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Ye Wenyu looked up, excitedly searching for the direction from which the sound was coming. It was coming from the bamboo grove behind the Arts Building!

She moved her feet nervously, walking quickly towards the direction from which the sound came, like a nimble cat. She wanted to know as soon as possible whether Brother Wen had really returned to China.

Perhaps it was just a boy with a similar voice to hers. It was just a hallucination caused by her lovesickness.

God knows how much suffering and hardship she endured while he was away from her!

At this moment, how she wished he were really back home, so she could fly into his arms like a happy little bird and feel his warmth and love.

At that moment, another familiar female voice rang out, answering the question from the previous voice: "It's okay, I'm very happy."

Like a bolt from the blue, Ye Wenyu froze, her face turning as pale as paper in an instant. That beautiful, melodious female voice was Lin Tingyue's. Had she heard correctly?

Was Cai Wenchuan back in China, chatting with Lin Tingyue in the bamboo grove? Because there was Lin Tingyue's ice-blue Porsche parked in the parking lot in front of the Arts Building.

There won't be another car this beautiful in the entire Q University.

Thinking of this, Ye Wenyu's heart suddenly clenched into a knot. Her originally fiery heart seemed to be suddenly covered with a layer of ice and snow. She felt as if she had fallen into a fog. Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue actually knew each other, and it seemed that they had a good relationship.

He just asked her if she was happy with Jiang Zhiming? If they were just ordinary friends, he wouldn't ask that.

She suddenly remembered that when she was stripped of her eligibility for the student aid program, Jiang Zhiming brought Lin Tingyue to comfort her. When Cai Wenchuan first saw Lin Tingyue, his face was as pale as paper, as if he had suddenly fallen seriously ill. Now it seemed that there was something very strange about this.

A gust of wind came, and the leaves of the sycamore trees around me fell one after another, adding to the desolate feeling.

Ye Wenyu suddenly felt cold.

Later, Cai Wenchuan told her that the school had arranged for him to go to Germany to pursue a postdoctoral degree. He once said, "To avoid her—" He used the pronoun "she" in front of Ye Wenyu, which clearly meant that this "she" was not Ye Wenyu.

Could this "she" be Lin Tingyue?

A storm raged in Ye Wenping's heart.

Could it be that Cai Wenchuan met Lin Tingyue after the Cai family moved from their poor old place to a new one? She clearly remembered that Lin Tingyue affectionately called Cai Wenchuan "Little Wenzi" and said that they had known each other since they were children, and that she had called him that since she was a child. Lin Tingyue recalled the past, when the Cai family left their old place and moved, Cai Wenchuan was only fifteen years old.

Ye Wenyu didn't believe her own intuition. She stood there dumbfounded, her feet seemingly rooted to the spot. Pain surged up around her like a rising tide, layer upon layer. She thought painfully, what was there to worry about? First, the two people speaking might not be Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue. Second, even if it were them, couldn't they speak alone? Third, Cai Wenchuan loved her, and Lin Tingyue loved Jiang Zhiming. Even if they knew each other before, they were just ordinary friends. There couldn't be any other entanglements between them, so there was nothing to worry about.

Ye Wenyu pondered for a moment, then moved her feet and continued walking towards the bamboo grove where they had been talking. However, despite her reason constantly reassuring herself, she still felt inexplicably afraid.

Walking to the outer edge of the bamboo forest, I crouched down and peeked out. Sure enough, the two people talking on the path deep in the bamboo forest were Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue.

Cai Wenchuan, dressed in a white shirt, stood tall and elegant, looking as beautiful as a fairy from a painting.

Like a bolt from the blue, Ye Wenyu swayed, her face pale, her shoulders trembling, her heart feeling as if an eighteen-wheeled truck had suddenly collapsed.

The two people talking didn't notice her presence. Cai Wenchuan was a head taller than Lin Tingyue. He was wearing a white shirt, looking hurried, dusty, and tired, probably having just gotten off the plane not long ago. Lin Tingyue was wearing a purple dress. The purple color exuded a bewitching and wicked aura, but it looked particularly beautiful on her. Perhaps beautiful people look good in any color.

The two were a perfect match, and their good looks even made the surrounding bamboo forest seem like a poetic and beautiful stage set.

Ye Wenyu opened her eyes wide and saw Cai Wenchuan nod, but there was no joy on his face. He stared at Lin Tingyue and said slowly to her, "As long as you are happy. As for Jiang Zhiming, although his family is a little poor, he is a good boy."

Lin Tingyue nodded, raised her head, and her big, bright eyes sparkled like jewels. She looked at Cai Wenchuan playfully and asked him softly, "Little Wen, you're in Germany. Have you seen my mother? I heard she's in Germany."

Cai Wenchuan smiled, shook his head at her, and said in a hoarse voice, "Although Germany is not as big as China, it is still a country. Finding someone is not so easy. However, I promise you, after returning to Germany, I will ask a friend to look for the person." His voice was terribly hoarse, as if he had suddenly contracted a serious throat ailment.

Lin Tingyue clapped her hands happily and said to Cai Wenzhong, "Thank you, Xiao Wenzi." She jumped in front of him, her feet seemingly on springs, as beautiful and alluring as a little elf.

Cai Wenchuan stared at her for a long time, then suddenly smiled, but there was a hint of bitterness in that smile.

Ye Wenyu stood there like a stone statue, as if she were an unrelated spectator watching a stage play full of foreshadowing and plot twists. The two of them were like the male and female leads of the play, the man tall and handsome, the woman petite and charming. As an uninformed person, she couldn't understand a word they were saying.

She had become an outsider. She had thought she was the most important leading lady in Cai Wenchuan's life, but now she realized that she probably wasn't even a supporting actress, because Cai Wenchuan seemed to have never looked at her with such bright and sorrowful eyes.

A second chance at life is also full of unexpected pain.

Upon discovering the truth, Ye Wenyu felt as if she had a mouthful of Chinese medicine in her mouth; the bitterness was indescribable.

Cai Wenchuan sighed and said gently to Lin Tingyue, "I'm only going back to China for a few days. I'll be leaving in a few days. Take good care of yourself."

Lin Tingyue tilted her head up and nodded vigorously, asking Cai Wenchuan in a cheerful tone, "Did you come back to China to see me?"

Cai Wenchuan was stunned. After a few minutes of silence, he denied it in a stiff tone: "No."