Chapter 65 I love you even when the weather is cold.
That night, Yun Tan talked to Lu Wangshan for a long time, and they talked about Milan together.
Only then did they realize that they had been to the same coffee shop, eaten at the same Chinese restaurant, taken the same train, and walked along the same dark street.
They did a lot too.
Yuntan was so wet that day, with more than just tears flowing down her face.
At dawn, Lu Wangshan's sweat dripped down his chin onto the curve of her pubic bone. He picked her up, patted her back to soothe her trembling body, and whispered in her ear, "I love you."
Their relationship, which had begun casually, seemed rarely to have undergone such a solemn confession.
These three simple and clear words became a weight weighing a thousand pounds.
Yuntan's wet eyelashes trembled.
She opened her eyes and then tightened her grip around his neck. Her voice was still choked with damp sobs, muffled by her skin, revealing a sincerity that was almost tearing flesh and scraping bones: "I love you, too."
When she finally said this, Yun Tan suddenly realized that this was one of the few times she had said "I love you" in her 25 years of life.
Even to friends or family, she has never been good at expressing such passionate emotions.
Lu Wangshan's heart was also greatly shocked.
He also hugged Yuntan tightly, feeling the resonance of their hearts fitting perfectly together.
A tear fell silently, rolling down Yuntan's back, along her thin shoulder blades, and mixing with her sweat.
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The next day, both of them woke up late because they had slept too late the day before.
At 9:20, Lu Wangshan was awakened by the alarm clock.
Yun Tan stirred in his arms and asked sleepily, "Is it late?"
"It's not too late, go back to sleep." Lu Wangshan kissed her forehead, "I have a meeting to attend."
He quickly got up, washed, and changed into formal attire for the meeting. He then quietly went to the study and finally connected to the group meeting at exactly 9:30, not being late.
However, at this moment, Lu Chengjun, who was sitting at the main seat at the conference table, looked at Lu Wangshan on the screen with a look of unconcealable disgust.
The other directors and department heads present thought that Lu Wangshan had applied for online work this week because he was on a business trip, and they all complimented him and said, "Mr. Lu works so hard."
Lu Chengjun coughed and said, "Let's start."
At the beginning of December, each branch and department reported on the progress of various work and the results achieved in the past year.
Lu Wangshan is responsible for reporting on WH Group’s return on investment.
He has always had outstanding talent in this area. He officially took over WH Group after graduating from college. The investment amount has been getting bigger and bigger, and the return ratio data has always been very good, especially this year.
His report was concise and perfect.
It also mentioned the large investment in Yuan Group that was canceled midway last month.
At this moment, one of the directors sitting next to Lu Chengjun suddenly spoke up: "Fortunately it was canceled. I'm afraid that even if the Yuan Group received this investment, it would still be in jeopardy."
Lu Wangshan paused: "What does Uncle Gu know?"
"I heard that Yuan Runbai is in debt from gambling."
Yuan Runbai is the son of Yuan Siliu and the eldest grandson of Yuan Fang.
As soon as these words were spoken, people around immediately started to talk about it.
Lu Wangshan raised his eyebrows: "With the Yuan family's capabilities, will they be in danger because of gambling debts?"
Director Gu looked at Lu Chengjun with a smile and said, "Director Lu, your son is really too ambitious. You can't imagine that if someone gets involved in gambling, a family fortune of hundreds of billions will be squandered!"
Lu Chengjun had never heard of this, which showed how well the Yuan family kept it a secret.
"Yuan Runbai owes a lot?"
"I don't know the exact details, but to make Yuan Siliu so anxious, he must have lost at least 100 billion. People's appetites are gradually increased. Yuan Runbai owes so much now, so he must have been gambling for many years. The losses could no longer be concealed, so the truth was revealed."
Director Gu said, "Given Yuan Fang's temper and personality, and the fact that he has so many sons and grandsons, Yuan Siliu must have protected his son from the beginning. If it were more serious, he might have even embezzled public funds."
These words made everyone around them serious.
Misappropriation of public funds is no small matter.
Not to mention the bottomless pit of embezzling public funds to pay off gambling debts.
After the meeting, Lu Wangshan sat alone in the study for a long time.
He had already found it strange when Yuan Fang and Yuan Siliu suddenly asked for 50 billion, but now it seems reasonable.
