King of home technology

Mo Guangxia stood on the platform and waited anxiously.

Time passed by every minute and every second, a train arrived and departed, but he still hadn't found the person he was waiting for.

The sky started to rain.

The cold rain drenched his hair and shoulders, but he was reluctant to walk away and find a place to cover himself.

The long wait made his heart blur. He was not even sure what kind of person he was waiting for here, and how long had passed since their initial appointment.

Originally, he was such a person who was tired of waiting.I make an agreement with my friends every day that as long as the other party is more than 10 minutes late, he will turn around and leave without asking.

Anyway, it was not his fault to investigate the reason for the missed appointment afterwards.

But this time, he just waited on the spot, not daring to move half a step.It seemed that there was a clear voice in his heart constantly reminding him that as long as he walked away this time, the most important person in his life would just miss him.

When he looked up into the distance again, the familiar figure finally appeared in his sight.

The face of the visitor was obscured by the rain and fog, but it still made him feel inexplicably kind.

Gradually from far to near, the person finally came to him and stood still.

"Why have you been here for so long?" He smiled and raised his face, reaching out to hold the other's hand, "Hurry up and go home."

The man didn't move.

He just stood there, let him pull him, and said softly: "Guangxia, please give me some time."

"What are you talking about? I've been waiting for you for so long." He looked back suspiciously.

In an instant, a roaring train sped past his eyes, and the light from the window made him squint his eyes.

When he looked again, where was the shadow of the person he was waiting for?Only that sentence is still so clear in the deafening friction of the wheels and rails——

"Guangxia, please give me some time..."

Mo Guangxia suddenly opened his eyes.

From the gaps in the curtains, the faint light of the sky is shining through.

He turned over and took the alarm clock by the bed—54:[-] am West Coast time.

With a time difference of sixteen hours, it should be near sunset in China.

Xiao Chengzhuo, it's almost dawn here... Where is yours?

He lay on the bed looking at the ceiling of the hotel, all sleepy.

Only the phrase "Guangxia, you have to give me some time" in the dream still seems to be lingering in my ears.

I can't remember how many times I have dreamed of such a scene.

Looking back on what happened in the past three months, he even felt that he had been living in a dream.

Three months ago, when he finally managed to get the financing from SNJ Group, just as Lan Tian had expected, the internet company immediately withdrew the lawsuit against Xiao Chengzhuo.Not only that, but also added a cooperation plan, which made Xiao Chengzhuo's company's performance suddenly boom.

Everyone was overjoyed by the great turnaround. At the celebration banquet, the man who had always been moody and angry held him in his arms and praised him repeatedly as "great", and his voice choked up for the first time.

He leaned close to the other's solid chest, listened to the warm heartbeat, and felt from the bottom of his heart what happiness is.

However, the next moment the cell phone in the man's pocket rang.It was a call from as far away as England with bad news.

He clearly remembered the panic on the man's face that turned from joy to sadness the moment the man hung up the phone, and he just said "I'm sorry, I'm going to England for a few days." into the night.

He didn't know what happened, but he had a vague sense of foreboding.

The phone call from England made Xiao Chengzhuo so flustered that there was no one else except Chen Guang.

He originally wanted to buy a plane ticket and go see it, but Xiao Chengzhuo's company and his own studio's new book project entangled him no matter what.

It's only a few days anyway.He might as well wait quietly for the other party to come back.Even if the man brings back bad news, he must let him know that there is another one in this world who has just made up his mind to stay with him and will never leave him.

After Xiao Chengzhuo left, he got rid of the bad habit of being lazy, cleaned the room with his own hands every day, and waited for the other party to return.

One day, two days, three days... In the blink of an eye, Xiao Chengzhuo left for half a month and never came back.

While restraining the growing uneasiness in his heart day by day, he made the last effort in the studio to launch the new book.

In the three days before the new book was released, he led the entire planning department to work overtime in the studio and did not go home for three consecutive days.

When he dragged his exhausted body to open the door, the scene that greeted him scared him almost to scream.

The curtains were drawn and a dark room was filled with smoke.The strong smell of smoke made him cough violently as soon as he stepped into the room.

In addition to the smell of smoke, the room is also filled with a sour smell of rotten desserts, which fills the nasal cavity with a creamy, almost nauseating smell.

He was stunned by this scene, and it took him a long time to think of going in to see what happened.

As soon as he took a step, he almost tripped over something under his feet.I lowered my head and took a closer look, only to find that the floor was covered with cake boxes of all sizes.A box was accidentally kicked open by him, and what rolled out of it was a piece of the most unusual tiger skin cake, already covered with large and small mildew spots.

