The moment he changed his mind, Chen Ting did not return home in the shortest time.

He knocked on the door and did not wait for a response. He realized that at this point, his father was most likely not back from school. It was naturally inconvenient for him to go to school to find his father when he was pregnant.

After walking for too long, his calf was a little tired. Chen Ting did not stand at the door for a while and thought of the milk box at the door.

His father was a very old-fashioned university professor who devoted himself to academic research. It seemed that work was the top priority in life.

He often heard his mother complain helplessly: "It would be fine if you don't care about your family, can you just take a little snack to yourself? If Weiwei and I are not at home, I think you can't even get in."

Later, whenever my mother found out that her father forgot to bring the door key, she simply put the spare key in the milk box at the door that day so that her father would not come back too late to knock on the door until Chen Ting did not rest.

My father and mother didn't like to drink milk, but they always asked him to drink a lot. Perhaps after he disappeared, the milk box was completely idle, with a thick layer of dust falling on it, covering up the original light green of the milk box.

He didn't have the key to the milk box, so he had to put his hand into the gap and touch it for a while, and he really found a thin key.

I just don’t know if it was because my mother had let go of her to avoid her father’s forgetting to let go, or because he could enter the house and let go when he came back.

Chen Ting had not opened the door, but the dust raised when he pushed it over his face. While coughing, he swung the dust in front of him and walked in.

I don’t know if it was because of my premonition, Chen Ting did not feel too complicated when he saw the completely different home from the past and had not been cleaned for a long time.

The family photo that was originally hung on the dining table had been taken off, leaving only a little abrupt trace that was much whiter than the wall because it was covered for a long time. The family photo he took in a bachelor's uniform and pulled his parents to take when he graduated from college was buckled and stood beside the kitchen door.

Chen Ting held his breath for a while, not knowing whether it was because of the unbearable dust in the air that he could not bear, or for some other reason, his legs might have been because he had walked too fast all the way home just now, and at this moment he seemed to be poured in lead, making him walk towards the half-man-high photo frame with heavy and torment.

When he reached out to touch the frame with his back facing him, he realized that his hands were shaking a little, and the weight of the frame was not like he hung it on his own. He turned the photo over and understood the reason.

The glass embedded in the photo frame is gone, leaving only a thin bottom plate and a photo that has not been properly sealed and has some faded and dusty.

Chen Ting didn't seem to have all his strength as he didn't hold it firmly because of his trembling hands, so he removed the photo frame that fell to the ground. He dragged the chair next to the dining table and sat down. After continuing to hold his breath, his brain, which was somewhat hypoxic, began to feel dull pain again. He breathed in big mouths, and was choked by the dust in the air and coughed out tears.

In fact, there is no need to think about it. Chen Ting didn't know who took down this photo frame and who completely broke it.

My father never thought of this. He would always say calmly when his mother was angry: "Let me talk to me when you calm down."

Chen Ting seemed to be able to see her mother's long-standing emotions collapsed completely. At that moment, she yelled at her father hysterically, and her father waited for her to finish her anger without saying a word. Chen Ting didn't expect that maybe it was the moment this photo was broken that his mother decided to leave him.

He pulled out a few tissues from the paper pull box on the table and wiped away the tears on his face with the one not stained with dust at the bottom.

He sat in this deserted house and stayed silent for a while, as if in this short period of time, he recalled many memories that had been deliberately put away by him.

For example, when he returned home after the evening reading and the quarrel stopped at home when the door was opened, his mother greeted him gently in a strange atmosphere: "Why did you come back so early today? Go and wash your hands and leave you a meal."

For example, in his novel, he read the story of alpha and ega still falling in love with each other when the matching value is not high. When he retells it to his father, his father raised his head from the newspaper and said to him in a stern manner: "Chen Ting, you can't be so naive anymore, you can't survive in society."

For example, on his birthday every year, he mentioned that this year's wish is still the happiness of the whole family, and his mother touched his head and said, "It will come true."

