To die

Lu Hanqian sat in the car covered in rain, turned on the heater, threw his wet coat on the back seat, and drove to the Daping floor without saying a word.

Halfway through the phone rang three times, once from Gu Zhao and twice from Mother Lu.

Lu Hanqian looked ahead, but ignored him.

It wasn't until the fourth time Mother Lu called again that Lu Hanqian suddenly rolled down the car window and threw the phone out without warning.

The small rectangular block rolled into the ditch with a "plop", and was splashed with a layer of muddy water by Lu Hanqian's car, lying innocently and alone in the puddle.

Lu Hanqian was sullen, and flew away without looking back.

He went back to take a hot shower, then dried his hair and changed into a comfortable bathrobe.

After the phone was thrown away, the whole world fell silent, and Humbert seemed to have sensed that his master was in a bad mood, so he lay down in the cage in a sensible manner and said nothing.

Lu Hanqian found out all the things that Lin Yan used in the past in each room, collected everything together, and put them on the bed.

There are the thin blankets that he used to cover his shoulders to watch pandas when he woke up in the middle of the night; there are only one or two pages of "Secret Garden" painted;

At this time, Lu Hanqian was even a little thankful that they left in such a hurry when they left for the last time, rushing to the hospital for a transplant operation, they didn't pack up much, and left these relics of the past for him to pay tribute to.

The hands of the clock have already passed five o'clock. According to the usual time, Lu Hanqian has to pack up and go to work in Jinye.

But today he threw away his mobile phone, and then put all Lin Yan's things on the other side of the double bed, and whispered to the empty other side nervously:

"Good night."

Lu Hanqian buried his face in the small blanket that Lin Yan often used, and he could still vaguely smell Lin Yan's faint, orange-scented shower gel on the tip of his nose.

For the past few days, he hasn't slept well every day.It wasn't until Li Nan investigated the cause of the car accident that Lu Hanqian seemed to have finally encountered the last straw that broke the camel's back.

This time he slept very deeply, and kept having all kinds of messy dreams.

Lu Hanqian seems to have returned to the time when he was four or five years old. During the Chinese New Year, someone from his family came to pay Lu Beizheng New Year's greetings and brought him a small gift.

Those are some very rare ornamental fish, very beautiful.

But there was no fish tank at home, so Lu Beizheng asked his servant to put the fish in the fountain in front of the bungalow.

It may be because the water and soil are not acclimatized, or they should not be kept in the fountain at all. Within a few days, several fish died.

Only a few two tails are left clinging to their last days.

Lu Hanqian was very worried about their safety at that time, and went to see them every time after English class, fearing that the remaining two would also die.

He likes the little things he has never seen before, and wants to prolong their life.

But when he asked the servant how to make the fish live longer, the servant casually said in a coaxing tone:

"The fish didn't live long because there was no food in the water and they were starving. If you feed them more, they won't die naturally."

However, the result is predictable.

Any fish can't eat too much. When Lu Hanqian put it on his mind every day and ran to feed them as soon as he opened his eyes in the morning, there were more and more food residues in the water, and the oxygen consumption was also increasing. Many, the few remaining fish soon died of lack of oxygen.

Lu Hanqian was holding a large fish food tank, staring at the empty fountain in a daze.

He never knew how to protect what he liked.

When I was a child, I was a fish that would never live for too long; I used silk satin to make them a nest, but it was still a cole duck that died quickly; I kept a parrot that was lifeless after raising it.

After growing up, it was Lin Yan.

At the end of this dream, it was the time when Lu Hanqian forced Lin Yan to bite him a long time ago.

Lin Yan lay dying under him, but Lu Hanqian was happy and satisfied, he kept hugging him and kissing him like a big dog.

He felt very satisfied, he finally got the person he liked, and smoothed out the feeling of being possessed by Ji'er.

But when the picture changed, it was Lin Yan curled up beside him convulsively, with blood spilling from his mouth and nose.

Lu Hanqian woke up from the fright.

This sleep lasted until six o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Hanqian opened his eyes and was in a daze for a long time, his mind was still dizzy.

He cleaned up and went to the company, but when Li Nan saw him, he immediately said: "Boss, Madam has been looking for you all day today!"

