When he got home, Ji Ran didn't say a word, turned around and went back to his room.
On the way, his cell phone rang countless times, all from Mrs. Ji's assistant. He dragged the number into the black, and the other party called from an unfamiliar number, Ji Ran simply turned off the phone.
The room has no lights, the curtains are closed, and the light in the room is dim. Ji Ran threw his mobile phone on the table and lay down on the bed.
He buried his face in the pillow until he was nearly suffocating, then turned his face away and breathed in the fresh air.
Qin Man parked the car and entered the house in no hurry. Instead, he took out his mobile phone and called Liu Chen first.
"The formalities are going through in two weeks."
Unexpectedly, there was another change. Liu Chen was stunned for a moment, and then cautiously said, "Understood. May I ask what happened? Do you need my help?"
He said lightly, "No, it's a private matter."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Mancai turned around and entered the room. He opened the bedroom door and saw the person lying inside, sitting on the head of the bed and rubbing his hair.
"Addicted to kneading?" Ji Ran felt the temperature in his palm, and it took a long time for him to say such a sentence.
Qin Man deserved it naturally: "Well, it's very soft."
Ji Ran didn't respond.
He took a look at it on the way home.
He found that he was not sad at all, he even thought that even if Ji Guozheng just died on the operating table, he probably only had one emotion left—
unwilling.
Zhao Qingtong has not yet settled the injustice Zhaoxue. She has been cast aside by everyone. After so many years of death, she still has to be pointed out by others...
Caused such serious harm to others, there is no reason to let go so easily.
Qin Man lay sideways beside him and stayed silent with him.
After a while, the person beside him suddenly asked, "What version did you hear before?"
Qin Man raised his eyebrows: "What?"
"About me and Zhao Qingtong." Ji Ran turned to look at him.
Qin Man hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth: "What I heard... It's not a good word."
Ji Ran asked, "Do you believe it?"
As soon as these words came out, Ji Ran was stunned.
Since he was sensible, he has never cared about what other people think. As long as the other party didn't make a fool of himself and didn't talk to him, he would treat the rest as a wind blowing by his ears, and it didn't matter.
His own life does not need anyone to affirm.
But at this moment, he was eager to know how Qin Man viewed him.
Qin Man: "I..."
"Forget it." Ji Ran interrupted him and twisted his neck back, "Don't say it, when I didn't ask."
"When I first heard your name, I didn't take it to heart at all." Qin Man laughed and kept talking, "I was busy with exams at the time, so I didn't have the energy to care about other people's affairs."
Ji Ran muffled: "Please stop talking."
"The first time I saw you was in the cafeteria? You wear a school uniform and are as thin as a monkey."
"You are like a monkey, and your whole family is like a monkey."
"...Okay, I'm like." Qin Man lowered his eyes and smiled, "After that time, I often bumped into you fighting with other classmates..."
Ji Gas said: "That's why they came to provoke me!"
"I know." Qin Man was helpless, "Can you let me finish my sentence?"
"I saw you fighting with others, and in the end those people couldn't get any better."
nonsense. Of those cowards who even beat people, who can beat him? Ji Ran buried in his heart.
"Every time you leave arrogantly." Qin Man held his chin and smiled softly, "Always secretly hide and cry?"
Ji Ran's expression froze.
"I always like to run to the banyan tree on the back of the school and sit on the branch to wipe my tears..."
Ji Ran: "...you fart."
"Occasionally Lao Xing is so strict that you can't get out. You'll go to the nearby teaching building that hasn't been opened yet."
"... I don't have it."
"My favorite classroom is the one at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor."
"In the last semester of high school, you finished a fight with someone and picked up a dog on the side of the road. It seems to have been abused and has been refusing to go with you. You just stood there and waited for someone from the pet store to come. just left."
"Then every Friday after school, you go to the pet store to see him until he gets adopted..."
"..." Ji Ran got up abruptly, because his ears were all red because he was told, "Fuck you, are you following me?!"
Qin Man couldn't help laughing: "I said that I met by chance, do you believe it?"
"I believe in a ghost!"
"That's it." Qin Man was righteous and frank, "I'm a pervert."
Ji Ran was startled by his rogue.
He really couldn't imagine that the expressionless, indifferent learning machine would sneak behind him after school every day.
"I've met you many times. I know better than anyone what kind of person you are." Qin Man said.
Ji Ran was dumbfounded and looked at him blankly.
After a long while, his Adam's apple moved slightly: "You are really a... flatterer."
Qin Man chuckled lightly, just about to say something.
"Actually, Zhao Qingtong she—" Ji Ran gritted her teeth and hesitated for a moment, "She is not as bad as others say."
This is the first time Ji Ran told others about Zhao Qingtong. In the past, even Cheng Peng only knew a small part of it.
