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"Xiaoyuan, I'm Li Xue, how have you been these few years?"

Accidents always happen when people are about to forget about them. The word Li Xue suddenly broke into Li Yuan's eyes. After a short period of calm, a huge wave was set off.

Li Xue...Li Xue...my only...sister...

He repeated these two words silently in his heart, and the blood in his whole body seemed to rush to his head, making him feel dizzy for a while, and his body shook slightly.

He Shichen behind him noticed his strangeness and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing..." Li Yuan hurriedly escaped from He Shichen's sight, came to his office and quickly closed the door.

He held the phone tightly with both hands, staring at the text message, but didn't know how to reply.

How have you been these few years?

What kind of mood did Li Xue have when Li Xue asked this sentence?After losing his father and being betrayed by his sister, he suffered the heaviest blow in his life, but the instigator asked him if he was doing well, what an irony!

"Li Xue, Li Xue..." Li Yuan showed a bitter smile. In the past five years, he wanted to come as much as he hated her. The blood-linked family relationship can never be severed, but what she did made him feel hate.

When her father was there, Li Xue's life was as refined as a princess's. She was beautiful and proud, but sometimes she was coquettish and charming.At that time, Li Yuan felt that his sister was the most beautiful and perfect in the world, and no one could match her except his Brother Lin.

Later, they finally came together, like a prince and princess in a fairy tale.It's just that the ending of the story is far beyond people's expectations. The princess did not spend her whole life happily with the prince, but was tempted by the devil and fell into hell, separated from her relatives.

Li Yuan has an illusion of being homely and timid. He longs to see Li Xue but faces her again, because he is afraid that he will lose control of his emotions and say some hurtful words.He didn't want to do this, but when he thought about the suffering Lin Ge had endured in the past five years, he couldn't help hating Li Xue.

Without answering the other party's question, Li Yuan asked instead: "Where are you?"

Holding the phone in his hand, he anxiously waited for the other party's reply.The palms of his hands were sweating all the time because of anxiety and nervousness, Li Yuan seemed very anxious, his contradictory mood tormented him, making him unable to calm down.

He almost had the feeling that every second felt like years. Although only half a minute had passed, it seemed as if he had waited for a century.

Recalling the expected message prompt, Li Yuan quickly clicked on it——

"I'm back to City A, come out and have a meal together when I have time."

Li Xue's words were very plain, as if inviting a friend who had not been parted for a long time.From her words, Li Yuan could not see any guilt or guilty conscience, which was inversely proportional to his nervous and anxious mood.

Li Yuan felt angry, but he didn't say anything more. He did have a lot to say to Li Xue, but he wanted to say it face to face, not through a cold phone screen.

After receiving the time and place information of the other party, the conversation that had been separated for five years ended like this.Without any substantive content, not even the basic greetings, Li Yuan's heart was full of anger, he rushed into the bathroom, splashed cold water on his face continuously, and forced himself to calm down.

He is no longer the boy he was five years ago. The only thing that incident taught him is that fists and kicks cannot solve any problems. If he hadn't been so impulsive back then, maybe the matter would not have developed into a difficult situation.

Li Xue is back, what about Zhou Jianlong?Are they... still together?

Li Yuan just wanted to see his sister immediately and pour out all the problems in his heart to her, but he had to wait another four days, which was really a torment for the impatient Li Yuan.

Because he had other things hidden in his heart, Li Yuan seemed a little absent-minded when facing He Shichen, and even ignored the other party's teasing overtly and secretly.

"Li Yuan?"

When Li Yuan lost his mind again, He Shichen had no choice but to call his name to bring him back to his sanity.

"Ah?" Li Yuan woke up like a dream, only to realize that he was in the meeting room, everyone had already left, only he and He Shichen were left, "Oh, the meeting is over, Mr. He, then I'll go first .”

Li Yuan randomly stuffed things into his briefcase, then immediately stood up and prepared to leave. When he went out, he was too hasty and almost bumped into the potted plant at the door.

Seeing his flustered look, He Shichen narrowed his eyes slightly. He didn't like the feeling of being ignored by the other party, as if he was just a dispensable person to Li Yuan.Soon he guessed the cause of Li Yuan's disorder. He picked up his cell phone and dialed a number, "Xiao Jiang, help me find someone..."

Li Yuan decided to keep the matter of Li Xue's return in his heart, and not tell Brother Lin for the time being, so as not to worry him unnecessarily.Brother Lin managed to get out of the shadows of the past, if he fell into grief and despair again because of Li Xue's sudden appearance, he would be too sorry for Aunt Lin Shulin.

For the first time, he felt that time passed so slowly. During the four days, he had trouble sleeping and eating, and every night he would stare at the portraits of his father and uncle in a daze.