He was so shocked by the successive abnormalities that he even forgot to turn on the light, and just staggered in in the dark.

His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and he saw a figure curled up on the floor in front of the sofa.

"Xiao Chengzhuo? Are you back?" He tentatively asked, but no one responded.

He stepped forward lightly, squatted down and tried to push the other party, "What's the matter? How did you make the house look like this?"

This time the man in front of him finally reacted, and slowly raised his face buried between his knees.The gaze that looked at him was unprecedentedly empty.

He was startled again, and stepped back a bit. The hand that was propped on the ground in order to maintain his balance just happened to touch the touch switch of the floor lamp in the living room.

The moment the bright lights came on, he opened his eyes wide in shock, and looked at Xiao Chengzhuo in front of him in disbelief with a terrified look.

There were also countless cake boxes piled up beside the man, and a cream stain stood on the open front of his shirt.

The face that used to be radiant and smiling is now disheveled, full of stubble, and expressionless.

The eyes looking at him were empty and dull, as dazed as a lost child.

In an instant, he realized that something bad must have happened, and he couldn't help but lie forward and pull the man's stiff body into his arms.

"Cheng Zhuo...tell me...what happened?"

As if the gate of confinement had been accidentally touched, the moment his face was pressed against his chest, the man finally burst into tears.

Then, in the intermittent narration of the other party, he finally slowly understood what happened during the ten days they were separated.

It turned out that the call that day was from Chen Guang's mother.Suffering from an advanced brain tumor, Chen Guang suddenly decided to go to the hospital for surgery for some reason.

"Chengzhuo, no matter what you guys are doing, you have to persuade him no matter what..." The heartbroken tomb mother broke down in tears on the phone, "His chance of success in surgery is less than 5%, the doctor said, maybe Without surgery, he could live a little longer..."

When he hurried to the hospital bed, the frail and delicate man finally broke into a smile, "Brother, I've figured it out, your persistence in the past was right. You just want me to be myself... If you don't have surgery now... , I have no chance to start over..."

Facing such a scene, he was shocked.It turned out that I couldn't say a word of what I was going to dissuade, I could only hold my brother's hand full of infusion tubes and kept calling his name, "Chenghe..."

In my heart, there is indescribable annoyance.My younger brother's brain tumor itself has a genetic predisposition. When the rumors of his serious illness were raging in China, why did I think it was a childish farce directed by the other party to attract my attention...

Is there any room for redemption?If so, he is willing to exchange half of his life.

However, things backfired.After the operation, Chen Guang never woke up.

The signs of life are still there, but his consciousness has not recovered.He runs around the hospital at home every day, moving all his brother's favorite books into the ward, and reading to him every day.

Among those voluminous works, he accidentally discovered a fairy tale that he told his younger brother when he was a child. The pages were yellowed, but they were still well preserved.

Turning the pages of the book, a power of attorney slipped out of it, and the content agreed on the paper completely broke his already fragile nerves due to grief and exhaustion.

"Kwangha, do you know? About idolae... sorry..."

Xiao Chengzhuo buried his head in Mo Guangxia's arms, and suddenly mentioned a name he was very familiar with.

"idolae?" Mo Guangxia froze for a moment, not sure why the other party mentioned this person suddenly, or why he said "I'm sorry" without thinking.

"idolae...does he have anything to do with Chenguang?"

"Guangxia, I'm sorry...the person idolae...actually doesn't exist..."

"What?! Why do you say that?"

"Actually..." The man finally pulled a little distance away from him, and raised his eyes apologetically, "I shouldn't have kept you secret for so long...idolae is an artificial intelligence chat robot I was entrusted to develop...he's actually just a This is a well-designed piece of software... I was looking for someone to test the performance during the research and development stage, and I found you for fun purposes... I thought... I could get a little idea of ​​what you didn't want to reveal to me directly through it, so just I can learn more about your true feelings..."

"What... what..." Never expecting that the soul teacher I have been treating as a confidant is actually just a set of software programs, someone opened his mouth and raised his clear eyes, his expression was full of indigestible astonishment.

"I'm sorry..." Xiao Chengzhuo didn't dare to meet his gaze for the first time, and Xiao Chengzhuo looked away lightly, "I wanted to find a chance to confess to you, but every time I see you trusting 'idolae' more and more, I can't stop ...Those thoughts that you hide when you are awkward, have a fatal attraction for me..."

