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In the dark and silent room, Zhuo Shuang opened the curtains with a slam, and the warm breeze washed away the dry and cold air in the room, and let the humid sunset evenly smear every inch of the corner.

There had been a shower an hour ago, and from his vantage point he could see the dense shady trees and the half-dry path.No matter how you look at it, it is not a height where you can jump and be safe. Realizing this again, his eyes dimmed, he left the window, and picked up the calendar on the table.

At the end of July, the bottom row was marked with four neat red crosses, four days, four days have passed since he was placed under house arrest, the phone is not with him, the laptop cannot connect to wifi, everything is in harmony The way of contact with the outside world has been cut off, and the end of such days is visible to the naked eye.

Four days ago, the relationship between him and Jiang Shou was forced to be exposed in advance. When he came back from school, he welcomed another unexpected guest before he could figure out how to deal with it.

Zhuo Zhenning found out about his liking for boys from nowhere, so he came to Xingshi to question him.

Maybe it was Zhuo Zhenning's frivolous attitude during the conversation, or maybe it was his contemptuous tone when he mentioned Jiang Shou, Zhuo Shuang, who originally wanted to treat him coldly, couldn't help arguing with him.

"Do you know what you're doing?" Zhuo Zhenning's eyes flashed with displeasure, and his words became more and more impolite, "I think you've lost your head!"

"I know."

Zhuo Shuang looked out of the window meaninglessly, with a sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, he knew better than anyone here what he was doing.

"Then tell me what you're doing!"

Do you really want to say it?Zhuo Shuang suddenly felt very tired.Now that the shameless people are going all out, what can he not say?

"You cheated on a woman surnamed Jiang more than ten years ago. Grandpa and grandma have always told me that that woman and you are an adulterer and adulterer. Sickness, it became like this...Anyway, no one said where the woman disappeared, whether the child in her stomach was born or aborted, she just disappeared out of thin air."

Zhuo Zhenning's expression was stiff, "What are you talking about?"

It sounded like he still didn't know Jiang Shou's real identity, Zhuo Shuang lowered her head, "Until this year, I met a person, his name is Jiang Shou, yes, he is the child born to you by that woman named Jiang..."

"Don't say any more!"

In Zhuo Shuang's memory, grandma has always been a very elegant old lady, she would not yell in such a gaffe, let alone show such a terrifying expression.

But it's understandable when you think about it, after all, what he's talking about is too cruel and absurd for everyone here.

"Shut up! Zhuo Shuang, I tell you to shut up, do you hear me!" Grandma snapped at the top of her voice, because she was using too much force, and even the bulging veins on her neck could be clearly seen, "I tell you to shut up!" Mouth, stop talking!"

"Grandma, lies can't last forever. Your and grandpa's lies have made me hate that child for as long as I can remember. He is obviously a victim just like me." Zhuo Shuang paused, and finally said that sentence It's over, "It's my half-brother, the one who hid behind the door and watched our conversation that day. I like him, and he likes me too. We are together now and will always be together in the future."

He doesn't care about letting the rules and regulations of morality and ethics go to hell, and he can't connect Jiang Shou with this vile man. He only knows that he likes Jiang Shou so much that he wants to be with him all the time.

"Absurd!" Zhuo Zhenning slapped the table heavily, shaking with anger, "Absurd!"

Zhuo Shuang looked at him calmly, her light brown eyes were like two cold glass beads, reflecting the furious Zhuo Zhenning inorganically.

The person who caused this embarrassing situation by himself would say that he is absurd. On another occasion, he would have laughed out loud because it was so absurd.

"What right do you have to call me ridiculous?" He asked softly the instigator in front of him.

"Because I'm your father!" Zhuo Zhenning completely tore off the disguise of being gentle and elegant, "I don't know how to repent, I don't know how to repent!"

"Cheating, lying, which one of you is not more serious than me? I need to repent, don't you need it?"

"I just made a small mistake that many men will make. Unlike you, you are not as good as a bastard!"

Zhuo Shuang looked at him in disbelief, as if he realized just today that this man's shamelessness is so bottomless, "Is the crime of bigamy a small mistake? Use a fake ID to deceive an innocent woman and let her bear children for you , is this also a small mistake?"

