Chapter 25 Chapter 25 Cracks

I can't imagine the depth of hatred that would make a reasonable adult hate his stepson for so many years.There is simply no scene more embarrassing than the present one. When I was in college, I once went in and out with Senior Xiao Yang, entered the laboratory together, went to the cafeteria to eat together, and struggled together in front of the computer until late at night.In the eyes of outsiders, our relationship is very ambiguous, but in fact, the relationship between Xiao Yang and I has long since turned into a brotherly friendship.Xiao Yang used to have several girlfriends, most of whom he met when he helped repair computers.It's a pity that we got along for less than a month and ended in breaking up.

Our struggle won us an award from the school’s mathematics department that year. After the award was presented, a certain ex-girlfriend of Xiao Yang came over and smiled at us. The meaning of that smile is unclear, and I still haven’t figured out what she meant.After she finished laughing, she said, "If the two of you are together, you won't have to hurt others." Before I even thought about it, I heard a lot of people agreeing. Xiao Yang's expression became ugly at that moment, but he was never a good talker, so he just asked back: "Do you think I am harming you?" After that, he silently watched his ex-girlfriend walk away.

I know what people like me and Xiao Yang are in the eyes of most people. They are nothing more than Geeks, Nerds, and freaks. People with a little bit of good intentions will call us geniuses, but most of them are usable and not friendly. In fact, these small things are not a big deal to me, I don't mind at all, but I didn't expect Shen Qinyan to think of me that way.I used to think he was an exception. I thought he liked me a lot and didn't think I was a freak. It turned out to be my illusion. Thinking about it carefully, Shen Qinyan never expressed any opinion on my work, never said "good" or "bad", I thought he would be a rare accident.Unexpectedly, this is just wishful thinking on my part, so stupid as hell.

After all, he still couldn't stand me, just like the senior sister couldn't stand Xiao Yang back then, thinking he was harming her. Although the next day was the weekend, I still got up early and went to the company to work overtime.On my way out, I caught a glimpse of Number 15 as still as its owner. Now for me, there is nothing to worry about.It's just that at that moment I thought that my eldest brother and I are people who share the same disease and pity each other. When I got to work, I put the mess behind me - I felt that my work efficiency was much higher, and I was very grateful.It's not that I can't live without a boyfriend. In fact, I have lived very well for the past twenty years.

I couldn't even get up the energy to ask Yao Yao what happened. When I was resting, I picked up my phone and found that Shen Qinyan had called me and sent me many text messages. The content of the text message is just one meaning, ask me to meet tonight and discuss in detail. In the empty office, I was alone in a daze, and I didn't know why my eyes suddenly felt sore.The self-control that he was proud of during the day suddenly collapsed.I think we are like elder brother and Yao Yao, when we contact each other again, we will break up. Instead of calling him, I sent him a text message via IM.

- No need to see, I know what you're going to say.So be it. I originally wanted to add "I've already taken care of the private detective, you don't have to worry about it anymore", but after thinking about it, I thought it was unnecessary. After he knew what I did, he might despise me even more. . I don't want to go home, I would rather work overtime at the company.But the busiest stage has passed, even a capitalist IT company will not be abnormal to that extent.The next two days are weekends, I live on Baisha Road, I'm not sure if Shen Qinyan will come to my house.I don't want to see him, and I don't want to hear him talk.So I went back to the city after get off work and stayed in my old apartment for one night.

Back in the dusty room, I changed the sheets and went to bed, without a single dream all night. It was noon the next day when I woke up.I sat listlessly and motionless on the bed for half an hour, and finally felt that I couldn’t go on like this. I touched the mobile phone beside the bed and found Xiao Yang’s number. Just as I was about to dial out, the phone rang suddenly. Wake me up from my stupor. He sounded tired, "Bring Shen Qinyan over tonight, I have something to ask him." I felt my heart was grabbed by an invisible giant hand and pulled hard. "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing." "Also, if you have time, come to Esther Medical Center in the afternoon." "Medical center?" "Yao Yao's mother has breast cancer," said the elder brother, "we should all visit her because of emotion and reason." I remembered the sneak photos on Guo Yi's computer, and finally understood why the three members of Yao's family appeared in the Esther Medical Center and why Yao Yao was crying. "Brother..." I said blankly, "You and Sister Yao got back together?" "No," said the eldest brother, "but things are changing for the better."