Sighing lightly, his embarrassment instantly turned to sadness, "I never thought that the software Cheng He entrusted me to design would make me the biggest beneficiary..."

In any case, this can be regarded as deception in a certain sense.Mo Guangxia frowned because of anger, and for a moment he relaxed because the client was Chenguang, his eyes widened in surprise, "You mean, Chenguang entrusted you to design this software...?"

"Yeah, I didn't know it before, and the name 'idolae' for this software was just a coincidence. If it wasn't for accidentally discovering the power of attorney he put in the book..."

The man paused, and his smile suddenly became very sad, "He commissioned me to design this software anonymously through someone else, so it turned out that he knew his illness a long time ago, and he had the consciousness of dying a long time ago... The reason why he did this I just don't want his mother and me to be sad... Because according to his entrusted requirements, if this software is successfully developed, in addition to being able to analyze the other party's chat content, it can also distinguish the other party's emotions based on the use of punctuation marks, and then in the huge Respond to the screening sentences in the database... In this way, in the world of the Internet, he can 'live' forever..."

As he spoke, he buried his face in his hands again, with an indescribable bitterness in his voice, "Oh my God, how much does he love us..."

In the blink of an eye, Mo Guangxia clearly saw his unbearable wry smile and the sparkle in the corner of his eyes.

Faced with such a fact, whether he should be angry, resentful or pity, even he was a little at a loss.

Pursing his thin lips, he was still thinking about how to express clearly and appropriately, but Xiao Chengzhuo who was opposite him raised his head again.

He stretched out his hand to pick up the cake box closest to him, forced a smile with difficulty and trouble, "In the years since I left Chenghe, I would order a birthday cake for him every birthday. But he didn't even once receive……"

Mo Guangxia suddenly remembered the anger he felt when he witnessed Chen Guang throwing the cake on the courier's face, so he quietly waited for him to speak.

"Do you know? Our family lived very poorly during the years when my father passed away. Cheng He never had a birthday cake. Whenever I saw his longing eyes when he passed by the cake shop, I couldn't help but feel heartbroken. During my college entrance examination At the end of the summer vacation, I finally bought him a small piece of the most common cake on his birthday with the first wages I saved..." He opened the box and slowly handed it to Mo Guangxia, " Look, it’s like this. He was smiling so happily and insisted that I eat with him..."

His hand drooped, and the box fell on the floor and rolled around a few times, "Later, I was able to buy him a better cake, but he was always unhappy and complained that I bought it wrong... It turned out that he just missed the cake. The taste that I shared with me at the beginning..."

He raised his eyes to the window, his eyes were almost empty, "These days, I have been thinking about how many things I missed because of my self-righteous misunderstanding... how many people I hurt... my brother, Guang Xia... ...and...Charlotte..."

When the other party mentioned Xia Luo suddenly, Mo Guangxia felt that something was wrong, he hesitated but repeated in surprise, "Senior Xia Luo?"

"Yeah..." The man's thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and the tremor in his voice was inaudible, "She likes me, you know that we were together, right?"

"Ah."

"Then do you know why she divorced?"

He also asked about the reason for the divorce, but Xia Luo didn't answer at that time. When the topic involved here, he had already guessed that it would be related to Xiao Chengzhuo, but he didn't know what kind of truth it was beyond his ability to bear.

Anyway, so far, he simply raised his eyes calmly, quietly waiting for the man to speak.

"At that time, I was not sure about my sexual orientation. Everything with Xia Luo was very ignorant, and naturally there were intimacy between young couples. It was not until later that I gradually realized that I actually liked men. I broke up with her frankly. I thought that telling the truth immediately and decisively would be the attitude of being responsible to both myself and the other party. She didn't do much to keep her after hearing it. I even praised her for being a chic woman, but I didn't know At that time, she actually had my child..."

The deep self-blame made him stop almost annoyed, and he sighed for a long time before continuing, "Chenghe's operation had an accident, she came to the hospital to visit, and I only learned that she was divorced... and the reason for the divorce , It’s nothing more than that she has never given birth to an heir to Stefano Nichols, and she is not accepted by the family. She ran to check by herself, only to find out that because of the abortion after breaking up with me many years ago, she lost her fertility..."

"..." Mo Guangxia who was also too shocked and didn't know how to answer, after hearing such a cruel and ruthless fact, his beating heart suddenly became silent.

"Irreparably hurt a woman, my younger brother, and deceived you who I love in a self-righteous way..." Xiao Chengzhuo raised his eyes and looked straight into his dazed eyes, "Guangxia, you Do you still think I'm a good person?"