Chapter 79 Exclusive Release Pei Shuyu Returns to Him Again...
Yu Wei was buried in his hometown, where flowers bloom all year round.
Pei Shuyu, clutching a bouquet of fresh white chrysanthemums, walked alone down a familiar path. He came every year, but this year was different. His pace quickened unconsciously, and in the distance, he spotted several figures standing in front of the tomb.
Is anyone else here already?
"Pei Shuyu! Why are you so late!" Xiao Qingyang waved at him.
Pei Shuyu walked closer and saw Lu Jianchuan and Fu Zhouxing standing next to him.
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After the tomb sweeping was completed, the four of them returned along the same route they had come.
Fu Zhouxing and Xiao Qingyang walked in front, and Lu Jianchuan deliberately slowed down his pace until he was parallel to Pei Shuyu.
"Do you want to ask something?" Pei Shuyu took the initiative to speak.
Lu Jianchuan glanced at him first, then lowered his head: "Have you known the truth about Yu Wei's death?"
"Um."
Hearing this, Lu Jianchuan thought of all the times he'd targeted Pei Shuyu out of suspicion, and suddenly felt a surge of shame. He was agitated, "Then why didn't you say anything? I'm asking you, why did you..."
When he finished speaking, he was stunned.
Why should I tell him? Their relationship wasn't that good. Plus, I was too reckless during that time and did a lot of unpleasant things.
It was normal for Pei Shuyu not to tell him.
"To prevent you from getting involved," Pei Shuyu said, looking at the two people who had already gotten into the car in front of him. "Before Yu Wei died, he told me there was a traitor in Saifan. I don't dare trust anyone else except these two."
Seeing that they were late, Xiao Qingyang couldn't help but get out of the car to urge them.
Lu Jianchuan pursed his lips and finally said softly, "I'm sorry."
"I didn't take it seriously."
Afraid Lu Jianchuan wouldn't believe him, he emphasized it again, "Really."
…
After returning to Sevan, Fu Zhouxing drove away on his own.
Lu Jianchuan said something to them and went in first. Xiao Qingyang stretched and walked in as well. "The weather is getting colder. Let's go in together."
Pei Shuyu stood still.
"Come on, what are you doing?" Xiao Qingyang took a few steps and found that he was not keeping up.
"I'm not going in."
"ah?"
Pei Shuyu glanced at the terminal and said, "Ah, Lu Hean wants to pick me up for dinner."
“…”
I really can’t stand you guys! Xiao Qingyang walked away with big strides.
Pei Shuyu came to Saifan a few days ago.
Before going out, Lu Hean put several layers of clothes on him, including a scarf and gloves.
Pei Shuyu wasn't cold, perhaps because his pheromone was cedar. But Lu Hean was insistent, as if dressing up Pei Shuyu was a routine task in a dress-up game.
Seeing that Pei Shuyu was wearing clothes that he had matched from head to toe, Lu Hean was very satisfied and let him go out.
Now it just came in handy. He pulled the scarf up to cover most of his face. He ran across the playground and stopped only when he reached the office building.
No one noticed him. He screwed the freshmen over badly last time, so he probably has some psychological trauma.
The elevator stopped at the top floor and he pushed open the door.
"You're here." Shang Xu stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, as if he had been waiting for a long time.
I was just jogging outside, and I didn't feel anything because the weather was hot. Now that I'm inside, it's getting a bit hot. Pei Shuyu took off his scarf and draped it over his arm.
"I'm here to resign."
Shang Xu didn't respond, and continued to himself, "I'm old, and Zhou Ting's position is vacant. I plan to pass Zhou Ting's position to you."
"I said, I'm here to resign." Pei Shuyu repeated, took out the resignation application form from his pocket, unfolded it, and spread it flat on the table.
He was not very interested in this position.
"..." Shang Xu turned the ring on his hand, "If you insist on leaving, you don't have to fill out the form. Pei Shuyu, have you made up your mind?"
It seems that many people ask Pei Shuyu this question.
Have you thought it through?
Do you want to study medicine, do you want to join Sevan, do you want to fall in love with an alpha, do you want to never have anything to do with him again for the rest of your life?
Pei Shuyu also asked himself countless times, why do you do this, have you thought it through? Later he realized that you don’t have to think everything through before doing it. If you want to do it, do it, and if you don’t want to do it, don’t do it.
I need to think of a reason.
Why do I have to think of a reason to convince others, and convince them to agree to let me do this?
Why?
I thought about it, and that's what convinced me. Because I thought about it, I did it.
Even if he fails, even if everyone says that his action is meaningless, it is better than leaving behind the regret that he should have tried it at that time.
