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This winter, there was another particularly important piece of good news—Lin Yuming completely lost his position in the school and was sent to prison.
He finally got the corresponding punishment, a punishment that no one was surprised by.
It was also the day when the news came out that Chi Xia came to the Lu family villa in person.
Lu Ming directly turned her away without letting her go.
It was Chi Qiu who turned off the screen of the tablet in his hand, and after thinking about it, he said lightly: "Let her in, the matter has come to an end, there is no need to avoid it anymore."
Lu Ming disagreed at first, but Chi Qiu comforted him repeatedly: "It's okay, Lu Ming, I will meet her sooner or later. Besides, Lin Yuming's matter has been settled now, and according to her nature, she will not do any more useless work."
As Chi Qiu guessed, the purpose of Chi Xia's visit today is indeed not for Lin Yuming.
On the sofa, Chi Xia didn't even touch the teacup in front of him. Her eye bags are huge, and it seems that she hasn't had a good night's sleep for a long time. She was rather haggard, and she said with despair, "Mom is going to send me abroad, and she said she wants me to continue my studies and not have to worry about the company's affairs."
"I heard." Chi Qiu took a sip of tea, his throat still dry.
Seeing his calm attitude, Chi Xia bit her lower lip. She turned her head away, then looked at him again, and laughed at herself: "I know, there will be no place for me in the company in the future. Mom cares about you most, and Dad and I are people she can easily throw away. "
"Uncle Lin's fate is what he deserves, not being abandoned by anyone." Chi Qiu disagreed with Chi Xia's statement, and said calmly, "You misunderstood Mom too much, if you have time, talk to Mom , good for you too."
"Misunderstand?"
After a short period of unwillingness, Chi Xia didn't care about anything.
She couldn't stand Chi Qiu's cold lecture: "Forget it, what's the use of talking about it now?" She came here today and just wanted to ask Chi Qiu a question, "I'm going abroad soon, and we won't see each other for a long time Here we go. I want to know, why are you lying to us?"
Chi Qiu felt that the teacup in his hand was a little hot, but he didn't answer.
Lu Ming took his teacup and put it on the coffee table.
Chi Xia asked him aloud: "My dad has already been punished, and so have I. Mom has completely given up on me... Why are you still unwilling to tell the truth until now?"
"..."
Chi Xia clenched her lips, swallowed a mouthful of saliva in frustration, and asked with difficulty: "Is it so difficult for you to tell the truth? If you didn't pretend to be blind from the beginning, maybe..."
Maybe everything is different.
To this day, her heart has been turned back and forth, and in the end she still blames Chi Qiu for the mistake.
It turned out that what Chi Qiu did was wrong.
There are a few lonely fallen leaves falling in the front yard of the villa, and the bare branches are the usual scenery in winter. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, their mottled shadows fell into Chi Qiu's expressionless eyes.
Suddenly, there was a dim light in front of Chi Qiu's eyes, and after a flash, he returned to darkness.
Chi Qiu's right eye began to swell inexplicably, as if countless blood vessels were dancing inside. He involuntarily covered his right eye, his heart beat faster, and an unknown hot feeling stained his heart.
Lu Ming noticed that he was wrong, and shouted suddenly: "Chi Qiu, what's wrong? Are your eyes uncomfortable?"
Chi Qiu took a deep breath: "I'm fine, the doctor said that it's normal for the eyes to feel uncomfortable occasionally during this period of time."
It is healing, it is waking up.
In the past few days, Chi Qiu's eyes can often see a little light. Although it was fleeting, Chi Qiu's heart was filled with hope for the future.
This feeling seemed to bring him back ten years ago, to the time when he just found out that he had regained his sight.
At that time, Chi Qiu held a secret anxiously, not daring to speak, not daring to speak out. Before facing the aggressive words of his own sister, he chose to keep the secret with low self-esteem.
But now, he shouldn't be afraid of anything anymore.
It's just that the cold came so quickly, and in the warm villa, Chi Qiu's fingers were icy cold.
Seeing this, Lu Ming held it in his palm.
When Chi Qiu touched Lu Ming's temperature, his heart beat and revived. He looked at the heavy black in front of him, and also at the erratic light in front of him, he asked Chi Xia a question: "Do you still remember, ten years ago, you said a word to me?"
"What?" Of course Chi Xia didn't remember.
Chi Qiu was not too surprised, he said calmly: "You told me at the time that it would be fine if my eyes could never see."
"What did you say? How could I say such a thing!" Chi Xia really didn't admit it, she stood up excitedly.
But Chi Qiu told her not to be restless: "Of course you will say it, because you think that once I regain my sight, it will threaten your position as the heir, and it will also prompt Mom and Uncle Lin to divorce."
