Xia Yitong stretched out his hand to hug her, but just as he stretched out his hand, Lu Yinbing rolled back in panic, covering her chest and moaning silently. The intense mental pain was like being tortured to death. She trembled all over and shouted loudly, "Don't touch me!"
Xia Yitong held her hands in the air and shed tears silently.
In less than three seconds, Lu's father and mother, who were preparing to go to bed in the room, rushed out. Lu Yunzhang carried Lu Yinbing back to their room, and Liu Xinmin followed them back. Before leaving, she tried to restrain herself for a long time and did not cast a reproachful look at Xia Yitong, but her turning a blind eye had already made her attitude clear.
A daughter is a daughter after all, and few mothers-in-law can really treat their sons-in-law as their own children, and regard them as more important than their own daughters. It was Xia Yitong who made her daughter's illness worse, so she naturally couldn't be as affectionate as before. But her upbringing and rationality were still there, so she could only choose to turn a blind eye.
Lu Yunzhang thought more and was much calmer than Liu Xinmin, and he would handle the aftermath. She settled Lu Yinbing down and asked her mother to take good care of her, and then she went out again and patted Xia Yitong's shoulder, who was sitting on the sofa with her head down.
Xia Yitong raised her head, tears still lingering on her face: "I'm sorry, uncle."
"We are all family, why are you saying sorry?" Lu Yunzhang rubbed her head lovingly, indicating that he really didn't blame her. "Come to the study, I want to talk to you."
Xia Yitong followed him upstairs. Lu Yunzhang saw her look back at the room where Lu Yinbing was, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
It's not that he hadn't thought the same as Liu Xinmin, thinking that Xia Yitong was one of the executioners who made her daughter's condition worse, but he knew that Xia Yitong was under no less pressure than them as parents. Lu Yinbing was an artist, and they knew how busy artists were at work. Sometimes they had to fly to two or three places a day. Especially recently, Xia Yitong's popularity was talked about by their friends, which showed how popular she was. Logically, she should be even busier, but she kept coming here every few days, squeezing out time from her teeth. Why? It was just to see Lu Yinbing.
He was young once, and when he first started his business, he was busy day and night. No matter how late he worked, no matter how tired he was and wanted to fall asleep in the office, he would ask the driver to take him home. Even if Liu Xinmin was already asleep, he would only feel at ease sleeping next to her.
Only by empathizing with others can one extend one's own feelings. Xia Yitong has suffered enough, and as parents, they cannot vent their emotions indiscriminately.
When entering the study, Lu Yunzhang opened the door, took Xia Yitong's arm, pressed it, and said, "Don't worry."
Xia Yitong looked at him gratefully.
Lu Yunzhang had seen everything, and her look almost made his nose sore and his eyes red.
They were both sitting here because of the same person, the most important person in their lives. Lu Yunzhang poured a cup of hot water for Xia Yitong, and Xia Yitong whispered, "Thank you."
"Don't be so reserved, let's just have a casual chat." Lu Yunzhang said gently.
"You say."
"Don't be so polite. It's uncomfortable to listen to." Before the conversation, Lu Yunzhang felt that it was necessary to counsel her psychologically first, so that one of them would not get stuck in a dead end, and the other would get stuck in a dead end. If that happened, they would really be "sick friends". "Your aunt is just a little impatient. She has no ill intentions, and she doesn't mean to blame you."
Xia Yitong nodded: "I know."
"Do you really know?"
“I really know.”
"Smile and cheer yourself up."
Xia Yitong smiled at him, and the shadow between her brows dissipated a lot.
"Okay, let's officially talk about Lu Yinbing's problem."
Xia Yitong sat up straight.
Lu Yunzhang said, "There is one fact that we have basically confirmed. Before you came, Bingbing was relatively calm, but after you came, her condition became very unstable. I would like to ask, is there any problem between the two of you?"
"There's no problem, but you said that her mood became unstable after I came. Is that true?" Xia Yitong said in disbelief.
"Based on our observations over the past month, this is the case."
The blood color on Xia Yitong's face faded away in an instant.
After a long moment, her left hand began to tremble slightly: "I... I never thought it would be like this." Her eyes were filled with sadness. She had never expected that she would be the culprit.
The next moment, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Lu Yunzhang: "Then I... I..." She tried to suppress her sobs, "I won't come over until she gets better?"
Lu Yunzhang shook his head: "You have to understand that our goal is to make her feel better. She has the final say on whether she wants to see you or not, and you don't. We don't know which one is better for her. If nothing happened tonight, I wouldn't be telling you this. I plan to take her to see a psychiatrist tomorrow and then have a good talk with you."
"Then what can I do?" Xia Yitong asked anxiously, "Anything is fine!"
Lu Yunzhang sighed and said, "It depends on what Bingbing wants you to do. Don't you have to go to work tomorrow? Go to bed early. Her mother and I will take care of everything."
Xia Yitong looked at him.
Lu Yunzhang didn't give any more answers and said, "Shall I take you back to your room?"
