I had never thought about going to Paris with Mu Huainan. Even though I knew that his company's headquarters were located there, I still liked the embrace of my mother.
"I can send you to the best art school in Paris, where you can sing, rock and roll, and study music."
While studying abroad, he would secretly form a band, skip classes and attend concerts, spend all his money on equipment, rent a basement, and spend the night dancing and singing.
But my parents had always wanted me to inherit my family's business and do good business.
If you want to sing, you can just start selling music.
Those are my mother's exact words.
So, when I heard the word "rock" from Mu Huainan's mouth, I couldn't help but guess how well he knew me.
I've been looking into something about me.
But then again, it doesn't matter anymore. My happiness and anger can no longer affect my future, because from the day the Lu Family collapsed, my responsibilities were no longer the same.
"I don't want to sing. I just want to make money."
These words contained too much sarcasm. In the past, the angry who scolded rich people as short men without ideals had finally become the person he hated the most.
He was looking at the money.
"I told you not to pay me back."
"But I want it back." "I don't want to owe you anything."
It was as if every time they discussed this issue, Mu Huainan's expression would become heavier.
"I am no longer a child. I have a need to take responsibility."
He sighed softly, and after a while he looked at me softly, and his words were as warm as malt candy, warm only for this moment.
"Alright, you're not a child anymore." He once again embraced me, lowered his head and kissed my hair, with an incomparably devout and sincere kiss, he said in a serious tone, "Lu Weian has grown up, but mine have always been faint.
Is this a promise, or a confession?
I lay in his arms, in the midst of his lingering, hungry kisses, dazed and trembling.
Whatever I want will satisfy me.
"I want my parents."
It was a long time before I said it softly.
I felt his body stiffen, but very quickly, he raised his eyes slightly. "You have me now."
I told him again, "I want to see Peng Haobai."
The name Peng Haobai suddenly flashed into my mind, and for some reason, Mu Huainan used that kind of ambiguous gaze to look at me. I will unconsciously think of Peng Haobai.
Those three words were like a clean and clear piece in my mind. When the sun shines down, I could still see the fish and prawns at the bottom of the lake.
Unlike me, these things can only be done in a cold corner, not even in the light.
Mu Huainan rejected me again.
"Right now, concentrate on preparing for the college entrance exam."
He just said that he would be satisfied with what I want, but in reality, he can only give me what he wants.
And what he wanted to give me was exactly what I didn't want.
Mu Huainan turned his body and hugged me from behind before he slid into bed together with me. His chin was pressed against the space between my neck as he opened his mouth to speak.
"An'an, I'm sleepy."
I obediently got surrounded by him without moving. "Alright, then go to sleep."
I couldn't sleep, so Mu Huainan's heartbeat kept beating behind me, each beat was extremely powerful, affecting my train of thought.
When I moved, I realized that he wasn't asleep either.
His misty voice had a hint of a nasal tone. I heard him say, "Call Shen Xiuyuan and ask if there's a woman by my side."
I was startled, Shen Xiuyuan this top secret demon!
Suddenly, my face turned red, as if I was feeling jealous.
"I'm not jealous."
Perhaps due to panic, the question that I answered didn't go through my mind. After I said it in such a manner, I immediately regretted it. I felt as though there wasn't any money left in this place.
"You're the only woman beside me."
I was a little unconvinced.
"The foreigner who called you 'NAN' on the phone that day."
His breathing became heavier as he spoke, and there was a hint of a smile in his voice.
"So you hung up because of her?"
I was so angry that I didn't answer,
"That's ASA's signed model SILY. I was just talking to her about the show the other day, nothing more."
SILY...
My heart skipped a beat. That was an ASA model that was signed by the ASA. In the past ten years, in so many countries around the world, there haven't been 20 people signed by the ASA, and SILY is now the heavyweight model of ASA.
She was a woman that all the men in the world wanted to sleep with.
How could I have the guts to quarrel with others...
So hearing Mu Huainan's explanation, I felt even more uncomfortable.
"Uncle Huainan, good afternoon."
"Yes." Good afternoon. "
Some secrets cannot be spoken. They press against my chest, strong and heavy.
Mu Huainan was heading to the airport in the afternoon, but before he left, he suddenly stuffed a bank card into my hands. He said it was my birthday.
"I have money to spend." I shook my head.
