Of course, I couldn't refuse Ye Zhi's request to stay at our inn. I said to her, "I'll call Taozi right now and ask her to reserve the best sea-view suite in the inn for you."
"Thanks."
I put the letter the man had left me back in my pocket, then asked Ye Zhi, "Have you finished taking care of things here? If you have, come with me now."
"I need to go to my hotel in the old town to pick up my luggage."
I thought for a moment and replied, "It's not a long detour, I'll take you there."
Ye Zhi nodded and then walked out of the airport before me. I stood there for a while. Although Ye Zhi had completely denied it, I still felt that I had made this matter quite dramatic. Even if the man who left me the letter was not the same man Ye Zhi was waiting for, it was still a coincidence enough, because they both had a father who became a corrupt official and a mother who took them away from their original city for their physical and mental health.
I let out a heavy breath and then jogged to catch up with Ye Zhi. But for some reason, even though her steps were light, her back gave off a heavy feeling. Maybe she really should let go of herself. She shouldn't be trapped in the curse of "waiting" and let herself fail to bloom at the best age.
...
In the parking lot, before I got into the car, Ye Zhi said to me, "I'll transfer the money I used to buy the plane ticket to the waiting area to you."
"No need, this is a misunderstanding I caused, let me bear the loss."
Ye Zhi didn't say much. She asked me to open WeChat, then took the phone from my hand, transferred 3,000 yuan to me, and clicked "accept" for me before returning the phone to me.
...
I drove her to the ancient city. After she retrieved her luggage, I took her to Longkan. It seemed like a twist of fate; as Ye Zhi got out of the car, Yang Sisi also came out of the inn carrying her luggage. Only then did I remember that she had already rented a house in the villa area called Shanshuijian. She had said she was going to move in today.
The three of us bumped into each other, but for some reason, we felt awkward.
Yang Sisi was the first to speak. She didn't look at Ye Zhi, but asked me, "Where have you been?"
I replied evasively, "Ye Zhi is planning to stay at our inn for a week. I went to pick up her luggage from the hotel in the ancient city for her."
Yang Sisi said with great emotion, "Don't you understand what it means to be clear about gratitude and resentment?"
“When conflicts arise between people, they can explain themselves to each other… So after she explained it to me, I chose to understand her… Even if their group hadn’t come to Longkan to develop the project, the ‘government’ would have approved it for another group. This is a ‘government’ action, and she shouldn’t bear the main responsibility.”
"A pushover!"
Yang Sisi walked up to Ye Zhi and said to her, "Even if everyone in this inn chooses to forgive you, I won't... Maybe you think I'm not qualified, because I'm neither a shareholder nor the owner of this inn; but it's precisely because I'm standing from the perspective of an outsider that I can better feel how badly these people have been oppressed by you and your group."
In terms of eloquence, Ye Zhi was certainly no match for Yang Sisi, so she chose to remain silent in the face of such accusations.
Yang Sisi pointed at me again and said, "I won't talk about the others... just Michael... Do you know how much courage it took for someone like him to choose to leave Shanghai? Do you know what Dali meant to him?... If you knew, and still ruined everything for him, then you are utterly despicable!"
Ye Zhi finally spoke: "Can you tell me what Dali means to him?"
"If you truly care about him, you'll understand without me saying it... The reason you're asking this is because, in your eyes, he's nothing at all..."
Yang Sisi's emotions had been ignited by her own actions, so after she finished speaking, she looked at Ye Zhi with a gaze full of hatred...
I consider myself someone who understands her temperament quite well, and realizing that she might say something even more aggressive in the next moment, I quickly took the suitcase from her and said, "Aren't you going to Shanshuijian? I'll take you there, and we can also check out the environment of that villa area."
Yang Sisi slapped my hand away as I reached for the suitcase. Tears welled in her eyes as she roared, "You're the biggest idiot in the world… You were beaten so badly by those con artists in Luxi, and you didn't even tell her, afraid she'd feel guilty… But why did you have to take that beating for nothing? And so badly!… And what about her? After returning to Shanghai, she continued being 'CEO Ye,' using her power to crush you, the one who helped her… Is there any woman in this world more ruthless than her?… Only an idiot like you would choose to forgive her!"
Ye Zhi first looked at me, then at Yang Sisi, and said, "Get beaten up?...I don't quite understand what you're talking about?"
Yang Sisi threw down her suitcase and then dragged me to Ye Zhi in a very rough manner. She first tore off my coat, and then ripped open my shirt, exposing all the wounds that had not yet fully healed to Ye Zhi.
At this moment, Yang Sisi choked back tears and said to Ye Zhi, "If you doubt what I just said, then take a good look at these wounds on his body... That day, not long after you left, that man's accomplices came looking for him. They threw knives, guns, clubs, everything at him... Yes, he's quite good at fighting, but he couldn't withstand so many people... That's how he got these wounds... Put yourself in his shoes, how must he have felt at that time... I'd say you're rubbing salt into his wounds, and that's not an exaggeration at all, is it?"
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