When Gu Peilang was twenty-one years old, he met eighteen-year-old Su Jinyu.
It was at a private banquet.
The owner of the banquet had helped Gu Peilang in the battle for the Gu family's succession, and just because of this, Gu Peilang couldn't help but give him face, even though he had not been out of Gu's house for almost half a year at that time.
The young man with a pale and thin face, dressed in a black suit, sat in a wheelchair expressionlessly, looking down from the second floor, looking at the resplendent hall. The hustle and bustle inside is like another world, and he is outside.
The host of the banquet stood behind him with a glass of wine and smiled kindly: "Can't Pei Lang go down and play with them?"
Gu Peilang shook his head and said nothing.
"Young people, it's better to be lively and cheerful. They are always dead and will grow old quickly."
The man's eyes were still staring at the lively scene below, and he didn't know if he had listened with a blank expression.
After the host of the banquet left, he stayed on the second floor by himself for a while before turning around and preparing to leave.
The newly built elevator was right next to the stairs. While Gu Peilang was waiting for the elevator, there was a burst of laughter and slapstick sounds from the stairwell beside him, like a few young wealthy children.
"Jin Yu, why did Uncle Ma suddenly want to install an elevator in his house when he was so good, and it's only to the second floor, isn't that unnecessary?" One of the unserious voices giggled.
"You don't know about this," was another voice, "I heard that it's for the new head of the Gu family, the lame... You know, hahahaha..."
All kinds of laughter mingled together, and the schadenfreude and ridicule among them were still clearly heard by the man even though they were separated by a dozen steps.
"Alright, alright, even a lame person is a lame person standing at the top of the pyramid. If it's you, can you do it?" A clear and pleasant voice sounded, with a touch of magnetism, like a misty rainy day Inside, the sound of raindrops falling on the blue and white porcelain under the eaves is like a sound.
Gu Peilang lowered his eyes, his eyes fell on the legs covered with the blanket, and there was no expression on his face.
The cold light above his head enveloped him, giving people a sense of unreasonable distance.
"Oh, oh, that's fine. If you want me to change my legs to that seat, I might as well die." The condescending voice remembered again, and then there was another burst of giggling, and the topic shifted to other places. .
The elevator was too late, the voice in his ear was getting closer, the man's hand on the handrail was clenched unconsciously, and the jaw line was sharp.
Just when he was hesitating whether to turn around to avoid him, a group of people came up.
The atmosphere was stagnant for a moment.
A group of young people at the entrance of the stairs looked at the pale and handsome man in front of them, you looked at me, I looked at you, and lost the ability to speak for a while.
Gu Peilang looked at them blankly, the black leather case that wrapped the armrest under his palm had sunk deeply into it.
Among the group of young people, Su Jinyu's pink hair was extremely conspicuous.
The young man with a strange and delicate appearance looked at him with an alienated expression, and there was no emotion in his eyes.
The originally spacious aisle became a bit narrow because of the men's wheelchairs and the arrival of several young people, and the black wheelchairs just blocked their way.
Su Jinyu took a step forward, her thin and slender figure was wrapped in a tailored suit, with smooth and beautiful lines.
The young man looked down at the person in the wheelchair, his two good-looking brows wrinkled in the middle, and an impatient gully was twisted: "Let me go, you are blocking my way."
Gu Peilang raised his head, his pitch-black eyes looked at the person in front of him, his thin lips pressed into a stiff arc.
The two looked at each other, neither of them giving in.
The elevator stopped with a "ding", and then slowly opened. As if losing all patience, Su Jinyu stepped forward and slammed her thigh into the man's wheelchair.
The out of control wheelchair slid back and slammed into the icy wall with a thud.
The young man put his hands in his pockets, stopped looking at the man, turned and strode away.
The young people behind him came to their senses and quickly followed. Gu Peilang stopped where he was, and could still hear their voices faintly.
"He looks so scary..."
"What are you afraid of, no matter how good you are, you are still a waste. I heard from my dad that he can only spend his life in a wheelchair. A person like him really deserves it..."
The corridor became empty and quiet again, the man lowered his head, and his gloomy expression was obscure.
Someone like him? what kind of person
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There are always some things in the world that you think are very strange that cannot be explained by science. For example, once some people meet for the first time, there will be a second, third, or even countless times, even though you may not be familiar with each other. .
When I saw Su Jinyu for the second time, the other party changed his hair color again, this time it was a flamboyant red, and when viewed from a distance in the setting sun, it looked like a rambutan flaming in the wind.
Gu Peilang sat in the car and watched the young man come out of the alley behind him cursing, carrying a backpack with a broken bag in his hand.
The other party sat on the side of the road regardless of his image, opened his schoolbag and took out a piece of bread, tore the package, and ate it, looking like a homeless man on the street.
Gu Peilang looked blankly at the other party who ate a dry bread and drank a bottle of water, and never looked away from the beginning to the end.
There is a unique temperament in the youth, publicity and wanton, as if no matter where he goes, he is the most dazzling existence.
Gu Peilang's gaze towards Su Jinyu didn't change in the slightest.
The moment his eyes met directly, Gu Peilang's soul trembled deeply for a moment.
The pair of watery eyes in his mind slowly overlapped with the person in front of him, and the man almost subconsciously wanted to open the door and get out of the car to call out the name that he had carefully stored in his heart for more than ten years.
However, in the next second, the indifference and alienation on the young man's face brought him back to reality.
After returning to Gu's house, Gu Peilang couldn't calm down for a long time. After hesitating for a long time, he still called Liu Qi, who had been with him for a while, and asked the other party to investigate Su Jinyu's identity.
Assistant Liu works very efficiently. In less than a day, all the information about Su Jinyu was placed on his desk.
When he saw the words Lotus Village, Gu Peilang could already be sure that Su Jinyu was the old Chen Xiaohua.
When the other party was twelve years old, he was brought back to the Su family, and he changed his surname, changed his name, and even changed his gender, completely changing into a look he was not familiar with.