King's return

"Cough cough" a light cough broke the awkward silence, Lin Zhe was the first to react and gave the foreman a look, the latter hurriedly pushed it out and took it to the door by the way.

The second person who moved was Lin Tuo. In terms of the ability to observe words and expressions, Rong Jian couldn't flatter him. He jumped up from the seat like a clockwork, and said, "I'll take Monica around. Let’s go shopping, let’s talk slowly.”

After all, Lin Tuo couldn't help saying that he pulled Monica and left, but he didn't expect the latter to be so slow that he grabbed Rong Jian's arm and yelled at Lin Tuo aggrievedly, "Why are you making such a move?" , I haven't eaten yet!" Then he put on an extremely sincere smile and said to Rong Jian, "I have nothing to do with him, really, this person is so annoying, can you help me get rid of him?"

Lin Tuo was completely speechless at the speed at which this woman changed her face. Lin Tuo rubbed her fluffy curly hair impatiently, and said coolly, "If you don't go, I'll go." As he spoke, he flicked his hair and turned his head away.

"Hmph, who is it?" Monica murmured and turned around, only to find that she couldn't move her hands!

She yelled "Ah", and was surprised to see that Rong Jian's hands were clamped like steel hoops, and then her fingers were separated bit by bit, and the other's arm was quickly pulled out, Rong Jian took a left step away from her Yes, look down at her and say, "Don't touch me, I'll get goosebumps."

"What?" Monica didn't understand his words at all, and unconsciously leaned forward to pull him, "What's wrong with you?"

Rong Jian frowned, retreating again and again, Monica became competitive and chased after her again and again, the spacious restaurant almost became a chase and escape game for two people.

Monica's happy smile, in some people's eyes, looks like flirting.

The most painful one was Lin Zhe, sandwiched between two active volcanoes that were ready to erupt anytime and anywhere in the Lin family, the whole body was filled with terrifying low pressure, which almost crushed him.

Lin Zhe stroked his forehead helplessly. What kind of chaotic scene is this? !

When Rong Jian and Monica changed from a fast walk to a trot, the Lin family father and son finally couldn't bear it and shouted at the same time: "Enough is enough for you two!!"

--quiet.

The two of them stopped on the spot like a sudden brake, Rong Jian's expression didn't change at all, but he was secretly relieved.

Monica fiddled with her blonde hair shyly, and said with a smile, "Sorry, I had so much fun."

"Miss Monica," Lin Yanxiu stood in front of her, afraid that she might not understand, and repeated in English, "Our Lin family has important matters to do, please stay away for a while, if you want to have dinner, please go out Go left, I'd appreciate it even more if you came home."

"Miss Monica, please come with me." Lin Zhe interjected at the right time, no matter how much she objected, she dragged her away.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief without this nonsense.

"That old, uh, dad," Lin Yan swallowed back the old man who had reached his mouth, looked at Lin Moxi's unfriendly expression, and asked tentatively, "Do you want to continue eating?"

Seeing him holding back for a long time, his face blushing but he only said such nonsense, Rong Jian twitched the corners of his mouth.

"Shut up!" Lin Moxi gave him a cold look - it seems that mantras can also be inherited.

The old man of the Lin family slowly got up from the main seat, and glanced at Rong Jian lightly. When he saw this appearance, his heart still beat a little faster, but his tone was neither salty nor weak, and his majestic eyes had a hint of The arrogance of looking down on all beings: "Do you know who I am?"

"You are Lin Moxi, Lin Yanxiu's father." Rong Jian said the name flatly, so calmly that even he was surprised.

The corners of Lin Zhe's eyes twitched, secretly worried that the young people didn't know how to be humble.

"Hmph." Lin Moxi poked the floor with his cane, "Come with me to the study. As for you, stay here." The last sentence was for Lin Yanxiu.

Lin Yanxiu hesitated to speak, he was embarrassed to confess his confession just now, and he was too embarrassed to look into Rong Jian's eyes.

When Rong Jian passed by him, under the eyes of the old man, she rubbed the top of his head calmly and said comfortingly, "I'll be out soon."

