When Li Zhou heard the name, he was in a daze for a moment, but he didn't open his eyes immediately.

The person he had been looking for for so long was right in front of him, but suddenly he felt a little unreal, followed by uncontrollable timidity.

Near nostalgia is more timid.

Li Zhou was afraid that it was his own illusion, so he opened his eyes slowly after a long time.

In front of him was a scene of imitation Traveler's Banana, which just covered the rest area, so Chu Yin didn't see him.

He didn't get up immediately, but just looked at it quietly through the dark green fake plantain.

Chu Yin was wearing a capable black professional dress, her hair was rolled back, revealing her slender fair neck, and a strand of hair was hanging by her ear. Li Zhi really wanted to go over and gently tie it up for her.

However, he never moved.

From the moment Chu Yin appeared, Li Zhou seemed to have turned into a sculpture, he just opened his eyes and looked in her direction, and couldn't remember any other movements.

It was not the first time that Chu Yin encountered a complaining guest. He smiled to calm the guest's emotions, and while changing his room, he immediately called someone to fix it.

The matter was quickly resolved.

She seems to have this kind of ability, obviously she looks like a delicate and small woman who can't withstand any wind and rain, but she can handle everything with ease.

"Mr. Li." The assistant finished the check-in procedures and walked towards him with the suitcase.

However, Li Zhou ignored him and just stared intently not far away.

The assistant followed his line of sight and saw only a slim and beautiful figure from the back.

"Li..."

The assistant shouted again, but before he could finish speaking, Li Zhou got up suddenly, passed him and walked straight forward.

Chu Yin got on the elevator, pressed the floor, and the elevator door slowly closed.

Just when the elevator doors were about to close completely, a hand suddenly blocked the gap between the two elevator doors.

"careful!"

Chu Yin thought it was an impatient guest, and quickly reached out to press the door open button on the side.

The elevator door opened slowly, and Chu Yin looked up.

However, the person standing at the door was not a guest, but a familiar figure.

Li Zhou.

Because it was so sudden, there was a rare flash of astonishment on Chu Yin's face, but it was only for a moment, and she quickly adjusted all her emotions, showing a professional smile, polite and decent, "Mr. Li."

Li Zhou looked at her quietly, but there was no emotion on her face.

It's as if she didn't leave without saying goodbye a year ago, leaving the panic to him alone.

Rather, they should have been separated.

"Secretary Chu." Looking at her calm appearance, Li Zhou somehow felt a trace of hatred, hated why she didn't seem to care, hated why she could easily take everything away?

Therefore, these three words were bitten hard by him, with a bit of gnashing of teeth.

But this bit of resentment was so insignificant in years of longing, it soon turned into worry.

Why did you suddenly leave without saying goodbye?

Why can you just let go of everything you have worked so lightly?

Why not say goodbye to him?

Why are you here?

as well as……

Have you had a good year?He is really worried.

So many words were stuck in his heart, but he didn't ask a word, just stood at the elevator entrance and stared at her, as if she disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Mr. Li, won't you come in?" In the end, Chu Yin asked first.

Only then did Li Zhou walk in.

"Which floor are you going to?" Chu Yin said, wanting to press the elevator for him.

However, Li Zhou never answered until the elevator door closed.

Chu Yin raised her head in surprise, and saw Li Zhou staring at her intently.

"I'm here to find you."

Everyone in the Xinghui Hotel knew that someone was chasing their lobby manager.

After Li Zhou finished talking about the cooperation, he asked his assistant to return to City A with the contract, while he stayed here and applied for a long-term residence in Xinghui.

From the first day of living in, they pick one problem every day, and they have to ask their lobby manager to solve it in person before they are willing to give up.

When Chu Yin knocked on the door of 1207 for the 23rd time, no matter how good her temper was, she couldn't help it.

She just got out of the shower, her hair is still half dry but she has already put on a suit, sitting on the balcony, holding coffee in her left hand and a newspaper in her right hand, the arc of her arms raised just enough to reveal the Patek Philippe on her wrist, the peacockLi Zhou with the screen open.

The professional smile that has always been the same as Taishan collapsed in front of him almost couldn't hold back.

"Mr. Li, I heard that the air conditioner in your room is broken again?"

"It seems to be." Li Zhou looked up at the running air conditioner, and said without changing his face.

Chu Yin: "..."

Forget it, can't put it on anymore.

"Why on earth are you?" Chu Yin walked up to him and sat down. The two of them seemed to have returned to the time when they worked overtime together in the company.

This made Li Zhou a little dazed.

"I don't seem to have offended you. If it was because of my resignation, it would be even more unreasonable. I am a free man and have the right to resign. You are dignified..."

"I like you." Li Zhou interrupted her.

"General manager, it won't be..." Chu Yin was still going on, but when he heard this sentence, he suddenly stopped.

