When his mother opened the door, Shi Rao was sitting beside the bed humming his favorite tune and reading the script. When he heard that, he looked towards the door in surprise, and met his mother's gaze.
Like a detective searching a crime scene, Shi Lan squinted his eyes and looked everything in the house thoroughly, not letting go of any clues.
The messy bed sheets, her daughter's slightly swollen red lips, the wrinkled skirt corners, and the unfading charm between her eyebrows and eyes... As a person who has experienced it, there is nothing she can't understand.
"What were you doing just now?"
Facing her mother's lingering gaze, Shi Rao tightened her grip on the script, frowning and pretending to be bewildered.
"I didn't do anything, I just chatted casually."
"Chat? Did the chat go to bed?"
Although the relationship between mother and daughter has always been superficial these years, Shi Lan's eyes looking at the bitch still deeply hurt Shi Rao's heart. She rolled up the script and stood up, not dodging or dodging He admitted generously.
"Since you have found out, let me just say it straight, Qiu Cheng and I..."
However, before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by the furious woman in front of her.
"Qiu Cheng is your sister's fiancé!"
The way her mother jumped, she couldn't help but curl her lips and laugh out loud.
"Fiance? Who agreed?"
"The Qiu family and the Xie family! Your Auntie Le told me personally, how could you do such a shameless thing."
Shi Lan looked at her own daughter with hatred, Shi Rao curled her lips indifferently, completely unable to feel her mother's anxiety and worry.
"It turns out that in your eyes, free love is also called shameless. If...a woman has an affair with a married man, and gives birth to a child before she is married, what does this situation mean to you?"
Shi Lan never expected that her daughter would say these words to herself in such a tone.
She has been Mrs. Xie for more than 20 years. No matter whether it is in Xie's house or outside, no one dares to mention this matter again, but her daughter brought it up.
Seeing her mother's chest up and down, Shi Rao was a little worried that there would be an explosion there. When she wanted to truce, her mother raised her hand and waved it over.
The expected slap did not appear, Shi Lan looked at her daughter who was pinching her wrist in disbelief, Shi Rao bent her lips and began to exert force with her fingers, as if she wanted to crush the bone in her hand.
"Mom, you may not know me, but I've never been the one to stand up and be beaten. Besides, you can't afford to beat me like this!"
After finishing speaking, she shook off her mother's hand vigorously, and said viciously.
"Let me tell you one last time, Qiu Cheng is my man, if you mess up the relationship, don't blame me for being rude."
Looking at her daughter who seemed to be a different person, Shi Lan gritted her teeth and her eyes were full of disdain for her.
"Do you think Qiu Cheng will really marry you? The Qiu family..."
"I know what you're going to say. Mother Qiu doesn't like me, right? But haven't you thought about why she doesn't like me? Over the years, she's called Alan, Alan, you really think She treats you as a girlfriend, right?"
"She looks down on me, not because of anything else, but because my biological mother is a mistress, do you understand?"
Seeing her mother's suddenly pale face, Shi Rao pouted helplessly. In terms of acting skills, she felt that she was really inferior to that woman, and she was too good at hiding.
"One more thing, don't forget that Le Weiwei and Tang Yunmei are close friends in the boudoir. I think if she hadn't been the matchmaker, you wouldn't have to wait for my father's second marriage to become Mrs. Xie."
Since both of them want to break up her and Qiu Cheng, she might as well act first and break up the alliance of the plastic sisters.
Watching people tear each other is far more meaningful than doing it yourself.
"Who told you these words?"
"I overheard it at Qiu's house a few years ago."
The first half was eavesdropped, and the second half was her guess. But from a woman's intuition, Shi Rao felt that she guessed right.
More than 20 years ago, Shi Lan, a country girl, met her senior Xie Youqing in college.
Between his mother and his lover, Mr. Xie chose his mother. To be precise, it was because of the power of the family, but the relationship between him and Tang Yunmei was not very happy after marriage. As the name suggests, Tang Yunmei doesn't like men who smell too much of copper, and Xie Youqing can't forget Shi Lan who is obedient to her.
A few years later, Xie Youqing ran into Shi Lan on a business trip, and the two rekindled their old relationship. After a night of thunder and fire, Shi Rao, a child who was not loved by his father and mother, was born. As he grew up, his obsession with the title of Mrs. Xie was also carved into his bones.
"Before that, I thought she was as friendly as she acted, so..."
"Why didn't you tell me sooner!"
Seeing her suddenly hysterical mother, Shi Rao raised her eyebrows and thought: Could it be that you really regard her as a good sister
"I told you earlier, would you believe me?"
Shi Lan stared blankly at the devil-like daughter, but was unable to refute her words.
"Mom, Qiu Cheng and I are in love with each other, just like you and my father back then. Do you want me to be the second you and make Xie Yu's child the second Xie Yu?"
"..."
Shi Lan shook her head in a daze, and slumped down on the chair, as if she had just experienced a catastrophe, and she was several years older.
