Cloud Girl Chapter Twenty-Six

Chen Nanyi continued to lead a fulfilling life, thinking it could continue indefinitely, but unexpectedly, it was ultimately ruined by Chen Yiwen.

That day, she took Chen Yijing to exercise for a while at the playground at the foot of the mountain. When they returned home as usual, they found that Chen Yiwen had come back and had turned the room upside down.

When Chen Yiwen saw her return, his first question was abruptly: where was the property certificate for her house?

Chen Nanyi immediately became more alert.

As expected, under further questioning, Chen Yiwen reluctantly admitted that she needed to mortgage the house to make ends meet, saying that Lu Bo would repay the money to them later.

After hearing what she said, Chen Nanyi frowned and her tone turned cold. "How could you believe such nonsense?"

She said seriously, "Do you really believe he wants to expand the competition, instead of Xu Xiaomeng wanting to thoroughly investigate the company's finances to cover the losses? Even I know this, and you... or do you think he agreed to marry you? Don't be silly... Didn't we agree that this house is for Yi Jing? If you need money, the money Mom left you, and the funds for Yi Jing and my education, are all with you; you can use them first. But this house belongs to Yi Jing, and no one can touch it!"

Chen Yiwen probably hadn't expected Chen Nanyi to respond so resolutely. She paused for a moment, clearly suppressing her anger, then smiled, licked her lips, and tried to argue, "What does Yijing know? Giving her the house won't do her any good..."

Chen Yi fell silent as she spoke, and when she saw Chen Nanyi's cold eyes staring at her, she realized that it was inappropriate for her, as an older sister and a person with higher education, to say such things.

However, after a while, Chen Yiwen became impatient and said in a gruff voice.

"Alright, since you want it this way, I won't say anything else. You say this house belongs to Yi Jing, then let her choose for herself. Whoever she wants to be with has the right to dispose of the house. Is that acceptable?"

Chen Nanyi was taken aback by Chen Yiwen's sudden angry tone and was somewhat bewildered, but what he said was true, so she immediately frowned and replied with a "yes".

Chen Yiwen didn't say anything more after that.

Chen Nanyi thought that they were all family, and no matter how much they argued, it would still be the same. Since there was nothing wrong with it, she didn't interfere.

However, Chen Nanyi never imagined that Chen Yiwen would be so love-obsessed and heartless.

The next morning, Chen Yiwen went to great lengths to drag Chen Yijing to the open space in front of the door, and actually made Chen Yijing choose whether to live with Chen Nanyi or with him.

Only now did Chen Nanyi frown and take a serious look at the completely unrecognizable Chen Yiwen, concealing the sorrow and disappointment that welled up in her eyes.

But she understood that Chen Yiwen was a strong-willed person who always kept his word, and now that things had come to this, there was no way to stop him, so she stopped talking.

Chen Yijing was woken up from her drowsy sleep by the sound of the wind rustling through the forest.

She opened her eyes and saw Chen Yiwen, whom she hadn't seen in a long time, appearing in her house, speaking in a language she didn't understand, as if she were being asked to choose who she wanted to live with. She was stunned.

Chen Yijing didn't understand what this separation meant, but since her eldest sister insisted so strongly, she naturally complied.

To demonstrate her fairness, Chen Yiwen did not urge them.

Chen Yijing stood there blankly, biting her fingers as she pondered.

Subconsciously, she preferred to be closer to Chen Yiwen. Although Chen Nanyi was more reassuring, her wishes were always fulfilled whenever Chen Yiwen came back, while Chen Nanyi always forbade her from doing this or that. Therefore, she still preferred the cheerful Chen Yiwen.

Chen Yijing thought to herself.

However, Chen Yijing, who was holding the plush toy, looked at Chen Nanyi, who was standing forlornly to the side and no longer paying attention to her, and felt a pang of pity—she had just been worried that Chen Nanyi was cold, so she took off her clothes and put them on her! Therefore, Chen Yijing hesitated again.

A gust of wind blew by, and a strand of hair brushed against Chen Yijing's forehead.

Chen Yijing suddenly saw the stern and urging look in Chen Yiwen's eyes. It was the first time she had seen such a look, just like the few times she had seen her father's stern look.

Chen Yijing was flustered and dared not resist, so she hesitated and ran over to grab Chen Yiwen's hand.

The outcome is obvious.

Upon seeing this, Chen Nanyi was naturally disappointed.

She wanted to negotiate with Chen Yiwen again, but Chen Yiwen wouldn't listen to a word. She was indeed in the wrong and couldn't bring herself to stay. So she had no choice but to drag her weak body, pack her things, and leave the house.