"I've thought about this a long time ago." Pei Shuyu pushed the resignation form forward. "It's just that this form arrived too late. You should sign it. Only with a seal will the alliance have legal effect. A verbal agreement is easy to regret."
Shang Xu was silent for a few seconds, looking at Pei Shuyu, and finally signed his name silently, then took out a seal from the cabinet and stamped it.
Pei Shuyu looked through it carefully and confirmed that there was no problem. Then he walked to the printer, made a copy and left it on the table, then walked out the door.
"Are you still blaming me for not saving Yu Wei back then?" Shang Xu suddenly spoke.
"It's hard not to blame." Pei Shuyu put his hand on the door handle but didn't press it down. "I know you were the one who sent Zhou Ting those documents and evidence. Thank you for this."
"You really are like your father, Shuyu."
Pei Shuyu's hand, which was about to press the door handle, suddenly stopped, and his whole body seemed to be nailed to the spot by an invisible nail.
A few seconds later, he turned around abruptly, a rare crack appearing on his usually calm face: "You are mistaken, I am an orphan."
Shang Xu did not answer immediately. He slowly picked up the wooden photo frame from the table, gently wiped off the non-existent dust with his sleeve, and then handed it to Pei Shuyu.
Inside the frame was an old photo of two high-spirited young men, set against what appeared to be a training ground. Both were wearing old-fashioned training uniforms, their arms around each other, their smiles bright.
"The one on the left is me," Shang Xu pointed at the photo and said hoarsely, "The one on the right is your father, his name is Pei Heng."
He gently tapped Pei Heng's face in the photo with his finger: "Originally, he should have been the one who founded Saifan with us."
Pei Shuyu clutched the photo frame tightly. The word "father" was too unfamiliar to him. He looked up and asked, "Then why...was it Zhou Ting who ended up?"
Shang Xu was silent for a moment, looking at the gray sky outside the window: "Because... Pei Heng is dead."
"...Was it Zhou Ting who did it?" Pei Shuyu asked.
Shang Xu retracted his gaze and looked at Pei Shuyu. His eyes were complicated and difficult to read, but he finally shook his head slowly: "I don't know."
"have no idea?"
"I only have suspicions, because... Zhou Ting originally liked your father very much," Shang Xu said in a low voice, "and there's no evidence to suggest Pei Heng was murdered. Later, Zhou Ting... he found us, replaced Pei Heng, and joined us."
He paused and added, more like speaking to himself, "At that time, we were all immersed in the grief of losing our best friend, and we also needed a strong alpha to support the structure of the new organization... Zhou Ting's appearance helped us. I think he chose you because you are Pei Heng's child."
Pei Shuyu lowered his head and looked at his father's young face in the photo again, but still could not feel any emotion between father and son.
It's so unfamiliar.
No matter what Zhou Ting's reason was, it had nothing to do with him now.
I still remember that when Zhou Ting made the third request, Pei Shuyu agreed without hesitation.
"Just agreed to it? I remember that you and Lu He'an seemed to be..." He didn't say the rest of the words, but Pei Shuyu knew.
What did Pei Shuyu say at the time? He said, "How could an alpha fall in love with an alpha?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhou Ting's face darkened for a moment.
Pei Shuyu thought that the excuse he made up was too bad, but now he thinks that Zhou Ting was putting himself in his shoes.
"Lu He'an is so annoying, but he has President Lu behind him. You know, I'm just an ordinary team leader, and I can't beat him. But now it's different. You said you would give me the highest position."
Pei Shuyu added this explanation later because he was afraid that he wouldn't believe it.
Zhou Ting looked at him, as if seeing someone through him, and muttered to himself: "Yes, you will enjoy the supreme glory and status with me... together with me..."
Pei Shuyu thought about these insignificant details, and suddenly everything seemed to make sense to him.
"So, the reason you tried every possible means to drive me out of Saifan in the beginning was also because of my father?" Pei Shuyu thought of these old events again. Even if he was a thick-skinned person, he knew that he was being targeted at that time.
"Indeed," Shang Xu didn't deny it, and laughed, "But later, that kid from the Lu family even thought of using public opinion for you, so I just went along with it and let you come back."
He observed Pei Shuyu's expression and found that Pei Shuyu was completely unaware of this.
"Didn't he tell you?"
"No, he's always like this." Pei Shuyu gently placed the photo frame back on the table, making a slight "knock" sound.
He was always like this, saying nothing. Well, Pei Shuyu himself wasn't much better.
"Actually, I looked for you at that time, but you had already been adopted by the orphanage. I tried to adopt you later, but the Lu family adopted you again. I thought you would live a peaceful life until something happened to you. I went to the orphanage again, but the director refused to let anyone else adopt you."
Pei Shuyu has a vague memory of this.
