The Self-cultivation of Omega Running with the Ball

"Where's your mother? Why doesn't she care about you... cough cough," Wen Jierui's chest trembled and he started coughing violently, "That Xie Guangming, haah, I knew long ago that he's not a good guy, that old beast cough cough cough..."

"Mom..." Wen Qiu's heart ached with sadness, and she gasped for breath quickly, "He is just that kind of person. He can't even take care of himself, so he can't care about me at all. I, I had no choice but to come to you, but you..."

He Yu was sandwiched between the two of them, sometimes helping the older one to calm down, sometimes patting the younger one on the back, and suddenly raised his voice and said, "Okay, don't say anything. Father is not in good health, don't let him get sick from anger. Wen Qiu, you too, let's change a day and talk calmly..."

Wen Jierui was nearly suffocating from coughing, and his face, which had long been shrouded in the shadow of illness, turned the color of liver. Wen Qiu bit her lower lip and looked at him through her tears. She didn't know why the healthy and strong father in her memory had turned into such a haggard patient.

"I'll help my father go to the hospital first. Today was the day he was supposed to have dialysis. I don't know why he suddenly came here. Sigh..." He Yu looked at Wen Qiu soothingly, "I'll ask the driver to take you home first, okay? You two should not meet for the time being."

Wen Qiu looked at Wen Jierui, who was unable to straighten his back, and his heart was filled with worry and fear. He was extremely grateful that He Yu, a reliable adult man, was there at the moment who could handle various emergencies.

However, Wen Jierui recovered from the heart-wrenching cough and suddenly knocked He Yu's calf with his crutch, "Let me go, I won't leave, I must make things clear today!"

If he had been in the past, he would have probably accepted He Yu's arrangement directly. However, a conversation with Pei Du that day directly woke him up. He discovered too many ominous signs in a cold sweat. He had to be on guard against the wolf that was kept by his side.

"Father, your health is the most important..." He Yu gritted his teeth.

"Wen Qiu!" Wen Jierui suddenly raised his head and shouted, "Come and help me!"

Wen Qiu hesitated for a moment, but still walked over to hold his arm and let him sit on the sofa. He smelled the strong smell of medicine on his father, and the smell of the patient that could not be covered up by the smell of medicine.

He Yu was anxious: "How come even you are so ignorant!"

"At least my father doesn't care about me at all, as you said." Wen Qiu didn't look at him and sat down next to Wen Jierui. "What do you want to say? Say it now."

"You said you came to see me, right? When?" Wen Jierui grabbed Wen Qiu's arm and looked at him anxiously.

"You don't remember?" Wen Qiu gritted his teeth and said, "When I was 18, you asked Brother He Yu to return to China to pay off the debt. I called you, and you told me to solve the problem myself, and then hung up on me..."

"Wait, what did you say? I didn't receive any call at all!" Wen Jierui said angrily.

"You still want to deny it now?" Wen Qiu sneered, "You still love to evade responsibility as always."

"No, something must be wrong!" Wen Jierui frowned deeply, and suddenly thought of something. He looked up abruptly at He Yu who was standing aside. The well-mannered and polite child stood silently with a deep gloom on his face.

"Did He Yu give you that number?" Wen Jierui asked anxiously, "Did he dial it right away? Did the number start with 255?"

"What do you mean?" Wen Qiu quickly realized, "You didn't answer my call? But it was your voice at that time, I couldn't have heard it wrong. Wait a minute, the call did not go through on the first day, I didn't get through until the second day, so is it possible..."

"It's a recording." He Yu, who was standing nearby, suddenly said, "The words you heard were all recorded - I edited a few sentences from the phone call I made to my father, and asked a friend to play it on the other end of the phone."

Wen Qiu was stunned for a moment, unable to understand what he meant, and looked up at him blankly: "Why..."

"Why?" He Yu covered his eyes, the smile on his lips twisted in an unusual way, "Because during that time I worked like a dog for your father, and I was about to get everything. As long as you come back, you can easily deprive me of everything and turn me back to my original form."

Wen Qiu's head buzzed. Even though he had guessed something, hearing him admit it with his own ears still made him emotionally collapse. He covered his aching heart and felt like he was about to lose his breath. "I have always treated you as my brother..."

"I also treat you as my brother, Wen Qiu." He Yu suddenly leaned over and grabbed his shoulders tightly, his eyes flashing with fanaticism. "I said I would take care of you, huh? Give you money, give you a house, and send you to a domestic university. It was you who didn't know what was good for you and wanted to leave. Think about it, many of the tragedies that happened to you were caused by your own character."

Wen Qiu slapped him in the face for being so shameless, "Get lost! How can you be so at ease? Do you never feel guilty for lying to me and getting close to me like that? Because of your selfishness, these years, these years...what kind of life have I been leading..."

He Yu's cheeks were red and swollen, but he was not annoyed at all. He straightened his crooked glasses, "So I want to make it up to you. Do you think my care for you these days is insincere? Look at this house, the clothes you are wearing, and the resources I worked hard to find for you. I also have to take care of your children. I gave you everything I could give you." He crossed his arms and turned around in place irritably, "Can't you pretend that you didn't notice anything and just live your life well?"

"Child, what child?" Wen Jierui listened blankly and looked at Wen Qiu in disbelief, "How old are you? How can you have a child?!"

"I was forced." A miserable smile appeared on Wen Qiu's face. "In order to pay off the high-interest loan you owed, I was sold to someone else to bear a child. I shouldn't have given birth to him, but at that time I had no relatives, and I just wanted to give myself a reason to live..."

He Yu had never heard him talk about this before. He froze in place as if struck by lightning, and said in a lost voice: "Wait, you said that child is, is..."

