like electricity

Summer evenings are always extraordinarily long, and the sky is still slightly bright after seven o'clock, and the afterglow of the setting sun is dyed on the edge of the clouds, and countless magnificent colors are precipitated.

A black business car parked in front of a private French restaurant with a bad name, the door opened, Zhuo Zhenning's assistant Xiao Wu got out first, and then Zhuo Shuang, one of the protagonists.

Zhuo Shuangguang, in school uniform and shorts and sneakers, stood at the door in this kind of full-dress formal attire, and stood at the door. However, the doorman and waiter who can work here are more or less discerning, and no one really dares to refuse him. outside the gate.

"Boss Zhuo is waiting for you inside."

In the dark and quiet corridor, the assistant Xiao Wu went to a certain white carved wooden door and knocked lightly twice, and said to Zhuo Shuang behind him after receiving a response.

Zhuo Shuang went in without even looking at him.

"It's finally here." Zhuo Zhenning sat on the tall armchair and looked at him with a smile, "I thought I would be released as a pigeon this time."

He pointed to the empty seat opposite, "Sit down, we can talk while eating."

The private room is not big, but it is very emotionally furnished. European court-style tables and chairs, white napkins and fresh roses with the stems folded are placed on the plate. It is more suitable for a couple's tryst than an intimate discussion between father and son.

"Is there something wrong?" Zhuo Shuang didn't listen to him, but stood by the table with a gloomy expression, "We have an exam next week, if you have nothing to do, don't disturb my study."

Half an hour ago, he was called out from class by Xiao Wu on the phone, and halfway through he found out that it was Zhuo Zhenning who came back from a business trip and suddenly wanted to have dinner with him.

"It's been a long time since our father and son sat together like this. It won't be a problem if you accompany me to have a meal." Zhuo Zhenning didn't pay attention to his contradictory, and slowly spread the napkin for himself, "The school By the way, I asked Xiao Wu to ask for leave for you."

Zhuo Shuang stared at him for half a minute, her eyes filled with indescribably complicated emotions.

In the end he chose to compromise, "I'll go back after dinner."

Zhuo Zhenning smiled in satisfaction, and picked up the glass in hand, "I gave you something before and thought about how you thought about it?"

"I didn't think about it, and I won't think about it in the future."

Zhuo Zhenning had a disapproving expression on his face, "It is the number one private school in the United States. It is a real all-round quality education in morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor. If you go now, you will go directly to the second grade. What are you not satisfied with?"

Zhuo Shuang looked at the river view outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and said calmly, "Don't waste your time, I am very satisfied with my life now."

"Satisfied? Is it true satisfaction or fake satisfaction?" Zhuo Zhenning snorted like a rogue, "If you really don't want to take the TOEFL in February, you shouldn't take it. If you take the test, it means that you still have the intention of going abroad .”

Hearing him confuse black and white here, Zhuo Shuang almost laughed out of anger.At that time, Zhuo Zhenning teamed up with Tang Lin to threaten him to suspend his tuition and living expenses for one year if he missed the exam. He thought that he would not make too much trouble, so he took the exam. How did Zhuo Zhenning say that he was eager to take the exam? ?

"You forced me to apply for the name. I took the test casually. How did you see my intention?" He retorted very bluntly, "I said it, you don't need to make up your own mind."

However, Zhuo Zhenning lived decades longer than him, and is best at misinterpreting other people's intentions, "You can get more than 100 points in a random test, and you still say you are not paying attention?"

Zhuo Shuang took a deep breath, and suppressed the throbbing anger in his chest, "Am I going to hand in a blank paper on purpose?"

It seemed that he was about to say something, but was interrupted by the waiter who came in to serve the food.

"Is it my illusion? You are very angry today, and you want to make two holes in my body." Zhuo Zhenning rolled his eyes, his expression was between narrow and intimacy, "What's the matter? What's wrong? The long-eyed person called you?"

The appetizer happened to be a sashimi platter made by Zhuo Shuang's least favorite sea fish. After seeing it, he asked the attendant to serve it as it was without moving.

"No." He denied it curtly, "After that, I basically didn't answer calls from strangers."

