14 years time difference

"It may be fate, Mr. Lin, the woman I just told you who looks very similar to you, my husband bought this ring as a gift for her."

Lin Zhique raised his eyes and looked straight at Tang Li.Tang Li was almost drunk.

"I can't tell anyone about these things. If I tell my natal family, my dad will definitely not let him go. However, there may be nothing he can do about it. When I meet you today, God may really pity me. Let me have someone to chat with. Mr. Lin, are you married?"

Lin Zhique hesitated for half a second, and answered honestly, "Not yet."

Her deception at this moment was cruel enough.

For so many years, although Tang Li has treated her indifferently, she has never felt sorry for her. At the Du family banquet, if Du Zhian was sneering at her, Tang Li would still lightly discipline Du Zhian.When she was a child, she thought that Tang Li was a posturing woman. In recent years, she had matured a bit, but she began to understand Tang Li a little bit. She probably had to bear the heartache like a knife and exhausted a lot of effort to maintain such a decency.

"When I was your age, my daughter could already run and jump. That woman...I heard that she was a few years younger than me. Her daughter...she and my husband's daughter are also the same age as my daughter .”

"You hate her, don't you?"

Tang Li drank up an unknown number of glasses of wine.

"In the beginning, yes." She nodded lightly, "The sister who sells diamonds also told me that she envied you, Mrs. Du, Mr. Du bought a diamond as big as a gift for you. If it wasn't for this, I have been so stupid for so many years without knowing about it... But when I came back this time and saw this ring left by him at his parents' house, I realized that the woman didn't take his gift at all, you see He is not ridiculous, he is still engraving here..."

Tang Li took off the ring and turned it carefully under the dim light of the bar. She leaned forward, as if she wanted Lin Zhique to see clearly. The ring was engraved with English words: DS&LL.

Du Shen and Lin Lan.

"I asked him, and he said that she had no status for so many years, so he compensated her with a ring. Isn't it written in those magazine advertisements? Diamonds represent commitment." Tang Li chuckled, "As a result, people didn't believe it at all. What kind of bullshit promises did he make!"

Lin Zhique trembled slightly all over, not sure if it was caused by alcohol or emotion.

"Then...you don't hate her anymore?"

"Hate it. I wanted to meet her. I was going to throw a glass of water on her head and call her shameless like those Korean TV dramas."

Lin Zhique unconsciously tightened his nose and began to take a deep breath.

"But that day, do you know what a coincidence. On the day I asked her to meet, I went to pick up my daughter from school first, and I actually saw her daughter. Two children were fighting, and her daughter saw me, suddenly She kept crying, apologized to us, and refused to call her even if she died."

The memory of that youth, like ice cubes smashed into a wine glass, slammed into Lin Zhique's mind with a plop.

"That little girl may not know that I asked her mother to meet, as if her mother came, and I would hurt her mother. So, that night, I didn't go to see her."

Tang Li threw the ring on the table, raised her hand and rubbed the center of her eyebrows.

"……why?"

"I don't know. Maybe she wants to follow her daughter's wish. I can't hate her anymore. I can't hate the mother of a child like me." Tang Li's voice became hoarse as she spoke.

Lin Zhique let out a breath, she felt cold, and tried to hold back, not to shiver.

Immediately afterwards, she asked Tang Li a question, a question she had also wanted to ask her mother Lin Lan for many years.

She asked, "Then, why don't you leave your husband?"

Regardless of Xu Wenjing's shocking face, Wan Cong held up the microphone and said to himself: "People say that diamonds are forever. This represents my commitment to you, love you, take care of you, and live forever. Quiet, marry I!"

Whistling and booing sounded one after another in the box, only Du Siren was still awake, and realized that the atmosphere had actually reached the freezing point. She drank a few glasses of wine, her brain froze, and she couldn't think of how to help Xu Wenjing out of the siege. Xu Wenjing looked around helplessly Before he could answer, Zhao Qian suddenly stepped forward and pulled Wan Cong by the collar to lift him up from the ground.

