[12. (Above)]

  Shen Duan walked over, grabbed me and dragged me out the door without saying a word. I originally wanted to say something, but when I saw Shen Duan's cold and stern profile and tightly pursed lips, all the words got stuck in my throat and I couldn't get them out no matter how hard I tried.

  Just as I reached the entrance, I heard Mrs. Shen's voice behind me: "Shen Duan."

  The voice was neither fast nor slow, but had a kind of majesty.

  Shen Dang stopped in his tracks, grasping the hand he was holding onto tightly, it hurt a bit but I didn't dare make a sound.

  "What are you doing?"

  Mrs. Shen was majestic without being angry, and even I felt a little intimidated. But when I looked at him, he seemed to be completely unafraid of her majesty.

  He turned around, his eyes cold and unfeeling, as if the person he was talking to wasn't his mother, but a sworn enemy.

  "So I ask you, Mrs. Shen, what is the meaning of this? Just because your family has power and influence, you can summon people at will and dismiss them as you please?" His voice was not loud, but it made one dare not ignore him "What am I doing? I'm just protecting the woman I love, and what about you?"

  "How am I?" Mrs. Shen stood up and didn't walk closer, just staring at Shen Zhong like that.

  Two people, same aura, same eyes, so alike...

  But in my heart, I feel that these two opposing people are representatives of good and evil.

  Shen Duan narrowed his eyes and smiled coldly: "How did I not know that this kind of treatment had become the hospitality of the Shen family?"

  When she heard Shen Duan move out of "Shen's house", Mrs. Shen couldn't say another word.

  Shen Diao didn't say another word and pulled me by the hand, turning around to leave.

  "Shen Duan! Stop right there!" Madam Shen finally lost her composure and started shouting.

  Shen Duan turned around and looked at her, his eyes surprisingly devoid of any warmth.

  "Do you know what you're doing?" She pointed at me "You're going against me for someone like him?"

  "Is she such a person?" Shen Zhong frowned "Mom, do you really know what kind of person 'such a person' is in your mouth?"

  Mrs. Shen was asked back by one sentence and was speechless.

  "Mom, I've loved this person for five years. In these five years, I learned to love one person, and thus learned to love more people. These five years, because she's always been in my heart, I slowly discarded the halo of the Shen family. I want others to acknowledge me as Shen Dong, not just my family. No matter what happened, no matter how difficult it was, as long as I thought of her, everything was worth it." He looked at his mother and said some words that I had never heard before: "This kind of person loves only me, not my father, grandfather, or family. This kind of person truly cares for me, and is someone I truly love..."

  Mrs. Shen looked at Shen Duan for a long time, then waved her hand and slumped down on the sofa, not looking at us, only saying: "Forget it, you can go."

  I thought I had dodged a bullet.

  But what she didn't know was that Mrs. Shen had the same determination and persistence as Shen Zhong when it came to some things.

  As soon as I got home, before I could even open my mouth, Shen Zhong pulled me into his arms. His body was trembling and the hands holding me were a bit painful, but I didn't say anything, just stretched out my own arms to hug him back.

  "Shen Dang..."

  He didn't say a word, and I didn't know what to say at that moment, because any words would be pale and powerless.

  It's been a long time since I felt for the first time that we still have many hardships to overcome.

  I held him tightly, just as he did at this moment.

  There are some things that don't need to be said, this kind of feeling, I understand.

  He must understand too.