Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

This was also the first time he personally felt that as a father, seeing his son truly grow up, become sensible, and understand all your hardships and difficulties, this kind of understanding, this kind of consideration, and this kind of care for you really makes people... feel sad.

"Why should I say sorry? You don't need to say sorry to me!" Chu Tianjiao suddenly hugged Chu Zihang into his arms, his voice choked with sobs, "I should say sorry to you, I should say sorry to you!"

“All these years… I’m so sorry for being such an incompetent father, such an unreliable father, and for making you look for me for so long, and for making you distressed for so long!” Two lines of hot tears flowed from Chu Tianjiao’s eyes, and he said hoarsely in Chu Zihang’s ear, “Thank you… Thank you for forgiving me for being such an irresponsible father, thank you for taking good care of your mother, thank you for growing up to be such a sensible and good man… Thank you, son…”

"I never blamed you, Dad. I didn't understand you before, but now I understand you. You are a great man, at least I think so." Chu Zihang's hand gently stroked Chu Tianjiao's strong but scarred back. He was not a person who was good at sentimentalism, but touching those rough, long-standing scars, Chu Zihang's eyes seemed to be a little sour.

"So my request...will you agree to it?" Chu Zihang asked softly on Chu Tianjiao's shoulder, "This is also Xia Mi's request."

"I agree. How could I not agree? What reason do I have to not agree?" Chu Tianjiao's voice trembled slightly. "This is enough. I am very satisfied. I am invited by my son and daughter-in-law to attend their wedding. What else can I be dissatisfied with? It doesn't matter who the parent is, or what identity I have. It will also be the same in the future. I will not miss any important moment in your life if you need me."

From afar, Lu Mingfei and others sighed as they watched Chu Tianjiao hugging Chu Zihang and crying. This tough man once shouldered everything alone. He silently watched over Chu Zihang and his son, and continued to carry the heavy burden until now... Today he can finally put down the burden, because his son has grown up. The boy who once needed his protection to escape from the hands of "God" now has stronger power than him, and a mature and strong enough heart.

This heart is enough to warm this man's lonely and monotonous life.

"It's time for us to settle accounts, right?" Nuonuo came to Lu Mingfei and Finkel, put his hands on their shoulders, and whispered sinisterly in their ears, "About the conspiracy between you two to knock me out and kidnap me..."

"Lu Mingfei ordered it!" This is Finkel's usual tactic of shifting the blame.

"I didn't give any dirty order like 'kidnapping', so stop slandering me!" Lu Mingfei was not a stickler at all.

"Just write it off." Nuo Nuo suddenly changed the subject.

“Sister, you have to be more discerning, you…” Lu Mingfei was stunned after he reacted, then turned his head to look at Nuonuo, “Write it all off?”

Chapter 1109 Nono's Change

"Yes, it's written off." Nuo Nuo's eyes also fell on Chu Tianjiao and Chu Zihang who were hugging each other, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, "Since the result is good, why do we have to keep lingering on the process? There is no better ending than this."

"Junior sister, how come you have become so reasonable?" Finkel approached Nuonuo with a flattering look on his face.

"Oh?" Nuo Nuo raised her pretty eyebrows, "Was I unreasonable before?"

"I could tell she was a woman before." Finger started to talk nonsense again, but he immediately became serious, looked at Nuonuo, and said in a serious tone, "But to be honest, I think you have really changed a lot after studying at the Women's Virtue College. I'm not talking about your figure and your outfit, I'm talking about your personality and... well, your personality has changed a lot."

"Really?" Nuonuo didn't comment. She obviously didn't want to dwell on this topic any more. "Who told you that was a women's virtue academy? It's called the Golden Iris Academy, it teaches ladies. Don't say anything bad like women's virtue!"

"What's the difference between that and female virtue?" Finkel muttered softly, "I'm sorry, I'm so mean, Junior Sister, please don't hit me!"

"Ah." Nuo Nuo suddenly sighed, "You're right. To put it bluntly, there's nothing wrong with calling it a women's virtue academy. It's quite tiring to stay there. You're not allowed to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, eat potato chips, biscuits, or chocolate. They say that alcohol, nicotine, and calories are obstacles to being a true lady. These past few months have been suffocating for me!"

"Senior Sister, when did you start smoking?" Lu Mingfei suddenly glanced at Nuo Nuo.

"I don't smoke. This is just a description. You know what I mean. Anyway, it means that the rules of Golden Iris Academy are too strict." Nono shrugged. "But I've been annoyed these past few days and really want to start smoking. From childhood to adulthood, I only tried the taste of something when I was rebellious in elementary school, and I choked badly."

