This night reminded Xu Lie of the midsummer four years ago.

Four years ago, it was also like this rainy night. He went to college to find his sister who stayed at school during the summer practice. He accidentally heard a conversation between his sister and her best friend in the studio.

My best friend asked my sister, your design draft is too perfunctory. Isn’t this practical project linked to your college’s exchange of places abroad? You won’t be able to fight for your breath?

My sister said why are you fighting for? Isn’t it good to be a beautiful vase?

My best friend asked my sister again, are you planning to hand over the family business to your brother? Your stepmother is willing to kill you all day long?

That was the first time that fashionable and young Xu Lie realized the word "praise and kill".

Although he and his sister were half-brothers, since he could remember, he remembered that his mother had always regarded her as her own. Even compared to his strictness to him, her mother was more concerned about her, almost obedient to her, and spoiled her lawlessly.

The sister treats her mother as intimately as she treats her biological mother.

He could not believe that for so many years, all he saw was illusion until he heard his sister's answer-

A stepmother really expects others to treat you as if they are your own. Just love you and spoil you, but it is not a big grudge for your son to make some family property. Anyway, I am not interested in being a strong woman. If she wants something I don’t want, she will take it. Everyone will prosper under the same roof and lose it. They will fight to the death and make the family mess. How uncomfortable it is?

Then he understood that his mother was so strict with him because she wanted her son to be successful. She wanted to raise her sister and let her eat, drink, play and be ignorant.

From that day on, the word mother slowly collapsed in his heart.

But his mother was still worried that she could not sleep all night when he was sick. She hurriedly took him to the emergency room in the middle of the night. When she arrived at the hospital, she found that she was wearing two different slippers.

She is not a kind stepmother, but she loves her son very much and does everything she does for him.

So he didn't even have a position to blame his mother.

He stood in the middle of the scale, unable to change his mother or convince his sister, and in the end he could only continue to maintain the status quo and maintain the false prosperity of the family, and acquiesced to his sister's sacrifice.

Four years ago, he had already owed his sister a dream. Four years later, when he learned from the Su family what Su Hao had given up, he never wanted anyone to give in to him.

So he said to her, "Please don't do this."

The rain was still falling, and the glass windows crackled in the strong wind, as if they were about to break at any time.

Xu Lie held Su Hao's face and pressed against her forehead. He gradually felt the wetness winding down her cheeks and fell into his palm.

Su Hao trembled his eyelashes, and what Xu Zhili said to her on the rooftop of the teaching building that day kept echoing in his ears.

——Later, many nights, when I had that kind of thought, I would think of this sentence, at least not tonight.

——And then I spent one night after another, one night after another... I found that if it weren't for tonight, maybe it wouldn't be tomorrow night.

——But Su Hao, how did he know this truth?

How did Xu Lie know this truth?

If he hadn't experienced the same night, how could he know this?

Su Hao didn't give up going abroad for the sake of falling in love, she was afraid.

I was afraid that after she left, Xu Lie would become taciturn and alone again, and would be defeated by curses and abuses that he should not bear, and would become the second Xu Zhili, the second Su Yan, the former.

She once lived in a dream-chasing world and lost her sister.

Now she wants to be Xu Lie's sun.

Su Hao shook his head and choked, "But I'm afraid..."

She didn't say what she was afraid of, but Xu Lie seemed to understand it.

He distanced himself from her so that she could see his eyes clearly: "Don't be afraid."

"Hmm?" Su Hao sobbed.

"Have you seen anyone afraid that the sun is too far?"

There is only one sun in the vast universe, but it is enough for all things in this world to grow. The sun does not need to be close to anyone.

Through the ocean, she is his sun.

It can also allow him to absorb light.

*

Su Hao did not respond immediately to Xu Lie. No matter what plan she made, she needed time to consider it, which was reasonable.

The rain stopped, Zou Yueling and Su Wenbin took Su Hao home and asked her to adjust her mood.

After Su Hao left, Xu Lie finished his last tutoring class at the Zou family.

Lin Lan had already learned Xu Lie's true identity from Zou Yueling. She was in a mixed mood. No matter how much she liked Xu Lie, there was no reason to let a high school student continue to work, so she paid him a salary.

Xu Lie left the Zou family and returned to school at around 10 o'clock in the evening. When he approached the school gate, he saw a black Bentley parked there.

He was stabbed by the oncoming headlights, raised his hand to block it, and the driver immediately turned off the high beam on the front of the car.

A man in a suit and tie got out of the co-pilot.

"Young Master Xu," the man called him, hurried forward, his face slightly burnt, "Do you still remember me, I am Mr. Cheng's special assistant, Gao Rui."