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It was almost eleven o'clock when Yuntan got up.
When he went downstairs, Lu Wangshan had already prepared lunch and heated up food for Leo.
When Leo saw her coming downstairs while eating, he ran up to greet her enthusiastically, shaking his head, still very happy that his mother was living at home.
"Do you want to take Leo out to play for a while this afternoon?" Lu Wangshan asked while eating.
"Okay, but don't you have to work?"
"Then take it swimming."
So, one afternoon in early December in Beijing, they took Leo to the pet swimming pool.
Leo likes to catch frisbees in the swimming pool. His two front paws splash the water everywhere, and his black fur becomes shiny and slippery when soaked. Lu Wangshan really takes good care of him.
There are many other dogs, both small and large, in the swimming pool, like a pet nursery.
Leo quickly made many friends.
Lu Wangshan still had work to deal with, so he told Leo that his parents would pick him up later, and then he and Yun Tan went to a cafe opposite the swimming pool.
He pulled out his notebook and began to work.
Yuntan took out his books and continued to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination.
In the middle of the conversation, her phone suddenly vibrated with a call from an unfamiliar number.
"Xiao Tan, this is your mother. I know you've returned to Beijing. Could you please come home, or tell me where you are? I'm begging you, okay?"
Yun Tan frowned and put all the messages on the blacklist, just like the ones he had received before.
Lu Wangshan noticed her expression change: "What's wrong?"
"Yuan Qinrong sent me a message saying she wanted to see me." She shook her head. "It's not important. I've blocked her."
Lu Wangshan thought again of what was said in the meeting this morning.
But he didn't tell Yuntan until everything was clarified, so as to avoid causing her to worry.
There is a vegetable market nearby with a wide variety of products.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, they went to buy ingredients for dinner together.
Lu Wangshan is completely different from most rich young men who have never done housework. He actually likes to go to the bustling vegetable market.
He prefers eating his own food to eating in restaurants.
He has his own set of tricks for selecting ingredients. He knows which fruits are sweet and juicy, which meats are fresh and tender, and which seafoods are sweet and chewy.
I even have my own research on dog food and have come up with the most suitable combination for Leo's physique.
Maybe it was because he had come here to buy vegetables when he took Leo here to swim before, and many vegetable sellers knew him and kept calling him "handsome guy".
After all, it is rare to see such a young and handsome face in the vegetable market.
Noticing Yuntan, the aunties became even more excited: "Is this your girlfriend?"
Lu Wangshan smiled and said, "Yes."
The old lady looked at the well-matched couple, clasped her hands together and said, "How beautiful! Handsome man and beautiful woman, if you have children in the future, they will definitely be very beautiful."
Yuntan paused, a little stunned by the sudden appearance of the "child".
Lu Wangshan lowered his eyes and glanced at her, worried that Yun Tan had been pushing herself too hard these days due to the enthusiastic teasing from her parents and friends.
Then he said nonchalantly: "My girlfriend is still young."
The aunt asked, "How small is it?"
"How old do you think she is?"
Yuntan felt that he was very annoying and secretly pinched his arm.
Lu Wangshan remained calm and continued to pick pomegranates into the bag.
Yuntan didn't wear any makeup today. She had a bare face and tied her hair into a neat ponytail. She was dressed simply in a sea-blue sweater and slim jeans. She looked well-behaved and clean.
"Just started college?" The aunt followed Lu Wangshan's meaning and guessed the worst.
Yuntan was caught off guard by the compliment and had to force himself to suppress his smile.
"You have a very good eye." Lu Wangshan said, handing over the bag of pomegranates for weighing.
Lu Wangshan was born with a face that attracted women, and he acted like a man who could handle both housework and social life. He addressed the old lady with a strong Beijing accent, which made the old lady want to adopt him as her godson on the spot. After weighing the oranges, he grabbed two more oranges and put them in as a gift for them.
After they walked away, Yun Tan couldn't help laughing: "Why are you talking nonsense?"
Lu Wangshan pinched her cheek and asked, "Who is making this up?"
After buying groceries, I went back to the swimming pool to pick up Leo.
Just as she was about to get in the car to go home, a tall and thin figure suddenly stumbled towards Yun Tan from a distance, uttering the words "Tan", "Tan", and "Tan" over and over, accompanied by a few excited "ahs".
