Rumeng has not left this city since she went to college in Zhongjiang. In her mind, Zhongjiang is her mother's home, and she will find her mother one day if she stays here.
Rumeng majored in applied chemistry in college, and a chance opportunity led her to work in a foreign company doing perfume design and R&D. After five years of working in this foreign company, Rumeng resigned as the manager of the R&D department.
This well-paid job. Then he used the funds provided by Duan Qing to establish the Zhongjiang Rumeng Perfume Company.
Rumeng did not have a boyfriend in college like Ru Huan did. Rumeng has been alone these years after graduating from college. An outstanding girl like Rumeng has been surrounded by many pursuits since she was in high school.
But for some reason, Ru Meng didn't catch any of them.
Rumeng drove to the airport to pick up Duan Qing alone. Little Jeff was so excited when he saw Aunt Rumeng that he hugged her again and again. She was closer than meeting his own mother. Duan Qing looked at the heartwarming scene in front of him and felt uneasy.
Know whether to be happy or depressed.
"Why did you come to Zhongjiang suddenly?" Rumeng has never been used to calling Duan Qing's father. When the two communicate, they always talk about the topic directly and never use cumbersome titles.
"Oh, it's nothing, I just took Jeff out to play." Sitting in Rumeng's car, Duan Qing didn't want to talk about his mother in front of his grandson.
Rumeng's home in Zhongjiang is a small three-bedroom apartment. The rooms are small but very warmly decorated. Duan Qing sometimes stays here when he comes to Zhongjiang.
At night, after putting little Jeff to bed, Duan Qing and Rumeng sat on the sofa in the small living room and started a conversation between father and daughter.
"I just took Ru Huan out of the hospital."
"How is she? Is she still drinking?"
"Still drinking, but I look at her as if she knows how to exercise restraint."
"Oh, it seems there is progress."
"She wants all the shares in the company and wants me to move out of my house."
"Did she say why?"
"She said I hurt her twice and she probably wanted to take revenge on me."
"oh."
"I know it was wrong of me to send you to the orphanage, but if I take you out of the orphanage, am I also harming you?"
"Everyone understands the problem from a different perspective and gets different results."
"What about you? Do you also think I hurt you twice?"
"I don't think you have harmed me. You wanted to get rid of the burden by sending me to the orphanage, not to harm me. It didn't hurt me at all. It was just a change of place for me to be reincarnated. As for sending me to the orphanage, you didn't want to harm me.
What happened is the result of our joint choice, let alone who harmed whom."
"Rumeng, I, I thank you." When Duan Qing said this, tears could not stop flowing down.
"Ruhuan doesn't think much. I grew up with her and know her too well. I have been prettier than her since I was a child and am better than her in everything. She never thinks it is her fault, she thinks it is all mine.
wrong."
"I took you out of the orphanage and gave you a good life. Is it wrong?"
"When we were in the orphanage, even though we had no father or mother, we were very happy and had no ideological burdens. I was myself and never compared with others. We were at the bottom of society."
"After you took us out, we suddenly had a father, sisters, and a family. This change was really too big for us. We suddenly lived in a luxurious villa from the sewers of the city. Who can handle such a gap?
I can bear it."
"I have always been independent and don't care too much about the surrounding environment. Ru Huan has lived with low self-esteem since she was a child, and she is particularly sensitive to any changes around her."
"She never came home even once while studying abroad, which means that she never recognized that family or you as her father from the bottom of her heart. She called you dad just to get you to give her more money."
"When I graduated from college, I thought that if she hadn't fallen in love with Allen and Allen hadn't promised to return to China with her, she wouldn't have come back and she would have been living in the UK. In that case, maybe it would be better for her, for you, and for me.
All are the best results.”
"After she and Allen returned to China, she entered the company to work, and you let her do it. Those were her happiest days. Because she proved herself, he had a husband, a career, and a son. Her success was not only
Not only better than me, but also better than you."
"After Allen lost her job, she returned to China, and then the two broke up. It was a huge blow to her. Allen was the source of her confidence and the cornerstone of all her subsequent successes. Now that the cornerstone is gone, her life is in turmoil.
It collapsed."
"So she drinks, she gives up on herself, she's resentful, she's jealous. She blames all of this pain on you, on me, and probably on Jeff."
"She said she would send Jeff to an orphanage." Duan Qing suddenly interrupted.
"Ah, did she really say that?"
"Yeah, from the look on her face, it doesn't look like she's joking."
"She hasn't changed at all in these years, or in other words, she has returned to the past. She is still the little girl who looked at me with resentful eyes."