The man's face instantly turned into a red tomato.

The corner of the old man's mouth twitched, thinking of something, he shook his head secretly with a wry smile, pretending not to see it.

Rong Jian followed the old man of the Lin family to the door of the study at a leisurely pace, without saying a word.

The curtains in the room were neatly drawn, and the brilliant lights in the distance came in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, creating a blurred scene.

"Sit." Lin Moxi tapped the single sofa in front of the table with her cane, and walked slowly to the window, looking at the bustling night scene in front of her without saying a word.

Rong Jian didn't like being looked down upon by others, so he stood still and said, "I came here for two reasons."

Lin Moxi didn't look back, but said calmly, "It's about your father, and Ah Yan, right?"

Compared with the kind old man I met in the daytime, this middle-aged man in front of me is the one who really showed the courage of the head of the family, casually going there, staring at Rong Rong only through the reflection of the glass. Jian, even people have a kind of pressure that they dare not look at each other.

Hearing him take the initiative to mention his father, Rong Jian clenched his hand hanging by his side involuntarily. He took a deep breath and whispered a word: "Yes."

Lin Moxi turned around abruptly, and pierced the opponent's pupils with sharp eyes like a falcon: "I am the head of the Lin family, and every second is precious. If you change someone else, you won't even have the chance to see me." No, I agreed to talk to you because you are the son of an old friend and Yan’s friend, but you only have one chance to talk about it.”

With Rong Jian's slowly narrowing eyes, he continued slowly: "Are you going to ask me about your father, or talk to me about Ah Yan?"

One topic, choose one of the two.

The intention of Lin Moxi to make this condition is self-evident, either completely give up the tracing of past grievances and entanglements, forget his father's death, and then give him a chance to pursue Lin Yanxiu, or make a complete break, and maybe turn against the Lin family , the matter with Lin Yanxiu is naturally avoided.

In the face of this cruel reality, Rong Jian's calm face couldn't help but fell into a momentary rigidity.

Lin Moxi sat down calmly, took a sip of tea, and waited quietly for his answer, her downcast eyes were not cloudy like the old man's.

After about half a minute, Rong Jian's shoulders relaxed slightly.

"How?" Lin Moxi asked without raising his head.

Rong Jian calmly opened the single sofa and sat down, with double eyelids on his face, he said slowly: "I choose - it's about me."

Hearing this, Lin Moxi finally looked at him, and said calmly, "I don't seem to have given you this option."

"You said 'I have a chance for a topic'." Rong Jian stretched out a finger, playing a rogue confidently, "I choose a topic about me, it's not a violation of the rules."

"What a cunning boy!" Lin Moxi snorted and put down the teacup.

Rong Jian stared at him, pursed his lips slightly, his calm expression concealed apprehension and nervousness - although he didn't like the feeling that his fate was controlled by others, even if he was as fearless as him, he still couldn't help worrying.

Lin Moxi looked at this face for a while, then sighed slightly, nodded and said, "Tell me."

Only then did Rong Jian let go of his breath a little bit. After thinking about it, he decided to find out about his father first. This was a knot in his heart for nearly 20 years, and it was also a difficult knot between him and Lin Yanxiu.

Taking a deep breath, he looked directly into the eyes of the head of the Lin family, and said without hesitation: "Father's death, does it have anything to do with you?"

Lin Moxi was a little surprised by Rong Jian's directness and courage, and he also responded directly: "Although it didn't hit, it's not far away."

Rong Jian's breath stopped.

"Do you know what disease Ah Chen has?" Lin Moxi lowered her eyes to avoid the unforgettable face, and rubbed the rim of the teacup with her thin fingers.

Rong Jian pursed her lips, and said without any emotion in her voice, "AIDS."

Lin Moxi paused, closed his eyes slightly, and asked shyly, "Do you know what the cause is?"

"This is what I was going to ask you." Fingers pinched into the palm involuntarily, and Rong Jian could clearly hear his heart beating faster.

Lin Moxi didn't speak for a long time, and seemed a little embarrassed to speak. He frowned slightly, and after a long time, he stared into Rong Jian's eyes and said expressionlessly: "If I tell you, it's because your father and some other people who don't know each other Si's man fooled around and got infected, do you believe it?"