I faltered and said "Yes", and decided not to mention the matter of Yao Yao asking someone to blackmail Shen Qinyan with him. I packed my satchel and went downstairs.I felt a little dizzy, so I didn't dare to drive, so I went straight to the side of the road to hail a taxi. Just a few steps away, the door of the black car on the side of the street opened, and it was Shen Qinyan, wearing a long windbreaker and simply wearing a black plaid scarf, walking towards me with big strides.He let out a long sigh of relief, held his forehead, and called me: "Ali." I stared at him blankly, I didn't expect him to chase here.I didn't make a sound, and after a while, I finally breathed out and asked him, "What are you doing here?"

Shen Qin said succinctly, "I'll take you home." She pretended to be a fake when she was about to break up. I was not in good spirits, and I didn't want to have a verbal argument with him, so I said softly: "I know the way, and I will go back by myself." I was amazed that I could talk to him so calmly again, and his words were still in my ears that night. He frowned and looked at me for a while, "Have you had lunch yet?" He opened the car door, "Get in the car first, let's go eat." I turned a deaf ear to it, took a few steps back to the side of the street and stared at the center of the street, Shen Qinyan ran to me a few steps and took my hand and squeezed it in the palm of my hand, "Follow me to eat first."

I really didn't expect him to make a move on the street. I looked back at him in shock, shook off his hand vigorously, and said with red eyes, "If we're about to break up, just be more straightforward!" But he seemed to have heard the Arabian Nights, "Break up?" "Yes, don't you want to break up with me?" I said, "Then make it clear early! I'm busy!" In an instant, Shen Qinyan's complexion changed a few times, for some reason he seemed to be in severe pain under his forbearance and calm face. "I never thought about breaking up. I've been looking for you for a day, not to talk about breaking up with you. " My brain was completely empty in an instant, and I felt that I heard an alien language. "do not Cry." Only then did I realize that I was crying again uselessly, and the tears were still rolling down my cheeks drop by drop. "It seems that I always make you cry." He bowed down and kissed my cheek lightly. "Although there are not many people on this road, it is not empty. Ari, I don't mind drying your tears in this way. But do you mind?" I ran away and got into the car. I felt like I was dreaming and couldn't help shaking my head.Fortunately, the dizziness is still there, and I am not dreaming.It turned out that Shen Qinyan didn't intend to break up with me, everything was my imagination and random guessing?I read a book and said that there is a kind of person who "creates phantoms in the mind", is it me?Encountered something that I have never encountered before, I am in a mess, thinking about everything in the worst direction, in fact, he has forgiven me long ago? This trance feeling lasted until I got home. As soon as I entered the house, Harry flicked his tail at me for fun.It still remembers me, and it doesn't mind me arguing with its owner.I stood still, hesitatingly stretched out my hand, and patted its head lightly.It rubbed my palm docilely, then ran to the garden with its tail flicked, and continued to bask in its never-ending sun. We sat down in the kitchen, Shen Qinyan served me a bowl of chicken soup, I covered the bowl with both hands, and stared straight at his face. "Eat something first," he shook his head immediately, "No, you can't eat, so listen to me first." I stared at him and said "hmm". Shen Qinyan spoke very carefully, "I know you are not a hacker, and you would not do that kind of thing unless there is a necessary reason." How could I hack someone else's computer if it wasn't for him? "You came to ask me the reason. I was just...too panicked." He covered his eyes with his hand and smiled wryly, "It's the first time I panic like this in so many years. Ari, I'm sorry." My eyes became hot, and I bit my lip and said softly, "No, I don't blame you. I'm also very wrong." "You lose your temper, I can't do anything about it," he hugged me, "you didn't answer my phone all day yesterday, and you didn't come home, I really..." "No, not in the future." His body was so warm, I just didn't want to let go. After a long time, he let go of me slowly, and narrated, "As soon as the incident of being secretly filmed came out, I suspected that I was being targeted; two