Chapter 69: My Ru Ru, probably forever...
She hadn't seen anyone at first and was about to leave after breakfast, but Fang Hao saw her first and called her back.
"Ms. Song, it's been a long time since we last met. You're finally back home." When Fang Hao saw Song Yu, his face was almost blooming with enthusiasm.
Song Yu was also quite surprised to see Fang Hao. She didn't expect to meet him here. It had been six years since she went abroad.
Song Yu pointed at the hotel and asked, "Why are you here?" The world can't be that small, right?
Fang Hao raised the handbag in his hand and said, "The boss stayed here last night. I came to give him some clean clothes."
"Your boss stayed here last night?" Song Yu was even more surprised. Wasn't Zhou Ci celebrating Su Yuecheng's birthday?
"Miss Song is here for Miss Su's birthday party too?" Fang Hao smiled. "Our boss didn't want to come, but he had no choice. The old man at home gave a hard order. We must host this birthday party for Miss Su. His health hasn't been good in recent years, so the boss had no choice but to go along with him a little."
Most people really can't be Zhou Ci's assistant. Fang Hao is smart and knows how to read people's expressions. In just a few words, he explained to Song Yu the reason why Zhou Ci held a birthday party for Su Yuecheng, leaving Song Yu with no reason to misunderstand.
Most importantly, he knew very clearly who should explain this matter and who should not.
"I didn't attend. I had something to do last night and came back early." Song Yu didn't tell anyone about her and Su Yuecheng.
"I didn't expect Miss Song to be staying at this hotel too. What a coincidence! Miss Song, do you have anything to do after breakfast? Why don't you talk to our boss? You haven't seen each other for many years."
"I'm afraid I don't have time. My flight back to City B is around ten o'clock. I'll be leaving after breakfast and packing my things."
"Is that so? Then I'll call you when I get back to City B?"
Seeing Song Yu nodded, Fang Hao took out his cell phone happily, "Ms. Song, is your cell phone number still the same as before?" He looked like he was ready to write down Song Yu's new number at any time.
"Yes, it's the same one as before. My number hasn't changed."
"Okay, I'll contact you when I get back to City B."
After putting away his phone and watching Song Yu leave, Fang Hao packed himself a breakfast in the restaurant and left as well.
Zhou Ci didn't sleep well last night. When Fang Hao came in carrying clothes, he was sitting on the bed rubbing his solar plexus with a depressed look on his face.
Seeing him like this, Fang Hao felt his scalp numbing. He quickly put down the bag in his hand, poured a glass of water and handed it to him, "Boss, didn't sleep well last night again?" Zhou Ci didn't say anything, put down his hand, took the glass of water and drank it.
Since he didn't say anything, Fang Hao didn't dare to ask any more. After all, the boss's poor sleep quality was not a one- or two-day thing. If you really count it, it started six years ago, after he moved out of Miss Song's house.
Fang Hao watched the boss finish drinking the water and then get up to wash up. When the boss felt refreshed and sat at the dining table to eat the breakfast arranged by the hotel for him, Fang Hao also hurriedly sat down and prepared to eat his own portion.
Just as he picked up his chopsticks, he remembered that he had met Song Yu in the restaurant. Fang Hao said, "Oh, boss, I just ran into Miss Song in the hotel restaurant."
Fang Hao paused after he finished speaking, observing the boss's expression. Seeing that the boss didn't say anything, he continued, "Isn't that a coincidence? Miss Song is also staying at this hotel, but she's in a hurry to return to City B. We didn't talk in detail, but we agreed to call her when we get back to City B."
Zhou Ci raised his eyes and asked, "Eating can't stop your mouth?"
"Hehe!" Fang Hao had a silly smile on his face, but he was complaining in his heart: It's so hard to be an assistant. You have to say what the boss wants, and after saying it, you have to consider the boss's face and get scolded by the boss.
They booked a flight back to City B in the afternoon. After breakfast, they had to go to the subsidiary to inspect the work in the morning.
