Yan Zhuomei's emotional private complaint made me subvert my understanding of her. I don't suspect that she is from the bottom of my heart, but I also understand that this is a card of love she played. No matter how hard Mi Cai couldn't let go of her past actions, she was Mi Cai's biological mother after all. When she talked about her motivation for leaving and the past with Mi Zhongxin, Mi Cai was reluctant to let her be so lonely...

Seeing Mi Cai's expression change, Yan Zhuomei said to Mi Cai again: "Xiao Cai, mom can be misunderstood by everyone, but you are my daughter. I really hope you can forgive me for my wrong past and return to my side, okay?"

Mi Cai remained silent...

Yan Zhuomei turned to me and said, "Zhaoyang, I heard that the girl you first love suffered a serious brain trauma because of an accident... This time, I did not return home alone. I invited brain experts representing the highest level in the world from the Mayo Clinic in the United States. They are the authoritative in the field of vegetative recovery consciousness. I mean: There is nothing in this world that is worthy of respect than life. We must do our best to wake up this girl. I can find a way to transport medical equipment that does not exist in China so that she can also enjoy the highest level of medical treatment in the United States in China."

I looked at her with surprise. No wonder she said before that I would welcome her back home. It turned out that she had brought me such a generous gift that I could not refuse!

She said again: "Although I am not in China, I know everything that is happening in China clearly. I also understand that you will doubt that your first love girlfriend was injured on my head. But I will not do such a stupid thing. It is obvious that there is a jumping clown who takes advantage of the opportunity to pour dirty water on me. As for who it is, I believe you have the ability to find it out."

I frowned and thought, but Mi Cai's face looked a little ugly. Then I suddenly remembered that Yan Zhuomei had been emphasizing that Jian Wei was my first love girlfriend. This touched the most sensitive string in Mi Cai's heart. She seemed to have inadvertently distanced me from Mi Cai. She naturally controlled our thinking, allowing us to stay in her expression, without refuting, and could only listen.

So she continued to say to me: "I know you are a young man full of idealism. First of all, I do not reject idealism. What I hate is to escape the cruelty of society under the name of idealism, and not to blame the failure in competition on your own avoidance... You have to understand that this is a world composed of matter. We will never survive alone from matter, and matter will bring people the safest feeling, just like: the tragedy that your first love girlfriend encountered this time, what can your idealism bring to her?... But the material resources I have can allow her to receive the best treatment, and you will not be naive to

For those American doctors are angels on earth, full of idealism and compassion... Humph, there are thousands of people waiting for treatment, but only a handful of top-level doctors. In the end, they were moved to China from thousands of miles away, and money. I hope you can see all these... Please don’t use your idealism to hurt my daughter. Only leaders are qualified to talk about ideals with the people around you. As long as they sign a document, a city will rise up, thus changing the livelihoods of countless people. If you want to talk about ideals, let yourself become a leader first, otherwise your fantasies will be just a daydream at best!"

My mood was constantly touched by Yan Zhuomei's words. I was silent for a long time. Finally, I looked up at her and asked, "You have told me so much, what do you want me to do?"

"Give my daughter a way, and give you a way out... Let me tell you the truth, you have never been the ideal son-in-law in my mind. You can give my daughter a temporary happiness. I believe this, but you can't give her a lifetime of happiness, because I have never seen the ability to resist risks in you, and this changing world will not give you a smooth life."

I felt uncomfortable as if I had been stabbed by a needle in my heart. I just lowered my head and didn't speak to refute Yan Zhuomei, because what she was talking about was a truth that I could not refute. It was my easy trust in my friends and the mentality of escaping after encountering setbacks that made Mi Cai completely abandon Zhuomei, and naively thought that in Xuzhou it was the life I wanted to seek, but I didn't really live this life well.

Perhaps, letting go is the true love for Mi Cai. I believe she is tired too. Although I don’t doubt that we still love, many loves are let go of it in the fatigue...

I let out a light breath, with a sharp blade in my heart, but I calmly said to Yan Zhuomei: "If Mi Cai is willing to follow you to the United States this time, I will bless her!"

Mi Cai looked at me... I didn't avoid her gaze, but also looked at her, wanting to engrave her appearance in my heart and never forget it!

Yan Zhuomei looked at Mi Cai again, waiting for her to give her a reply...

Perhaps the answer was already in Mi Cai's heart. She didn't feel too entangled. She nodded and replied: "I am willing to go back to the United States with you and stay in the United States from now on."

I don’t know what Yan Zhuomei’s expression is at this moment. I closed my eyes and swallowed my saliva in pain. After all, we finally came to an end in this way. We did not quarrel, and the calmness was perhaps out of the belief that we would have a better life after leaving each other... So, both of us chose to give up this relationship at the age of 28, so the promise of "As long as one of them does not give up, the other one is not allowed to give up" no longer exists.

I opened my eyes. Yan Zhuomei had already drunk the porridge in the bowl, put down the spoon, and said calmly: "The porridge and Xiaolongbao here are very good, but they are just for nostalgia, but they will no longer become part of my daily life. I believe that in a few years, you will be grateful to me...you will all have a better start!"

It was too far away several years later, so I didn't respond to this sentence, but just said to Mi Cai: "I'll take a walk with me later, okay?"

"Um."

......