It took a long time to react before looking up at him.

"Stop joking." Chu Yin smiled to ease the atmosphere.

"I'm not joking." Li Zhou looked at her seriously.

Chu Yin looked at the serious look on his face, but the smile on his face dropped a little bit, and said seriously: "We are not suitable."

"Where is it inappropriate?" Li Zhou seemed puzzled.

Hearing this, Chu Yin listed them one by one, "First of all, the age is not suitable, I am three years older than you, and secondly, the family conditions are not suitable, you know, I was born in a small town, where poverty and backwardness are terrible, and youMy family is completely incomparable..."

Li Zhou didn't refute anything, and listened carefully to her, and then said to her with the same serious expression: "I know."

"But what I like is you, what does it have to do with these?"

Chu Yin has always been articulate, but don't know why?For a moment, he didn't know how to refute him.

After a long time, he forced a smile and said lightly: "Li Zhou, you already have a girlfriend, treat her well."

After finishing speaking, Chu Yin stood up, "I'll take you as a joke today, stop making trouble, and go back quickly."

After Chu Yin finished speaking, she wanted to leave, but as soon as she turned around, she heard the sound of tables and chairs bumping behind her.

Then, a strong hand grasped her wrist.

The tone was low, with a hint of pleading.

"Can you listen to my explanation? Our relationship"

"……Very complicated."

Li Zhou started their story from a novel.

"...Actually, now that I think about it, I realize how naive I was back then, but I thought I was saving her. If I knew that I couldn't accept her at all, I should have cut off her hope directly."

"It's just that she was in a bad state at the time. I saw the scars on her arms, and some of them had been cut to the wrist. I couldn't tell whether she was hurting herself or trying to commit suicide."

"I thought she was only in adolescence, projecting fantasies about the opposite sex onto me. After this stage passed, it would gradually fade away, or even if she continued to like her, I didn't have anyone I liked, even if she didn't have feelings, but II will definitely love her more than all the men in this world, and I will definitely treat her well, but after I met you, I gradually understood her feelings, and gradually understood that in fact, my self-righteous sacrifice is not for her.It's unfair to say that."

"So?" Chu Yin asked him.

"Our feelings are not equal, and we will never be equal. This is actually a kind of harm to her. She should look for a normal relationship instead of spending it on me all the time, like guarding a mouthful.A dry well of dead water."

"So, I'll talk to her about it."

Chu Yin fell silent after hearing the words, and did not express any attitude.

After a long time, he said slowly: "But what if she can't accept it?"

Li Zhou sighed, "You have to try, otherwise you will just go on like this forever."

On the day Li Zhou came home, Mrs. Li happened to be making dumplings with Li Wei.

Seeing that he came back, Mrs. Li was pleasantly surprised and surprised, "You still know how to come back!"

Li Zhou also knew that he hadn't been home much this year, which was really absurd, so he walked over and apologized to Mrs. Li, "I'm sorry, Mom."

"You child, do you think it's a coincidence? Weiwei said that he feels that you are coming back today, and he made dumplings by himself early in the morning. You two have a good understanding since childhood."

"Yes." Li Zhou looked at Li Wei and replied, "We always thought we should be brothers and sisters."

"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Li patted him. Since they settled down, the family began to deliberately avoid their previous relationship.

Unexpectedly, Li Zhou would mention it by himself.

However, Li Wei seemed to have not heard, and said to him with a smile: "Brother, you go wash your hands, it will be fine soon."

"Okay, let's have a taste of Weiwei's craft in a while."

It was rare for the whole family to be here today, Mrs. Li was very happy and made an exception and drank some wine.

Then he looked at them and said with emotion: "In the blink of an eye, you have all grown up."

"Yes." Old Master Li was also full of emotion.

"I still remember when you were so little," Mrs. Li said, comparing her hands to the dining table.I was so scared that I cried. How old was Weiwei at that time? He ran over suddenly, stretched out his hand to the doctor, and said, "Can you prick me? Don't prick my brother." At that time, I thought, Weiwei is really my daughterEnough."

Speaking of this, she suddenly realized something, and quickly said: "Actually, it's okay, you and Li Zhou... Mom treats you as a daughter even more, whether you are biological or not, you will always be mother's daughter."

Li Wei's eyes turned red when he heard that, he raised his glass and toasted Mrs. Li, "I know everything, Mom."

Mrs. Li smiled, and said to them: "Since we have reached this point today, you are not too young..."

Mrs. Li can guess the next words without finishing Li Zhou's words, so he interrupted her first, "Mom."

Li Wei's body trembled imperceptibly, as if he had sensed something, but he didn't speak to stop him.

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Li asked.

"I..." Li Zhou took a deep breath, and finally said what had been suppressed in his heart for a long time.

