As soon as Ye Kong finished speaking, the woman's eyes turned visibly red.

"What do you mean throwing it away is easy?!"

She poured out two streams of tears at Ye Kong with a nearly tearing tone. "I worked so hard to carry this child for ten months, if she really couldn't survive, why would I send her to an orphanage? I have wanted to take her back countless times over the years, and have visited her secretly countless times, but we can't even give her a life in an orphanage! What can I do?! I am also suffering!"

As she cried, the man finally found the way to demonstrate his authority as the head of the family.

He raised his eyebrows, crushed the unlit cigarette in his hand, and looked at Ye Kong fiercely: "Don't you think you are so great just because you paid a little money?! My daughter was in the orphanage when you were responsible for her. As an investor, you should pay money! If you want to threaten us with this... Ouch!"

Before he could finish his words, he was hit hard several times by his wife.

"What did you say? What nonsense are you talking about? Are you a scoundrel who can say such things?"

There were still tears on her face, but she had to force a flattering smile to Ye Kong when she turned around: "I'm sorry, Xiaocao's father has no bad intentions, he's just not very smart, and he's a rough guy. In fact, we saved 20,000 yuan. Although we know that this is far from enough, this is all the savings we can take out..."

She sniffed, took her bag, and pulled out a stack of bills wrapped in cloth. She held it in both hands and timidly handed it to Ye Kong: "I am really grateful that you cured Xiaocao's illness. We will work hard to make money in the future and try to exchange all the money for you as soon as possible. Also, I will urge the child's father to quit smoking. We will take good care of Xiaocao."

In silence, Ye Kong lowered his eyelids and stared at the stack of banknotes in front of him.

The couple both held their breath at the same time.

Even the others were afraid to breathe heavily.

Everyone seemed to be waiting for Ye Kong's decision - even Xiaocao was quietly looking at Ye Kong with some curiosity.

It seemed as if even she herself accepted it calmly, and her future was in the hands of Ye Kong.

Whatever answer she spits out, she can go where she wants with ease.

But Ye Kong did not give an answer.

She just turned her head to look at Xiaocao, then rubbed her hair in a very sloppy manner.

Then she stood up, walked past them and said, "Is it time to eat?"

The man's face changed: "What are you..."

He was stopped by his wife before he could finish his words.

Looking at the back of her child following like a duckling, the woman said with uneasy but patient expression: "Forget it, we have waited for five days, so we can just give up this job! We must bring Xiaocao back with us!"

When Ye Kong was about to step out of the activity hall, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at the corner.

In the corner against the wall, on the ground covered with crawling mats, there is a pillow and a quilt. It is obviously a bed for adults.

"...What is this?" Ye Kong tilted his head towards Dean Sun.

Dean Sun glanced at the corner of the wall, and suddenly realized, "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you something. Some time ago, someone suddenly came to live with us and refused to leave. I couldn't do anything..."

"Old man, I'm back!"

A bold and magnetic male voice came from far away.

Then, a person who was completely beyond Ye Kong's expectations appeared outside the door with a camera in hand and a bright face.

It’s Ye Zhen.

He had a camera hanging around his neck. His black hair had been dyed orange at some point and was now messy and even had some grass debris on it. His shirt was wrinkled, as if he had just come back from rolling around in the mountains.

The face that had been carefully traced and recorded countless times by film and cameras was now covered with grass ash, except for a pair of dull eyes that stared straight at Ye Kong, dark and bright.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds.

Ye Kong remained indifferent.

Ye Zhen blinked quickly, his gaze drifting away involuntarily. The big man, who was a head taller than Ye Kong, had the word "guilty" clearly written on his face.

He did not ask Ye Kong, but asked Zhou Song: "Why are you here?"

Ye Kong didn't care about his reaction at all. He turned his head and stared at the old man and asked, "Go on, why is he here?"

"..." Dean Sun looked at the two of them and said, "Who knows why he came here? He said he came to relax, but he actually did nothing every day. He took his camera and rode out on his bike early in the morning and didn't come back until lunchtime. He refused to leave when I asked him to, and he even paid our rent and meals. I insisted on kicking him out, but he threatened me..."

"Hey hey hey old man, why are you saying anything!" Ye Zhen was shocked.

The old dean ignored him and continued, "He also threatened me, saying that he would tell his fans about his whereabouts and bring all his fans here, making me never at peace - how could I possibly fight against a big star? I had no choice but to agree."

Ye Zhen: …

Ye Zhen retracted his outstretched hand, and his whole body seemed to turn gray: "I'm just talking, I won't really do that."

"Really?" Ye Kong turned back and glanced at him, "Then just go away, why are you still staying here?"

She walked straight through the door and passed by the petrified Ye Zhen.

Zhou Song passed by him, sighed, and patted his shoulder: "Second Brother Ye, what do you think of your family? Why do you need to do this?"

Wei Zhiyu passed by him and patted him on the shoulder.

Ye Zhen: …

The couple walking at the end looked at him oddly, then looked at the crowd going away, and finally asked in a low voice: "What is your relationship with Ye Shiyi?"

The eyes that were just disheartened suddenly became deep and sharp, and he looked at them coldly: "Why are you asking this?"

"Just asking."

"It doesn't matter."

The man stepped into the activity room, sat down on the bed in the corner, slid down against the wall, and raised his hands to cover his eyes with his arms.

He obviously refused to cooperate, so the couple had to leave in a hurry.

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Of course, the matter of arranging accommodation for Zhou Song and others was left to the dean.

After finishing his meal, Ye Kong went into his room and took a long nap. When he woke up, the sky outside the window was filled with rosy clouds.

She lay on the wooden bed where she had slept for many years. When she opened her eyes, she saw in her blurry vision the half-withered roses and the Milky Way on the gray and white wall, then the clean but old window, and the full sunset on the window.

Everything in her field of vision trembled and flickered between her eyelashes as she blinked slowly, giving her the illusion that she had not woken up yet and was still in a dream.

"I didn't know I was a guest in my dream."

She uttered unclear words as if she was talking in her sleep.

He supported himself on the bed and sat up, but did not move for a long time.

Until the setting sun caressed the tips of her hair.

She suddenly realized that perhaps everything that happened in Yuzhou was just a dream.

But the real her, the real Ye Kong, Ye Shiyi, is just an earthbound spirit who grew up in the flower box since childhood.

She never left here.

This was the land that she had wanted to escape from countless times, but also wanted to return to countless times.

"Perhaps my birth was death."

She muttered such nonsensical words to herself, bent down and buried her head in the quilt, then let out a hearty and crazy scream.

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