Wan Cong was startled: "What are you doing?"

Zhao Qian shouted: "She doesn't want to! Can't you see it!"

"Which ear did you hear her say she didn't want to?"

The war that had been brewing all night finally broke out.

Zhao Qian replied disdainfully: "I don't need to listen, we grew up together, she doesn't need to open her mouth to know what she is thinking! Who are you, you? Don't be moved by yourself!"

"I'm her boyfriend, who are you? It's amazing to grow up together? I still grew up with the dog who lives downstairs in my house!"

"Who do you call a dog?"

Seeing that a fight was about to start, Xu Wenjing finally lifted it up in one breath, and shouted: "I didn't say I didn't want to!"

Before Wan Cong was proud for a few seconds, she said again: "I didn't say I would either!"

Both men took a step closer to her and asked her at the same time, "Then what do you mean?"

Xu Wenjing looked at Wan Cong, then at Zhao Qian, her face and nose were flushed, she was unable to speak for a long time, caught in a dilemma, almost crying.

The first person to react was Lu Xiaohua.

She was so drunk first, she stood aside and murmured, "What are you doing? God poked me."

Afterwards, she swayed a few times, and suddenly rushed into the center of the vortex, took Xu Wenjing's hand, and shouted: "Go! Come with me!"

She dragged her, and ran towards the door in a faltering manner, pushing away a few people along the way, slamming the door open, and then——

Lu Xiaohua bumped her head against the door frame.

Fortunately, Xu Wenjing followed closely behind her, stretched out her hand and dragged her to her side, and the two of them ran out together.

The people in the box were left stunned, Zhao Qian and Wan Cong started to fight again after a few words of quarrel, the rest of the people began to fight one after another, Du Siren raised his head and looked at the banner on the wall wordlessly.

Two hundred and five.

"I... I can't help it. I can't help it now. Mr. Lin, you may think I'm useless, right? Marriage is such a thing, there's really no way to just break up, you know? Sometimes I still fantasize, Thinking that in a few years, we will all be old, the child will grow up, he will retire and take care of himself, and we can still live a good life."

Lin Zhique was so drunk that she was in a daze. With teary eyes, she looked at the woman in front of her who had been deceived by promises.She couldn't force her to ask any more questions. She remembered that when she was more than ten years old, she quarreled with her mother Lin Lan. She smashed things at home and yelled hysterically, then you leave him!Why don't you leave him?Say no more it's for me!You go and pack your things, let’s go now, let’s go to the countryside, I won’t study anymore, I’ll go to work in a factory, let’s go!

She couldn't press them any more.

There was a long period of relative silence.

Tang Li squeezed out a smile.

"Ms. Lin, do you know? You call me Miss Tang today, and I can't get used to it. For so many years, people have called me Mrs. Du. It's been a long time since anyone called me Miss Tang. Anyway, thank you very much." Listen to what I said today, we should go, if I drink any more, I will lose my composure."

"……it is good."

Lin Zhique stood up.She didn't stand still for a while, she reached out to hold something, and knocked over the wine glass in front of Tang Li by mistake.

A few drops of the remaining wine at the bottom of the cup spilled all over Tang Li's clothes.

Lin Zhique said, "I'm sorry..."

She lowered her head, blinked, and a tear fell down her cheek.

Tang Li said, "It's okay, I don't blame you."

Another 10 minutes passed since Lu Xiaohua and Xu Wenjing fled together.Wan Cong and Zhao Qian were pressed on the two ends of the sofa, and others coaxed and persuaded them. They were drunk and swearing endlessly.Ni Xiang kicked Zhao Qian and scolded him: "Why are you joining in the fun? It's none of your business? Wen Jing has liked you for so many years, you pretended not to know, and you didn't give a damn. ?”

Du Siren sat in the very center of the box, feeling ashamed, feeling that the air was still.If she had known this before, she should never have been fooled by Lin Zhique into having a celebration party.Chen Yiran rubbed his hands nervously, and sat down beside her.

