Lu Wan carried the purchased vegetables back to the room and placed them on the only table in the room. She then discovered that several asparagus were broken accidentally. She might have felt sad in the past, but now she didn't feel anything.
Looking at the piece of paper in her hand, she wanted to throw it into the trash can but stopped. She didn't know what He Yuan meant by the notes he brought to her again and again. It seemed like he was speaking in sign language, which she couldn't understand.
The rain was still falling outside the window, with no sign of stopping. It hit the window, and the cheapest glass on the market made an unbearable sound, as if it would shatter at any time.
Before going out, Lu Wan was actually feeling quite hungry. Now, perhaps because of the effect of the apple that she had taken a few bites of, she completely forgot about being hungry. She stared out the window and muttered, "It's raining so heavily". She packed up the food she had bought and went back to bed.
He turned on the electric blanket, but the simple and rough heat was nothing compared to the apartment with floor heating. Lu Wan curled up in the quilt, not wanting to look at his phone, and fell asleep in a daze.
Lu Wan had a dream.
In the dream, she returned to the fountain at the school gate where she was pushed by Zhou Yutong. Many people were watching and pointing.
She fell completely into the pool. For some reason, the fountain became very deep. Water entered her mouth and nose, choking her and causing tears to come out...
When fear and suffocation came at the same time, she saw the revolving lantern of life.
It’s like a pile of photos or PPTs are being disassembled, with one photo after another falling from the sky.
The first picture: On the cruise ship, Gou An poured red wine on him. Amid the mocking gazes of the people around him, He Ran left holding Lu Wan's hand.
The second picture: In the opening exam, Lu Wan ranked first and eventually became the opening speech giver. On that day, she met He Jinxing, and as the scholarship provider, he handed the scholarship to her.
The third picture: Lu Wan fell ill during physical education class and was hit by a volleyball by Gou An. She secretly hid in the corridor and cried. In front of her stood a man in a suit.
The fifth picture: In the back alley at midnight, Lu Wan covered her face and cried. The man standing in front of her had his hands in his pockets. He was known as the Wild Dog King of District Three in the Lower City. His usually cold face, but his dark eyes would only flash with intimacy and tenderness when he looked at her.
The sixth picture: In the chaos of the late night, He Ran hurriedly left holding Lu Wan’s hand, and Lu Wan looked back with a confused look on his face.
The seventh picture: Lu Wan is wearing a motorcycle helmet, holding Young Master He’s waist in front of him, and the motorcycle is speeding on the road.
Not far away are the neon lights of the city, like stars immersed in the night.
Picture 8: At the coming-of-age ceremony banquet, Lu Wan was drugged and a tall figure pushed open the door of the lounge where she was hiding.
Picture 9: When she woke up the next day, Lu Wan was frightened and scared when she saw He Jinxing suddenly appearing in the lounge. She left in a hurry with red eyes, wearing her messy dress from yesterday.
Photo 10: Lu Wan, wearing a wedding-style dress, stands in front of the mirror.
Picture 11: People around were pointing and talking. Lu Wan, who was dressed up, stood in the crowd at a loss. He Jinxing pushed through the crowd and reached out to her like a god descending from the sky.
The twelfth:
Lu Wan and He Jinxing stood in front of the priest and swore an oath. On this day, the most noble man in Jiangcheng wore a gardenia on his chest, which symbolized purity and innocence. It did not match his lofty image, but it came from the same bouquet as the bouquet in her hand.
Thirteenth:
Lu Wan and He Jinxing appeared at the banquet as an engaged couple for the first time, but there were too many social events at the banquet and no one was full.
Halfway through the banquet, Lu Wan took He Jinxing's hand and said with a smile: Let's run away?
Fourteenth:
Lu Wan took He Jinxing to a late-night wonton stall run by an old lady outside Zhaipu District.
Under the dim light, there was a very low but clean table. A man in an expensive suit sat awkwardly beside the wonton stall, eating wontons that cost five yuan a bowl.
Lu Wan tilted her head and looked at him and smiled.
Sixteenth:
Before going abroad, He Ran held Lu Wan's hand and cried with his head down.
