I took a sip of coffee, letting the bitter yet mellow flavor spread deep into my heart.
Fu Yanci looked down at the oil patterns in the coffee cup and shook his head. "Ali, I don't know."
I used to hate her for being heartless.
He hated her for being so irresponsible yet still bringing him into this world.
But I don't know when it started, that hatred gradually faded away.
Fu Yanci looked up at Ye Li, "A Li, I've seen her in the capital!"
Ye Li's eyes widened in surprise, "Wh...when?"
My grandmother said that she was a heartless woman who had been gone for more than 20 years without a trace.
But Fu Yanci said that he had seen her in the capital.
"On my seventh birthday... but I didn't realize it until much later."
Fu Yanci said definitively, "Kindergarten is already out for summer vacation, and primary school hasn't started yet. I don't like going out, so I stayed at the old house all day. When it was getting dark, Lao Gu called and asked me to go out and watch the fireworks..."
The Fu family and the Gu family are both in the same alley. Fu Yanci and Gu Lanting are childhood friends who have played together since they were little.
"What's the point of fireworks? I immediately refused, but Lao Gu was so anxious that he even pretended to have a stomachache on the phone."
Ye Li seemed to have guessed, her eyes widening in surprise.
Fu Yanci laughed, "I've been fooled by Old Gu!"
There was nothing that day.
There were no fireworks.
Gu Lanting's stomach didn't hurt.
The two started joking around as soon as they met, and then sat side by side at the entrance of the alleyway's convenience store, each eating an ice pop.
Many years later, Gu Lanting let slip that a woman had given him a hundred-yuan bill and tricked him into leaving his home.
"Her excuse was lame; she said she worked for a newspaper and wanted to secretly take a picture of the young master of the Fu family. So, for 100 yuan, Old Gu sold me out!"
He didn't see her at all.
I only vaguely remember that on that day, the lights in the teahouse were on for a fleeting moment.
It wasn't until the day Gu Lanting let it slip that he realized, belatedly, that glimmer of light was probably from her taking photos on the second floor and forgetting to turn off the flash.
He only realized it many years later.
It's also a teahouse at the entrance of an alley.
Both are mothers who abandoned their children.
Sang Qing glanced at Fu Yanci once and left, not even wanting him to know that she had been there.
Lin Kerou put on a tearful act for Xiaobao, begging him to forgive her so that she could complete the big show later.
Indeed, there are differences between people.
Ye Li's eyes reddened as she listened. "It's because of your birthday, right? And then what? Did you discover her existence on your birthday?"
Fu Yanci nodded, "I was already in junior high school when Old Gu let it slip."
Junior high school means he has grown up.
He has his own ideas and won't believe everything others say.
"On my birthday, I had my final exams at school. I deliberately handed in my paper last, leaving the last one to finish."
As if recalling the scene from that day, Fu Yanci looked dazed. "There was a blue taxi with its hazard lights on by the roadside, and a traffic policeman was issuing a ticket next to the driver's seat."
If it were any other driver, they would have smiled apologetically and said nice things while quickly turning off their hazard lights and driving away.
But that day, the driver calmly and cheerfully accepted the ticket and paid the fine.
The traffic police probably all felt that he had some kind of problem, so they also tested him to see if he was driving under the influence of alcohol.
But Fu Yanci could see clearly that the driver handed the fine out the window from the person in the back seat.
Fu Yanci didn't see the person in the back seat, only a slender hand.
And the beaded bracelet on her wrist.
After walking for a long time, I looked back and saw the taxi slowly driving forward, as if it had run out of gas.
He stopped the car at the roadside as soon as he entered the alley.
After waiting for a while, the taxi turned around and drove away.
“I suspect that she must have appeared briefly in my life every year before, but… I just didn’t notice.”
Fu Yanci said in a deep voice.
Ye Li listened with tears welling up in her eyes.
"And then what?"
Something flashed through her mind, too fast to grasp, and Ye Li pressed on relentlessly, "You've grown up now. She loves you so much, why doesn't she come back to you?"
"I had an accident the year my grandfather passed away."
Fu Yanci's words startled Ye Li so much that she almost cried back her tears.
At that time, the Fu family, along with the entire Fu Corporation, was still in the hands of Old Master Fu.
Fu Yanci and Fu Mingzhen both followed Old Master Fu.
However, one is his own grandson, and the other is his nephew.
Everyone assumed that Old Master Fu would leave the Fu family business to his own grandson.
At that time, Fu Yanci was still studying at Harvard.
Perhaps it's because being born into a wealthy family like the Fu family instilled in them a natural sense of crisis.
Or perhaps because he had no parents to take care of him, Fu Yanci knew from a very young age that he had to rely on himself.
Before the accident happened, Fu Yanci had a vague premonition.
Subsequently, they successfully evaded what was almost an assassination attempt.
"In that accident, the brakes failed, the car plunged off the cliff, and the driver and two bodyguards in the back seat fell to their deaths."
Fu Yanci said in a deep voice, "When I investigated thoroughly afterward, there was no trace of it."
Everyone thought that Fu Yanci was lucky to have missed the car and narrowly escaped death.
Only Fu Yanci and those who secretly planned the assassination knew that Fu Yanci had managed to escape on his own.
"So, have you found out who did it?"
Ye Li nervously gripped Fu Yanci's hand; both hands were icy cold.
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