Xu Yiyang is a typical late bloomer in the eyes of relatives and friends.
He graduated from an undergraduate college in 2003 and went north to Yanjing to look for job opportunities. He changed several companies in a few years, but never made any waves.
It wasn't until the age of 27 that Xu Yiyang met the love of his life, Gu Sijia, and his ordinary life trajectory began to change dramatically.
At that time, Xu Yiyang was working as a project manager for a listed education group in Yanjing.
The company spent money and borrowed the name and resources of the University of Cambridge to build an online education platform in China.
In order to facilitate work matching, Cambridge found a girl from China from the school to work with Xu Yiyang.
This girl from China is Xu Yiyang's future wife, Gu Sijia.
Gu Sijia, who had outstanding conditions in all aspects, was the same age as Xu Yiyang. They were studying for Ph.D.s in Cambridge at the time and had just gotten an internship opportunity at the school. Because of this cooperation, they met Xu Yiyang.
In order to facilitate remote work docking, the two added each other as QQ friends.
In the first half year of their acquaintance, the two had never met in person and only had work-level communication online.
The change in relationship originated from a personalized signature on Gu Sijia’s QQ in the winter of 2008:
The content of the signature probably said that that day was her fifth birthday in the UK, and she dreamed of eating a Sichuan-Chongqing-style butter hot pot.
This signature only existed for less than ten minutes and was quickly deleted by Gu Sijia.
Later, Xu Yiyang found out that Gu Sijia hurriedly deleted it because she didn't want her parents to feel sorry for her after seeing it.
However, it was during these ten minutes that Xu Yiyang happened to see it.
Xu Yiyang didn't even know what Gu Sijia looked like at the time, but simply felt that it was not easy for a girl to drift alone in a foreign country for so many years.
It happened that a leader of the company was going to Cambridge to sign a contract, so Xu Yiyang asked him to deliver a few packets of Sichuan and Chongqing-style hot pot base to Gu Sijia all the way.
Xu Yiyang originally thought that this was just a small etiquette in business work.
But he didn't expect that it was his unintentional move that accidentally knocked on Gu Sijia's heart.
Subsequently, the relationship between the two became closer and closer.
First from friends, to confidants who talk about everything;
Then they developed from confidants to online lovers.
After a year of online dating, Gu Sijia successfully obtained her doctorate and decided to give up the opportunity to work in Cambridge and return to China to meet Xu Yiyang.
Gu Sijia is an out-and-out Zhonghai girl. Not only is she beautiful and well-educated, her family is also quite wealthy, and her conditions are much better than Xu Yiyang's in all aspects.
At first, her parents strongly opposed her decision and used various means to force her to break up with Xu Yiyang.
But Gu Sijia is the kind of girl who never looks back if she sees something right.
When the struggle reached a fever pitch, she decided to use the method of getting pregnant out of wedlock to force her parents to accept Xu Yiyang.
In this way, when Gu Sijia's parents reluctantly came to Xu Yiyang's hometown to attend their wedding, Gu Sijia was already pregnant.
A few months later, my son was born safely.
The moment he saw his son, he felt a strong sense of responsibility that he had never experienced before, prompting Xu Yiyang to make a decision: he must work hard to give his wife and children a better life!
So, when he was approaching 30 years old, he resolutely quit his nine-to-six job and joined the vast army of entrepreneurs.
Xu Yiyang is actually very smart, but he has always had no ambitions and pursued comfort.
And when his will to fight was aroused, he quickly accomplished something.
He first used his experience in the education and training industry to establish a small English training school.
Because he has a wife like Gu Sijia, who has a PhD in the UK, his training school started with IELTS training from the beginning.
Because of his clear positioning, Xu Yiyang quickly made his first pot of gold.
With Gu Sijia's support, Xu Yiyang used the first pot of gold to continue to expand the scale of his business.
He finally bought a house and a car, and helped his sister open a bilingual kindergarten in his hometown.
At this time, Xu Yiyang was 38 years old and finally touched the corner of success.
At the age of 39, just when he was preparing to take his parents to Yanjing to enjoy the blessings, his mother suffered a heart attack late at night and passed away.
Xu Yiyang received a call from his sister at around three in the morning. When he vaguely heard that his mother was being treated in the hospital, he got up and drove to his hometown.
However, before the car left Yanjing, my mother was already gone.
Xu Yiyang failed to catch up with her for the last time.
His mother's unexpected death hit him hard.
His parents have worked hard for him and his sister for most of their lives to grow up and study.
And he has left home since he was admitted to college. Over the years of working, he can only go home once or twice a year, and he has never spent time with his parents.
Finally, I had some ability to let my parents come to Yanjing to enjoy the blessings, but my mother could not wait until that day.
After returning from the funeral in his hometown, Xu Yiyang was unable to recover.
He suffered from insomnia at night and often hid on the balcony alone in the middle of the night to drink heavily to relieve the long-lasting pain and guilt in his heart.
Every time he got up from bed late at night, Gu Sijia knew it, but she never stopped him.
It was only after Xu Yiyang drank too much that she went to the balcony and hugged him gently, coaxing him back to sleep like a son.
Xu Yiyang would sometimes take advantage of the alcohol and lie on Gu Sijia's shoulder and cry loudly.
Gu Sijia tried to persuade him every time, but she couldn't do anything because she felt so sorry for him and cried with him.
Later, Gu Sijia made a decision. She wanted to give Xu Yiyang another child.
She knew that the regret and pain in Xu Yiyang's heart would be difficult to erase.
The best way is not to persuade him to forget, but to cheer him up.
She felt that Xu Yiyang cheered up for the first time in his life because of the birth of his son. If she gave him another child, he would find that feeling again.
So, after taking the initiative several times, she got pregnant as she wished.
At 39 years old, she is already a standard advanced maternal age, but she has no regrets at all.
She felt that it didn't matter if she suffered a little as long as she could cheer up her husband.
The moment Xu Yiyang saw the pregnancy test results, he finally realized that although his mother was gone, there were still many responsibilities waiting for him to shoulder in his life.
Then he picked himself up and dove into his career.
But he didn't expect that a long period of sub-health, as well as a lot of drinking, staying up late and working overtime, would have already destroyed his fragile middle-aged body.
Once again, while working overtime at the company late at night, Xu Yiyang suddenly received a call from his mother-in-law.
On the phone, the mother-in-law said hurriedly: "Yiyang, come back soon, Jiajia has started to have regular contractions!"
Regular contractions are a sign of labor.
Xu Yiyang stood up in excitement and blurted out: "Mom, don't panic, take care of her, I'll be back soon!"
After he finished speaking, he felt a buzz in his head, as if the blood in his body was under high pressure and rushed to the top of his head in an instant.
Then, he felt as if time suddenly slowed down a lot.
He could feel the phone slipping from his hand, and he could feel his body falling to the ground.
The moment he fell to the ground, he seemed to be hallucinating. His 39 years of life seemed to pass by at the speed of light in his brain. He thought of his mother who had worked hard all his life and never enjoyed happiness, and his father who had been depressed after his mother passed away. Thinking of his wife, who had been working hard with him for many years, and his sensible and pitiful sister, his last consciousness was full of guilt and unwillingness.
Then, time slowly stopped, the light slowly faded, and the body gradually lost consciousness.
The whole person seemed to have fallen into an endless abyss without light...
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