Lu Hanqian was puzzled, and said casually: "Whenever she finds me, she doesn't have to find it. These few hours are nothing. Buy me a new mobile phone."

"..."

Li Nan was silent, and said in a low voice: "My wife is not jealous this time, but no one has spoken in the hospital. When she called me, she was crying and asked you to go and see."

Lu Hanqian remembered that in the early hours of this morning, she started to make crazy serial calls so early, and felt very lucky that she threw away the phone at that time.

"When my mother went to the hospital, she didn't even ask for a phone call, and she expected me to visit her."

Lu Hanqian's tone was careless, and he moved a stack of documents on the table over and began to read one by one: "Let her wait."

But at eight o'clock, Lu Hanqian just got a new phone, and before he had time to block Mrs. Lu, she had already called.

"son."

Lu's mother cried, "Come and see mom."

Lu Hanqian clamped the phone with his shoulder, while signing the opened document, he said indifferently: "I'm not free, I'm busy."

"Mom may be sick."

Mother Lu said: "I always feel bad, but the doctor won't tell me what's wrong."

"Are you going to see a psychiatrist?"

Lu Hanqian jokingly said: "Maybe someone will prescribe some medicine for you, and you will be cured immediately."

"...you are mother's hope."

Lu's mother often talked about it, and she was about to cry and said: "You must stand by mother... When your father is gone in the future, the Lu family's money will be ours."

Lu Hanqian: "..."

Lu Hanqian suddenly wondered if Mrs. Lu had an incorrect understanding of Lu Beizheng's feelings for him.

"I don't know what's wrong with it. But if you're going to have an operation, you'll treat mom, right?"

Lu's mother said: "You find an organ source for that lawyer to perform a heart replacement operation. Mom is better than an idiot..."

"You need to find?"

Lu Hanqian sneered: "I thought that if your life was in danger, you would ask me to make a match for you regardless."

He remembered the results of Li Nan's report. The person who made Lin Yan's mother go crazy was probably Lu's mother.

No wonder she was so frightened when she first saw Lin Yan. Lu Hanqian didn't even bother to check it out.

But when he said the sarcasm, Mrs. Lu fell silent unexpectedly.

"...don't want you to do matching."

Mrs. Lu hesitated and said: "Son, Mom doesn't want you to come to the hospital, you don't want to come...Promise Mom, if anything happens in the future, don't do this, okay?"

She seemed to be racking her brains for an excuse to round this out.

Lu's mother stammered and continued: "Mom...Mom loves you, and mother is reluctant."

This conversation has gone on long enough that Lu Hanqian hardly has the patience to continue.

It just so happened that Li Nan also hurriedly knocked on the door and walked in. He seemed a little anxious, so he directly interrupted Mrs. Lu who was reading the lines from a script: "Okay, I have something else to do, so let's go here."

If Mrs. Lu would be reluctant to ask him to have a match because she loves him, Lu Hanqian would not believe it at all.

He didn't bother to guess what twists and turns this crazy woman had in her mind.I just feel that my family is really weird, parents and children are rare in the world.

"how?"

Lu Hanqian pressed down the phone, put the phone aside, and looked at Li Nan: "What makes you look so pale?"

Li Nan's demeanor was very strange. He had followed Lu Hanqian for so long, and he had seen someone with a lot of trouble, but it had never happened before that he stiffly stuffed the information into Lu Hanqian's hands without saying a word.

Lu Hanqian opened the file bag subconsciously: "It's okay, tell me, what did you find. Calm down—"

However, before he finished speaking, Lu Hanqian paused slightly when he saw the photo on the first page of the folder.

He was silent for a while, and couldn't help but bring the folder closer, and looked through it carefully: "...Who is this?"

The woman in the photo is not outstanding, she is of a more beautiful and clean type, but Lu Hanqian looks familiar.

"Chen Xi."

Li Nan muttered, swallowed, and said in a very low voice: "20 years ago, Lin Lu's mother's manager."

Li Nan muttered, swallowed, and said in a very low voice: "20 years ago, Lin Lu's mother's manager."