weeks later, I was blackmailed by someone, and as long as I thought about it for a while, I knew that these two things might exist. Contact. I immediately asked someone to investigate this matter, but until now there is still no result. It is far worse than you." I bent the corner of my mouth. He smiled slightly, "If there is another time - I will ask you to investigate as soon as possible." I whispered: "It's better not to have a next time." He let out a soft breath, "Ali, when you came to see me the night before yesterday, it was the first time I knew that the person who took the sneak shot was a private detective and was hired by Yao Yao. I was shocked, and your questioning was too harsh. I There was no answer at all, so I became angry from embarrassment.” He lowered his voice slightly and looked at me intently. I suddenly remembered the incident I met Yao Yao on Baisha Road, and told him everything, and finally said: "Then Yao Yao hired a private detective to find out your address?" He nodded, "There is nothing wrong." "But why is she blackmailing you?" Without making a sound, he took out his cell phone from his pocket and gave it to me. "Check your inbox." The information he received was sent by an IM software for mobile phone text messages. The server is located abroad, which is quite difficult to track. This software has a high reputation among some people, and it is the best tool for sending terrorist messages and blackmailing.There are three pieces of information, all of which are accompanied by photos, which are the photos of the three members of the Yao family that I saw on Guo Yi's computer. ——Shen Qinyan, your mother has cancer but you don't visit her, you are really filial.What do you think will happen if I post these photos online? At the end of the message, a Swiss bank account was left, asking Shen Qinyan to transfer one million. The message was sent five days ago, and I remembered the phone call from my elder brother at noon. I said: "Brother called me at noon and asked me to go to the hospital to accompany Sister Yao. He also said, Aunt Yao—your mother has breast cancer..." Shen Qinyan nodded lightly, frowning tightly, and said briefly: "I didn't know that my mother had cancer until I saw this information. I went to the hospital to see her. She had just undergone chemotherapy and was in a coma. In the past two days, I I went to the hospital again, but was kicked out by my stepfather." "...Your stepfather?" I held his hand, "Qin Yan, don't be sad... Aunt Yao, your mother is very lucky." He gave a reassuring smile. "Although my stepfather didn't allow me to see my mother, I asked the attending physician," Shen Qinyan said, "My mother's breast cancer is in the early stage, and the chemotherapy effect is also very good. If I persist in the treatment, it is very possible to recover. I am not too worried. my mother." I breathed a sigh of relief for him. "I didn't agree to accept blackmail at first," he said, "but after discussing with the film company, Sister Nan decided that the amount he asked for was not too large, and we should pay him temporarily to stabilize him, and then find out the person. After the film company analyzed I think that if the news spreads that I am not filial to my mother, it will deal a great blow to my career." He was a little vague, but I understood.When she was still with Qiao Xining, Sister Min once said that for a star, a scandal between a man and a woman is a trivial matter, and what can really have a devastating blow to an artist is often out of big right and wrong. Shen Qinyan has always had a good reputation since his debut, and his charitable work has never failed. In the hearts of fans, he has long been associated with the "perfect man". It's really big. Most importantly, the ransom note tells the truth.He did not go to the hospital to visit his sick mother, and he had no contact with his family for more than ten years, and his feelings were indifferent.Even if a hundred people can be found to defend him, the truth will never be erased, so the film company will not be bankrupted. I nodded with comprehension, "So, you transferred one million to him? But the total is three million?" Shen Qinyan bent down beside me, and lightly touched the screen with his finger, "There are more below." The text message below was sent the day after the first text message.There are no pictures, only text. ——For more than ten years, the media has not talked about your life experience. Your public relations company is very powerful, but you can't hide