As soon as Nono finished speaking, a cigar was handed to her. Nono looked in the direction of the cigar and found that it was Caesar's outstretched hand.

"This cigar is quite strong and a bit choking. If you really want to try it, you can take a sip. Remember not to let it go through your lungs." Caesar reminded Nono.

Nono glanced at Caesar, then silently took the cigar from his hand. Caesar naturally lit it for Nono. Nono actually took a puff, and then... as expected, he was choked by it.

Caesar didn't say much, he just patted Nono's back gently to help her calm down, fearing that she might choke.

When Nuonuo was choking and could hardly open her eyes, she saw Caesar's blurry but handsome face in the smoke. Nuonuo suddenly dreamed back to the time when she met Caesar. At that time, she drove a convertible sports car and ran wildly in Kassel College late at night. It was raining heavily that night and she was soaked. She shouted downstairs of the boys' dormitory, "Who is willing to go to Chicago with me!"

That day, all the boys in the dormitory leaned out their heads and looked at the girl who was so crazy, so playful, yet so beautiful and so heroic in the rainstorm. The sound of whistles resounded throughout the boys' dormitory area of ​​Kassel College. Someone asked Nono if she was going to Chicago tonight, someone asked Nono why she wanted to go to Chicago, and someone asked Nono what she wanted to do in Chicago... Without exception, these boys all wanted to hook up with this beautiful and crazy girl with her own ideas.

Nuonuo raised her head and looked at the boys in the dormitory through the heavy rain. She remained expressionless in the face of those teasing or mocking voices, until the excitement in her eyes gradually turned into disappointment... She was too disappointed. She was the kind of person who wanted to go to Chicago immediately. She also hoped to find a boy who would agree to go to Chicago as soon as she asked him if he wanted to. Each of these guys had ideas about her, but they thought too much, looking back and forth, worrying about this and that. Don't they know that many times there is only one chance? People's ideas change all the time. Wanting to go to Chicago was just a whim of Nuonuo. This idea was fleeting, and the opportunity was also fleeting. Why didn't these boys understand?

Just when Nuonuo was about to leave in disappointment, a man fell from the sky. He jumped down from the third floor and fired three shots from the Desert Eagle in his hand. The sound was deafening. He meant to warn the other boys that this girl belonged to him tonight. The man landed accurately on the passenger seat of Nuonuo's convertible.

"Do you need a guide if you want to go to Chicago?" The handsome man with ocean-blue eyes said to Nono in a very magnetic voice, "I'm quite familiar with Chicago, and I'm a good driver. I once participated in an international rally and won the annual silver medal."

That man was Caesar. From that day on, Nuonuo knew that Caesar was probably the man destined for her, because this man tolerated her unconditionally and supported everything she did, whether she was on a whim or was simply crazy. Caesar never blamed Nuonuo or had any complaints about her. He was handsome, considerate, rich, and tolerant like the sea. Who would choose such a man? Why wouldn't Nuonuo fall in love with such a man?

"It's not very easy to smoke." Nono handed the cigar, which she had only taken a puff of, back to Caesar. She stuck out her tongue, as if trying to spit out the strong smell of smoke in her mouth.

"If you don't like it, don't smoke it. There's nothing good about it." Caesar took the cigar from Nono and put it in his mouth naturally. He took a puff and exhaled very thin smoke.

"Golden Iris Academy is actually not that fun. Although the maids there are nice, the girls there are pretty boring. They basically pretend to be ladies and try their best to marry into a wealthy family. They are too pretentious and not crazy enough at all." Nono leaned against Caesar and whispered, "I'm not opposed to staying in Golden Iris Academy as your bride, but I can't make real friends there."

"If you don't want to go, then don't go." Caesar said without hesitation, "Don't consider me or the old guys in my family. You just need to care about your own feelings."

"I know." Nono said, "But..."

Having said this, Nuonuo suddenly paused.

Caesar waited for Nono to say the next word, but Nono did not continue. After a long silence, Caesar slowly spoke.

"Nono, actually there is something I want to tell you." Caesar took a deep breath.

"I haven't finished speaking either. Let me speak first, Caesar." Nono also spoke at the same time.

Caesar nodded.

"What I want to tell you is, this is what I think." Nono turned her head and looked into Caesar's beautiful sea-blue eyes.

"What?" Caesar was stunned.

"I said I would study at the Golden Iris Academy. That's what I thought. I told you that this was my choice. I did it voluntarily. No one forced me." Nono said softly to Caesar, "Although I don't like being bound, and although I don't think life there is happy, I don't hate it. I may complain a few times, but that's just complaining. If I were to choose again, I would still agree to go to the Golden Iris Academy."