"I have a favorite person."

Mrs. Li didn't react for a moment, "Isn't the person you like Weiwei?"

"...No." This sentence was difficult, so Li Zhou spoke slowly, but he still said it firmly.

"Her name is Chu Yin."

"Chu Yin?" The chopsticks in Mrs. Li's hands were not steady, and they landed on the plate, making a crisp sound.

Grandpa Li was taken aback when he heard the name, "Chu Yin?"

"Yes." Li Zhou never turned his head to look at Li Wei's expression, he was afraid that if he saw it, he would not be able to say the rest.

"I have always been brother to sister to Weiwei, always..."

"Shut up!" Mrs. Li shouted suddenly as if she had just realized it.

Li Zhou knew that if he didn't make it clear today, things would only get more troublesome, so he insisted: "I promised her before because I was afraid that she would continue to do stupid things, but after meeting Chu Yin, I finally understood what it's like to love someone, how painful it is to not get a response, I used to think things too simply, I thought being together was enough, but it was not, true love should be two people who communicate with each other and respond to each other, not one party's expectation foreverFrustrated."

As Li Zhou said, he finally mustered up the courage to turn his head and glance at Li Wei.

Li Wei didn't make a sound all the time, so Li Zhou didn't notice when she was crying, she lowered her head, her hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly, her teeth bit her lips tightly, and she couldn't help crying.

"Weiwei." Li Zhou looked at her, his eyes were a little red, he wanted to reach out and touch her head like when he was a child, but suddenly found that he couldn't lift his hand at all.

"My brother has been sorry to you for so many years, I thought it was helping you."

Li Wei shook his head, still didn't speak, but the tears fell more urgently, like pearls with a broken string, drop after drop.

Mrs. Li, who watched this scene, didn't know what to say. For the first time, she was so angry that she patted the table and said to Li Zhou: "Either you don't agree at the beginning, and you will be responsible if you agree. How can you go back on your word? YouWant to kill Weiwei?"

"Mom." Li Zhou wanted to say something else, but Mrs. Li didn't listen at all, she stood up and pulled Li Wei to leave.

"Weiwei, let's go up! Let him calm down."

However, Li Wei didn't get up, instead he held Mrs. Li's hand and shook his head lightly.

"Weiwei." Mrs. Li called out distressedly.

Li Wei's tears fell on her hands, as if directly burning her heart.

"I don't agree, don't worry, mom can't agree, Li Zhou must marry you."

Madam Li's eyes turned red as she spoke.

However, Li Wei shook his head, tried hard to restrain his emotions, and squeezed out a sentence from his throat.

"Mom, let them be fulfilled."

Li Zhou thought about thousands of possible situations, but he never thought about this one.

Li Wei said: "Brother, I know that there has never been any love between us for so many years."

Li Wei said: "Brother, I know that you have always been very kind to me. These years, you have given me everything except love. You have done enough for me."

Li Wei said: "But I also know that you will not love me."

Li Wei said: "I have loved you before, and I have seen you love others, I can understand the difference, so thank you for letting me go, and I will let you go too."

Li Wei said: "Brother, I will fulfill you."

"You want to be happy."

Even after many years later, Li Zhou still remembers Li Wei that day.

She had just cut her hair short, reaching to her shoulders, barely covering her neck, touching her thin collarbone intentionally or unintentionally.

His eyes were slightly swollen from crying, and the tears stopped no matter what, but he still tried his best to smile at him.

For a moment, Li Zhou suddenly felt a piercing pain, like a sharp sword piercing his heart and lungs.

Li Zhou thought, even if they are not biological siblings, they do have a heart-to-heart bond.

Just like Li couldn't predict that he would come back that day, just like Li Zhou could feel the pain in her heart at that time.

Li Zhou thought at that time that this was the only time in his life and the last time he made Li Wei sad.

He will be the best brother in the world, help her out, find him the best man in the world, and give her a real, healthy relationship.

Send her off to get married, watch her put on a wedding dress, watch her have her own children, and watch her step by step towards her own life.

He thought a lot.

The only thing didn't expect was that she would die.

Mrs. Li always disagreed with him and Chu Yin.

It was Li Wei who helped him persuade, and Mrs. Li reluctantly agreed.

After getting permission from his parents and returning to a normal relationship with Li Wei, he ran back to Jiangnan excitedly and began to pursue Chu Yin.

Chu Yin still refused at first, but with his efforts, he finally opened up to him.

On the night when Chu Yin agreed to his marriage proposal, Li Zhou finally asked the question hidden in his heart, "Why did you suddenly leave without saying goodbye? Did Weiwei look for you?"

Chu Yin shook her head, "My sister did look for me, but I didn't resign because of her."

"What did she tell you?" Li Zhou asked curiously.

