Chapter 1269 A big man lives in a small box
There are a lot of clothes in Gu Wanqiu's closet, many of which were bought by Chen Yan when he drove to the shopping mall in the city. With his taste, he bought a lot of skirts for Gu Wanqiu, but Gu Wanqiu never wore them once.
Because she was too cold, in poor health, and easily caught a cold because she wore too little. With her physical condition, an ordinary cold would aggravate her condition and even take her life.
Therefore, when Chen Yan took care of her, he never dared to let her get cold. Even in autumn when the temperature was 25 or 26 degrees, which was just the right temperature, when he went outside, he would bring her a blanket to cover her to prevent her from falling asleep and getting cold while basking in the sun.
Gu Wanqiu wore long casual clothes every day, and she had to wear a jacket. After she could no longer walk, she spent most of her time lying in bed. Casual clothes were also easy to change, so those beautiful skirts were left unused.
Gu Wanqiu originally wanted to dress up and wear a skirt on her birthday, but she fell asleep forever before she could get up.
After saying that, Shen Yan slowly turned around and walked out, like a body without a soul, being pulled forward slowly by a string. When he reached the door, he closed it.
Then his body leaned against the wall, his legs could no longer support him, and his back slowly slid down the wall. He sat on the ground, his hands on his knees, his head tilted back, and the back of his head resting on the wall. He looked at the lamp on the wall, his eyes became sore from staring for too long, and circles of light appeared in his sight, blurring his vision.
He was still very sad, and he didn't feel better after crying. His emotions had no place to vent, and they were like a wild beast with bared fangs and claws tearing his internal organs apart. He grabbed the clothes at his chest and his whole body was convulsing in pain.
In fact, he was still sad and wanted to cry, but his eyes were dry at this moment. Even if he stared at the light, kept looking until it was glaring and his eyes were red, he still couldn't shed a tear. Fortunately, the tears dried up outside.
He didn't know how long he sat outside. After a while, the nurse opened the door and came out.
"Mr. Shen, I have changed Miss Gu's clothes."
Chen Yan slowly stood up, walked in with the help of the wall, and looked at Gu Wanqiu sleeping on the bed. She had a smile on her lips, a camellia on her ear, a white long skirt spread on the bed, and her hair was as black as ink. She looked really beautiful.
Chen Yan went over, held her hand, looked at the dried blood remaining between her nails, took out two wet tissues, wiped her hand clean bit by bit, and then put the female ring on her ring finger.
How could someone be so thin? So thin that there was no flesh on their fingers, just a thin layer of skin, and even such a small ring would be too big for them.
"Don't worry, I will take you back to Haicheng..."
Chen Yan has now completely calmed down, even to a frightening degree. The nurse is afraid that he may have a mental problem, so she looks at the expressionless man and opens her mouth, wanting to speak but stopping herself.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me..." As if sensing her emotions, Shen Yan spoke.
Shen Yan called the crematorium and asked for some time. Only then did Shen Yan ask what happened to Gu Wanqiu when he left and whether she said anything.
The nurse explained the whole thing carefully, from beginning to end, from the moment Gu Wanqiu woke up, she coughed up blood, and then she looked for her cell phone, trying to search for Li Jinxing's voice.
Everything is the same as usual, very normal.
Chen Yan looked through his phone, found the latest history record and clicked on it. It was Li Jinxing and Jiang Yun. Countless flashes of light shone on them, making them very dazzling.
Shen Yan thought about it carefully. The time when Li Jinxing and Jiang Yun frequently appeared together was not long before Gu Wanqiu moved here.
Putting all these things together, how could Chen Yan not blame Li Jinxing? He even suspected that it was Li Jinxing who turned Gu Wanqiu into this and caused her death.
Why did Gu Wanqiu die in pain while he, the perpetrator, was still alive and well, even had a new girlfriend and two sons, and lived a happy life?
The strong contrast made Shen Yan feel sorry for Gu Wanqiu. He was also very unwilling in his heart, but what could he do even if he was unwilling? He was powerless. Facing Li Jinxing's power, he could do nothing.
What's more, Gu Wanqiu loved Li Jinxing so much during her lifetime, and she was listening to Li Jinxing's voice in the last few minutes before her death. He was the person she was most reluctant to part with, and the person she didn't want to hurt the most was also him.
