Liang Shi is unlikely to work at Dongheng for very long, so the house's location should be designed to serve Xu Qingzhu as much as possible.
//
In my dream, it felt like an endless abyss, and I was constantly falling.
The whole world was plunged into darkness.
Suddenly, the fall stopped.
A beam of light fell on the corner, dust swirled, and a little girl with a ponytail appeared in the corner, her head buried in her knees, looking all alone.
Su Yao sat opposite her, a few meters away.
Su Yao felt her heart clench with pain, overwhelmed by an indescribable sorrow.
She reached out to touch the child, but all she touched was air.
But she could clearly see the child.
After a while, the child looked up, but his face was a mosaic, and his features were completely obscured.
Confused and bewildered, Su Yao asked sadly, "Who are you?"
The child opens her mouth, revealing her mouth, then her nose, then her eyes—a face that looks very familiar.
It was the face she had seen during the day.
Her face and body were completely mismatched, looking extremely incongruous.
But Su Yao couldn't stop crying after seeing it.
The child asked, "Why didn't you come to find me?"
"I'm so sad." The childish voice was filled with resentment. "I'm having such a hard time."
"Mom... what are you doing?"
"Are you my mother? Look for me."
"..."
The child's voice grew increasingly mournful and plaintive, just as it had appeared countless times in my dreams, and he began to wail loudly.
Interspersed among them was Sheng Qinglin's voice, "Yaoyao, look at Xiaozhuzi, she's so cute when she smiles."
"She looks like you, she'll definitely be beautiful when she grows up."
"Let's call her Green Bamboo, because she is unyielding and forever green."
"Since you gave birth to him, of course he should take your surname."
"..."
There were too many sounds mixed together, and she couldn't hear anything clearly.
The Su family villa was in complete chaos at this moment.
The incident started when Sheng Yu was thirsty in the middle of the night and wanted to drink water. She wanted to avoid disturbing her mother by getting up to find a maid, but she tripped on the way out and fell directly onto the carpet. Still not fully awake, she was in so much pain that she wanted to cry and sobbed pitifully for a while.
Normally, Mom would have already woken up.
But when she returned to her room after drinking the water and quietly climbed into bed to continue sleeping, she heard her mother crying.
She nudged her mother, but her mother didn't react.
The mother's tears flowed more and more, then she turned over, buried her head in the pillow, and continued to sob.
Sheng Yu was terrified and immediately burst into tears, alerting the people in the villa.
But the only thing that didn't wake Su Yao was her.
The family doctor brought in from abroad immediately conducted a consultation and found that Su Yao was trapped in a deep nightmare.
In this situation, we cannot wake her up rashly. She is already mentally weak, and if we wake her up rashly, we don't know what serious consequences might occur.
The family doctor tried to gently wake him up, but found it didn't work.
This alarmed everyone in the family.
Su Meiqi was frightened, but Sheng Yu cried and said, "It must be because Mom was bullied by bad people today that she's crying."
"Being bullied?" Su Zhe immediately questioned, "Who did it?"
Su Meiqi didn't let young Sheng Yu talk about it. Instead, she pulled her father into the study and told him everything about meeting Xu Qingzhu at Minghui's door that day. Then she asked, puzzled, "What is her relationship with Auntie?"
Su Meiqi frowned: "She doesn't look like Sheng Qinglin's niece, but more like his daughter, and she's dressed as if my aunt abandoned her."
Su Zhe: "..."
"You only met Xu Qingzhu?" Su Zhe asked.
Su Meiqi nodded: "And his wife."
"That good-for-nothing playboy?" Just mentioning it filled Su Zhe with disdain.
Su Meiqi shook her head: "He has already changed. Now he is very good to Sister Xu, and the two of them are quite loving."
Su Zhe scoffed lightly, offering no comment.
"Tell me first, is Xu Qingzhu related to your aunt?" Su Meiqi asked again.
Su Zhe nodded: "She is your aunt's daughter."
Su Meiqi: "!"
"Then Aunt..." Su Meiqi paused, puzzled, "How did you come up with that idea?"
Su Zhe sighed: "I've been provoked."
However, Su Zhe belatedly realized: "So Xu Qingzhu is criticizing your aunt from a position of knowing the truth?"
“It wasn’t really criticism.” Su Meiqi recalled her attitude that afternoon. “She was very aggressive.”