"Who told you that?"

Seeing the panic in Zhuo Zhenning's eyes, the last trace of doubt in Zhuo Shuang's heart about this matter disappeared, "You are such a scum." He clenched his teeth, his cheeks on both sides were tense, "You are a scumbag!" .”

Only Zhuo Zhenning, who couldn't refute this matter, turned his head in embarrassment, "Zhuo Shuang, I am really disappointed in you. I have always tried to respect your choice and treat you as a calm and rational adult. As a result, you are nothing more than that. You look down on me and think I'm a scumbag, but you are worse than me, and you really make me feel ridiculous."

Disappointed, ridiculous, being dunked one after another, I can't tell which is more angry or funny in my heart, "I forgot to tell you some time ago, the name Zhuo Shuang was given to me by my mother because she decided to marry you. You gave birth to children, and you will never be separated forever. The moonlight is like cold frost." Facing Zhuo Zhenning's astonished expression, he felt a distorted pleasure in his heart, "You don't care at all!" Suspiciously taking her heart as your absurd umbrella outside, who is more ridiculous..."

Snapped.A heavy slap fell on the face, and for a few seconds he couldn't see anything except the black shadows in front of him.

Zhuo Zhenning was panting heavily, his facial features were twisted ferociously by the rage.

There was a fishy rusty smell in his mouth, Zhuo Shuang stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked it, the pain made him gasp.There was probably a cut somewhere on the inside of his cheek. He wiped the corner of his mouth and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why, dare to do it or not, have you been poked at the sore spot?"

"Zhuo Shuang, I warn you, if you mention this matter again, I will..." Zhuo Zhenning did not hide the fierceness in his tone, "I will kill you, if you really think I promised your mother will not Dare to move you?"

Promise to fuck?What he promised Tang Lin, Zhuo Shuang's expression moved, but before he could think about it, he was attracted by the movement of a heavy object falling from the side.

The grandma who had witnessed the whole dispute fell on the floor, her eyes were closed, her lips were bruised, and her chest heaved weakly and rapidly.

"grandmother!"

"mom!"

"call the ambulance!"

The scene was chaotic.Aunt Chen hurriedly found the quick-acting medicine she had prepared, opened her grandmother's mouth and fed it to her, but just as he was about to call 120, he was taken away by Zhuo Zhenning at the side.

"Go back to your room and stay here," Zhuo Zhenning glared at him sullenly, "When will you figure out when will you come out?"

"Shuangshuang, are you awake? It's time for dinner. What would you like to eat tonight?"

Dong dong dong, Aunt Chen's voice outside interrupted Zhuo Shuang's thoughts and brought him back to reality again.

In short, he has been under house arrest in this bedroom since that day. The lock on the front door has been replaced, and the new one can only be opened from the outside.

"You are the only one eating at home tonight, and the portion for one person is not easy to cook. If possible, can I cook you a bowl of noodles?"

Aunt Chen would come to deliver meals to him at every meal time—he just noticed that it was almost 06:30 now.

"Aunt Chen, is it just me and you at home now?"

"Well, yes... yes." For some reason, Aunt Chen stuttered when she answered, "It's just me and you, Shuangshuang, what's the matter?"

"What time will grandpa come back today?" He didn't get right to the point, but repeatedly probed at the edge.

"It's past nine o'clock, almost 09:30, so I called back in advance and said that I don't want to cook his meal at night."

"Aunt Chen."

Probably guessing what he wanted to say next, Aunt Chen's tone was extremely tense, "Shuangshuang, don't make things difficult for Aunt Chen."

He knew that he was despicable, but Aunt Chen was the only breakthrough he could think of. "Aunt Chen, can you please open the door for me? I know you have the key."

If there is no other way, he doesn't want to do this kind of thing, but he is really too worried about Jiang Shou, worried that he will be hurt at home and school, and the four days of no news made this worry all the more urgent.

Aunt Chen didn't speak for a long time, neither refusing nor agreeing, so he stepped up, "I promise to come back before Grandpa and the others."

This time, Aunt Chen responded.Hearing the sound of the chain being put down, he felt both guilty and happy, "I'm sorry..." Before he finished speaking, he froze in place.

