aren't we in love

Chapter 37 It's Destiny

Two years later

A year is 365 days, 8760 hours, 525600 minutes, 31536000 seconds, multiplied by 2, is the two years that have passed quietly.That sounds like a huge number.But to Lu Yingqin, two years seemed like dust on his shoulders, and it disappeared with a flick.

He has done a lot in the past two years.Expanded the company's scale, invested in several projects abroad, met many new business partners, met a few women on a whim...but nothing, it really touched his heart.

In the past two years, there has been no news of Cheng Duanwu.Maybe, she was really dead, maybe, she just hid and didn't want to see him again.

No matter which of the two, Lu Yingqin didn't want to accept it.

The almost crippled left hand always reminded Lu Yingqin that the tragic past really existed, but everything was really like a big dream.In such a decisive way, she cut off all entanglements with him.

But those years that should have passed by long ago turned into a sharp knife, piercing Lu Yingqin's heart fiercely.Her disappearance became a shackle, which made him have nightmares again and again, unable to sleep at night, often waking up in a cold sweat.

He always keeps himself busy, because busy work occasionally makes him forget those entangled memories, but sometimes it backfires.

Like now.

He was drunk the night before, and his body was obviously exhausted to the extreme, but his consciousness was still abnormally clear.He vomited several times in a row, and the filth all over his body was sent back to the villa by the driver.He doesn't like people touching him.Staggering into the bathroom with a heavy head on his head, he didn't see clearly for a while, and bumped his head against the wall lamp. The wire loop protecting the lampshade pierced a skin on his forehead, and the blood flowed down the eyebrows to his lips. He subconsciously licked it, it was salty and fishy, ​​but he didn't feel any pain at all.

After taking a shower, I went to bed and fell asleep.Had a dream all night.The face of the woman in the dream has gradually become blurred.But the outline still vaguely has the shadow of Cheng Duanwu.

Lu Yingqin suddenly felt that he seemed to be a person with a bad memory, but after two years, he couldn't remember what Cheng Duanwu looked like.

When he woke up in the morning, he kept forcing himself to remember, but he couldn't remember anything. Finally, in a corner of the desk drawer, he found a stack of photos secretly taken by Guan Yi when he checked her.The distance was long, the angles were blurred, and there was almost no face, but Lu Yingqin felt extremely satisfied after looking at the photos one by one.

Cheng Duanwu's beautiful face gradually became clear in his mind.

He didn't know what kind of psychology it was, so he took one of the photos and stuffed it into his wallet.

It was a failed candid photo. It seemed that Cheng Duanwu was turning his head, and the focus was a little slow. A little bit of fair skin on the shoulders exposed from the collar.

Opening the window and blowing some wind, I felt a splitting headache, my temples seemed to be pulled by something, and I was throbbing. I woke up from a hangover, my limbs and bones seemed to be falling apart, and my thoughts were much slower than usual. I didn't think about anything, but for no reason, my heart was empty.

Early in the morning, the secretary transferred Yu Dong's call.They chatted casually, and finally Yu Dong invited him to the celebration banquet of Yu Jiajia's new play.Yu Jiajia, who debuted for two years, has already made her mark in the entertainment industry, and her new play even won the Best Newcomer Award in a certain movie award.

But these are no longer the scope of Lu Yingqin's attention.He declined Yu Dong's invitation.

A year ago, Yu Dong's business investment failed, and Lu Yingqin invited him back to the company to continue working with him out of compensation.Facing Yu Dong, he would not feel embarrassed by such an obvious act of compensation, but facing Cheng Duanwu, for some reason, he felt a layer of separation in his heart.

He treated her well in his own way, she didn't understand, and he didn't explain.He always hoped that she would see his concessions.In the end, his behavior drove her away, forcing her to disappear from this world.

In the past two years, he has also figured out a lot.

He put all the old grudges and ex-enmities behind him, and he began to learn to treat many people and things with a peaceful mind.

However, everything is late.

Two years ago, when Lu Yingqin was discharged from the hospital, Yu Jiajia called him.

She didn't hide it: "I did it on purpose. I chose this time to come back on purpose, called Cheng Duanwu on purpose, and provoked you on purpose. It was all on purpose."

Lu Yingqin held the phone, his expression unchanged: "I know."

"I know you know everything, but what I didn't expect was that Cheng Duanwu would do such a great job!" She laughed wantonly: "Retribution! You, Lu Yingqin, have this day too! Retribution!"

Lu Yingqin was silent, Cheng Duanwu asked him three questions before hitting him with his car.The answers to those three questions created in Cheng Duanwu's heart a heinous Lu Yingqin who "killed his father", "killed his brother" and "seized his son".He didn't explain, and he didn't want to explain. At that time, he was just angry, angry that Cheng Duanwu didn't give him any trust.

