Gu Lan was completely confused. Could it be that Qingqing had dreamed about how he was a jerk in the past and how he refused to listen to his sister?
For a moment, he felt a little uneasy.
Fortunately, what Qingqing wanted to say had nothing to do with his guess.
“In my dream, Qingqing was in high school and my brother was still in elementary school.” Qingqing said seriously while recalling the details of the dream.
There is a huge age gap between her and Gu Lan, and their life experiences are almost broken.
When Qingqing was in school, Gu Lan was just born. When Qingqing graduated, Gu Lan was still in school. When Qingqing got married and had children, Gu Lan had not even graduated yet. Only after both children started school did he finally enter society.
So there is an extreme lack of common language between the two siblings.
But in fact, before Qingqing went to high school, although their relationship was not that close, at least they were in a relatively harmonious atmosphere.
Gu Lan remembered that the real breakdown of their relationship seemed to have happened during an incident when he was in elementary school.
Gu Lan couldn’t quite remember the specific process because it happened so long ago.
It seems that Qingqing hit him, or did he do something?
“In the dream, Qingqing was running, running very fast, because there was a monster chasing me.” Qingqing began to talk about her seemingly bizarre dream.
“When I was halfway through the run, my younger brother suddenly showed up, holding a test paper with a perfect score. He proudly asked me to admit defeat and take him to the amusement park.”
“Did Qingqing take her brother out to play?” Fu Heng asked cooperatively after glancing at Gu Lan, who looked upset.
“No.” Qingqing shook her head: “Qingqing didn’t agree, and even beat her brother, which made him run away.”
Gu Lan tightened his grip on his sister’s hand, and he suddenly realized what Qingqing was talking about.
It was the incident that caused the breakdown of the relationship between the two of them.
A crisp slap shattered the already shaky relationship between the siblings and set them on the path to a breakup.
“Then why did you hit your brother? Because he was naughty?”
Fu Heng also had a feeling that he seemed to have discovered some truth, and this premonition urged him to continue asking questions.
“My brother is very obedient.” Qingqing counted Gu Lan’s advantages one by one on her fingers: “He is good-looking,
He is very outgoing, and many people like him. He also has good grades and is great at playing various sports… Especially with me, a gentle and beautiful sister!”
Gu Lan twitched the corner of his mouth. You dare to put gold on your face.
Qingqing is pretty, but if we talk about gentleness… does taking down the door with bare hands count?
Don’t doubt it, she really did that back then.
The brother and sister had a big fight that time, and even the grandma housekeeper couldn’t persuade them to stop. Gu Lan was so angry that he went back to the room and locked the door, not wanting to pay attention to his sister. As a result, his sister actually broke the door handle.
From then on, Gu Lan continued to have a cold war with his sister, but tried his best not to fight with her.
He was not a coward, he just followed his inner desire.
After all, they are siblings, how can you hit each other?
“But there is a monster.” When talking about the monster, Qingqing shrank back into Fu Heng’s arms in fear: “The monster is chasing Qingqing. What if he sees my brother?”
So you deliberately lost your temper and even slapped me, just to get rid of me as soon as possible.
No, it was to protect me.
Gu Lan’s eyes were complicated, and the expression on his face seemed to be both happy and sad.
Fu Heng also roughly guessed the truth, not only that, he also participated in the follow-up.
“Your sister was actually caught by Han Dayu back then and almost died in his hands…”
“Excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom.”
Gu Lan stood up in a daze, dragging his tall body out staggeringly, and almost tripped over the bed and chair twice along the way. The last time he forgot to open the door and hit his head on the door panel.
“Brother!” Qingqing sat up worriedly, but Fu Heng pushed her back gently but firmly: “You are still injured, don’t get up.”
“But my brother…”
“Gu Lan is fine. He might have stayed up late last night, so he’s not in a good mood today.”
“Staying up late is not good.” Qingqing wrinkled her nose and said with a look of disapproval: “Staying up late will make your hair fall out and age faster.”
Fu Heng subconsciously touched his head. His hair was thick and there was no sign of baldness.
It’s okay, it was just a false alarm.
Gu Lan, who was judged by Qingqing to be going bald, hid alone in a stairwell, and then calmed down in this dim and narrow environment.
He already knew that there were many misunderstandings between the siblings, and he thought he had gotten to know his real sister again.
But he never expected that the sister he knew, the cold and proud woman in his memory, actually loved him so much.
In order to protect him, she almost died in her best years.
If…if this is true…
…
Gu Lan hugged himself tightly with trembling hands. He was afraid that he would never forgive himself in his entire life.
When telling the truth, Fu Heng once comforted Gu Lan.
He was just a child back then and didn’t know anything, so it’s not his fault.
But people are just like that sometimes.
It is obviously a matter that has nothing to do with him, but because it will lead to serious consequences, he can’t help but take the responsibility on himself and feel deeply guilty about it.
Gu Lan is in this state now, and he can’t help but think, if he hadn’t stopped his sister from running away and delayed her time to escape, would his sister have been able to escape successfully in the end?
At least she doesn’t have to suffer the torture he is experiencing now.