The door was indeed open, but there was a person standing beside Aunt Chen who shouldn't be here.Aunt Chen lowered her head, submissively daring not to speak, let alone look into his eyes.

He remembered that Tang Lin's seminar would be held for a month, so he would not be in China until August...but the indifferent and beautiful woman in front of him was indeed Tang Lin.

"I asked Aunt Chen to say this. If you want to blame it, blame me." Tang Lin smiled slightly, playing with a small key in her hand, "Aren't you going to invite me in?"

"mom."

Now that Tang Lin had said so, he had no other choice but to let her in.

He welcomed her into the room with a stiff face, "Why are you back?"

"I came back after the meeting over there. Is there any problem?" She looked around for a week. "It's pretty neat. I thought I would see a mess."

"I don't like to take my anger out on other things." He said flatly, it's not his style to throw things when angry, "Why do you think that?" After thinking about it, he felt that this question was a bit weird.

"It's nothing, I just thought you were crazy, so I tested you." Tang Lin looked at him with a half-smile, "Since you still have some sense of being a human being, let's sit down and talk."

Of course he could understand these overt and covert teasing, "What do you want to talk about?" If she was just planning to tease him for fun, then he has no choice but not the mood to accompany her now.

"Talk about the things you have caused recently." Tang Lin pulled the only chair in the bedroom to the side of the bed and sat down. "I heard what Zhuo Zhenning said after a while. Do you have anything to add?"

"No." He sat on the edge of the bed, curling the corners of his lips indifferently, "That's what you heard."

For her, although he didn't hate and resist her as deeply as he did for Zhuo Zhenning, but he was far from close enough to be able to speak his mind without any burden.

Tang Lin could hear the perfunctory in his tone, and she still said calmly, "Zhuo Shuang, people must learn to be responsible for what they do, don't talk about Zhuo Zhenning, your love has made your grandma very angry In the hospital, Aunt Chen shed tears every night, how do you plan to end this farce?"

"Is grandma all right?"

"It depends on how you define the word nothing." Tang Lin saw that the anxiety and worry in his eyebrows were not fake, and her expression eased, "I will be discharged from the hospital in two days."

He breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

In the whole farce, the only thing he didn't expect was that grandma would be stimulated to the hospital.

To be honest, his relationship with his grandma is mediocre, and sometimes he would be furious with this eccentric old man, but if something happened to her because of him, he would never forgive himself in his life.

"You don't think that if you bite to death like this and don't let go, if you are stubborn with us for two months, we will let you go and go to that child's side?"

Zhuo Shuang was taken aback by being told what was going on.Not to mention 100% thinking this way, at least he has really thought about it, as long as he can win this tug-of-war...

Tang Lin chuckled, she was slender, I don't care anyway. "

no transfer,

Continue in the attached high school?Zhuo Shuang subconsciously took precautions, "What's the condition?" He didn't believe that someone like Tang Lin would be so kind.

"If you don't transfer, then let the child transfer."

Sure enough, her next words shattered all his fantasies, "It is impossible for you and him to continue to be in the same school. If you don't transfer, then we can only let him transfer. At most, it will be a little troublesome, but it is not certain... "

"To shut up."

Tang Lin, who had achieved her goal, immediately stopped speaking.

He didn't know how much Tang Lin's words were threatening him and how much they were true, but he couldn't bear the consequences.

No matter how calm and composed he is, he knows in his heart that now he has no capital to compete with them, and it is a breeze for them to interfere in his and Jiang Miao's life.

It's messed up, everything is messed up, he still has two years to graduate, and in his blueprint, as long as he volunteers to leave City A, he can logically leave the control of Zhuo Zhenning and Tang Lin.

If they hadn't been exposed so quickly, they could have a more free future... It's useless to say anything now, things have already happened, time will not go back, he has to make a choice here.

Tang Lin took the time to straighten out the folds at the hem of the skirt, and she looked so leisurely and comfortable that it was almost disgusting.

She didn't say what means they would use to force Jiang Choi to transfer to another school, but such a blank left made him even more frightened.

He knows better than anyone else the importance of student status to a student like Jiang Mou. If he is expelled here, his life and future may be ruined.

