Seeing Chi Xia’s breakdown, Chi Qiu couldn’t continue the conversation. So, he tried to stop the conversation there.
But the angry Chi Xia mistakenly thought that he was going to say something appalling again, and directly raised her hand and swung up with a slap. However, the moment she was about to touch Chi Qiu’s cheek, she stopped her movement.
The wind from her palm messed up Chi Qiu’s long hair. Her whole arm was shaking, her teeth were clenched, and her face was flushed from the neck.
She was surprised to find that she couldn’t fight him.
“Shut up.” Therefore, she looked at Chi Qiu with resentment and kept scolding him, “Shut up!”
Chi Xia did hate Chi Qiu, but she was also cowardly. This was the brother who was blinded by her father’s fault, what qualification did she have to slap him?
What made her feel most desperate was that every word Chi Qiu said was actually guessed correctly.
It was indeed because of Lu Yinliang’s indifference to her that she turned her head and chose Jin Chengjun, whom she had once given up on. She deluded herself into thinking that Jin Chengjun could give her the love she wanted, that he could help her take care of her family’s company, and that one day she would be recognized by Chi Lanyan.
She was so humble to get a foothold in this family.
Confused, she kept raising her hand, neither retracting it nor hitting it down. Chi Qiu stood motionless in front of her, not afraid of anything, which really upset her.
Especially Chi Qiu’s eyes; it was as if they could see, making her uncontrollably afraid. These beautiful, spring-like eyes were just a nightmare in Chi Xia’s eyes. The reason why the harmony of their family started to crack was these eyes.
Suddenly, Chi Qiu held Chi Xia’s trembling hand, took it away, and said indifferently, “You have no reason to hit me.”
As Chi Xia wished, he didn’t say anything more.
Chi Qiu directly crossed over Chi Xia, opened the door to the study, and prepared to go downstairs.
However, standing at the door was a sullen Lin Yuming.
Chi Qiu made up his mind; thinking that he had already made it clear with Chi Xia, so why bother with Lin Yuming again. As a ‘blind’ person, he pretended not to see Lin Yuming and quickly brushed past him to get back to his room as soon as possible.
But what Chi Qiu didn’t expect was that Lin Yuming, who stood outside the door, had listened to all the conversations between the brother and sister.
Inside the door, Chi Xia’s faint cry was heard.
Lin Yuming’s hands burst into blue veins. He no longer pretended to be calm. He turned around and grabbed Chi Qiu’s arm, dragging him back and pushing him against the hard wall.
Chi Qiu’s back hurt from the impact and he let out a cry of surprise.
Immediately afterwards, a fist fell.
The dull sound and the vibrations of the tips of his teeth reminded Chi Qiu of the pain he felt when he was eleven years old, when he was punched and kicked by the couple who kidnapped him. He raised his eyes and what fell into them was Lin Yuming’s twisted hatred that pounced on him like a tidal wave.
“You son of a bitch” Lin Yuming’s hoarse throat exhaled rapidly: “It’s obvious it was something that you and Lu Ming did, but you still want to put the blame on Xiao Xia…”
Under the impact of violence, Chi Qiu’s nose began to bleed and flowed down to his lips. After so many years, the fear of being beaten surfaced again. He covered the lower half of his face and, without further delay, hurriedly ran in the direction of the stairs.
It was Lin Yuming who pressed him back hard and pressed his voice to question him: “You hate me for making you blind back then, so you deliberately targeted my daughter? Isn’t that right? Come at me if you have anything, why did you do such a thing to Xiao Xia!”
Lin Yuming was different from Chi Xia. Over the years, because of Chi Lanyan’s conflict with him, his annoyance with Chi Qiu had long been flooded, and now he couldn’t pretend anymore.
His once gentleness and elegance was necessary for his job and for him to deceive Chi Lanyan.
Now, he threw another punch and hit Chi Qiu in the face, causing Chi Qiu’s entire head to fall into a barren blank, and his eyes were pitch black.
In that instant, Chi Qiu’s ears were flooded with ringing that he could not hear any sound. The fist of an adult male with all his might almost scattered his consciousness.
If it wasn’t for Chi Xia who screamed and held Lin Yuming, maybe Chi Qiu would have been beaten to death by Lin Yuming today.
Stunned, Chi Qiu knelt on the ground, leaning against the wall and exhaling slightly. His hearing slowly returned, and his vision was gradually clearing.
He heard Chi Xia shouting like crazy: “Dad——stop!” He also saw Chi Xia forcefully dragging Lin Yuming away from him.