"Why?" Caesar asked subconsciously.

"Because of you." Nono said to Caesar.

Caesar was stunned.

"I have always had this kind of personality since I was a child. I have always only cared about my own ideas, what I want to do, and what I have to do. As for whether there is anyone to accompany me or whether what I do will affect others, I am too lazy to consider these." Nono looked at Caesar and said seriously, "Before this, I never thought that I could meet someone who can tolerate everything about you. When you are with others, you will definitely be affected by each other. I know Caesar can tolerate a lot of things about me, but the word "everything" is really too big."

"I can do better," Caesar whispered.

"No need." Nono's finger gently touched Caesar's lips. "What I mean is, this is enough now. I don't need others to tolerate everything about me. I didn't need such a person before, and now I don't need this person to do this for me."

Caesar was unable to speak because Nono pressed his mouth. He just looked at Nono's beautiful dark red eyes.

"It's impossible for a person's thoughts to remain unchanged for a lifetime. I used to think there was nothing wrong with being alone, but now I think it's pretty good to be with you. You have always been thinking about me, my personality, and my thoughts. I know that I am actually a headache for people. Being my boyfriend must cost you a lot of brain cells." Nono whispered, "Caesar, you have done enough for me, so let me do something for you."

"What?" Caesar said subconsciously.

"Go to Golden Iris Academy and finish all my studies, and then become your bride." Nuo Nuo looked at Caesar, her tone more serious than ever before, "No one forced me, and no one threatened me. This is what I, Chen Motong, really think at this moment. I do it because I want to. I can get caught in the rain all night just to go to Chicago, and I can also recite scriptures and fast for several months just to marry Caesar Gattuso. I do this because I love you, and love can make a person become different."

"Nono..." Caesar was a little dazed.

No one could guess what the girl in front of him was thinking, not even her boyfriend. He never wanted to hear any of Nono's inner thoughts, because to Caesar, Nono was a book that was incomprehensible. Any page you opened was full of mystery and unknown, so he was deeply attracted to this girl.

As far as he could remember, this was probably the first time that Nono "opened her heart" to him. She took the initiative to turn a page of her own to him and marked the notes for him, letting him know that his name, Caesar, was written in the book, and that this page was called... love.

"Our wedding will be on the day I graduate from Golden Iris College, okay?" Nono hugged Caesar gently, "I won't let you wait too long. You know, if I want, I will definitely be the one who graduates the fastest."

"I know." Caesar put his arms around Nono's waist and nodded gently.

"You just said you had something to tell me?" Nuonuo suddenly remembered and asked.

"No more." Caesar put his lips on Nono's dark red hair. What he wanted to say just now was actually about the time he spent in Japan. He missed her very much, but there was no need to say it now.

The beloved girl is in his arms. She has said so much. Aren’t her words and her hug enough to explain everything? Caesar has never been a nagging man.

"Yes." Caesar whispered.

"Yeah." Nono said.

"I love you," Caesar said in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"I love you too." Nono's voice was even lower.

Finkel pulled Lu Mingfei aside, glancing at Caesar and Nono from time to time, with a typical melon-eating face.

"Where's my camera? Where's my camera?" Finkel's hands were rummaging around in his body, and the paparazzi's occupational disease was acting up again.

"Brother, you are probably feeling itchy because you see the elder brother and the elder sister being so affectionate and lonely?" Lu Mingfei glanced at Finkel. "It's okay to touch them in private, but it's not a good idea to do it in public."

"Junior brother, don't say what's in your mind." Finkel responded instinctively.

"Why should I be lonely? My wife is not obedient and pretty enough." Lu Mingfei took Eri's hand and kissed her face, "Come on, Eri, give me a kiss."

"Junior brother, I fuck you, Old Mu..." There was a burst of bird singing and flower fragrance, and it seemed that Hong Wen was there.

Suddenly, a phone call rang in the room. Chu Zihang took out his cell phone and saw the name on the caller ID. His eyes couldn't help but jump twice.

Almost at the same time, Lu Mingfei's cell phone vibrated. He glanced at the name of the caller and showed the same surprised expression as Chu Zihang.

Chu Zihang put the phone to his ear and pressed the answer button.

"We're back." A familiar voice came from the phone.

"Are you going back to Kassel College?" Chu Zihang asked.

"No, we're near your house." The female voice on the phone said, "A lot of things happened. It's hard to explain them all at once. Let's talk when we meet."

"You've worked hard. Take a good rest." Chu Zihang said softly, "We'll come to find you right away, Xia Mi."

