Lumi slowly opened his eyes at five o'clock in the morning. He was annoyed. This damned biological clock. No matter what time he fell asleep, he had to wake up at five o'clock.
Why was he upset? Because today was New Year's Day! His daughter was resting today, so she didn't have to wake up early to make breakfast.
He reached for his phone on the bedside table.
…Touched the cold wall? Then he would switch on the lights first.
…He couldn't find the switch.
Lumi was slightly annoyed, and his eyes that had adapted to the darkness looked at the window that had a glimmer of light.
The impatient barking of dogs and the berating of men came from outside the window.
A voice that was too clear!
Lumi instantly woke up. He pulled open the curtains and looked around the room in the dim light. It was a familiar yet strange hut.
He pushed open the door!
This was…the bungalow that they had lived in before they moved!
She kicked on her cotton slippers and walked out of the door to the living room of the old house. There was a set of leather sofas for three people. The yellow sponge on the armrest was already exposed. In front of it was a coffee table made of glass plates, and the floor was painted red…
Lumi froze.
A woman who was not yet old pushed the door open and came in with dry wood in her arms.
Ah! It was his mother! Seeing the stunned Lumi, he scolded,
"Quickly wash your face and help your dad feed the dog. He left early in the morning.”
Lumi woke up and looked at his mother's smooth face and black hair. He hurriedly took the half bundle of dry wood from his mother's hands, turned into the kitchen, and placed it in front of the stove. He suddenly got up and rushed into the room, closing the door tightly. Outside the door, his mother muttered in confusion, What was wrong with him?
Lumi lowered his head in the room, tears streaming down his face.
It was as if a long forgotten past had appeared before his eyes.
Lumi was not a very sensible child in her youth. She seemed quiet and aloof from the world, but because her father was often jealous of her younger brother, who was two years younger than her. The family environment that valued boys over girls, her father's violence, and her mother's obedience created Lumi's timid and inferior personality. Even if Lumi was born with a beautiful face, she could not give her confidence. She still hid her chest and back, and was always the dispensable one in the class.
Ten years later, Lumi's thoughts could be described as 16-year-old: Pretentious!
Who cares about you if you think you're something! Who was she showing her inferiority to? They could only be looked down upon! Who made you angry? Fight back!
However, the mentality of a teenage girl was abnormal and incomprehensible.
Lumi's grades were average. Due to his sullen and unsociable personality, only two of his classmates were close to each other. As a result, he completely distanced himself from his junior high school classmates after failing the middle school examination. He did not attend a junior high school class reunion until he was 42 years old.
Every time her classmates contacted her at a gathering, they would reject her with various reasons.
I'm sorry! I can't go back overseas.
I'm sorry! I'm not feeling well and I'm on a drip in the hospital.
I'm sorry! I'm busy at the factory outside.
…He could just use all sorts of reasons to avoid it.
He also experienced the pain of following Lumi for a lifetime-running away from home.
This was also the reason why Lumi left the small town he grew up in and came to the unfamiliar Y City, completely escaping from his upbringing.
He remembered that it was April. The closer it was to the high school entrance exam, the more Lumi felt that the high school entrance exam was hopeless. He was afraid to see his mother's disappointed eyes again and again. He secretly planned to leave. He secretly took the 800 yuan from his father's pocket, left a note, and ran to the long-distance bus station to City M.
The reason why it was City M was because it was the furthest city Lumi had been to in his 16 years of life. It was 170 kilometers away from his hometown. At that time, they had to take a long-distance bus for five hours.
Lumi wandered for a whole week. During the day, they would stroll around the streets and underground squares. At night, they would go to the waiting hall of the train station and sit there foolishly. When he was tired, he would take a nap. When he was hungry, he would buy a piece of bread and take a bite. In fact, he rarely felt hungry because he couldn't eat at all due to stress and fear.
Lumi still remembered that feeling. It was a week of panic and fear. It was the same at home. Because of Lumi's disappearance, it was a complete mess.
Later, his parents finally found Lumi and went home together.
Rumors of Rumi's run away from home spread throughout the town.
After returning to the classroom after a month of suspension, Lumi became even more cowardly. At the most critical moment before the middle school entrance examination, it was inevitable that he would miss the middle school entrance examination.
Later, under the heavy pressure from her father, her mother finally took a firm stance. If a sixteen-year-old child doesn't study, what do you want her to do? He insisted on sending Lumi to a high school and chose Russian among accounting, computer science, and Russian.
Rumi grew up in a small city on the border between China and Russia, opposite the Russian port. Mastering Russian was equivalent to mastering a life skill.
As it turned out, the three years of learning Russian were the happiest years of Lumi's youth. No matter what, Lumi was grateful for her mother's choice.