everything from me.I have already found out the reason why you ran away from home.If you don't want me to make it public, transfer another two million to my account. I feel that I am facing a complex partial differential equation, and it is really difficult to sort out the thread.I looked at him, "What's going on here?" Shen Qinyan straightened up, with his usual calm expression, "I only figured out the whole trick when you told me that the private investigator was hired by Yao Yao." "What's the meaning?" "The reason why I ran away from home was related to Yao Yao," Shen Qinyan said, "Since Yao Yao hired someone to follow me, she would naturally tell the private detective what happened back then to blackmail me." "Is there anything else hidden?" I was confused, what happened to Shen Qinyan and Yao Yao back then? He paused, "You said earlier that your elder brother and Yao Yao have broken up?" "um, yes……" He didn't answer me directly, staring into my eyes, "No matter what happens next, I hope you can trust me. I don't want to involve you in this incident, but..." I nodded, "Of course I believe you." He held out his hand to me, "Okay, let's go to the hospital." Aunt Yao's ward is on the third floor. This floor is dedicated to the oncology department, and the atmosphere is obviously different from other places in the hospital.Because she was about to undergo chemotherapy, she was alone in a ward. She seemed to be in good spirits, sitting on the bed, reading a book with glasses, and she did not look like a patient with cancer.Uncle Yao pulled the blanket for her, sat down on the sofa next to the bed, and picked up a newspaper.From this point of view, they are an ordinary couple who love each other.Quite a warm atmosphere. When I brought the gift into the house, they saw that I was calm, and Aunt Yao even smiled at me, "Ali, you are here." But the moment Shen Qinyan entered the room, Uncle Yao suddenly changed color. "I warned you, get out." I can't imagine the depth of hatred that would make a reasonable adult hate his stepson for so many years.There is simply no scene more embarrassing than the present one. Aunt Yao looked at him pleadingly, "Songshan..." Uncle Yao seemed to be enveloped by an indescribable aura, which could drop the surrounding temperature by ten degrees Celsius and make everyone around him tremble.Many of my dad's golf and poker friends were judges, and they were also affable, ordinary people, some of whom were especially good at joking.I thought we had done enough courtesy, but with Uncle Yao's attitude, it can be said that he intentionally embarrassed us. I was still in a daze, but Uncle Yao quickly rang the bell at a speed that didn't match his age, and looked at Shen Qinyan with taunting eyes, "I called the nurse and security." Shen Qinyan was obviously used to this kind of treatment, so he didn't make a sound, just looked straight at Aunt Yao who was on the hospital bed, and said softly, "Mom." Shen Qinyan has played the role of a son many times in movies, but he has never shown his side as a son in life.No matter how handsome and famous he is, he is still a human being with all kinds of emotions and desires.It sounds like it could melt all the mothers in the world.If he called my mom in that tone, my mom would love him to death. What surprised me was that Aunt Yao didn't dare to look at her son, she didn't even answer Shen Qinyan's "Mom", she just turned her face away. Shen Qinyan stared at Aunt Yao on the hospital bed expressionlessly, and called again: "Mom." I said: "Auntie, Shen Qinyan is my boyfriend, do you think he can't visit you with me?" The two people in the room were startled, Aunt Yao turned her face away with embarrassment, and stopped looking at me. Uncle Yao glanced at me, then glanced at Shen Qin and said, "Miss Du, your choice is very unwise." Shen Qinyan gave Uncle Yao a fierce look, his eyes were like a leopard's, which was intimidating.I was afraid that he would lose control, so I grabbed his hand.His fingers slipped through mine and he tightened. In the next second, tall security guards and nurses opened the glass sliding door of the ward and walked in.The nurse asked as they walked, "What's the emergency?" Uncle Yao was very impatient, nodded to the two, pointed at Shen Qinyan, "Someone came uninvited, drive him out." The nurse should have recognized Shen Qinyan, and she showed a look of joy when she saw him.But due to the request of the patient's family, she took a step cautiously holding the medical record