Before Lu Hanqian asked him to investigate further, Li Nan encountered many bottlenecks.

Gu Gu's existence has been obliterated too cleanly. An actress who used to be famous for a while is hardly mentioned 20 years later.It was clear that someone wanted to hide her from everyone's sight on purpose.

Li Nan couldn't go on with the investigation, so he fumbled here and there to start with the people around her, but after checking, he suddenly found that he seemed to have come into contact with something that was enough to make him lose his job.

Li Nan didn't dare to go any further.

"Not long after the husband and wife got married, Lin Lu's mother signed to our company. The husband fell in love with her at first sight."

Li Nan said.

Twenty years ago, Lu Beizheng was a well-known playboy, elegant and elegant, from a famous family, and many women had fantasies about him.

He really liked Mrs. Lu for a while, even to the point where he decided to marry her.

But most men's temperament is to forget about it when they get it. Not long after they got married, Lu Beizheng disliked this woman who only wanted to marry into a wealthy family but had no skills.

He fell in love with a beautiful new female artist from his company, whose name is also very nice, Gu Gu.

But this female artist has no interest in Lu Beizheng, and prefers to pursue romance.Lu Beizheng already has a family, which also discourages her.

Lu Beizheng frantically wanted a divorce because of her, and even offered Mrs. Lu Jinye [-]% of the shares as a condition. He just wanted to regain his freedom and pursue his beloved.

However, Mrs. Lu grew up in a small family, and it took a lot of effort to hug Lu Beizheng's thigh, so how could she easily agree to divorce.

But when the Lu family was in trouble, Gu Gu secretly colluded with the agent and ran away in order to get rid of this absurd whirlpool.

She went to France, began to study music, and met Lin Yan's father there.The two quickly fell in love and lived happily ever after for three years.

But completely different from Gu Gu's good life, the agent who helped her slip away was in bad luck.

After all, Chen Xi is an employee of Jinye, and she is in Lancheng. Lu Beizheng asked her to keep an eye on Gu Gu, but she helped Gu Gu secretly hide Chen Cang and ran away because of her kindness.

Lu Beizheng was furious. On his side, he had a lot of trouble over the divorce, but on the other side, his own people turned their backs and betrayed him.

So after being drunk once, he was obsessed with the similar aura that Chen Xi and Gu Gujiu had after getting along, which brought Lu Hanqian into this world.

So in a sense, Lu Hanqian was actually the proof that Chen Xi had worked hard to protect Lin Yan's mother.

If Chen Xi hadn't done that, Lin Yan might not have been born at all;

And in the same way, naturally Chen Xi would not be harmed and let Lu Hanqian come to the world.

Since 20 years ago, Lu Hanqian and Lin Yan have been like the two ends of a ribbon, no matter how entangled they are, they are destined to be closely linked.



"I'm almost certain that the father of the dead baby Chen Xi gave birth to is Mr.

Li Nan said: "But I think my wife should also know about this... After all, after so many years, uh..."

Li Nan racked his brains to organize his words, trying to figure out how to express the meaning clearly without offending Lu Hanqian.

"Over the years, the old beast has had so many outer chambers, but none of them can give birth to a child. Isn't that obvious."

Lu Hanqian answered the words very naturally: "I know the tricks of crazy women. She and the old bastard are really a match made in heaven."

Until this step, it was still within Li Nan's acceptable range.

The problem was that when Li Nan went to the countryside where Chen Xi stayed—she was expecting to give birth there and gave birth, and found the nurse who was there at that time, the situation took a turn for the worse.

The nurse had been terrified by this incident for about 20 years, so when Li Nan mentioned Lu Hanqian and called him "President Lu", the nurse mistakenly thought it was referring to Lu Beizheng, lost her mind instantly, and confessed:

"I didn't know it was President Lu's wife... I really didn't know at the time. It was the wife who said she wanted a boy very much, so I gave her the baby! I thought it was an ordinary family, but I had to know Mrs. Lu's wife, how dare I!"

This little black clinic, which has no business license at all, is still doing human trafficking behind the scenes.

At that time, Chen Xi was alone and came here with a big belly waiting for delivery, but the doctors and nurses were thinking about doing business with her.

