A few days after I handed over the calligraphy practice manuscript ghostwritten by my father to Amy, I received a strange phone call at home.

It was already ten o'clock in the evening, and I was already planning to go to bed. My father was still busy in the study answering questions from online shop customers, explaining to them one hundred and one reasons why inflatable dolls are better than girlfriends.

"Hello? This is Happy Valley Love Shop..."

I announced my home address skillfully. I thought it was another urgent call from an impatient customer. Do I just hope that the inflatable doll will arrive as soon as possible?

Unexpectedly, after a long silence on the other side, Pentheus's voice came:

"Lin, I hope you are mentally prepared..."

Eh? Why are you calling me in the middle of the night? To prepare me mentally? Are you going to send a hundred gay guys to blow my ass? I didn’t offend you! I just didn’t go to pay Obama back in person last time

That’s all, don’t be so heartless!

"The next call will be from Ms. Ai Shuqiao from the United States. Although it is unlikely, I hope you can calmly listen to what she has to say."

Who? Who is Ai Shuqiao? Calling from the United States? Our phone does not have international calling? Transfer? Does it refer to the crude method of putting two telephone receivers together, or is it more advanced? In short, as long as

Just don't charge us international long distance charges, we can't afford it!

After a rustling sound of electricity, the voice on the other side was replaced by a woman's voice. She spoke neither fast nor slow, showing the maturity and confidence of an elite.

"Ask your dad to answer the phone."

As an American elite, her opening remarks like a class teacher looking for parents are really unpopular.

"My dad is busy with business! Can you tell me anything? And who are you?"

"...Ask your dad to answer the phone."

She repeated, the anger faintly audible in her voice.

Eh? He disturbed our rest in the middle of the night, and he actually got quite angry! Even though dad was just sitting in front of the computer chatting with people, there are serious repeat customers who came to our online store because of dad’s patient explanation! As H Da

My father is very popular with customers! If you delay our business, we will drink the northwest wind!

"Dad can't get away now. If you have anything, you can ask me to convey it. Moreover, since your call was transferred by Pentheus... you should be Amy's person, right? If you want to find it, you should also find me.

, my dad has never met Amy at all!"

"He's the best he's ever seen..." There was a hint of sarcasm in the woman's voice, "If you don't know who I am, I can tell you that I am Amy's agent and her mother.

"

"Oh, it turns out to be Lady Ai! I'm so disrespectful!"

I've never had a good impression of Amy's mother. Isn't she just a tiger mother who forces her daughter to play the piano and violin without even giving her Coke or potato chips? Moreover, when you introduced yourself, you first said you were an agent, and then said

As a mother, you don’t need to highlight your professionalism here, right?

"So Master Ai, what are you going to do with my dad? Although I have received a lot of 'care' from your daughter, it's not serious enough to need to find a parent, right?"

The other party was silent for a while, and I could hear her nasal voice as she laughed.

"Ye Lin...is that your name? I didn't expect you to be so talkative...but you are a bit similar to your father when he was in school..."

What does this mean? Listening to this tone, it sounds like Ai Ma has known Dad before? Maybe the two of them are still classmates! This world is too small!

"...Anyway, let your father answer the phone and tell him that Ai Shuqiao is looking for him."

I couldn't help but take the vicissitudes of life in the words seriously. I pushed open the door of my father's study and pointed to the extension on the computer table.

"A woman named Ai Shuqiao is looking for you..."

I froze mid-sentence, because the expression on my father's face could no longer be described as shock, but turned into a hodgepodge of fear, pain, sadness and confusion.

He grabbed the phone receiver like a drowning man grabbing for life-saving straws.

I don’t know what Ai Shuqiao said to him. It was only enough time for a greeting, and my father burst into tears.

When he is not drunk, he rarely sheds tears in front of me.

He spoke to the woman on the phone in a trembling tone: "Shu Qiao, you..."

After finally stopping the flowing tears, my father asked with deep sadness: "How have you been...in these years?"

A feeling of fear like a thunderbolt struck me, maybe because of the expression on my father's face, maybe because this cursed name gradually awakened in my childhood memory...

My legs were shaking, was it because of anger or other emotions? I don't know, the only thing I did was to walk to the living room, pick up the receiver of the telephone host again and put it to my ear.

Although it is unethical to tap other people's phone calls, this is the only time I feel I have the right to do it.

My eyes swept around the room, unable to calm down no matter what. I saw Xiaoqin's rice cooker placed on top of the TV. It must have been that I forgot to put it away after my routine news broadcast to her -

- But at this time, I was not in the mood to do anything else. My whole body and mind were focused on the conversation between my father and Ai Shuqiao.

"...Really, you and John later had a daughter? He didn't bully you in the United States, right?"

Does this John refer to the foreign teacher who NTRed my dad in college? Although I can only hear my dad’s voice, I can feel my dad’s heart bleeding!

"Bullying me?" Ai Shuqiao sneered, "He has neither the courage nor the ability. I was the one who seduced him first in China. Although he was once the sole heir of a large financial company, he has now been completely seduced by me.

I have become a full-time housewife."

As my father's wife, I had an affair with someone else, and I just talked about it lightly, without any shame at all?