folder, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Shen, please—" Shen Qinyan interrupted her, "I am also a family member of the patient. Whether I should leave or not depends on the patient's own opinion." His voice hardened with a metallic texture, cold. Uncle Yao was blowing his beard and staring at the side, and I heard him curse in a low voice, "Shameless." Shen Qin ignored it, went around to the left side of the hospital bed, put down the flowers in his hand, took out a check from his wallet and pressed it under the vase, and said, "Mom, do you want me to leave?" Aunt Yao's lips trembled, her eyes were red, and after a while she managed to say, "Qin Yan, your Uncle Yao told you to go, so you should go first. I, I'm fine." Shen Qinyan asked in a low voice: "Mom, over the years, I have thought about it many times. When that happened, did you believe me, even for a minute?" Uncle Yao said coldly: "Trust you? It's just a criminal who fled in fear of crime." Shen Qinyan kept his brows still, "So I'm coming back now to confront Yao Yao. What happened back then, right and wrong, should be settled." Except in the movies, I've never heard him say that.The tone was clearly calm, but it fell on the listener's ears as cruel and ruthless, without mercy. There was silence in the ward for a while, but Shen Qinyan's words echoed in the room again and again.In the extreme silence, the glass sliding door was pushed open again, and Yao Yao and her elder brother entered the room one after the other. I didn't expect my eldest brother and Yao Yao to appear at the same time, so I was also taken aback. Yao Yao looked bad before, but her complexion is better today.The moment she saw Shen Qinyan and me appear, her complexion was as pale as paper, and she called softly: "Brother, you, you are here." Shen Qinyan glanced at her coldly, "I dare not have a sister like you." My elder brother and I looked at each other, he was obviously puzzled when he saw Shen Qinyan. Uncle Yao's face turned cold, "Shame on your face. Get out of here!" These words were obviously aimed at Shen Qin.His eyes were filled with anger, which could almost burn Shen Qinyan to death. A layer of water vapor suddenly appeared in Yao Yao's eyes, and she looked at Uncle Yao as if asking for help, "Dad! Don't talk about it." Then she said to the nurse, "We're fine, so I won't bother you." The nurses and security guards probably didn't want to stay in this smoky battlefield for a long time. They smiled awkwardly, opened the glass sliding door and went out. Before leaving, they thoughtfully closed the curtain for us. Yao Yao's complexion was extremely bad, her feet went limp, and she was about to fall to the ground. The elder brother was quick-eyed, and he held her in his arms while looking up at me, "Ali, take her to the nurse. stand." The ward was limited, so the nurse placed Yao Yao in the doctor's lounge and gave her glucose water. Yao Yao's complexion was pale, and she was lying on the sofa with her eyes closed, looking like she was dying.She was already thin, but now her face became more and more sharp. Back in the ward, I saw Uncle Yao furious, his face turned blue, striding across the bed to Shen Qinyan's side, he suddenly raised his palm and waved it over, "I knew that nothing good happened when you came! Why are you still there?" The face appeared in front of my daughter! Hurry up and get out!" With a gloomy face, Shen Qinyan grabbed Uncle Yao's wrist, "Uncle Yao, do you really want to tear my face apart?" ——Although I think the current situation is no different from tearing your face apart, Uncle Yao calmed down after hearing the words.It's one thing to talk about anything, and you can enjoy it wantonly. When it comes to doing it, you still have to weigh your own ability. My brother and I looked at each other. Too bad my parents never taught me what to do when it comes to family strife with my boyfriend.I took a step forward and gently tugged on Shen Qinyan's sleeve, "Qinyan, let's go home first..." Shen Qinyan turned around, stroked my cheek lightly, and whispered to me: "No, you and Brother Du go home first. The things here must always be explained clearly, and I will tell you everything when the time comes." I was startled, and looked worriedly at the furious Uncle Yao, "But..." The elder brother closed his phoenix eyes slightly, and nodded to me, "Ali, let's go back first." I stared at him with wide eyes, "Aren't you going to stay and take care of Sister Yao?" The eldest brother sighed deeply. "This is Yao family's housework, we can't get involved."