lark

The sun sets early in winter, and the sky is already dark when I open my eyes again.There are no lights on the second and third floors of the villas in the courtyard, only the first floor has light.After Qi Yubai got out of the car, he signaled Zhang Hong not to get out, and told him to drive away.

When walking from the gate to the courtyard, the servants didn't show up either, and they didn't know what they were busy with. The trees planted in the courtyard are now bare, and maybe they won't be green until spring.Qi Yubai found out that the old house was so quiet in these ordinary days, lonely and old, like a person who is near his twilight years.

Before seeing his father, his heart has already softened, and he knows that he doesn't want to quarrel with his father tonight.

Pushing open the door, Father Qi was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed, perhaps exactly the same expression as when he was riding in the car.Many people have said in the past that Qi Yubai and his father are almost carved out of the same mold, and their movements and expressions are often exactly the same.

Hearing his voice, Qi Zhonghui opened his eyes to look at him and said, "Come here."

Qi Yubai walked over and sat on the single sofa next to Qi's father, and asked, "Where did the rest of the family go, where is Zhou Ma, and where is Zhou Li?"

"I let them stay upstairs for the time being." Qi's father seemed to be in a stable mood, "The next thing is not suitable for them to listen to."

Qi Yubai let out a breath slowly and nodded, knowing that his father was about to start to settle with him.He said, "I'm here, you can tell me."

It can be seen that Father Qi is very angry at the moment, but he is a man of knowledge and self-cultivation after all, and he will not break out hysterically for a moment.

He looked sideways at his son, and started with a seemingly insignificant sentence: "Do you remember Kou Bo, the youngest son of the chairman of Guanqun Group, Kou Guanqun?"

This is Qi Zhonghui's usual way of talking, and this name is no stranger, and he is a leader in the media public relations industry.Qi Yubai lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "Remember, we met each other this year."

Father Qi nodded, put on a pair of glasses, took out the phone and looked at it for a while, and then handed it to Qi Yubai: "It's hard for him to remember you, look at the gift he gave me."

Qi Yubai took it over and took a look. Inside were several photos, in different locations, but the protagonists were the same, he and Lin Nan.

"Fortunately, you are still stable." Father Qi laughed back in anger, and his tone became even colder, "Is it a pity that he didn't come to your bed to take pictures?"

The one closest to the present time in the photo was taken in the parking lot where he and Lin Nan went to the restaurant for dinner. He was standing sideways in the picture, but he took a very clear picture of Lin Nan, who was wearing his coat and pulling His arms and face are clearly visible.Qi Yubai couldn't be sure of the exact time of the earliest one, but it should be that he drove Lin Nan to the supermarket to buy drinks on a certain weekend, which was near Bohai.The other party has been with them for at least a month, but unfortunately he didn't notice until the last meal.

Qi Yubai flipped through the photos, handed the phone back, and asked, "What does he want?"

"If he really wants to do something, will I still sit here and talk to you?" Father Qi snorted lightly, "His father and I are old acquaintances, and he knows you, so he blocked you before the news hit the net. Come down, come and sell me this favor."

"So nothing will happen." Qi Yubai said calmly.

After hearing his words, Father Qi picked up the glass in front of him and took a sip slowly. He paused for two seconds while holding the glass, and then threw the glass out of his hand unexpectedly.

With a bang, the original complete gold stroked water glass fell apart on the ground, a large amount of water splashed onto Qi Yubai's black leather shoes, and the hammered glass shattered into large and small sharp irregular shapes. The floor was still shaking, as long as the skin touched it, blood would easily be seen.

"What else do you want?" Father Qi raised his voice in vain: "Do you have to make a fuss and ruin the reputation of the Qi family before you let it go?"

The crisp sound just now was so loud that everyone on the second floor must have heard it. They must also be listening to this conversation at this moment, but no one showed up.

"I didn't mean that." Qi Yubai sat on the sofa and said slowly, "I'm just living my own life, and I never thought that the trouble would end."

"Your life is abnormal!" Father Qi got excited, took off his glasses and threw them to the corner of the sofa.

"Where is it abnormal? Is it different from most people? Is it abnormal?" Qi Yubai stood up abruptly, facing his father and said, "I am a normal person, not a monster, and I have not lost anyone's face."

"Bastard!" Father Qi got up and kicked him on the crook of the knee, "What a shameless bastard, you're still making excuses. I used to turn a blind eye to you doing shameful things, but Don't think I don't know. Your private life is chaotic. I'm too lazy to persuade you. It's a waste of my words. But now, everyone has been sent to Baihai by you. Do you still have a conscience? I ask you, you Do you still remember how and where your mother died, do you remember?!"

Qi Yubai was kicked by him so that his body took a step back to the side, but his back was still tense, and he showed no intention of retreating.

"I remember, you don't need to remind me, you don't need to remind me again and again. Whether I am with a man or a woman, live in a hotel or Baihai, these are my own affairs, I don't want to hurt anyone."