"What should I do?" Duan Qing asked.
Rumeng stood up and walked back and forth in the living room for a while, then let out a long sigh and said:
"Oh, just do as she says and take Jeff away."
"That won't work. We still have half of your company, so we can't give it all to her."
"I don't want it, just give it to her. Too much money is useless, it can only bring trouble."
"No, I can't give it all to her. It's my life's hard work, and I can't give it to her either."
"Give it to her. Maybe it will make her feel better."
"If I give it all to her, wouldn't I have nothing?" Duan Qing said anxiously.
"What she wants is for you to be ruined." Rumeng looked at the aging father in front of her and wondered if our mother were here, would she agree to Ru Huan's approach?
Duan Qing raised his head and looked at Rumeng in front of him, then lowered his head in shame.
"After the company and house are given to Ruhuan, you can come here and live with Jeff and us." Rumeng sat across from Duan Qing and said to him.
"I, alas, it's all my fault." Duan Qing put his head in his hands and sobbed softly.
"Do you know why I took you out of the orphanage?" Duan Qing said slowly after a long while.
"Why?" Rumeng had always wanted to ask Duan Qing this question, but never had the chance to ask it.
Duan Qing took out his cigarette and looked at Rumeng, who nodded in agreement. Then he took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep puff and said:
"I was a gangster when I was young. I made a lot of money by running my own factory. In the name of falling in love, I had relationships with many girls. At that time, girls were afraid of losing their reputation. After getting pregnant, most of them
They all choose to get rid of them."
"Only your mother and Ru Huan's mother didn't want to abort the child. I really liked them both at that time. So I sent them to my hometown to give birth to the child. It was agreed at the beginning that if one of the two gave birth to a boy,
, I left the two children to my mother to raise, and I also made plans to marry the boy’s mother.”
"It turned out that both of them were girls. The main reason why I didn't want to keep you at that time was because I was afraid that your mother would compete with me for family property in the future. At that time, I also planned to get married and have children."
"Then I continued playing for a few more years. When I wanted to get married, I found that the girls I met were not as good as your two mothers, so I kept putting off getting married."
"Later, I got into a car accident. Maybe it was because I had committed too many sins and received retribution from God. The car accident caused me to lose my sexual ability."
"Not long after I was discharged from the hospital, my only relative at the time, my mother, also died of illness. I lived alone in that big house and felt infinitely lonely. I had a fortune of tens of thousands, but I didn't have a single person.
Family, and the possibility of having a family in the future.”
"One night late at night, I suddenly woke up from my dream. I dreamed that I was holding a child in one hand and handing them over to the director of the orphanage. I thought about the fact that I still have descendants. I personally gave my own flesh and blood back then.
Sent to an orphanage."
"So I went to take you back home, vowing to give you the best growing environment and the best education to compensate for the mistakes I have made against you over the years."
"Have you ever thought about how to make up for the mistakes you made against our mother and those girls?" Rumeng asked coldly after listening to his ramble.
"I, no." Duan Qing lowered his head and did not dare to look at his daughter.
After Duan Qing returned to Haizhou, he did not give her the house and company as requested by Ru Huan. Duan Qing valued these two things more than his life. How could he give them to others so easily? Even if the other person was his.
Neither can my biological daughter.
Three months later, Rumeng was in a meeting at the company when she received a call from Ruhuan.
"Ru Huan?" Ru Huan never called her.
"he died."
"He is dead, who? Duan Qing?" Rumeng asked doubtfully.
"If you want to come back for the funeral, you still have time."
"Okay, I'll go back." Ru Meng said after a while.
When Rumeng returned to Haizhou, Duan Qing's body had been cremated, and she only saw an elegant urn. The funeral was very beautiful, Ruhuan cried very deeply at the funeral, and Rumeng did not shed a single tear.
The night before Rumeng returned to Zhongjiang, Ruhuan took a document and asked her to sign it. She picked it up and saw that it was a statement giving up the inheritance. Rumeng looked up at Ruhuan and said nothing.
"You have never participated in the management of the company, so you should give up the inheritance." Ru Huan said lightly.
Looking at Ru Huan's cold face and the malicious eyes on her face, Rumeng signed her name on the statement and threw the piece of paper on Ru Huan's face.
Ru Huan grabbed the piece of paper and laughed loudly. The laughter echoed in the empty mansion, like a ghost. After she had laughed enough, she turned around and grabbed the wine bottle on the table.
Rumeng did not sleep in the big house that night, but packed up her things and left there overnight. Before returning to Zhongjiang, Rumeng went to the orphanage where she grew up.