Chapter 102 Chapter 102

“No, Mom, how can you think that about me? I’m still not your little baby?” Pei Xiaoxia crossed her arms.

Pei Zheng gloated, “Come on Pei Xiaoxia, there’s no one in our family who doesn’t know your ghostly virtues.”

“Come and eat.” Pei Silk An at the top snapped the table, a few small ones did not dare to fool around anymore and sat down obediently.

Pei Xiaoxia winked at her two brothers, and the three siblings watched as mom walked over to dad and sat down, and dad naturally held mom’s hand.

Gu Huai’s eyes stared unblinkingly at the woman he used to only see in photos.

Counting the age, she should be more than thirty years old this year, but the years did not leave traces in her face, her skin is still smooth and delicate, her eyes are clear and bright, not stained with wind and frost.

It’s obvious that she’s doing well, and she’s a far cry from the real Lu Nong.

Gu Huai looked at her towards Pei Silk An naturally exudes a smile, and the opposite, Pei Silk An’s eyes touch Lu Nong, surrounded by the coldness of the melting, that look almost called …… gentle.

Gentle?

Gu Huai almost thought that he was blinking, never imagining that the word tenderness could one day be used to describe Pei Jingan.

As cold and hard as Pei Zheng, the gentle look on his face is not so shocking to Gu Huai, because he knows that Pei Zheng’s coldness at the beginning is imitating Pei Silk An, and he is only holding up his momentum on the outside, and after experiencing the world, he added coldness and hardness, creating a unique temperament that belongs to Pei Zheng.

But also distinguish from Pei Silk An, in Gu Huai’s opinion, Pei Silk An’s indifference is the real cold, high up, detached and cold, no one can get close, no one can enter his heart.

Money and power don’t seem to attract him, like a god without desire, what’s the point of living for such a person?

Sure enough he died that way.

Rather, I didn’t expect that in his own dream, Pei Silk An could still have such a look, and Pei Zheng, too, as if he had changed into a brother who loved his younger siblings.

Ridiculous, but there was no denying that it was indeed beautiful, so beautiful that Gu Huai hated it.

That’s crazy.

Gu Huai’s expression gradually went down in gloom, he never needed this kind of illusory goodness.

“Second brother, your expression is terrifying.” Pei Xiaoxia winced.

Lu Nong and Pei Zheng both looked towards him, and Gu Huai subconsciously hung his head and collected his expression.

Parents, brother and sister love, in this kind of family atmosphere living Gu Huai, should be pure white and flawless, really should not show Pei Xiaoxia mouth “terrible” expression.

“Huai? Are you not feeling well?” Lu Nu asked worriedly.

Gu Huai fingertips slightly moving, gradually clenched fists, but it is just a dream …… Why should he cover up his own not “Gu Huai”?

“…… I’m fine.”

After struggling for a long time, the grip of the tight swift hand loosened, and the slightly longer bangs covered Gu Huai’s face, making it impossible to see his expression.

He just wanted to see how outrageous the dream really was.

“That’s good,” Lu Nu swept through the hair of the three siblings and launched the initiative, “It’s a rare day when I’m not busy, why don’t I cut everyone’s hair?”

“Ok hey, I want mom to give me the haircut that Ergo had last time, I want to be a beautiful man too!” The little summer cub was the first to raise his hand.

Pei Zheng dismantled the situation, “Haha, Lao Er is a beautiful man when he cuts it, you are a tomboy when you cut it.”

Pei Zheng was teasing Xia with these words.

Daughter looks generally with the father, Pei Xiaoxia is no exception, Pei Silk An is the top of the famous beautiful man, eyes and bones are not bad, copied to Pei Xiaoxia’s face, even if not grown up can be seen beauty phase.

Only Xiaoxia all summer in the outside crazy play tanned, keep long hair okay, cut into short hair that really become Pei Zheng mouth “tomboy”.

Pei Xiaoxia rolled her eyes and smiled wryly, “Big brother, mom said she’s going to cut our hair, you’re not going to sneak off again, are you?”

Pei Zheng narrowed his eyes, “How come?” Good for you Pei Xiaoxia, learning to put your big brother’s army on the spot.

