It was not until there was a knock on the door that Jiang Sui reacted and started to tidy up his hair.

“You can come in!”

With Jiang Sui's permission, Si Nian opened the door and walked in holding a small white porcelain bowl.

"When did you wake up?"

Jiang Sui raised his eyes to look at Si Nian and answered softly, "Just woke up."

Si Nian stretched out his leg to hook a stool beside him and sat down on it.

"Drink the millet porridge when you wake up to nourish your stomach."

Si Nian stretched out his long arm and handed the white porcelain bowl to Jiang Sui.

Jiang Sui also reached out to take it, but the scalding temperature of the bowl made him retract his hands and pinch his earlobes.

Si Nian raised his eyebrows, "It's hot?"

Jiang Sui nodded seriously.

Si Nian withdrew his arm again, lowered his head, silently stirred the porridge in the bowl with a spoon, and blew gently into the bowl from time to time.

Jiang Sui just looked at Si Nian quietly. His movements were gentle and he was incredibly patient.

How could there be such a gentle and considerate man in this world?

He is so nice, how could anyone be willing to hurt him like that?

Just watching him silently from the side, Jiang Sui began to feel tears welling up in his eyes.

Jiang Sui had to try hard to control her emotions. She wanted to act normal in front of Si Nian.

If I can only cry, what should Si Nian do?

"Okay, try it, is it still hot?"

Jiang Suiwei raised his head and blinked, then looked at Si Nian and gave him a sweet smile.

"Brother, the bowl must still be hot, why don't you feed me?"

Facing Jiang Sui's coquettish and naughty behavior, Si Nian always had no way to deal with it.

He couldn't help but shake his head while gently handing the spoon of porridge to Jiang Sui's mouth.

Jiang Sui took a sip of the porridge in the spoon, chewed and swallowed hard, and forced himself to smile at Si Nian.

“Porridge smells so good!”

It's obviously bitter.

Si Nian saw Jiang Sui’s forced expression, but said nothing.

He handed another spoonful of porridge to Jiang Sui's mouth. Jiang Sui swallowed it in one gulp, but found the porridge really hard to swallow.

She was forcing herself to feel a little sick.

In order to prevent Si Nian from discovering, she covered her mouth with one hand and forced herself to swallow it.

This one takes a bit long.

Si Nian sighed and placed the white porcelain bowl on the bedside table.

"Sui Sui, if you can't eat, don't eat. If you can't help crying, I'm fine!"

He saw it all! He knew everything!

Jiang Sui curled up his knees and lowered his head.

Tears as big as beans fell and hit the back of her white hand.

"Brother, I know everything. I know everything about you."

Jiang Sui spoke in a low voice, choking slightly.

Si Nian was silent for a while, then responded calmly, "Yeah."

Just now, Wu Chunhao called him.

"How could they be so mean as to frame you like that?"

Jiang Sui used a soft voice, seeming to be expressing his inner grievances.

When Si Nian heard this, his heart suddenly moved.

His girl believes him!

She was willing to believe without asking why that he had never done such a thing!

There was an indescribable emotion in his heart, and his eyes became hot unconsciously.

"Brother, I can't believe that the Si family would be so despicable."

Si Nianxiao sighed and said, "In that circle, there are only interests, no family affection. I only found out about it later, so I tried my best to escape. But I was already in the center of the vortex, so it was not that easy to escape."

Si Nian said that ever since he returned to the Si family, Si hated him more and more for taking away his identity as the heir of the Si family. He would bully him whenever he got the chance, whether at home or at school.

Although the old man seemed to love and favor him on the surface, he still looked down on his mother in private and was particularly strict with him.

He can't eat the things he likes because the old man says it's unhealthy.

He can't associate with like-minded people because the old man says those people are unworthy.

He could no longer attend his favorite foreign language classes because the old man said , "What's the point? The superiors can solve it with money."

The group's affairs are very busy and the old man is often not at home, but he still keeps a pair of eyes by his side to monitor him. His every move will be reported. Except for the dirty things that the second wife and her son did to him, those eyes will selectively blind themselves.

Even outsiders could see that he was the most humble one in that family, so no one would care about his feelings.

Every day he followed the old man's arrangements step by step, learning things he didn't like and doing things he didn't like.

He said, “That Si Nian is like a puppet, a robot.”

"Why don't you go home? If you are unhappy, you can go home. Mom, grandma and I are always thinking about you..."

Jiang Sui wiped the tears from his face, looked up at Si Nian, and asked him seriously.

Si Nian smiled bitterly, her little girl was still so naive.

"I don't want you to see me as a zombie. I hope that you will always remember me as a positive person."

Also, I can’t bring any more trouble to the person I love the most!

If he leaves, no matter where he goes, the old man will not let go of the people around him.

Si Nian had seen his methods before.

When forcing him to return to the Si family, the old man threatened him with Uncle Jiang's life.

He said Jiang Guodong was abroad and no one would suspect anything even if he died accidentally.

His little girl was so young at that time, how could he let her risk losing her father?

Although Jiang Guodong doesn't often live at home, he will always be the little girl's support and he cannot be replaced in any way.

They were both silent for a while.

Jiang Sui felt a little stomachache, so he took the porridge on the bedside table and continued drinking it. The temperature was just right at this moment.

"When something like that happened to you, Mr. Si, are you just going to watch and do nothing?"

