Chapter 64: Accompany You If the ending is so difficult, then I will accompany you...
The next day.
Lu Wangshan still woke up on time at seven in the morning.
After a quick wash, I pushed the door open and walked out, just in time to meet Xiang Yin who was about to go downstairs.
Xiang Yin looked at the door behind him and immediately frowned, with an expression of disgust for his own adopted son.
Lu Wangshan didn't think much of it and asked naturally, "Do you have classes this morning?"
"Yeah." Xiang Yin said, "Xiao Tan hasn't woken up yet, right?"
"No, I'm taking Leo for a morning run first."
"Breakfast is heating up in the kitchen. Give it to Xiao Tan when she wakes up."
Lu Wangshan smiled: "Okay."
After a morning run, Lu Wangshan worked up a sweat but felt refreshed. He walked into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for Leo, then went to the guest bedroom to take a shower.
He slept too late last night, and he guessed that Yuntan would not wake up so early, so he took his computer to the living room to do his work.
Unexpectedly, Yuntan came out of the bedroom after a while.
Leo immediately ran to the second floor to greet them.
Lu Wangshan looked up: "Why are you up so early?"
"I can't sleep. Where's Auntie?"
"She's at school. She has classes this morning." Lu Wangshan put his computer aside and went to the kitchen to get out the hot breakfast. "Let's eat first."
Because of the pain in his hamstrings, Yuntan had difficulty walking down the stairs.
"Aren't you going to the company today?"
"You rarely take a vacation, why would I go? I applied for online work."
The main breakfast items are medium-rare sirloin steak and black pepper shrimp, and the side dishes are creamy corn flakes, blueberry oatmeal cups, fried asparagus, grilled shiitake mushrooms and various steamed grains. The drink is grilled pear with rock sugar, and there is a small tray of nuts.
Healthy and rich.
"This is too much." Yun Tan was surprised. "Have you eaten it?"
"have eaten."
“I can’t finish this much.”
"Just pick out what you like and eat it."
There were only two people left in the entire Lu residence. Lu Wangshan put breakfast on the dining table, then put his arm around Yun Tan's waist and held her on his lap again.
Yuntan's back stiffened and he moved forward cautiously.
Lu Wangshan, however, cried out, "Don't rub it."
"Who rubbed it!" Yun Tan turned his head and glared at him.
Lu Wangshan grabbed her chin and rubbed her lips with his thumb: "It's broken, does it hurt?"
Yuntan didn't want to pay attention to him, didn't say anything, and buried his head in eating.
She shouldn't have trusted Lu Wangshan last night.
He said that if she took the lead, and moved it more gently and slowly, there would be no sound.
Lu Wangshan did exactly that, and it was rare that he didn't show any strong aggressiveness. However, Yun Tan didn't expect that this would be such a torturous thing for him. In the end, he ended up riding him while biting his lips and sobbing. It was really embarrassing.
…
Neither of them went out the whole afternoon.
Staying in the study as usual, Lu Wangshan was busy with work, while Yun Tan took out a computer-related reference book and continued to "read". Even though she had taken some computer courses in Milan, it was completely different when she really went to school to prepare for the exam.
Lu Wangshan looked at her distressed expression as she frowned and bit the tip of her pen: "No?"
“It’s a little hard to understand.”
For the first time, Lu Wangshan regretted that he had not studied computer science in his undergraduate and graduate studies.
After thinking for a while, he asked, "I'll find you a teacher?"
"Ah?" Yun Tan blinked, "But I have to go back to Guangdong later."
"Add WeChat, you can ask me anytime if you have any questions."
Lu Wangshan said this, quickly picked up his phone and contacted the "teacher", then said to Yun Tan: "Shall we go out for dinner?"
"OK."
"My friends are here, and they're all clamoring to see you." Lu Wangshan asked, "Is that okay?"
"sure."
Having even met his parents, Yun Tan suddenly felt that meeting friends was nothing special.
Before leaving, Lu Wangshan said, "Take your books with you."
"Why bring books?"
"The computer teacher I found for you is Zhong Xuzhi. If you have any questions, just ask."