Lu Wan raised his hand and touched his head.
Seventeenth:
Lu Wan left the airport, but found a white Rolls-Royce parked outside the airport. Amid the surprised gazes of the people passing by, a taciturn man was leaning against the car door with a half-burned cigarette in his hand. The usual smile on his face was gone, and he frowned slightly in silence.
18th:
The man who fell from the sky had probably just come down from the negotiation table, still carrying the usual solemnity and indifference of a business battle.
He just reached out and pulled the stunned Lu Wan into his arms, pinching her chin with both hands and lifting it up slightly. The smile on that face that always smiled did not reach her eyes, and the corners of her lips outlined a dangerous curve: Wanwan, you will always belong to me.
Photo 23: Grandma recovered and was discharged from the hospital. In the setting sun, Lu Wan held the old lady’s hand and they smiled at each other.
Photo 24: On the day when he helped his grandmother out of the hospital, he accidentally had a conflict with a spoiled rich girl in the hospital. Her name was Zhou Yutong. She didn't recognize that Lu Wan was He Jinxing's fiancée and tried to bully her.
Picture 25: Even though Lu Wan was very low-key, he was not prepared to argue with Zhou Yutong.
Under pressure from He Jinxing, Zhou Yutong's parents came to apologize to Lu Wan. By chance, they saw the birthmark on Lu Wan's body and found out that Zhou Yutong's father was actually Lu Wan's father.
Picture 26: Zhou Chu tearfully asked Lu Wan to recognize her ancestral home and pushed open a door on the second floor of Zhou’s house. It was a princess room prepared for Lu Wan.
Photo 29: He Jinxing gave Lu Wan a formal wedding in an ancient castle in England.
The wedding dress was extremely expensive, the veil was more than ten meters long, the small bouquet was still the gardenia from the engagement ceremony, and sacred music was playing.
White doves flew across the azure sky, the gate of the ancient castle opened in front of her, and a cute flower girl in front of her was carrying a small basket with flowers to pave the way for her. At the end of the red carpet of flowers was the smiling He Jinxing.
Photo 31: Jiangcheng Evening News: The wedding of the century Photo 32: Gou An was thrown into prison in a panic amid the sound of sirens.
Photo 35: He Jinxing supports the pregnant Lu Wan for a walk in the sunset.
Photo 38: "Jiangcheng Evening News": The eldest son of the He family's leader was born.
Picture 39: Sitting in the cell, Gou An, with a grim face, tore up the Jiangcheng Evening News in his hand. Facing his parents who came to visit him and were not in good condition, he seemed not to see them and shouted hysterically: I will kill that woman! Picture 40:
In the warmly decorated and expensive confinement center, Lu Wan was sitting on the bed in white pajamas, smiling as she watched the man in a suit bending over beside the bed, one hand on the edge of the crib, his eyes lowered to look at the cute baby lying in the crib, his face more gentle than ever before.
Picture 41: Berlin. He Ran sits in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of a high-rise apartment late at night, overlooking the night view of the city, holding a glass of wine in his hand, with an expression of indescribable loneliness and boredom on his face.
Picture 42: In an underground boxing match, Ye Lang, who was known as the undefeated god of war, was defeated. At the moment of falling, he seemed to see the girl in high school uniform holding a chocolate that was extremely expensive to them at that time, many years ago, on that summer night, and said to him: Alang, I like you.
Photo 43: Gou Xun liked Lu Wan’s circle of friends and left a message: Sister must be happy.
A loud thunder exploded in the sky again, and Lu Wan was awakened.
When she woke up, all the happiness and warmth in her dream were gone. Those beautiful things were like the moon in the mirror that shattered at the touch of a finger. She was still alone in the cold Zhaipu district, in the simple rental house.
Grandma has not recovered and is still lying in the hospital. She did not move into the He family mansion. He Ran did not even leave her a word before going to Germany. Ye Lang was so indifferent to her that he was speechless. He Jinxing——
It seemed that after the initial chance encounter, He Jinxing gradually withdrew from her world and had no intersection with her anymore.