"You don't want to hurt anyone?" Qi's father laughed back, "What a joke, your biological mother was so mad at you that she said she didn't want to hurt anyone."

"It was an accident." Qi Yubai said, "Her death was an accident."

"Accident? What accident will cause a heart attack, do you need me to say it again?"

As soon as these words were uttered, needles could be heard in the living room.Qi Yubai couldn't see much pain on his face, he just remained silent for a while, rubbed his temples, and said in a low voice, "Dad, please let me go, I'm very tired today. Can't sleep." After a few seconds, he said slowly, "Let me go."

It's like hitting cotton with a punch, making people feel depressed for no reason.Father Qi kicked again, this time onto the coffee table in front of him. The remote control of the air conditioner, Qi Yubai's cell phone, and the tissue box all slid to the ground. There is almost an echo in the three-layer transparent pattern.

"How could I have such a useless son as you, huh?" Qi's father's eyes were full of disgust, "When something happened, I shrink back and forth. Several years have passed and I can do nothing but run away. Look at your appearance, you have In what way, in what way is he like my son Qi Zhonghui?!"

"Then what do you want me to do, die?" Qi Yubai looked at him, his brows furrowed together, and asked back: "I don't want to escape, I want to make up, but what can I do?"

"If you want to make up for it, you have to make it right, fulfill your mother's wish, and let her comfort you, instead of continuing to make mistakes like you are now, knowing that you are wrong!"

"Dad." Qi Yubai said, "I'm not wrong. I love anyone. Why don't you understand? I can't change it."

"Okay, okay, okay." Qi's father said three good words, "I can't change it... I can't change it... Everyone just let it go. I don't want to lose face to the Qi family. I will sever the father-son relationship with you tomorrow. From now on, you can do whatever you want, and I don’t care about the news, I’ll call Cooper back later and let him log in as he pleases, it would be cleaner for everyone to poke them out!”

"No—" Qi Yubai immediately turned to face him: "News cannot be published."

"Oh?" Father Qi glanced at him coldly, "You also know how to be ashamed?"

"Can't post." Qi Yubai repeated, and walked around the living room for a few more steps, making a crackling sound when his leather shoes stepped on glass shards.He looked at Father Qi and said, "Dad, don't let him post it, it won't do Ben Yun any good."

"Don't you care about nothing?" Father Qi paused, "Don't you want to live your life as you wish, and no one can force you?"

Qi Yubai was much more irritable than before: "No matter how you handle our father-son relationship, don't make fun of my career, and don't make fun of other people's fate."

"Where is your courage to be a celebrity?" Father Qi asked back, "I have taught you since you were a child to consider the consequences of doing things, and don't worry about it later. Have you forgotten all about it?"

"I haven't forgotten." Qi Yubai said, "But one truth can't explain everything in the world."

Hearing these words, Qi Zhonghui suddenly felt strange.He knew his son too well, and knew that he could infer whether there was a subtext from Qi Yubai's words and deeds.The price of death was not enough to change his mind, and Qi Yubai, who had never bowed to him in the past few years, had an abnormal attitude this time.He thought carefully about what his son had said just now, looked up into his eyes, and asked, "You just said about other people's fate, whose fate, that little star's?"

The phone that was kicked from the table by Qi's father to the ground suddenly lit up, next to Qi Yubai's leather shoes at the corner of the table.Qi Yubai sat back on the sofa with a calm expression, and with his eyes lowered, he saw clearly the two messages on the screen, about 10 minutes apart.

"Understood, you should also remember to eat, don't just focus on work."

"Are you coming back tonight?"

Qi Yubai raised his head calmly, and said slowly: "I mean my destiny. Dad, you have no right to ruin my life, even if you are my father."

Father Qi stared at his face for a while, then sat down, and snorted softly, "Don't hide it from me. I guessed it when I saw you bring people back to Bohai, you are serious this time. That's why I asked you to come back, and told you to rein in the precipice and stop harming others."

Qi Yubai shook his head and smiled: "It's just for fun."

"Putting away your cynical second-generation ancestor style, I feel disgusted when I see it." Father Qi looked at him like this, and couldn't help but get angry, "You are nothing without the Qi family, you'd better remember this forever Don't think that you can be so defiant just because you have a movie company, if your mother is still alive, she will be the most distressed to see you like this."

"It's a pity that she is no longer here." Qi Yubai said, "What's the point of talking about it."

The father and son faced each other in silence in the messy living room, and neither could convince the other.

Qi Zhonghui said: "I'll give you one last chance. I'll hold back the photo for you for now. Think about it for a few days, and then answer me again. Do you still want to go your own way?" After finishing speaking, he turned and went back to the room .

Qi Yubai sat on the sofa and bent down to pick up the phone. A corner of the screen was smashed, but it was still usable.He slowly typed out a message: "I'm not going back." After thinking for a while, he clicked send.

