"Mom, what about the two of us...?" Gu Jingcheng spoke carefully.
"Jingcheng." Shi Jinhua called him and stood up and took two steps closer, lowering his voice: "It's getting late. I won't waste time with you. If there are things you don't want to tell me, forget it. I won't force you."
"Mom, I..."
Gu Jingcheng wanted to explain himself, but Shi Jinhua raised her hand to stop him. She continued, "As for you and Su Muqing, you told me that you got married because you loved her. I won't ask whether it's true or not. But I still want to tell you this: no matter what the conditions or the price, it's not worth exchanging your lifelong happiness for it."
Gu Jingcheng didn't know what was going on. He lowered his eyes and didn't look at Shi Jinhua anymore. He just whispered, "I know, Mom."
Shi Jinhua raised his hand, placed it on his shoulder and squeezed it soothingly, then said gently: "Okay, I'm sorry for disturbing you today, go to bed early." After that, he walked to leave.
"Mom." Gu Jingcheng called out and stopped Shi Jinhua.
Shi Jinhua turned around and looked at him kindly. Gu Jingcheng looked like he wanted to say something to her, but all he opened his mouth was: "Have a good rest. Good night." After that, he bowed politely.
Gu Jingcheng, who lowered his head, did not notice that Shi Jinhua's eyes had completely turned cold, but his voice was still kind: "You too, good night."
This time he really left. Shi Jinhua did not stay nor come back.
After making sure that there was no sound in the corridor, Gu Jingcheng closed the door, returned to the bed, picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table and made a call.
"Gone?" Jiang Qi's voice came out when the phone was connected instantly. It was not surprising at all that Gu Jingcheng would make this call.
"Ah."
"What did you talk about later?" Jiang Qi was very curious. She didn't dare to stay in the corridor and eavesdrop because she was scared.
"It's nothing. My mom just told me not to force me and that I'll talk to her when I want to." Gu Jingcheng roughly summed it up.
"Oh, I see." Jiang Qi pondered for a while and then asked, "Then how did you feel when mom left?"
"It shouldn't be good."
"why?"
Gu Jingcheng leaned against the bed, raised his hand and twisted his brows, and said tiredly: "Mom wanted to play the family card to retreat and gain an advantage, but I didn't accept it."
"How did you know that?" Jiang Qi wondered. Based on her understanding of her mother Shi Jinhua, she was absolutely professional in forcing confessions, inducing confessions, and questioning people. If she wanted to trick people into telling secrets, it would be impossible for anyone to detect it.
"Too gentle." Gu Jingcheng complained.
"Huh?" Jiang Qi was confused.
"You won't believe how kind Mom's expression was when she looked at me just now. It was so scary." There was a hint of surviving a disaster in her tone.
Just thinking about what happened just now, Gu Jingcheng was scared. When he called Shi Jinhua just now, he wanted to escape completely. But when he saw Shi Jinhua's kind face, he was directly frightened and his mind was cleared up instantly.
Shi Jinhua is different from most traditional women and mothers, which may be related to her own growth experience. She cares about Gu Jingcheng and Jiang Qi, but she doesn't care or love her children like other mothers.
She believed in the principle of the strong, that only the strong had the right to speak, and the weak did not even have the right to cry, and she treated the two equally. When other children were wronged or sad, their mothers' first reaction was to comfort and enlighten them. Shi Jinhua would not do that. Her first reaction was to understand the reason first, and then teach them how to overcome it themselves. But most of the time, they first received a scolding from Shi Jinhua.
So you can imagine how scary Gu Jingcheng was when he saw the kind-looking Shi Jinhua.
"Is that so?" Jiang Qi responded angrily. She seemed to be able to imagine it.
"Do you have any other questions?" When there was no movement from the other side, Gu Jingcheng asked.
"Gone."
"Then it's my turn to ask." His tone turned cold, as if he was accusing someone.
Let’s put things one way and one way. After we’ve finished talking about the matter, we still have to settle the accounts.
"You ask?" Jiang Qi raised the last line of his voice, looking provocative.
"Did you do this on purpose?"
"That's it."
Jiang Qi answered so frankly that Gu Jingcheng even laughed out loud.
"Okay." Gu Jingcheng gritted his teeth and squeezed out a word, "Jiang Qi." The anger could be felt through the phone.
Jiang Qi, who was called by his full name, subconsciously straightened his spine. But his tone was still brisk and confident, "I'm here."
"It took me so long to get through this with my mom. How are you going to compensate me?"
The other party did not respond directly. After a while of silence, he slowly spoke: "Gu Jingcheng, so you are really lying to me?"
Jiang Qi's tone was very abnormal, like a precursor to some conspiracy. Knowing her well, he felt uneasy.
"What do you want to do?"
Hearing Gu Jingcheng's obviously solemn voice, Jiang Qi's smile became even more intense, "What can I do? You still have the evidence against me." Then she changed the subject, "It's just that I don't know how my phone got an automatic recording function."
The handle she was talking about was what happened at the banquet, which was the bargaining chip he used to threaten her. And the last sentence was also a threat. Although Shi Jinhua had roughly known about this matter, she had no evidence, so she was still protected by a layer of window paper. But once this layer of paper was gone, the nature of the situation would be different.
Alas, Jiang Qi has a vindictive personality. She can't stand any loss. There was no other way but for Gu Jingcheng to give in and admit his mistake to her first. So he said sincerely: "I'm sorry, I really had no other choice."
"It doesn't matter. I sold you out because I had no other choice. Now we're even." Jiang Qi said this very frankly.
"Thank you, thank you." Gu Jingcheng's two responses were full of helplessness.
"But I still want to say one more thing. Even if this matter is over, neither of us should mention it again, otherwise the worst that can happen is that we will both die."
"I know." Gu Jingcheng had no other response except these two words.
"That's fine then. I'm sleepy. Good night."
As soon as he finished speaking, the phone was hung up. Gu Jingcheng looked at the phone in his hand and sighed helplessly, then fell back into the bed. This night was really exhausting for him!
At 6:30 in the morning, the alarm clock beside Jiang Qi's pillow rang on time.
A hand reached out from under the quilt and fumbled to turn it off. A moment later, the person on the bed got up wrapped in the quilt and sat cross-legged in an attempt to wake himself up.
"Aha~!" Jiang Qi yawned deeply, obviously not having rested well.
So tired! She had another dream all night yesterday. It was the same maple forest, the same person, and the same words. She still couldn't see the person clearly. But this time the dream was accompanied by an anxious mood, as if her subconscious was reminding her to quickly remember what she had forgotten. This was very important.
It would be unusual if this didn't mean something.
The study room where Jiang Qi lives has no windows. The room is still pitch black, but the dark environment is more conducive to her thinking.
Jiang Qi looked up at the ceiling and let out a long breath. To be honest, she felt like she was really schizophrenic.
Maybe it was because she contained all the memories and emotions of this body, and the original body was very similar to her. After living here for a long time, her unique memories gradually began to blur. But she was not in a hurry. Anyway, she could not go back to the previous world. It was no big deal to forget it. Living in the present was the most important thing.
So she had no intention of regaining her memory, because it was impossible to regain it. This was no longer the same world, so where could she find it? There was no need to waste energy on it.
But it was strange that her subconscious or deep in her heart wanted to retrieve her memory, which was very contradictory. So Jiang Qi didn't understand why two independent and contradictory ideas appeared in her mind.
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