Lu Yan cried even harder when she saw the text message.

She didn't reply to him for a long time, until Shen Kuo's call came in, but she cut it off, but then he called again, and Lu Yan still cut it off.

At this moment, she didn't know how to face him.

For the third time, Lu Yan looked at his name jumping on the phone screen... She knew that if she didn't answer this time, Shen Kuo wouldn't call again.

The girl couldn't help wiping the corners of her eyes with her hands, and finally pressed the answer button with trembling hands.

Didn't speak, even held his breath...

On the other end of the phone, she could hear the noisy background sounds of the hospital.

Shen Kuo was silent for more than ten seconds and finally said: "Yanyan, I don't mind."

If you mind, I won't choose you in the first place.

Lu Yan's emotions completely collapsed. She gasped for air and said with a trembling cry——

"But I mind!"

Father Shen's life is in danger, it's all their family's fault, and Shen Kuo is still so kind to me...

Lu Yan felt like her heart was being cut by a knife.

"Shen Kuo, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry..."

She apologized to him indiscriminately.

"You're not sorry for me."

Shen Kuo clenched his fists and his voice remained calm: "Lu Yan, never say these three words to me again."

Lu Yan hung up the phone, cried for a while, and finally fell asleep.

This time I slept until five o'clock in the afternoon.

For the first time, Lu Zhen didn't bother her. After waking up, she felt soft all over and walked out of the room in slippers.

Lu Zhen is still reading a book. It is really rare to see him forgetting about food and sleep.

Even the family's maid, Aunt Li, said: "Looking at the young master's enthusiasm, he wants to take the top prize!"

Lu Yan went to the bathroom to wash her face and looked at her swollen eyes. She was really ugly.

After crying, she felt much better and asked Aunt Li for two cucumber slices to put on her eyes. She was hungry, so she gnawed away the remaining half.

After returning to the room, Lu Yan closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

Children only cry when something happens. In front of Shen Kuo, she always looks like a child who has not grown up.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Lu Zhen washed up early and prepared to go to bed to face the college entrance examination tomorrow.

Before going to bed, he knocked on Lu Yan's door——

"I haven't 'greeted' you all day, stinky girl. Seeing how hard I work, I don't even know how to peel an apple for you."

Lu Yan responded dully: "Ang."

"Open the door."

"Open the door for what?"

"Let me rub my head."

"I'm not your dog!"

"The exam is tomorrow. Just be lucky. You have always been very lucky."

Lu Yan quickly put the cucumber slices back on her eyes and opened the door to the room.

"Oh my god, you scared me."

"Wear a facial mask."

"Okay."

Lu Zhen plucked the hair on the top of her forehead vigorously and murmured to himself: "Blessed by Bodhisattva, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, Jiaotong University, Namo Amitabha..."

After muttering for a while, he patted the back of Lu Yan's head: "Okay, go to bed quickly."

When he turned to leave, Lu Yan suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"what?"

Lu Yan hesitated for a while, then said in a hoarse voice: "Dad, come on tomorrow."

"Yes, I understand." He touched her forehead, and a rare tenderness flashed across his eyes: "Don't worry."

After watching Lu Zhen leave, she returned to the room, turned her back to the door and took out her mobile phone.

The phone screen showed three missed calls, all from the same person - Shen Kuo.

The times are four o'clock, four ten and four twenty-seven in the afternoon.

She was sleeping too deeply, and her phone was on silent, so... she didn't receive it.

The college entrance examination will be tomorrow. No matter how sad she is, Shen Kuo can't let Shen Kuo have any worries.

She can't influence him.

Lu Yan called Shen Kuo back.

The phone rang for a long time and no one answered.

Thinking of the three missed calls in the afternoon, Lu Yan suddenly felt something bad in her heart. She couldn't figure out what it was. She walked around the room and decided to go see him.

Lu Yan put her ear to the door and heard Lu Zhen enter the room.

He always fell asleep quickly, so Lu Yan guessed that he had already fallen asleep, so she quietly slipped out of the house and rode her bicycle all the way to the gate of the Municipal People's Hospital.

She didn't even have time to lock it, and she didn't have time to help her bicycle when it fell to the ground. Lu Yan ran all the way... and rushed to the third floor.

I originally thought that I could see the young man's figure in the corridor.