"Dad, tell me, should I forgive my sister?"

With the degree of father's unconditional pampering to his sister, the answer is yes.Li Weiran adopted a completely different way of educating their siblings, as much as he doted on Li Xue, he ignored Li Yuan.Now Li Yuan no longer wants to investigate the reason anymore. At least his father has completed the task of raising him, allowing him to grow up healthy and receive education without disease or pain. He has already learned to ignore the extreme desire for fatherly love in his heart and pretend He looked at his father lovingly holding his sister in his arms indifferently.

"Dad, why did he become like this?"

This was also the answer he wanted most. Although his father's death had caused the family's situation to plummet, at least there was still a house and some savings, enough for Li Xuean to live in peace.Later, after marrying into the Lin family, Brother Lin took care of her in every possible way, and Aunt Lin even treated her like her own daughter. What is there about her dissatisfaction?

All the questions will be solved tomorrow. Li Yuan lay on the bed and couldn't sleep all night. Occasionally, when he fell asleep, all kinds of figures would appear in his dreams - father, sister, Lin Qingyue... and finally appeared. The ghost of He Shichen is still there, but this time he is not the one Li Yuan is familiar with, he looks younger, standing in the dark wearing a cotton shirt and a black windbreaker.The expression on his face also made Li Yuan feel strange, he never knew that such a wonderful expression would appear on He Shichen's poker face, as if he saw something extraordinary.

Li Yuan, who was troubled by the nightmare, tossed and turned, sweating all over his body, and finally he woke up because of the wet sheets, he simply turned on the light and sat up against the wall, sleepiness and exhaustion made him hug his head in pain.

He thought of He Shichen's appearance in the dream again, and suddenly felt that the scene was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where it was...

Time passed by every minute and every second, and soon it was the appointed time.Li Yuan came to this coffee shop called "Golden Years" early in the morning, ordered a cup of hot tea for himself, and quietly waited for Li Xue to appear.

Near noon, the number of customers here began to increase. Judging from the endless stream of people, this seemed to be a very famous restaurant, but Li Yuan had no interest in the dazzling array of delicacies, and his eyes were always fixed on the direction of the door. Looking forward to a figure that has been gone for a long time.

Just when the hour hand pointed to 12 o'clock, a woman in a dark red coat appeared at the door. She was holding a little girl's hand and looking into the hall.

Li Yuan unexpectedly didn't recognize his sister at first sight. Li Xue, whom he hadn't seen for five years, had so many things that made him feel strange, whether it was her dress, makeup, temperament, or the little girl beside her.

That should be her daughter...

On the contrary, Li Xue recognized Li Yuan the first time she saw him, because he was almost the same as the image in her memory, except for the hairstyle and clothes, the images from five years ago almost overlapped.

She brought the little girl to Li Yuan, took off her sunglasses, and showed a lukewarm smile.

"Li Yuan."

Li Yuan nodded at her, "Sit down."

The life division between the siblings was terrible, and neither of them could find a suitable opening sentence to start the conversation.

"Mom, who is he?" The little girl was dissatisfied with her mother's treatment of her nurse, and climbed onto the sofa next to her, grabbing her sleeve and asking.

Li Yuan turned his attention to the girl, she was about 4 or 5 years old, wearing a white dress and a pink coat, her hair was braided into two small braids, and tied with a pink small animal headband, she looked Very lively and cute.

She looks a bit like Li Xue, but far inferior to Li Xue when she was young.She didn't inherit her mother's snow-white skin and bright eyes. Although her facial features were cute, they were spoiled by her impatient expression.

Li Yuan did not have the habit of judging people by their appearance, especially for children, he always treated them equally and was very tolerant, but he couldn't like this child from the bottom of his heart, because her lips, eyes, and skin clearly told her source of his genes.

——Zhou Jianlong.

The scene from five years ago reappeared in his mind. Although Li Yuan tried his best to convince himself that the child was innocent, he found that Zhou Jianlong's shadow could not be erased from the little girl no matter what. Go see their mother and daughter again.

Li Xue touched the little girl's head with a smile, and said softly: "Jingliang, he is mother's younger brother, you should call him uncle."

"Uncle?" The little girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then shook her head, pouted and said dissatisfiedly, "I don't want it, and I don't know him."

"Pretty pretty..." Li Xue was about to say something but was interrupted by the little girl's sharp voice——

"There are banana splits! Mom, I want to eat banana splits, banana splits!!! Give me some banana splits!"

The little girl picked up the menu very excitedly, turned to the page with banana boats, dangled in front of her mother, and expressed her wishes loudly.

Her voice was loud, which attracted the attention of others. Li Xue had no choice but to obey her in order to calm her daughter down quickly, and called the waiter to order some food and drinks for her and herself.