But Pei Shuyu vaguely remembered waking up one day covered in wounds for no apparent reason. The director's mother even asked him if he remembered what had happened.
It was probably at that time that I lost some of my memory.
He took one last look at the photo that captured his past smile, turned around, and this time, without stopping, he turned the doorknob and walked out.
The door closed softly behind him.
Pei Shuyu walked in the empty corridor. The light from the window fell on him, stretching his shadow very long.
He put away the signed and stamped resignation form in his hand, put his scarf back on, and walked to his office one last time to take a look.
I didn't have much stuff to begin with, so there was nothing to take away.
Pei Shuyu closed the door.
The holidays are coming soon, and no one would be stupid enough to resign at this time.
The staff member was humming a song while waiting for the end of his shift.
"I feel so relieved without work~ hehehe~"
"Hello, I'm quitting."
"No way..." The staff member looked up in confusion. "Dude, it's really a loss for you to resign now... Ah, huh? Captain Pei?"
Pei Shuyu handed over the information card and said, "Please help me cancel the card. Sorry for the trouble."
The information card was cut in half and thrown in the trash.
…
Pei Shuyu walked out of the building, also pulled up his scarf to cover half of his face, and trotted out.
Because I don’t have my information card, I need the help of the security guard at the door.
The security guard at the door thought he had forgotten to bring it, and reminded him with a smile not to forget it next time.
Pei Shuyu nodded in response and walked out the door. After a few steps, he stopped involuntarily. He turned around and took one last, deep look at the place.
His eyes felt slightly hot and sore, but he blinked quickly, then turned around resolutely without looking back.
With two beeps, a familiar car stopped quietly by the roadside.
The car window rolled down, revealing Lu Hean's face with a gentle smile. He was waiting there, just like when Pei Shuyu first joined Saifan a few years ago, except that at that time, Lu Hean was still riding a bicycle.
Pei Shuyu walked over, opened the car door, and got in the passenger seat. The warmth inside the car dispelled the cold outside.
Lu Hean didn't start the car immediately. He handed over a gift first, "Yu Jingheng insisted on giving it to you. Open it and take a look."
It was a black box tied with a bow made of fine satin. It was hard to tell what was inside.
Pei Shuyu put down his hand that was about to grab the seat belt and took the gift box. "Yu Jingheng? Why would he give me something?"
Lu Hean helped him take off his scarf. "He has always misunderstood you, so he should apologize to you. He even said he would treat you to a meal next time."
"That's not necessary...his last time hurt me, that should be considered as offset." Pei Shuyu opened the gift box, which contained a bottle of perfume.
There was also a bow tied on the bottle cap. Pei Shuyu picked it up and shook it. The liquid was pink...pink perfume for a man? Pei Shuyu didn't understand.
Instead, Lu Hean had a strange expression on his face and helped him close the box.
"Let him treat you, he deserves it." After placing the gift box, Lu Hean turned his head to look at him again and asked softly, "What are your plans for the future?"
Pei Shuyu stared ahead, silent for a few seconds before speaking, his voice a little weak. "I want to...buy back that orphanage. Actually, it started out as a welfare home, but a lot of lazy people got in, and we ran out of money, so we had no choice but to turn it into an orphanage."
After saying that, Pei Shuyu blinked unnaturally, and then... why did he have to explain so much afterwards.
Hearing this, Lu Hean's mouth curved into a deeper arc, his eyes sparkling: "Okay, I see. I'll take you somewhere first."
"Okay." Pei Shuyu fastened his seat belt.
The car drove smoothly into the traffic flow. Pei Shuyu just looked out the window at first, but as the familiar street scenes passed by one by one, his heartbeat involuntarily quickened.
This road... he is too familiar with it.
Even though he has deliberately avoided it over the years, the memory of his body cannot be erased.
This is the way to the orphanage... He suddenly turned his head and looked at Lu Hean.
Lu Hean felt his gaze, and with one free hand, he gently held his slightly cold fingers, smiling with a little pride: "Don't be impatient, wait until we get there, and then look at me like this again."
The car finally came to a slow stop.
Pei Shuyu looked out the car window and his breath was instantly choked.
Completely different from what he had imagined, that it had been razed to the ground or rebuilt beyond recognition, the orphanage in his memory stood there intact.
The exterior walls had been repainted with clean, warm tones, the courtyard was tidy, and even the old amusement facilities had been renovated. It was completely different from the dilapidated and desolate appearance he remembered after the explosion.
He always thought that this place had been converted into other buildings long ago.
Lu Hean loosened his seat belt, came around to open the car door for him, and then took his hand, "Let's go, I'll take you inside to have a look."
Pei Shuyu was led by him and walked step by step into this place that was both familiar and seemed to have a soft light filter.