The corridor is empty.

In the special care ward on the third floor, the bed where Dad Shen originally slept is already empty...

Lu Yan felt a "boom" in her head. She stood by the window and looked at the empty ward with her eyes wide open. The blood in her body was cold.

She seemed to be going crazy...and started looking for Shen Kuo in every ward.

Father Shen's condition must be getting better. Yes, he will definitely be transferred out of the special care unit when he gets better. That must be the case!

They must be in the general ward, maybe in the next room...

"Shen Kuo!"

Lu Yan eagerly opened the doors of each ordinary ward, and the yellowed and unfamiliar faces stared at her in surprise.

Finally, the doctor on duty was brought over and stopped her behavior: "This is a hospital, please keep your voice down."

Lu Yan didn't dare to ask the doctor, she didn't dare...

She could only search from ward to ward on her own, hoping to find it, hoping that in the next ward... she could see Shen Kuo and Father Shen who had woken up.

"You are looking for the boy who was with you today."

The doctor caught up with Lu Yan and he still had an impression of her.

"The patient in Special Care Ward 308 passed away this afternoon and has been sent to the morgue."

Lu Yan's steps suddenly stopped.

Seeing that Lu Yan remained silent, the doctor shook his head. In the hospital, doctors have seen this kind of thing too many times. Although he sympathized with her, he could do nothing about it. He sighed: "It is not up to you whether you live or die. With such a tortured disease, how can he persist like this?" Over the years, God has been particularly kind to me.

No, it's not that God is particularly kind, it's Shen Kuo...it's Shen Kuo who can't bear to let go. It's Shen Kuo who takes careful care of him every day and seeks medical advice everywhere that keeps his father alive for so many years!

With a trembling voice, she asked, "What and when?"

"Did you say the time of death? It was probably around three or four o'clock in the afternoon."

Lu Yan leaned against the wall and fell to the ground.

At three and four o'clock in the afternoon, he called her three times, but she didn't receive any...

Lu Yan's hands clenched into fists, and she felt as if she was standing on the edge of a cliff, letting the cold wind at the bottom of the cliff sting her bones.

Chilling to the bones.

When he was at his most desperate, he called her three times, but she didn't answer.

She couldn't imagine how Shen Kuo was feeling at that time. She didn't dare to think about it, she really didn't dare to think about it...

Lu Yan walked out of the hospital, crossed the road in a daze, and stood in front of the mortuary door where the corpses were stored. The long stairs led to the solemn black door.

The soles of her feet felt like lead, and she could no longer lift a step.

She didn't have the courage to go in.

At this moment, a familiar figure walked out of the morgue, it was Zhong Kai.

Wearing a black long-sleeved jacket and black trousers, he jumped down the steps and walked out of the morgue door in a few steps. He seemed to be in a hurry and walked out in a hurry.

Lu Yan quickly turned around to leave, but he had already seen her.

"Hey, Xiaoyan?" He caught up with her and grabbed her: "Don't go."

Lu Yan didn't even dare to look at him. She tilted her head and asked hoarsely: "Dad Shen, he..."

"You've already called me dad, why don't you go in and take a look? He will be cremated shortly."

Lu Yan looked up suddenly, in disbelief.

Zhong Kai sighed and said: "Shen Kuo means to be cremated as soon as possible. After all...his father has been in pain for so many years. Let him leave as soon as possible."

Lu Yan's heart was in agony, and words came to her lips several times, but she couldn't say them out. She lowered her head and her eyes were misty.

Zhong Kai saw what she wanted to ask and said, "He called you in the afternoon, but you didn't answer."

"I didn't mean to..."

"Before Uncle Shen left, he woke up for half an hour, maybe to reflect on his past. Shen Kuo knew he couldn't keep him, so he kept holding his hand and talking to him..."

It wasn't until he finished speaking that Lu Yan breathed out.

My heart is like a knife.

"He is very calm and not crying, but at this time, you'd better go in and stay with him..."

Lu Yan didn't wait for him to finish and ran into the morgue in a panic.

Beside the corridor, the tall figure of the young man was leaning against the wall. Under the overhead light, he pressed the lighter and lit a cigarette.

Under the incandescent overhead light, his eyes were cast into the shadows of his deep eyebrows, and his skin appeared unusually white.