Leo immediately went into alert and guard mode, standing in front of Yun Tan and barking loudly at the young man in front of him.
Yun Tan never thought that he would meet Yuan Hongren here.
She hadn't seen him in a very long time, not since her grandmother's funeral.
What's more, he is alone now, and Yuan Qinrong will never let him leave home alone.
Lu Wangshan had only met Yuan Hongren once, at the banquet for Yuan Fang's 80th birthday.
He frowned and subconsciously pulled Yuntan behind him.
Yun Tan patted his arm and said, "It's okay."
She walked up to Yuan Hongren and asked softly, "Where's your mother?"
"Hospital, hospital."
"Were you in the hospital just now?"
There is indeed a hospital nearby.
Yuan Hongren nodded.
"So you got separated from your mother?"
Yuan Hongren didn't react, probably not even realizing that he had gotten lost. And Yuan Qinrong must be so anxious now.
Yuntan couldn't just leave Yuan Hongren here, so he could only send him home first.
Lu Wangshan frowned. He was worried that all this was Yuan Qinrong's plan just to see Yun Tan.
"She won't use Yuan Hongren as a bargaining chip. Hongren is her life."
That's why she did all those ridiculous things.
Lu Wangshan didn't say much. He asked Yuan Hongren to get in the car and drove to Yuan Qinrong's house.
"Where is Tan? Hongren misses Tan."
Yuan Hongren's entire attention was on Yun Tan. The joy that seemed to overflow from his eyes always made Yun Tan afraid to look at him, as he always felt conflicted and repulsed.
But she couldn't be cruel to Yuan Hongren, so she replied softly: "My sister is working in another city."
"Why isn't my sister in Beijing?"
"Because there are people in Beijing that my sister doesn't want to see."
"But Hongren misses Tan."
Yuntan didn't know what to say.
The person she least wanted to see in Beijing was his mother, and she also didn't want to see Yuan Hongren because of Yuan Qinrong.
Even though Yuan Hongren has always been good to her.
But she couldn't be that selfless.
Because Yuan Hongren had to sit side by side with Yun Tan, Leo was moved to the passenger seat.
It remained alert, staring closely at Yuan Hongren. Noticing the change in its mother's expression, it immediately shouted to Yuan Hongren, "Woof!"
The earth-shattering sound startled Lu Wangshan.
Yuan Hongren was so frightened that he started crying and began to scream in reaction to the stress.
Lu Wangshan had learned about autistic patients before, but he still had not experienced the shock of facing them. He looked up through the rearview mirror and saw Yun Tan comforting him not to cry or be afraid, saying, "Sister is here."
He suddenly felt a sense of frustration that he didn't know how to vent.
Thinking back to the words Yun Tan shouted to Yuan Qinrong, "This is my life", it was even more like thunder in his ears, breaking his limbs like a bolt of lightning.
He gritted his teeth silently, raised his hand and touched Leo's head to comfort him silently.
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Go to Yuan's house.
This familiar place.
Yun Tan took Yuan Hongren out of the car. The servant who opened the door suddenly grabbed Yuan Hongren and said, "Young Master! Where have you been? Madam is crying so hard that she almost fainted. She's still looking for you outside!"
Then, noticing Yun Tan and Lu Wangshan behind Yuan Hongren, he froze in his tracks and asked cautiously, "Miss, are you home for dinner? The mistress and husband have been nagging about it for a long time..."
Yun Tan shook his head, his voice steady but too cold and hard: "Call Yuan Qinrong and tell her I'm leaving."
Faced with separation, Yuan Hongren still screamed and cried at the top of his lungs.
That kind of sound really makes people feel mixed emotions.
But Yuntan remained calm, just lowered his head and walked away quickly.
She has been through this too many times.
Until hurried footsteps were heard behind him.
Yuan Hongren scratched the servant's hand and chased out, but accidentally fell three steps under the eaves and hit his head on the edge, leaving a bloody mark.
He was still bleeding, with his hands stretched out, crawling towards Yuntan.
Lu Wangshan frowned. At this moment, Yuan Hongren in his eyes turned into a water ghost who grabbed people's ankles tightly and tried to drag them into the water, even though he himself didn't want to.
Over the years, Yuntan has put in many times more effort than others to still be able to stand here.
At the same time, Yuan Qinrong also came back.
She screamed, ran over to help Yuan Hongren up, and held his face up and down to check the wound.
