's clinic. When Huo Jianan heard about this, she thought she was just going to practice in her own clinic, but she didn't expect to do it for so many years. In these years, he and Charlene rarely saw each other, after all, the relationship between her and Jia Lan had almost broken. However, when we see each other, we will say hello.
After running for a while, both of them were tired.
"Have you had breakfast? If not... I'll treat you." Seeing a snack bar nearby, Huo Jianan said, "I have something to tell you."
Today is Sunday and the clinic is closed. So Charlene was happy to be at leisure. She bought cat food early in the morning, put it on a plate and put it on the floor. The cat food was enough for the cat to eat. Father usually sleeps very late on Sundays before waking up, and she originally planned to wait until after dinner before going back.
Although she and Huo Jianan were classmates back then, they have hardly seen each other in recent years, and it always feels awkward to eat together. Originally, she used to be a best friend and brother, but now she has almost severed ties with Huo Jialan. What's more... Zhang Rong came back last night, and she felt a little uncomfortable when she thought of what Jialan did back then.
"Forget it... I..."
"I have something very important to tell you." After thinking for a while, Huo Jianan said, "Anyway, listen to me."
Actually... Even if I told Charlene, it seemed like nothing would change. However, Huo Jianan is really upset now. He badly needs a confidant. Charlene, Zhang Rong and Jia Lan were good friends back then. Therefore, he needs her opinion very much.
Charlene noticed that Huo Jianan's expression was rather haggard, and realized that he probably didn't just want to have a meal.
"Let's make it AA." Charlene didn't like to owe favors to others casually.
In the snack bar, after the two sat down to order, Charlene sat upright and asked, "What do you want to say...?"
Huo Jianan then told Charlene everything that happened after his eldest brother returned last night.
Suddenly, Charlene could not close her mouth in shock. She could hardly believe Huo Jianan's words!
"It's not... is it?"
"No matter what happened in the past, my elder brother would not easily contradict his father. Even if he had feelings for my mother, he still had superficial respect... But this time, he really seems to be a different person."
"Zhang Rong came to look for me yesterday... She gave me a different feeling from before. Your elder brother and Zhang Rong, do they really want to get married? Well, in this way, Jialan..."
"Our family is in complete chaos now. Today, the eldest brother will bring Zhang Rong home, and he said that they will settle in GX after they get married. But my father firmly opposes it."
For a while, the snack bar became very silent.
"A lot of people and things... have changed..." After a long time, Huo Jianan uttered such a sentence: "When you were in high school, the days when you helped me make up classes seemed like yesterday..."
(end of this chapter)