Lu Yan's breathing slowed down for a moment, and she paused hesitantly.

She was suddenly very scared and didn't dare to go there...

As if feeling something in his heart, the young man raised his head and glanced at her.

He put out the cigarette he had only taken a puff on, stood up straight and faced her——

"Coming."

His voice was calm.

"Dad Shen, where is he...?"

Shen Kuo turned sideways and let the door open.

Lu Yan walked into the empty room with empty steps. The temperature in the room was very low. She couldn't help but shudder. She saw the cold body covered by a white cloth on the stage...

She walked over slowly, holding the white cloth with both hands, and wanted to lift it up to take a last look at Dad Shen, but Shen Kuo held her hand.

"Don't watch it. He died of illness and is not peaceful."

Lu Yan's hands froze and her eyes were sore again.

"Dad Shen." She called softly, and then took a breath, seeming to calm down her emotions.

"Dad Shen, don't worry, I will take care of Shen Kuo from now on." She wiped her eyes with her sleeves and continued: "He is not alone."

Shen Kuo took a deep breath, pursed his lips slightly, and without saying anything, he held her in his arms and walked out of the cold morgue.

In the corridor, a staff member came to ask Shen Kuo to sign: "Will you be cremated now?"

"Well, now."

The staff took the notebook away, then entered the room with several other staff members, pushed Dad Shen's body out, and walked towards the cremation room, mumbling and complaining about overtime work——

"I've never seen someone cremated so quickly."

"I heard he died of illness, maybe I've been looking forward to it for a long time..."

"People nowadays."

…

When Lu Yan heard this, she almost got angry again, but Shen Kuo pulled her sleeve and didn't let her pass.

"This world is not kind." He said calmly: "Why ask for it."

Lu Yan looked at him in surprise. His eyes were very dark, as if they were covered with a layer of thick fog that could not be resolved.

He was a little... unusually calm.

"Shen Kuo, this afternoon I..."

Shen Kuo interrupted her: "Lu Yan, when a person dies, he dies. There is nothing. He can't hear what you just said, so... just pretend you didn't say anything."

Lu Yan's breath caught and she suddenly looked at him.

Under the dim white light, his face was pale, and there was an unfamiliar cold look in his eyes: "Do you understand what I mean?"

"You want to be with me..."

She could never say these two heart-piercing words.

"It doesn't count as a breakup." Shen Kuo said expressionlessly, "Because we have never been together."

"Wha, what's not together?"

A frivolous smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, he pinched her chin hard, and said coldly: "You haven't figured it out yet, I'm just using you to take revenge on Lu Zhen and your Lu family."

Lu Yan was dumbfounded: "You...what are you talking about."

"Now that he is dead, I will stop. This is your luck, you know."

Lu Yan forcefully broke away from his hand and said excitedly: "Shen Kuo, do you think I'm stupid? No matter how stupid I am, Lu Yan, I will never be stupid enough to believe what you say."

She's not so stupid that she can't feel someone's sincerity or hypocrisy towards her.

Shen Kuo immediately took out his cell phone and pressed a number——

"Lu Zhen, I, Shen Kuo."

Lu Yan's heart tightened and she didn't understand what he wanted to do.

He sneered and continued: "Your sister Lu Yan is by my side now..."

"What the hell are you talking about at night!" Lu Zhen was woken up from his sleep and was very unhappy: "You're crazy."

"You'll know if you go to her room and have a look."

A minute later, Lu Zhen exploded. On the phone, his voice was unstable: "She...she's not in the room, what did you do to her!"

"What to do? Fall in love with her and then dump her. Do you think this is a good idea?"

Lu Yan suddenly snatched his mobile phone, smashed it on the ground hard, and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Are you crazy? You have the college entrance examination tomorrow! You say such things..."

Lu Zhen has such a bad temper, God knows how he will react when he hears this.

Shen Kuo picked up the phone, dusted it lightly, put it in his pocket, and turned to leave: "When you are an adult, I will fall in love with you and then dump you. This was my original plan... But now, everything has changed.

It’s meaningless.”

Lu Yan felt cold all over her body and fell into the ice cave. She remembered Liang Ting's warning...

How deep this man is and how good at disguise he is, he is the main culprit who has been dormant for ten years and made Lu Zhen bankrupt!