“That’s good,” Pei Xiaoxia was satisfied, “The head of a regiment, you must keep your word.”

Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking.

After a meal, the old woman called Grandma Wu was fully prepared as she pulled a pusher, scissors, and a plastic poncho out of the closet.

Together with Pei Jingan and her godmother, Lu Nong had to deal with five heads, she thought about it and felt that it was still too tiring, so she put the pusher into Pei Zheng’s hand, “Boss, here, use the pusher and your dad to give each other a haircut, you military guys can’t wear fancy hairstyles anyway.”

“Think of it as enhancing father-son bonding.” Lu Neng added.

Pei Zheng: “??”

He’s 30 years old, not 3. What’s the point of promoting father-son bonding?

Although he spat in his heart, Pei Zheng still took the pusher, compared to Lu Neng’s meticulous and elaborate way of cutting his hair, he still preferred the fast and direct one, letting him and the old man cut each other’s hair was just what Pei Zheng wanted.

Pei Jingan was noncommittal, he could guess that Lu Nong was being lazy, excitedly saying that he wanted to cut the hair of the whole family, but ended up pushing two people before he even started.

Well, it’s Lu Nong’s style to know what’s going on.

A few children were assigned to carry stools to scoop boiling water, Lu Nong and Pei Yinan went to the washroom to get a basin.

As soon as she entered the washroom, Lu Nong ferociously crossed her arms and turned to question Pei Jingan, “Did you just bellyache about me again?”

A hint of a smile flashed across Pei Jingan’s face, “Why would I bellyache you?”

Lu Nong wasn’t stupid, Pei Silk An’s words were clearly baiting a confession, “Hmph, don’t think I can’t see that you’re hedging your bets, I’m not going to say anything.”

She proudly held her chin up, ”Comrade Old Pei, we have lived together for so many years, I still don’t understand you? What expression do you say you have that I don’t understand? Just now it was bellyaching me, don’t try to hide it from me.”

Here Lu Nu’s expression became fierce again, “Don’t belittle me!”

Pei Shenan laughed lightly, gently encircled Lu Nong, and sighed, “So it’s been so long.”

Time is like running water, it passes by in a flash, he doesn’t know how many more decades there are in his life, the only thing he can do is to cherish the moment and treat her better.

Lu Nong also stood on her tiptoes to encircle Pei Yinan’s neck, like an overgrown child sidling up to claim a kiss, “Nuh-uh.”

Instead of kissing her cheeks, Pei Jingan gently kissed Lu Neng’s nose tip, lip beads and then her crimson lips ……

In the living room, Gu Huai followed Pei Xiaoxia to move the stools, and Pei Zheng went to the kitchen to get boiling water.

Pei Xiaoxia appeared to be big-hearted on the surface, but her nature was coarse and subtle, she keenly sensed that her second brother was not right and asked bluntly, “Second brother, are you unhappy?”

Gu Huai was surprised by this acumen of hers and said without moving, “Why do you say that?”

“Feel it,” Pei Xiaoxia touched her chin and said in a serious manner, “I’m going to be a police officer in the future.”

Gu Huai was in a bad mood again, but he couldn’t help but lose his smile when he saw this, maybe it was really the blood attraction, or maybe it was because he really wanted a sister like Pei Xiaoxia in his dreams, Pei Xiaoxia’s every move was adorable.

He stretched out his hand, stopped when he reached mid-air, and was just about to retract it when Pei Xiaoxia glanced at Gu Huai, shook her head like a small adult, and stuck her head under Gu Huai’s hand, “Okay, okay, I know you want to touch my hair, and yeah, I’m so cute, who wouldn’t want to touch my hair?”

“Seeing as you’re my brother and in a bad mood, I’m only reluctantly letting you touch my smart, precious head… hey, it really hurts my brain… sometimes it’s a pain in the ass to be too good-looking ……”

Mouthing off, Pei Xiaoxia rubbed her head against Gu Huai’s palm like a kitten, squinting her eyes and revealing a cozy expression.

Gu Huai paused for a long time, and finally his palm materialized and patted Pei Xiaoxia’s little head.

A breeze blew through the window, and Gu Huai suddenly realized that it was spring in his dream.

