Song Heng drove Gu Zhiyin back to the West Bank Mansion. There was no one in the villa. He hadn't been back here for a long time. Song Heng felt that the living room seemed to have changed.
Gu Zhiyin didn't care about this and went straight upstairs.
He took a shower, shaved, changed into clean clothes, and put on his watch. He was methodical and did everything meticulously.
After doing this, he stood in front of the mirror and checked a few more times to make sure there were no omissions, then turned and walked out of the room.
Song Heng saw him coming up from downstairs neatly and freshly.
When Gu Zhiyin came out of the detention center, she had a sense of morbid and decadent beauty. She was dressed meticulously and exuded a calm and restrained aura, solemnly as if she was going to meet the most important person in her life.
Song Heng felt something in his heart, but he couldn't tell what it was.
He followed Gu Zhiyin out of the villa and bathed in the warm sunshine. He suddenly felt a sense of rebirth, all the beauty in the world, and... He looked at Gu Zhiyin's back.
His unspoken love for Miss Mu Ning.
Gu Zhiyin got in the car and Song Heng drove to the hospital.
He looked at the streets decorated with lights and colorful New Year celebrations, and suddenly said, "What should I buy?"
Song Heng gave him a strange look and saw him staring out the window, "You want to buy a gift for Miss Mu Ning?"
"What do girls like?"
Song Heng thought for a while, "You have already given away everything that should be given, and there is nothing new in giving it again..."
He really couldn't figure it out, "You seem to know more about this than me, right?"
Gu Zhiyin looked away, sneered slightly, closed his eyes and rested his forehead, muttering to himself, "Yeah, what should I ask you?"
Song Heng looked at him and said, "Master Gu, are you a little nervous?"
Gu Zhiyin was slightly stunned, lowered his eyes and smiled, but said nothing.
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It is rare to have such good weather in Beijing in early March.
Mu Ning was sitting in the ward with greasy hair. She couldn't stand herself anymore and shouted to take a bath.
"Ning Yatou, I do this every day. The doctor has said that the wounds on your body cannot be touched by water and cannot be washed." Zhang Ma nagged her.
Zhang's mother was originally celebrating the New Year in her hometown. She suddenly received a call on the night of the fourth day of the first lunar month, asking her to take care of Mu Ning. Only then did she learn that such a big thing had happened, so she drove over from her hometown overnight.
Her hometown was in the countryside, and she took a few trips. She would never forget that night, sitting in a smelly van on a rickety town road. The roads on both sides were narrow and dark. She felt that everything in front of her was dim. It's about to collapse.
She was so scared that whole night that she didn't even fall asleep in the car. The next morning she finally arrived in the center of the capital city. She didn't go back to the villa, but came directly to the hospital. When she saw Mu Ning, her eyes filled with tears. Something was in her heart. All landed.
While Mu Ning was hospitalized, Zhang Ma and Lu Xinting took turns coming to the hospital to accompany him.
Mu Ning said while eating an apple, "Then it's okay if I wash my hair?"
Zhang's mother thought about Mu Ning before she had the miscarriage. The most taboo thing during confinement was to catch a cold head. She would be prone to migraines in the future, so she coaxed her, "Ning Ning, wait a little longer. Wait a few days and I'll wash it for you after the injury is healed."
Mu Ning wailed, suddenly feeling something was wrong, and looked at Zhang Ma with doubtful eyes, "What does the injury on my body have to do with washing my hair?"
Zhang Ma was hesitating. At this time, Lu Xinting hurriedly walked in and said, "Why are you washing your hair? Don't wash it. Let's go. I'll take you out for a walk."
Mu Ning paused while biting the apple, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Really? Can I go out?"
The weather was bad these days, and Lu Xinting and Zhang Ma refused to let her out of the ward, and she almost suffocated to death.
Zhang Ma glanced at Lu Xinting doubtfully and frowned, as if she had something to say.
Lu Xinting gave Zhang Ma a reassuring look, and said to Mu Ning with a smile: "It makes you happy. Let's go and take you to bask in the sun."
She pushed a wheelchair to Mu Ning. Mu Ning had several contusions on her body. The more serious thing was that her right leg was fractured, so it was inconvenient to travel and she had to use a wheelchair.
Mu Ning slowly got dressed on the bed, and Lu Xinting helped her sit on it.
Zhang Ma put a hat on Mu Ning, put a scarf on her body, and put a blanket on her body. Still worried, she said, "Wait a minute, let's get a hot water bottle."
"No need, Zhang Ma, I'm fully armed." Mu Ning couldn't wait to go out.