Su Zhe: "..."
"What gives her the right?" Su Zhe retorted angrily. "What does she know?"
I wanted to curse, but then I remembered that Xu Qingzhu was just a clueless little baby back then, so I had to give up.
The urge to drag the old couple of the Sheng family out and whip their corpses grew stronger.
Every time Su Yao had a relapse, Su Zhe wanted to whip their corpses.
He even wanted to grab them by the collar and ask, "If your son, whose body is barely cold, could see this, do you think he could die in peace?"
They drove his wife insane and even took his daughter away, making her take someone else's surname.
What stupid parents.
Su Meiqi was full of questions, but seeing that Su Zhe didn't seem to be willing to answer them, she awkwardly slipped away.
Meanwhile, the family doctor was finishing up when Su Zhe arrived and just then heard Su Yao, who was about to wake up, cry out in anguish, "Qingzhu!"
The whole house was silent.
Then Su Yao woke up, looking around in confusion. She then stiffly turned to Su Zhe, her eyes once again filled with tears, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Brother, who did I forget?"
She cried and said, "My heart aches so much. She told me to remember, but I can't."
Sheng Yu was taken to bed by the maid, and Su Meiqi was also kicked out.
Only Su Zhe and the family doctor remained in the room.
Su Zhe sat there pondering for a long time, and finally sighed, "If you can't remember, don't think about it. You'll remember it sooner or later."
“She is such an important person.” Su Yao said, “I dreamed about the girl I met today. In the dream, Qinglin hugged her and said, ‘Our daughter is like green bamboo. She should be like bamboo, unyielding and forever green.’”
Su Zhe closed his eyes, suppressing all his grief, and rationally told her, "Your daughter is here, isn't she? Sheng Yu is right beside you."
Su Yao continued to shake her head, "It's not Sheng Yu."
She suddenly grabbed Su Zhe's sleeve and asked, "Brother, do I have another daughter?"
Su Zhe: "..."
“That girl from today.” Su Yao grabbed Su Zhe’s arm tightly, pulling so hard it hurt, but Su Zhe remained silent. Su Yao was on the verge of a breakdown, but she tried her best to stay calm. “She looks just like Qing Lin, especially when she’s angry, she really looks like her… She… She… She… She came to see me?”
"Don't be silly," Su Zhe said coldly. "That's Sheng Linlang's daughter. Isn't it normal for her to look like Sheng Qinglin?"
“Sheng Linlang…” Su Yao murmured the name, “It sounds so familiar.”
Su Zhe: "..."
Su Yao doesn't remember Sheng Linlang again today.
But after a long while, Su Yao suddenly said, "I remember now, she's Qinglin's older sister. I... I haven't visited her since I came back."
“There’s nothing to visit,” Su Zhe coaxed gently. “Sheng Qinglin has been gone for so many years. If you go, it will only bring back bad memories for her. It’s better not to meet her.”
Su Yao was gradually persuaded.
But she asked repeatedly, "Do I have another daughter?"
Su Zhe patiently replied, "No, only Sheng Yu."
//
That same evening, an argument also broke out at the Liang family villa.
After dinner, Sun Meirou took Lingdang upstairs to wash up. Yu Wan had been feeling particularly sleepy lately, so she greeted everyone and then went upstairs to rest.
Only Liang Xinzhou and his brother, along with the Liang family couple, remained.
Qiu Zimin sat listlessly on the sofa watching the news, while Liang's father and brothers, Liang Xinzhou and Liang Zimin, went to the study to discuss company matters.
Around nine o'clock, Qiu Zimin had the maid cut some fruit and then personally delivered it to the study door. She overheard Liang's father saying to someone, "Are you sure? Those two people are from Taoyuan County? What about my daughter? Is she still there?"
"What do you mean? Are they all dead?" Before Liang's father could finish speaking, Qiu Zimin pushed open the door and shouted sharply, "Who's dead? Is my little girl already dead?"
Mr. Liang waved to signal her to calm down and continued talking to the person on the other end of the phone.
Liang Xinzhou and Liang Xinhe exchanged a glance, both seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.
We tried everything, good and bad, but the couple just wouldn't listen.
Finding their biological daughter has become an obsession for them.
The last time Liang Shi brought Xu Qingzhu back for dinner, they had an unpleasant argument and left.