Chen Tingwei often thinks that he is the happiest child in the world because he has the gentlest mother and smartest father in the world.

But he never thought that his family's happiness would become vanished in a car accident.

The night before his father arranged for a blind date, his mother still whispered to her father: "How old is Weiwei? Let him find someone he likes..."

Then, before she finished speaking, her father interrupted her with a cold sneer and asked her: "What do you know when you stay at home all day long? I ask you, do you know the rules of society? Of course he can find it himself, if he can't find it? What if it's not suitable? Can you support him for the rest of your life?"

At this time, the mother remained silent and said as if nothing had happened: "I raise him, of course I want to raise him for my son."

My father showed an unreasonable attitude towards what she said and was unwilling to communicate with her again.

Chen Ting didn't think of his mother he saw from afar.

He had seen photos of his mother when she was young. She was very beautiful, with a small face, slender eyes but very agile.

Today she wore the lace long dress that she obviously liked but often couldn't wear because she had to do housework. She wore a black top hat decorated with tulle and pearls on her head. In this thick black, the white hair that Chen Tingwei had seen on her mother's head was very eye-catching.

Chen Ting did not look at his mother holding Jasmine in her hand with cherishing eyes and got into the car of Mr. Beta. He thought that his mother did not like Jasmine.

My mother once expressed her preferences to him, and she said, "The flower I like is of course a rose. How could anyone not like roses?"

After saying this, she seemed to be worried that her words would affect Chen Tingwei's mood, and added cutely: "No, I thought about it, my favorite is carnations, and the second is rose."

A love that represents her fiery but unresponsive love—the stupid father never noticed her preferences.

One represents her full family affection - the carnation that Chen Ting did not give her on Thanksgiving was taken care of by her carefully.

Chen Ting didn't remember his father told them at dinner time that he had changed the jasmine manor in his hometown last weekend. His mother was clearly happy in her eyes, but she said, "Why do you only remember what your son likes? Why can't you keep half of such a big manor for me?"

The father seemed to be slow to come over and asked her what she liked. She thought for a while and said, "It's better for Jasmine."

Although Chen Tingwei was a little dissatisfied with his mother's answer, he was not surprised because his mother always ranked her preferences behind her son and husband, as if in her world, if she was sorted by importance, she would automatically place herself behind her son and husband.

So when he saw his mother just now, he did not shout at her, but felt a tightness in his throat.

He seemed to have not seen his mother as happy as she had a long time. He had a smile from the bottom of his heart on his face. She spoke to Mr. Beta and took a small step deliberately and implicitly, so as not to appear indecent as the distance between the two was too close.

The surprise and excitement of her receiving flowers was something Chen Ting had never seen before, as if she was like the "girl" that Mr. Beta said. He looked at her and felt like a shy girl at that moment. Although her hair was a little white, there were obvious wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and even her behavior was not as natural as eight months ago.

Chen Tingwei even felt like he was watching the not-so-expensive and somewhat old car leave, and he felt that maybe his mother should have lived like this long ago.

Emotions touched the pain of the wound, allowing him to retract his thoughts from his short memories.

Before Chen Ting got up from the chair, he walked into his parents' bedroom first.

It has been a long time since no one has come back. The dark yellow suitcase that is too big to fit into the cabinet. Every time Chen Tingwei enters his parents' room, he feels very abrupt and annoying, disappears.

He opened the wardrobe and his father's dressing style had always been very simple. The brighter windbreakers and coats that his mother bought without permission were hung on the hanger. His father only took away the old dark jackets.

As stubborn and old-fashioned as always, but as he wished, now he finally rushed back from school late at night for his and his mother's request.

Chen Ting closed the wardrobe calmly and opened the locker with all the important documents and valuables in the house. He did not get the two identical small green books, house books, his graduation certificate and several medical insurance cards since childhood, and only took out a stack of leaflets with poor paper.

The flyer has his photos, lost statements and bounty phone calls.

The words used were objective, clear and concise. Chen Ting had not read them roughly and wanted to laugh out loud. He could even imagine his father calmly when he wrote these messages after he disappeared. No wonder his mother was so angry that she smashed the family portrait.