"Although the sun is shining outside, the chill is still there in March. It's a bit cold when the wind blows. What should I do if my hands are frozen?"
Mu Ning had no choice but to wait.
While making the hot water bottle, Zhang Ma pulled Lu Xinting to ask what was going on. Lu Xinting glanced at Mu Ning ambiguously and whispered a few words quietly in Zhang Ma's ear. Zhang Ma was startled, and her eyes suddenly felt hot, "Okay. , OK, I get it."
After the hot water bottle was charged, Mu Ning put her hands into the two ears of the Little Bear hot water bottle. She was originally petite and a ball of fur in a wheelchair. She was so cute that Lu Xinting pushed her out.
They were walking in the garden.
Lu Xinting asked her: "Ning Ning, today is the Lantern Festival, how do you want to celebrate it?"
Mu Ning was slightly stunned. It turned out that today was already the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
She and Gu Zhiyin agreed on a date to meet.
She had always been afraid of this day, so she spent these days in a daze, eating and sleeping in the ward, forcing herself to forget about this day and night.
Now being reminded by Lu Xinting, a feeling of emptiness came to my heart.
She knew that he was going to miss the date today.
Mu Ning lowered his head in despair and whispered, "I don't want to think about it."
"Then what do you want?"
She shook her head lowly, "No."
Lu Xinting suddenly stopped and asked, "Ningning, do you miss him?"
Mu Ning denied it, "No, what do I want him to do?"
"Just think about it, I won't laugh at you."
Mu Ning didn't say anything. He held on for a while and said frustratedly: "He just knows how to lie to me."
"He's a bastard, he..."
Her throat was choked. He had arranged everything for her, but what about himself?
Mu Ning lowered his voice and murmured to himself, "He can only lie to me."
The wind picked up. Lu Xinting looked at the shadows shaking on the ground, coughed, and said cautiously: "Ning Ning, you'd better tell him what he ordered. I think he would really like to hear it."
"Okay...what can be good..."
Lu Xinting rubbed her shoulders, "Well, I want to hear it and get to know Mr. Gu in case I have to make a living under him in the future."
Mu Ning pursed his lips, "Okay, let me tell you about his past."
Mu Ning began to remember.
Then he started mumbling to himself.
"When I first arrived at Gu's house, he wasn't as gentle and smiling as he is now."
"At that time, I thought he was a very strange person. He didn't interact with anyone. He was cold, gloomy and lifeless. The Gu family didn't want to see him, as if they would be unlucky if they met him. They would take a detour when they saw him. But I At that time, I was very curious and wanted to get close to him, because I felt like he was the same person as me."
"When he was in a bad mood, he would lock himself in the music room, and I would stand on the window and secretly watch him play the piano."
"Later he found out, but he didn't even chase me away. I gradually became bolder and hid behind the door to watch him. One day he asked me if I wanted to learn, and I said yes."
"Actually, I don't want to learn, I just want to have a legitimate reason to stay there."
"I didn't expect that he would hold me on his lap and teach me step by step."
"At that time, I thought he was quite nice and not difficult to get close to. He was not as scary as the rumors outside said. Although I later found out that he had done many bad things, I felt that he probably didn't want to do it himself, because every time he did it, No matter what happens, he takes a shower and locks himself in the room alone. He seems to hate it, but...even so, he is still the only warmth I feel in the Gu family."
A shadow slowly covered Mu Ning's body. The sunlight dragged the shadow very long. He stood quietly behind her without interrupting her.
Mu Ning talked nonchalantly, saying whatever came to his mind without any focus.
There are too many memories, like a floodgate being opened, flooding into my mind.
Those memories, both good and bad, feel very warm when I look back on them now.
"Although he works very seriously, he is really boring at ordinary times. He has no social life and no hobbies. If it weren't for his good-looking face, no one would like him."
"Tingting, you know, he once said he would take me out to play, but he ended up sitting on the edge of the pond fishing alone. He could sit there for a whole day, doing nothing, just staring at a place in a daze, and the fish took the bait. He forgot to close his pole. I was thinking, was he fishing? It didn’t look like he was enjoying the scenery. I felt like he was thinking about something, but he seemed very relaxed. Anyway, I couldn’t figure him out.”
She didn't expect that she could still remember things so clearly from such a long time ago.
"Actually, there's one thing I haven't told him honestly. His cooking is really terrible. I'm afraid of hurting his self-esteem, so I can only bear to finish eating. You think he is such a smart person, how can he not even eat it?" Can you fry egg fried rice?"
The shadow on the ground shook, but there was no sound, only a pair of hands pushed her forward slowly.
Mu Ning paused and felt strange, why did Lu Xinting talk so little today?