“Why do you want to be a cop?”

Pei Xiaoxia gave him a strange look, “I’m one of the smartest people in our family, how can such a good talent go to waste? Of course I have to solve cases and catch bad guys like Sherlock Holmes.”

“Really? Then what is the sixteen-year-old Gu Huai going to be?” Gu Huai asked softly.

“You? Didn’t you say that when you graduate from college you’ll go to the countryside to become a village official? Didn’t we siblings agree to go to the masses together when the time comes, serve the people, and not play with the boss.” Pei Xiaoxia looked at her own brother skeptically, thinking that her second brother wouldn’t really be stupid, right?

“You added that last sentence yourself, I didn’t say it.” Gu Huai withdrew his hand and moved his stool.

Pei Xiaoxia snapped, picked up the stool next to her and caught up with Gu Huai, “That’s what it means, almost almost.”

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.

Pei Zheng Gu Huai and Pei Xia moved the stools and boiled water, and Lu Nong and Pei Yinan also came out of the washroom.

Lu Nong beckoned and called out to Gu Huai, “Huai cub, you come first.”

“……”

Gu Huai stiffened, such a shameful title, did he not know himself anymore? In his dreams, he wanted his own mother to call him Huai Cub?

Lu Nong didn’t notice Gu Huai’s expression, “Come wash your hair first la, lie on your back on the sofa.”

Gu Huai walked over to the sofa with a complicated face.

“What are you waiting for, lie down.” Lu Nong tried the water temperature and said again when she saw Gu Huai not moving.

This recalls Huai lying obediently, the warm water wetting her hair and her mother’s gentle fingertips running through it.

The too-real touch made Gu Huai no longer able to deceive himself that perhaps this was not his dream, but a world that actually existed.

He became his other self.

How jealous of a teenager with a happy family and a privileged life, who is decent, kind, and has ideals and ambitions.

Turns out there was another way to live his life.

“Mom ……” thought Gu Huai for the first time to look directly into his mother’s eyes, mother and son similar eye to eye, the sentence “Mom” will naturally come out.

“Hmm?” Lu Neng answered softly.

“Can you go back in life after you’ve taken a wrong turn and made a mistake?”

Lu Nu thought for a moment and said, “Of course you can, no matter when, no matter what mistake you make, the person who has the courage to stop and correct the mistake, atone for it, and then start all over again is the one who is truly brave.”

“Those who go down one road and say they can’t turn back because they can’t help it are just making excuses for their own cowardice.”

Before the words were finished, Gu Huai had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, Lu Neng lost his smile, “This brat, sleeping again, every time I wash your hair, I sleep through it, how comfortable is it.”

When Lu Nong finished washing Pei Xiaoxia’s hair plus cutting her hair, Gu Huai woke up, stretched, looked around and said in surprise, “I’m back.”

Pei Xiaoxia mocked him, “Come back? Second brother, you’re sleepy and dreaming, where did you go in your dream?”

Gu Huai mused, “Just a dream?”

Thinking of the dream, Gu Huai put the nagging behind him, “Luckily it was a dream …… But, how did I end up in the living room?”

“Are you stupid? Mom washed your hair and you slept through it, hey look at my new hairstyle, looks good.” Pei Xiaoxia shook her head and showed off towards her second brother.

Gu Huai was stunned and inclined his head to look at the clock on the wall, ten o’clock in the morning.

“What’s today’s date?” Gu Huai asked Pei Xiaoxia.

Pei Xiaoxia casually replied, “Number ten.”

The tenth, only half a day had passed, but there was no memory in his mind of what had happened since he fell asleep last night until now.

Was it really just a dream?

******

Not a dream.

Gu Huai was awake enough to know it wasn’t a dream.

“Awake?” It was rare for Pei Zheng to speak to Gu Huai in a nice voice, just now Gu Huai was talking and suddenly fell asleep crookedly on his shoulder, Pei Zheng couldn’t bear to wake him up, so he waited for half an hour.

As soon as Gu Huai raised his head, Pei Zheng’s old face crashed straight into his line of sight, and he dodged away in disgust as he stood up from the floor, “Cough cough ……”

After half a lifetime of being a nemesis, as soon as Gu Huai showed this expression, Pei Zheng wanted to punch him, without running away, it was the Gu Huai he was familiar with.