Dad's voice sounded like he had suddenly aged ten years, "Shu Qiao, tell me, you must tell me...do you love him that much? Is it worth abandoning me and our son?"

"Love?" Ai Shuqiao seemed to have heard the most ridiculous word in the world, "When did I say I loved him? When did I say I loved you? When you proposed to me, I clearly told you: I don't

Believe in love. Love is nothing more than an unreliable chemical reaction between the sexes. Chemical reactions can start and end at any time. This is independent of a person's personal will."

"I...I thought you were joking..."

"Ai Shuqiao doesn't joke with others! Don't forget, I only agreed to marry you after you accepted this. I was indeed interested in you at the time, but that interest didn't last long. I quickly

I found that John is more interesting than you. As the heir of a large company, he was full of idealism and went to a small city in China to teach on a voluntary basis at his own expense... At that time, his cheerful personality and handsome appearance made many female college students fall into the trap of pornography.

He is crazy, but he abides by the rule of not falling in love between teachers and students, and has not developed any unethical relationship with any girl..."

"I find this person's persistence very interesting, so I used the same teacher status to seduce him and do even more unethical things..."

It’s hard to imagine how painful it would be for my father to listen to his wife talking about her extramarital affair in a showy way.

"An idealist is different from others. He regarded my 'interest' in him as love, and felt that he had tarnished the teaching profession and his own ideals. So after I gave birth to your child, he tried every means to

He took me with him and fled back to the United States in a hurry."

"A very interesting guy, isn't he? He married me despite his father's objection, and became the chairman of a large company after his father had a heart attack... The luxury of the American upper class, and the idealist who still has his wings gone.

The way you stick to the bottom line really surprised me for a long time."

"But I said that the loss of interest is not based on a person's personal will. After giving birth to John's daughter and gradually taking away his power in the company, I became less and less interested in him. He

The only things that satisfy me now are poached eggs in the morning and foot massage in the evening."

"As for my current interest, it has become the entertainment industry, the agency, and my daughter, Amy's stardom."

It turns out that the name Amy is not just a transliteration? Ai Shuqiao regards her daughter as her own property, so even the Chinese name must follow her surname? Although the situation of Aunt Ren and Xiaoqin is similar, Aunt Ren is

You were heartbroken by your fickle husband. Amy’s father, John, didn’t offend you, right?

It's unbelievable that I actually helped John in my heart.

A large part of the reason why I like Bruce Lee is that I hope that one day, I can be like Brother Long and bully foreigners, such as John, who kidnapped other people's wives.

Shouting "Uncle~Uncle" and using the magical Jeet Kune Do to beat John's ferocious face into a ball of pork belly, it was once a beautiful dream of my boyhood.

But I don’t want to do that anymore. I suddenly feel that there is no fundamental difference between John and my father. They are both poor people who were played by Ai Shuqiao.

And this person who I should call my mother still wants to continue to play with her daughter, my sister.

Something in my heart tightened.

Because I was in a trance, I seemed not to hear some of the conversation clearly. When I returned my attention, I heard my dad say:

"...After all these years, you can still recognize my handwriting?"

"This is one of your few strengths, isn't it? You first attracted my interest from the beautiful handwriting on your love letter."

"...Shu Qiao, you said that your daughter...is actually very close to our son?"

"That's right. Although I was worried for a moment when I asked Amy to come to Dongshan City with the crew, I never thought that the nightmare would come true."

"Nightmare? Isn't it? Although Xiaolin is not particularly good, he is not a bad boy either..."

"Let's end the pleasantries here!" Ai Shuqiao's tone suddenly became more serious and cold, "I didn't call you just to renew our old relationship with you! You just need to know: I don't want anything unplanned.

People influence Amy's stardom. She will do the right thing at the right time and marry the right person I designate in the future - she doesn't need a brother who appears out of nowhere!"

"So, please don't cause me any trouble. Move away from that city. The further away the better. It's best if you never interact with us again."

Every word Ai Shuqiao blurted out was like a sharp poisonous needle piercing my father's heart. I could feel it.

"In terms of money, I will compensate you. In addition to the settlement fee, there will also be a hush-hush fee for keeping a secret. If you are not too greedy, that figure should be enough to satisfy you."

"Five million U.S. dollars, in exchange for you moving to a place at least 4,000 kilometers away from Dongshan City, and ensuring that you keep the whole matter secret, not telling the media, and not coming to us again, otherwise I will not rule out using blackmail.

`The Taoist people will deal with you - please remember that Ai Shuqiao does not joke."

I've never been so angry.

Even when the bully pushed my face into the mud puddle and pinched my nose to make me drink the dirty water in the mud puddle, I had never been so angry.

We turned away from our lives without any nostalgia, and now because we accidentally interfered with our own tranquility, are we going to be driven away from this native city arbitrarily and unreasonably?

Although I don’t have many friends in this city, after all, this is a city I am familiar with, a city I cherish, and a city where I have left many memories!

Do you think money can make up for everything? Do you think that as long as you have money, you can change other people's lives? Do you think your husband and son should kneel down before your grace?
Chapter completed!