"Didn't say anything, she just looked at me for a long time and said, 'You're so beautiful' and said..."

"What else?"

"Let me take good care of you."

Li Zhou didn't expect it to be this, and his heart felt sore for a moment.

Chu Yin was also uncomfortable, "I know her relationship with you."

"That's why you resigned?"

"No." Chu Yin shook his head again.

"I resigned because..." Chu Yin said, looking up at him, "I found that I was also moved by you."

When Li Zhou heard the words, all kinds of emotions rushed into his heart for a while, he couldn't tell whether it was sadness or joy, "So you also liked me back then."

"I like it." Chu Yin admitted generously, "But I don't want to do immoral things. I don't care about my deeds. I can be tempted, but I can't destroy other people's relationships."

When Chu Yin said this, she also sighed, "So I always feel sorry for my sister, she is really a very good girl."

"We will treat her well together in the future."

"Well, let's help her out together."

However, none of them had time to help Li Wei.

On the eve of the wedding, she had a car accident.

When Li Zhou heard the news, time seemed to stand still for a moment, the voice on the phone was suddenly far away from him, and the surrounding was suddenly dead silent.

In the silence, he seemed to hear a farther and farther voice, "Brother."

There was a huge pain in his heart, which made him cover his chest and bend down, gasping for breath, but he still felt it was difficult to breathe. Even though there was air all around him, he almost suffocated.

Li Zhou sat in the monitoring room of the Transportation Bureau, watching the images on the monitor over and over again.

The driver ran a red light while drunk and Li Wei was crossing the road.

But the strange thing is that the driver is still some distance away from her, and there are various exclamations beside her, urging her to hide quickly.

In fact, it can be avoided.

As long as you go and run a few steps forward, or take a few steps back, it is completely avoidable.

But she just stood there so firmly, her eyes were blank and empty, as if her whole body was empty.

When the car hit her, she seemed to hesitate for a moment, and took a step forward.

But it was only one step, and he retreated as if he was being pulled tightly by something.

She never made it that way.

The driver kept complaining because of her hesitation.

"Maybe she's sick and wants to die! It's so long, who can't hide it? She just wants to blackmail me!"

When Li Zhou heard this sentence, he felt blood red in front of his eyes, and he punched him with his fists.

Bloody punch.

Fortunately, the police next to him stopped him so that there were no more serious consequences.

The driver was punched dumbfounded and dared not say anything.

He just muttered: "I saw the surveillance, I saw..."

Li Zhou tightly clenched his bloody fist, and suddenly thought of something, and applied to re-adjust the monitoring.

The monitoring before Li Wei passed that section of the intersection was transferred out.

Then she found that Li Wei had just passed a bridal dress shop before passing that road.

The see-through closet is filled with wedding dresses.

She stood in front of the door and looked at it for a long time, until it was getting dark, then turned around and continued walking forward.

Ten minutes later, she stepped onto the road.

"So master and master blamed your father for your aunt's death?" Yan Qiu asked.

"Grandma is." Li Zhi said, slowly drinking the wine in the glass.

"Because of this incident, my father and mother did not go to register until several years later, and they didn't hold a wedding, but only got a certificate. They thought that if it was so quiet, maybe my aunt wouldn't be so sad."

"But grandma has been struggling. She refused to recognize my mother and me, and even alienated her father. She was not in good health and experienced great grief. Her body collapsed like this. She died within a few years.gone."

"Grandpa blamed his father and mother because his aunt and grandma left one after another, so that they didn't attend their funeral."

These past events are so heavy that Yan Qiu feels terrified just hearing them, not to mention that these things really happened.

What kind of pain should that be?

"But I can understand that grandpa wants to be strong all his life, but he just doesn't know how to resolve the pain in his heart. He has hatred and concern. After his parents left, he doesn't even know who to hate?"

Yan Qiu felt uncomfortable hearing it, but didn't know how to comfort him, so he took a drink from the wine on the table.

However, he drank too quickly and accidentally choked.

Seeing this, Li Zhi quickly raised his hand to pat him on the back, and grabbed his glass, "You can't drink."

"Just this one cup." Yan Qiu said, holding his hand behind his back. He didn't know what to say to comfort him, so he could only say loyally, "I will accompany you, and will always be with you."

"I know." Li Zhi smiled at his serious look, "It's all over."

Just at this time, the bell rang at 12 o'clock, accompanied by the sound of firecrackers outside, and the background sound of the TV set also heard the neat New Year's greetings from the hosts.

"Happy New Year!"

A happy ending feast for this, pouring the pot to wait for the dawn ①

The new year is here.

Yan Qiu held Li Zhi's hand tightly, and said to him: "Li Zhi, the new year is here, this is my first year with you"

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and he also squeezed him tightly.

"Well, our first year."

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