Yuntan had heard Zhong Xuzhi's name a long time ago, from Xiang Wu's angry mouth.
It was only through Lu Wangshan's introduction that Yun Tan realized how talented the teacher he had found for him was. He had a bachelor's degree in computer science from National Tsinghua University and a master's degree in artificial intelligence. He had won numerous awards while studying.
After getting in the car, Yuntan found that the road was becoming more and more familiar. It was the club opened by Jin Ci. She had been there once on her birthday last year.
But her mood at this moment was completely different from what it was then. Now she was going to meet Lu Wangshan's friends as his girlfriend.
Push the door open and walk in.
Everyone at the table had already arrived. They all looked over and stood up to welcome him.
Lu Wangshan's friends are all good friends who grew up together. They are all well-educated and have strict family education. Now they have made achievements in their respective fields.
In such occasions, he would not just make trouble and embarrass Yun Tan, but would politely and gentlemanly step forward to shake hands with Yun Tan, saying things like "seeing is believing". All those teasing remarks were directed at Lu Wangshan.
"After hiding for so long, he finally decided to bring him to us to meet us."
"I heard from Ah Ci that you all met your parents yesterday? That was too fast!"
"If you get married, my parents will urge me even harder."
…
Lu Wangshan smiled and answered lazily, then put his arm around Yun Tan's shoulder and walked inside.
They are the protagonists today, and the main seat and the guest of honor seat are left empty for them. Lu Wangshan pulled out the main chair and let Yun Tan sit down.
Yun Tan had met some of them on his birthday before, so they were not too unfamiliar to him.
A group of talented and knowledgeable people never let their words go unnoticed, and the atmosphere in the box is always harmonious and interesting.
She originally thought it would be strange to take out the postgraduate entrance examination books in such an occasion, but later found that she was worrying too much.
After dinner, Zhong Xuzhi took the initiative to mention this matter, and Yuntan took out the book.
She had already marked the areas of doubt in advance.
Zhong Xuzhi answered the questions patiently and in detail. A group of people stood around him, and someone joked with Lu Wangshan, asking him to study computer science so that he wouldn't have to hire a teacher for his wife.
Some people speak exaggeratedly, and their girlfriend is directly promoted to wife.
Yun Tan was stunned when he heard the word and raised his head.
Lu Wangshan sat next to her with a casual smile on his face, and did not refute.
Everyone assumed that the two were about to get married.
Yun Tan blinked blankly.
Later she realized that she had been led by Lu Wangshan, and within less than a month of their relationship, they had already covered a distance that an average couple might not be able to complete in a year.
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At this dinner, Yuntan drank some wine.
Some of them had met her on her birthday and had long known that she could drink a lot, but when they saw her again, they couldn't help but sigh that they couldn't drink as well as her.
Yun Tan's personality is not very enthusiastic, but she is never stage-frightened. Moreover, friends like Lu Wangshan are very easy to get along with and speak politely and tactfully. She quickly fits in and joins in playing drinking games to liven things up.
In fact, Lu Wangshan and the others don’t usually play these games, but Yun Tan is a new friend today, and drinking table games can help them get to know each other quickly.
They play the game of "who is most likely?"
Each person takes turns asking "Who is most likely to do something", and then everyone points out the person who best fits the answer. The person with the highest number of votes has to drink a penalty.
Start with Jin Ci.
Today, a group of people were obviously surrounding Yun Tan and Lu Wangshan and "bombarding" them.
Jin Ci's question was: "Who here is most likely to get married first?"
Then everyone pointed at them.
Someone protested: "That's not right. They are getting married together, so who will drink the wine?"
“We must drink together!”
Yun Tan is not afraid of drinking, not to mention that Jin Ci's wine is all good.
Lu Wangshan even suspected that she was taking the opportunity to drink on purpose.
The two sat next to each other, and became even more intimate after drinking too much. Yun Tan got rid of his resistance to close contact in front of others amid the cheering and teasing throughout the night.
Her cheeks were slightly flushed from the alcohol, and she would occasionally be asked some embarrassing questions, so she would tilt her head and lean on Lu Wangshan's shoulder.
For example, the question "Who likes to give their partner a nickname the most?"