He insisted on putting it on my bedside table.
"This is money from the project you're investing in, not from me. It's your own. "
I stared.
"But I didn't do anything."
"As an investor, you don't need to do anything other than pay."
Mu Huainan's words made me speechless.
"You don't have to pressure yourself. You have to study normally and take the exam normally. You have to worry about your future as long as you have me."
That's what he told me before he left, he said, and kissed me on the forehead again. That's how he always did, tender when he looked at me, and those eyes that always wanted to go with me, those hands that were always restless touching here and there, and his mouth was even more restless, and he was about to kiss me all over the cheek.
He took me back to school first, and when I got out of the car and went back to my dorm, I turned to look at him. He leaned against the window and smoked again.
Vaguely, I saw him as a figure, but his tired eyes were heavy and bored.
I don't think I've ever seen him stop to rest, except when I'm with him, when I see a relaxed version of him, but most of the time he's as serious and tense as he was on TV, the kind of man who never makes a mistake.
It was a bit heartbreaking.
That day, there were still two months until the college entrance exam. It was the most important eight weeks for all the third year students. I didn't see how much money was in the bank card Mu Huainan gave me. I put the card under the bedside table at home and never touched it.
Everything that belongs to him, including the room, and even me, has long become Mu Huainan's property.
I didn't go to find Shen Xiuyuan during the weekend either, but Ai Meng came home to take it with him more and more frequently. I started to get used to going to the study room to study by myself, walking home alone at night to look at the stars in the night sky.
I went back to the villa once a week and secretly dismissed the cleaning nurse, leaving me with some money. I came back once a week to clean the house, to pick the flowers in the garden, to soak myself in a cup of honey water with fresh rose petals, to bask in the sun in the yard, occasionally to memorize English words.
More and more time like this, I began to get used to not talking to others, not communicating with others, just doing my own things in silence, I looked at myself in the mirror, hair base medicine, long black smooth, staring, finally feeling like I had grown up.
More and more, I enjoyed the unexplained silence, and I enjoyed the peace and silence around me.
I was too lazy to care at first, too lazy to be angry, too lazy to be arrogant.
He was too lazy to bother with the Lu Weian like before.
However, this is only when I'm on the phone with Mu Huainan. In front of him, I seem to always be that way.
Watching TV, she knew that Mu Huainan's ASA Fashion Week was especially successful, helping several local Chinese fashion brands create an international reputation. The foreign media had always praised him, and the people of the whole country were proud of him.
I pulled down page after page of news. I also giggled like "the whole country".
Pride.
I thought he would be able to relax a little after I finished with ASA. After all, I have less than a month before the College Entrance Test, and the teacher already has no knowledge points to talk about. Most of the time, it's just us studying by ourselves.
But when I went back to the villa, I felt a little lonely and cold.
Mu Huainan was still so busy, he did not even return for the last time to the school's parents' meeting.
The school was on break the week before the college entrance exam. The students had to go home. This was probably the last day of their high school life together.
The 17-18 year old boys were crying and hugging each other because they were going to leave. The words that had been hidden in their hearts for a long time were finally spoken that same day. Two or three young girls were hiding in the forest, kissing.
Even after Ai Meng was taken away by her father, I was still alone.
Before I left, Chen Kun suddenly looked for me. He gave me a slip of paper, wrinkled and old.
"I, Peng Haobai, entrusted this task to you."
I was slightly shocked. How many people hadn't heard of Peng Haobai's name from others?
"You saw Peng Haobai?"
Chen Kun shook his head.
I was with my father that day at the Peng Family as a guest and he was called out to greet us. It was only a few seconds and he already gave me this. "" What?
I pinched the slip of paper and smiled as I thanked Chen Kun.
"How are you? Have you decided which university you want to enrol in?" Chen Kun asked me with the usual greeting: "Is there anything that you like?"
I shook my head.
"It's better to wait until the results come out first."
"Are you going home alone? With such heavy luggage, do you need me to bring it back?"
I am grateful for Chen Kun's enthusiasm, but I am not used to others.
"No need, my uncle will come and pick me up later."
Mubai is so busy, and he still came to pick you up.
I shook my head. "Other uncles."
"Hmm, that … , I hope that you can do your best in this exam. "
I watched him wave to me, and I smiled back.
"You too."