Xu Lie narrowed his eyes, looked at him and nodded, and looked at the car behind him again.

"You turn off your phone, I'm waiting for you here. That's it. You may have to go to North City with me now..." Gao Rui was used to storms in the social scene. He was always versatile. He never felt that it was like this at this moment. He even felt difficult to organize language. "Mrs. Xu... I mean, your mother..."

Xu Lie's lips were pursed into a flat line, tightening his body.

"Your mother took a flight from New York to Beicheng today. After landing at Beicheng Airport, she had a physical conflict with the group..." Gao Rui described the causes and consequences, trying to dilute the impact of this incident on a seventeen-year-old boy, but no matter how far away, she still had no way to avoid it. "According to the head during the process, she is now in the operating room for rescue... Mr. Cheng asked me to pick you up."

*

At 4:30 in the morning, North City.

Outside the intensive care unit of the hospital, Xu Lie stood in the corridor, looking at the blurry lights from the small window of the surveillance room, leaning against the wall expressionlessly.

He got off the plane at 3 a.m. and the operation was over when he arrived at the hospital.

The doctor asked the family to prepare mentally, and then poured out several words: severe craniocerebral injury, cerebrospinal fluid outflow, and plant state.

It means that people are mentally prepared, but each word does not give people psychological preparation.

Xu Lie stood quietly in the corridor, standing for an hour without moving, as if he had thought a lot, but when he looked back and recalled carefully, he couldn't remember anything he had thought about just now.

The fragmented pictures in my mind were scattered, and in the end, only one scene was pieced together, as if I was being chased by the light, and it was infinitely bright and infinitely large-

In the corridor of a hotel in New Jersey, USA, my mother cried heartbrokenly and begged him, Lielie, Mom knows that she is wrong, Mom returns the money to your father and sister, and you go back with your mother, don’t leave your mother, okay?

He asked his mother, how did you live after paying back the money?

Mom said she would always have a solution.

Then he questioned her, is your solution to destroy other people's families for money?

The last look in my memory was that my mother's face turned pale and she left in a daze, overlapping with the scene where her mother was just pushed out of the operating room, like a cunning trick of fate.

From the darkest moment before dawn to the dawn shining through the window at the end of the corridor, Xu Lie always stood there blankly.

The strong smell of disinfectant still fills the nose, but after being smelled for a long time, I become numb and I can't even notice what it smells like.

The nurses in the intensive care unit were clearly busy without feet, but were as quiet as death, and lifeless.

As the sun was climbing high, footsteps approached. Xu Lie felt a warm palm fall from his shoulder, and Cheng Lang's voice sounded in his ears: "Stand all night, go have some breakfast."

Xu Lie thought he should be able to say no, but he nodded silently.

*

Xu Lie stayed in the hospital for three days, but Yan Lizhen showed no sign of awakening.

During this period, someone came to the hospital to cause trouble. It was Yan Lizhen's legal wife and relatives, and the group of people who had physical conflicts with Yan Lizhen at the airport.

They scolded Yan Lizhen for deserved it and scolded her for deserved it. They told Xu Lie that they had already told her that the retribution would sooner or later come down.

Xu Lie listened to their scolding silently, and watched them get rid of the security guard with a ferocious face, unable to feel any emotional fluctuations.

Until the morning of the third day, July 1st, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Gao Rui came to the hospital to ask him if he would go back to school to take the final exam.

For the first time in three days, Xu Lie recovered from paralysis.

He sat in a waiting chair outside the intensive care unit, lowered his head and held his hands in his hands, frowned, and did not respond for a long time.

The doctor asked the family to prepare for long-term care, one month, two months, or even half a year or more. It is recommended that the immediate family stay by the patient and talk to the patient more to stimulate the patient's consciousness. Gao Rui thought that Xu Lie would not be able to leave for the time being, and suggested: "I will contact the school to explain your mother's situation..."

Xu Lie shook his head.

"You are going back to take the final exam?" Gao Rui was surprised.

Xu Lie silently, but still shook his head.

Gao Rui thought and guessed: "Do you don't want the school to know about your situation?"

Xu Lie nodded and said in a hoarse voice: "Assistant Gao, I want to trouble you to help me with something."

*

At the same time, Nancheng.

The Su family's dining table was surprisingly quiet. During the meal, there was almost no sound except for the jingling of chopsticks when they hit the porcelain bowl.

The Dragon Boat Festival holiday has been so quiet all the time.

With the exposure of Xu Lie's identity, Su Hao's early love was naturally not hidden.
To be continued...