Wait until the two elders of the Yao family leave.
I took the mental compensation that the creepy guy at the police station gave me and went to the mall to buy a cell phone.
At the door of the toy store, I picked out some toys that my children like to play with nowadays.
Just as I was about to return home with a full load, I remembered that I was going to visit Zhou Bingchen tomorrow night, using this as an excuse to give him a gift.
Thinking of the purple scarf he always wore, my heart ached.
He must have had a very tiring life these years.
He has been carrying the dead man's things for so long. Has he really not let me go at all?
I unknowingly walked into a men's clothing store and bought a tie there with all the money in the red envelope that Zhou Binchen gave me as a meeting gift.
As I stroked the gray tie in my hand, the corners of my eyes gradually became moist and a hint of warmth appeared.
He helped me raise my children without any regrets, and I can never repay this kindness.
Carrying a lot of bags and being penniless, I had no choice but to hike up the mountain to the villa halfway up the mountain, where he built the bird's nest for me.
When we were almost halfway up the mountain, a helicopter was hovering overhead and landed halfway up the mountain.
I saw Zhou Binchen getting off the plane from a distance. He carefully carried the children off the plane one by one, and then he pulled the two jumping children into the villa on his left and right. The corners of my lips unconsciously rose slightly.
It seems that the children have had a very happy three years.
The gate of the villa slowly closed again, and the diligent bodyguards stood outside the door with serious expressions.
I paused and didn't go over to visit.
Because I was afraid of disturbing him, I told him that I would come to see him tomorrow.
I can't visit in advance.
So I found an open space in the mountains not far from the villa, took off my coat and wrapped it around my long legs exposed under my short skirt, and prepared to sleep there for one night.
The night wind was very cold, but my heart was very warm. Looking at the moon hanging high in the sky, thinking about seeing the children tomorrow, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep...
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In the villa study.
Zhou Binchen lowered his eyes and looked at the plan in his hand, unable to concentrate at all.
My mind kept recalling the scene of me suddenly hugging him at the banquet during the day.
At that moment, he knew that the woman hugging him was not Qiao Chuyuan.
But inexplicably, he had a familiar feeling lingering in his heart.
He had also met Yao Zitong many years ago.
That wasn't the feeling he had at the time.
With just one glance, he could tell the difference between her and Qiao Chuyuan.
Just like when Yao Zitong appeared at Ji Linting and Qiao Zhixian’s wedding, everyone thought she was Qiao Chuyuan.
But he knew that wasn't it.
I just hope deep down that she is, that she is still alive.
But today, Yao Zitong was standing behind Xie Chenyu at the banquet. Even though his eyesight was often blinded regardless of the situation due to the bullet compressing the nerves, the moment he could see clearly, he was still attracted by the familiar feeling and saw the similar figure that he had depicted countless times in his dreams.
When the face that looked exactly like Qiao Chuyuan appeared and enlarged in front of him, he was stunned for a moment.
He thought his first wish had returned.
But soon, his reason told him.
She is not, she just looks like Chuyuan.
Zhou Binchen closed the plan in his hand, closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly.
At this time, Assistant Li knocked on the door and came in to report to him my subsequent movements.
"Brother Chen, the people we sent said that after Miss Yao and a group of people came out of the police station, they went to the mall to buy a lot of things, and then..."
"Okay, since she's fine, there's no need to report." Zhou Binchen interrupted him. Not wanting to listen to trivial matters, he stood up and prepared to go to the children's room to see if the two of them were doing their homework.
Assistant Li followed him out. Seeing that his boss had been a little uneasy since returning from the cocktail party, he finally gritted his teeth and stopped him from continuing, saying, "Brother Chen, that Miss Yao is right at the door of the villa, squatting in the jungle!"
Zhou Bingchen paused, a trace of surprise flashing in his calm eyes, "How did she get here?"
Subconsciously, he looked at the dark jungle outside the villa and frowned slightly.
What he couldn't understand was that I was already at the door of the villa, so why didn't I come in?
At this time, I was feeding mosquitoes in the jungle, completely unaware that I was being followed. I felt a little annoyed that I didn't go to visit him earlier. It was already past ten o'clock, and if I went there so late at night, he would definitely think I was a frivolous woman.
I put a plastic bag over my head and was not afraid of the dark.
The scary thing is that there is a ghost beside me that is more terrifying than anything else, guarding me all the time.
At this moment, Ji Linting's transparent and ethereal soul looked even more eerie and strange under the moonlight.
I had no choice but to sit there quietly, not daring to look at him.
But he still sat there and chattered in my ear, talking about every little thing about him and me when we were young.
He talked about how we first met, when he was starving and the bread I gave him was the best thing he had ever tasted.
He talked about how I blocked the knife for him and was kidnapped because of him, and cursed himself for being a beast, saying that he not only cheated on me but also killed me.
As he spoke, he covered his face and burst into tears.
I listened to his genuine confession in the plastic bag, with no emotion on my face.
No matter how sincere, pure and precious the memories of the past were, they all fell apart the moment he betrayed me and slept with someone else.
He is the father of my children, and also the deep scar on my body that aches dully on every cold winter night. It cannot be erased but will always heal.
I listened to Ji Linting's endless chatter, and finally couldn't help but fall into a deep sleep...
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After Zhou Bingchen finished telling the story to Chenchen, he passed by the living room and heard the crackling sound of raindrops hitting the glass windows outside the living room.
He leaned close to the window, looked at the dark jungle outside, then silently turned around, put on his down jacket, and went to sleep in the ice room upstairs.
As usual, as he had done in the past few years, he poured a glass of milk and placed it next to my ice coffin and asked me to get up and drink it.
After shouting, he sat quietly by the side, waiting for the glass of milk to solidify into ice, then he slowly smiled, walked back to the door, brought in a basin filled with special medicine, and carefully helped me wipe my body.
"Chuyuan, I met your sister today. I gave her a big red envelope as a greeting gift. Didn't you say before that this was the custom in your place?"
"Your sister looks just like you, though of course she's not as pretty as you."
As he spoke, the smile on his lips grew wider, and his hand tightly grasped my bone-depleted hand. "Why are your hands colder today? Are you worried that I can't tell you apart from your sister?"
"Don't worry, I won't engage in substitute literature. I only love you in my life!"
After saying this, he lay down beside the corpse, gently held the corpse in his arms and closed his eyes, leaving only the water vapor sprayed out with his breathing in the ice room, rising and falling in the cold and silent ice room.
Over the years, his body had gradually become accustomed to sleeping in the ice room.
Just as a thunder boomed outside the house, Zhou Bingchen seemed to be awakened and unconsciously looked outside the house...
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