Rumi, who had returned to school, seemed to have been enlightened overnight. He was good at his studies, liked by his classmates, valued by his teachers, and had confidence. His body had also grown crazily to 1.71 meters tall. He was thin and tall, and with his already delicate and beautiful facial features, Rumi had a period of glory.
After graduating, Lumi first went to the foreign trade mall to sell goods as a translator. After accumulating experience and capital, she started her own small business. At the age of 21, she met her husband Zhang Ke through a friend who worked with her.
It was a kind but mediocre boy, three years older than Lumi and two centimeters shorter. He was a small accountant in a timber company and had been in love for three years. When he was twenty-four years old, his grandmother, whom he had always loved, said to Lumi, While grandma is still alive, let grandma see you get married.
So Lumi got married.
In the second year of their marriage, her grandparents passed away one after another.
Lumi couldn't bear to continue being mediocre and decided to go to Russia to work hard. Two years later, Zhang Ke quit his useless job in China and left the country together.
The first days in Russia were chaotic and unfamiliar, but with a young, tough, and hard-working heart, coupled with a skilled language, Lumi finally saw the rainbow after the storm. Lumi earned a big bucket of gold.
In his fourth year in Russia, he gave birth to his daughter, Ranran. When his daughter went to primary school, Lumi and Zhang Ke completely returned to the country. From then on, Lumi became a child slave.
From 2004 to 2014, Lumi, who had lived abroad for ten years, could not adapt to the pace of life in China.
First, he started a factory with a friend, but in less than a year, it closed down due to poor management.
Later, his best friend advised Lumi to travel. After entering the industry, Lumi understood the inside story. If he didn't cheat, he wouldn't be able to earn money. If he cheated, Lumi wouldn't be able to get past his inner barrier. He barely managed to run the business for a year and stopped.
After half a year of rest, he inspected the food and beverage projects on the Internet and finally decided to open a hot pot restaurant. He thought that it might be hard, but it was practical.
The business of the hotpot restaurant in the early stage was good. In the process of gradually recovering the capital, it caught up with the New Year of 2020. The tide of the epidemic hit like a storm. Entertainment and restaurants were closed, the community was closed, and the dining hall was cancelled...
He persisted for another year, both mentally and physically exhausted. He really couldn't hold on any longer, and the hotpot restaurant also lost money.
Three consecutive business failures had dealt an unspeakable blow to Lumi. He wanted to return to Russia, but his child was about to enter junior high school without anyone to tutor him. Staying in the country, there was nothing to do, so he stopped moving forward.
In five years, he had started three businesses. Other than his will being worn down, he had little money left. Lumi was really hurt.
In order to be safe, the couple discussed and opened a convenience store at the entrance of the community. From then on, they lived a truly mediocre life...
As for the child, he had returned to the country under the banner of raising his daughter, but he had raised his daughter into a weirdo.
She had been nurturing him with all her heart, but her grades had been mediocre ever since she entered junior high school. He wanted to raise her into a princess, but he ended up with a lazy child who couldn't distinguish between food and water. He wanted to cultivate his hobbies and specialties in many ways, but in the end, everything was not enough. He was strict with others and relaxed with himself. He chased stars and dramas, and he was arrogant…
What a failure! What a failure! In the blink of an eye, another ten years had passed since he returned to the country, and he had accomplished nothing!
Rumi often wondered, Was it wrong? What happened to my life?
Every night, in the dead of the night, Lumi would look at the lights outside the window, and his unwillingness and confusion would make him feel extremely miserable…
Often reminiscing and hating his younger self, was it because he would have been admitted to high school if he had not made a mistake, and would not have been unable to attend university for the rest of his life? As a result, his horizons were not high enough.
Was it because he was a little more cheerful back then that he had an optimistic and confident attitude? As a result, he was not broad-minded enough.
Was it because he had worked hard and strictly demanded himself back then that he would have a different life? He would not be as mediocre as he was today.
Pain, unwillingness, regret, insomnia, tormented Lumi…until January 1, 2023.
Twenty-six years of the past appeared in Lumi's mind like a movie.
"Lumi! Why aren't you going to feed the dogs? What are you doing in the room?"
Her mother's voice, which was now filled with angry impatience, pulled Lumi out of his memory and back to reality. It was so kind and pleasantly surprised.
Yes, this was not a dream. This was reality.
It's January 1st, 1996. There's still time. I'll change the future!
Lumi closed his eyes and put his hands together in front of his chest.
"Ran Ran, Zhang Ke, we might not meet again in this life. I'm sorry!”
"Coming!" Lumi called out to his mother and left the room.
Her mother glared at Lumi with a look of disappointment. When she saw her sixth-grade brother sitting quietly on the sofa reading a book, Lumi's heart was calm.
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