He said coldly: "Go away, don't appear in front of me."

Lu Yan felt as if everything had been drained from her heart, and she turned around and ran out of the morgue door.

Shen Kuo closed his eyes, his whole body trembling... He clenched his fists hard.

He thought she was heartbroken and thought she was gone, but he never thought that the girl rushed over desperately and hugged his waist hard——

"I forgive you, Shen Kuo."

She spoke too hastily, with an unsteady cry: "I forgive you for everything you said and did tonight."

Shen Kuo suddenly opened his eyes.

The girl held his hand so hard that he lost his courage and was unable to push her away.

"I forgive you for all the lies you have told me. As long as one of them is true, I will forgive you."

With the last trace of hope and desire, she looked at him with tears in her eyes: "Shen Kuo, are you there?"

Shen Kuo paused for a few seconds and said coldly: "No."

Not a single word of truth.

He pulled each of her fingers apart with force, turned around, and scraped away the tears on her cheeks with his rough fingertips.

"You see, this is what I want, your tears..."

He smiled and said, "You love me more than I thought."

Lu Yan's chest seemed to be filled with cold air, and with every breath, her internal organs were torn and painful.

My whole body hurts...it hurts so much.

"Shen Kuo." She stopped crying, and her voice was very deep: "You know that Dad Shen's death was not my fault, nor was it Lu Zhen's fault, so why punish me..."

Shen Kuo's heart slowed down and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Because I am such a selfish and vicious person. Someone should have warned you before."

Lu Yan took a few steps back.

He looked down at the time: "It will take a few days to get the urn. I have an exam tomorrow and I have to go back to sleep now."

He turned around to leave, and Lu Yan suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes——

"If you leave, I will never forgive you again, never!"

Shen Kuo didn't look back, pulled off his clothes, turned around and left.

…

When Shen Kuo walked out of the morgue, light rain fell from the sky and fell on his face, making it cold.

It's obviously June, but it still feels so cold.

Zhong Kai was squatting by the flower stand and stood up immediately when he saw him coming out.

"Said?"

"Um."

Zhong Kai looked towards the morgue, sighed deeply, gave Shen Kuo a cigarette and said, "Calm down."

Shen Kuo took the cigarette, his hand trembling slightly.

"Actually, there is really no need to go to this step."

Zhong Kai looked at him: "Didn't you call her again this afternoon?"

"She didn't answer."

"I kept watch for you all night last night, and I'm probably tired. Why should you worry about not receiving a call..."

Shen Kuo put out the cigarette butt and said in a deep voice: "I don't want her to bear such a heavy guilt throughout her life."

Zhong Kai looked at Shen Kuo in surprise.

The street lamp cast a dark light and shadow on his handsome and strong face.

"If she stays with me all my life with the mentality of atonement, I would rather...let her hate me."

She has no sin and does not need to atone for her sins.

He is already in hell at this moment, and if he is guilty, he will be responsible for everything.

Shen Kuo stood up and left, and his desolate figure disappeared at the end of the wet street.

…

Lu Yan pushed her bicycle home and her clothes were soaked.

After Lu Zhen had changed his clothes, he walked into the door and bumped into a little girl who was all cold.

Her skin was pale, raindrops hung on her face, her hair was all wet, and she looked miserable.

Seeing Lu Zhen, Lu Yan's eyes turned red, she threw herself into his arms and hugged his waist hard.

"dad..."

Lu Zhen was originally harboring an evil fire that couldn't go away, but seeing the little girl crying like this, his heart immediately softened.

"It's okay, it's okay."

Although he didn't know what happened, Lu Zhen still held her in his arms, gently comforted her back, and awkwardly reassured her: "Dad is here, the sky will not fall."

Who is dad?

Dad is the person who can protect you from wind and rain, go through mountains and seas of fire for you, and is also willing to reach for the stars for you.

"I was wrong."

The girl sobbed and cried helplessly: "Dad, I was wrong, I should have listened to you... I will listen to you from now on."

Seeing something wrong with this little girl, Lu Zhen's face became darker and darker, and his eyes were bloodshot: "Shen Kuo... what did he do to you?"

"He lied to me."

These three words, Lu Yan said so wrongly: "I never thought that he would lie to me..."