She was like a burst bubble, dissipating into the air, leaving nothing behind.
It was not until ten o'clock in the evening that the staff from the crematorium arrived. They carried Gu Wanqiu away, and Shen Yan followed.
He turned and asked the nurse if he wanted to go with him.
The nurse shook his head.
That was perfect. He would take the ashes directly to Haicheng to fulfill Gu Wanqiu's last wish.
She said she wanted to bury her ashes, along with the watch and ring she always wore, in the soil of her hometown.
Her hometown is Haicheng.
At the moment of her death, she must have wanted to go home very much, but unfortunately, he didn't even know where her home was.
Chen Yan drove behind and completed the formalities at the crematorium. The late autumn night wind was chilly. He stood aside and watched Gu Wanqiu being pushed into the incinerator little by little. At that moment, he wanted to rush over and pull her out.
He even wondered, what if Gu Wanqiu didn't die? How painful would it be to be burned to death?
Although all the examinations showed that Gu Wanqiu had no vital signs and was really dead, Shen Yan was still worried and he was thinking again.
Does the soul feel after death?
There was a crackling sound coming from the incinerator, as if a few drops of water had splashed into a frying pan.
A complete person went in, and only a handful of ashes was left when he came out. Not all of the bones were burned into ashes, but mostly debris. The color of Gu Wanqiu's bones was not beautiful, but gray.
Chen Yan held the urn, swept the ashes clean and put them into the urn himself, and then put the watch and ring he took off before entering the furnace into the urn.
"Gu Wanqiu, I'll take you home."
Their story is very short, and the ending was destined from the moment they met.
Initially he signed an agreement to take care of her and collect her body.
So the story ends with him holding the urn containing her ashes.
The ending was destined to be tragic, so no matter how the process went, it was regrettable and sad.
He couldn't bear to part with Gu Wanqiu, and he developed feelings for her that he shouldn't have. Feelings between people are easy to develop. He knew very well that he shouldn't have such emotions towards a dying person, but reason could never beat emotion.
He had never met a woman like this before. She was patient and strong, always smiling and comforting others. How could he not be attracted to her?
Gu Wanqiu became an irreplaceable existence in his heart. Even after many years, he would always remember that he had met such a rare person who taught him how to be strong.
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There was a sudden sharp pain in his heart. Li Jinxing covered his chest tightly and leaned forward a little.
Along with the stabbing pain, a panicky feeling of loss spread throughout my chest, as if a very important part of my heart had been lost, and my whole heart was shaky and empty.
Li Jinxing frowned irritably, unbuttoned the top button of his collar, pulled his tie down, and tried to relieve the dull pain with his breathing.
He Tian was worried that something might happen to Li Jinxing, so he stayed by his side and kept a close eye on him since Gu Wanqiu left.
The bad thing that was expected did not happen. Li Jinxing was very calm and worked normally, ate, and rested. Except for picking up cigarettes that he had quit smoking, there was no other change.
No, one more thing has changed.
I thought that after Gu Wanqiu left, Li Jinxing would end that fake relationship with Jiang Yun.
But unexpectedly, in the past month, Li Jinxing brought Jiang Yun with him to every banquet, and they were not even separated during public interviews. It really seemed like Li wanted to establish a hostess.
Today is a working day. Li Jinxing never skips work during working hours, but today he returned home early and had nothing to do in Qiule Manor. He stood by the window where Gu Wanqiu had jumped off the building and looked at the roses outside.
There is a rose patch downstairs that inexplicably withered. I don't know why. The roses next to it are obviously fine. I hired a gardener to take care of it, apply fertilizer and pesticides, but still couldn't save this patch of roses. It seems that the roses are infected by something. Once the roots and stems rot, there is no way to save them.
He Tian looked at the roses that suddenly withered, and his heart tightened, fearing that Li Jinxing would make random guesses and find out something.
Others may not know about that rose, but he knows it very well.
At that time, Gu Wanqiu knelt on the ground barefoot to look for the watch and ring. She kept groping and her body was covered with blood.
At that time, Gu Wanqiu was no different from a poisonous person. The blood in her body was poisonous blood. The roses stained by her blood withered.