Lu Wan lifted the quilt and coldly separated himself from the last bit of warmth.
In her dream, she seemed to have seen the life that was supposed to belong to her. In the revolving lantern of photos, she was moving forward step by step, leaving her current predicament step by step. It seemed that all the beautiful people and things in the world were surrounding her...
Those who harmed her never had a good ending.
As if it was meant to be.
The one who deserves everything is not someone who can live in complacency.
It’s her, Lu Wan.
Lu Wancai is the heroine of this story.
The next day, when the typhoon was about to land, the rain in Jiangcheng miraculously stopped.
People who wake up early in their circle of friends are posting question marks and praising the beautiful weather today...
However, for someone, this was a real bolt from the blue.
Gou An opened his eyelids and saw the sunlight coming through the curtains. He thought he was still dreaming.
sunny?
What about the typhoon? Not coming? Knowing that the typhoon named "Amino" was coming, Miss Gou had already prepared to ask for leave, so last night she was a little soft-hearted and indulged He Jinxing, letting him eat his fill. In the end, she didn't know how she fell asleep, and she didn't wake up at all when she was taken to be washed.
Now my back and waist ache, and just opening my eyes seems to affect my whole body, as if my whole body is about to fall apart...
——When I opened my eyes, I saw the bright sunshine outside.
He couldn't believe his eyes. Under the quilt, Gou An kicked He Jinxing frantically and asked in surprise: "Get up, the sky is clear - I can't believe it, He Jinxing, open your eyes and look, is God against me?"
He Jinxing: "Hmm? Right."
The perfunctory dog man didn't even open his eyes.
Instead, his cell phone on the bedside table rang. Gou An looked up and saw that a new WeChat message had been pushed to him.
【Chen Jinli: The weather is fine now. Tell your little baby to get up and go to work as usual today. 】
Gou An: “…”
Gou An slapped the half-asleep man on the arm.
He Jinxing was caught off guard by her hammering. He woke up, turned over and sat up, letting the milky white velvet quilt with a rabbit pattern slide down his strong chest and pile up on his muscular waist.
With his messy hair, Mr. He was not as oppressive as he usually was. He just turned his head and looked at the mad man sitting next to him and asked, "What are you doing?"
Gou An sat beside him with a dark face: "The sky is clear."
He Jinxing: "? Isn't that great?"
Gou An grabbed a pillow and hit him: "Who told me yesterday that if it rains today, I can ask for leave so I don't have to go to work--"
He Jinxing: “…”
Gou An was still beating him with a pillow: "Artificial rainfall! Artificial rainfall! Go and ask them to make it rain now!"
He Jinxing snatched the pillow that kept hitting his face with his big hand and threw it aside. As his long legs landed on the edge of the bed, he turned around and grabbed the girl who was very energetic early in the morning and kissed her on the face.
Throwing down the three words "stop messing around", he ruthlessly went into the bathroom.
As compensation, He Jinxing delayed his work for half an hour that day and personally sent Gou An to the research institute.
When they arrived, Chen Jinli had already arrived. It was unknown what new variety this man had bought. He was now standing in the open space in front of the research institute with his hands behind his back, watching a truck unloading goods.
Watching Gou An get out of the car reluctantly, he nodded: "It's quite early today."
Suddenly her face turned darker than the bottom of a pot, and He Jinxing changed from being an accomplice of "sending you to work" to "taking you to prison".
The car window was rolled down, and the man's reserved and handsome face appeared behind the window. He leaned towards the window and waved to the girl with an ugly look on her face.
Gou An hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly moved over. The man in the car reached out, pinched her chin, and kissed her on the face again.
Then he let her go: "Go ahead."
Gou An: “?”
He Jinxing: "I'll pick you up from get off work in the evening."
Gou An: "No way, no way, you don't think that if you kiss me, I won't be angry, right?"
He Jinxing: "Then I'll give you money?"
Gou An: "Who wants your filthy money?"
He Jinxing: "Then get in the car now, I'll take you away."