"What do you want to hear? I was caught by a moneylender. At first they wanted me to sell myself, but later they found that having children was more profitable. One child a year could be sold for 500 million. Later I sold myself to raise the child. Didn't you think my house was shabby? That was the money I made by having sex with people." Wen Qiu said indifferently, as if he was telling someone else's miserable story. He stood up shakily, "This is what happened to me after you drove me away."

"I don't know, I haven't heard you say that, I..." He Yu trembled in pain and tried to grab Wen Qiu's hand, "Don't go, I can explain!"

"Let me go!" Wen Qiu angrily shook off his hand and ran out the door. He Yu wanted to chase him, but heard Wen Jierui groaning in pain behind him. His eyes gradually turned white and he was spitting white foam from his mouth, as if he was about to faint.

He Yu panicked for a moment, then quickly took out his phone and called the security guards to ask them to chase Wen Qiu, then called the driver to prepare a car to go to the hospital. Then he laid Wen Jierui flat on the sofa and skillfully performed CPR. "You... my son..." Wen Jierui lay on the sofa, his eyes still wide open, his lips trembling as he uttered words of hatred.

"Stop talking." He Yu pinched his lips and said coldly, "I am the only bad guy now, and you are pretending to be a kind father? If I tell Wen Qiu the secret you are hiding, do you think he will forgive you?"

Wen Jierui shook his head in horror.

"We are of the same mind, father. You have to help me, understand?" He Yu grabbed his shoulders, his expression gradually becoming crazy. "Only I can take care of you, make money for you, and help you with your old age. You can't live without me, father."

"Bullshit! Don't call me father. I don't have a son like you!"

"Really? Haha, actually I'm a little tired of being your son," He Yu straightened his crooked glasses and looked down at the gasping Wen Jierui, "You have to help me, I want to be your son-in-law, Wen Qiu and I will have more children - unlike the previous bastards, they will be the real heirs of the Wen family!"

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Wen Qiu ran out alone, passing the courtyard decorated with flowers, passing the clean and bright villa area, all the way to the main road, without stopping.

Suddenly, a large truck sped past him, and he suddenly woke up and found himself standing on the motorway. A shrill horn sounded beside his ears, and the driver leaned out of the window and cursed: "Psycho! Are you looking for death?"

Wen Qiu backed away immediately, almost hitting the electric bike again. He retreated back to the sidewalk, looking around blankly, not knowing where he was. His consciousness seemed to be disconnected from his body, floating in the air and looking at him coldly.

The security guards behind him were getting closer and closer. Wen Qiu squatted in the green belt beside the road without thinking. The tall bushes blocked his figure and made him feel safe. The two security guards approached and then walked away in a puzzled conversation. Wen Qiu wanted to stand up, but his legs felt like they were filled with mercury, and he felt dizzy when he moved.

He continued to squat there, motionless. If someone found him, they would probably think he was mentally ill. But he did have a severe headache, stomach cramps and pain, chest tightness and shortness of breath, and he couldn't breathe no matter how hard he tried.

The most uncomfortable thing is that I can't think. My mind is a mess. I keep replaying what just happened over and over again. I can't stop.

He had had similar symptoms before, but never this severe. His thoughts continued to drift away, and he even imagined what a wonderful relief it would be if he hadn't stopped in time and was hit by a truck.

Thinking of this, Wen Qiu's teeth trembled, and he gradually became a little scared. He fumbled to take out his mobile phone and opened the address book. Tears dripped onto the screen, and his fingers couldn't stop slipping. The number he wanted to find had been deleted by him, but fortunately he knew every number by heart.

After making several wrong entries with trembling fingers, I finally managed to get the call through. The phone beeped and was quickly connected.

"Wen Qiu." Pei Du's voice was very calm, coming from the other end of the phone. He seemed to have the leisure to joke, "What? You finally came to see me?"

"Hu...Ha..." Only faint breathing sounds came from the phone.

"What's wrong with you?" Pei Du gradually felt something was wrong. "Are you okay? Answer me?"

"Pei Du..." Wen Qiu pressed the phone against his face and murmured his name, "Come pick me up, please..."

"Where are you now?!"

"I don't know," Wen Qiu was confused. He looked up and saw lush green. The branches scratched his face and it was a bit tingling. "I hid in the bushes. They are still looking for me. I don't want to go back..."

"It's okay, don't be afraid." Pei Du said quickly, "It's on the side of the road, right? Look up at the road sign and tell me where it is. I'll be there soon. Don't be afraid."

Wen Qiu didn't look up. He gradually calmed down, found the address of the villa from his memory, and told Pei Du.

"Don't hang up, I'm on my way." Pei Du's reassuring voice kept coming over, "Just hide there and don't move. Wait for me."

"Well...how long will it take you to come? I feel a little uncomfortable..." Wen Qiu clenched his chest tightly. His heartbeat was too fast. It didn't seem like it was pumping blood, but rather boiling and spewing steam. The arteries in his body were throbbing.

"I will be there soon. Just count the leaves. When you count a thousand, I will be there."

Wen Qiu then began to count the leaves, but it was difficult to concentrate, and he had to count again several times. When he finally counted to 343 leaves in a row, a pair of hands descended from the sky and picked him up like a lost cat.

Suddenly, the sky in front of him was bright. The clear early summer sky and the busy traffic and the crowds of people became a blurry background. His ALPHA seemed to appear out of thin air, shining brightly, like the dawn that pierced the dark night.

"I'm sorry, I'm late... Are you okay?!" Pei Du's chest was heaving violently, sweat was dripping down his cheeks, and for the first time, panic flashed in his dark eyes. Wen Qiu saw his own embarrassed reflection in them.

Wen Qiu tightly hugged his neck, panting like a drowning man, and only uttered three trembling words, "Pheromone..."

(End of this chapter)