Zhan Lianshi and Hou Shuyu went to the study upstairs, but Liu Yumin did not follow.

Because when Zhan Lianshi said this, Liu Yumin was not in the living room.

She went out to answer the phone.

By the time Liu Yumin answered the phone and came back, there was no one in the living room.

Her heart tightened and she looked up upstairs.

There was no one upstairs, but she guessed that the two of them went to the study.

Mom wanted to know the news about the fourth brother, Lian Shi couldn't help but notice.

Liu Yumin called the servant, and after confirming that Zhan Lianshi and Hou Shude went upstairs to the study, she followed them upstairs.

However, Liu Yumin stopped when he came outside the study.

She didn't go in, she waited outside.

Waiting uneasily and worriedly.

Nan Hong told her about the fourth brother, including Lin Lian, Lin Mingyue, and the Zhao family.

Many things are hard to imagine, and we dare not think about them, but they are the facts.

She was very worried, worried about what her mother would do after she knew what happened in the past and what happened now.

Will it be able to withstand it?

In the study, Zhan Lianshi and Hou Shude sat down on the sofa. Hou Shude said nothing and no longer smiled on his face.

Many of the previous words suddenly disappeared at this moment.

All disappeared on this antique bookshelf and desk full of age.

When Hou Shude didn't look at Zhan Lian, her hand fell on the armrest and held it slightly.

She was thinking about something, but it seemed like she was thinking about nothing.

After waiting for the news for decades, she suddenly knew that at this moment, she was at a loss.

Zhan Lianshi looked at Hou Shude and all the expressions on the old lady's face. This usually majestic and kind old man now became a little flustered and timid.

Because she wants to know the truth, but is afraid of the truth.

The truth is always cruel.

Zhan Lianshi said nothing, waiting for Hou Shude to sort out his mood.

After a long time, Hou Shude withdrew her hand from the armrest of the sofa. She raised her head and looked at Zhan Lianshi, "Lianshi, tell me."

At this moment, Hou Shude's eyes were as firm as a mirror.

Zhan Lianshi looked at this determination and opened his lips, "That year..." Time ticked, and the second hand of the pendulum walked, click, click, like the sound of human footsteps step by step.

And these footsteps started walking from the year Liu Yuwen disappeared, slowly, step by step, through that long year, and then through these casual decades, until now.

Everything is turned upside down now.

Hou Shude listened, and the look in her eyes changed with Zhan Lianshi's words.

All her strength and all her emotions were revealed in Zhan Lianshi's low words. It seemed that all the emotions accumulated over the past few decades erupted at this moment.

I finally have a reason not to be patient anymore.

Hou Shude's hands were clutching the armrest tightly at some point, and he didn't even know it hurt.

Zhan Lianshi kept looking at Hou Shude and spoke unhurriedly until he finished the last sentence.

He closed his thin lips.

All is quiet.

Quiet and silent.

The sunlight from outside shines in and is isolated. Outside is a time and space, and here is a time and space.

And this time and space stayed in the year when Liu Yuwen disappeared.

Hou Shude sat there, she was stiff and seemed to have no soul, leaving only an empty shell.

She didn't say a word, didn't feel any sadness at all, and she didn't seem to hear what Zhan Lianshi had been saying for two hours.

Her memory, thoughts, and consciousness were stuck in that year. She couldn't bear that year and couldn't get out of it.

Zhan Lian turned his eyes and no longer looked at Hou Shude.

He looked at the sunshine outside, shining brightly on the earth, but it couldn't shine here.

Because here is the abyss, here is the swamp, here is the ugliness of human nature, and here is the dark dampness in the corner.

He closed his eyes.

Boom——! Hou Shude was awakened by a long bell.

Her body trembled, and many things suddenly filled her eyes.

The atmosphere in the study finally changed.

Time here begins to move, and the sunshine outside also shines in.

Even the wind blows from here.

The previous darkness, dampness, and ugliness seemed to have never appeared.

Hou Shude's eyes moved for a moment, then he blinked several times, and his hand gripped the armrest of the sofa even more tightly.

At this moment, her back, which had always been straight, finally couldn't help but bend.

She started to tremble, her whole body was shaking uncontrollably, and tears were rolling in her eyes, but she suppressed them and kept them from showing.

Zhan Lianshi opened his eyes.

The night inside was eerily quiet and eerily dark.

He stood up, bowed to Hou Shude, and then left.

Suddenly, Hou Shude stopped him, "Lian Shi..." Hoarseness, pain, despair, anger, all these emotions accumulated, making this voice seem to be pressed by a heavy mountain.

Zhan Lian stopped in his tracks.

He turned his back to Hou Shude and did not turn around.

But his fingertips trembled slightly.
Chapter completed!