When Aunt Zhou heard that there was no movement outside, she hurried down from the second floor and asked, "Master, are you not injured?"

"I'm fine." Qi Yubai looked just a little tired, "Mother Zhou, thank you for cleaning the living room."

Mrs. Zhou responded, "I'll do it now." After walking away for two steps, she turned her head and persuaded, "Master, or...or else, listen to Mother Zhou's persuasion, and take it easy. The two of you, father and son, have been in trouble for a few years. No one has had a good time, so why bother to torture each other like this? Someone has to give in, as a son, just give in, okay? "

Even someone like Mrs. Zhou who treats Qi Yubai as his own son will think that Qi Yubai should take care of him.No one really understood his difficulty.Everyone thought that he was used to playing around in the world, falling in love with men for a while, and supporting beautiful celebrities for a while, but he just refused to go home or get married.None of the elders understood what was difficult for him, and they always felt that this kind of thing only depends on whether he wants to or not, not whether he can do it or not.

Back then when Qi Yubai bought Bohai, he swore that he would not compromise with anyone in his life, would not accept family arrangements, and would not marry someone he did not love.

With such a fierce spirit, even the sky above his head can be pierced.

He lived very happily in Bohai in the first days, because he moved out because he had a falling out with his family over the marriage, and for a long time no one disturbed him, and he just lived the life he wanted in Bohai.No one forced him to meet the girl he didn't want to meet, no one forced him to have dinner with someone he didn't know, he was happy and relaxed, and occasionally took people back to Baihai for the night, and this was the accident that happened later.

Of course, this vigor is gone now, replaced by silence and restraint.

He got up and walked upstairs, just as Zhou's mother took out the cleaning tools, she saw him and said pleasantly, "Master, are you staying here tonight?"

"Yeah." Qi Yubai said as he walked, "Is my room still there?"

"Yes, everything is tidy."

Qi Yubai went to the third floor and pushed open the door of his room. It was exactly the same as before, nothing had changed, even the equestrian trophy on the table was spotless.He folded his clothes and lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and leaned on his arm, and began to imagine what the old house would be like if his mother was still there.

Lively is certain, and she loves it the most.Maybe the aunt's family is also there, Xiaocan may hide in her room in order to avoid the topic of poor schooling, and beg him: "Brother--you can go down and call my aunt upstairs, please, don't let my mother talk to her again." Talking about me, my ears are calloused..."

Mrs. Zhou and Zhou Li, the mother and son, might be busy putting away all the chairs in the garden, and then go to check whether the garage and courtyard doors are locked.If Xiaocan and the others left early, Bai Shaoyin might come up to chat with him for a while, if it was late, she would go to bed directly.

The vibration of the mobile phone beside the bed interrupted his imagination.He opened his eyes and found that it was Lin Nan calling.

Thinking about what Lin Nan wanted to ask, Qi Yubai didn't answer.He didn't think about whether he should tell Lin Nan about the photo, and if he wanted to, how should he talk about it.Lin Nan was timid and would panic when he saw someone following him. If he knew that so many photos had been taken, he would turn pale with fright and kept asking him what to do.

As for what to do, he didn't want to understand.Protecting Lin Nan has become a habit of his, and he subconsciously took this matter on himself, never thinking that the key is that Lin Nan is a well-known star, so someone will follow him.

This matter will not have any consequences in a short time, after all, his father's face is there.He, Qi Yubai, was not considered a celebrity, and no one cared when the news broke out. The focus was still on Lin Nan.Lin Nan voluntarily dedicated himself to the investor, and Lin Nan accepted other people's support. In this story, Lin Nan is the protagonist, and he is only a supporting role. It is only to contrast Lin Nan's shamelessness by saying how rich and powerful he is.

This kind of thing had never happened before, because he had never been with anyone for such a long time before, and Lin Nan was the only one who really lived with him.Even if there is such a thing, most of it can be settled with money, and the other party is just trying to buy it out.It's different when Father Qi finds out, the nature of the matter has changed.

Qi Yubai's business skills were all taught by Qi Zhonghui. How to negotiate with others and how to manage his subordinates were all taught by Qi's father's words and deeds.Therefore, Ben Yun can't beat the Qi family, and Qi Yubai can't beat Qi Zhonghui.As long as Qi Zhonghui thought about it, he could ruin Qi Yubai's reputation at any time, but he couldn't bear it.But it doesn't mean that he can't bear to Lin Nan as well. He crushed Lin Nan to death as easily as crushing an ant, which made people never recover.

This wasn't the only thing Qi Yubai was worried about.What he is most worried about is that after this matter is resolved, the next thing will happen. As Lin Nan becomes more and more popular, there will be more and more things.If he insists on including Lin Nan in his life, then life will never be peaceful.

In the dark, he stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, feeling sleepless as expected.Maybe it's because he didn't even change his clothes, maybe it's because things are so complicated, maybe it's because Lin Nan is not around.