Yun Lian

Chapter 36 The Truth

"Doctor Lian, I'm doomed. I won't live to be 30 years old... Actually, you don't have to spend so much effort to save me."

"Life is fatal? Who said it? The fortune teller said it?" Lian Renjun laughed back angrily, "You, a person who licks blood on the tip of a knife, still believe in such things?"

"When I was nine years old, my mother took me to a Taoist temple for fortune-telling. The Taoist said that I would die at the age of 30. She cried on the spot and said she was sorry for me. She hurt me..." Yun Lian looked up Lian Renjun's gaze seemed to be looking at something else through him, "My mother died on the first morning when she was 30 years old. She passed away peacefully without any symptoms. The night before, she pulled me and said A lot of talking, take care of everything at home, and give all your savings to me, as if... as if she knew that she would die soon..."

The hand holding his shoulder tightened suddenly, Yun Lian groaned, and continued: "I have no future, and my child is destined not to live to be 30 years old. When I was young, I didn't understand why my mother always told me not to I grew up too fast, and I realized later, because every year I grow, I am one step closer to death... The Taoist priest is right, I am a cursed person."

Lian Renjun let go of his five fingers, and his arms hung limply to his side: "Did the Taoist tell you the way to crack it?"

"No solution."

"Since he sees that you are doomed, why doesn't he know how to crack it?"

The man's abnormality made Yun Lian suddenly recover from self-pity and self-pity: "Why ask this? Don't you not believe in this?"

"It's nothing..." Lian Renjun murmured, staring blankly at the barn door in the distance.

??? Before Lian Renjun died, he left Lian Hanlin's diary 20 years ago to him, and that diary is still lying in the drawer of the hospital.Before Lian Renjun had time to finish reading it, he only read the part about why Yun Lian's mother, Yun Rong, left the Lian family.

According to the diary, Yunrong was originally an ordinary employee of Jingyun Newspaper, and he knew and fell in love with the boss Lian Hanlin in the second year after joining the company.In those days, it was not a big deal for a famous son to marry several concubines. Lian Hanlin wanted to marry Yun Rong into the family, but the latter would not allow him.

??? Yunrong told Lian Hanlin that when he was a child, his father often said that they were cursed people. bring misfortune.When he was six years old, Yun’s father died at home without any warning. Five years later, Yun Mu became ill and passed away sadly. If I remember correctly, the day my father died happened to be his 30th birthday.

Lian Hanlin has read poetry and books, so naturally he doesn't believe these nonsense.But Yunrong stubbornly carried him behind his back to go to the Taoist temple for fortune-telling, and the Taoist's words were exactly the same as what his father said back then.

——You are destined to die, you will not live to be 30 years old, and you will bring misfortune to your loved ones.You are doomed to be alone.

??? From then on, Yunrong believed in the calamity even more, and even didn't want to get close to Lian Hanlin to avoid disaster, so there was a gap between the two.Lian Hanlin couldn't persuade her to marry him, and wanted to keep her stable and prosperous in her life, so he had no choice but to take the next step. He personally asked the matchmaker to betroth Yunrong to the adopted son of the Lian family's distant relatives in Fengtian.

??? Originally, the two were about the same age, talented and beautiful, so they could be considered a good marriage.But I didn't expect that the adopted son was a filthy apprentice who was greedy for Yunrong's beauty, and forcibly took her before the wedding date, and after a few days, he was hanging out with the young lady of another family.Knowing that Yunrong was humiliated, Lian Hanlin was filled with remorse, angrily withdrew the marriage, held a wedding banquet, and made up his mind to marry her openly.

However, just before the wedding, Yunrong disappeared, and the two never saw each other again.

??? Lian Renjun told this secret to Lian Renjun before his death, and warned him: "Yun Lian is not your father's flesh and blood, but he is your own brother. You have to treat him kindly and love him all your life. No one will do it because of Love and be loved and suffer misfortune."

??? Lian Renjun didn't believe in ghosts and gods, so he dismissed the first half of this old story and only paid attention to the last part.

? Yunlian is the son of Yunrong and the adopted son of the Lian family, and he has no blood relationship with him. That is to say, it was a misunderstanding to find him back to Shenyang to recognize his relatives.If he hadn't gotten too close to the Lian family, if he hadn't been involved in the grievances between the Jingyun Newspaper and the Kwantung Army, he would still be his boss in Shanghai at this moment, repaying kindness and revenge, no one can control him at all .

??? Lian Renjun intends to bury this secret in his heart, so that Lian Renjun treats him as his own brother and loves him for the rest of his life, but he does not know that this love may be a kind of bondage to Yunlian.Without himself, he can live well, at least it will be much better than now.

??? Lian Renjun knew that before his elder brother died, he asked Yun Lian to leave Shenyang with him.Not to mention how much Yunlian has feelings for the Lian family, and whether he will fulfill his promise to Lian Renjun, his own existence is indeed a burden to him, a burden imposed on his shoulders.

??? During those days, he locked himself in the medical hall, hesitating and panicking in his heart.He hesitated because he didn't know whether to obey the elder brother's order to hide the truth from Yun Lian or tell him the truth, and he was panicked because he didn't dare to guess what choice the other party would make after knowing the truth.

In Lian Renjun's view, it is unfair to forcibly bind a man to himself with a non-existent blood relationship. He has the right to know the truth before fulfilling his promise to Lian Renjun.Even if he is willing to give up his career and family property and leave this place of right and wrong, and start a new life in the south, what about Yunlian?After Yun Lian knew that he was not Lian Hanlin's own flesh and blood, and even his family was ashamed of his mother and son, would he allow himself to stay by his side?

?? For a long time, even Renjun felt that this younger brother who fell from the sky was superfluous, and even a trouble.From disgust and contempt at the beginning to sympathy and understanding later, he put down his airs and apologized to him, persuading himself to try his best to endure him and change him, and then to get involved in the messy emotional entanglement between him and Shen Qiuru.He told himself that the other party was just a poor wretch who lacked care and discipline, and he reasoned with him patiently and cared about him for the sake of the family, that's all.

???However, when the affection of this family no longer exists, he suddenly realizes that he is the redundant one, and the blood relationship that he originally regarded as a burden has become the only bond between them.Once the bond is broken, the two are strangers, and there is no reason for them to meet again.Like Shen Qiuru, he and the man are essentially people in two worlds.

It was at that moment that Lian Renjun suddenly realized that his feelings for Yun Lian had unconsciously surpassed the feelings between ordinary friends or so-called brothers.Just like when he hated the other party's sudden intrusion into Lian's house, at that moment, he was afraid that the other party would just quietly disappear into his life.

He was afraid that he would know the truth, and even more afraid of the choice he would make after knowing the truth.

He was afraid that the other party would leave him.