Lu Xingxing didn't know how long the car had been driving.
In short, she heard that the outside seemed to be getting quieter and quieter, and she probably left the urban area.
Those people bound her hands and feet, sealed her mouth, and put a black bag over her head to block her view. The feeling of fear could not be eliminated, her hands and feet were cold, and she didn't know why this happened.
However, Lu Xingxing quickly understood the reason.
Was forced to get out of and into a car a few times along the way before being sent somewhere. She guessed that a few cars were specially changed to make it more concealed. And I don't know how long they went around before they stopped completely.
Lu Xingxing, who couldn't move, was forcefully dragged out of the car.
She heard the footsteps of three or four people around her, and they led her into a building.
There was no sound of communication, but these people took her upstairs in an orderly and step-by-step manner. Because she couldn't see and walked too slowly, one of the men carried her directly on his shoulders and strode up the steps.
This person probably carried her into a room—when he entered the door, the other party didn't care what was going on with Lu Xingxing, so she knocked her head hard on the door. So she knew it vaguely.
Emotions of tension, fear, and despair kept surging.
At the same time, Lu Xingxing was put down by the man who was carrying her, and both feet touched the ground again.
Finally, she heard them speak.
One of the men said that the person had already been brought and asked the other party to pay the money.
Because of these words, Lu Xingxing realized that someone was targeting her specifically, and the next moment, she heard the voice of a middle-aged woman. Almost the moment she heard this voice, she knew the identity of the other party—Lin Meishu.
Lin Meishu asked these people to tie Lu Xingxing to a chair.
After presumably finishing the deal between them, she heard the footsteps of a group of people leaving.
The room became very quiet.
Lu Xingxing tried in vain to struggle, the rope was tied tightly, and her wrists and ankles ached.
After a while, she heard the door of the room being opened.
Someone walked towards her, very lightly.
Lu Xingxing could guess that this person was Lin Meishu, but he couldn't guess what purpose she was doing. Restricted hands and feet, sealed mouth, blocked vision... She can't get more information, she can only guess based on the movement she hears.
Unexpectedly, Lin Meishu took the initiative to tear off the black bag covering her head.
The bright light made Lu Xingxing subconsciously squint his eyes, and then he could see Lin Meishu and the whole room clearly.
Judging from the decoration, this is an ordinary residence.
She was placed in the center of the room, with nothing within arm's length of anything.
It has been many years since I last saw Lin Meishu.
Lu Xingxing still remembered her appearance at that time.
It's just that when we met again today, Lu Xingxing found that Lin Meishu had lost a lot of weight. Her eye sockets were sunken, her cheeks were sunken, and there was nowhere to hide the hatred in her eyes. At first glance, she would feel that she was extremely abnormal both physically and mentally.
Lin Meishu folded her arms and looked down at Lu Xingxing condescendingly, with a distorted smile on her face: "Shen Zhi's children, one or two, all fell into my hands in the end..."
"What do you think I should do with you?" Lin Meishu said while raising her hand to gently stroke Lu Xingxing's hair, "They don't keep an eye on you either. Could it be that your brother didn't teach you enough?"
then? elder brother
Lu Xingxing knew clearly that this was not talking about Lu Yunshen, so it could only be the child of Lu Jianhua and Shen Zhi.
A long time ago, she had an uncertain guess:
The child who really belonged to the Lu family was transferred maliciously, not by mistake.
Because there was no evidence, and it happened so many years ago, she thought that there was no need to forcibly open the wounds of the Lu family, so she hid this thought in the deepest part. Except for Lu Yunshen, I haven't mentioned it to anyone.
At this moment, Lin Meishu's words and Lu Yunshen's real identity are all connected together, and Lu Xingxing feels a creepy feeling. She was able to deal with a baby back then, let alone now...
It's not just those who come are not good.
It is not impossible to confess here today.
In a flash, Lin Meishu's fingers touched Lu Xingxing's cheek. Lin Meishu's fingers were very cold, and her fingertips brushed across her cheeks, as if she was actually facing a venomous snake, which made people unable to control the goosebumps all over her body.
"The two of them have raised you so well these years. Look, if such a beautiful face is destroyed in front of them, it must be very interesting."
Lin Meishu stopped, without warning, and viciously pinched Lu Xingxing's face.
Pained for a moment, Lu Xingxing's eyes glistened with tears.
Lin Meishu saw that she was about to cry in pain, but she smiled, as if feeling happy.
So, she raised her hand and slapped it down again.
"Shen Zhi is a bitch, you are a little bitch!"
"You stole my life and my daughter's life, you all deserve to die! Damn!"