Gou An looked back at Professor Chen, who was watching their interaction with an expressionless face, like an emotionless fish-raising machine. In the end, he could not withstand the sense of responsibility of a worker and the oppression of the academic bigwig whose aura suddenly upgraded inexplicably when standing in the corresponding occasion. With a stern face and marching in step, he ran to the equipment room to get the seawater collection equipment.
The weather cleared up in the morning, tricking all the workers into going to work.
As a result, after noon, Amino seemed to wake up and suddenly became powerful.
After collecting the first can of sea water today, Gou An felt a layer of dark clouds covering her head, blocking the bright sun a moment ago. A breeze mixed with the fishy and salty smell of sea water blew past her face. When she was wondering "Is it going to rain again?", a huge raindrop had already fallen on the tip of her nose.
The whole process takes no more than three minutes.
When she left the abandoned dock and prepared to take shelter from the rain at Zhou Yutong's place, she climbed the stairs and it started to rain heavily.
She shouted "bad luck" and covered her head with one hand. In the end, she realized that this action was meaningless except that it made her run slower and more contrived. So she simply put her hand down and ran wildly in the rain carrying a large box of bottles and jars.
Zhou Yutong lived not far from the pier. Gou An rushed to the eaves of a house in two steps. When she wiped the rain that blurred her vision from her face, she vaguely saw a person in a red raincoat in the rain, standing dozens of meters away and staring at her.
The yin energy was strong in the middle of the day, and Gou An was frightened and shivered. The cold air rose from her feet to her feet. She didn't dare to stay for another second, so she picked up her things and hurried to Zhou Yutong's doghouse.
Zhou Yutong is watching TV and doing her winter vacation homework at home.
This sister adapted very well to this hellhole. Apart from the fact that the delivery guy was unwilling to deliver the food in, she didn't complain much at all.
I threw a bath towel to Gou An and asked her to wipe her head. An old TVB drama was playing on the TV in the background. The male protagonist was standing on the edge of a cliff with waves crashing against the shore. The voiceover was the classic Cantonese narration that has been very popular on the Internet recently.
[I started to exercise, study, expand my network, and use all means to remove obstacles and climb up. I swore that I would take back everything I had.
This time, I must win. 】
"How come you don't understand the truth that even soap operas understand? When are you going to take back everything that belongs to you?" Gou An asked without turning his head.
"This line is more suitable for Lu Wan to recite. Isn't she trying to take everything back now?"
"You're going to let her take it?"
“I live well here.”
"Zhou Yanji and the others are about to send Zhou Chu back home, and you are still crying here to prove that you can do it. I say, you—"
Zhou Yutong muttered as she threw a set of clean clothes to Gou An, interrupting her chatter. The latter held the clothes and changed them tremblingly.
TVB was halfway through the broadcast when the news broke that the size and path of Typhoon Amino were beyond the forecast of meteorologists. The path had been changed this morning and it looked like it would take a detour...
Now, for no apparent reason, they have come back to attack us.
Just now, the typhoon made a strong landfall in the coastal area of Jiangcheng, my country. The typhoon is so large in scale that it may pose a certain threat to the lives and property of the general public. Please stay indoors and reduce going out.
This kind of notice is actually not uncommon in coastal cities, and almost every time a typhoon hits, these lines are heard.
After hearing this, Gou An just moved closer to the window and looked out. It was only 12:30 in the afternoon, but the sky outside was already dark as if it was already 8 o'clock in the evening.
A flash of lightning exploded not far away, the sky flashed, and then there was a loud thunder that shook the earth and sky.
The thunder seemed to explode right next to his ears. Gou An, who was standing by the window, was frightened and took a step back. The hair on his head exploded and a sense of uneasiness rose in his heart.
After the thunder, besides heavy rain, the wind began to blow.
The wind grew stronger and stronger, making a howling sound in the alley.
The old windows were bulging and the window frames were shaking as if they could not bear the weight.
Zhou Yutong took out a pizza from the microwave and asked her if she wanted to eat. Gou An looked at the dark sky and the dense rain curtain with almost no visibility, then looked back at the groundhog sitting on the sofa eating lunch, and hesitated: "Why don't we move to the city center before the typhoon comes?"