A certain lover of Zhuo Zhenning, forgot

Which one is it? Anyway, she is a young girl in her twenties. I don’t know if she is too courageous or too smart. She thinks that a tall and handsome son in his teens is better in control than a father who is almost forty and flamboyant. She actually called him a harassing phone call, and asked him openly if he needed someone to warm his bed at night.Just making a phone call was not enough, she even went to their school gate and took his arm, pretending to be his girlfriend to go shopping with him for coffee, so that he threw the clothes into the trash can when he went back.

After a little thought, Zhuo Zhenning showed a clear expression, "The girls in school are almost enough to play around. There is nothing beautiful abroad. As for hanging on a tree?"

Hearing such frivolous words suddenly, Zhuo Shuang came back to his senses and looked at him in disbelief, "What do you want to say?"

"Isn't it your little girlfriend who got into trouble with you? I really didn't mean to break you that day." Zhuo Shuang thought she understood and touched her chin. "I understand that you are very impulsive at this age, but remember the safety measures. Do it well, girls' abortion is very harmful to the body."

Since the morning, Zhuo Shuang has been holding back an evil fire that has nowhere to vent, and now that he is so ignited by himself, he feels that he may explode at any time.

"Stop it." He whispered, his hands under the table unconsciously clenched into fists, "I don't want to discuss this with you."

He couldn't figure out what qualifications Zhuo Zhenning had to say such a thing, if Zhuo Zhenning knew who was with him, could he still be so superior?

Zhuo Zhenning didn't listen to him, and was still commenting on this imaginary girl, "It's not a good girl to let you sleep so easily, she doesn't know how to respect herself at all, the one who broke up Be generous in your time, don't mess around..."

The more he said, the more he went too far, Zhuo Shuang's accumulated anger finally erupted like a boiling volcano.

Bang.Zhuo Shuang slammed his fist on the table, and the edge of the delicate porcelain trembled violently. Zhuo Zhenning became quiet all of a sudden, and even the waiter who came to serve the food stepped aside knowingly.

"Shut up!" He crossed the table and picked up Zhuo Zhenning's collar and grabbed him, "I won't allow it, if you do this, call him!"

"You're so courageous." Zhuo Zhenning finally stopped smiling. He squinted his eyes and asked his rebellious son coldly, "Which one of my words is not true? Having sex with someone in high school is not cheap, what is it?"

Zhuo Shuang, who was angry, raised his fist high at the hateful face in front of him, but stopped at the moment when he was about to swing it down.

Can he beat Zhuo Zhenning?Can you beat this man into a mess so that he can't speak a word?

Most importantly, will he solve the problem by doing so?

"You want to hit me?" Zhuo Zhenning smirked, seized his momentary loss of consciousness and took advantage of the victory to chase after him, "What right do you have to hit me? You eat me, use mine to live in mine, use my money to sleep with women, no I and you are garbage that is not as good as a street gangster, what right do you have to beat me?"

The private room is very quiet, so quiet that you can even hear a needle drop on the ground.

Zhuo Shuang slowly lost strength in holding his hand.What Zhuo Zhenning said was right, he didn't have the qualifications, and his good material conditions from childhood to adulthood were all thanks to this person.He is not even qualified to replace Jiang Shou.

Zhuo Zhenning, who broke free from his son's restraint, straightened his clothes, and slapped him backhandedly.

"No." Zhuo Shuang was beaten so that her face turned to one side, and she didn't recover for a long time.

Zhuo Zhenning gestured to the waiter by the door, gesturing them to continue serving food, "Sit down, finish this meal, and get out of here and reflect on it. I want to hear a satisfactory answer after the reflection."

The meal between the father and son lasted like a year, and even the chef noticed that the atmosphere was not right, so he went straight to the next table after a quick chat.

When the table was about to leave, Zhuo Shuang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked Zhuo Zhenning a seemingly nonsensical question.

"Why did you name me that?"

"what?"

"Do you remember why my name is Zhuo Shuang?"

Zhuo Zhenning has returned to his former refined style, as if the violence before

Force friction does not exist, "I remember that your mother gave you this name, why don't you ask her?" He replied very gently.

Zhuo Shuang hummed noncommittally, and said softly, "I asked her, but she said she didn't remember."