Chen Yiwen acted swiftly, taking Chen Yijing back to her rented apartment in a neighboring city that same day, where she disappeared without a trace.

Chen Yiwen and Lu Bo had been living together for a long time, so they were naturally "of the same ilk".

However, because Xu Xiaomeng is currently riding high and her actions are even more extensive than Lu Ai's previous social endeavors, Lu Bo has become completely unscrupulous in his efforts to salvage the situation.

This lack of restraint was also reflected in their attitude towards Chen Nanyi and Chen Yijing—because their attitude became even worse.

Chen Nanyi went to Chen Yiwen more than once, wanting to take Chen Yijing away, but they blocked her at the door.

However, since Chen Nanyi said that the property rights of the house are indeed registered under Chen Yijing's name, even if Chen Yiwen is happy for Chen Nanyi to take Chen Yijing away, she cannot let her do so—because if she does, Chen Nanyi will have the right to dispose of the property.

While Chen Nanyi was in Tulo City, she couldn't see Chen Yijing. She tried to find her several times without success, and then she gave up on the idea.

She could only try to comfort herself, thinking that Chen Yiwen was a decent person. Although he was just too selfish, he shouldn't be that extreme. So, when she didn't see Chen Yijing, she just followed behind Chen Yiwen from time to time. She didn't want to be too decisive and just tried to persuade Chen Yiwen to change his mind in a gentle way.

However, it seems that even this kind of following may have angered Chen Yiwen, who has been having a lot of bad luck lately.

Chen Yiwen positioned herself as a supporter of Lu Bo's faction within the company. Therefore, after failing to criticize Chen Nanyi several times, she began to ridicule Chen Nanyi, whom she believed to be on Xu Xiaomeng's side!

"Don't think you're so noble. You sold Xu Xiaomeng for over 200,000 yuan to pay for your medical treatment, and now you feel like you lost out, right? Yes, now Xu Xiaomeng will inherit the Lu Group, and her net worth will be millions of times higher than before. You lost out so much!"

Chen Yi said in a sarcastic tone.

Chen Nanyi followed Chen Yiwen again, trying to persuade her to let her take Chen Yijing back to Tu Luoshan, but Chen Yiwen suddenly poured a string of words into her head.

For a long time, Chen Nanyi still didn't quite understand, or rather, she couldn't believe it, so she was a little slow to react.

Chen Yiwen was ridiculed by Qin Se for still being with Lu Bo, and Qin Se also assumed that Chen Nanyi had "broken up" with Xu Xiaomeng for money.

He then vented his anger on her, as if to vent his frustration.

In fact, Chen Yiwen had no idea that Chen Nanyi had never been with Xu Xiaomeng; it was all just her conjecture.

Chen Nanyi was shocked by what Chen Yiwen said. She originally thought that the money was paid by Chen Yiwen - but who would have thought that Xu Xiaomeng had agreed to "sell herself" back to the Lu family in order to ask Qin Se for money to treat her illness.

Chen Nanyi's heart was clearly stirred. Something called love suddenly overwhelmed her mind, and this impulse burst out from her chest, causing her whole body to tremble violently.

She almost wanted to rush up to Xu Xiaomeng and tell him how much she admired him, or how she had been longing for him for so long...

But she instantly remembered their current situations, and her surging passion suddenly vanished as if drenched in ice water.

Regardless of her motives, Xu Xiaomeng is no longer relevant to her, because she is now with Liu Shixi.

Unless she's willing to be a third party, like the mistress of her own father whom she despises, they might be able to get back together.

But even if that's the case, so what?

What else can she do? Give birth to a child like her illegitimate brother?

She didn't know.

When she rejected Xu Xiaomeng, she made no attempt to hide her displeasure with the illegitimate child, even though it was perfectly normal from her perspective.

Even if Xu Xiaomeng could understand her anger, she would still think that it was because of his shameful past as an illegitimate child.

Although that was not her intention.

But once the damage is done, the scars will never disappear; they can only be forgotten.

The best way for him to forget her was to never see her again.

She was the same.

Chen Nanyi stayed in Tulo City for a few days. Apart from the troublesome matter weighing on her mind, she couldn't help but be puzzled by Chen Yiwen's ambiguous attitude.

Because she neither explicitly rejected Chen Nanyi's request to follow her, but deliberately mocked her, it was as if she wanted to drag her along and abuse her.

