Chapter 157 Extra Chapter: Five Years Missed (5)
New Year’s Eve is a festival of reunion that is deeply ingrained in the Chinese people’s hearts.
Wen Ci was wearing loose and warm maternity pajamas, looking at the white snow scene of the city outside the window.
My phone vibrated. It was a WeChat message from my best friend Xie Yiyi: [Xiaoci, I'm home!]
Wen Ci's lips curled up. Xie Yiyi originally wanted to stay in Washington to spend the New Year with her, worried that she would be lonely in Washington while pregnant. But in the end, her parents urged her to buy a plane ticket to go home three days before New Year's Eve.
She was about to reply.
Before I finished typing, another message popped up from Xie Yiyi: [Xiaoci, is it free? Grandpa misses you and wants to video chat with you.]
Wen Ci's body stiffened for a moment.
Xie Yiyi must be at Xie's house at this time. New Year's Eve is coming soon, and everyone must have returned to Xie's house.
If I call via video at this time, will Xie Peizhou be there?
Would Xie Peizhou want to see her?
After not seeing each other for five months, has Xie Peizhou changed from what she remembered?
When Xie Yiyi's video call came, Wen Ci was so excited that she almost dropped her phone to the ground.
She clenched her hands and clicked the answer button with trembling hands.
"Xiaoci?"
When the call was connected, Xie Yiyi's familiar features appeared on the screen, and he looked very energetic, without any sign of fatigue from the more than ten-hour flight.
Wen Ci smiled and replied, "Well, did you just get home?"
"Yes, yes, I just got home."
Xie Yiyi walked around the bright living room holding the camera. Soon, a face that Wen Ci missed so much and was so kind appeared in the camera. Almost instantly, Wen Ci's eyes turned red.
"Xiaoci, why have you lost so much weight?"
Grandpa Xie's tone was full of care, and he looked at Wen Ci's pointed chin on the phone screen. "Are you not having a good time abroad? Why don't you go home with Yiyi for the New Year? Grandpa misses you so much."
"Grandpa, I'm doing well." Wen Ci suppressed the sadness and longing that was about to overflow from her throat and forced a well-behaved smile on her face.
After being abroad for half a year, even though she was pregnant, she weighed five kilograms less than before she became pregnant.
Wen Ci took a deep breath and lied, "Grandpa, I'm sorry, I'm really too busy with my studies and have too much homework. I can't come back for the New Year."
Mr. Xie's face was full of pity. "Xiao Ci, you should be good to yourself when you are alone outside. Don't push yourself too hard. If you are really under too much pressure, come home. The Xie family is big and powerful, and it won't be a problem to support you."
Wen Ci nodded obediently: "Okay, I understand. I'm sorry, Grandpa, I really don't have time to go back to Beijing."
In fact, she dreamed of returning to Beijing.
In the past six months, she has opened the aviation app countless times, wanting to buy a plane ticket back home.
Every time I cry and cancel the trip.
She couldn't be so selfish and ruin the reputation of the Xie family and Xie Peizhou.
Wen Ci couldn't remember how many times she was woken up by nightmares. She dreamed that she couldn't control herself and bought a plane ticket back to her country, using the child in her belly to force Xie Peizhou to be with her.
In the dream, Xie Peizhou's eyes were extremely cold, "Wen Ci, why did you keep this child?"
"I don't love you at all. You are my junior. How can I have a child with you?!"
"Wen Ci, your love is so selfish that you have to destroy me to be satisfied?"
"Wen Ci, are you satisfied now? I've been nailed to the pillar of shame and will have to bear the stigma of incest for the rest of my life."
"Wen Ci, why don't you keep your promise? Get lost! I will never talk to you again in this life. I'll just give you a look!"
…
Every time she woke up from a nightmare, she was covered in cold sweat.
My heart felt a sharp, intense pain.
"Xiaoci, what's wrong with you? Why did your face turn pale for no reason? Are you sick?"
Mr. Xie obviously noticed the emotional changes of Wen Ci in the camera. Her small face, the size of a palm, had a pointed chin, and her skin was as white as a piece of paper.
"Grandpa, I'm fine..."
Wen Ci came back to her senses, her brain buzzing with alarm, and she wanted to hang up the phone immediately in a panic.
Grandpa Xie will definitely let Xie Peizhou talk to her later. She promised Xie Peizhou that she would not have any contact with him within three years.
She was also afraid that if she met him, she would lose control of herself and frantically book the fastest flight back home...
Before she could think of an excuse to hang up the video, Mr. Xie said lovingly, "Xiao Ci, you must take good care of yourself when you are out there. You are an adult now. Young people should find more friends. Don't be like your uncle, who is already 28 and still can't find someone to marry."
Even just hearing Xie Peizhou's name, Wen Ci had a huge physiological reaction, her breathing became stiff, and her heart beat wildly.
She opened her mouth and said, "Uncle... doesn't he already have a girlfriend?"
Mr. Xie: "You mean Song Wanqing, right? Hey, they broke up not long after you went abroad."
"Broken up?!" Wen Ci's mind went blank.
Don't they really love each other?
How could we break up?
Could it be that Xie Peizhou didn't like Song Wanqing, and was with her before just to force her to go abroad?
Before she could even begin to hope, Mr. Xie's second half of his words was like a bucket of cold water, "But your uncle went on a blind date today. The girl is a well-known lady from a prominent family, a professor at the Faculty of Arts at Beijing University, and three years her junior."
"They're a perfect match, with similar interests and hobbies. They completely meet your uncle's criteria for a partner. Haha... I guess they're very satisfied, right? They went out for dinner at 4 pm, and it's already 9:30, and they haven't come home yet."
"Xiaoci, it won't be long before you have a little aunt. Our family hasn't had a wedding in years. When your uncle gets married, you must come back, right?"
…
Although the heating in the apartment was on full blast, Wen Ci felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and her heart was almost frozen to death.
She looked at the loving smile on Grandpa Xie's face on the phone, her mouth moving constantly and she said a lot.
But she seemed to be deaf and didn't hear anything.
In the end, she was so confused that she didn't even know how to end the video.
When I came to my senses, my eyes were in great pain.
I walked to the mirror and my eyes were swollen like two walnuts.
I have cried all my tears dry, not a single drop can flow anymore.
She looked at herself in the mirror, reached out and pulled hard at the flesh on her heart, trying to cover up the dull pain of her broken heart with the superficial pain.
But it's impossible.
Wen Ci smiled bitterly, remembering that half a year ago at the airport, she begged him, if she still loved him after three years, could he give her a chance?
Xie Peizhou replied in an extremely cold voice, "Wen Ci, there will be no future between us. In three years, I will be thirty years old, and I might be married with children. How can I give you a chance?"
Wen Ci looked in the mirror and told herself over and over again that Xie Peizhou really didn't love her.
It's time for her to let go.
I can tell myself to let go a hundred times, but deep down in my heart I can't let him go a hundred and one times.
Wen Ci covered her face in despair. At this moment, she really hoped that time could erase everything and make her heart stop loving Xie Peizhou.
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