"Don't be influenced by the outside world. The mistakes your father made have nothing to do with you."
"Block out those bad comments and don't let them become your inner demons."
On New Year's Eve, the figure of Huo Xu worshiping his dead mother on the abandoned road is still so twisted and morbid when he recalls it now.
Yu Ruoruan sometimes thought that the 7-year-old boy probably always lived in Huo Xu's heart, the child who grew up with his father's cheating and mother's domestic violence, and witnessed his mother's death in a car accident.
The paranoia in his bones has probably been formed since childhood.
Hearing the girl's comfort on the phone, Huo Xu was startled, his eyes widened, and after a long time, he suddenly lowered his voice, "What about you? Have you solved your inner demon?"
"ah?"
The man's confused question made Yu Ruanruan stunned, as if she didn't understand what he meant.
"Oh, it's nothing."
The man chuckled softly, but his laughter showed loneliness, "Be prepared for the game with peace of mind. I have something to do, so I will hang up first."
"goodbye……"
Yu Ruanruan wanted to say something else, but there was already a busy tone on the phone.
She held the phone, and the man's question just now echoed in her ears.
"What about you? Have you solved your inner demons?"
Her inner demon?
This was the first time Yu Ruoruan realized that she also had inner demons.
In her last life, she was obsessed with Huo Xu and refused to let go even if she couldn't get a response despite all her efforts.
Until the body is shattered into pieces and there is no recovery.
And everything she experienced in her previous life has already become her inner demon.
Although she is getting better every day now, her eldest brother, third brother, and Huo Xu are paying more and more attention to her.
However, the uneasy feeling of fear of being abandoned followed her like a shadow, surrounding her.
No matter how carefree and relaxed she appeared, her body still honestly took a series of evasion measures.
Because the most terrifying thing in this world is not not getting what you want, but losing it after getting it.
If you don't want to be abandoned, be the first to leave.
This is the understanding that has been engraved in Yu Ruanruan's bones since her rebirth.
But isn’t such a lonely and closed cognition not a kind of inner demon?
only……
Yu Ruoruan was slightly startled.
How did Huo Xu know what her inner demon was?
coincide?
…
Rose Garden.
Huo Xu hung up the phone, sat on the sofa, and turned around the phone. His eyes were slightly narrowed, and there was an invisible gloom in his deep eyes.
The sound of footsteps came from the stairs.
The crutches were placed on the ground, making a rhythmic tapping sound. Mr. Huo came down from the study and walked to him.
"When did you come back?"
"afternoon."
"He was captured?" The old man had a sullen face, sighed, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Xiao Xu, grandpa asked you to stop your dad's credit card earlier because he didn't want him to mess around outside and cause trouble."
"Now, it has made him fall into disgrace and do even more outrageous things. Grandpa thought about it all night last night and decided that it would be better to take your dad back to the Huo family and give him an idle position so that he can stay under his nose peacefully.
wonderful."
"Grandpa, have you thought clearly?"
The old man's decision made Huo Xu's face darken, "Have you considered the consequences of letting him come back?"
"It's just to make him spend more money. Your father is not a born playboy. He is just a womanizer and he still has business abilities."
As he said that, the old man glanced at Huo Xu with complicated eyes, "However, things like arresting your father to worship on the abandoned highway on New Year's Eve, I hope it won't happen again next year."
On New Year's Eve for several consecutive years, the old man saw Xiao Xu, who seemed to be ill, arresting Huo Yan to pay homage to his mother.
In the past, because I felt ashamed of Xiao Xu and knew that this child was not easy, I turned a blind eye and simply went abroad for vacation.
But this year is different.
In order to avoid Xiao Xu, Huo Yan ran out of the province and came back after causing trouble outside.
As a result, the Huo family was listed on hot searches, criticized by the whole people, and lost all face.
Huo Zhengang values reputation most in his life, and of course he can no longer sit back and ignore it.
Huo Xu looked slightly stunned. He raised his eyes and looked at the old man in front of him who he had always respected. He only felt a little ridicule in his heart.
Even though grandpa has cultivated himself and placed high hopes on him, in the end, in his eyes, only the reputation of the Huo family is the most important.
Twenty-five years later, if it were not for reputation, he would not have concealed the news of Huo Yan and Qin Ruolan's marriage and put Qin Ruolan under house arrest in Qiang Yuan.
Qin Ruolan was driven crazy, and her grandfather was an accomplice.
And in the trauma he suffered in childhood, why didn't his grandfather play a role?
Huo Xu only found it ironic.
He remembered what Yu Ruanruan said on the phone just now.
She told him not to pay attention to the outside world's comments. On New Year's Eve, she was the first person in her life to tell him that her mother loved him.
For some reason, when he thought of the girl's eyes as clear as ancient wells, the depression in Huo Xu's heart suddenly dissipated.
Including the anger that has been settling for decades and is about to turn into obsession, it seems that a gap has been opened and is slowly dissipating.
He was silent for a few seconds, as if digesting what his grandfather had just said.
Take a deep breath and exhale slowly.
The stubborn hatred that was stagnating in my heart seemed to start to become insignificant, "Yes."
Opening his thin lips, he softly uttered this simple word.
"Grandpa, I want to help my mother perform a religious ceremony at Lingyun Temple. I would like to ask Master Yunhe to preside over it and help her save the souls of the dead."
Huo Xu's voice was calm, he paused, and finally said, "After this ritual is completed, next year I will only go to the cemetery to worship during the Qingming Festival and the death anniversary. I will ban the New Year's Eve ceremony."
Upon hearing this, the old man subconsciously observed his grandson's expression.
Seeing his serious expression, she nodded, "It's time to perform a ritual for Ruolan. If you go to the highway to worship her every year, her soul will not be able to transcend."
"Master Yunhe and I are old friends. When do you want to arrange this ceremony?"
Huo Zhengang actually felt more guilty than sorry for Xiao Xu.
He knew that it would be too difficult for this child to let go and come out.
Although he didn't know why Xiao Xu suddenly changed his mind today, Huo Zhengang was still a little relieved.
Huo Xu looked calm and said calmly, "It's better to choose a day than to hit the sun. Let's do it tomorrow."
"Okay, grandpa will contact Lingyun Temple for you later."
…
This international speech contest organized by "Foreign Language Research Press" invited many professors from famous foreign universities.
There are departments of history, physics, biochemistry, etc...
The next day is the preliminaries.
Yu Ruoruan took the school bus and headed to the Sidna Hotel with the participating students from the same school.
In order to allow our students to have a quiet and good preparation environment before the competition, the school specially reserved three rooms as lounges for students.
There are a total of 12 people from Dihua High School participating in this preliminary audition. Except for Yu Ruanruan, the remaining 11 people are all students from Class A.
Four people to a lounge.
When dividing rooms, Fu Chuan wanted to share a room with Yu Ruanruan.
Su Zihan knew that Fu Chuan was good at English. Yu Ruanruan's math scores had improved before, and it was said that Fu Chuan was the number one tutor in her grade.
Of course, she couldn't let Fu Chuan and Yu Ruanruan be in the same lounge. What if the top student gave Yu Ruanruan a little trouble again, and he really succeeded in advancing to the semi-finals?
"Fu Chuan, I want to team up with you!" Su Zihan deliberately came up to get close and took Fu Chuan's arm intimately.