She didn't have many memories of Su Hong. In those five years, all her memories were about Su Hong, and they were always arguing.
People were always weird, missing each other when they weren't around, and arguing when they were around.
In his impression, Su Hong and Duan Fei's quarrel had never stopped. Sometimes, when Su Hong had just returned from a business trip, Duan Fei would instantly pull a long face and start to lose his temper in less than ten seconds even though she had been anxiously waiting for him the whole day and had prepared a table full of delicious dishes.
After that, he would slam the door and run away from home. Su Hong would hold her hand and wait at the door of the courtyard, waiting for the sun to set, waiting for him to come back, waiting for the twelve-year-old Duan Ruyun to grow into a young girl who could stand shoulder to shoulder with Su Hong.
Five years could change a world, and the happiest five years of youth passed quickly.
The seventeen-year-old Duan Ruyun was like a budding flower bud, while Su Hong was like a withered rose, quickly sinking. The spread of cancer cells was never absent from every checkup, and the haze didn't last long. In just half a year, she left that home forever.
On the day Su Hong left, Duan Fei held her hand tightly in the funeral parlor, his eyes bloodshot, as if they were about to drip blood. He refused to let the people in the funeral parlor send her in for cremation. Those sisters who came to send Su Hong off for the last time were all red-eyed, and no one could persuade him.
Later, a woman dressed like a noblewoman came. She was about the same age as Su Hong, and she took good care of herself. Her manners were very dignified, but such a woman slapped Duan Fei in front of so many people. Duan Ruyun still remembered the words of the noblewoman.
"If I knew you were going to spend the rest of your life with her, I would have strangled you to death and not let her raise you."
The farce at the funeral became fragments of her memory, but now it could all be pieced together.
Later, the aunties who attended the funeral chatted and talked about Duan Fei and Su Hong's past. Amidst their sighs, they forgot about the young girl standing in the corner and listened to those words.
Su Hong was a prostitute in her early years. When she was 13 or 14 years old, she came out to make a living. She had done everything. Because of her righteousness, she had many good friends. Because of her righteousness, many people liked to ask her for help. Very few were rejected.
One day, one of her sisters came to her and begged her. The sister had said that she had washed her hands of gold and had not appeared in the clubhouse for a long time. The reason was that she had been a concubine with a big official for two years. This time, she was implicated in the big official's corruption, so the sister entrusted her newborn child to her.
That year, Su Hong was 16 years old. She was already a very outstanding young lady in the circle. Her service fees were very high. She had originally planned to quit after two more years. Now, if she were to adopt a child for no reason, it would affect her business. However, she still adopted the child.
At the age of 16, Su Hong had already grown up from a young lady to a mother. She didn't do the prostitution business herself, but she led a group of "daughters" under her. Her business was also thriving, and there was a faint momentum of becoming the number one nightclub in Lanjiang City.
At that time, the boy's mother suddenly came to the door and clearly said that she wanted to take her son away.
Su Hong naturally didn't say anything. Although she was reluctant, he was someone else's son after all. Since he was a foster child, it was reasonable for others to take him away.
However, the boy made a fuss and made up his mind not to leave. He followed her back several times and ran back. He knew that he was not Su Hong's son since he was young, but his attachment to Su Hong had never decreased. After following this woman for so many years, he couldn't and didn't want to leave.
The boy simply told his mother, thinking that his mother would forgive them because they were once sisters. However, he didn't expect that his mother only thought that Su Hong had seduced her son. She didn't know the boy's thoughts at all. Even Su Hong herself didn't know. In a anger, she played some tricks behind her back and made Su Hong go to prison. She went to prison for five years.
In the five years, the boy fought hard at the beginning and learned to be smart. Finally, Su Hong was released from prison.
However, even if she was released from prison, his mother would never agree to let her son be with a woman of the same age as her, not to mention that this woman was a young lady.
At that time, the boy's mother had already married a rich businessman. Her past was washed away by jewelry. She probably forgot that she used to be in the same industry.
The process of resistance was very difficult. Fortunately, Su Hong had made many friends over the years. Her power in Lanjiang City was tangled and complicated. His mother, who used to be able to control everything, was finally unable to interfere. After many times of help, the boy's mother finally had no choice. In a fit of anger, she cut off the relationship with the boy and drove him out of the house.
The boy didn't care. He packed his simple luggage and moved in with Su Hong. They lived together for more than ten years.
Because the boy's household register wasn't in her hands, they didn't get a marriage certificate. Because Su Hong's health wasn't good, they didn't have children. The only child they adopted was scheming against them.
The boy was Duan Fei, Duan Ruyun's adoptive father in name. When she was seventeen, she found out that the man she called brother for five years was also adopted by Su Hong in the early years. He was really her brother in name.
Therefore, every time she called him brother, Su Hong's expression was very ugly.
When she was seventeen, she had many teenage fantasies. The only gentleness in her life was given to her by this man. Perhaps she didn't dare to think about it in the past, but perhaps Su Hong's death was a chance given to her by God.
Later, Duan Fei began to drink. He drank day and night. His temperament changed drastically. The originally bright and beautiful man aged like an old man in his twilight years overnight. More than half of his hair also turned white.
The management rights of the entire group fell on her alone. She was seventeen that year and didn't have any appeal. Su Hong didn't teach her anything before. Because the industry she was in was special, there were many things that couldn't be explained clearly. She had to bribe people from top to bottom, and her methods were terrible. Therefore, a seventeen-year-old girl said all kinds of things along the way.
But she didn't care. She had her own selfish motives. She thought that maybe if she did well enough, that man would look back at her and look at her with the same gentle and worshipful gaze that he used to look at Su Hong. Therefore, she could move forward bravely and fearlessly.
When she was twenty-two, it was the tenth year that she accompanied him. It was also the fifth year that they relied on each other for survival after Su Hong left. The wine bottles in the house piled up like a mountain, and the servants changed batch after batch. Just when she thought that time could wash away everything, that man named Duan Fei left her at a loss.
She didn't even have the time to voice out her wishes and thoughts when the man rushed off the overpass due to drunk driving and died on the spot. When the police informed her to claim the body as a family member, she drove the car. Her hands holding the steering wheel couldn't stop trembling, and the engine stalled several times on the road.
When she arrived, the body was already cold. Her hand brushed past his eyebrows and landed on his lips, stopping at the curve of his smile. At that moment, she suddenly calmed down.
It turned out that five years wasn't enough to forget a person. After you left, this dream of life came to an end.
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