Jiang Chou's grades are so good, the attached middle school is the best school in the province, if you leave the attached high school, the only way to receive the same level of education is those expensive private middle schools... Tang Lin knows his weakness too well, she doesn't have to do anything, As long as the facts are put in front of him, he will definitely make a choice according to her will.

"I'm going, don't touch him." He stared at Tang Lin with a frightening expression, "Don't let grandpa, grandma and Zhuo Zhenning touch his future."

"If you transfer to another school, you can enjoy the best educational resources abroad. If he transfers to another school, his future is likely to be ruined. I'm glad that you still know how to weigh the pros and cons. If you don't fall in love, you will lose your mind."

"Don't touch him." Tang Lin's joke didn't get into her heart at all, he said every word with great difficulty, and he could even taste the bloody smell in his throat, "As long as you don't move him, I promise you anything .”

A trace of surprise flashed across Tang Lin's face, and then she returned to her usual indifference, "You said this, come, sign your name on this form."

She handed over a dropout application form, and he held a pen that weighed a lot, and slowly signed his name under Tang Lin's gaze.

From this moment on, he has no way out.

"Remember what you promised me, don't touch him."

"I'm not such a boring person." Tang Lin took the form and looked at it. After making sure there was nothing wrong, she folded it up and put it in her bag. "As long as you are obedient, the child will be able to finish high school well."

Having received Tang Lin's promise, Zhuo Shuang's hanging heart sank a little—although she was still terribly uncomfortable, at least she was no longer so panicked.

He thought she would leave when she got what she wanted, but time ticked by, and five minutes later she was still sitting in the chair.

"Mom." With a thought in his mind, he called her softly.

"What's the matter?" Tang Lin, who was resting with her eyes closed, moved her lower eyelids, but did not open them.

"Can I see him again?"

That day he wanted to chase Jiang Shou away, but grandma's hand was like the old root of a dead tree, holding him tightly.

In the past few days, he has been wondering if Jiang Shou is doing well, but no matter how he thinks about it, he has no answer.

Tang Lin opened her eyes, her long eyelashes drooping tremblingly, covering the emotions in her pupils, "Are you begging me?"

"Yes, I'm begging you." He lowered his posture as much as possible, "Please let me see him again."

etc.

The last time he begged this person was two years ago or three years ago, he doesn't remember, he only remembers that every time he humbled his pleas, he never got the answer he wanted, and this time is no exception...

"Okay." Tang Lin lowered her head, following her gaze, he saw a delicate jewelry watch on her slender wrist, "Your grandfather is in the hospital, come back around 09:30 in the evening, and the remaining you know what to do."

"What did you say?" He looked at her incredulously, "You agreed?"

"Do you need me to repeat it?"

"No need, I hear you."

Zhuo Shuang stood up and rummaged through the closet for clothes suitable for going out.

"Why are you so calm?" He put down a white shirt and suddenly asked Tang Lin this question.

After this incident, everyone, including Zhuo Zhenning, either kept sighing, or hysterically ordered him to return to the so-called righteous way, but Tang Lin, she still looked the same as before, with a sneering expression and a frown. There is a hint of tiredness shrouded in the room, and the style of acting is perverted and goes its own way.

"My son is gay, what else? This kind of trivial matter requires me to put on a sad face that the sky is falling. Am I still alive?"

He wasn't sure if Tang Lin knew the real relationship between him and Jiang Shou, but seeing her mocking and provocative expression, he couldn't say anything.

After all, he had never understood the thoughts of this woman he called his mother.

"Go out, I need to take a shower and change." He casually pulled out a black T-shirt.

Tang Lin stood up from the chair, "I gave Aunt Chen a one-night vacation, and you can handle the dinner outside by yourself. Then."

Tang Lin, who was about to walk to the door, suddenly threw two things over. He caught it and found that it was his wallet and mobile phone.

"Remember the access control time."

He simply took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and then left the bedroom where he had been under house arrest for four days.

Every dream has its time limit and passes away.

The dream about the future, love and freedom that he had promised Jiangchou had reached its time limit, and before it disappeared, he had something to do.

Like saying goodbye.