Lin Meishu became emotional and began to speak incoherently: "He doesn't love me, how can he not love me? He doesn't care about our children! How dare he marry someone else, how dare he have children with someone else? !"
With Lin Meishu's obviously abnormal mental state, Lu Xingxing doubted the veracity of these words. It's still easy to think that if she and Lu Jianhua had a child, but Lin Keke wasn't, then...
Before Lu Xingxing could think deeply, Lin Meishu moved her hands to her neck again.
It becomes difficult to breathe and it is impossible to think about anything.
The feeling of being close to suffocation made Lu Xingxing think that he would not be able to hold on, but Lin Meishu let go. She had a gloomy smile on her face: "We have to let them see their baby girl like this too."
Lin Meishu took out Lu Xingxing's cell phone.
Arbitrarily pressing Lu Xingxing's finger to unlock the phone's fingerprint password, her expression became more and more ferocious.
The video call was connected by Shen Zhi half a minute later, and what Shen Zhi saw at this moment was the scene of Lu Xingxing being tied to a chair. Lim Mi-sook laughed because of her panicked look.
"Shen Zhi, do you also know the pain?"
"I just want you to watch your daughter being tortured by me in my hands, so watch carefully!"
Lu Xingxing saw Shen Zhi's frightened appearance on the other side of the screen, but now she can't do anything, can't speak, and has no room to resist. She couldn't bear to look any further, so she quickly looked away.
A sharp knife stuck to her cheek, moved down, and moved to her neck. She heard Shen Zhi's scream, but she didn't even blink her eyes. Falling into the hands of a lunatic like Lin Meishu, Lu Xingxing had already resigned to his fate.
In the quiet space, she lost the ability to move freely, and all her senses were infinitely magnified under the condition of high tension and nervous tension. She could feel the coldness of the sharp knife, and even seemed to feel its sharpness.
The blade approached the skin of her neck little by little, Lu Xingxing closed his eyes, and heard Shen Zhi's pleading and Lin Meishu's arrogant laughter in the video. She felt that all this was really sinful.
In desperation, she was ready to take any harm.
What I thought was bound to happen did not happen in the end, and at this moment someone actually broke into the door.
The violent noise caused Lu Xingxing to open his eyes suddenly. When she saw Lu Yunshen and a tall middle-aged man, she thought she was dazzled and hallucinating, but Lu Yunshen rushed up and snatched the sharp knife from Lin Meishu's hand.
Seeing Lu Yunshen, Lin Meishu didn't expect him to appear here at this time, and was taken aback for a moment.
This stun caused her to be pulled away from Lu Xingxing's side.
In a panic, Lin Meishu ran to a cabinet in two or three steps.
She hurriedly took out a gun from somewhere, pointed the black muzzle at Lu Xingxing and then at Lu Yunshen.
Lu Xingxing recognized that the person with Lu Yunshen was the driver and bodyguard next to him after he joined Jingteng to work.
At that moment, he stood in front of Lu Xingxing, and the driver stood in front of Lu Yunshen.
"How did you find it here?! Impossible, it's impossible...how is it possible..."
Lin Meishu couldn't believe the sudden change in front of her eyes.
Lu Xingxing couldn't believe it either.
She looked at Lu Yunshen's back silently, and looked at the person standing in front of him in disbelief.
Facing Lin Meishu and the gun in her hand, Lu Yunshen remained calm, as if he didn't take it seriously. He turned around, as if explaining: "I was just passing by here and wanted to see you, so I went to your school..."
So I followed her, wanting to take a second look from a distance.
Didn't expect to run into something like this.
Lu Xingxing looked at Lu Yunshen's eyes full of anxiety, worry, and concern, feeling hard to understand.
She suddenly felt sour, and shook her head blindly, tears rolling down her eyes.
The sound of a police car came into the building. Lin Meishu saw one police car after another through the window, and understood why Lu Yunshen was so calm. But she became even more panicked, knowing that everything was smashed.
Lin Meishu looked at the people in the room, and then looked outside the window. Taking advantage of Lu Yunshen helping Lu Xingxing untie the rope, she made up her mind and jumped out of the window. The driver wanted to stop, but was stopped by Lu Yunshen.
Within three or two minutes, there was a gunshot outside, followed by two, three...
Lu Xingxing shuddered violently.
The driver went to the window to have a look, then came back and said to Lu Yunshen, "It's gone."
Lu Yunshen, who was squatting in front of Lu Xingxing, just stood up, hesitated a little, and hugged the person on the chair.
…
Lin Meishu was shot dead on the spot for fleeing with a gun and shooting at the police.