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On the way back to the Song residence from the airport, they had to pass by B University. Song Yu remembered what Zhang Zeyu and the others had told her, and decided to go to the house where Shen Zhiyan lived before his death.
This community has been around for more than ten years, but the property management is good, and it is next to University B, so houses in the community are easy to sell. Basically, they are sold as soon as they are put on the market, and some people even buy houses at high prices. It is a situation where supply exceeds demand.
The password for the front door has not changed. It is still the one that Shen Zhiyan and I set together. However, the house has been empty for the past few years and no one has cleaned it, so a thin layer of dust has accumulated.
Ten years later, Song Yu stepped into this place again.
The layout has not changed, the entrance is still the same, on the top layer of the shoe cabinet, next to the blue slippers are her pink slippers; on the pegboard, the little bear bag pendant that she didn't take away ten years ago is still hanging there.
On the treasure chest, her wishing bottles filled with stars disappeared, and were replaced with photos of her before she was 18 years old, many of which were photos taken with Shen Zhiyan.
It’s great to be young!
At that time, they were full of vigor and confidence, and their eyes and eyebrows were shining with sharpness. Unfortunately, they can never go back. Song Yu touched them in the photo frame and laughed until tears came out.
Song Yu’s strange gadgets were well kept in Shen Zhiyan’s bedroom.
All her wild imagination and sentimentality in her teenage years were well taken care of by Shen Zhiyan after she turned eighteen.
He opened all her wishing stars and replied to everything she had written on them, the earliest of which could be traced back to the month after their breakup.
The last star was folded by Chen Zhiyan himself. He wrote on it: Every time I miss you very much, I will allow myself to take out one to taste it, but candies will eventually run out, and my Ru Ru will probably never come back.
Song Yu couldn't help crying any longer, clutching the star-shaped paper.
As time passed, she found evidence that Shen Zhiyan had always loved her in the clues left after his death. During the years they wasted, he refused to tell her the reason, and she refused to let go of her pride, and many things ended in nothing.
She cried because she felt regretful. She and he had such a regretful life, and there was no chance to start over.
The cloakroom was built next to the bedroom. On the left was a row of full wardrobes filled with Shen Zhiyan's clothes. Song Yu even found the team uniforms she and he wore when they represented the school in high school competitions. The row of wardrobes on the right was empty, with only a set of Song Yu's spare clothes from that year, which were washed and neatly folded there.
The last place Song Yu went to was Shen Zhiyan's study.
She didn't have the key to Shen Zhiyan's safe, and surprisingly, the safe was not locked. In addition to some certificates of Shen Zhiyan, the rest were various property and share transfer agreements that had been signed and left for Song Yu.
Song Yu became more and more frightened as she turned over the things. Shen Zhiyan left her quite a few things, which were all saved by his own entrepreneurial investment when he was in college in S City. If the Song family's hole was not too big and the problem was not too serious this time, with these things Shen Zhiyan left her, she could have lived her whole life as a rich woman who spent her days shopping without relying on her family.
Shen Zhiyan's property was not enough to shock Song Yu. What shocked Song Yu was that these were the agreements that had been signed before Shen Zhiyan's accident. But Shen Zhiyan's death was an accident. Why did he arrange these in advance? It was as if he had anticipated his own death in advance.
She also found a piece of burnt paper in the gap between the safe and the floor. It looked like a page from Shen Zhiyan's diary. Only the two words "Ruru" were clearly visible on it. The rest was burnt black and nothing could be seen.
Song Yu searched the study thoroughly but found nothing. She was afraid that she had missed something, so she left the study and searched the entire house carefully.
After finding nothing, she sat on the living room floor regardless of the dirt, took out her cell phone and called Zhang Zeyu.
Zhang Zeyu was playing parent-child games with his child. When he answered the phone, he could still hear the child's childish laughter on the other end.
“Do you know why Shen Zhiyan died?”
"Ah?" Zhang Zeyu was stunned by the question, "He wasn't an accident?"