He Tian had not thought of this. He had covered up the traces at the beginning. Who would have thought that the poisonous blood in Gu Wanqiu's body would be so overbearing.
The withered roses downstairs were very conspicuous and lifeless. He Tian was very worried about Li Jinxing and asked him to investigate the reason.
He Tian could forge the surveillance video, but he really couldn't forge the problem with the flowers.
Fortunately, Li Jinxing didn't ask any more questions, but just asked the gardeners to pull out and dispose of the roses that couldn't be saved.
That area was cleared, and the gardener asked if he wanted to buy some more champagne roses to plant there, but Li Jinxing refused.
He said: "If it doesn't look good, then it doesn't look good. No one will watch it anyway, and no one will care."
He Tian has a good memory and suddenly remembered that today seemed to be Gu Wanqiu's birthday. Gu Wanqiu's birthday was easily remembered to be on the last day of September, while Li Jinxing's was on the first day of August.
He Tian thought to himself, maybe this is why Li Jinxing suddenly asked for leave from work today.
He inevitably thought of the woman named Jiang Yun, who had plastic surgery to look very similar to Gu Wanqiu. She suddenly appeared next to Li Jinxing. He always felt that she had bad intentions, so he had to be on guard against her.
"Boss," He Tian asked tentatively, "Why are you still with that woman? Gu Wanqiu has left here, and you've been bringing her to various events frequently lately. Rumors are circulating that you're going to marry her. Do you really have feelings for her?"
Li Jinxing's face was cold: "No."
"That's why..."
"I just want to keep some ridiculous dignity for myself..." Gu Wanqiu is no longer here, but as long as she is alive, she can always see him, whether on TV or on the Internet.
He wanted to let her know that he had really forgotten her, and that he could really find someone to replace her. Even if she left, it would not affect him much, and he could still be doing well, and even better than when she was around.
It's so ridiculously "decent"
He Tian understood instantly that he just wanted Gu Wanqiu to see this.
He was afraid that Li Jinxing would lose contact with Jiang Yun once Gu Wanqiu left. Gu Wanqiu guessed that he had never let her go from the beginning to the end.
He worked hard to make himself live a good life, looked energetic, and was happy and comfortable every day.
Unfortunately, what Li Jinxing didn't know was that Gu Wanqiu didn't have much time left to live, and her five senses would gradually disappear. The first sense she would miss was probably her vision, so even if there was a video about him on TV, she wouldn't be able to see it.
"Then you can't keep pretending like this for the rest of your life just for the sake of respectability, right?"
"It's not impossible. If you get tired of this one, just change it. In the future, I will bring a female companion to any event I attend."
At present, it is not a bother for him to take Jiang Yun with him, as he is an honest and obedient person.
Li Jinxing spent most of the day in the room where Gu Wanqiu lived. Looking at the bare ground outside the window, the scene of him throwing the ring and watch in his hand away that day emerged in his mind.
It seemed to have been thrown in that place. If he went to look for it now, it should be easy to find...
He killed this idea as soon as it came out. Things that are thrown away are considered garbage. There is no reason to pick up garbage.
The gardener was still weeding outside. Li Jinxing went downstairs. He didn't go looking for him, he just wanted to ask.
"Mr. Li." When the gardener saw Li Jinxing suddenly come out, he quickly stood up and greeted him respectfully.
Li Jinxing walked straight up to him and turned his gaze from the bare ground to his face: "When you were cleaning this area before, did you pick up... anything, or rather, did you see..."
He asked vaguely, and the gardener was confused, his face full of bewilderment: "What is it? I don't see anything...Mr. Li, did you drop something important in the flowers?"
The expression on his face didn't seem like he was lying: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if I didn't see it. It's not something very important."
"Is that so..." The gardener secretly looked at Li Jinxing's expression. He was talking about something not very important, but his eyes were looking through his head at the land.
He said, "Mr. Li, if I find anything, I will definitely tell you."
"Yeah." Gu Wanqiu had been away for more than a month, and it rained several times during that time. When the gardener was saving the rose patch, he applied fertilizer and medicine, and added nutrient soil. The watch and the ring were not very big objects, especially the ring.
I'm afraid it has already been mixed with the soil, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find it even if I look for it.
He didn't mean to look for it, he just asked.
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