Before the age of ten, Mu Qian's life was stable and happy.
Although Mu Huaian, as a less successful painter, had to support Rong Qingzi and her with a meager income, and his life was occasionally a little difficult, Mu Huaian and Rong Qingzi were harmonious and loving. As their daughter, Mu Qian
Growing up in a loving family, I never knew what sorrow was.
It wasn't until Mu Huaian passed away that her world changed.
Mu Qian still remembers that Mu Huaian left in the winter when she was ten years old.
At that time, he had been tortured by the disease to the point of being out of shape, so thin that he was skin and bones. He lay on the hospital bed every day and struggled to survive.
At that time, Rong Qingzi stayed by his bedside every day and night. She didn't cry or make a fuss. The squeamish woman who never touched the spring water suddenly became a good wife and mother, taking care of her children responsibly.
husband.
But even so, Mu Huaian still couldn't survive that winter.
He didn't even wait for New Year's Eve that year, and passed away in the hospital.
After Rong Qingzi took care of his funeral alone, she began to go out to find a job.
But she hasn't done anything for so many years, and she doesn't have any skills. Apart from such a beautiful face, she seems to have nothing.
In such an environment, it is impossible for her to find a good job.
Even so, she still gritted her teeth and supported it, but late one night she could not control herself and cried bitterly while hugging Mu Qian.
Mu Qian knew why she was crying.
Because they have all lost the most important person, the man they thought they could rely on, but have relied on for the rest of their lives.
He used to be their sky, but when he left, their sky fell.
Rong Qingzi struggled to support herself, but she couldn't hold up the sky no matter what.
That's why she cried and collapsed.
But after a brief collapse, she returned to normal the next day and continued to go out to find a living.
That was that night. After she came back, her whole person changed.
Mu Qian clearly remembered the way Rong Qingzi looked at her that night, showing boundless disgust and coldness, as if she was not her daughter, but a monster.
She was still young at that time, and she had just experienced Mu Huaian's death. She was in a state of panic. She couldn't help but pull Rong Qingzi's hand and call her in fear: "Mom..."
"Don't call me! Don't call me!" In an instant, Rong Qingzi's mood collapsed again. She just gritted her teeth and said word by word, "Don't call me mom again! I'm not your mother!"
Mu Qian was so frightened that she cried loudly.
Rong Qingzi also cried bitterly and stayed up all night.
That is, after that night, Rong Qingzi took her back to Tongcheng, dumped her at the Huo family, and then flew to the United States. Since then, she has not returned for many years.
…
"That day, that was the day, someone must have told mom something." Mu Qian nestled in Huo Jinxi's arms and spoke in a low voice, "Someone must have told her some lies to make her think that I was the child of dad and Sheng Lin.
That’s why I made her collapse, made her resent her father, and made her abandon me..."
And in this world, the only people who know about this are Lu Yuchuan and the people around him.
Mu Qian actually had no idea that he had met Lu Yuchuan when he was a child. However, it was Lu Yuchuan who told Lu Yuan that he had met Mu Qian more than ten years ago.
More than ten years ago, he went to Huai City to pay homage to the woman he loved.
But unexpectedly, he met Mu Huaian leading Mu Qian in the cemetery.
At that time, Mu Qian was still at an age where she didn't know much about the world. Even though she had just paid homage to an old friend with her father, she was still happy, wrapping her arms around Mu Huaian and laughing and making trouble.
It was a very beautiful and harmonious picture, but the smile on Mu Qian's face was too eye-catching.
The little girl who had yet to grow her hair looked very much like the girl in his memory when she smiled.
Lu Yuchuan passed by their father and daughter, but his mind was filled with the smiling face just now.
When he walked to Sheng Lin's tombstone, he happened to see the flowers and sacrifices placed in front of the tombstone.
Lu Yuchuan suddenly turned around, but the figures of the father and daughter had already disappeared at the entrance of the cemetery.
After returning to Tongcheng, Lu Yuchuan ordered people to investigate Mu Qian's life experience.
The conclusion he got told him that Mu Qian was Sheng Lin's child, but her father was Mu Huaian.
Now it seems that this result was obviously tampered with. As for who the tampering person was, Mu Qian and Lu Yuan had analyzed it before, and it was most likely Lu Yuchuan's wife Cheng Huiru.
If it was really Cheng Huiru who had tampered with the identification results, then she would be the one who knew the truth, and she would also be the one who hated it.
For a grown man like Lu Yuchuan, it is a great shame for the woman he loves to give birth to a child for another man, and he will never announce it to the outside world.
For Cheng Huiru, Lu Yuan was enough to be an eyesore, and adding Mu Qian to the mix was just another insult.
But she couldn't move Lu Yuan, who was under Lu Yuchuan's nose, and Mu Qian, who Lu Yuchuan thought was another man's flesh and blood, she could finally move, right?
So, she told a false "truth" to Rong Qingzi, perhaps in order to get Mu Qian from Rong Qingzi's hands and torture her wantonly, in order to offset the hatred in her heart.
But what he didn't expect was that Rong Qingzi sent Mu Qian to the Huo family.
From then on, the Huo family became Mu Qian's refuge. She was a member of the Huo family, and this identity was the best protection.
…
"Lu Yuchuan only told Yuanyuan that after meeting me, he felt that I was very similar to Sheng Lin, so he went to investigate my life experience. Obviously, what he learned about my life experience shocked and angered him, but
, because I resemble his beloved woman, he is willing to let me go." Mu Qian continued, "But what about dad? Does he really have no grudge against my dad?"
After Huo Jinxi listened, he was silent for a moment before speaking: "When did he see you?"
"October." Mu Qian answered slowly, "Shortly after that, dad suddenly went into the hospital, and two months later, he died."
When Mu Qian said this, her tone was calm, but she couldn't help but hold Huo Jinxi tightly with one hand.
"What's the disease?" Huo Jinxi asked again.
"I can't remember clearly." Mu Qian said, "At that time, he and his mother were afraid of me and never discussed the condition in front of me. I only remember that it was in the gastroenterology department, and the attending doctor was Zhang Guoping, whom we met last time... in such a short time
He just left. It should be the so-called terminal cancer? But my father has always been in good health. He showed no signs of illness at all. How could he develop terminal cancer all of a sudden? He only stayed in the hospital for two months, and he was getting thinner and thinner.
, so thin that I almost don’t recognize him anymore...I don’t know if he is really sick, or if someone has been secretly torturing him?"
After hearing this, Huo Jinxi slowly lowered his head and kissed Mu Qian on the forehead.
"I'll find out." He said in a low voice, "Everything."