"You bullshit!"

Rong Jian subconsciously slapped the table with a "bang", stood up suddenly, his chest heaved violently due to anger, he hadn't shown such emotion for a long time, his mind went blank, and he completely refused to accept the words he heard.

As the head of a powerful family in the upper class of American society, Lin Moxi hadn't been pointed and scolded like this for many years, let alone a junior.

However, he didn't get angry, he just quietly looked at Rong Jian who was furious, and looked at his familiar yet unfamiliar face, feeling a little dazed.

——Many years ago, when I proposed to break up with Rong Chen, that man was the same, glaring at himself excitedly but restrained, refusing to believe his words.

At this moment, Rong Jian, who overlapped with Rong Chen, made Lin Moxi's heart constrict and ache.

He reached out to touch the medicine box in the drawer, took one tablet with water, calmed down for a while, and took another tablet - he hadn't had this symptom for two years, maybe he hasn't taken the medicine for a long time, but he didn't expect to take it at this moment two grains.

After the pain that spread from his heart to his limbs gradually passed, Lin Moxi calmed down. He looked up at Rong Jian again, but was surprised to find that the other party had already calmed down.

"My father is definitely not a person who doesn't love himself. If what you said is true, tell me the reason, and I want to know the truth." Rong Jian still stood, his deep black eyes flickering, as if he was trying his best to endure the turbulent anger and anger in his eyes. hate.

Such gaze gave Lin Moxi the illusion of being burned. He rubbed his dry eyes, said hoarsely, and said with difficulty: "After I took him away, he accidentally learned that I have a wife and son in the United States." , and I was pressured by the family to break up at that time."

He didn't seem to notice Rong Jian's increasingly angry eyes, and with a hoarse voice full of regret and pain, he continued to himself: "Ah Chen has already betrayed his wife and children, and lost me. He couldn't bear this blow, so he got drunk and fell into degeneration."

"Bang!" His fist slammed on the solid dark elm table, making a loud noise, and the whole Lin house seemed to be shaken several times by this blow.

Veins appeared on Rong Jian's furious face, his fists were so bloodshot under the intense force that he was almost shaking.

The father whom he had admired since he was a child, the gentle father, and the father who admired him, and the ideals that supported him step by step towards the goal of being a game champion, all collapsed at this moment!

The study room was dead silent, and the lights in the distance at night seemed unreal and unreachable.

Lin Moxi's eyes moved from the opponent's fist to his eyes, his eyes were silent and empty, with a complicated sigh, he said in a deep voice: "He will be so depressed, and I have to pay a lot of responsibility. It is only natural that you hate me It's a matter, but I hope you take it one step at a time, and don't take your anger on Yan, he doesn't know anything, and it's none of his business."

Rong Jian's lips trembled, and he asked coldly: "You obviously have a wife and son, why do you want to destroy my good family? Since you have already left my father, why should you abandon him?! Even if he committed a crime Wrong thing, you never even showed up when he was dying! How can you be so selfish and cold-blooded?!"

Lin Moxi leaned on the seat wearily, without a word of rebuttal, he frowned and recalled the unbearable past 20 years ago, as if all his energy was drained in an instant, and he really became an old man, lifeless.

"At that time, I was always under the extremely strict control of my family. I had no freedom in words or deeds, even marriage. I had no feelings for my wife, and I hated the step-by-step life that was arranged. So I took advantage of an opportunity to return to China to develop. Take the opportunity to get rid of them temporarily."

Lin Moxi looked into his eyes, with an inexplicable emotion in them: "That's when I met Ah Chen."

With a low sigh, he slowly closed his eyes. The memories of the past 20 years came to his mind one by one, but they were already blurred. appearance.

"He is a gentle man, but he is very stubborn and stubborn in his bones. Once he is convinced of something, he will never look back, and love is the same. I know he has a family, and so do I, but so what? I was young at the time Arrogant, arrogant and self-righteous, grew up under the shade of the family, thinks that he is the center of the world, thinks that love is selfish and great, thinks that love is everything in life, oh, the so-called love"

Lin Moxi covered her eyes, her Adam's apple vibrated, as if laughing at her own stupidity.