Xia Yitong retracted her gaze and whispered, "I will go back by myself."
Lu Yunzhang responded and watched her enter her room.
The huge house was quiet. Xia Yitong lay on the bed with her eyes open. She seemed to hear Lu Yinbing sobbing in the room downstairs. Her heart was broken and she felt numb. At five in the morning, Xia Yitong got up from the bed, changed her clothes quietly and went out. She went to the neighborhood where Xue Yao lived. She wanted to squat at the door and wait for her, but she was afraid of being photographed by paparazzi. She was afraid of waking her up if she called her, so she sat in the car, turned off the lights, and went to the back seat to send her a WeChat message.
Xue Yao was still in a dream, and the screen of her silent cell phone on the bedside table flickered on and off.
Xia Xiaobawang:
Have you gotten up
Can you accompany me to today's announcement
You are going to the company at 8 o'clock, right? I will wait for you downstairs at 7:30.
…
At 7:40 in the morning, Xia Yitong was resting with her eyes closed in the back seat when she received a call from Xue Yao: "Are you at the gate of my community now?"
"Um."
"I'll tell the security guard to drive the car in. I won't drive there."
"good."
Xue Yao was startled when she saw Xia Yitong: "What's wrong with your eyes?"
Xia Yitong: "Nothing, I didn't sleep well last night."
"You call this not sleeping well? You didn't sleep at all the whole night." Xue Yao said, "You came to wait for me so early in the morning. Tell me, what happened?"
Xia Yitong smiled and said, "It's really nothing."
"You won't tell me, right?" Xue Yao unfastened her seat belt with a click, and Xia Yitong was about to start the car and leave: "..."
Xue Yao asked: "What's the matter?"
Xia Yitong said: "Nothing."
"What is it?"
"It's really nothing. How many times do you want me to tell you that?"
Xue Yao turned her face and looked at her.
Xia Yitong raised her hand and wiped the corner of her eyes.
Xue Yao sneered: "Why are you pretending? Didn't you come here so early in the morning just to talk to me?"
…
Ten minutes later, Xue Yao and Xia Yitong switched seats. Xia Yitong sat in the front passenger seat while she drove the car. She advised Xia Yitong calmly, "Be patient and wait for the news. There's no point in worrying."
When the car arrived at the gate of the community, Xue Yao slammed the steering wheel hard and cursed under his breath, which frightened the security guard.
The announcement was for a magazine shoot, the makeup was quite heavy, the stylist had great makeup skills, and Xia Yitong looked radiant and gorgeous after a while. He greeted Xia Yitong with a "hi" as soon as he saw her, and his attitude was quite friendly. Xia Yitong stared at him for a long time, and then she remembered that this was the gay stylist, and he and his junior were a couple.
The stylist looked at her expression of realization and giggled, looking very gay. He chatted with Xia Yitong while styling her, "This time two years ago, you were still shooting for a double cover with someone else, but now you are shooting for a single cover. Congratulations."
"Thank you." After going around in circles, I'm here again.
What to say? Xia Yitong really had nothing to say.
"I've also watched your new TV series. You acted with the girl who shot the cover last time. It's quite a coincidence."
"At that time, I didn't expect that I would be filming the same TV series with her."
Xia Yitong scrolled through her phone screen with an empty gaze, occasionally checking WeChat, text messages, and call logs to see if there was any message from the Lu family. She chatted with the noisy stylist, but the stylist didn't care what she said, as he was having a great time talking to himself.
After finishing her makeup, Xia Yitong entered the studio and posed in some cool or charming, fierce or lazy postures and expressions as requested by the cameraman. She has always had a good sense of the camera and it is getting better and better now, so shooting is effortless for her.
The cameraman said in fluent Chinese: "The last one, a sad expression with tears in the right eye, can you do it?"
Xia Yitong burst into tears in a second, and her tears washed out a trench on her heavy makeup. The camera in front of the cameraman kept flashing. She made an "ok" gesture, took the tissue handed to her by the staff, and went to the side to remove her makeup.
Xue Yao was chatting with the magazine director. From the lip movements, the other party seemed to mention the three words "Lu Yinbing". Xue Yao smiled and shook her head, and the other party looked regretful. Xia Yitong retracted his gaze and walked away slowly.
After removing her heavy makeup and applying only some water and lotion on her face, Xia Yitong appeared in front of Xue Yao with a well-maintained bare face. The other party's magazine director also left.
The three of them walked out. Xia Yitong touched his pocket. Fang Wei handed her cell phone to him. Xia Yitong checked the messages and put it away.
Xia Yitong felt a chill when he went out. Looking not far away, he saw that the trees on both sides of the road were beginning to show signs of withering. Winter was coming again.
As soon as she opened the car door, the phone in her pocket rang. When she took it out, she didn't hold it firmly and almost dropped the phone on the ground. The caller ID showed it was Uncle Lu, Lu Yunzhang.
After picking up the phone, the other party didn't speak for a long time. Xia Yitong's breathing became heavier and her fingers began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Teacher Xia, it's me." Lu Yinbing said.