"I'll go find him." After Lu Zhen said that, he was about to go out, but Lu Yan immediately grabbed him.

"Don't go." She gritted her teeth and whispered, "Dad Shen passed away today, don't go."

Lu Zhen's steps suddenly stopped.

The college entrance examination has arrived as promised.

On the day when the results were released, Lu Jian did not go to the company as usual. He waited anxiously in front of the school bulletin board.

At that time, there was no online score checking. The college entrance examination scores were distributed uniformly by the school. Each student's score was clearly printed on paper from front to back and posted in front of the bulletin board.

Starting at six o'clock in the morning, the bulletin board was crowded with anxious parents.

Finally, I looked forward to the stars, the moon, and the teacher who posted the list.

The parents' eyes lit up, and they hurriedly crowded over and gathered around the teacher to ask about the results.

Lu Zhen and Lu Yan did not surround him. They stood and squatted on the lawn in the garden in the distance.

Lu Yan was a little nervous and her palms were sweating. Lu Zhen was uncharacteristically calm and behaved...

Since the college entrance examination, his whole temperament has become much darker.

Perhaps it was the sadness and confusion he felt that night when he saw Lu Yan that made him realize that although she always behaved like an adult, she was always his little girl.

Or maybe because he learned the truth and the grudges between the Shen family and the Lu family, he realized that if he couldn't be strong, he wouldn't be able to protect the people around him...

Lu Zhen matured at an unimaginable speed.

The teacher greeted the crowded parents and said repeatedly: "Don't crowd, don't crowd, you can all see..."

“Our school did well in the exam this year, and all the provincial champions are in our school!”

Hearing this, the students also became excited and agitated——

"The provincial champion, my mom, is so amazing!"

"Who is it!"

"Who else can think of it with their toes...isn't that the one..."

The list announcement was posted, and Shen Kuo's name was bolded and enlarged, appearing at the top of the red list.

So bright red...

There is no one else besides him to become the provincial champion.

The classmates whispered: "He is really good."

Of course, this tone has a bit of irony.

After all... my father died one day, and I went to take the college entrance examination the next day like nothing happened, and yet I still performed so well.

Ranked first in the province and provincial champion.

No normal person can be unaffected.

Shen Kuo's ruthlessness is simply astonishing.

Lu Yan looked around and saw no sign of the young man.

It's okay if he doesn't come...

Lu Yan didn't want to see him, not at all... No matter Shen Kuo was sincere or fake towards her in the past. At least, she truly loved him. As long as she loved him and cared about him, she couldn't pretend to be calm when she saw him. .

Lu Jian was wearing a suit and leather shoes, and his tie was dark red. It was a good sign.

He and a bunch of parents and classmates crowded together and rushed to the front row as hard as they could.

After finally squeezing into the front row, Lu Jian started looking for the last list, counting carefully, from back to front...

Lu Zhen's name was not on the last list, and Lu Jian breathed a sigh of relief.

At least... I should have been admitted to college.

However, he still had no confidence in him. Forget about key universities, he was looking forward to it. He felt that it would be good if he could get a second degree in the exam.

However, when he counted one list after another, and when he reached the first red list marked red, his expression began to change...

Impossible, Lu Zhen can't be on this red list. You know, the students who can stay on this list are all the best in the school.

Lu Yan saw that Lu Jian actually went to the red list to find someone. She jumped up excitedly and squeezed into the crowd: "Let me, please let me, hey, thank you."

Lu Yan squeezed to Lu Jian's side, and Lu Jian quickly protected her in front of him: "Look, look for where your brother is!"

Lu Jian's voice started to shake. It was obvious that he was very excited and surprised.

Lu Yan counted down the rankings and found Lu Zhen at the 29th grade position!

He scored 632 points!

Lu Yan was very happy in her heart. She kept waving to Lu Zhen, pointing to the position on the red list and shouting to him: "Silly man, you are here! Come and take a look!"

Although Lu Zhen's eyes lit up, he didn't show any particular excitement.

He walked over slowly and looked at his scores and rankings.

"I promised you."

He stood behind Lu Yan, put his hands on her shoulders, and hugged her: "I will do what I promised you."

He wants to be her pride, her support and support, and no longer let anyone bully her...
Chapter completed!