pleasing ABO

"Yanbao." Liu Manzhi stood up, with thin smile lines on the corners of her eyes.Probably out of consideration for Zeng Yanzhi's emotions, she didn't show any enthusiasm, and politely invited him to sit beside him.

The window seat of this Starbucks is a bit special. It is not the usual face-to-face tables and chairs, but a design that is close to the left and right, making it easier for people to approach and talk.

Although Zeng Yanzhi sat down, he deliberately pulled the chair away to keep a little distance.Liu Manzhi was sensitive to Zeng Yanzhi's alienation, and she said empathetically, "If you are not used to it, you can call me Maggie." She has lived overseas for many years, and she is also used to being called that.

Zeng Yanzhi readily accepted this, nodded slightly, "Maggie."

Then there was a short silence.

Zeng Yanzhi didn't intend to initiate any topic, and let Liu Manzhi scrutinize him.There was a lot of emotion in that gaze, and it took a while to hear her voice sound again, with a sense of loss, "I've been away for too long."

Zeng Yanzhi didn't know how to answer at the moment, mother and son met after decades, according to normal development, should he comfort each other, or blame each other?But he seemed to have no idea.

The light music played by Starbucks is slow and orderly, intending to soothe people's nerves. In such an environment, he gradually suppressed the complicated feelings when they first met.At this moment, his mind was jumping thinking, why Liu Manzhi could call his nickname so innocently, but he couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

"Everything is fine." Zeng Yanzhi said.

Liu Manzhi smiled, casually revealed the disappointment, and asked: "Is it the end of the term recently? How is Yanbao's review?"

"No problem." Zeng Yan didn't talk much, and he was even more succinct when facing unfamiliar people.

"That's good. I've checked the official website of F University and saw your name on the list of scholarship recipients several times. Yanbao is really amazing." Liu Manzhi spoke slowly, and Zeng Yanzhi could hear her words There was a sense of intimacy, but his response was still calm, and even a bit polite to a teacher, "No, it should be."

"That's right." Liu Manzhi lowered her eyes, pursed her lips, and said in deliberation: "So I'm returning to China this time, apart from work reasons, and more importantly, I want to ask you...would you like to live abroad with me? ? With your grades, it is not a problem to go to a world-class university. Of course, you can come back at any time, and you don’t have to go if you don’t want to. I respect your choice.”

When Liu Manzhi was talking, she would subconsciously tap her fingers, and Zeng Yanzhi's eyes could not help but fall on her hand resting on the table - between the clasped fingers, there was a ring at the root of the ring finger, the style was simple and elegant, A ring of broken diamonds shines brightly, making the fingers whiter and slender.

I don't know if it's a wedding ring.

"I want to finish my current studies in China now." Zeng Yanzhi began to subconsciously reject her proposal.

His eyes moved away from his fingers, and met the pair of eyes similar to his.Perhaps it is the artist's perception, Liu Manzhi can easily capture the changes in other people's emotions, and she said nonchalantly: "In these years abroad, it is easy for a person to miss home." She smiled self-deprecatingly, "Young At that time, I felt that if I came back like this, it would be a compromise on my previous life. But I seem to have done something wrong."

"I'm too stupid to understand what I really want at this age." Liu Manzhi looked at Zeng Yanzhi gently with some faint expectation, "Yanbao, think about it carefully?"

Zeng Yanzhi paused for a second, then nodded.

Zeng Yanzhi actually paid attention to Liu Manzhi's dynamics, but it was only limited to her work. As for her life, she still wanted to know when she was a child, but a child really can't do much. He didn't even contact Liu Manzhi. There is no way.So, with the passage of time, Liu Manzhi's information faded out of his life at a speed visible to the naked eye, and this idea gradually disappeared, as if Liu Manzhi had become an insignificant person since then.

In fact, the person sitting across from him seemed like a blood-related stranger to him. From the very beginning, he didn't have much emotional foundation. Meeting him was just a matter of ethical inertia. Emotional shock.

If Liu Manzhi hadn't come back this time, if Wu Yinli hadn't been so anxious to want him to leave, then his life would have continued step by step according to the plan he had made... It can't be said that, after all, there were still things in the plan. accident.Zeng Yanzhi never thought that he would fall in love during this period, and his partner was Huo Cheng, who seemed to be in two worlds with him.

In fact, this Alpha is really different from the rumors.

Thinking of this, Zeng Yanzhi smiled involuntarily.

"Laughed. This is the first time I've seen you smile." Liu Manzhi said, "What happy things did you think of?"

"Cough, no." Zeng Yanzhi covered it up and smiled, not wanting to show too much emotion in front of Liu Manzhi.To Zeng Yanzhi, Huo Cheng is like a treasure that he doesn't want to make too much publicity. Although this relationship came suddenly, he cherishes it very much.They are still in the stage of passionate love, and there are also real problems. Before they can be resolved, everything is an unknown for him to calculate.

Zeng Yanzhi seldom has this kind of time to take one step at a time, and it seems that it doesn't matter whether the relationship with Huo Cheng can reach the end, he just wants to proceed purely and let nature take its course.

So the less outside interference, the better. When he is able to support this relationship on his own and he doesn't need to care about anyone's opinion, maybe he will propose to Huo Cheng.

