Luo Qingyuan was stunned for a moment. In fact, she had thought that since their family was so rich, Duan Ye didn't need to work so hard.
You can make a lot of money just by taking charge of a large project.
However, she never spoke up, because she knew that Duan Ye had his own principles.
She just didn't expect that Duan Ye would see through her thoughts today and then refuse her.
Luo Qingyuan chuckled, then stepped forward and put her arms around him: "Okay, then I wish us both to shine in our respective fields."
Duan Ye smiled and lowered his head to kiss her lips: "Okay, wish us well."
After that day, Luo Qingyuan really started to get busy, while Duan Ye still had two days left of his annual leave. He spent a day playing with the children and on the last day, he went to visit some old friends.
Half a year has passed since I last visited, and Ye Nuan's tombstone has become covered with moss and aquatic plants again.
Duan Ye pondered, thinking that he would have to think carefully about how to change the riverbed here when he got back, otherwise it would always be dark and damp, and Ye Nuan would not like it.
He had someone cut down the trees that were blocking Ye Nuan's sunlight six months ago, so the top of the tombstone is still relatively dry, but the bottom is in terrible condition.
As always, he personally brought tools to sweep Ye Nuan's grave.
While working, he chatted with Ye Nuan.
"The weather has been alright lately, and winter will be over soon."
"Do you still remember the professor who taught you law? I saw him post your graduation photo on his WeChat Moments this year. He said you were one of his most outstanding students."
"See, some people remember you."
"Also, I found your little stash of money that you've been saving up in our secret base. I've bought the secret base; it will belong to you forever."
Duan Ye placed the cakes and candies he had brought in front of her grave.
He had tidied up the surroundings so much that it looked like a new grave.
"Come on, come home with me, Nuannuan."
"This time, don't make the wrong choice."
Duan Ye scattered paper money, got into the car, and led the way until they finally stopped in front of their former secret base.
There, in an underground warehouse in a residential area, they used to be penniless. The rent here was 500 yuan a month. It was only about 30 square meters and had nothing inside. Ye Nuan decorated it little by little. Although it was small, it had everything she needed.
When Duan Ye remembered it later, the things in the warehouse had become junk, and it seemed that no one in the family cared about them, so they had been abandoned. Duan Ye had bought it for 30,000 yuan half a year ago, and then spent another half a year slowly restoring everything to its original state.
Yes, this small, abandoned warehouse was bought for only 30,000 because of its poor location and small size.
Thirty thousand is Ye Nuan's final resting place before and after her death.
Now, he has finally brought the deceased home.
A four-legged table with two cute instant noodle bowls on it. The bed is only 1.2 meters wide, not enough for the two of them, but it's manageable if they squeeze in. It has her favorite cartoon patterns on it, as well as a cute rug and a small refrigerator, and many cute little things, refrigerator magnets, and... in the corner, a piggy bank that Duan Ye cleaned and filled to the brim with money.
The piggy bank contained Ye Nuan's savings from his part-time job. He remembered that it initially contained only a little over two thousand yuan, but when he looked at it again half a year later, it contained two hundred thousand yuan.
He dared not imagine how long Ye Nuan had saved up those 200,000 yuan.
Duan Ye once jokingly said, "Nuan Nuan, keep it up! When you've saved up 200,000 yuan, I'll give it to you as your dowry."
Duan Ye couldn't remember what Ye Nuan said back then, but he did remember her bright smile.
In the blink of an eye, all she left him was this 200,000 yuan.
Duan Ye put the piggy bank back in its place, glanced at the empty room, and wondered if Ye Nuan was there, but his intuition told him that she would always be there, as this was her favorite place.
Goodnight, Nuannuan.
The secret base was locked again, and Duan Ye drove away.
He turned off the light when he left, but a little while later, the old lamp by the bed suddenly turned on.
The room was still empty. Duan Ye glanced at it in the rearview mirror, and in that one glance, he slammed on the brakes, completely shocked.
When he rubbed his eyes and looked again, there was no light coming through.
So Duan Ye waited for a while, then drove away again.
Not long after he left, faint glimmers of light began to shine through the basement again.
This time, however, he couldn't see.
On Ye Nuan's old notebook in the secret base, there was a sentence that Duan Ye couldn't see.
Even if we never meet again, I hope you will be safe and sound every year.
The lights in the secret base went out in the middle of the night and have never been turned on again since; the old lamp was broken.
She finally had a home, and finally got the chance to pass away.
Thank you, Duan Ye.
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It was already late at night when Duan Ye got home.
He returned covered in the frost of the elements, and as soon as he entered the bedroom, Luo Qingyuan led him into the bathroom.
"The bath water is ready. Take a soak first to warm yourself up. I'll go cook you a bowl of noodles."
After saying that, Luo Qingyuan put his bathrobe away and left.
It was late winter, and the nights were chilly. After walking for half a day, he did feel a bit cold.
So he took off his clothes and got into the bathtub.
After soaking for a while, he felt warm all over, then got up, rinsed off quickly, and went out wrapped in his bathrobe.
A steaming bowl of scallion and egg noodles sits on the table.
Duan Ye couldn't help but find it amusing; this was his specialty when it came to cooking noodles, and now Luo Qingyuan had learned it.
As soon as he sat down, Luo Qingyuan hugged him from behind: "Try it, it's delicious."
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