Of course Lu Huaiyu remembered.
She drank red wine that day and was too drunk, so she called him and asked him in a low voice why he didn't pick her up.
So he flew directly from Beijing to Hong Kong.
But when he arrived, the little girl dug a bigger hole for him.
She asked him to help her take a bath, and said very considerately and obediently that she didn't need to wash her hair today.
Because of this sentence, he almost failed to step out of the Gu family's gate.
The next day when he arrested her to question her, she rarely felt guilty, blushed, and said she had a dream.
In the dream, she was sick, and he fed her medicine and took care of her daily necessities.
He laughed:
"Didn't you still say that if you refuse to eat, I will kill you?"
Shen Li looked into his eyes and shook her head slightly.
"You didn't kill me. In fact, you hugged me for a long time."
"It was a long, long dream."
It grew so long that it was engraved in her memory, spread to her bones and blood, and could not be forgotten.
She seemed to think of something, and the corners of her lips curled up a little.
"You said just now that you were looking for me for a year, but luckily you ran into me in the end. Actually—it wasn't luck. That night, I deliberately refused to go back to Yunzhou with Su Yuan and stayed in Lincheng. Because when she went Three days before Lincheng, I had that dream. In the dream, I went back with her that day, and a series of car accidents happened on the highway. My right hand lost part of its functions forever, and I couldn’t draw anymore. "
The smile in Lu Huaiyu's eyes gradually dissipated.
"Since then, I have never really picked up an oil paintbrush again."
Her voice was soft and self-deprecating.
"I couldn't accept this, so I chose to run away, intentionally alienated my brothers and the others, and gradually lost contact with them. Even when Master died of stomach cancer, I didn't even dare to go to the mourning hall to express my condolences."
"I can't draw, and of course I can't drive. Uncle Wen asked me, and I just said that if I can't drive, I can't drive. Besides, after the incident from Yan Huifeng, I have never touched a car again, and Uncle Wen never mentioned it again." Pass."
"Actually, the life after arriving at Ye's house was not easy. Even on the first day of going to Ye's house, Ye Cheng scratched my face. Ye's house doesn't welcome me, Su Yuan doesn't like me, I don't know. But At that time, I thought, she still took me away after all, and she was still willing to accept me again after abandoning me for eleven years. It’s not that she doesn’t love me, she also has her difficulties.”
"So I think, as long as I do well enough, the gap between us will disappear. Besides, Ye Ci was very kind to me at that time. She lent me the dress and took me to the No. 2 Middle School class together. Speak for me in front of me."
She seemed to smile, mockingly.
In those years, poor acting skills and full of calculations were intertwined into an illusory dream, and she was deeply trapped in it, unable to distinguish herself.
"It was only later that I found out that the dress was worn by her, and that she spread the rumors about me in No. 2 Middle School. As for her helping me in front of Su Yuan... it made Su Yuan understand that I am a daughter whom she regards as a shame. , compared with Ye Ci, how selfish and selfish she is, and she can't get on the stage."
boom.
Lu Huaiyu put down the coffee cup and landed on the saucer, making a soft sound.
"I thought they wanted me to do well in the exam, but they didn't know that the first place was enough to make Ye Ci go crazy with envy. I took her to participate in the object competition, helped her write notes, make a summary, and finally—I was reported for cheating in the competition, and everyone was ashamed. You know, your reputation is ruined."
"In the end, my college entrance examination choice was changed by Ye Ci to an ordinary university in the province. I didn't know about it until the file was transferred. But at that time Su Yuan cried and said that she just wanted me to stay with her, Stay with her more."
So she finally gave in.
The corner of her lips twitched:
"The me in the dream, at that time, still refuses to open his eyes to see the truth. It's really hopeless, isn't it?"
There is a tightness between Lu Huai and his throat.
"But that was not the end, but the beginning of another nightmare. After I couldn't paint, I was depressed for a while, and then I started designing high-end dresses. It was much easier than painting oil paintings, and those drawings were also approved by G& ;amp;S' appreciation, but in the end, it was Ye Ci who appeared at the press conference."
Speaking of this, she stopped and remained silent for a while.
Even though a long time has passed, those memories still torment her, tossing and turning.
"... She was afraid that I would get the drawing back, and she was even more afraid that I would reveal the truth, so she took a chance and sent me to a nursing home."
"I lived there for several years, but I don't remember the specific time very clearly, because most of the time I was there, I was unconscious. Sometimes it was sleeping pills, sometimes it was sedatives, There are times, too.”
Lu Huaiyu suddenly felt as if his heart had been stabbed severely by something, and an indescribable, dense and severe pain spread towards his whole body.
"I tried to run out, but it was very difficult. At that time, Amian missed the best chance to debut in order to come back to attend the funeral for her grandma, and because she refused Tao Siwen's unspoken rules, she was deliberately suppressed by the company and her manager, and it was difficult to protect herself After Ji Shu knew that something happened to me, he drove his motorcycle to find me on a rainy night, but he got into a car accident and died on the spot."
Her eyes drooped slightly, and her voice floated in the air.
"It's my fault, those are all my faults."
If she'd been alert sooner, if she'd been awake sooner—
She was quiet for a moment, then finally raised her eyes and looked at Lu Huaiyu again.
"At the end of that dream, I found an opportunity to steal Bao Jie's mobile phone and called you."
"Actually, I didn't know if you would come or not, but in the end, you still came."
She turned her eyes slightly, and slowly swept across the room, the corners of her lips curled.
"You brought me back here."
Lu Huai and his fingers trembled slightly.
Her smile was light, like light floating on the water, as if it would be blown away by the wind at any moment.
"Although my health was not very good at that time, you were very patient. You showed me the room, talked to me, and slept with me. The more troublesome thing was taking medicine, but you never got angry. I said You murdered me and lied to you."
Lu Huai and Adam's apple rolled, every word was extremely difficult.
"and after."
and after
Shen Li was quiet for a moment, smiled, and said:
"Later, I woke up from the dream."
Lu Huai and Dingding looked at her, as if they wanted to look into the deepest part of her heart.
"Then, how did you get through that phone call?"
Shen Li paused, turned her eyes slightly, and looked towards the living room.
Lu Huaiyu continued to ask:
"In the dream, you found that business card?"
She shook her head, then looked at the cup of coffee between the two of them.
She seemed to be trapped in a distant memory, a little lost in thought.
After a long time, she said:
"In the dream, I didn't get that backpack back. But—"
"You gave me my second number."
(end of this chapter)