That night, Lu Yunshen took Lu Xingxing back home.
Lu Jianhua and Shen Zhi went to the airport to pick them up.
Shen Zhi's eyes were red and swollen, she cried a lot, and she couldn't help crying again when she saw her daughter.
After a while, Lu Xingxing recuperated at home, and Shen Zhi quit her job to stay with her. She often had nightmares at night, Shen Zhi slept with her every day, and accompanied her to see a psychiatrist regularly.
It has been three months since Lu Xingxing came out of the shadows.
She began to eat a little more, and she didn't sleep as restlessly at night as before, and she could see improvement.
One day, Shen Zhi accompanied Lu Xingxing to rest as usual.
A desk lamp was left in the room, and the two of them lay on the bed. Half an hour passed, but neither of them fell asleep.
Lu Xingxing was thinking about something in his mind.
She is only halfway through her studies, and since she is fine now, she still has to do what she should do.
In the silence, Lu Xingxing heard Shen Zhi calling her softly.
She turned sideways to face Shen Zhi, agreed, and lowered her voice: "Mom, why haven't you slept yet?"
Shen Zhi also turned around to face Lu Xingxing.
Reaching out to touch Lu Xingxing's face, she said, "There is one thing, after much deliberation, I still want to talk to you."
Lu Xingxing nodded, and listened carefully to Shen Zhi's next words.
Instead, Shen Zhi paused for a long time, and then spoke with difficulty: "Your high school summer vacation..."
"No, it's not you, it's my daughter's sophomore summer vacation." Shen Zhi's words made Lu Xingxing confused, but she continued, "I went shopping with her, but she suddenly fainted, which frightened me."
"I never told anyone. I thought that as long as I didn't say anything and no one knew, I could pretend it didn't exist. But I was also deceiving myself, and it was too unfair to you. I don't know what's going on with you, but I know you are a Good boy."
With tears in Shen Zhi's eyes, she choked with sobs: "At that time, the ambulance hadn't arrived yet, my daughter..." It was extremely difficult for her to spit out the following words, "She didn't wait to be sent to the hospital..."
Her daughter died in her arms without moving a bit.
However, she didn't believe it, and she refused to believe it, let alone "lived" later
At first, Shen Zhi firmly believed that she had made a mistake.
But after that day, she saw the changes in her daughter, and she knew it was very different, but she selfishly kept silent.
Not to mention she is still her daughter.
As long as you don't say it... you can treat your daughter as always by her side...
"I'm sorry, I was too selfish and caused you to suffer so much. From now on, you can do whatever you want, and it doesn't matter who you like... Don't always worry about us..."
Lu Xingxing never thought that he would hear such words from Shen Zhi. Infected by Shen Zhi's emotions, she cried together: "I can meet you and dad, and I can call you dad and mom, I am really very happy."
The two cried for a while.
Shen Zhi couldn't help asking quietly: "You and Yun Shen... what's going on?"
"I can see it too, Yun Shen..."
Suddenly touching on the topic about Lu Yunshen, Lu Xingxing was silenced.
After a while, she said, "I want to go back and finish my studies. Since I want to do it, I can't give up halfway."
Lu Xingxing couldn't figure out how to treat Lu Yunshen, not at all.
She decided to return to the other side of the ocean for the time being.
Before leaving, Lu Xingxing met with Lin Chuchu.
Lin Chuchu contacted her in private.
I don't know if it was because of what happened to Lin Meishu before, Lin Chuchu looked a little haggard. They sat in a teahouse box that protected the privacy of the guests. Outside the carved window, the plants in a courtyard are thriving and full of vitality.
"I grew up in the orphanage when I was a child. It wasn't until the year when Ke Ke's accident happened that I realized that I also have a mother." Lin Chuchu said, "I asked you to come out today because I wanted to tell you—"
"No matter who my father is, I won't look for him."
"This matter, I can assure you, I will never, never go to him in my life."
Lu Xingxing realized for a moment.
Lin Chuchu looked at the scenery outside the window, and her voice drifted into the wind: "I probably don't have a destiny with him, so I shouldn't force it."
Lu Xingxing also decided to keep this secret in his stomach.
This family has endured too much suffering, and she hopes that all the past can pass with Lin Meishu.
After meeting Lin Chuchu, Lu Xingxing returned to the other side of the ocean and still took care of each other with Gu Xing.
The only difference is that she started looking for new opportunities for herself.
Lu Xingxing wanted to venture outside.
She prepares her resume, targets those open casting opportunities, and tries as hard as she can.
