Chapter 33: After several days of rest and recuperation, I realized that I was no longer able to meet my challenge...

After several days of rest and conditioning, Fang Buyu's shoulder injury finally showed signs of improvement.

At this moment, he was standing in front of the bronze mirror in the side room, adjusting the official uniform he had just put on.

After Lin Bowen's death, the cases of Broken Bridge and Ningxiangju came to a stalemate, and the Tianying Police had too many things that needed him to handle and decide.

Just as he was tying his belt, he heard light footsteps outside the yard.

Fang Buyu's hand unconsciously stopped in mid-air. After a brief pause, he fastened his waist belt with one hand, strode towards the door, and opened it on his own initiative.

His eyes fell on the gate of the wall.

On a morning in early spring, the air still lingers with the chill of winter.

The breeze blew in with moist cold air, and the chill fluttered and flickered, just like the indescribable and ethereal expectation in his heart.

Finally, the figure appeared at the door, but it was not the person he was thinking of.

The unfulfilled expectations turned into a subtle bitterness in my heart.

Since that day, he never saw Tang Suzi again.

He thought her injury had not healed yet. He had asked Xiaoying before, and Xiaoying said it was healed and she went to find Master Ling.

She went to see Master Ling, she didn't come to see him.

He sighed inwardly with self-mockery.

Isn't this the result you've always wanted?

Tang Suzi is not Tiao Tiao, what is he expecting?

"Pavilion Master,"

Xiaoying walked up to Fang Buyu, holding a medicine bowl, and said in a hoarse voice,

"The morning medicine has been prepared."

She noticed Fang Buyu's official uniform and asked,

"Are you going to the yamen today?"

Fang Buyu nodded slightly, took the bowl of medicine on the tray and drank it all in one gulp.

The bitterness of the medicine flowed down the throat to the heart, as if taking away the bitterness in the heart.

When he put the medicine bowl back on the tray, he noticed the blush in Xiaoying's eyes and couldn't help feeling doubtful.

"Miss Tang, how are you doing recently?"

Fang did not meet with any questions.

Xiaoying was confused:

Ever since Miss Tang was rescued, the two of them seemed to have suddenly become strangers, but they also seemed to care about each other very much, and would ask about each other's current situation through her from time to time.

She couldn't understand why they didn't just go to each other directly since they were living under the same roof?

Although she felt puzzled, Xiaoying still answered truthfully,

"Well, fortunately, Miss Tang has been looking for Master Ling recently."

"Haven't you found it yet?"

Hearing this, Fang Buyu's eyes dimmed and he asked.

Xiaoying shook her head and whispered,

"I heard that it hasn't happened yet."

"Okay, I understand. You can go down."

Xiaoying responded and left, while Fang Buyu turned and walked towards the desk in the compartment, picked up a paper bag and prepared to go out.

That was the file on the Broken Bridge Case that Guo Yan had brought to him before. He needed to take it back to the Tianying Office and sort it out again.

Broken Bridge Case...

Fang Buyu suddenly remembered that today was the day when the Broken Bridge Incident happened!

"Xiaoying!"

Fang Buyu walked to the door and called Xiaoying.

Xiaoying turned around, her face full of confusion.

"Pavilion Master, what's wrong?"

"Let others handle today's work. You...pay your respects to your parents. If you need anything, tell the housekeeper."

Hearing Fang Buyu's words, Xiaoying's eyes turned red again, and she nodded gratefully.

"Thank you, Pavilion Master."

*

When Xiaoying returned to the Fang Mansion after paying homage to her parents, it was already dark.

On the cobblestone path leading to the residence, a faint but warm light flickers at the intersection, like a firefly in the night.

When I got closer, I saw that it was Tang Suzi standing there, holding a lantern in her hand.

"Xiaoying, you're back."

Tang Suzi saw her and walked towards her.

Xiaoying was stunned for a moment, then nodded and asked uncertainly,

"Miss Tang, why are you standing here? Are you...waiting for me?"

Tang Suzi smiled slightly, then took Xiaoying's hand and walked into a pavilion in the courtyard.

After Xiaoying sat down, she said softly,

"Wait for me here for a moment."

After a while, Tang Suzi came over with a bowl of steaming noodles in his hand. Xiaoying hurriedly stood up to greet him.

"Miss Tang, this..."

"Hurry up and sit down, Xiaoying."

Tang Suzi motioned for her to sit down and placed the noodles steadily in front of her.

"Xiaoying, I know today is a very sad day for you, but today is also the day you came into this world. It is a very precious day. Xiaoying, happy birthday!"

When she went to find Ling An today, she was very surprised that the usually bustling streets were unusually deserted.

After asking around, I found out that today was the day the broken bridge incident occurred.

After the accident, people in Weizhou have closed their businesses on this day every year for the past two years to commemorate the dead.

Tang Suzi then remembered that Xiaoying had told her that this day was also her birthday.

Xiaoying lowered her eyes, gazing at the wisps of steam rising from the bowl of longevity noodles topped with thin slices of meat and emerald green onions.

Crystal tears sparkled in her eyes and her heart was filled with indescribable emotion.

She never imagined that after the Broken Bridge Incident, someone would still remember her birthday and prepare longevity noodles for her...

After a whole day of pretending to be strong, her inner fragility finally collapsed at this moment.

"After my parents passed away, I always felt that I was just a walking corpse. I had no ties in this world anymore. I didn't know what the meaning of life was... I missed them so much..."

Xiaoying's voice was low and sad, as if she wanted to pour out all the pain and longing in her heart.

Tang Suzi walked silently to Xiaoying and gently put his hand on her shoulder.

"I once lost a loved one who loved me most in the entire world. At that time, I was just as desperate and lost as you are. I felt that life had lost its meaning and I even thought about giving up on it..."

She raised her head slightly, her eyes seemed to penetrate time and space, and her voice became ethereal.

"But then I suddenly realized that if I left too, who in this world would still remember her? Who would remember that there was someone who loved me so much... If no one remembered her, then she would truly have disappeared from this world..."

Tang Suzi looked up at the stars in the night sky.

“Although life may eventually wither and wither, love will never fade. It is like these stars, eternal and bright.”

After a moment of silence, Xiaoying nodded slightly.

She reached out and picked up the chopsticks, gently picking up a strand of steaming longevity noodles. Crystal tears quietly slid down and dripped into the bowl, but they were no longer tears of depression, but proof of rebirth.

"Well, I will live well with their love..."

…

The moonlight poured down like water drops, lightly sprinkling on a tall and graceful figure at the corner outside the pavilion.

He stared quietly at Tang Suzi in the pavilion, his eyes dark and unclear...

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The author has something to say: It’s too tiring to keep up with the charts T^T I’ll take a break for two days…