Is this still the same taciturn Gu Sinian?
He doesn't like to talk, nothing can arouse his emotions, and he's so calm and rational that he's almost inhuman.
Gu Sinian managed to extract a lot of information about Su Ying, a sent-down youth, from Sun Xuelin.
He wanted to know if this Su Ying was the same Su Ying as the other Su Ying, but the few pieces of information Sun Xuelin mentioned about her left him unable to calm down for a long time.
Su Ying is from Shanghai, a capitalist's daughter, nineteen years old this year, and is among the newest batch of educated youth sent to the countryside.
The age matched, the capitalist's daughter matched, and they even shared the same name, which made Gu Sinian's heart beat uncontrollably.
Every minute he waited was agonizing.
The moment Qiao Xiyan appeared, his heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was put at ease again. He comforted himself, thinking, "How could it be her?"
She's already headed to Gangcheng, how could she possibly be in Dongshi? He's just dreaming...
As time went on, Gu Sinian had given up all hope.
She simply assumed the other person was someone with the same name, from the same city of Shanghai, and a capitalist's daughter.
Perhaps by coincidence, he asked a comrade to go to Shanghai and learned that Su Ying and Jiang Yibo were planning to smuggle themselves to Hong Kong.
When he heard the news, he was distraught for a while, but he was happy for her.
Having grown up in luxury, she is truly unsuitable for modern China; the country will not be peaceful for a long time to come.
Living in the port city was the best option for her, rather than suffering in China.
She comes from a capitalist family and lacks nothing. Now that China is in a state of confusion and he can't see the current situation clearly, it's fine for her to smuggle herself to Hong Kong with her fiancé.
The port city is rich in resources, has everything one could want, and even offers a more luxurious lifestyle than Shanghai, making it a perfect fit for her.
He must be overthinking things, that's why his heart is beating uncontrollably. There's more than one family with the surname Su in Shanghai, and more than one person named Su Ying.
He's really gone mad, completely mad. Just because they have the same name and come from the same place, does he think it's her?
Stop daydreaming, it can't be hers.
Life is tough in Willow Village these days. If she really comes, she'll suffer a lot, and he doesn't want her to suffer even a little bit.
She should live like a princess, not toil in the fields, living a life of constant hunger and hardship.
He's gone mad, actually fantasizing that Su Ying will come to Willow Tree Village for a rural assignment—something that should never happen. He's seriously ill.
I stood to the side and watched wave after wave of people walk out of the train station.
In truth, he really hoped Su Ying could come, but then he felt he was being delusional, so he lowered his head and recalled everything from back then.
When he was nine years old, his uncle and aunt deliberately sold him to human traffickers. Later, during the escape, he fell off a cliff and broke his leg. He lay motionless at the bottom of the cliff, and he was really afraid that wild animals would eat him...
As darkness fell and no one passed by, he burst into tears of fear, which attracted a beautiful little girl.
She saved him, not minding that he was a burden, and had her grandmother, who was a skilled doctor, treat him.
It took him three whole years to recover his leg at the Su family home. It was during this time that his parents found him, and he was taken back to Beijing under duress. He never saw her again after that.
But he missed her terribly and often called Aunt Su to bother her, asking her to take a birthday photo of Su Ying every year and send it to him.
So he had photos of Su Ying from age seven to eighteen, and he often stared at those photos in a daze.
When Su Ying was nine years old, her aunt passed away, but her family's nanny still took a photo of Su Ying every year on her birthday and sent it to Beijing.
She never received any more photos after Su Ying got engaged at eighteen. It's likely that the girl discovered this and unilaterally ended the habit of sending photos.
It's also possible that her fiancé interfered...
After that, he became distraught and it took him a long time to recover.
It's all his fault for being cowardly and incompetent. He always wanted to wait until she turned twenty to propose marriage and bring her to the capital.
Aunt Su agreed to his marriage with Su Ying, but something went wrong and his fiancé became Jiang Yibo.
It's possible that Su Ying chose it herself, after all, she and Jiang Yibo grew up together since childhood, childhood sweethearts.
Gu Sinian must have been incredibly jealous behind the scenes because of this.
But man proposes, God disposes. He always thought he would wait until he had climbed to a higher position before proposing marriage, but he didn't expect that the other party was already engaged.
She's so outstanding that she's easily targeted by some troublemaker.
One wrong step leads to another.
He thought Aunt Su had already told Su Ying that he wanted to marry her, but she didn't choose him.
This frustrated him for a long time.
Qiao Xiyan noticed that Gu Sinian hadn't given her a kind look since the moment he met her.
It was indeed her fault for coming to see him without prior notice, but she had apologized at least ten times, yet Gu Sinian still remained cold and indifferent.
She didn't know what was wrong with Gu Sinian. From the moment he picked her up, he hadn't said a word to her and just stared blankly at the exit.
Could it be that this person named Su Ying is some extraordinary figure?
Gu Sinian seemed very nervous.
Although Gu Sinian had never paid attention to her since childhood, she had been by his side for many years and knew his temperament quite well.
In her previous life, she chose the wrong person. She thought that Gu Sinian would have no future after he went to the countryside, so she hurriedly broke off the engagement with him and married a suitable match introduced by her family.
They were very happy after their marriage, and soon after, they had twins. However, their good days didn't last long. Their father-in-law was reported for embezzlement and bribery, and they were sent to a labor camp to live a life worse than death.
The two children died at a young age due to long-term malnutrition...
Life on the farm was exceptionally difficult. She lived to her forties before passing away. On the day she died, she saw Gu Sinian reviewing troops on the farm's black-and-white television. He held the rank of general.
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