The first thing Lu Jinzhou did when he returned to China was to go to Lanting Yaju. Jiang Qinian and Ye Huan were waiting inside. It was obvious that they had been up for a few days and were not in the mood, but were anxious.

Jiang Qinian glanced at the gauze still on Lu Jinzhou's forehead and said, "Brother..."

Before she could finish her words, she saw the man heading straight to the study.

Lu Jinzhou opened the drawer and saw the letter that Chen Nianchu had left for her. The handwriting was beautiful, and some of the words were wet and blurred by tears.

[Lu Jinzhou, when you see this letter, I will have already left.

A lot of things have happened recently. Before these things happened, I never thought that one day I would be protected, pampered and loved by you like this. Thank you so much.

Thank you for spending time with me and helping me solve so many problems without complaint. Thank you for taking care of my mom for so long. Thank you for protecting me so well even though I was covered in wounds, and for keeping me away from the troubles of the outside world. Thank you for everything you have done for me...

I'm sorry too.

I know that if my mother hadn't forced you, if you hadn't been afraid that I would worry, you would never have helped her hide her illness. I know you were thinking about me, but I still blamed you and got angry with you at that time. I'm sorry.

I was probably just looking for an excuse, an outlet.

It was clearly my fault that I didn't care about her with all my heart. It was clearly my negligence that I didn't discover her illness earlier, and I didn't discover her already deformed love with Shen Huaifeng earlier... It was clearly my problem, but I transferred my anger onto you, thinking that if I vented my temper, I wouldn't feel so guilty.

But this idea is so ridiculous. The more I want to numb myself, the more I blame myself. I live in regret and self-blame every day, and completely ignore your feelings. I'm sorry, you must be tired facing me, who is lifeless and depressed every day, right?

Now, because of the things happening in my family, you have to be criticized by so many people. Although you never mention these things, I know it all. It is my fault. I did not take these things into consideration. I was too ruthless in dealing with the Shen family's affairs, which made you so tired.

I don't want to drag you down anymore. I don't want you to become the target of criticism because of me, and I don't want you to suffer because of your significant other in the future...

After we got together, you were the one taking care of me. I didn't seem to have given anything for you. However, how can you love someone and just ask for things and gain things unilaterally? I have thought about it carefully, and it seems that the only thing I can do now is to not drag you down.

So, let's break up. You are really a good man and deserve someone better. It's not worth wasting your time on me. I wish you all the best in the future.

Don't worry.

Shen Nianchu

Lu Jinzhou gritted his teeth, his eyes were bloodshot, and his hard fists pressed against the table.

"Impossible. I had a video call with her that day, and she was clearly in a much better mood. How could she suddenly leave a letter and then leave?"

Ye Huan took the letter, read it in a few seconds, and began to cry again.

"That's impossible. She must have been provoked by something, or someone must have said something to her. She has loved you for so many years and finally got to be with you. How could she suddenly want to leave you after all this time?"

Jiang Qinian was bewildered, "What do you mean by loving for so many years?"

Seeing Lu Jinzhou also staring at her, Ye Huan had no choice but to say,

"You may not remember, but ten years ago, the Lu family held a dinner party. Shen Huaifeng took thirteen-year-old Nianchu to the Lu family. But Nianchu was being bullied at school at the time. At the Lu family residence, she ran into those who bullied her at school. Seeing that she was dressed up in a skirt that day, they deliberately bullied her. She was forced to jump into the Lu family swimming pool, and you jumped in to save her."

Lu Jinzhou's thoughts were instantly brought back to that evening. He did have an impression of it, after all, that was his first time helping someone.

At that time, the girl's thick long hair was cut into different lengths, her clothes were torn into a mess, and she was shivering from the cold water in the swimming pool, her face turning blue.

No wonder he felt that Shen Nianchu's eyes seemed familiar.

At that time, the girl's entire face was covered with wet hair, and I couldn't see what she looked like at all. I only remember that her clear peach blossom eyes were filled with gratitude and timidity that needed no words.

It was those eyes that he still thinks of from time to time. Her trembling look, like a frightened rabbit, makes him feel very uncomfortable.

For a long time, he blamed himself for not helping her teach those who bullied her a lesson that day. He even asked the housekeeper whose child that was, wanting to know if she was bullied again.

But in such a big Lu residence, no one knew who the child belonged to.

It might be that the children of those big families were afraid of him because they were involved, so they pretended not to know.

It turned out to be Shen Nianchu...

Jiang Qinian also remembered and suddenly realized, "If you're talking about jumping into the water to save someone, then it's about that little girl who was bullied by several major families that night. I remember you came back to change your wet clothes and asked someone to take the girl to change clothes, but she ran away."

After all, Lu Jinzhou has always been a cold and aloof person. He doesn't even pay attention to women, let alone jump into the water to save a girl.

At that time, he and Lu Xingzhou teased Lu Jinzhou, saying that he was about to become an adult and was beginning to feel romantic.

The more Ye Huan recalled the scene when he heard this, the more uncomfortable he felt.

"That day, Chen Nianchu fell in love with you and roses, simply because when you appeared that day, the road you passed by was lined with white roses. She once said that you were her salvation. How could she possibly break up with someone she had loved for ten years?"

Ten years of secret love...

Jiang Qinian marveled at this and expressed his own conjecture, "But what if, as she said in the letter, she loved him so deeply that she didn't want to be a burden to her eldest brother, so she left?"

After all, some people in Beijing have said some unpleasant things recently.

Ye Huan also hesitated and looked at Lu Jinzhou with red eyes. He couldn't tell what emotion he was feeling at the moment.

Lu Jinzhou felt uncomfortable and choked up inside, as if a thousand-pound stone was pressing on his chest.

His girl had liked him for ten years without him knowing.

Since he had loved her for ten years, why did he let go so easily? She should know that he was not someone who was afraid of rumors.

Jiang Qinian was still thinking nonsense, and suddenly an idea occurred to him, "Brother, is there any place where you two have shared memories? If we break up, we'll always have to revisit the old place out of nostalgia."

This reminded Lu Jinzhou, "Go to Su City."

I had said before that I would go there with Yu Wanhua, but I didn’t make it during my lifetime and passed away. According to Shen Nianchu’s idea, I should go there to check on Yu Wanhua.

"Send more personnel to the Sucheng search, arrange a plane, and fly to Sucheng now."

He had said it long ago that he was not someone who could come and go as he pleased. Since he had been provoked, there was no reason to abandon him halfway.

Want to break up, and he agrees?