She didn't know why, but she always felt a little uneasy.
I can’t explain why——
Although they were also inside a building, these shanty towns were so old that no one knew how old they could be traced back to. She remembered hearing Gou Yu and others mention that they had to be demolished quickly because they had no reinforced concrete structures and there were many illegal buildings. Once the hammer hit them, they would be like dominoes.
Thinking of this, cold sweat began to appear on Gou An's forehead.
"Oh, no, it's raining so hard now, you have to walk out by yourself. The alley here is too narrow and taxis don't want to come in..."
"Then go out on your own."
"It's so windy outside right now. Are you sure you won't get hit by a flying flower pot when you walk into the street? The TV tells us not to go out unless necessary. If something unexpected happens during the evacuation process, it would be a loss."
Gou An knew that what she said made sense.
In the past few days, she has been shuttling back and forth in the streets and alleys of the shantytown. In addition to the bad environment, there are more speechless illegal buildings. Not to mention strong winds, even in bright and sunny days, Gou An is afraid that the air conditioner hanging on the rusty shelf will fall down and hit her head...
"It's okay. It's a typhoon. It's not the first time it's happened before. It's always been——"
Before he could finish his words, there was a "pop" and the originally bright room fell into darkness.
There is a power outage.
Zhou Yutong's voice suddenly stopped, and the room fell into silence for a short time, with only the sound of the storm outside the window being heard.
The noisy sound of the TV suddenly disappeared, and since no one was talking, the crazy vibration of the two people's mobile phones on the table and the sound of incoming message push finally became felt.
Gou An then remembered that he hadn't looked at his phone since a while ago. He took it and took a look. There were a bunch of unread messages and missed calls.
Most of them were from Hejin. Not long after the first drop of rain fell, the man sent a message asking her if she was still at the beach and remembered to hide from the rain.
Then as time went on, his tone became more and more impatient.
The last message was posted two minutes ago. After several missed calls, he said directly: Zhou Yutong’s home address, I’ll pick you up.
Gou An immediately called He Jinxing back on video.
During this time, Zhou Yutong finally realized something was wrong and leaned towards the window. When she looked out through the window, she pointed at the window and asked in a dumbfounded manner: "An An, come and take a look. The glass seems to have been blown out of shape. Is there something wrong with my eyes?"
Gou An quickly moved closer to take a look, and saw that the glass was indeed bulging like a rice cake on a barbecue grill.
Her face turned pale, and she pulled Zhou Yutong away, not letting her touch the glass. At the same time, the video call in her hand was picked up almost as soon as it rang. He Jinxing's first question was: "Why is yours so dark?"
"The power is out. I'm here with Zhou Yutong, in the shanty town of Zhaipu. My phone is running out of battery—"
"address."
Just as Gou An was about to say the address, there was a loud noise outside the window, like a building or an ancient tree being uprooted, followed by a thunderous sound of collapse! The huge building collapsed, and the ground beneath his feet shook!
Soon Gou An realized that what had collapsed should be some dilapidated signal tower or something similar in the Jaipu District.
Because the phone call that was just going on was hung up, the signal bar, which was not very good to begin with, went back to zero.
...This is a great show. Not to mention how confused she is now, I'm sure He Jinxing on the other end of the phone must be scared to death.
The wind and rain outside showed no sign of abating. There were continuous sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground, and more often than not, the sound of flower pots breaking on the ground.
It feels like the end of the world is coming.
As if she had witnessed the scene of "dominoes falling" that Gou Yu had described lightly, Gou An did not dare to delay any longer. She did not understand architecture, but she understood typhoons.
A typhoon of this level has indeed surpassed the usual scale. When it first lands, it has the destructive power to destroy huge buildings along the coast.
And she had completely lost confidence in this paper-like complex of buildings.
He immediately took action and dragged Zhou Yutong to change clothes and go downstairs. The two of them put on raincoats and ran all the way to the first floor. Zhou Yutong went up first to push the door, but then found that it would not open.
In the darkness, her pale face was as if she had seen a ghost. She turned her head and looked at Gou An: "He was locked up from the outside."
(End of this chapter)