The story is very simple. It is nothing more than a wine game. The big boss got drunk and used his drunkenness to win the innocence of a female star.
Finding out that the female star was pregnant, the agent immediately contacted the big boss. The boss ordered an abortion. The female star gritted her teeth and went to the boss's house in order to save her child.
The old man took a fancy to the child and discussed with the main palace again and again, and the other party finally nodded. So the female star withdrew from the entertainment industry, gave birth to the child despite the rumors, raised the child firmly amid abuse and discrimination, and finally died in a car accident.
A woman's youth is over in a few words.
After Qin Man heard it, the smile on his lips was almost gone. He was silent for a while and asked, "How did you know about these things?"
"She has the habit of writing a diary." Ji Ran paused, "Ji Guozheng sealed his seal thoroughly. Although I don't have any evidence now, there will definitely be traces of what I have done. I will find it..."
"I believe you." Qin Man interrupted him.
He rubbed the back of Ji Ran's neck soothingly, "As long as you are willing to tell me, I will believe you."
Ji Ran's mouth was still slightly open, he looked at the person in front of him, several words wandered around his mouth, and finally just spit out a syllable.
"… Um."
It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and neither of them had dinner.
"I'm going to cook some noodles for a night." Qin Man sat up and saw that the people around him were still closing their eyes, and said, "You have to bear with it, and then go to sleep after eating."
When the door closed, Ji Ran slowly opened his eyes.
He sat up with his hands, opened the wardrobe, opened the safe hidden inside, and pulled out a light blue diary from the deepest part.
The book is already some years old, and the paper is almost full. It is Zhao Qingtong's notebook.
The first and middle sections are all innocuous little daily routines, recording the trivial matters of Zhao Qingtong's life. Among them, being in the circle, filming, and being famous are just a few pages of stories.
Until a certain page, the original beautiful and beautiful handwriting suddenly became dazzling, the woman was nervous and afraid to record the major events in her life, and she could still see the traces of the pen and ink smudged by tears.
Turning back a few pages, there is an extra B-ultrasound photo on the paper.
"Thank you for coming to my world, thank you."
At the bottom of the photo, the line of words is neat and small, and you can see that she writes very carefully.
Ji Ran sat on the ground with his back against the wardrobe, staring at the line.
He hadn't opened it for three years, and when he opened it again, it still felt familiar.
Before meeting Ji Guozheng, Zhao Qingtong was a very quiet person. She doesn't seem to be able to get along with others, and often writes about her troubles in her diary.
After she became pregnant with Ji Ran, she became a lonely person, and no strangers appeared in her diary anymore.
"Xi Xi reacted very badly. I went to the hospital for examination. The doctor said it was my physical problem. I don't know if it will affect the child. Worry and pray."
"The baby kicked me, the first fetal movement, commemorate it."
"I fell while taking a shower, and I sat on the ground for more than ten minutes and couldn't stand up. I was so scared."
…
"I gave birth, boy. His assistant took a look at me. The assistant then told me that he named the child Ji Ran."
"Xiao Ran has repeated fever today."
"Xiao Ran has learned to call her mother, happy."
"Xiao Ran became a young pioneer."
"Xiao Ran has always been injured recently. I have to go to Nanshan to worship Bodhisattva these days."
From this page, the diary ushered in another small turning point.
From here, Zhao Qingtong's tears are on every page, and the date between each diary is getting longer and longer—
"Xiao Ran was bullied by his classmates. His face was covered with wounds, and he had to help me wipe my tears... I'm so useless."
"Today, I quarreled with Xiao Ran for the first time. He said that I was an irresponsible adult. I think he was right. I can't even protect myself. What qualifications do I have to raise a child?"
"Grandma Xiaoran came to me today and said she wanted to send Xiaoran abroad, but I didn't agree. This is the first time I quarreled with that family. I'm so selfish, I know he's not doing well by my side, but I still I want to keep him."
"Today, he asked me out to meet. I haven't seen him for more than ten years. I'm a little scared, because he wants to send Xiao Ran away again. But I won't compromise. "
The diary ends abruptly here.
On this day, Zhao Qingtong had a car accident on the road and never came back. This diary is also perfectly hidden in the pillowcase with the owner's departure.
Ji Ran's face was sullen, and he closed the diary irritably. Because the page-turning action continued for too long, the following pages had been raised high, Ji Ran lowered his eyes, caught off guard and saw a line of small words in the middle of the many white papers.
He was stunned, and quickly turned to that page—
"He is the rainbow after the torrential rain, the new shoot after the disaster."
"It's also a gift from God to me."
"I will always love him."
There is no signature on it, no date left, and it doesn't make it clear who "he" is. Like an excerpt from a diary owner on a whim.
Ji Ran stared blankly at this page, and after a few seconds, he held the diary tightly in his arms, his nose was sore, his eyes were dyed red in an instant, and he whimpered lowly.