"We fell in love desperately. Although Ah Chen didn't say anything, he actually gave much more than I did for him, and even broke up with his family. However, in my opinion at that time, other people's contributions as it should be”

"Later we were together for a long time. Although we were happy, to me, there was always a day that was boring. Your father enjoyed the ordinary life of rice, rice, oil and salt, but I, a rich man, couldn't bear it for a long time. No matter how much Passion is always polished by monotonous days"

"It so happened that at this time the elders of the family ordered me to go back. I had a showdown with Ah Chen. In fact, I didn't want to completely sever ties with him, but it was because of my concealment and infidelity that I annoyed him. He usually has a gentle temperament. , but when he gets angry, he is quite extreme, he is a person who can't put a grain of sand in his eyes."

"We quarreled many times. I couldn't stand him who has always been obedient to me becoming disobedient. In a rage, I went back to the United States. After I calmed down, I came back to look for him, but I found that Chen had completely changed. and become self-defeating."

Lin Moxi's hoarse voice was choked with sobs: "I saw him hang out with people in a low-end bar, depressed and depraved, I was furious and heartbroken, and in the end they still had a bad relationship. Don't see him either, at that time, I didn't know he was suffering from that terminal illness. When I found out later, it was too late."

"This is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life," Lin Moxi said with a wry smile, "It's a pity that it took me a hundred lifetimes to understand this truth."

"It's too late." Rong Jian slowly withdrew his fist and hung it by his side, his heart was complicated and distressed beyond words. He didn't even know whether to blame Lin Moxi for being selfish, or to scold his father for being cowardly and irresponsible.

He only felt that a piece of his heart had been dug out, and there was a cold wind blowing back and forth inside, making people feel numb.

Sadness, anger, shame, and disappointment were all in front of him, and he was so at a loss that he didn't know which one to experience first.

In the end, Rong Jian just stood there blankly, lowered his eyes, enduring this suffocating and cruel fact.

In the orphanage, when his mother died, he hated his father.

Hate him for abandoning himself and his mother, hate him for leaving alone despicably, hate him for leaving himself alone in this world.

But without love and dependence, where did such deep hatred come from?

Now that he knew everything about his father, Rong Jian couldn't tell whether he should laugh out loud or cry sadly.

So ironic, so sad.

The old and the young were silent, and for a while, the study room became even colder and quieter.

I don't know how long it took, Lin Moxi wiped her face, recovered from the sad atmosphere, looked at Rong Jian steadfastly, and said in a low and serious voice: "When it comes to this matter, there is nothing to say It's over, I'm sorry for your father, you resent me, I have nothing to say, but I still want to remind you, Yan is innocent, I can see that he really fell in love with you, alas fate is a serious thing Unpredictable and difficult to fathom, I didn't believe in the cycle of karma and retribution, but now it seems that it may not be unreasonable."

Lin Moxi looked at him solemnly, and said in a deep voice: "Rong Jian, although I feel ashamed of you, it doesn't mean I have to pay you a son. I won't hinder you two, but to be honest, I'm I'm not optimistic either. Your father and I are a lesson from the past. This is not a fairy tale. Life is the cruelest test. Maybe there will be some changes in the future that will make you regret your desperation today! Do you really have to wait until then, like me? Too late to regret? I absolutely don’t want to see you and Ah Yan follow in the footsteps of our older generation!”

"Rong Jian, if you have any request, I will do my best to compensate you, but the relationship between you and Ah Yan, I hope that both of you will carefully consider, the United States is an open country, and I am not conservative Father, I don't even care about your background and status, I don't doubt whether you are in love with each other, but I am worried, whether you can stay together? The enemy of time is too powerful, and you are too young."

Rong Jian listened to Lin Moxi's heartfelt words, suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness, and suddenly envied Lin Yanxiu, no matter how many mistakes Lin Moxi had made, he loved his son so sincerely.

—and him?

When he was bullied and alone, who ever felt sorry for him?