At this moment, I am extremely glad that I have immunized my father from bwk beforehand. Otherwise, with Ai Shuqiao's character, she must get what she wants by any means necessary. In that case, my father would have no choice at all.

I recall that after Zheng Weizun died, Wang Xiuwu broke away from Ai Shuqiao's control. He once told me on the Daning River that the reason why Ai Shuqiao returned to Dongshan City this time seemed to be related to my father. He really didn't lie. .

"My love belongs to someone else now."

The cowardly father kept his principles in front of Ai Shuqiao, which made me very happy.

Ai Shuqiao's pace was stagnated because of this, and a look of disappointment flashed across her eyebrows: "Didn't you once say that your love for me will last forever?"

"How can it not change?" Dad roared so loudly that I have never heard it in the past 16 years. "You have trampled on my love for you. You have discarded me and Xiaolin like rags. How could I possibly I love you again, but you must know that when you say such ridiculous remarks, you still have a husband in the United States and you are still someone else's legal wife."

"My marriage to John is dead in name only." Ai Shuqiao tightened the collar of her windbreaker with one hand, as if to hint that she needed warmth, "John was just a step on my way to success. Now he is useless. I You can get rid of him at any time..."

"Is it like getting rid of me?" The anger accumulated over the years made my father's words sharp, and he interrupted Ai Shuqiao mercilessly.

After a period of silence, Ai Shuqiao spoke again: "The FBI is investigating me."

The tone was full of loneliness, resentment and... an extreme longing for comfort.

Dad didn't answer, but Ai Shuqiao just stood in the wind and continued to talk.

“I thought that if I shared the drug research report with the U.S. military, they would turn a blind eye to me. Unexpectedly, someone actually made an issue about my Chinese identity and accused me of being a Chinese spy. It harms the core interests of the United States. The opponent is a member of the Yale Skull and Bones Society who is related to the Bush family. I have supported congressmen who disagree with their political views. They are retaliating against me..."

"Not only that, there are people in the company who work as undercover agents for the FBI and even sell information to several countries. My business empire seems huge, but it is already crumbling... I don't want years of hard work to go to waste, I must find a way to turn the tide... …”

"You are too greedy."

Dad shook his head and looked at the woman he once loved.

"You want too many things. You left everything behind and wanted to stand in the spotlight of the world and enjoy the worship of thousands of people. But when you are about to fail, are you planning to find someone to walk into the darkness with you?"

Dad told Ai Shuqiao with his eyes that he would not be the man who walked into the darkness with her.

"I didn't say that I would definitely fail." Ai Shuqiao bit her lip stubbornly, "I just hope that you can be by my side when I make my last ditch effort. Didn't you say that you would sacrifice everything for me? "

Dad sighed, "That 'everything' does not include our children. When you attacked Xiaolin, you had already lost the qualification to be loved by me again. It's just that it took me longer to get over it." Come out of the wrong relationship."

Well said, this makes sense. Dad, you finally understand.

However, as a strong wind swept across the rooftop, Ai Shuqiao stumbled, her high heels failed to stand firm, and she fell towards her father.

Although he knew that the other party might have intended to dive, his father was still soft-hearted and stretched out his arms to support Ai Shuqiao's lowered body. Ai Shuqiao used the momentum to press her face close to her father's chest.

"Yuanfeng, give me another chance. Don't you see that I'm trying my best to make up for Xiaolin?" Ai Shuqiao hugged her father and refused to let go of her arms. Her father hesitated and didn't know whether he should hug her or not. Push away.

"I have heard about your criminal behavior...you'd better turn yourself in."

"Do you plan to let me spend the rest of my life in prison?" Ai Shuqiao raised her face and glared at her father with a somewhat ferocious look. Seeing that her father still had a stern face, her tone became sad again.

"So, if I were sentenced to life in prison, would you write to me?"

Dad thought deeply for a while and said, "Maybe."

Ai Shuqiao had a wry smile on her lips, "What will you write in the content of the letter?"

"I don't know yet."

"...Will you use the kind of stationery you used to write love letters to me when you were a student?"

Dad fell into a brief silence, and then suddenly realized: "That kind of letter paper is no longer available."

"Then don't write to me anymore." Ai Shuqiao turned her head away, her voice hoarse, "Let me recall the feel and smell of the letter paper when I was young..."