An old locust tree was replanted in the yard, and the rusty swing under the tree was replaced with a new one, which is more sturdy and beautiful.
"Shu Yu," Lu Hean stopped and turned to face him. He held his face in his hands, his thumbs gently rubbing the corners of his eyes, which had become moist without him noticing. He said solemnly, "I bought this place. It took two years to renovate it into this. The paperwork was completed a few days ago, and your name was signed. It's yours now."
Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, Pei Shuyu could no longer control the tears that he had been holding back, and they burst out in an instant.
He didn't make a sound, but just let the hot tears continue to slide down, blurring his vision and Lu Hean's face so close to him.
Pei Shuyu has been living in this welfare home since he can remember.
This place holds too many memories for him.
When he was young, Pei Shuyu would wait a whole year in anticipation for his birthday just to have cake. In the end, because there were so many children, he divided the cake among all the children and sang birthday songs to himself while holding a lollipop in his mouth.
It’s called the birthday, but actually it’s the day I found it.
After going to school, he found that people in the orphanage were often sick and the medical expenses were expensive for them. He felt that the hospital was a place only rich people could go, so he went to study medicine so that he could treat those children himself in the future.
But the orphanage is gone, and those children are now grown up and no longer need him.
After graduation, he wanted to earn money to support the orphanage. While working, he encountered so much inequality. He turned down a promising job offer from a friend and resolutely joined Sevan.
But Sefan was different from what he imagined. He began to feel confused, but had to continue walking in the fog for the sake of some truth.
Until I reached the end and saw Lu Hean.
Pei Shuyu's tears flowed even more violently.
Lu Hean didn't say anything, but just gently held him in his arms and patted his back again and again, like comforting a child who had been lost for a long time and finally returned home.
After going around in circles, Pei Shuyu finally returned here again.
And back to him again.
"Xiao Yu, have you found Utopia?"
"No, Mother Dean."
"Have you found someone you can entrust your life to?"
"Found it."
——End of text——
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The author has something to say: Utopia in the conceptual sense is meaningful, but utopia in reality does not exist. — Luo Xiang
It’s a scheduled release!
The main text ends here. I am not very good at writing endings. [I am not saying that others are good at writing.] Maybe I don’t like writing endings myself.
Just like the endings of many characters, I won’t describe them in detail unless necessary. After completing the plot I have in mind, it becomes their own story, and I don’t know what they will do next.
Some people have previously said why it doesn’t have a mouth and that the protagonist’s character is not perfect.
Then I have a mouth, let me speak.
I love you too much, so I am clumsy. The more I love you, the less I know how to communicate with you. From Andre's "The Narrow Gate"
So, you often see misunderstandings, because when you like someone, you have a lot of concerns. It's normal to have wild thoughts. Pei Shuyu is a bit of a pessimist, but he used to be very optimistic. Then slowly... But now, the two of them communicate about everything. People always get better slowly [Please]
I can’t write a perfect character yet... Everyone I write about has flaws.
You can't just see the good side of someone. If you love someone, you also have to love his dark side.
Of course, this is for Xiao Pei and Xiao Lu, so readers are welcome to disagree! I love it when you can freely discuss the plot.
And thoughts that are not expressed by the characters themselves, such as thoughts and words from other people's perspectives, may be fake news written by me.
After all, speculation is just like gossip heard from others.
Just listen to it, don't take it seriously.
However, although the main text is over! But their story will not [heart]
There are still a lot of extra chapters I want to write but haven't yet. The extra chapters might be updated slowly. [Heartbroken] This period of time has really been... I don't want to play the victim.
Actually, this book had its initial shape back in May. At the time, I was planning to write the Alliance trilogy, but after writing ten chapters of the first one, I felt something was amiss, so I put it on hold. Now I'm writing this one again, and the third one will be the next one!
This book was published in June after ten chapters were written, and was serialized over three months.
In fact, I always write a rough outline before writing, but as the outline is completed, some other ideas always pop up.
I will make revisions, and every time I have to do this, it's a real headache. [I may also make revisions after it's finished, as I always have to be more considerate of the legitimate readers.]
During this period, there were many times when I couldn't continue writing, and it was my friends who encouraged me and urged me to update every day. I am very grateful to them. I can't mention their names one by one, but I know you can see it!
I'm also very grateful to everyone who keeps leaving comments in the comment section! I remember you all, too! Thanks for the nutrient solution! [Keep it up!] Although I haven't read many comments during the series (scratching my head, there aren't many, haha), I might check them out after it's finished to learn from their suggestions and improve any shortcomings.
I made a bet with my friends to finish it before October
I win even though the main story is finished, right?
Finally, keep working hard and make sure your next book gets better and better!
——2025.9.30
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