Chapter Twelve Interrogation

  "I'd rather be good and not follow in her footsteps. So I'm going to leave here, far away from you, and this lifetime I don't want love anymore."

  She was smiling, with a clever and charming smile, her bright eyes shone like water, but she still couldn't stop the tears from streaming down in straight lines.

  "Are you going to give up on your studies too?"

  "I don't know, I'll go to my second aunt's place, she's in a big city, let's talk about it when I get there..."

  "Take care then!" Shao Qi sincerely wished.

  "I won't say goodbye to you."

  Meeting is the beginning of parting.

  Shao Qi never thought that this girl who had only met him three times would give him so many feelings.

  He had never thought that there would be such a wonderful entanglement between these people, but all of this seemed to be deliberately reminding him of something.

  Under the golden sunlight, amidst the crowd of people pointing and gesturing, two figures slowly walked further and further away.

  No matter what happens in reality, life must go on forever.

  Just like now, life in the late stage of high school is still full and compact, but some people live simple and happy lives.

  No matter where you are, gossip will never disappear. No matter how perfect a person is, there will always be a factor of gossip.

  It is suitable for all ages and never goes out of style.

  Because it has gathered all the information of human beings, as well as the good and evil of human nature.

  For example, at this moment, rumors are quietly spreading in Qingcheng High School...

  "Did you see it?" A girl in the corridor quietly asked after removing her friend's earphones.

  "What's up?"

  "How could you not know?!" Girl A stared at her friend as if she had seen a monster, "In gym class, Shao Qi was blocked by someone..."

  "Oh, that guy, isn't he supposed to be her boyfriend? I heard they broke up and she was crying like crazy." Girl B calmly continued listening to her English mp3 with earphones.

  "Ugh, don't listen anymore..." The girl quickly pulled out her earbuds again.

  "I heard that the girl's father killed her mother, and she ran over to Shao Qi in a frenzy to cry about it!" Suddenly, another girl, Bing, also chimed in.

  "That's too dramatic!" Girl B frowned: "What does it have to do with you?"

  "How could you not notice and reject so many girls' confessions, only to be charmed by her? You're really a deeply manipulative woman." An unknown girl, Ding, said viciously.

  "Exactly, exactly!"

  It just so happened that this simple gossip spread like wildfire in the conversation between the two girls, and soon swept through the entire school.

  As for Shao Qi, who was in the midst of all this, he continued to attend classes and do his homework as usual, eating and drinking when he needed to.

  Why not?

  He sympathized with Yan's experience and pitied her lonely dependence, but it was just an emotion.

  He has always believed that emotions are just a regulator of life, a bit of color in the vastness of human existence. It is beautiful and strange, but people don't have to be affected by it in their lives.

  And because it was a clean break like cutting off emotional ties, they ended their puppy love decisively and wisely, so even if the teachers knew about it, they just turned a blind eye.

  So he is living as usual.

  The woman who quietly left may only have a few encounters with them in this life, and perhaps they will meet again in the future, but that is something that the current them cannot change.

  But as for that woman's life, it was another magnificent story of her own.

  Time flies like flowing water, and it's finally gone without return. The highly anticipated college entrance examination is now just around the corner, within reach.

  All major newspapers, magazines and news media are tirelessly and repeatedly broadcasting related information. Hotels near various test centers have been booked up several months in advance.

  All high schools have almost all started their summer vacation by now, freeing up the exam venues.

  The electronic equipment and monitors in the examination room have also been checked many times and are now properly arranged.

  Everything is ready, all eyes are waiting for June 7th...

  It was June 5th, the weather was slightly hot, and even the wind was warm and stuffy.

  At noon, in this simple farmhouse, a woman who was thin to the point of being almost unrecognizable as human was busily preparing for her son's exam.

  "Shao Qi, did you bring the pencil lead?" However, before her son could answer, she continued: "Anyway, be sure to bring it, what if the pencil doesn't work at that time... No, no, and there's also a carbon pen..."

  "......" Shao Qi was speechless, he knew his mother and the parents of thousands of students who took the college entrance exam were excited and happy, his heart felt like it was wrapped in thick cotton, warm and soft.

  But he knew that behind a life of too much ease and comfort lies the beginning of decadence and relaxation, so he didn't hide it from her.

  "Mom, I saw him last time......" Shao Qi's voice was faint, as if casually mentioning something.

  "Who is it?" The woman asked indifferently, still busy with her own affairs.

  "Yan Fei!"

  Her hand trembled slightly, and the pencil case in her hand fell to the ground with a "pop", and pencils, erasers and other stationery rolled all over the floor.

  "Ah!" She hastily picked up the stationery on the ground, but her hands trembled uncontrollably. So she stopped picking up and walked straight to his side, asking somewhat urgently: "Where is it? Did he see you?"

  "The school's mobilization meeting, he shouldn't have seen me!" Shao Qi remembered the figure in that white BMW, the person who was always inseparable from him in his memories.

  They shouldn't be so far apart, and he's no longer that unchanging little face from the past.

  "Also, I see another person!"

  "Who?" The woman trembled slightly, like a bird startled by a bowstring.

  "Shao Lian Tian!" Successfully seeing the woman's slightly stiff face, Shao Qi closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

  "You still can't forget him, and you're still thinking about him!" Shao Qi gently supported his mother, looking at her slightly flickering eyes. "Does he still love you? Has he looked for you all these years? Is he still with his wife, but what about you?"

  The woman bit her lip stubbornly and stared at him steadily: "He is your father!"

  "Father?" Shao Qi shook his head, "I don't have such an extraordinary and superior father. Besides, back then..." He looked at her, a faint ripple appearing in his expression, "This father is practically nonexistent."

  "So why did you suddenly bring him up again? Shao Qi, you can't let go either."

  Her voice was very light, after all, they were mother and son, to a certain extent, their personalities were actually similar.

  "I don't know!" Xiao Qi revealed a bitter smile.

  "After the college entrance exam, go find him, you've grown up and he can also give you a better future."

  "No..." He shook his head firmly.

  As she watched her son's firm determination, her eyebrows jumped slightly, and some doubts that had been deeply buried in her heart and never wanted to mention slowly floated up in front of her.

  She solemnly lifted her son's face with an unyielding yet gentle voice, "What exactly happened back then? Tell me!"