Xie Yu was not born to her, but she raised her alone. In her eyes, that child was her own daughter. She still remembered the indelible ecstasy in her heart when she heard that autistic girl speak for the first time and call her mother.
Shi Rao didn't know what her mother was thinking, but she could guess the general idea.
"Can't you guess why my sister moved out? She just didn't want to be a marionette."
"Why do you elders always like to make decisions for us juniors according to your own ideas? Obviously when you were young, you didn't want others to influence your future. Why do you have to do to others what you don't want?"
Every word she said was like a steel nail quenched with cold light, piercing into Shi Lan's heart one after another, causing blood to flow in her heart and excruciating pain.
Xie Youqing waited downstairs for a long time, but he didn't wait for their mother and daughter to come down, so he had to go up to see the situation by himself. When he opened the door, he saw that one was sitting on a chair in a daze, and the other was standing beside the bed with a sad face, as if they had just grown up. There was a quarrel, and it seems that they are recuperating right now.
"Dad, why are you here?"
Hearing her daughter's voice, Shi Lan raised her head hastily and subconsciously sat up straight, not wanting her husband to notice the abnormality.
"I waited for a long time and didn't wait for anyone, so I came up to take a look. Nothing happened, right?"
Seeing that his father was very curious, Shi Rao hurried forward and took his arm, "No, I asked my mother to be an audience for a while, isn't it going to record a talent show in a few days, it's my first time to participate in this kind of activity, it's a bit worried."
"There's nothing to worry about. Take out your filming status. Dad believes in you."
Xie Youqing is not a fool, he knows that something must have happened between his wife and daughter, but he also understands that it is not appropriate to ask these questions now.
When the family of three walked out of her bedroom, Shi Lan had only one thought in her mind: Over the years, she really paid too little attention to her little daughter, so that she was not fooled by her daily cuteness at all.
This girl is not a good girl, she has ideas, ambitions, and courage, much stronger than she was back then.
At the dinner table, Shi Rao was eating her diet meal with peace of mind, how could she explain to her father that it was her mother's business and had nothing to do with her.
After eating, she said that she wanted to go out for a walk. The elders frowned, but they still didn't stop her.
"There are a lot of mosquitoes outside, don't stay too long."
"Well, I'll be back after a walk."
Shi Rao held her cell phone, swayed her slippers, and was still wearing the one-piece dress wrinkled by Qiu Cheng. She walked to the door of Qiu's house unknowingly under the starlight. Looking at the magnificent house in the yard, she lowered her head and dialed the phone. his number.
"Qiu Cheng, if I asked you to abandon your family background and current wealth and go wandering with me, would you be willing?"
Back then, Xie Youqing and Shi Lan were also consensual and lingering, but in the end they still couldn't match the reality. If Tang Yunmei hadn't filed for divorce in advance, Shi Lan would have been nothing more than a lover raised by her lover in this life, and Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie's position had nothing to do with her.
"I would. But I would hate for you to lead such a wandering life."
Hearing this, she touched the big iron gate, lowered her head and sniffed, but before she could speak, she heard him say it again.
"If you want to be a flower, I will open up a fertile land with beautiful scenery for you; if you want to be a free bird, I will plant a whole forest for you; if you want to be a fish in the water, I can open mountains and water for you."
With his head down, Shi Rao firmly grasped the hollow carving on the iron door, with a contented smile on the corner of his mouth, tears fell into the concrete floor under his feet.
"Where did you read these words?"
"I came up with it myself. I originally wanted to use it in our wedding. Does it sound good?"
She sniffed, looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and said with a smile, "It sounds good, it's the best thing I've ever heard."
"Why did you remember to call me?"
"It's boring, no one at home to chat with me."
Upon hearing this, Qiu Cheng hurriedly sat up from the bed, and said energetically, "Then come out, and I'll walk with you."
"OK."
How could a woman who was always coy in the past suddenly become considerate? His eyebrows twitched, not quite believing her answer.
"you sure?"
"I'm sure, I'm at your door now, if you can't run to me in two minutes, I'll go back."
Before the words fell, she heard rustling voices over there, followed by the sound of running and talking.
"Why are you going?"
"Go for a walk!"
The man with the shoes on backwards ran out at the speed of a 50-meter sprint. Shi Rao never hung up the phone. She stood outside the door and looked at the figure that was getting closer. Very fulfilling.
"when did you come?"
"When I called you."
Seeing the panting man, Shi Rao put down the phone and took a step back, waiting for him to open the door and come out.
"What happened at home?"
Based on what he knew about Shi Rao, if nothing happened, she wouldn't be able to take the initiative to ask him to go out to watch the moon.
"It's nothing, just make it clear to my mother and let her not get involved in our affairs."
"..."
Qiu Cheng was stunned, with some doubts on his face, but she didn't want to explain so much, she grabbed his hand and continued to walk forward.