Mrs. Lu followed her closely, pretending to be an ordinary woman who wanted a boy, and she appointed Chen Xi's child, and was willing to pay a high price for it.

——This is indeed the smartest and safest choice.

For the Lu family, even if a paternity test is done in the future, Lu Hanqian is 100% related to Lu Beizheng by blood.

No one would think of letting Mrs. Lu and Lu Hanqian test.

She strangled her daughter to death, and replaced Lu Hanqian, who had been prepared a long time ago, with her own child. Since then, she has secured her position as Mrs. Lu, and she can sit back and relax.

"It's also possible that the wife strangled the child herself after taking the child away..."

Li Nan was terrified, feeling that he was about to be killed by Lu Hanqian because he knew too much: "After all, my wife already has you, so it's useless for her to buy a child..."

Lu Hanqian didn't say anything.

If Li Nan is just guessing without grounds, then he has some kind of intuition of blood relationship.

"...she came to our house to work as a gardener."

After a long silence, Lu Hanqian rubbed Chen Xi's photo and said in a very low voice.

He will always remember the expression of worry and concern on Chen Xi's face when he came home late that day.

At that time, Lu Hanqian could not fully understand the full meaning of it.I just feel a faint sweet and sour taste, like a child who has been looking forward to getting attention, finally being given a little attention.

"what are you doing?"

Sometimes when Chen Xi was taking care of the flowers and plants in the garden, Lu Hanqian couldn't help but come to the side to watch.

Chen Xi looked at him gently, his eyes were very soft, with something that Lu Hanqian had never seen but liked, and said softly:

"Pruning twigs."

"Do flowers also need pruning of miscellaneous branches?"

"Yes, each one is needed."

"Oh--"

Lu Hanqian tilted his head, stretched his voice, and asked, "Then will you stay at our house for a long time?"

Chen Xi paused, then looked up at him: "Do you want me to stay here?"

Lu Hanqian has already forgotten how he answered at that time.

But what he didn't know was that in order to be able to stay in the Lu family for a period of time, Chen Xi spent a lot of effort to deal with Mrs. Lu before staying.

And as a gardener, what she wants to take care of is not the roses in the back garden, but Lu Hanqian.

"Where is she now...?"

Lu Hanqian's fingers pinching the file involuntarily tightened slightly, and the thin paper was crumpled by him.

His tone was also a little unstable, his Adam's apple rolled, and he said in a hoarse voice:

"...do a DNA test on me and the crazy woman, keep it hidden, and don't let anyone know."

Li Nan's expression was complicated, and he responded.

However, Lu Hanqian seemed to have some kind of intuition, before making the result, he had the answer in his heart.

There is no problem with Mrs. Lu's blood type and him, but it is not necessarily the case of non-relatives who require higher leukocyte surface antigens.No wonder Mrs. Lu seemed to be particularly sensitive about matching during the small talk just now.

"I'm going out."

Lu Hanqian put down the file, put it in a drawer, locked it, grabbed his coat and went out.

"Chen Xi is currently in that mental hospital in the suburbs."

Li Nan followed behind him and said, "It's the one that Lawyer Lin stayed with before..."

"understood."

He drove all the way there.

Strangely, Lu Hanqian didn't seem to be too nervous or agitated, the closer he got, the more peaceful he felt.

As if a question that had been lingering in his heart for many years was finally answered, he wanted to go and see Chen Xi, if she was really his biological mother, then he also had someone who would love him unconditionally forever.

This is an unprecedented experience, it seems a little novel, a little sour, a little faintly happy.

Lu Hanqian couldn't wait to see her soon.

However, as he got closer to the suburbs, the clouds in the sky seemed to become more and more orange-red.

When Lu Hanqian finally got close enough to notice something was wrong, Gu Zhao's call also came——

"Hanqian, where are you? Is Lin Lu with you? I seemed to see him going to the mental hospital with people from Beijing on the road just now. Did I admit my mistake? Is he still stupid?"

Lu Hanqian was in no mood to answer him anymore.

Because he held up the phone in a daze, the psychiatric hospital in front of Lu Hanqian had already burned into a big fire amidst the panicked crowd and screams.