When we left the snack street, it was already night. Yan Zhuomei, who had finally achieved his goal, consciously gave me and Micai enough space. She took the car first, so only Micai and I stood side by side on the crowded street. We looked at the Zhuomei Shopping Center that was about to be renamed, as if our love began here and ended here. None of us could escape the fate brought to us by Zhuomei, and Zhuomei did not escape the fate given to it by God. Like our love, it would no longer exist!

The world has become increasingly unreal in the interweaving of street lights and neon lights. Those pedestrians passing by have only left a hurried reflection in my heart. I felt empty like never before, so I turned to Mi Cai beside me and said softly: "Can you hold your hand and walk around?"

She did not respond to me in words, but she had already held my hand. We walked along the extended street and walked towards another block outside Zhuomei. After walking about 10 stops from here, we would reach the square where we often go for a walk. It was always a paradise for children. Their noise often gathered into a joyful song, floating above the city, alerting us adults not to make life too heavy, so we love that place so much.

There are too many roads in this city, sometimes straight lines, sometimes curves. We have been walking between these straight lines and curves. We saw the bluestone bricks built into the city walls, saw the two sides of the river, and also saw the viewing boat carrying the onlookers, gathering the essence of the city in our cameras. Perhaps, Mi Cai and I are also in their lenses, but when they look back at these photos, they don’t know how sad we are when we walk on this river bank...

We sat on a bench to rest. While smoking, I calculated how long it would take to get to that square. Yes, except for the distance from here to the square, I didn't want to think about anything, let alone think about which woman would make me so in love. I held Mi Cai's hand tightly and stroked the back of her hand with my thumb. In the temperature of the back of her hand, I felt the carved time.

"Zhaoyang, what do you think of what Yan Zhuomei just said to us?"

"Half is acting, half from the heart..."

"Whether she is acting or from the heart, she succeeds, right?"

"She is a woman who is hard to refute. In fact, the most important thing is that I didn't do well enough, so..."

Mi Cai turned around and looked at me, with a solemn expression and asked, "At this point, do you still believe that there will be that crystal clear city in this world?"

"...I believe, but it's too illusory! Perhaps, it's just a product of unbearable pain, holding the hope of survival."

The evening breeze blew across the moat again, rippling and rippling to the north. Mi Cai had no words for a long time. She seemed to have experienced so many things and judged whether the city was visible or just in our expectations. She finally said to me: "I think there will be such a city, but it is not nothing except crystal clear... There should be a back garden behind the city, where colorful flowers and weeds grow, representing our joys, sorrows and sorrows, and the diversity of survival forms... What we need to stick to is the crystal clearness deep in our hearts, but we also need to know how to appreciate the darkness and colorfulness in the world... If these are combined, it is a truly lifelike city!"

For the first time I heard Mi Cai put forward different opinions on the city I believed in. In her opinion, I used to be paranoid. Because of this paranoid, I was unwilling to accept other forms and pursue the crystal clear purity. However, this crystal clearness is flawed, because life has no suspense and can see the bottom at a glance. In fact, the best way is to clean your soul, stand in that city, and look at the back garden that has never been imagined, so life will be colorful......

It turns out that the City of Sky does not live in the heart. It should be allowed to fly to the sky to see compatibility, openness and openness... The City of Sky does not belong to itself only, because it is not a city that represents loneliness. It contains time and life. It is an open city that can give people guidance. Whether it is a good person or a bad person, it is just the flowers, plants and trees in the back garden. We are bathed in that crystal light. Good people grow, and evil people die without regretting it... It is the core of this world, the incarnation of human nature, and the laws that life should abide by.

In the evening breeze, I told Mi Cai what I thought. I finally saw some smile on her face. She leaned into my arms and said softly: "Yang, I have to go to the United States, but this does not mean that we must go to the end at the cost... Yan Zhuomei has always been my mother. The words she said to us are from the heart, but I also know her intention. She wants me to go to the United States, and then persuade me little by little, transform me, and let me marry and have children there!"

"I know, so she keeps Weiran by her side, and they are all waiting for you to go to the United States."

Mi Cai nodded: "Well... I was in the hospital yesterday. Jian Boyu touched me so much. Some things have been going on for so many years. Yan Zhuomei and I should calm down and face up to the mother-daughter relationship between us. I don't want one day, we walked on the old path that Jian Wei's family was walking, and then we woke up. This would be too painful!... Actually, I really want to call her mother for so many years, but I can't speak... Also, I went to the United States so that she would do her best to help Jian Wei. I hope to see the day when Jian Wei wakes up... I am also afraid that those bad things are really what she does. If I insist on not leaving, there will be more tragedies... So, I really want to leave!"

"I understand you!"

"Do you remember the promise we made to each other?"

"As long as one of them does not give up, the other one is not allowed to give up!"

"Now I want to tell you that I will not give up...will you fulfill this promise?"

I stared at her. The last moment I was already ashamed, but at this moment she brought me back to life. I couldn't speak for a long time!

Mi Cai sighed: "You are still the same as you, always so inferior in front of me, and always give me the initiative in love. Do you have no confidence to fight for it once? Or are you great enough to use your own pain to fulfill the happiness that Yan Zhuomei gave me?" She said as she took out the necklace with a sailboat pendant that I gave her from her clothes.

"I..." My nose felt a little sore.

She held my hands and said softly: "I heard that there is a Mochou Road in Nanjing. Let's go there for a walk. I have some things to tell you, and then we will say goodbye on Mochou Road... No one should worry about this separation!"
Chapter completed!