Coincidentally, Chu Yue and Pei Hanchuan's first heart-to-heart talk also started with a story Pei Hanchuan told her.
Although Pei Hanchuan and Pei Mingzhu are half-siblings, they are exactly the same in this respect. They even have the same habit of keeping important things in their hearts and refusing to tell others.
Chu Yue became the listener they were most willing to trust.
After Chu Yue nodded, Pei Mingzhu turned her gaze to Pei Tianci lying on the hospital bed again, lowered her voice, and slowly recounted the events of many years ago.
Pei Hanchuan's story began decades ago, and so did Pei Mingzhu's story.
She said, "Fu Yanchen and I were engaged since childhood. I knew from a young age that I would marry him when I grew up."
The marriage to a wealthy family was not an accident that happened overnight, but was the result of careful selection by Pei Mingzhu's father.
Fu Yanchen's family is rooted in the neighboring provincial capital. It is also a century-old family that emerged from the war. Its foundation is deeper than that of the Pei family. At the same time, Pei Mingzhu's father has set his eyes on the two docks owned by the Fu family.
Businessmen have a very keen sense of smell. Pei Mingzhu's father predicted that in future development, maritime transportation and trade would be the biggest breakthrough. As long as there are signs of a slight loosening in policy, the two docks in the hands of the Fu family would immediately become valuable.
By then, the two families will be married, and relying on the Fu family's wharf business, the Pei family will also be able to get a share of the huge wave of the times.
It is the most advantageous in business cooperation.
Pei Mingzhu's father values benefits, but because he loves his daughter, he also values feelings. Even if it is a business marriage, he hopes that his children can truly be together because of their feelings.
Therefore, Pei Mingzhu had many opportunities to meet Fu Yanchen since she was a child.
"I don't remember when we first met. I heard about it from him later." Pei Mingzhu said this and smiled silently, with mixed emotions in her smile.
Maybe it's a sigh, or a feeling that fate is playing tricks on me.
Pei Mingzhu and Fu Yanchen met for the first time at Pei Mingzhu's full-month banquet. She was just a baby in swaddling clothes, lying in a beautiful princess cradle.
At that time, Fu Yanchen was already a five-year-old boy.
He was just like Pei Tianci now, wearing a neat black and white handsome suit, standing on tiptoe to look at the beautiful little sister in the cradle. After taking a look, he couldn't take his eyes off her and refused to leave, shouting, "Sister, will you marry me when you grow up?"
The children spoke without restraint, but they became the first child marriage between the two.
After that, due to frequent business dealings, the two families would meet every six months. From a babbling baby, to a toddler, to an increasingly beautiful girl, during Pei Mingzhu's growing years, Fu Yanchen was a playmate who did not appear often but had a strong presence.
The adults always said in a joking but serious tone, "Mingzhu, he is your future husband, you two should get along well with each other."
When he was young, Fu Yanchen was not as gloomy as he is now. He was a handsome, bright and somewhat narcissistic boy.
He would pick flowers from the garden and give them to Pei Mingzhu, saying that the most beautiful flowers should be given to the most beautiful people.
He would buy lots of gifts, any that he thought were pretty or interesting, and send them all to Pei Mingzhu to make up for the regret that they couldn't meet often, and also to give them more common topics when they met next time.
The feelings of youth are always the purest and happiest.
The two children never really understood what love and marriage are.
Pei Mingzhu didn’t know what Fu Yanchen was thinking. To her, the young Fu Yanchen was a companion that made her happy whenever she thought of him.
An indispensable turning point in that memory was the accidental death of Pei Mingzhu's mother.
She lost the person who loved her the most, and her most gentle mother by her side, and it was like half of the world had collapsed.
Fu Yanchen appeared three days after Pei's mother passed away. He hugged the haggard and helpless Pei Mingzhu and comforted her softly, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Mingzhu, don't be afraid..."
Tears flooded the boy's shoulders. Pei Mingzhu could no longer cry, but her tears flowed down and her frail body trembled constantly.
Fu Yanchen stayed with her for as long as she cried.
Pei Mingzhu's eyes were red and she choked up and said, "I don't have a mother anymore... My mother can't wake up..."
Fu Yanchen held her hand and said, "Mingzhu, you still have me. Mom is your relative, and I am also your relative. Have you forgotten that we will get married in the future?"
marry.
For the first time, Pei Mingzhu felt the real meaning of these two words.
Fu Yanchen was no longer her favorite playmate, he entered her heart as a family member.
Recalling that day, Pei Mingzhu's eyes contained no hatred, but instead countless memories of the past, which were the best and the worst times.
If it weren't for that past, she wouldn't have placed Fu Yanchen in such an important position, nor would she have resolutely chosen to divorce in her marriage.
Perhaps it was because of Fu Yanchen's influence that Pei Mingzhu finally chose to accept Pei Hanchuan, who had also lost his mother. Even when her father was furious, she still held Pei Hanchuan's hand and brought him back home.
A year after Pei Mingzhu's mother passed away, Pei Mingzhu and her father finally got over the pain and prepared to welcome the summer of the following year.
Summer is summer vacation, which means Fu Yanchen will come to stay for a while, sometimes half a month, sometimes a month. Those are the days that Pei Mingzhu looks forward to in her heart.
But, in the summer of that year, Pei Mingzhu's father said, "The child can't come."
Pei Mingzhu kept asking why Fu Yanchen could not show up and kept calling Fu Yanchen, but Pei's father refused to say anything. The calls he made were always answered by the housekeeper and he could never contact Fu Yanchen.
Many years later, Pei Mingzhu, who had been up and down in the business world, finally found out what had happened to the Fu family at that time.
The enormous wealth and power of a century-old family also means complicated family relationships and competition among relatives.
That year was the year when the internal strife within the Fu family was the most intense.
Relatives turn against each other and brothers fight against each other.
Even Fu Yanchen, who was only a teenager, was involved.
In order to protect his son, Fu Yanchen's father secretly sent Fu Yanchen to study abroad by smuggling.
At the same time...Fu Yanchen's father died in a traffic accident.
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