Chapter 42 Those Two Years
As she asked this question, her hands subconsciously gripped the quilt beneath them.
This was the only time she opened her heart to him since he came back.
He could feel that the two years he was away had become a huge thorn in her heart.
Shen Yuehuai also felt that he should explain things to her properly. He had been looking for an opportunity to have a good chat with her over the past two years, but he never found the chance.
He thought for a few seconds, then said calmly, "It's not like I didn't care about you these past two years. I often wrote to you and called you, but it seemed like you were deliberately ignoring me. The reason I didn't go home these two years was naturally because I had to take care of the family business."
He didn't want to talk too much about his work, so he picked out some insignificant details to mention: "That area is a key part of the family business. There are some new hotels and shopping malls opening up... There's a lot of things to do."
In the cool afternoon air of the room, his voice was like a pot of warm tea, gentle and clear: "Last year, when you graduated from university, I wanted to make time to come back for your graduation ceremony, but I really couldn't. I figured since I couldn't spare the time, I had to send a gift. But the gift was returned unopened. I knew someone was angry and blamed me, so I couldn't help but spend six months to finish the work that should have lasted another year. Finally, I returned home in time for the old lady's birthday party."
He smiled softly, "I thought that some people would be very happy when I came back this time, but things turned out to be completely different from what I imagined.
He looked at her quiet face and said, "Sangsang, don't be angry with me. I don't know if you understand or forgive me for my explanation, but I hope you can forgive and understand. Okay?"
Shen Sangsang blinked twice, and then a tear quickly slid from her eye socket to the corner of her mouth.
And her tear was like a stone falling into Shen Yuehuai's heart, and his heart actually felt heavy, stuffy and damp.
So, his hand fell on her head, his palm gently touching her soft hair.
The moment he touched her hair, Shen Yuehuai seemed to have touched the loss and fear she had experienced in the past two years, and the stabbing pain in her heart, like being pricked by a needle, came back again.
Sitting beside the bed, he reached out and hugged the person directly onto his lap, cradling the sad and crying person in his arms.
She was very well behaved today and didn't struggle. Even after he held her in his arms, her body still lay softly against his chest.
But he uttered words of resentment: "Since you raised me in the first place, why did you abandon me? You abandoned me for two years. Do you know how I lived during these two years?"
She sobbed, her hands tightly grasping the hem of his clothes: "Mrs. Shen is very good to me, very good, and the servants of the Shen family are also very good to me, but they are not you." She sobbed: "I grew up by your side. No matter how good everyone is, they are all strangers to me."
Shen Yuehuai's right hand was on her back, pressing her entire body. Because she was too excited, her head kept moving from side to side, and the ends of her hair brushed against his arm, making him couldn't help but sigh softly.
Her crying was full of her deep dependence on him.
The kind of dependence that comes after meeting again after two years, after the brief period of strangeness, resentment, and disgust.
Shen Yuehuai thought that the distance of the past two years did not create too much distance between him and her.
During this period, her rebelliousness, her alienation, and all the wrong things she did were all because of his departure in the past two years.
It turned out that she was still the same little girl as before, nothing had changed, except that she had learned to grow thorns and prick people.
Shen Yuehuai thought about everything that had happened recently, and for some reason, he couldn't help but want to laugh.
He laughed at her naiveté and her retaliation against him for the past two years, which had ruined herself recklessly. He felt that it was not worth it for her, and also laughed at himself, because in these two years, he had ruined a little girl that he had raised with his own hands.
Is this a debt or fate?
He could no longer figure out everything that was going on here. He only thought that since the grudge had been settled, he would be responsible for her in the future, even though she was always a little girl in his eyes and even though he did not have the love of an adult for her.
Shen Yuehuai's heart hurts a little, probably because of her tears, her blame, her self-destruction
"I'm sorry, Sangsang."
He lowered his voice and apologized to her over and over again.
Shen Sangsang cried in his arms for almost an hour. After an hour, she was finally tired and fell asleep again in his arms.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, it was time for the psychologist to come for treatment. Xu Jie brought the doctor with her. When the two of them walked to the door of the room, they saw the situation inside.
Xu Jie and the doctor both stopped walking.
Shen Yuehuai, who was sitting on the edge of the bed in the room with someone in his arms, naturally heard the noise at the door.
His gaze looked forward.
After seeing this scene, Xu Jie's brows furrowed slightly, and he even had a hint of worry. It seemed that his boss was too good to this orphan girl.
He whispered, "Doctor, come over to treat today. I just happened to have something about your family that I need to report to you."
Shen Yuehuai knew that the person in his arms had never had a good sleep day and night. This afternoon was the first time in such a long time that she slept so soundly.
He said to Xu Jie, "Forget about today's treatment. Go to sleep."
When the doctor heard this, he looked at Xu Jie.
Xu Jie didn't say anything about this. He just asked, "What about your family's affairs?"
Shen Yuehuai didn't want to wake her up, so when she fell asleep after crying herself tired, he held her in his arms and let her continue to sleep soundly.
It's only half an hour now.
"Take the doctor out first, and we'll talk about the rest later."
Xu Jie didn't expect him to answer like this.
He was about to speak, but when the words reached his lips, he stopped. After a long while, he just said, "Okay."
Afterwards, Xu Jie left the room with the doctor, while Shen Yuehuai sat in the room, looking down at the person in his arms.
Outside the window, the afterglow fell on the two of them, blurring the outlines between their bodies.
Sangsang slept soundly until the next morning.
Strangely enough, when she woke up the next morning, she felt refreshed.
She sat on the bed, staring at the sunlight outside, in a daze.
At this time, the servant came in from outside. When he came to her, he said, "Madam, you are finally awake. You have been sleeping since yesterday morning."
This was something Shen Sangsang herself had not expected.
She asked again: "Where is Shen Yuehuai?"
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