Volume 1 Hello, Lu Mingfei Chapter 6: Darkness of the Rainfall (VI)
"Youth means being reckless without regrets. Years later, when you recall that day running under the sunset, that will be the time of your youth!" The man tapped the steering wheel earnestly.
"It's not what you think! You can eat whatever you want but you can't say whatever you want, uncle. It's just that my senior brother felt sorry for me because I didn't have an umbrella, so I gave me a ride! We have nothing in common!" Lu Mingfei was anxious. She saw that the image of a good girl that she had worked so hard to maintain was about to be shattered by just a few words from this man. The harder she tried to explain, the brighter the subtle smile on the corner of the man's mouth became.
"Brother, don't be silent!" Lu Mingfei pulled Chu Zihang's sleeve for help, thinking to herself, "Brother, can you bear to watch your father destroy our innocence? I have never been in a relationship since I was a child. It's a good thing to be put together with you, but I am not worthy of you!"
"He was just joking with you. " Chu Zihang looked at the man's profile, "It's just a joke."
He emphasized the word "adult" as if he was holding a lot of resentment. Lu Mingfei didn't dare to speak. She loosened her fingers and silently shrank back into her little corner, because Chu Zihang's face seemed to be covered with frost, and he could go crazy at any time.
"Don't go in when we get home, or Dad will be unhappy." Chu Zihang said coldly. Calling another man dad in front of a man, this kind of humiliation should make you behave yourself! Don't be so frivolous every day, you are my dad, not a driver who comes to make me laugh! That kind of joke is not funny!
"I'm your real father." The man finally felt a little frustrated because his dignity was hurt. Lu Mingfei felt embarrassed when she saw his handsome face in the rearview mirror. He was like a puppy whose food was taken away by a big dog. He couldn't fight back and didn't even dare to resist.
“He is not my biological father, but he at least attends my parent-teacher meetings and takes me to the amusement park on weekends. Knowing that I have good grades, he asks me what gift I want, instead of just saying like, 'My son is awesome, but you haven't even come to my birthday once' like you did!” Chu Zihang said viciously. Lu Mingfei thought that if the girls in the fan club saw Oni-chan’s expression, their pink dreams would be shattered.
"It's really not that I don't want to come. We had already made an appointment, but who knew that the boss suddenly had something urgent to do near the evening. If I didn't take him there, the order worth tens of millions would have been wasted on the spot... The boss would definitely fire me." The man nodded in agreement.
Lu Mingfei thought to herself, Uncle, uncle, please don’t say such things. Comparing yourself with the driver and the business tycoon will only make it seem like your biological father is being beaten from all angles by your stepfather, without even a chance to fight back.
"Is it fun to say this ?" Chu Zihang sneered, "This time it was the boss, last time it was a letter from home, and the time before that was because the car took the wrong road and got soaked in water. Primary school students who lie to their teachers to ask for leave know that it hurts to change the part of their body that hurts, but you can't even come up with a reasonable excuse!"
"That...that's all true. How could I have known it would be such a coincidence?"
"Is it such a coincidence that I haven't seen you on your birthday for so many years? If you don't like raising a child, you shouldn't have given birth to it. After giving birth, you don't raise the child or care about it, and you keep it to yourself to make trouble? Why don't you just be single and live a happy life?" Chu Zihang said aggressively.
"I know I haven't taken care of you these years. I'm sorry, but what father doesn't care about his children? Many times I drove and watched you from afar, on the set, on the court, outside the aquarium, but you didn't notice..."
"Yes, I didn't notice you, so you must be there. As long as I haven't seen you, you must be there. If I see you, then you must be busy and not here. What a coincidence." Chu Zihang laughed in anger.
The man remained silent. Even if he was telling the truth, there was no evidence. Once you did something wrong, others would think you were wrong for similar things. If you said what you had done, it would only be seen as quibbling.
Thousands of raindrops hit the roof of the car, making a crackling sound. The air conditioner was not turned on, but the temperature was colder than the lowest setting. Lu Mingfei felt that she had gotten on the wrong car today because she was greedy for a small advantage. The conflict between her senior brother and her biological father was not something she, an outsider, could get involved in, and she shouldn't even listen to it. She should have covered her ears and kept out of it, but if she was discovered doing so, it would be suspected that she disdained the owner of the car. If she had known, she shouldn't have pretended to sleep when she got on the car. It was not so easy to sleep now. It was impossible for her to fall asleep while listening to the quarrel between the old and the young around her.
She carefully shrank her neck and secretly looked at Chu Zihang's slightly distorted face. If this was at Shilan Middle School, Chu's fans would definitely take out their phones to take pictures if they could see Chu Zihang's other expressions, but Chu Zihang in school was always calm and they could not see it.
Now, Lu Mingfei had the good fortune to be with her school idol at such a close distance, but she did not have any improper thoughts, because Chu Zihang's expression when he was angry looked very scary, like a lion that had been angry for a long time, when he exploded, no matter who tried to get close to comfort him, they would be bitten.
After a long time, the man sighed slowly, saying something old-fashioned. "You are still young, you don't understand. You will understand when you have your own children in the future. Having a child is like giving half of yourself to this child. No matter where he is, you will always think of him, just like telepathy, and there is no need for a reason. Coco says that there are three deaths in a person's life. The first is biological death, when the heart stops beating and the body dies. The second is when society declares you dead and your social status is declared dead at the funeral. The third is complete death, when the last person in the world who remembers you leaves this world and is completely forgotten. Everyone has to die, and only great people can leave their names in history and be remembered for many years. I am just a small person, and one day I will die, but as long as you are still alive, it means that I am also alive. The fact that you remember me is what I left in this world."
The man's tone was heavy, and he seemed very tired, but Chu Zihang didn't hear it. He just wanted to fight this coward to the death.
"You only know how to give birth but never raise a child. Will the children raised by others be like you? They are other people's children, they don't have half of your qualities!" Chu Zihang gritted his teeth.
He hates men who always talk to him in the so-called adult tone. What do you mean you are still young and don't understand, you are an adult so you understand? Then do you understand what I want? Do you understand what I like? I don't really want to see you come at every critical moment, but I just don't want to see that man really replace your position step by step. I have to slowly learn to call him dad. If I call him, can you still be my dad?
"I...I also want to raise one..." the man said hesitantly.
Lu Mingfei thought the second half of the sentence should be "But I can't afford it." Yes, uncle, you are just a driver for the boss. Senior brother is too smart and too good. The driver can't support him and can't give him the life that a child like him deserves. But the stepfather can do it, and your position will become smaller and smaller. In the end, you can only survive by tiptoeing in the heart of senior brother, so as not to completely lose your last position.