Memories are the chariots and horses hidden in the mind. With a wave of the whip, you can only move forward when you know it hurts.
Chi Xia's legs felt weak, she sat down slumped, she seemed to have remembered. She frowned, and clenched the bag in her hands: "I should have said that sentence unintentionally... Do you take it seriously?"
"yes."
"But I said that unintentionally, why do you take it seriously?!"
In an instant, Chi Qiu was stabbed to the flesh by this repeated "unintentional". Such a bloody sentence turned into an unintentional act at this moment.
Fortunately, Chi Qiu was supported by Lu Ming, so that he would not lose his strength.
Lu Ming stroked Chi Qiu's shoulder, his face was too serious. If Chi Qiu hadn't stopped him, he would have liked to see off the guests now.
Chi Qiu told Chi Xia: "At that time, my eyes were already healed. It was you and Uncle Lin's carelessness and selfishness that forced me to make this decision."
Give up your identity as an heir, give up the bright world, and give up everything about yourself.
But still can't get the ideal ending, and giving in will only make others rampant.
Chi Qiu seemed to have confided all the grievances in his heart. It was the first time he said these words to Chi Xia: "Maybe you don't remember? My first blindness was only because... you want Eat an ice cream."
An ice cream that can be eaten at any time, but it must be eaten in that bad weather. Unfortunately, in the end, Chi Xia failed to eat the ice cream as he wished, and Chi Qiu also failed to return to the coffee shop smoothly.
Chi Xiameng was stunned, she actually didn't have a deep memory of that day.
She only remembered that after that day, Chi Qiu went blind, and the quarrels at home began to continue. Sitting in front of Chi Qiu's hospital bed when she was young, she cried and asked Chi Qiu if it hurt.
Chi Qiu said it himself, he said, "It's okay, Xiao Xia, it's okay."
How did it start to denounce it today
Chi Xia looked at Chi Qiu inexplicably, and her lips trembled: "That's clearly the Ji family's fault. Your blindness has always been the Ji family's fault! Otherwise, do they owe you for helping you so much unconditionally?"
Hearing this, not only Chi Qiu, but even Lu Ming had no expectations of Chi Xia at all.
Chi Qiu didn't want her to mention the brothers of the Ji family, so he stood up, his emotions were high, and he almost said sharply: "In the final analysis, neither Yan Chen nor Brother Ning owes me. On that day, Uncle Lin will be my guardian!"
In such a bad thunderstorm day, which parent would feel relieved to let their children go out to buy an ice cream? Just for an ice cream that his own daughter wanted to eat, Lin Yuming let Chi Qiu out without any explanation.
Chi Qiu wanted to refuse, but Lin Yuming didn't even give him a chance to refuse.
Lin Yuming was an order and a request to him, never cherishing and protecting.
"Just because I'm not Uncle Lin's child, should I be treated that way? In that case, Uncle Lin's mistake caused me to be blind, and you should also accept Mom's anger. Because I am her child, right?"
If Chi Xiayin had an accident at that time, would Lin Yuming have been generous to him
The answer is obvious, he won't, but Chi Lanyan will. Because Chi Xia is also her child, as a parent, it is extremely troublesome to balance a balance.
Chi Lanyan does not owe Chi Xia, Chi Qiu even more.
Right now, Chi Xia's questioning is really inappropriate and disgusting. Chi Qiu doesn't want to listen to Chi Xia's unreasonable reasoning and questioning any more. Chi Xia doesn't understand at all, she is sensitive and conceited.
Chi Qiu said in a breath: "Have you ever thought about it, you always feel that mom is partial, but is there anything less than you? What I have, you have everything. Including what I don't have, you also have. Your temperament , your ignorance, if it wasn't because of your family's preference, you would not have become like this."
Chi Qiu's speech speed accelerated: "It's also the eccentricity you think... I actually spent more than ten years 'repaying' you."
"..."
Chi Qiu is no longer silent, his thinking is clear, he is unwilling to shut up about everything that should be said: "But why should I pay you back, did I do something wrong? How painful it is to be a blind person, pretending to be blind How lonely a blind person is. Even once, half a time is fine, have you thought about me?"
Chi Xiahong stared at Chi Qiu, wanting to explain: "I—"
"Xiaoxia, I don't owe you, and you don't owe me any more now." Chi Qiu interrupted her without shedding a tear, and said coldly, "You are Mom's daughter, and this will never change. Mom doesn't Maybe I really gave up on you, and the company will not have your place. But from now on, we will compete fairly."
The company is the painstaking effort of Chi Lanyan's half of his life, and it is only fair that the capable ones go to the company.
Chi Qiu turned away, and said mercilessly: "Go back, you will never be welcome in this family of mine."