Chapter 160 Harmony
The person in front of her at that time made her feel at a loss. After all, he was a strange man older than her. As a woman, she was naturally alert.
So she stood there with her head down and didn't move until the person in front of her came behind her and put a pair of hands on her hair.
Because of long-term hunger, her body did not take in enough nutrition, so her long hair was not very smooth after washing with clean water and detergent and drying. Instead, it was tangled like dead grass. The servant who bathed her did not have the patience to straighten her long hair.
The person behind her reached out and touched her tangled hair bit by bit, untangling and combing her long hair.
At that time, she also looked at her and his shadows on the ground, just like today.
At that time, she had just reached adulthood, while he was already a fully grown man. Her shadow in front of him was only half a person's height.
How did she feel about this elder at that time? Shen Sangsang wasn't sure. Perhaps she felt admiration and awe...
Just as her eyes fell to the ground for a long time, the person who was unzipping her back behind her said softly while she was in a daze, "Okay."
Shen Sangsang reacted, her head trembling slightly, and then she subconsciously reached out to touch her back. After touching a piece of smooth skin, she whispered: "Thank you."
She walked away from him and turned to face someone else.
Shen Yuehuai, who was standing in front of her, looked at her and asked her, "What were you thinking about just now?"
He knew very well whether she was in a daze or not.
When Shen Sangsang heard his question, she thought for a moment and whispered, “I was thinking about my first day at the Shen family.”
Shen Yuehuai raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard her words.
"That day, just like today, you stood behind me, and our shadows fell to the ground one after another."
Shen Yuehuai seemed to remember something as well. He looked at her hair and said, "I remember when I first met you, your hair was dry and yellow."
Shen Sangsang didn't expect that he still remembered, so she whispered, "Yes, before I was eighteen, I never had a full meal."
His hand touched her current hair again: "But the dry and yellow hair back then has been well taken care of by me."
Shen Sangsang lowered her head and let him touch her.
From Shen Yuehuai's perspective, he looked like a puppy being patted on the head.
Seeing her like this, Shen Yuehuai's hand fell on her hair and ran it down along her hair. When he reached the end of her hair, he whispered, "I didn't expect that by just raising her, I could get myself a wife."
Shen Sangsang felt his hand coming to her back. Because the zipper on her back was unzipped, her back skin was not covered by clothes, so his hand fell not only on her hair, but also on her bare back.
The emotions in his eyes were deep, as deep as the surface of the ocean, which gave birth to all the complexities of life. "Those days have been gone for many years. Do you still remember them?"
"Yes, I often have nightmares. I dream of begging on the street, snatching food from an orphanage, being beaten, and being... abandoned."
When she said the word "abandon", her eyes were fixed on his trouser legs.
And these two words, the next second, made Shen Yuehuai's hand lift her chin, and she looked at him.
She was looking at Shen Yuehuai's face. He whispered, "Who would abandon you? No one would abandon you. Even if you made many mistakes, I would never think of abandoning you."
"Really?" she asked in disbelief, like an extremely insecure child.
For some reason, Shen Yuehuai didn't like seeing her expression like that, nor did he like her saying those words. His heart actually ached slightly because of her pitiful words?
He still didn't go into the details of why.
He murmured, "Of course, I never thought about it, and I haven't thought about it now."
"When I... did something that ruined your reputation, didn't you ever think of abandoning me?"
He thought for three seconds and said, "After that incident, I would think about it when I was extremely angry, but that was only occasionally. After those occasional times, I no longer think about it like this."
Even he himself felt it was very complicated and contradictory and said: "Maybe God has his own destiny between us."
Destiny, Shen Sangsang chewed over these two words carefully in her heart.
"A good destiny, or a bad destiny?"
"What do you think?"
He asked her back.
Shen Sangsang didn't look into his eyes, but instead fixed her gaze on the two people's shadows: "I think Uncle Shen and I should be like these two shadows, standing next to each other like this from the beginning to the end."
Shen Yuehuai also looked towards the ground, and seeing the two shadows in the light and shadow, he whispered: "Well, yes."
He answered seriously.
He thought that God's destiny for him was to let this girl stand by his side forever.
…
After Zhou Shiran drove back to the hotel, he picked up a spare phone from the hotel room. When he turned on the spare phone, he inserted the SIM card in his hand into the phone.
All the information in the phone was displayed and the signal was connected successfully. Zhou Shiran took the phone and frantically dialed the number.
But when he called, the phone was turned off. Zhou Shiran took the phone away from his ear. Then, he looked at the phone, his expression becoming more and more cold.
"Oh shit!"
This time, he slammed his phone onto the bed again.
The phone bounced very high on the Simmons mattress, then fell on a pillow and returned to silence.
Afterwards, Zhou Shiran sat on the edge of the bed and lit a cigarette, then sat there smoking fiercely.
…
During those days, the relationship between Shen Sangsang and Shen Yuehuai seemed to be much more harmonious. At least Shen Yuehuai was in a good mood during those days. There was a lot more gentleness on his face, and the atmosphere in the villa was not as stiff and serious as it was in the past few days.
At least during those few days, the two of them had pretty good conversations and eye contact.
During the day, Shen Yuehuai would take Shen Sangsang to the study to look at documents and teach her some things about his work.
In the evening, he would take her out for a walk on the beach.
When the sea breeze blew on the two of them, even their figures became somewhat beautiful.
The sound of rising tide was very loud at the beach in the evening. The waves passed over the two people's feet. Neither of them hid, but just stepped on the sea water and walked across the beach.
Occasionally, when the sea water rose too high, Shen Yuehuai would insert his hands into the armpits of the person in front of him, lift her up from the sea, and watch the sea water submerge his knees.
When they get tired of walking, Shen Yuehuai will take Shen Sangsang to stroll around the nearby night market.
The two of them didn't bring anyone with them.
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