He said in a low voice, "That... I haven't congratulated you yet."

Du Siren smiled wryly, "Congratulations to my national two hundred and five?... That's right."

She took the phone out of her pocket.

It has been more than an hour since she spoke with Lin Zhique, but Lin Zhique still hasn't shown up.

She dialed the number of the video store, stood up, and walked out of the box.

Chen Yiran started to sing a song called "Let Me Take Care of You".

She walked farther and farther along the corridor, the phone rang seven or eight times, and no one answered until it turned to a busy tone. Beside me, your heart is sad, I don't understand, and I don't want to.

She thought, if she is not in the store, she must be on the way, right?

She walked all the way down the stairs, and received a text message from her sister-in-law Tang Li on her mobile phone, telling her to go back to rest first, wishing her to have fun with her friends.

She walked to the side of the road and looked around, but she couldn't see Lu Xiaohua and Xu Wenjing.

Although Lu Xiaohua is mentally ill, fortunately Xu Wenjing is still relatively sober, so there should be no need to worry too much.

She originally thought that everyone could help her select songs for the rematch tonight, but in the end, she didn't even receive a serious blessing.

Worth mentioning.It's just the top 250 in the country, and they haven't even touched the edge of the stage.

She walked slowly along the sidewalk towards the school, thinking that if Lin Zhique came by car, she would be able to see her along the way.

She followed the melody that Chen Yiran sang just now, and hummed: dreaming about the future with white hair... If this life comes to an end, this sentence of yours is enough.

Wan Cong also said just now that he would take care of Xu Wenjing for the rest of his life.

Will those oaths that are easily spoken or sung from the mouth be blown away by the wind?Most promises are the precursors of lies.

Lin Zhique walked along the sidewalk, crying while walking forward in a daze.

Tang Li took a taxi and left.

That diamond ring, like a spoiled promise, was thrown on the table in the bar, and no one cared about it.

Lin Zhique didn't know what kind of answer she wanted to get in this conversation tonight.At first, she wanted to hear how Tang Li commented on her and her mother, and wanted to persuade Tang Li to leave Du Shen, and perhaps, she also wanted to do everything possible to excuse her mother.But in the end, she just waited for an opportunity to say sorry to her.

It doesn't matter if she got Tang Li's words, it seems that this can end the karmic hatred of more than 20 years, but the knife that pierces the heart is still non-stop. In the past year, everyone except the perpetrators will be riddled with holes.

She couldn't stop it, even if time passed, she could only cowardly seek a reconciliation for herself.

Lin Zhique trembled all over, burst into tears, walked very slowly, so as not to sway and fall.

Through her teary eyes, she saw the Dusi people appearing in front of her, walking towards her, getting closer and closer.

She heard her say, "Sister? Why are you here? Have you been drinking?"

She asked her: "Who are you? Are you his sister, her aunt, or a Dusi?"

She thought, it would be fine if you were only from Dusi.

The Dusi people stepped forward and caught her who was wobbling.

She gently held her in her arms and whispered in her ear: "I am the one who is missing you."

Lin Zhique laughed and leaned against Du Siren's shoulder, feeling warm.

She asked her, "What are you sad about?"

She replied drunkenly, "I'm not sad, I'm very happy."

She asked her again: "Then what are you happy about?"

"I am very happy to meet you."

Du Siren touched her hair like comforting a child, "Me too."

"Congratulations, congratulations on passing the audition. You look really good on stage."

Du Siren hugged her and said with a smile, "Well, thank you."

The life in the promise is too long, and the road is bumpy, breaking every original intact heart.But people can't help but believe in promises, like moths rushing to the fire, just because the hug at this moment is too warm.

Pedestrians are lonely, the entertainment venues along the street are still lit with strange lights, and many different drums and melodies are faintly sounding in the distance. I don’t know where they are singing: If this life comes to an end, your words are enough.

Lin Zhique wrapped his arms around Du Siren's waist drowsily, and they hugged each other for a long time on the street in 2005.