Jiang Xiao fell asleep leaning on the sofa.

He had a dream.

I dreamed about when I was very young, how young... I was probably six or seven years old at most.

The most common thing he did at that time was that his grandma would go to the mountains to collect herbs. The herbs she collected and made into medicinal materials could be sold in the city for a lot of money.

But the mountain is very steep. When he was a child, he saw many people going up the mountain and never coming down again.

I once saw a living person fall from the top, and in an instant, he was gone.

Selling herbal medicines requires walking a long way from the mountains to the city. This kind of work is often done by his father.

But his father was a drunkard and a gangster. After selling the money, he squandered it all before he returned to the mountains.

There was constant drinking at home, and he watched helplessly as his drunken father beat his mother. Of course, he was also beaten less often.

I have been beaten since childhood.

If you have money, go to school for one year. If you have no money, just work at home.

His student career was in fits and starts.

Jiang Xiao's dreams were also intermittent. Sometimes he was picking herbs with his grandma, sometimes he was sitting with his grandma in the yard enjoying the cool air, and sometimes he was beaten black and blue by his father.

He still remembers that pain.

The pain left in childhood will be remembered for a lifetime.

He will remember the poverty in the mountains and valleys for the rest of his life.

Before leaving the mountain, he had never seen an electric light, let alone anything else.

"Mr. Jiang, Mr. Jiang." Jiang Xiao's assistant lowered his head and called him.

Jiang Xiao woke up in a daze. When did he fall asleep?

Looking at the bright and warm office, he felt as if he was in a dream. It turned out that he had just dreamed about the past again.

"What's up?"

"Mr. Jiang, I have to meet the client at ten o'clock. I have sorted out the information for you." The assistant handed over the documents.

"Okay, I understand."

The assistant explained some more matters before going out.

Jiang Xiao didn't read the document. He lowered his head in silence, clasped his hands, and sat slumped on the sofa.

The dream he just had made him fall into deep pain.

It's hard to look back on the past, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

He also knew that when he was still poor and desperate in the mountains, Wen Xue was already the little princess held in the palm of the Wen family's hands.

While he was still worrying about a meal, Wen Xue had already gone abroad and seen many beautiful scenery.

A shadow fell on Jiang Xiao.

The wound was opened and it hurt.

It turns out that more than twenty years have passed, and he still can't forget it.

Jiang Xiao took out Wen Lu's business card.

President of Wen Group.

Anseong Wen family.

He knew about the Wen family when he first went to Ancheng, but he never linked the Wen family to Wen Xue.

In his mind, Wen Xue has none of the arrogance and willfulness of the little princess. She is like a pearl, dazzling but not burning.

It was she who gradually melted the ice in his heart.

He was very happy with her.

There is no need to pretend to be young or mature, and there is no need to be wary or calculating. He can also smile like a child.

She likes him very much, and he is willing to do his best to protect her.

It was only after he met her that he had this desire to protect, wanting to be nicer and better to her, and give her everything he had.

He has never deceived Wen Xue's feelings.

Jiang Xiao has a clear conscience.

But he knew...he loved her so much.

Loving someone is not just about having them, it can also be about letting them go and watching them run to a wider world.

And he could step back step by step, as long as he saw her happiness from a distance, that was enough.
Chapter completed!