Yun Tan said calmly: "Let's go."
"Xiao Tan!"
Yuan Qinrong cried out to her, "I was wrong. I shouldn't have done that back then. It's all my fault. Can you please stop being so ruthless towards the Yuan family?"
Yuntan just thought it was ridiculous, and until now she still didn't really feel that it was her fault.
Fortunately, she had long since given up any expectations of Yuan Qinrong.
If you don't have expectations, you won't be disappointed.
She walked forward without looking back.
Yuan Qinrong rushed over and grabbed her hand: "Xiao Tan, you can do whatever you want to me. I will bear any beatings or scoldings, as long as you can vent your anger."
"Yuan Qinrong." Yun Tan said softly, "Don't you think too highly of yourself? Can beating and scolding you offset what you did to me?"
She was almost panicking: "Then I'll kneel down for you, okay, Xiao Tan."
By the end, her voice was choked with sobs and trembling, although Yun Tan didn't understand why she was crying.
The residents nearby heard the noise and quietly looked out the window.
Yuan Qinrong paused for a few seconds, then actually held Yun Tan's hand and slowly bent her knees. "Bang" - a very light sound, it was the sound of the kneecap hitting the concrete floor.
Yun Tan didn't expect that she would actually kneel down to him.
But what's the point of kneeling down?
Didn’t she kneel down when she cried to her with the admission letter?
Yun Tan shook her hand off and turned around, then quickly raised his hand and slapped Yuan Qinrong hard. With a crisp slap, Yuan Qinrong's head turned to the side.
The servant who was helping her stopped and stood there in shock at the scene.
Yun Tan looked down at her coldly, "Yuan Qinrong, what you did can never be undone. From now on, don't ever call me 'Xiao Tan' again, and don't ever say you're my mother again. I'm officially telling you that from now on, we have no relationship at all."
After saying that, she turned and left.
Lu Wangshan followed her quietly.
Yuntan got into the car, hugged Leo and buried his face in its belly.
It was not until they drove through two traffic lights that Lu Wangshan heard her suppressed sobs.
He parked the car on the side of the road, gently let someone hold him in his arms, and asked softly, suppressing his heartache: "Why are you crying?"
"Lu Wangshan, don't you think my family is truly terrible?" Yun Tan said sullenly in his embrace. "I can't wait to run away myself. Don't you want to run away too?"
Lu Wangshan patted her back gently, as if he was patting the back of Xiao Yuntan, who had suffered so much injustice in this family for more than twenty years.
"But you're already amazing, baby."
He tilted his head and kissed her ear, saying softly, "You finally became what you wanted to be when you were 18, didn't you? When you were a child, you couldn't choose the family you wanted, but now you can."
Lu Wangshan looked into her eyes and said earnestly, "We will have the happiest and most perfect family. I promise you."
The appearance of Yuan Qinrong and Yuan Hongren once again dragged Yun Tan back into the long and humid rainy season when he was 18 years old.
She cried bitterly in Lu Wangshan's arms, and finally felt that the little Yuntan who had been falling in the past was held up intact, and was brought little by little to the sunny midsummer.
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When he got home, Lu Wangshan carried the ingredients he had just bought into the kitchen.
Because of this delay, we will be late for dinner today.
Fortunately, he was skilled enough in cooking and finished it quickly.
They are all home-cooked dishes, including beef vermicelli pot, black tiger prawns from Typhoon Shelter, pickled mustard greens and edamame, stir-fried asparagus with morels, and two servings of salt and scallion steak rice.
Taking into account that Yuntan was in a bad mood today, Lu Wangshan allowed her to drink some wine.
While pouring wine for Yuntan, he couldn't help but reflect on whether he had allowed her to drink too often recently.
Yuntan ate delicious food and drank delicious wine, and his mood gradually improved.
She asked softly, "Lu Wangshan, do you think I'm particularly heartless to Yuan Hongren?"
"How come?" He raised an eyebrow. "If it were me, I would just take him to the police station today."
Yun Tan laughed, the cold wine glass pressed against his burning cheek. "You know what? I often can't help but hate Yuan Hongren, but I often feel sorry for him."
"You haven't wronged anyone, Xiao Tan."
Yun Tan shook his head: "Actually, Hongren has always been very good to me, especially good. He is the one in the family who has no blood relationship with me but is the best to me."
