Chapter 81 After all, she is too hard to chase
"Something bad?" Cheng Qing frowned and replied.
"No. Yanyan and I have known each other since our freshman year. Back then, she always kept a cold face and kept to herself. I saw that she was fair and pretty, so I took the initiative to talk to her."
"At first she was very defensive and ignored me. It took at least half a year before we gradually became close."
"We were together almost all four years of college. Her daily hobbies were reading, listening to spoken English, and learning various minor languages on her own. She rarely left the campus. I didn't even see her go home during those four years of college. Except when Song Yanzheng came to see her, she hardly left the house."
"Her family must be poor. Besides studying, she spends the rest of her time working part-time to earn money. Anyway, in the few years I've been with her, I've never seen anything bad happen to her."
"Mr. Xing, why do you suddenly ask this?"
Xing Yu found a suitable excuse: "I want to get to know her better. After all, she is too hard to pursue."
Cheng Qing smiled and took the opportunity to praise him.
"Mr. Xing, Yanyan is a really good person. Not to mention her figure and looks, she has fair skin and beautiful looks. She has everything you want. She is also very clear and tough inside. Not only can she endure hardships, but she is also very motivated."
Xing Yu's eyes darkened.
Living so clearly at the age of 28 is not a good thing in some ways...
He didn't want her to go through so much.
The price of maturity must be cruel.
Others only see her hard work and progress, but he only cares about whether she has lived well and whether she is tired over the years.
Seeing Xing Yu was silent, Cheng Qing paused for a moment before continuing.
"Mr. Xing, although Yanyan has a cold and aloof personality, once she's determined to be with you, she will definitely treat you well in her own way. She's very kind, but she just doesn't want to express it too much."
After listening to so much, Xing Yu didn't hear what he wanted to know.
He was silent for a moment, and finally confirmed with her: "Are you sure nothing happened to Lin Yan during her four years at university?"
"Sure."
Xing Yu's heart sank, and he asked again, "Did Lin Yan suffer any injuries during her college years? Are you aware of any scars left on her body?"
Cheng Qing felt that this question was both general and personal.
"Mr. Xing, this injury... a scratch is still an injury, a burn is still an injury, and minor injuries are unavoidable in life. And I'm not with Yanyan all the time, so I don't know."
Judging from Cheng Qing's reaction, she probably doesn't know.
He retired from the army at the age of 25 and returned to northern Beijing. At that time, Lin Yan had just graduated from university and was doing an internship in translation.
He has been watching her silently in the dark during these years of work, and he has never seen anything happen to her.
Since I couldn't find any clues after work or during college, I could only go to her high school.
"Okay." Xing Yu said to Cheng Qing, "Thank you for troubling me today."
"It's a small matter."
Xing Yu begged her, "Ms. Cheng, please keep this a secret. I'm afraid Lin Yan will think too much if she finds out."
"Um."
Just as Xing Yu was about to leave, Cheng Qing stood up and called him, looking very serious.
"Mr. Xing, I hope you treat Yanyan sincerely. Don't just chase her for a momentary novelty and then lose interest in her."
"Won't."
Nineteen years.
It has long lost its novelty and has become an emotional root deeply rooted in the heart that is difficult to shake.
I was young at that time and didn’t know what love was.
After his mother got into trouble, he was forced to leave Hongshui Village and return to the Xing family, but he did not forget the agreement she made with him to meet under the locust tree during the summer vacation of the following year.
Every summer vacation, I could only sit in the Xing family yard and look up at the same sky with her.
I imagined the scene of the little girl burying leaves under the locust tree.
When he was sixteen, he returned to Hongshui Village and learned that his grandmother had passed away many years ago.
She never came back.
The ground under the locust tree was covered with green grass. Looking at the intertwined and vibrant branches, he suddenly realized.
They are all growing up.
It's been a long time since we last met.
Time will wear away many things, she may have forgotten him a long time ago...
The day before he turned eighteen and joined the army, he couldn't help but go find her.
I have no other thoughts, I just want to look at her.
After finding out the address of her aunt's house, he stood at the bottom of the slightly old residential building with a nervous heart, waiting for her to appear.
I don’t know how long I waited, until the sun went down and countless passers-by walked past me.
The figure he had been thinking about suddenly appeared in his eyes.
She had grown taller and thinner, but she was still as fair and clean as he remembered her, like a flawless jade.
She was wearing a T-shirt and jeans that didn't fit her well.
The pants had been washed so much that they turned white, and the canvas shoes on his feet were worn but clean.
In his eyes, the fifteen-year-old girl was still a child. She should have been full of youthful vitality, but there was no trace of radiance on her face.
She walked past him without even looking up.
He didn't call her, but just stared at the mole at the corner of her eye when they passed by.
He was glad that he had not spoken out of turn. After a few years, he could really recognize her at a glance.
Later, at the age of twenty-five, he retired from the army.
The training of military service and the passage of time made him mature mentally.
A week after he was discharged from the army, he unexpectedly saw her at an event organized by the Xing family.
She was wearing a moon-white business suit and standing next to a European man, doing simultaneous interpretation calmly and fluently.
The immaturity in her eyes has faded away, and she has become elegant and charming.
At that moment, my heartbeat suddenly became disordered.
The deep-seated throbbing of my youth had already taken root, sprouted, and blossomed under that locust tree.
He held the wine glass in the corner and stared at her silently until the end of the event. Only then could he follow her, unable to suppress the surging emotion in his heart.
But there was already a man wearing glasses waiting for her on the side of the road.
When she saw Song Yanzheng, she ran towards him with a bright smile. Song Yanzheng took her bag and touched her head. The two of them were very close and extremely happy.
The surroundings instantly became dark, so dark that he dared not move forward...
Later, he still kept an eye on her in Beijing North.
Watching Song Yanzheng pick her up from get off work at Yishuo every day, watching her bright smile every time she ran towards Song Yanzheng, watching how inseparable and close they were...
He chose not to disturb.
Until his grandparents completely separated due to years of emotional discord, he and Xing Zhonghua also had a big fight over the inheritance of the company.
So he took his grandmother to settle down in the countryside.
Grandma was puzzled and asked him why he went to Longping.
He always smiled and said, I just found a random place.
Little did he know that he was just waiting for a possibility with a very small probability.
After waiting for a long time, it finally happened when I was 31 years old.
Luckily, he waited for the girl to come back.
…
After leaving the restaurant, Xing Yu drove directly to the airport.
He wanted to go to her high school in person to find out about her nightmares and scars.
In the terminal, Xing Yu called her.
"Ayan."
"Um."
"I'm out of town on business now and will be back tomorrow."
"good."
"Ayan."
"What's wrong?"
"When I come back, I'll tell you a story, okay?"
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