The child wants to support his parents but they don't wait for him.

  I returned home to find Chen Sang actually staying at home, isn't that rare! She was watching TV with a face mask on. Looking at Chen Sang, I thought of what Lin Yuhuan said, if you don't worry about it, then you're a cold-blooded animal...

  I asked her if she had eaten lunch, and she replied that she hadn't yet, waiting for the water to boil, and would be having instant noodles soon. She told me that she just bought me a pack of Kangshifu's pickled vegetable instant noodles. My habit of eating instant noodles was also cultivated by Chen Sang. I opened the fridge and took out the meat patty, egg, and headed towards the kitchen.

  Chen Sang looked at me as if she had seen a Martian, and asked uncertainly, "Do you want to cook?" She was surprised and found it strange. I'm a very lazy person, even ordering takeout over the phone is a hassle for me. I threw the instant noodle container on the table aside and told Chen Sang not to eat instant noodles anymore.

  She stared at me with wide eyes, as if she didn't recognize me at all. I ignored her and turned into the kitchen. I couldn't even remember how long it had been since I last cooked, three months, half a year? I couldn't recall. My cooking skills were barely passable, only able to make some simple home-cooked dishes. Chen Sang must have been extremely hungry, as he finished off even the soup.

  I was washing the bowls and chopsticks when she was answering the phone, vaguely hearing Chen Sang mention Keke's name. After Chen Sang hung up the phone, I asked her what was going on. Chen Sang told me that Keke's father was ill, and she rushed home, not coming to work anymore.

  I called Coco and she might be on a plane, her phone is turned off.

  Today is Friday, the nightclub's business is the best, so I just lay in bed for a while and got up to make calls to those red cards and start work. Until five o'clock, I can finally get off work, people are free, I thought of Keke, so I called her.

  She cried on the phone and told me that her father had a cerebral hemorrhage and passed away. He had been suffering from headaches for a long time, and the elderly often have some minor ailments. Her father thought it was not a serious illness and didn't want to spend money going to the hospital, so he just bought pain-relieving powder or bought some herbal medicine back home to brew. She learned from her mother that recently her father had planned to help her buy an apartment, which would cost almost all of their savings from selling fruits for half their lives.

  She cried and asked me, also asking herself, how she had run so far to study in the first place. She said her parents only had her as their daughter, and at that time, how could she have stayed in Shenzhen for a man, ruining herself for a scumbag of a man.

  She had always thought she was good to her parents, sending them a living allowance every month and calling them several times a week. But when her father really passed away, she realized that what she could do was so little. She said she really regretted it, her father had worked hard all his life but hadn't enjoyed the fruits of his labor well, she hadn't taken good care of him as a daughter should, and she cried out asking why he had to leave.

  I have never experienced paternal love, the most I got from my father was scolding and beatings, so I couldn't understand Coco's sorrow, nor could I comprehend the regretful pain of "children want to support their parents but are not allowed to".

  I can only comfort Keke and say some comforting words. When I asked her when she would come back, she told me that after finishing her father's funeral, she would return, but she just wanted to hand over her work properly, she didn't want to stay in Shenzhen anymore, this bustling city that makes people lose their minds, she wanted to go back to her mother's side.

  I've known Coco for almost a year, and our relationship has been good. We took care of each other. But after Coco left Shenzhen, I didn't contact her again. She changed her phone number without telling me the new one, and she wanted to cut ties with everyone in her circle cleanly.

  My heart feels a little lost, and I'm starting to understand Chen Sang's worries. She's also afraid that after I leave, she'll be erased from my world, after all, it was an inglorious experience, and everyone tries to hide it.