Crossing the line

Chapter 32 No Crossing of Boundaries and No Show of Love

Blue Coral fell onto the tiles in the lobby on the first floor.

Coral is fragile. Yun Yuwan got up hastily despite the pain and saw that the blue coral downstairs had been shattered all over the floor.

The slender branches were beyond recognition, lying in pieces in the lobby on the first floor. She hurried downstairs to pick them up.

She felt so panicked that it felt like a dense network of needles were stabbing her, making her anxious but not knowing what to do.

It’s not that she didn’t have the money to buy the blue coral. She could even collect the money to compensate for the problem, but this was the Wen family, not the outside world. Her money was useless here.

Just when she was anxious, the cell phone in the living room suddenly rang. She looked over and found that it was her brother's cell phone that was left at home.

She had a hand full of blue coral fragments, and she didn't know what to do with them. She filled her fingers with them and slid the back of her fingers down to the answer button.

A restrained and cold voice sounded from the other end: "Hello."

She didn't even dare to say another word, fearing that she would choke and sob: "...Hello."

Wen Yangzhi recognized her and said nothing more. He calmly and concisely said:

"Have the maid deliver the phone to the head office. I'll have my secretary wait in the lobby."

She tried hard to hold back her anxious mood and pretended nothing happened: "Oh, okay, I'll wait a moment..."

But she couldn't hold back her tears from the word "oh" on, and she couldn't say the rest of the sentence. All the tears were stuck in her throat, making her unable to make a sound.

There was silence for a moment, and then a calm and quiet question came out, which was very powerful and calming:

"Why are you crying?"

She couldn't help crying: "Brother, I broke the blue coral, what should I do... Will it be in time for me to buy another one now?"

Blue coral, where can I buy blue coral?

But the other end hummed calmly: "It's okay, give the phone to the butler and have someone bring it over."

Just talking about the cell phone.

She held the blue coral in her hand, as if she was drowning in the blue color of the coral, and the other party hung up the phone directly.

She seemed to have fallen suddenly from a very high cliff, with no support at all. It was like the feeling of suddenly falling in a dream, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.

She finally realized that her brother had no intention of helping her and that he was unaware of her situation of surviving in the cracks.

She put the coral back in its place weakly, wiped her tears with her sleeve and went to find the housekeeper.

When talking about mobile phones, my tears almost burst again, not because of Blue Coral, but because of my brother's attitude.

She only spoke in a low voice, maintaining a semblance of calm: "My brother told me to have someone deliver the phone to the head office. His secretary is waiting on the first floor."

The housekeeper saw that she wanted to cry, although he didn't know the reason, he just thought it was funny to see her crying, so he took the phone and left.

She is not a fool and can feel the contempt.

When Aunt Qin came back in the evening, the servant had not yet had time to tell her about Blue Coral.

Yun Yuwan spoke up: "Auntie, the blue coral you brought back to the country was broken." Yun Yuwan was so nervous that she almost had to suppress her trembling voice when she spoke.

This was almost the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Because she lives in someone else's home, she always feels the need to please others, and she'll feel like she's done something wrong if there's even a slight change in the tone of voice.

Because we cannot change other people's original lifestyle and habits because of our existence, we have to observe their words and expressions and dare not do anything that may be annoying.

She knew that as long as she relied on the Wen family, those hungry relatives would not come to snatch away her parents' house and inheritance, and would not bully her.

She knew that the Wen family had been kind to her, but she couldn't tell anyone about any details of being wronged or treated poorly.

She slept on a hard mattress for three whole months, and her waist hurt from it. When she took a shower, she could never reach the high shower head, so she had to stand carefully on the sink and fiddle with it. She was extremely careful at school, fearing that the teacher would call her parents and cause trouble for them.

She was very afraid of the night because she was always thinking about her parents and couldn't sleep all night. She would be very hungry, but she didn't dare go out to eat. She didn't dare to call the maid to cook noodles for her like Aunt Qin did. She didn't dare to touch things in the kitchen for fear of breaking them and causing trouble for others.

Even when the maid occasionally reminded her, "Miss Yun, don't leave the shower head hanging next time. It's easy to break. Just replace your one, not the whole building. When you tell the housekeeper about purchasing one, be sure to mention ours," she would apologize in fear and trepidation.

She didn't like eating glutinous rice in the morning at all because she had a bad stomach and couldn't digest it. She would have stomach pain all morning.

But her aunt likes to eat it, so she can only accompany her aunt to eat.

Her room used to be her aunt's cloakroom. Although many cabinets had been moved out, there were still two cabinets integrated into the wall that could not be moved. Her aunt would always come in suddenly to find some clothes or jewelry that she needed to wear suddenly. She really wanted her own private space, but she was not entitled to it.

There was no trash can in the bathroom of her room. Paper towels could be flushed but sanitary napkins could not. After changing the sanitary napkin, she did not dare to throw it into the trash can outside the room because it was private garbage. She could only wait until she went out and wrap it in a paper towel and throw it into the trash can outside the school.

A person who has been the most confident since childhood has become a child who has to depend on others for her life, because she has no parents and no one to support her.

Her self-confidence turned into fake self-confidence. She would magnify any good thing that happened to her to comfort herself and deceive herself that her existence was still strongly affirmed. As a result, self-confidence turned into a narcissistic disorder. People who overly force themselves to be confident cannot be truly confident and will only have overly fragile self-esteem.

So the night her brother waited for her, the moment he took her to burn incense, the second he put his coat on her, her world was like a magnitude 10 earthquake, the earth and sky were shaking, and the rivers were flowing backwards.

But at this moment, she knew clearly that she was causing trouble for others, and it was a big trouble.

Yun Yuwan was about to say the next sentence when Wen Yangzhi suddenly said, "I broke it."

"The blue coral was broken?" Zhao Qin was shocked.

Yun Yuwan suddenly stopped talking, his hand holding the spoon stiffened, and he looked at Wen Yangzhi.

Wen Yangzhi picked up the food with a normal expression.

Zhao Qin asked cautiously, "Why didn't you tell your mother?"

"It's not a valuable thing, I forgot about it." Wen Yangzhi said in a casual tone.

Yun Yuwan knew exactly how much the ornament cost and was ready to watch, but Wen Yangzhi told her in front of her that it was not a valuable item.

It's not that he didn't care about her, he did.

But she could only shamefully suppress her emotions and not let herself be moved.

She knew very well that she might really feel relieved when the day came when she stopped peeking at him, but how could that day ever come? Until now, she couldn't control herself and kept trying hard to find possible interactions between the two of them. Knowing that Wen Yangzhi went jogging in the morning, she pretended to jog as well. Wen Yangzhi sometimes chatted with friends in the garden on weekend afternoons, and she would stay there every weekend afternoon pretending to read.

(End of this chapter)