After all, he is his own grandson!

Si Nian sneered, "He cares! Why not? He just wants to quickly suppress this scandal that is very shameful to the Si family. In order to prevent the news from spreading and to end it as soon as possible, he can ignore the truth and coerce me into confessing in a despicable way."

"Coercion?"

Jiang Sui couldn't believe that there was such a biological grandfather in this world.

At this point, Jiang Sui finally understood why Si Nian was willing to lend a hand to Xiao Hai even though he was already stuck in a quagmire.

Because he envied Xiao Hai from the bottom of his heart for having a grandfather who understood and trusted him, and he envied their relationship between grandparents and grandchildren.

This is something that will always be out of reach for Si Nian.

Si Nian did not continue speaking, and the room fell into silence again, with only the slight collision sounds between the spoon in Jiang Sui's hand and the white porcelain bowl.

After finishing the porridge in the bowl in a few mouthfuls, Jiang Sui finally felt a little better in his stomach. He put the white porcelain bowl back on the bedside table.

She lowered her head, hesitated for a long time, and finally asked.

"So... when was the verdict?"

After asking, Jiang Sui looked up at Si Nian cautiously.

Si Nian first looked at Jiang Sui in a daze for a moment, then glanced away, as if lost in long memories.

"It should be October 8th, in the fall of my senior year."

Si Nian's voice was calm when he answered, without any ups and downs.

Jiang Sui secretly counted the days on his fingers.

October 8th is three months and ten days earlier than January 18th of the following year.

That day was the day Jiang Sui’s mother left her forever.

It only took three months from the time my mother was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer in mid-October to the time she passed away on January 18 of the following year.

No wonder!

No wonder no matter how she tried to contact Si Nian at that time, he never showed up?

He has already lost his freedom, how can you let him appear by your side again?

At that time, Jiang Sui felt a little resentful towards Si Nian. She resented him for no longer contacting her, for not coming back to see her seriously ill mother, and even for not attending her funeral.

At that time, Jiang Sui had to be alone. On one hand, he had to cooperate with the staff of the funeral home to handle his mother's funeral, and on the other hand, he had to take care of his grandmother who fell ill because of the grief of losing her loved one.

It was not until the day of her mother's funeral that Jiang Guodong rushed back from abroad with a beard on his face.

That day, Jiang Guodong, a grown man, cried miserably.

Jiang Sui didn't know whether he was sincere or not.

As a daughter, Jiang Sui didn't shed a single tear.

She thought she had no one to rely on. She couldn't rely on her father, and there was no news from Si Nian.

From now on, she will have to rely on her grandmother.

So for a long time afterwards, she didn't dare cry during the day, for fear of causing trouble or making her grandmother sad.

At night, she hid in the quilt and cried until her whole body was shaking. She missed Si Nian so much and also hated Si Nian so much.

But how could she have imagined that Si Nian was in the same difficult situation at that time?

"I thought you deliberately didn't come back for mom's funeral. I thought you didn't want us anymore!"

Until this moment, Jiang Sui understood everything. She felt sad and her heart ached. Tears fell in strings, falling on the back of her hand and finally on Si Nian's palm.

Si Nian had sat down on the edge of the bed without knowing when. He held up Jiang Sui's tearful face with his palms, his eyes were full of affection and his voice was low and coaxing.

"How could that be? You guys are always on my mind."

Hearing Si Nian's soft words, Jiang Sui finally couldn't control himself. He threw himself into Si Nian's arms, hugged him tightly, and burst into tears.

For myself and for this year.

Si Nian stroked Jiang Sui's soft hair gently as if he was stroking a kitten, and the sound brushed past her ear like a warm spring breeze.

He said, "Never again..."

I will never let you face sadness alone again.

Si Nian didn't finish his words, but Jiang Sui understood.

She nodded repeatedly in Si Nian's arms.

Time flies, the sun and the moon rotate, and at this moment, they only have each other.

After a long time, Jiang Sui raised his head from Si Nian's arms and looked up at him, unable to hide the love in his eyes.

Her voice was low and soft, like a ball of cotton.

"Is it hard to endure in there?"

Si Nian curved his lips, gently hooked a strand of Jiang Sui's hair that had just been messed up in his arms, and tucked it behind his ear.

The voice replied softly, "It's okay..."

What's okay?

Jiang Sui could imagine what kind of life he led in there, and how difficult those days were!

He is comforting you and telling you not to be sad for him anymore!

But Jiang Sui really couldn't help but feel sad.

She buried her head in Si Nian's chest again, holding back her tears, and cried softly, wetting a part of Si Nian's clothes.

Her tears were a little hot, and she shed them for herself.

Si Nian's heart tightened, and his arms tightened unconsciously.

He was unwilling to tell his girl about the inhuman treatment he suffered in there.

He didn't say anything, but she was already crying like this. If she knew everything, how sad would she be?

He couldn't imagine it.

In fact, among them, rapists are the most despised. Those who look down on you also include the guards.

I remember that on the morning of October 8th, the court announced the verdict and he gave up the appeal. He was already disheartened at that time.

Ten days later he was transferred to Shenhai Prison.

On the first day of imprisonment, the guard who sent him to the cell said to his cellmates, "This guy is a rapist, don't mess around with him!"

Hearing this, his face burned hot.

This was the first time he realized from someone else how shameful this crime was.