……

At the gate of the high-end residential complex where Lu Tianming's family lived, a group of people came to the security office. Chu Zihang greeted the familiar security guard. After recognizing that he was the son of the Lu family, the security guard wisely opened the fence and let them in. He bowed to Lu Mingfei and the others.

A group of people entered the community one after another, except for one person who stood next to the security office, hesitating whether to take a step forward.

"Dad?" Chu Zihang turned around and glanced at Chu Tianjiao.

"I... um... well, should I not go with them?" Chu Tianjiao hesitated, "Your father should be at home by now, right? Your mother probably doesn't want to see me, right? It's not appropriate for me to go there in any capacity, right?"

"As my biological father," Chu Zihang shook his head and said, "there's nothing inappropriate about it."

Chapter 1110 Bring Chu Tianjiao Home

“But...but..." Chu Tianjiao was still a little hesitant, or to be more precise, a little scared.

This man who was not afraid of even "God" actually showed a rare cowardly expression at this moment, because of the woman he loved deeply... He had always been a very independent-minded man who never backed down, but in front of that woman named Su Xiaoyan, he almost lost all his opinions. It was not that he was afraid of Su Xiaoyan, but he did not dare to face the love for Su Xiaoyan in his heart. He had already left that woman, so he was not qualified to love her, but he could not erase the place of the woman in his heart, so he could only hide that love that should not exist carefully and unknown to others.

Su Xiaoyan was like a dream to him. Even though they were far apart, he could still look at the woman's face and occasionally recall the dream. But once he met the woman face to face, he was at a loss. He was not worried about being insulted or reprimanded, but about being ignored by the other party and treated as an insignificant stranger. In this way, his dream would be shattered and he would not even be qualified to dream in the future.

"Uncle, are you afraid of meeting Aunt Su?" Lu Mingfei asked Chu Tianjiao in a low voice.

"It's not that I'm afraid of seeing her. In fact, I have secretly seen her many times over the years... Oh, no, not in the past seven years, but seven years ago I would secretly see her five or six times every week." Chu Tianjiao scratched the back of his head, "I don't have to be so pretentious when talking to you. After all, you have all been to my room and have seen those photos."

"I'm not afraid of seeing her, but I'm afraid of her seeing me. To be precise, I'm afraid of her reaction after seeing me." Chu Tianjiao sighed.

"How do you think Aunt Su will react when she sees you?" Lu Mingfei asked curiously.

"No... I don't know." Chu Tianjiao shook his head and whispered, "I dare not even think about it. I have never thought about the scene of meeting her again. Seven years ago, I even planned to slowly disappear from the lives of mother and son. When Chu Zihang grows up, I will leave them completely. I will not show up on my own initiative, nor will I let them find me. I will only watch them silently in a place where they can't see. I don't need happiness anymore. In fact, their happiness is my happiness. I am afraid that if I appear in front of her, her original happiness will be broken."

Lu Mingfei opened his mouth but didn't say anything, because Chu Tianjiao's worry was not unreasonable. Not to mention whether Su Xiaoyan would have any emotional fluctuations when seeing Chu Tianjiao again, Lu Tianming obviously didn't want Su Xiaoyan to meet Chu Tianjiao again. Although Lu Tianming might not say anything in order to maintain a decent image, there would be no man in this world who would be willing to let his wife's ex-husband meet his wife, let alone the one brought by his stepson.

Moreover, Chu Tianjiao has already made this choice. As an outsider, it is not appropriate for Lu Mingfei to interfere with other people's ideas. At this time, it would be inappropriate for Lu Mingfei to give any advice. The best thing to do is to respect Chu Tianjiao's decision.

"Happiness is not something that can be easily broken." Chu Zihang suddenly spoke up. He looked at Chu Tianjiao and shook his head. "If your life will be different just by meeting your ex-lover, then such happiness cannot be considered true happiness, because it is inherently fragile and will be broken one day. Even if it is not broken today, it will be broken tomorrow or the day after tomorrow because of something else. If you want your mother to be truly happy, you should not be afraid to see her."

“This…” Chu Tianjiao, who was eloquent, had no way to refute Chu Zihang’s words, but his expression still showed hesitation. “To be honest, besides this, I am afraid of other things.”

“What I’m afraid of is not that your mother will point her finger at me and scold me when we meet, nor that she will tell me to get lost as soon as we meet, nor that she will ask me where I have been all these years and why I left you guys behind. What I’m most afraid of is that she will completely ignore me.” Chu Tianjiao took a deep breath and said with a dim look in his eyes, “Even if I’m in front of her, I can’t make her have the slightest emotional fluctuation. It’s as if she doesn’t remember me at all, and our previous feelings and memories seem to not exist. This is what I can’t accept.”

