"Big Brother's Special Assistant."
Fu Yan's words are concise and to the point.
Ye Li was taken aback. "Then, she was with the eldest young master..."
"no."
Fu Yanci shook his head, "She was supposed to go, but she wasn't feeling well before she left, so someone else was sent instead from the president's office."
Seeing Ye Li looking at him quietly, as if asking why she was also buried here, with no name of the person who erected the tombstone on it.
Fu Yanci said softly, "When the news of my brother's accident reached the country, she felt that she was half responsible, and her condition worsened. Later... she couldn't be saved. The day she passed away was the first anniversary of my brother's death."
Ye Li looked somewhat dejected.
Ye Li had always known that life was fragile, but seeing a young and beautiful girl appear in a black and white photo on a tombstone still left her feeling somewhat unable to accept it.
My phone beeped.
A WeChat message from Wan Mingyi.
[Pear, the studio email received a prank email, do you want to take a look?]
【good. 】
Upon logging into her email account, Ye Li immediately saw the email titled "Reminiscence".
The sender is a string of code; it's not even a standard email address.
There is no content either.
I only uploaded four photos as attachments.
At first glance, it looks like the same photo, but the other party uploaded it four times.
However, if you click on it, you can see from the details that they are different.
The four characters "Tomb of Li Li" are clearly visible on the dark tombstone.
The flowers in front of the tombstone—calla lilies, daisies, jasmine, gerberas… all white.
There were no offerings.
A single bouquet of flowers, elegant and pure, was placed in front of the tombstone.
The photo makes Li Li appear even more pure and beautiful.
The man standing in front of the tombstone was upright, only his back was visible.
Even so, Ye Li could still recognize Fu Yanci at a glance.
"Fu Yanci, Li Li... doesn't she have any family? Today is the anniversary of her death, and besides you, has no one come to see her?"
Ye Li put away her phone and asked.
Even though she didn't know Li Li, the girl still looked at her with pity, as if the dead would also feel lonely and cold.
Fu Yanci shook her head. "She's an orphan. She grew up in an orphanage that the Fu family had been supporting. Later, she got into university and contacted the Fu Group, saying she wanted to serve her elder brother like a slave to repay his kindness..."
As if recalling the events of that year, Fu Yanci's expression held a hint of reminiscence: "That day, my older brother and I entered the company together. She immediately rushed up to him and knelt down in front of him, which shocked him. ... She said she was willing to work as a cleaner at Fu's, or do anything at all. My older brother told her to focus on her studies and talk about it after graduation."
Ye Li seemed to have already guessed what would happen next.
Diligent, ambitious, and full of gratitude, Li Li must have felt immense admiration for the gentle and refined Fu Mingzhen.
In her heart, Fu Mingzhen was as great as a god.
Her lifelong dream was to repay his kindness in supporting and funding her.
So after graduation, it was only natural for him to join the Fu family business and become Fu Mingzhen's special assistant, serving as his right-hand man.
If Fu Mingzhen hadn't met with an accident, Li Li would probably have been willing to dedicate her entire life to him and to the Fu family.
Even when Fu Mingzhen had an accident, her special assistant was not by his side.
The more grateful you were at the time, and the more ambitious you were to repay them, the more remorseful you will feel after the accident.
They might even resent themselves for not being there.
For Li Li, it might be better to have an accident with Fu Mingzhen than to live.
"So...she committed suicide?"
Ye Li asked in a low voice.
Fu Yanci nodded.
A wave of sadness and depression washed over Ye Li as she looked at the winding mountain road before her, her mood indescribably low.
The car stopped, and Ye Li heard Li Xueqing's voice, which snapped her back to reality.
Li Xueqing smiled and looked at Fu Yanci, who was getting out of the car. "Yanci, you're back?"
"mom……"
Fu Yanci nodded, took Ye Li's hand and got out of the car. The group then walked into the house.
Perhaps because of the visit to the cemetery, Ye Li seemed listless and in low spirits all afternoon.
I woke up from my afternoon nap to find the room empty.
When Ye Li went downstairs again, she saw Aunt Lan making soup and her mother pruning her roses in the flower room.
Upon seeing Ye Li, Aunt Lan smiled and said, "Master Fu went out on business and said he'll come back to pick you up in a bit."
As she spoke, Aunt Lan seemed to remember something and quietly asked, "Xiao Li, you and Master Fu... are you two alright?"
From the moment they got home, it seemed like neither of them was very happy.
If Aunt Lan hadn't known that Fu Yanci had just returned from a business trip the night before last, and that the two of them had hosted a banquet at the Fu family's old house yesterday to entertain Xiao Bao's classmates and their parents, she would have almost thought the two had quarreled.
When Ye Li mentioned that today was Fu Mingzhen's death anniversary, Aunt Lan suddenly realized.
"It's alright, it's alright..."
Aunt Lan breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and went back to the kitchen to keep busy, muttering to herself.
Ye Li sat alone in the living room for a long time before opening her phone and looking at those photos again.
On the one hand, it was Fu Mingzhen's death anniversary, so it was only natural for Fu Yanci to go and pay his respects to Fu Mingzhen and also to pay his respects to Li Li.
It's no surprise that the person who took the photo was able to do so.
On the one hand, I felt it couldn't be such a simple coincidence.
How could the person who took the photos be so sure that Fu Yanci would go to Li Li's tombstone after paying his respects to Fu Mingzhen?
Li Li is just an orphan and Fu Mingzhen's special assistant.
How could a dignified Master Fu possibly remember a special assistant he'd barely even met a few times?
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