However, when he turned around, it was the car she decided to drive over...

He no longer had a chance to explain.

He sighed: "Jia Jia, do you feel happy like this?"

Jealousy makes a woman become distorted and crazy, "I was in hell a long time ago, and now pulling you to hell is my greatest joy!"

When he lost Cheng Duanwu, he was so angry that he wanted to destroy everything, but when he woke up, he felt that everything didn't matter, what's the use of ruining the whole world, and she wouldn't come back.

"Jia Jia, I don't blame you. You followed me and everything was done well. I am sorry for you. From now on, we will owe nothing to anyone."

Lu Yingqin's forgiveness stunned Yu Jiajia, she was silent for a long time before asking: "Lu Yingqin, are you really in love with Cheng Duanwu?"

Lu Yingqin didn't answer, but he had an answer in his heart.

Yu Jiajia asked again: "If Cheng Duanwu came back one day, what are you going to do?"

Lu Yingqin paused, then replied softly: "Compensate her."

Three words, succinct answer, Yu Jiajia laughed after listening, and finally, she said quietly: "She will never come back! Lu Yingqin, whether it's apologizing to me or making up to her, it's too late."

Cheng Duanwu has lived a low-key and simple life for the past two years.Out of absolute protection, no one contacted her. She had an ID card with a completely different name from her own, and so did Dong Dong.

Apparently the child is more receptive than her.He has gotten used to the new name "Winter", and Cheng Duanwu obviously hasn't fully entered the identity of "Ashely".

She often thinks about things in a trance, and she doesn't respond when she thinks that others keep calling her name, but when she comes to her senses, she doesn't know what she is thinking.

In two years, she only saw that person from afar once.

The glamorous city she lives in, a city with a very high population density, is a co-existence of crime and prosperity.At the beginning, Ou Hanwen was interested in the prosperity of this place, but it was also very messy.Hiding here is the most dangerous and safest.

Indeed, as he thought, in a city full of smugglers, immigrants, and replacement identities, it is very easy for Tibetans.In the past two years, she has lived extremely peacefully.

Except that time, the time I saw him from afar.

A landmark building in the city was completed, and he was one of the investors.It seems that his business is getting bigger and bigger, and it has already spread overseas. He has never been short of business acumen, and calculating people is his strong point.

As a financial businessman from China, he is one of the representative speakers.

There were so many onlookers, they were so crowded that they were surrounded by media cameras and cameras in the front row, and Cheng Duanwu only saw him from the large floor-to-ceiling screen.

He is still the same as ever.He is well-planned in business affairs, wise and good at talking, and his fluent and authentic English is convincing.But that's all.There was still no warmth in his eyes.The whole person rejects others thousands of miles away.

She didn't know why and stopped with the crowd. At that moment, she didn't worry that she would be discovered, but just calmly looked at him on the podium and listened to his familiar yet unfamiliar voice on the loudspeaker.

It seems like a lifetime away.She was silent, her chest was throbbing with pain.The past that had been buried for a long time gradually recovered, and the wound that was thought to have scabbed over was gently uncovered, only to find that it was still dripping with blood.

"Ashely."

"Ashely!"

"Ashely!!"

The friend who was walking with her called her three times in a row before she came back to her senses.She urged Cheng Duanwu to leave as soon as possible, she had a mild "tense phobia".

Cheng Duanwu agreed, and finally looked back at Lu Yingqin.

On the floor-to-ceiling screen, he was zoomed in proportionally, his facial features were still as handsome as yesterday, a man in his early thirties, in his golden age, seemed to be full of charm from head to toe.In his eyes, there is an absolute confidence.He has been speaking politely to the media, occasionally sweeping away the crowd.The gentleman looked calm again.It was far from the violent man in Cheng Duanwu's memory.

Maybe people change.Cheng Duanwu thought.

She smiled and left with her friend.

Cheng Duanwu never thought that one day he would return to that place, look for that person, and face those unbearable memories of the past.

Many times, she feels powerless in the face of fate.

She wanted to live an ordinary life, but fate made her unable to settle in her hometown, so she fled far away; fate made her unable to have a normal family and love, so she didn't want it; even, fate made her Can no longer be called "Cheng Duanwu", she also obediently gave up.

But fate, fate never forgave her.

After packing the simple luggage, the old lady in the neighbor's house touched her face with some distress: "Ashely, do you really want to go back? Wouldn't it be better to just stay here?"

Cheng Duanwu shook his head helplessly: "I have to go back."

"Maybe there are other ways? This is the worst plan, isn't it?"

Cheng Duanwu opened the door wearily, the wind outside the door blew on her face, it was cool, her heart became more and more determined, and she held the suitcase tightly, she said to the neighbor's wife: "I have to go back , I have no time to delay, even if it is the worst plan, I will try, I must hurry, there is no time."

(End of this chapter)