This sentence was said with great emotion. Dad's frozen face showed signs of melting, and Ai Shuqiao continued:

"I thought you just met by chance in my life. I thought you could be replaced at will. But I was wrong. In the end, I still wanted you to be by my side, but you no longer love me. I deserved it. , I no longer ask you to accompany me into the darkness, but can you hug me one last time."

Dad didn't speak. Ai Shuqiao was wrapping her arms around him. To an uninformed person, it was obvious that the man and woman were already hugging.

"Hug me one last time, and I won't bother you anymore, and you can go back to the wife you really like."

Ai Shuqiao, who has always been proud, begged in a tone that her father could not refuse.

Dad raised his hands half in the air, hesitating whether to agree to Ai Shuqiao's request. I hid behind the water tower and didn't know whether I should rush over to stop her.

004 and 005 did say that the FBI was about to close the net on Ai Shuqiao, but has she fallen into such a desperate situation? Although she does not deserve a hug from her father, if she can completely give up...

It was probably what I was thinking. Dad's hands, which were blown cold by the strong wind, slowly fell on Ai Shuqiao's back.

"Wait a minute." Just when her father was about to complete the hug, Ai Shuqiao suddenly stopped and said, "I hope this hug is not perfunctory to me. At least during the few seconds you hug me, can you Temporarily return to the you you were in the past, the you who once loved me."

The movement of dad's arms froze, "It's hard to recover from the water. The past time can never be returned. I can't do that kind of thing."

"You can do it." Ai Shuqiao gently pressed her forehead against her father's chest and said softly, "Think back to our first walk along the Daning River. You accidentally ate flying insects, and then I laughed at you. The way you look; think back to how we went boating on Dongshan Lake, and it started raining, and you took off your coat to protect me from the rain; think back to when we visited the Terracotta Warriors and Horses exhibition, and you happily told me the history of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, and I was bored. The way he yawned..."

"Stop talking." Dad was touched by a long memory, and his emotions could no longer remain calm. "We did have a good time, but everything was ruined by you. The me who loves you only exists in this world. In the memory.”

"Then remember some more." Ai Shuqiao urged, "Do you still remember that I was harassed by gangsters when I tried out records in the video store? You stand up for me because you don't know how to fight. I will bandage you and apply medicine afterward. At that time, you kept shouting that it hurt, didn't I kiss your lips to make you calm down?"

"I remember, but time did not stop at that moment." Dad's expression began to collapse, "If you had not done those things later, I would have always loved you as I did then, but..."

"Don't let the memory go backwards and stop there." Ai Shuqiao snuggled against her father's chest, eyes closed, "Hold me tightly with the mood you had at that time, okay? I only ask for this last hug. I want to feel what true love is like again..."

Her tone was sad and pitiful, and even I, who hated her to the core, was slightly touched, let alone my father who once loved her to the point of unforgettable love.

"If we could turn back time..."

Dad used his tall but not strong body to hug Ai Shuqiao tightly, satisfying her request for the last hug.

At that moment, Dad seemed to have returned to Dongshan City 20 years ago. At that time, there were not so many high-rise buildings, the roads were old and narrow, and the memories of youth stayed in the scenery like faded photos. The hands together trust each other, love each other, and naively think that these hands will continue to hold each other for a lifetime...

Dad's heart must be very painful. The pain that goes deep into the bone marrow is just sealed. Once it is touched, it will still pour out like a flash flood.

I heard my father cry through the strong wind.

"Shu Qiao, it's over. We really can't go back... You've done a lot of wrong things, don't make any more mistakes..."

Ai Shuqiao showed a very reassuring expression in her father's arms. She asked in a very transparent, even ethereal voice:

"Yuanfeng, don't care what I am now, and I don't care what you are now. I just want the big boy from 20 years ago to hold me. Just treat me as the me at that time, okay. ?”

Dad's body trembled greatly, "Do you think I would have hugged you if I didn't do that?"

"So..." Ai Shuqiao's voice was soft and soft, but it would not be blown away by the strong wind. "Is the heart in your chest now as full of love for me as it was 20 years ago? Even if you The object of my love is just a phantom of my former self."

Dad didn't answer. He was caught up in the memories of the past, with tears streaming down his face, just like I had seen him cry in front of old photos every time he was drunk.
Chapter completed!