Sure enough, his well-behaved brother was all fake earlier, and he almost fell for his story.

Pei Zheng sank his face, “Gu Huai, do you have any fun? You’re still making up stories and playing tricks to deceive people when you’re this old, is it fun?”

Gu Huai surveyed the surroundings for a while, and when he saw his mother’s and adoptive father’s tombstones and the bouquets of flowers in front of the graves, he was silent for a few moments before bending his knees and kneeling down.

Pei Zheng frowned, they had already knelt once when they arrived, but Gu Huai really didn’t look like he was faking this.

“Ahem, can, can you tell me the story he told you?” Gu Huai said softly.

Pei Zheng was shocked as an incredible thought surfaced in his heart.

“What do you mean? Were you not the one who just told me the story?”

“Well, it wasn’t me.” Gu Huai didn’t deny it.

Pei Zheng choked, and then he froze for a long time, coming back to his senses before saying, “I told you …… he’s not like you.” He actually accepted Gu Huai’s statement and believed in something so fantastical.

“What’s it like?” Gu Huai asked.

Pei Zheng had gotten used to fighting with Gu Huai over the years and said without thinking, “Much better than you, gentle and sincere, without these tricky and mean habits of yours.”

“Yeah, he’s better than me.” It’s so jealously ungrateful.

Gu Huai slowly got up after kowtowing three heads and turned toward the exit of the cemetery.

Pei Zheng choked again, was this still the Gu Huai he knew? When had he ever admitted defeat?

“Didn’t you want to hear my story? What, no more listening?”

Gu Huai stood still and looked back at him, “Isn’t it not saying anything?”

Well, Pei Zheng said in his heart, it’s normal.

“I’ll tell.” Pei Zheng followed Gu Huai, and the two of them walked side by side, one telling the story and the other listening quietly.

Walk out of the cemetery and the story is told.

It had been years since the two had walked together so peacefully, and it was a novelty.

Before parting, Pei Zheng asked Gu Huai, “You said you’re not him, so where did he go?”

Gu Huai coughed lightly a few times and said frankly, “Go back to where he should go, in his story.”

Pei Zheng nodded and suddenly thought of something, “Do you remember the picture of Auntie Lu on Dad’s tombstone? He said that it was secretly hidden by Dad, according to him, whether it was his world or ours, Dad loved Auntie Lu, but why did it end so differently? What went wrong?”

“If Dad has always liked Auntie Lu, why is he …… again?”

Gu Huai looked into the distance, “Who knows?”

Pei Zheng strangely sized up Gu Huai, always feeling that the gloomy paranoia in Gu Huai’s body had subsided a lot after this, “Don’t you resent him? According to your careful nature, I’m afraid you hate him to death.”

Gu Huai did not bother to answer Pei Zheng, even after walking in the world of sixteen year old Gu Huai, briefly experiencing the affection that he had never felt, and then suddenly losing it, Gu Huai only had jealousy and unwillingness, no resentment.

He is not the sixteen year old Gu Huai, Lu Nong loves the son who is him but also not him, proud as Gu Huai only allowed himself to steal the love that does not belong to him for a short period of time, telling himself that there was once someone in this world who loved him in another world.

Besides, he wasn’t the only one in the world who died alone, there was one standing next to him – his arch-enemy in this life, his brother.

On the way back, Gu Huai picked up the phone of his men, “Hey, Tiger, give up the plan and have your men pull back.”

A surprised voice came out from the phone, “Big brother, you figured it out? I told you not to take the risk. Good, I’ll let the brothers withdraw back now.”

“By the way …… big brother, your body, don t blame me for talking too much, the body is the capital of the revolution, our days are long, don t delay.”

Gu Huai was stunned and coughed lightly for a while, “Good.”

Hanging up the phone, Gu Huai instructed the driver, “Go to the hospital.”

He wanted to be more of a brave man than a coward, and his life, well, it didn’t suck to the end.

The stolen glimmer of love is precious enough to the poor Gu Huai to support him in his journey.