Zhuo Zhenning didn't find it strange at all, "That's how they study art. Maybe they watched some sad movies when they gave birth to you. Why? Don't you like it? If you don't like it, you can change it while you are still young. When you get your passport and driver’s license, you really can’t change them.”

"No." Zhuo Shuang lowered her head and fiddled with the lava chocolate cake on the plate, "I don't want to change my name, but I just want to ask you if you still remember it."

Zhuo Zhenning who didn't know what he was causing the trouble was extremely puzzled, "Is there anything I should remember?"

"No." Zhuo Shuang hastily ate two bites of the cake, and didn't drink the rum coffee that was brought at the end, "I'm leaving."

Zhuo Zhenning didn't stop him this time, "Call me Lao Li..."

"No, I'll just take a taxi and go back."

After finishing speaking, Zhuo Shuang left him, took her schoolbag and left the restaurant alone.

Zhuo Zhenning stared at his back in surprise, took out his mobile phone and dialed Xiao Wu's number.

As a special assistant who is under one person and over ten thousand people, Xiao Wu is naturally on standby 24 hours a day, so the call is connected within ten seconds.

"Go and check his recent interpersonal relationships to see which girl he is close to. If necessary, contact the girl's parents directly, and give me some hush money so that they can break up with me early."

How could Zhuo Zhenning's son do it for a cheap little bitch.Do you give up a better future?He will never allow it.

·

Zhuo Shuang hailed a taxi casually, got in the car and reported the address, then stared out the window without saying a word and was dazed.

The hot and humid night wind blows on his face, his mind is full of the words that Jiang Shou said to himself when he confessed to himself in the morning.

——The man who lied to my mother used the pseudonym Zhuo Shuang.

Suddenly hearing such a fantasy, his first reaction was not doubt but Zhuo Zhenning really did it.

—Is there anything I should remember?

Facing his temptation, Zhuo Zhenning said eloquently, which dispelled the last trace of doubt in his heart.

It was really so funny, Zhuo Zhenning couldn't remember why he was called Zhuo Shuang, it was so funny that he couldn't help but find it ridiculous.

How many times can one person disappoint another to become like this?Even he, who has been regarded as a transparent person by Tang Lin since birth, knows that this name commemorates a very important day for them: Tang Lin in college was the most beautiful and hardest girl in school, There are countless admirers, who are gentle and courteous to everyone but do not engage in specialization. Few people can leave traces on that clear and exquisite heart.At that time, Zhuo Zhenning used all kinds of means to pursue her, from sending flowers to treating her to dinner, from reciting poems to making models for her, it can be said that he tried his best.Until a certain moonlit night, he invited her to a glass garden in the suburbs, and asked her to dance a waltz to the accompaniment of an old radio.

It was a full moon that day, and the moonlight was like cold frost. Tang Lin was moved and made up her mind that as long as she had a child with this person, no matter male or female, she should be called Zhuo Shuang.

Unexpectedly, just a few years later, the man who once expressed his love to her under the moonlight broke their past agreement and used the name of their unborn child as a picture for a romantic and happy life outside.

Whether this man has forgotten the past vows of eternal love, or simply doesn't care, no one knows now.

He only knew one thing, and that was that the man he had called Dad for 17 years was worse than he thought, so bad that he felt ashamed of himself all over again.

——It would be fine if I wasn't this man's child, then I might live a little poorer, but it doesn't matter, then I can meet that boy named Jiang Shou without any burden, without being complicated and dirty bound by the past.

When he got home, the first thing he did was to take a shower.

morning housekeeping

It should have been here, the sheets and quilts have been replaced with new ones, and there is no trace left by Jiang Shou from last night.Regrettably, he turned his gaze to the side and landed on the bedside table. When he saw the familiar transparent file bag, his heart skipped a beat.

A few days ago, Zhuo Zhenning's subordinates handed this over to him, and he who was in a cold war with Jiang Shou really thought of leaving everything behind.Fortunately, he calmed down, and fortunately he didn't agree... Did Jiang Shou see it?He has so many thoughts and is so sensitive, if he sees it, he must think a lot about it.Would he think I was leaving him again?

Just thinking of this possibility made a certain part of Zhuo Shuang's heart sour.