When he was about to close the drawer, he heard a light sound of heavy objects hitting the wooden board.

He was stunned for a moment, then pulled the drawer open again, reached in and touched it twice, and took out the repaired cell phone.

Chen Ting returned to his bedroom without taking the phone that he had not been able to boot for a long time.

The furnishings in his bedroom were no different from those when he left. The room was light blue wallpaper and there were a little childish asteroid pendant on the chandelier.

Chen Tingwei's own bedroom is not even the big one in the villa, nor does it have such bright windows.

But he has lived in this small bedroom for more than 20 years. His study plan was posted on the wall in front of his desk when he was a child, and his career plan was posted on the wall after graduation.

When Chen Ting didn't find his charger from the drawer and plugged his phone in, he took off the sticky note posted on the wall.

He saw that he once wrote silly:

1. Memorize the professional standards of the law firm as soon as possible.√

2. Be the first to check in at the law firm every day.√

3. Read the books recommended by Qin Lu.

4. Training your oral expression skills as soon as possible.

5. Learn to read, listen, and think more.√

6. Take the next case independently.

Finally, I wrote a silly sentence later:

Lawyer Chen also needs to cheer up today!!

It was clearly what I saw every day before, but Chen Tingwei wanted to laugh at this moment.

He only read two of the five books Qin Lu recommended to him.

I don’t practice my oral expression skills well, and I often start nervous and simulate many times the day before I need to speak.

Not to mention taking the next case independently, he was still in the stage of receiving visits after internship in that famous law firm for half a year.

Chen Ting sometimes felt that he was not suitable for studying law and it was even more difficult to become a qualified lawyer. However, he had been accustomed to following the plans given by his parents since he was a long time ago, and he was also accustomed to not letting others have hope for him.

He stared at the paper for a while, trying to stick it back to the wall as it was, but the self-adhesive stickers behind the sticky note were no longer sticky, so Chen Ting had no choice but to clip it into a book on the table.

He turned on the charged phone and entered the unlock password several times, and he suddenly realized that the phone was using the number of numbers he used in the past.

Chen Ting hadn't opened his social software, and his phone got stuck as soon as he logged in.

The unread prompt popped up in the constant vibration of the phone, and the chat interface was soon filled with overwhelming messages recently.

Chen Ting didn't pick up a few friends who had good relationships, and some of them sent a lot of them in the past eight months. After reading them for a long time, he couldn't get them up, so he had to look at them roughly.

Most of them asked him where he went, why he hadn't come back yet, and there were many ugly insults interspersed in the middle, calling him the alpha who went on a blind date.

Chen Tingwei stopped and looked at his sliding hand, probably saying that he killed Chen Tingwei, so why did he still have the face to get engaged to his new boyfriend?

Chen Ting took a look and took a step away without just a glance. Basically, the last message from these friends was to tell him a week ago that he had a happy birthday.

There were several touching news that Chen Ting didn't want to reply, but he finally held it back, as if everyone had already made his disappearance the most negative result, and he didn't want to scare others so suddenly.

Chen Ting was not sitting at the desk, looking aimlessly into his circle of friends. He was a little confused and saw that his good friend had already had new friends he had never met before, and saw the good news of his upcoming marriage posted by his classmates, and the celebration banquet that he did not like him very much, who was intern in the law firm, and at the same time, he posted a celebration banquet that perfectly concluded the case...

Chen Ting's hand, which was not slid in a daze, stopped on this dynamic, and suddenly thought of a memory clip that he had not paid attention to.

The beta, who was at the same time as him, was often scolded by his seniors in the law firm, saying that he was careless and had some other minor problems.

On the contrary, Chen Tingwei seemed to be being cared for by everyone. Whether he sorted out files or drafted documents, he almost made any mistakes and was often praised at weekly meetings.

So even though Qin Lu never mentioned turning him into a regular job, Chen Ting never had any enthusiasm for this job.
To be continued...