I hurried back from the capital to Hua Lin and died for my mother.
The plane landed at the airport, but I didn't wait for the car at home. When I took a taxi to the funeral house alone, I saw a young girl holding my father's arm, standing at the door and chatting with the guests, as if she were the hostess.
I will never forget this woman.
Her name is Gong Shan, and she is my best classmate in high school.
Seeing me, her hand slipped from my father's arm, and she looked embarrassed.
My dad also saw me. He patted the back of her hand to comfort her. Then he took her hand and stopped in front of me.
He said lightly, "You're back. Go and burn incense for your mother first."
Gong Shan's face was full of guilt and caution. She called me, "Niannian..."
I looked at her expressionlessly and ignored her. I walked past her and walked in.
My mom's ashes were placed in an antique box, small and delicate.
The table was full of fruits and fragrant paper, and there were wreaths of flowers hanging down.
She committed suicide by jumping off a building. It was said that she had changed completely, so she simply burned her body.
Looking at my mother's sweet and young smile on the photo, I kowtowed three times and couldn't help but shed tears.
Gong Shan and my father followed me. She squatted beside my feet, reached out to shed tears for me, and said softly, "Don't cry, or I will be unhappy in heaven."
I subconsciously avoided her hand.
Perhaps this action stimulated my father, so he shouted in a deep voice, "Su Nianjun, when will you be sensible? Don't embarrass your mother!"
I knelt in front of my mother's urn and looked up at him coldly. "When you were with your daughter's high school classmate, you never felt ashamed. Why should I feel ashamed?"
My father's face turned red and he slapped him.
He used all his strength, but I was caught off guard. I fell to the ground with a burning pain on my face.
Seeing that he was about to kick her, Gong Shan quickly stood up and pulled him back. She comforted him gently, "Don't be angry. There are so many people watching. Go entertain the guests first and let me persuade Niannian."
The two of them held each other's hands intimately.
And my mom's body hasn't turned cold.
My dad snorted and didn't do anything again.
When he left, Gong Shan squatted at my feet again and whispered, "Su Nianjun, you must hate me very much, right?"
I glanced at her coldly.
She smiled faintly. "I hate you too. I want you to die."
My hands slowly clenched into fists.
She said slowly, "I had been looking forward to your mother's death four years ago. Now that she's finally dead, you don't know how happy I am..."
"You're not afraid of retribution!" I hissed through gritted teeth.
In the first year of high school, she and I became deskmates. She was admitted to the school in the countryside. She did not have the self-abased and shriveled self-esteem like a country boy entering the city. Instead, she was gentle and generous. She was beautiful and had good grades. Everyone liked her very much, and I was no exception.
I became good friends with her and often took her home on weekends.
As a result, she became another daughter of our family. My mother would buy everything I had for her, including clothes, food, and even school education. After all, the money was nothing to our family.
She was really good at coaxing the elders. My mother sighed countless times that she was a thoughtful little cotton-padded jacket.
Who would have thought that she would climb into my dad's bed on the summer vacation of her third year in high school?
She was greedy for my father's money, but after being discovered, she pretended to be very wronged and weak. She knelt in front of my mother and me, crying and repenting. But she turned to my father and complained to him, making my father and my mother separated.
During the four years I went to the Capital University, my mother washed her face with tears every day, but she and my father were a couple.
I was lost in my memories. My heart seemed to be scratched by an invisible hand, and it was bleeding.
However, Gong Shan's smile grew even wider. Her smile was like that of a venomous poppy. She was wild and vicious. "I advise you to show me some respect. Otherwise, your father will definitely not be able to beat you. He dotes on me now, because..." She placed her hand on her belly and placed it close to my ear. She chuckled softly. "I'm pregnant with his baby."
I widened my eyes in surprise.
Therefore, my mother jumped off the building because she knew that she was pregnant and would never be able to return to my father.
Gong Shan curled her lips and said in an undisguised excitement, "I've checked it. The baby is a boy. Your father is very happy and said that his son will inherit the family property in the future."
I looked at her coldly.
She looked at me contemptuously. "It's a pity that you don't watch gossip. Otherwise, you would have thought of this day."
"A few years ago, I saw the real news of a rich man in Gang City. When he was old, he supported his mistress to get the position. 60% of the shares were given to her. Her son only took 20% of the shares. As for her wife's daughter, he had long forgotten her. He said that the mistress was the most gentle and the best for him. But think about it, he was 30 or 40 years younger than her. Why was the mistress good to him? It was not for money..."
"Look, this is a man."
"According to Little Three's method, I'm obedient to your father. He really loves me to the core."
She smiled proudly. Her smile was like that of a poisonous poppy, wild and vicious.
My fingertips almost dug into my palm, and I couldn't wait to kill her in front of my mother's portrait.
But I can't do it.
She is smart and cunning enough. If she makes trouble, I may not be able to take advantage of her.
I lowered my eyes and said, "Today is my mother's funeral. I won't argue with you, and you don't have to provoke me. There will be a long way to go. Let's wait and see."
Gong Shan said with a faint smile, "Unfortunately, I don't want to let you go. You said that if I pretended to fall down and told your father that you pushed me, because you hated that I was pregnant. Do you think your father will throw you out?"
The smile on her face was vicious and twisted.
I was secretly on my guard.
Sure enough, this woman only had this kind of dirty means.
In the past four years, she used this method to make my father hate my mother, and she firmly grasped my father's heart.
She slowly got up, as if she was going to carry out her fake fall.
At this moment, someone came over.
When Gong Shan saw the visitor, not only did she stop, but her expression immediately changed as well. She greeted him respectfully, "Mr. Zhou, you're here."
I looked over and saw the man holding a bunch of starry flowers decorated with Red Bean. He walked slowly to my mother's portrait and placed the flowers on the table.
Compared with those wreaths, these flowers were very special.
But what shocked me more was that Red Bean and Heavenly Stars were my mother's favorite flowers.
I looked at the man silently.
Of course, I knew this man.
Zhou Xun was a powerful man in the business world.
Two years ago, he came to Hua Lin and bought several listed companies. The whole business circle of Hua Lin was shocked, and my father was also afraid of him.
At that time, I happened to be admitted to Capital University, so my father took the opportunity to build a relationship with Zhou Xun.
At this moment, Zhou Xun looked as if no strangers were allowed to enter.
But even though he looked serious, he was still the most eye-catching one.
He was tall and straight, with clear and righteous eyes and brows. He was only 28 years old, but he was already full of everything.
It was said that he was the youngest son of the Zhou family in the capital. It was unknown whether he came here for another purpose or purely to make money.
Gong Shan stood beside him and looked at him. She seemed to think of something and blushed.
I couldn't help sneering.
She ate in the bowl and looked at the pot. This woman had never been satisfied.
But she didn't know if Zhou Xun would be seduced by her.
Gong Shan was a rare beauty...
While I was thinking, Zhou Xun suddenly turned around. Before I could restrain the sarcasm on my face, he saw me at a glance.