This father and daughter were like a farce in a TV drama, absurd and funny.
It was a pity Chi Qiu could not laugh at all at this moment, the smell of rust filled his mouth. he strained to move his body, holding the wall and slowly stood up.
Lin Yuming was dragged all the way down the stairs by Chi Xia. He angrily reprimanded Chi Xia’s hands. Pointing to Chi Qiu upstairs, he raised his head and see that Chi Qiu was also looking at him——
The bottom of Chi Qiu’s eyes filled with a broken cliff, which rolled with the whistling wind, like a cold winter. He stubbornly looked at Lin Yuming, and his tolerance when he was eleven years old was completely broken. It was broken by Lin Yuming himself.
In the past, Chi Qiu had thought so many times, who caused the shattering of this family?
If Lin Yuming didn’t ask him to buy ice cream back then, neither he nor Ji Yanchen would have been discovered by the kidnappers on that bad rainy day.
At least Lin Yuming should let them stay in that cafe and that would put an end to this unfortunate start.
It was obvious that on that day, it was raining heavily outside the window and Chi Qiu should not have gone out. And as parents who cherished their children, how could they rest assured letting their children go out to run errands in such bad weather.
But Lin Yuming still selfishly pushed Chi Qiu out of the door and took care of Chi Xia in his arms, just because they were not biological father and son?
Chi Qiu remembered very clearly when Lin Yuming said to him: “Can you do me this favor?”
It was clearly a questioning statement, but the tone was full of an attitude that didn’t allow refusal. At that moment, Lin Yuming didn’t treat Chi Qiu as a child, nor did he treat Chi Qiu as his own child.
The young Chi Qiu was afraid of his seriousness for no reason, accepted what he didn’t want to do, and walked into the rain silently.
A rain, an accident, completely changed Chi Qiu’s life.
Today, Chi Qiu couldn’t even get an apology, or a guilty feeling from them. What he got was contempt, abuse, ridicule and beating.
It was really chilling.
…
Lin Yuming was terrified by his look and said in a low and indistinct tone: “He can see…” He anxiously grabbed Chi Xia’s hand and pointed at Chi Qiu, yelling, “He’s lying to us, he’s been fucking lying to us! ”
“Dad! What nonsense are you talking about!” Chi Xia couldn’t care less about Lin Yuming’s discovery. She dragged him out of the door in a panic and pushed him into the co-pilot in the car. During this time, Chi Xia never glanced at the injured Chi Qiu.
The car sped away.
When Lin Yuming came downstairs, the noise was too loud. Auntie Su, who was doing cleaning work in the kitchen on the first floor, hurried out after realizing it. How could she have imagined that she just went to the kitchen for less than half an hour and the house would turn into this situation.
After the chaotic sounds all disappeared, she eagerly searched for Chi Qiu’s figure.
She also lifted her head, only to see Chi Qiu on the second floor holding the wall and walking towards the stairs, with his posture swaying. In less than a few seconds, Chi Qiu’s eyes darkened and he fell and rolled straight down the stairs, briefly losing consciousness.
After quite some time, Chi Qiu woke up a little. His head was in severe pain, and in a half-awake state, Chi Qiu vaguely heard a familiar voice.
This voice that always lingered in his dreams before, with a pair of warm hands, gently caressing his cheek.
Unfortunately, his face was injured today, and the bruises and redness made him look wretched and in a miserable condition. Fearing the pain that would come with these hands touching him, he struggled to move his hands, trying to refuse.
But the strength of these hands was very light, as if they were afraid of breaking him, extremely careful and cherished him.
“Chi Qiu——can you hear me?”
“…” Chi Qiu wanted to answer.
Helplessly, he opened his mouth, but a thousand pounds fell to the bottom in his throat, and he lost his voice. His head was too heavy to open his eyes completely.
“Chi Qiu, Chi Qiu!”
The shouting didn’t last long. Chi Qiu’s body was numb and heavy. He felt himself being picked up and ran all the way steadily in some direction.
Chi Qiu’s ear then pressed against this person’s chest and he heard the heartbeat like a drumbeat, so pleasant to the ear.
There was a blur of light in front of his eyes, getting darker and darker. He tried hard to open his eyes and see who the person holding him was, but how he didn’t have the strength to.
But in this man, the familiar smell reassured him. It also seemed that subconsciously, in Chi Qiu’s weak voice, he recognized this person.
So, he called softly: “Lu Ming?”