During an audition, Lu Xingxing accidentally saw the gray-haired old man who had seen their club performance, and what was even more surprising was that the other party recognized her. This audition, she felt very happy.
Although he felt happy, Lu Xingxing didn't dare to say how likely he was to be selected. In fact, she has participated in no less than 30 auditions during this period, but each time she only got the equivalent of a group performance.
In the past, in China, after all, people leaned against a big tree to enjoy the shade.
It's really much harder to rely on yourself.
Thinking about the previous failures again and again, Lu Xingxing thinks that this time it is probably useless.
Sitting in a taxi, she saw the street lights on both sides of the road coming on one by one. It was the time when the lanterns first came on.
Lu Xingxing suddenly thought of Lu Yunshen.
I used to think that I didn't dare to think about it, but later I couldn't think about it. Now I often doubt whether I can do that.
What exactly is the answer, where can I find it...or is omitted too.
Just can't continue to procrastinate like this.
Lu Xingxing tried his best to cheer himself up.
She thought, since she couldn't make an easy choice, she might as well leave it to fate.
If... Lu Xingxing thought, if there was any result in this audition, she would go back to Lu Yunshen.
Regardless of whether Lu Yunshen's mind has changed or not, he will go back to him once.
After making up her mind, she felt suddenly cheerful.
She secretly hoped that the audition would have a good result, but she didn't believe that there would be a good result, and felt that she was wishful thinking.
Day by day slowly passed, and Lu Xingxing did not receive any news of the audition results for a long time, and hope was wiped out bit by bit. Until one day after class, she came out of the classroom and met the old man at school.
"Miss Lu, congratulations."
"I came to you specially today to tell you that your audition passed. I hope we can have a happy cooperation."
It didn't take much time to say two or three sentences, but Lu Xingxing couldn't believe his ears. She couldn't help asking again and again, but all she got was an affirmative answer, and the other party even told her to check her email.
"Thank you for telling me the news!"
"My manager's name is Tian Xi, and she will contact you when the time comes!"
Lu Xingxing checked his mailbox, confirmed that this was the case, and immediately booked the nearest flight back home for himself. She returned to China without hesitation, to the city with Lu Yunshen.
I went to see Lu Yunshen at night.
Lu Xingxing found out that he had a party tonight, found the hotel, and stood outside his box.
The noisy voice inside leaked through the crack of the door.
Lu Xingxing took a deep breath, and nervously dialed Lu Yunshen's number on his mobile phone.
Half a minute later, the phone was connected, and for a while, no one spoke.
In the end, it was Lu Yunshen who spoke first.
His voice sounded a little nervous: "What's the matter? Why don't you talk? Is there something wrong?"
"Lu Yunshen, do you still remember..." Lu Xingxing slowed down, "I promised you before that if you drink too much next time, I will take care of you. So - did you drink too much today?"
Lu Yunshen on the other end of the phone was a little confused.
It took him a while to utter a word, but his tone was a bit confused: "You... have you been drinking?"
"I'm sober now."
Lu Xingxing continued, "I want to say, if you drink too much today, then I will take you home."
"I promise you, I will take care of you."
"Help you undress, take off your shoes, take off your socks... help you wash your face..."
Lu Yunshen didn't know if he was listening, but he didn't say a word.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Xingxing added: "I'm outside, outside your box."
"If you still count on what you said at the beginning, if you are still willing..."
"Can you come out and see me?"
As soon as the words fell, the box door was suddenly opened from the inside.
Lu Yunshen looked in disbelief, staring at her who was standing outside the door in a daze.
Lu Xingxing's face was burning hot from the sight, she pretended to be calm, and gave Lu Yun a deep smile. Originally, he wanted to say something, but at this moment Lu Yunshen had already taken a step forward, and in the next second, she was hugged tightly in his arms.
The box door was open, and the people inside booed because of this scene.
Realizing that he was being watched by countless people, Lu Xingxing's face burned even more, but Lu Yunshen's arms tightened.
Lu Xingxing tried to struggle: "They are all watching..."
Lu Yunshen remained unmoved, not giving Lu Xingxing a chance to escape his embrace.
He emphasized in her ear: "I've waited so long for this day, and I'm trying to resist the urge to kiss you."
Lu Xingxing: "..."
After a few minutes, Lu Yunshen reluctantly let go of his arms.
Lu Xingxing looked up at him, with a slight smile on her lips, she took a small step back, then took a big step forward, and approached him.
Taking advantage of Lu Yunshen's inattentiveness, Lu Xingxing hooked his neck on tiptoe and kissed his lips.
Just look at it, anyway, she is not the only one who is ashamed!