Yun Tan’s birthday is very close to Yun Jin’s, but Yun Jin’s birthday is a week earlier than hers.
Before his parents divorced, they would celebrate Yun Jin's birthday together and buy him a cake. Yun Tan never had the right to blow out the candles and make a wish, and even his gifts were always much worse than Yun Jin's.
Later, after the divorce, Yuan Qinrong became her new mother again, and Yuntan was able to celebrate two happy birthdays, but everything changed with the birth of Yuan Hongren.
But as Yuan Hongren grew up, Yuntan started to receive birthday presents again.
Every year he would carefully prepare a handmade gift for Yuntan.
He could only calm down when making gifts for Yuntan, and he would repeatedly strive to achieve perfection, and the gifts were surprisingly very exquisite.
He had given her a hand-painted cup with a picture of the two of them on it; he had given her a crystal bracelet made of his favorite pink and blue crystals; he had given her a paper-cut portrait in a frame...
Every time he ate delicious food, he would save a portion for Yuntan, hoping that she could eat it when she got home from school.
"One time when I was in high school, I was walking home from evening study and I felt like someone was following me."
Yun Tan said, "I was terrified. I ran as fast as I could towards the door the last part of the way. The footsteps behind me were getting faster and faster. Then Hongren suddenly rushed out and blocked me behind him. He kept picking up stones from the flower bed and throwing them at me, which scared the man away."
Lu Wangshan didn't know that they had such stories.
"Actually, I shouldn't be so mean to him." Yun Tan said softly.
Lu Wangshan turned on his mobile phone, tapped the screen a few times, and then handed it to Yun Tan.
Yun Tan looked at it blankly, and then realized in surprise that it was a project book for the disabled people's fund. It was implemented very quickly and a site had been successfully selected.
"What...is this?" She looked up with red eyes.
Lu Wangshan stroked her cheek and said, "He won't be left without someone to take care of him. I set up this fund so that you can be with me without any burden, so that Yuan Qinrong can no longer control you."
Yun Tan's mind went blank: "When did this happen?"
"It's been a while. I started to have this idea in June and signed the relevant contract at the end of July."
So early.
So early.
This was even before they had separated for long.
Yun Tan's heart felt like it was being pierced by sharp swords from all directions. The pain was intense and filled with a deep sorrow. "But I was so mean to you back then..."
She suddenly felt ashamed and unable to face Lu Wangshan.
"What do you mean by bad?"
Lu Wangshan held her face in his hands and said gently, "I only just happened to see the amount you donated in my name at the end of 2013. You were clearly living in such a difficult situation back then."
His voice was so gentle: "I know Xiao Tan is just hard on the outside but soft on the inside."
Yun Tan felt that he had probably used up all his life's good luck in meeting Lu Wangshan.
She couldn't imagine anyone better than Lu Wangshan.
She didn't want to cry anymore, but her tears couldn't stop falling.
She asked in a tearful voice, "How come I've never heard of this... Was it invested by your company?"
"No, I used the shell of overseas capital because I didn't want to come forward myself and let Yuan Qinrong drag you into it."
Lu Wangshan patiently explained to her, "That overseas capital has invested in many high-end public welfare funds and is well-known. Some of the supporting nursing centers are used for profit. I know Yuan Qinrong will not miss this opportunity."
"What do you mean?" Yun Tan became more and more confused as he listened. "What happened to her?"
"She took the initiative to contact that overseas investor and invested a large sum of money in the nursing home, so that Yuan Hongren could receive the best care in the future, even after her death."
Lu Wangshan hated Yuan Qinrong and naturally didn't like Yuan Hongren. He had never thought of paying for Yuan Qinrong to raise her son, so he came up with this idea to get Yuan Qinrong involved.
Yuan Qinrong does not have much assets among the five children of the same generation in the Yuan family. The money was even earned by selling several properties in first-tier cities.
Suddenly, Lu Wangshan's cell phone vibrated.
Song Lai sent him a text message - the project manager of the Disabled Persons Fund's overseas investment.
Song Lai: "Yuan Qinrong contacted me again to add another 50 million yuan in investment."
Lu Wangshan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.
At the same time, another phone call came in. He picked up the phone without saying anything, but his face suddenly changed.
Yun Tan asked, "What's wrong?"
"The Yuan Group will probably go bankrupt."
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