Chu Tianjiao's voice was even trembling slightly when he said this. Seeing the sad expression on Chu Tianjiao's face, Lu Mingfei finally understood at this moment that Chu Tianjiao had just lied to him... He said that he didn't dare to think about Su Xiaoyan's reaction when he met her. Maybe he was really scared, but how could he not have thought about it? After all, that was the person he had loved deeply before and even until now. No matter how he shrank back, no matter how scared he was, he must have repeatedly replayed the scene of reuniting with Su Xiaoyan in his mind thousands of times. He had made the best assumptions, and he must have made the worst assumptions.

For Chu Tianjiao, the worst outcome is that Su Xiaoyan treats him as a stranger, which is a result he cannot accept, so he has been avoiding Su Xiaoyan all these years and never takes the initiative to appear in front of her, because he is avoiding... As long as he does not appear in front of Su Xiaoyan, the worst outcome will never happen. He can continue to live in his memories, guarding the peace and joy of the mother and son and his only remaining thoughts, and spend the rest of his long life.

"If you're afraid, you won't do it?" Chu Zihang suddenly asked Chu Tianjiao.

Chu Tianjiao was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously, he felt that this sentence sounded a little familiar.

"This is what you said to me when I was a child. I didn't understand it when I was a child, but now I understand it." Chu Zihang paused, looked into Chu Tianjiao's eyes, and said softly, "On the rainy night when I separated from you, I understood it."

Seeing Chu Zihang's eyes, Chu Tianjiao was stunned.

“After leaving Nibelung that night, there hasn’t been a day that I haven’t thought about it, and there hasn’t been a day that I haven’t regretted it, because I was scared at the time, so I lost something important to me.” Chu Zihang said to Chu Tianjiao in a serious tone, “I think about it every night, if I had chosen to face it instead of running away, would I be more satisfied even if I died there? At that time, I understood that remorse and regret are more terrible than fear. Facing the thing you fear will only last for a moment, but remorse and regret are likely to last throughout your life.”

Chu Tianjiao's lips trembled slightly, but he had no way to refute what Chu Zihang said.

"You can escape for a while, or you can escape for a lifetime, but do you think you won't regret it?" Chu Zihang asked Chu Tianjiao, "Mom has started a new life many years ago, but you haven't. You have always lived in your own memories. I know you love Mom very much, so you think about her and never contact her or show up in front of her. You think this is the best way, so she doesn't have to worry, and you don't have to worry about the worst outcome."

"But have you really thought about yourself?"

Chu Zihang asked this question suddenly, and Chu Tianjiao's body trembled twice.

"But even if you really appear in front of Mom, what on earth would she have to worry about? If she still loves you, then seeing you must be what she always wants. If she doesn't love you anymore, why would she be distressed by this?" Chu Zihang said expressionlessly, "The one who is really distressed is actually you. If you never see Mom again in your life, will you really not regret it? You only rely on a few memories and thoughts to live because you are afraid of the outcome. Even if the result is not satisfactory, is this yearning that will never come true really better than the worst possible outcome?"

Chu Tianjiao's expression was completely stunned, he never thought that Chu Zihang would say such words to him... Such a head-on blow revealed all the concerns and fig leaves in his heart, but Chu Tianjiao did not feel ashamed or embarrassed. On the contrary, because of Chu Zihang's words, his state of mind was undergoing a huge change.

"And let's take a step back. Your meeting with mom doesn't mean you will reconcile. Just meeting doesn't mean you have any fundamental conflicts. It doesn't mean that you two, who were once lovers, must become enemies who will never see each other again. I don't think mom would think so." Chu Zihang paused. "Other people may mind it a little, but if this incident affects his future relationship with mom, it only proves that their relationship was fragile to begin with."

"I... understand." Chu Tianjiao was silent for a long time and then sighed. He compromised and said, "You have really grown up and are more sensible than I thought. You are right, I thought too much, because my feelings for your mother and my thoughts are disturbed. It's just a meeting, it shouldn't be a big deal. Even if your mother treats me as a stranger, so what? We don't have a relationship now, as long as she can live well, for me, is there any worse ending?"

"It won't be that bad." Chu Zihang said softly to Chu Tianjiao, "Although many people say that mom is heartless, she actually has her own ideas. She is not such an unfeeling person. If she really didn't care about you at all, she wouldn't have scolded you every day when she divorced you."

"You scold me every day..." This was something Chu Tianjiao didn't know, but it should have been expected. In everyone's eyes, it was he who abandoned Chu Zihang and his son. Such an irresponsible man should be scolded and severely despised.