It wasn't until a few days later that Chen Nanyi vaguely sensed something was wrong, and a thought began to emerge that she might have already sold the house, and was just missing the property certificate.

After all, given the current substantial resources of the Tu Luoshan Lu Clan Academy, such villas are naturally highly sought after.

But she thought that Chen Yiwen couldn't possibly act so quickly, and she was planning to try to persuade her again!

However, this hope was shattered when she couldn't resist secretly returning to her home in Tu Luoshan Community.

It wasn't until Chen Nanyi returned home that she discovered that all the flowers in the flowerbed she had planted for Chen Yijing had been dug up, and the surrounding open space had long been enclosed by high walls—she had been locked outside the house where she had lived for nearly twenty years.

The winds in this forest probably recognize her by now.

Chen Nanyi stood on the lonely bluestone path in the forest, lost in thought.

Listening to the wind whistling past my ears, the rustling sound is the sound of bamboo leaves; the delicate sound is the sound of pine trees; the rough sound is pine needles... and the cool sound, falling down my face and rolling to the ground with the wind, is the sound of tears.

Chen Nanyi's eyes were blurred by the wind as she tried to suppress all her emotions, looking at the house that no longer belonged to them in the night.

The time she spent living here in the first half of her life, the memories, and that carefree world of imagination are all gone—just like her vanished mother, and the springs, summers, autumns, and winters of those years, they will never be the same again.

Through the wall, from afar, Chen Nanyi could see the warm lights that had been turned on in the house, and the sounds of people coming down from upstairs, their voices—but they were not the kind of warming sounds that comforted her.

Then, a thumping sound came from inside the door as it opened.

Someone is about to come out!

Not wanting to be seen as a shameful voyeur, Chen Nanyi panicked and had no choice but to leave in a flustered state.

Chen Nanyi truly felt that she had probably shed all the tears of her life this year.

Even when her parents passed away before, she had never gone through anything as difficult as this year: she cried when she learned of her illness, she cried after Xu Xiaomeng confessed her feelings, she cried when she considered giving up on life, and she cried when she couldn't find Chen Yijing...

Even now, with her home auctioned off, she couldn't hold back her tears—a person who prided herself on being grown up since childhood was now crying like a three-year-old child outside the high walls.

Hearing that the people inside were about to open the door, Chen Nanyi had already fled in a panic, and in her haste, she ran up and hid in the opposite direction from the door.

Unexpectedly, it made her want to cry even more—in a daze, Chen Nanyi saw Xu Xiaomeng's figure winding down the mountain, with another woman's beautiful figure beside her.

This made Chen Nanyi, who originally wanted to see Xu Xiaomeng again, want to leave as quickly as possible—and in fact, she did just that.

Often, the encounters between people can only be described as a matter of fate.

If Chen Nanyi hadn't been so heartbroken today, and hadn't seen that Xu Xiaomeng wasn't alone, perhaps she could have greeted Xu Xiaomeng—because perhaps she would choose to leave this place of sorrow someday, and this might be their last greeting.

Unfortunately, Chen Nanyi still ran away, and she did so very quickly.

Small Theater

Xu Xiaomeng said, "When I think back to that time we met at the hospital, you knew you were sick but had considered not getting treatment, and it breaks my heart..."

Chen Nanyi →_→, "Tch, that sounds nice, but didn't you still think about not liking me anymore?"

Xu Xiaomeng (﹏), “How do you still remember? Maybe I already included you in my own circle back then. My mother has always taught me to be strict with myself. I treated you as my wife, so of course I felt…”

Chen Nanyi: "What... But I really don't deserve your affection, because even if I'm wrong, I won't admit or explain my mistakes."

Xu Xiaomeng said, "I know, I know you've stolen things before! But it was because you were forced to, which is why you hate your sister so much... Everyone says you have a strange temper and a quirky personality, but in my eyes, you're just a child who never grew up, showing all your emotions. You're just like a kind little girl, and also like a stubborn boy..."

Chen Nanyi: "Yes, of course, people do everything for a reason."

Xu Xiaomeng: "Oh my god, I've showered you with so much PDA, and this is all you've got? Shouldn't you take this opportunity to confess your feelings to me too?"

Chen Nanyi: "It's not like you said it. I never do anything without a reason. I have my own reasons for doing this."

Xu Xiaomeng (╥╯^╰╥), "I shouldn't have been so naive to think that one day iron trees would really bloom, roosters would really lay eggs, and blood would rain down from the sky, and that you, Chen Nanyi, would one day pity my heart, which is riddled with holes because of loving you... 555~"