The corners of Zeng Yanzhi's mouth curled up again involuntarily, Liu Manzhi was extremely curious, after thinking about it, probably only falling in love, which caught Zeng Yanzhi by surprise, could make Zeng Yanzhi lose some of his composure.But Zeng Yanzhi wouldn't tell her. After all, there was more than ten years of estrangement there. Liu Manzhi knew it, but her secretly tense nerves were finally relieved. She breathed a long sigh of relief, as if she had returned to her usual state. Take some deliberate care.

The mother and son chatted about daily life again, Liu Manzhi asked questions and Zeng Yanzhi answered them.

Liu Manzhi was not satisfied until he asked Zeng Yanzhi's ordinary life of more than ten years and basically had a clue.She stirred the bottomless coffee lane in front of her, and said relaxedly, "Are you guys going on vacation soon? I rented a suite near the second ring road, do you want Yanbao to move here and live with me?"

Liu Manzhi has no real estate in Xiangcheng, but has a small villa in Mocheng, which was left to her by Zeng Yanzhi's grandparents.This is what Zeng Yanzhi knew by accident. When Zeng Yanzhi was young, Wu Yinli asked why Zeng Yanzhi didn't live with his biological mother's relatives when he was chatting with his father.Zengfu didn't seem to want to talk about this topic very much. He only said that after Liu Manzhi's parents passed away, the Liu family only left a house for Liu Manzhi, and no one lived there.

But she never went back once.Zeng Yanzhi didn't ask Liu Manzhi why he didn't go back, he couldn't before, but now he doesn't want to.

Now facing Liu Manzhi's invitation, Zeng Yanzhi thought it over and agreed.

F University's dormitory building is full of people during the holidays. He can actually stay in the school, but it is not necessary. Since Liu Manzhi wants to repair the relationship between them, there is no point in being hypocritical.What's more, Liu Manzhi didn't remarry anyway.

Later Huo Cheng asked Zeng Yanzhi why he agreed so easily, it seemed different from what he imagined?Zeng Yanzhi thought about it for a while, then smiled, "Life is not about acting in a TV series about suffering, it just adds to the frustration."

Zeng Yanzhi deserved it easily, but Liu Manzhi raised his head, as if he didn't expect Zeng Yanzhi to agree so smoothly, his fingers stirring the coffee stopped, and he opened his mouth slightly, and it took him a long time to get excited uncontrollably, "I've prepared everything Daily necessities, why don't you come over with me now to have a look?"

"No, I have something to do later."

"That's right. Then, then I won't delay you." Liu Manzhi stuttered, "Where is Yanbao going? Mom will take you there?"

"Don't bother, I'll just go there by myself." Zeng Yanzhi waited for Liu Manzhi to stand up before following her, ready to separate from her at the intersection, "Go do your work first, don't worry about me."

Liu Manzhi didn't say anything more, waved her hands reluctantly, turned and left.

Zeng Yanzhi looked at her back, narrowed his eyes slightly, left the spot after a while, and casually entered the private exhibition hall next to the art museum.

Zeng Yanzhi is really a person who lacks artistic talent, which unfortunately has not been inherited by Liu Manzhi at all.The school of art remembers clearly that it is difficult to appreciate the specific beauty. If you ask him about the profound thoughts of a painting, he can only tell it according to the script, and his own perception is only a hazy outline.

He stopped in front of a painting, the abstract lines made it difficult to guess what was drawn, in Zeng Yanzhi's eyes it was a mass of unsolvable functions, as complicated as a human's personality.He shook his head and walked to the next painting.

This painting is called "First Birth". Zeng Yanzhi lowered his head and saw that the creation date was five years ago, and the artist was M.It is the same series as the "Light" I saw in the commercial plaza.

The description for this series is of returning, intriguing themes.

Zeng Yanzhi fell into deep thought, chuckled for a while, and walked to the next painting.

He doesn't know much about painting, but he is obsessed with looking at paintings, because this is the only thing he can get in touch with Liu Manzhi.

M is Liu Manzhi, which Zeng Yanzhi knew a long time ago.

M seldom shows up, and painters don’t need to show up, as long as there are reports for cutting-edge interviews, for artists, people are more concerned about her works, so that it is rare to see M in real life, let alone M is still abroad.

Zeng Yanzhi was able to see M Zhenrong in the photo album of an orphanage in Xiangcheng.In the summer vacation of junior high school, he went to the orphanage to do social practice, originally just to complete the homework, but accidentally learned this thing when he was learning about the history of the orphanage——M donated all the money he got from the auction of his famous works to the orphanage orphanage.There is only one group photo left in the orphanage. In the photo, she hugs the children around her intimately and smiles as gently as ever.He remembered the few photos of Liu Manzhi in his home, and the people in the pictures were exactly the same as M.

From then on, Zeng Yanzhi would regularly go there to help.

But M never came again.

Sure enough, he still cared about "mother" very much, and more and more thoughts piled up, which inevitably made him yearn again.The lack of emotion cannot be made up overnight, but it is better than nothing.

When Liu Manzhi came back, Zeng Yanzhi was actually happy from the bottom of his heart.