Yuntan refers to Lu Wangshan, and Lu Wangshan refers to her.
A group of people started to make noises.
"Oh, I have goosebumps all over the floor."
"Our President Lu is nearly 30 years old, why is he still using nicknames? If you don't know, you'd think he's just a college student in the heat of love!"
"Hahahaha, I'm really not feeling this way. I feel like I've known him for the past twenty years for nothing."
"Wait a minute." Lu Wangshan said, looking at Yun Tan, "Should you be pointing at yourself?"
"You obviously took it too." Yun Tan whispered.
Her face was getting hotter and hotter, and she wanted to end this issue as soon as possible.
Lu Wangshan had his own strict definition of "nickname". He raised an eyebrow and said, "Xiao Tan and Baby shouldn't be considered nicknames."
The people around him cried out even louder, "Ouch!" "I really can't stand this anymore!"
Jin Ci sat opposite and began to scratch his head. He was 28 years old and had known Lu Wangshan for 28 years. It was hard for him to imagine him calling a girl like that.
After all, in public, both of them called each other by their full names very seriously.
"Didn't anyone notice a problem?" the man sitting next to Yun Tan said, "If these aren't nicknames, then Yun Tan's nickname for our President Lu must be something truly amazing!"
When his secret was exposed, Yuntan's face turned red.
So everyone pointed at Yuntan in unison.
He even added considerately, "How about this? Just reveal your nickname and you won't have to pay for the drink."
Yun Tan drank the wine in the glass without saying anything, and waved his hands: "Drinking is still easy."
This aroused everyone's curiosity and they kept asking questions.
Since they couldn't answer the question, they started a no-prize guessing contest, and the most corny one could get.
This is pure scapegoating. Yuntan is unacceptable for calling someone by those corny nicknames, and her real nickname is even more unacceptable...
Mommy.
Yun Tan couldn't imagine how loudly she would be laughed at if she told it out loud. It might even get out, and Lu Wangshan would never be able to hold his head up again.
"That's..." Jin Ci simply asked Lu Wangshan directly, "Husband?"
Lu Wangshan looked at Yun Tan. He looked a little lazy, his hands resting on the back of Yun Tan's chair. He even threw the question back to her in a deliberately confusing manner: "Husband?"
Yun Tan covered his face and said, "Impossible, I can't say it."
"Then, just nod or shake your head. Are those nicknames included?"
Yuntan shook his head.
Jin Ci exclaimed, "Fuck!" He rubbed his face vigorously, still trying to accept the completely different Lu Wangshan: "Why is it that if I keep asking this, it seems like it's getting more and more perverted?"
Yuntan: “…………”
Some people even turned to Lu Wangshan for help: "Why don't you just announce it directly? We're already waiting for it."
He still maintained a fair and democratic tone and turned to Yun Tan and asked, "Can I speak?"
Although he was the one who had his gender changed, he didn't feel ashamed at all and even looked welcoming.
Yuntan glared at him.
He was quite tactful and shrugged, saying, "It seems not possible."
Yuntan really couldn't stand his arrogance.
He then said, amidst further jeers from the crowd, "Keep it secret, it's a nickname."
“…………”
Yuntan is about to faint.
Lu Wangshan didn't care at all whether being called "Mommy" would damage his reputation. On the contrary, he thought the name was very cute and he liked it very much.
So this issue can only end in vain.
After all, the group of people had some sense and did not really force Yun Tan and Lu Wangshan to drink. They asked some harmless questions and then drank some wine.
In the middle of the conversation, Yuntan got up and went to the bathroom.
The group of people started to tease him even more exaggeratedly, saying that Lu Wangshan had really changed a lot and that they had never guessed that he would be like this when it came to love.
Jin Ci asked, "Let me interview you. How does it feel to be in love?"
Lu Wangshan held the wine glass, his wrist slightly pressed down, looking lazy and nonchalant. He let out a soft "ah" and tilted his head back. He couldn't help laughing again, and his Adam's apple rolled.
"It's fucking fun," he said.
Jin Ci tutted his words, "You're done, you've been bewitched."
Yun Tan drank a lot today, and Lu Wangshan began to worry about her stomach again, even though the pain didn't come back later.