"Would someone who was unexpectedly killed transfer their property to someone else in advance? It's like knowing they were going to die in advance?"
"It's a bit strange." Zhang Zeyu's end fell silent. Perhaps he went to a quieter place to answer the phone.
“Do you know why Shen Zhiyan went to S City to study at university?”
"Ru Ru, you've asked me this question several times. I really don't know. How could I not tell you if I knew? I also want to know what he was so crazy about back then."
Song Yu didn't give up and asked again: "Could it be related to his parents? I always feel that it's strange that Shen Zhiyan didn't live at home when he came back from college during the holidays. He lived outside alone. He has been very filial since he was a child, but in those years, except for the New Year and other holidays, he would not go home unless it was necessary."
"Ru Ru, what you said is a bit wrong, but Zhiyan is as close-mouthed as a gourd. Unless he is willing to talk, we don't want to know." After a pause, Zhang Zeyu said, "It's meaningless to pursue these things now. The person is gone. Since Shen Zhiyan left something for you, you should keep it well and don't let him down."
"I won't take this money. Uncle Shen and Aunt Yue are old, and the family situation is like this now. If I return the money to them, they can live a stable life in their old age. Maybe when Shen Zhiyan left all the money to me, he anticipated what would happen today and wanted me to help Uncle Shen and the others at this time."
"As expected, she is still my family's beautiful and kind-hearted fairy." Zhang Zeyu praised, "Even in your family's current situation, you can still remain calm and not be tempted. Zhiyan really didn't love the wrong person back then. But just take what he gives you. Uncle Shen and his family should have plenty of money. How could a monster like Shen Zhiyan not consider his parents? If Uncle Shen and his family can't even come up with the pension money, the lawyers will probably come knocking on their door."
"Zhang Zeyu, do you know something?" Song Yu asked.
"No, I know Zhiyan's attorney, and he mentioned it to me. He said Zhiyan left a sum of money for his parents. If his parents don't use it, the money will be left to you in the future. So don't worry about Uncle Shen and the others. Live your own life well. Zhiyan has been gone for so many years, it's time for you to let go of the past and move on."
"I've let it go a long time ago. Believe it or not, sometimes when I think about it, I still feel regretful."
"Who wouldn't feel regret after seeing you two? But isn't that what life is like? Everyone has regrets. My brother died young. I hadn't even had enough drinks and girls with him before he was gone. I feel regret too. Life is like that. The living have to live. So think positively. Otherwise, if you keep dwelling on those sad things, you won't be able to survive a single day."
“Zhang Zeyu, have you ever dreamed of Shen Zhiyan?”
"Why didn't I dream about it?" Zhang Zeyu laughed faintly. "The day before yesterday, I dreamed about playing basketball with him in high school. You didn't come for some reason, and he kept a stern face, waiting for you to squeeze in from the crowd outside. When he saw you, he smiled and slam-dunked you."
"I only dreamed of him once. There were no unhappy things in the dream. Our lives were complete once. He thanked me and left. Since then, he has never appeared in my dreams again."
"Then he came to fulfill your dream. Once the dream is fulfilled, he won't want to disturb your future life anymore, so he won't enter your dream again."
"I just can't understand why he died." Song Yu's hand trembled slightly as he held the phone. "If he were alive, I could still hate him and try my best to live a good life for him. But he died. I want to hate him, but I'm also heartbroken for him. I'm heartbroken that he died so young. His best life ended before it even began. It's such a pity."
She looked down at the documents in her hands. "He's really annoying. He always makes people remember his kindness and cry for him just when they're about to forget him."
"Don't think about it, Ru Ru." Zhang Zeyu comforted her, "Where are you now?"
"I'm in the house that Shen Zhiyan left for me."
"Want to go out for a drink?"
Song Yu wiped away his tears: "Okay!"
"Wait there, I'll pick you up."
That night, Song Yu and Zhang Zeyu both got drunk.
The photo of the two of them drunkenly hugging each other and crying was sent to someone's phone at 11 o'clock that night before the next morning.
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