So I suggested that we disperse early.
The game had just reached the last person in the second round, so they decided to end it after asking the last question.
The man thought for a long time and finally asked, "Who here is most likely to be obsessed with an ex?"
This is another question directed at Lu Wangshan.
Jin Ci couldn't help but laugh and said, "Hey, your question is a bit hurtful to my pride."
"Look at him now. Can he still have self-respect next to Yun Tan?"
Everyone pointed at Lu Wangshan again.
She didn't point to anyone except Yuntan.
As for the ex, she was the one who wronged Lu Wangshan in the past and felt bad for him. She even tried to defend him, "He won't bother me. We broke up completely at the beginning and only got in touch again after returning to China five years later."
“Is this true?!”
Jin Ci didn't believe it. "Even after the breakup, he was still running to Milan? We all thought he had a job, but for so many years, no cooperation projects were implemented. Later we found out it was because you were in Milan."
Yuntan was stunned.
In fact, when Jiang Zhier got married, he met Lu Wangshan’s friend and mentioned that he was flying to Milan. At that time, Lu Wangshan explained that it was because of work.
But, has WH Group never had any cooperation projects in Milan over the years?
She turned her head to look at Lu Wangshan, but he still looked nonchalant and showed no intention of arguing.
Yuntan suddenly had a lot of questions to ask, but didn't know how to start.
Everyone poured their wine for the last time, drank a few glasses, and that was the end of the day.
…
The evening breeze blew by, the alcohol gradually took over Yun Tan's head, and he was a little drunk.
She leaned back against the soft leather cushions, the wind ruffling her long hair.
Lu Wangshan held her hand and tilted his head to observe her condition: "Are you drunk?"
"Lu Wangshan."
"Um?"
"Have you ever been to Milan again since then?"
He paused for a long time, the evening breeze sweeping across the alcohol between his lips and teeth, making the surrounding atmosphere rich and intoxicating.
"Yeah." He finally spoke.
“How many times have you been here?”
"I can't count them all."
Yun Tan's heart was filled with pain again: "Then did you see me?"
"Not most of the time, but I saw you on your graduation day."
Lu Wangshan actually didn’t know why he had to fly to Milan again and again. He clearly believed that he no longer had any expectations for this relationship.
At that time, he was filled with pain and hatred, and he told himself that he just wanted to see Yun Tan live a bad life after leaving him.
But when he saw Yuntan looking glamorous and smiling as she took graduation photos with her classmates and friends in Milan, he still smiled.
Yuntan was almost at a loss.
Alcohol, like a rising tide, once again dragged her into that uncommon humid rainy season.
Yuntan had dinner and drinks with her classmates. The humid and hot rainy season did not dampen the enthusiasm of these young and fashionable girls who studied design.
They specially hired a photographer to take various beautiful photos.
Yuntan was wearing a particularly bright red long skirt, the hem of which fluttered as she walked, looking extremely charming.
Then she was pushed onto the bar stage by her friends, and everyone in the audience cheered her on to sing a song.
Yuntan didn't refuse much, ordered a Chinese song and started singing.
The girls in the audience shouted her Chinese name, and their eyes gradually became red.
Yun Tan's eyes were blurred with tears, and of course she didn't notice Lu Wangshan in the dark corner at that time.
After the song ended, she left the stage. The other enthusiastic Europeans in the audience applauded loudly and praised her for her good singing, beautiful looks and good taste in clothes.
A few more men came up to her and asked for her contact information, but Yun Tan waved her hand to refuse them.
I drank some more wine.
Suddenly, the bartender at the door came to their booth with a bouquet of flowers and asked who was Ms. Yuntan.
Friends cheered and whistled, jokingly asking which suitor had sent these flowers.
Yuntan stood up and took the flowers.
It was a bunch of sunflowers, paired with asparagus, a wild and unrestrained scene without any careful arrangement, forming a wild and flourishing passion, high-spirited and fiery.
Yuntan's heart trembled at the sight of that bright golden handful. She asked the bartender in Italian, "Who sent this?"
The bartender said that an Asian man had just given it to him at the door of the bar and asked him to pass it on.
There are many Asian international students among their classmates, but Yuntan can't think of anyone who would give her a bouquet of sunflowers without even showing up.
The bartender reminded her that there was a card inside the flower.
Yuntan picked it up and gently lifted it up with his index finger.
His gaze fell gently on the card from the bar entrance——
"I wish you such a mountain and water, with surging waves and rising clouds."
There is no signature.
But this word...
Yun Tan suddenly pushed through the crowd and rushed out holding flowers. She was wearing a bright red dress, holding equally bright flowers, standing on the bustling street.
The wind messed up her long hair, her chest heaved due to the intense emotional fluctuations, and her eyes were red. She stopped and looked around like a wanderer who couldn't find his way home, but she still couldn't find the figure of the person she thought about day and night but dared not mention.
Her friends also chased her out and asked her what was wrong.
Yun Tan turned around with red eyes and shook his head: "Nothing."
It's impossible to imagine.
She and Lu Wangshan had broken up so tragically, how could he suddenly show up in Milan and be willing to give her these flowers and wish her a bright future after graduation?
That handwriting might just be a coincidental accident.
Yuntan picked up the card again, and a tear fell with a "click".
The line of words was written not long ago, and soon it was blurred by ink.
She went back to drink with her friends, and she couldn't hold back her tears after getting drunk.
Hidden in the graduation season, there are more excuses to cry.
She was taken back to the apartment by her classmates holding the bouquet of flowers. Elara came to open the door, said "ouch", and asked her why she drank so much again. Seeing the tears on her face, she suddenly fell silent.
Elara helped her to the sofa and said after a moment of silence: "Are you thinking about him again?"
Yun Tan lay on his back, looking at the chandelier on the ceiling. Hearing this, he just smiled faintly with tears in his eyes: "I saw a character that looked very similar to his today."
She got up and tried to look for the greeting card among the flowers, but she couldn't find it no matter how hard she tried.
She stumbled to her feet again and tried to look for it along the corridor.
Elara had no choice but to follow this drunkard who was heartbroken when he was drunk.
On the quiet and sultry summer night, she searched for a long time but couldn't find it.
Elara held her hand and whispered, "Xiao Tan, after all, it wasn't written by him. What would it matter even if you found it?"
Yun Tan looked up in a daze. During that graduation season, he hugged Elara and cried bitterly.
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"I wish you such a mountain and water, with surging waves and rising clouds."
Yun Tan murmured, looking at Lu Wangshan's profile, his eyes filled with disbelief and heartache, "Did you write this for me?"
"yes."
Lu Wangshan admitted it easily, but it caused a storm in Yun Tan's heart.
"I thought I hated you then, but when I really wanted to write a few words for you, I just wanted to wish you a future as strong, brave, and magnificent as the beautiful mountains and rivers."
Yuntan suddenly regretted why he carelessly lost the card that night and why he didn't look for it more carefully.
"But I lost it."
"It's okay." Lu Wangshan was very gentle, stroking the back of her hand with his fingertips, "I'm already by your side."
That night, Yun Tan was in Lu Wangshan's study, watching him carefully write the words "May you be like this mountain and water, with surging winds and clouds rising."
She took a photo of the paper and set it as her phone screensaver.
Her eyes were still red as she stared at the two lines of words: "Lu Wangshan, this is the best message I have ever received."
Even if she left him and went abroad.
After five years of bitterness and hatred, he still wishes her a bright future and hope that she can ride on the wind.
At the same time, Yun Tan also saw the neatly arranged stack of plane tickets in the drawer.
The first time he flew to Milan after the breakup was six months later, and he went there almost every month after that.
He did not consider the purpose of this repetitive journey to be to see Yuntan.
He didn't even go to her school every time, but just walked aimlessly on the streets of Milan.
Lu Wangshan didn't know why he did this.
Until that day, last October, he saw Yun Tan who suddenly appeared in Beijing at the hospital gate. She had changed a lot, yet it seemed as if nothing had changed.
Lu Wangshan suddenly understood why he had done that in the first place—
If the ending is so difficult, then I will accompany you for a while longer.
Even if no one knows, even if it is in vain.
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