0074 Night Rose Night.74 (4100+) (Second update) The waiter put a glass of boiled water on the table and stepped back. Chen Shanye picked up the glass, took a sip and put it down again. The water in the transparent glass swayed slightly in circles before returning to calm.
Wu Xuanli let go of the cup. Her throat was full of short thorns, and every word she spoke was painful. "Well, so it was a wrong start from the beginning, right?"
Chen Shanye thought she was talking about the beginning of their relationship and nodded. "What happened in the past has already happened. There's no point in talking about it anymore, so let's not talk about it. If you don't want to get a divorce, the court will make a ruling in a few days, and there will be no relationship between us from now on."
"What about Yangyang?" Wu Xuanli raised her voice.
As soon as she finished speaking, Wu Xuanli noticed that Chen Shanye's eyes changed.
It was Chen Shanye, a man she had never seen before. There was a giant beast from the abyss hidden in his bottomless black eyes. No shadow could be seen, only the monster's heavy breathing could be heard, and he was on guard against outsiders from stepping into his territory.
She suddenly understood what Chen Shanye had just said.
Chen Shanye didn't know her, and she had never really known Chen Shanye.
"I think there is no room for negotiation between us regarding Chen Siyang's matter."
Chen Shanye's attitude was extremely firm. Chen Siyang was the reason that allowed him to persevere day and night over the years. In that urban village where the sky could not be seen, he had hidden a piece of sunshine in his heart.
It doesn't matter if people say he is stingy and selfish, he will never give in when it comes to Chen Siyang.
“But, but…”
Wu Xuanli bit her lip and chose her words carefully: "I can provide Yangyang with a better living and learning environment. Look, I have a good income now, a house and a car, and some savings. If I bring Yangyang to Guangzhou..."
"impossible."
There was a beast's hidden rage in Chen Shanye's voice. His voice was a little loud, and the waiter and the guests at another table not far away looked over.
Wu Xuanli gasped when she was abruptly interrupted while she was speaking. The words left in her throat were like a gecko's severed tail, still twisting alive and making her throat itchy and nauseous.
She was unable to keep up with her emotions for a moment, took a few deep breaths, took out a tissue, and wiped the sweat beads on her forehead.
Wu Xuanli took a sip of coffee to moisten her throat, then slowed down her tone, "...So you're planning on letting Yangyang be trapped in this small county town for the rest of his life, just like you?"
Chen Shanye narrowed his eyes and said, "From now on, as long as Chen Siyang wants to leave, I will do my best to let him go."
"Wouldn't it be too late to wait until we grow up to venture out? Many children here have been attending various training classes since kindergarten. Different environments have different starting points. Only when the road ahead is paved can we have more choices later, right?"
"So this is what you want to talk to me about today, right? Do you want me to give Chen Siyang to you?"
Chen Shanye leaned against the back of the chair, his long legs spread out, his elbows resting on the armrests of the chair, and his hands with his fingers crossed and lightly placed on his lower abdomen.
He seemed to be sitting in a relaxed posture, but his true emotions could be seen from the faintly bulging veins in his forearms: "I say again, there is no room for negotiation on the issue of Chen Siyang."
The sun was strong and hot near noon. There was no telling how many cicadas lived in the dense treetops outside the store. The sound of cicadas poured into Wu Xuanli's ears like a tsunami.
Her head ached from the noise, and she spoke without much thought: "But I'm Yangyang's biological mother, and I have the right..."
"Whether you have the right or not, wait for the judge to decide. But from the day you left him, you have lost that right." Chen Shanye interrupted her again, understating it.
Wu Xuanli closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Her ribs were painful from the tight vest, and her internal organs seemed to be squeezed together.
Even the last black balloon in his chest was burst with a "pop".
The rancid old pus flowed all over the ground.
She laughed softly, the corners of her mouth raised in a subtle arc that was strange and cold: "...If I don't have the power, does that mean you have the power..."
The thumb nail suddenly dug into the soft flesh of the tiger's mouth, but Chen Shanye didn't feel any pain. He whispered, "What do you mean?"
Wu Xuanli looked a little confused, her empty eyes fixed on the coffee cup. The latte art inside had been stirred into a sticky mess, and it was impossible to tell what it originally looked like.
Her voice was hoarse: "If Yangyang is not your child, what would you do?"
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Far away from her hometown, Wu Xuanli entered university with full of enthusiasm. She finally walked out of the small county town that imprisoned her and was full of beautiful yearning for the future. She should shine in such a prosperous city.
But Wu Xuanli never expected that her self-confidence would soon be shattered one by one, starting from the first night after the lights were turned off in the dormitory, when her new roommates chatted on the iron bed.
The other three little girls excitedly recounted the countries their families took them to during the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, including snorkeling in the Maldives, shopping on the Champs-Elysées, and watching "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway.
When the topic came to whose mother gave her a 2.55 bag as her first bag on her 18th birthday, Wu Xuanli closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
She doesn't often participate in activities organized by new classmates because her living expenses are very limited. Zhao Bingqing doesn't understand why college students have to spend so much money living on campus, and she doesn't explain too much to her family.
She spends almost every day in the library, and her grades are still among the best. She applies for scholarships. She does not have a good family, so she can only rely on her own efforts to change her situation.
Until that day Wu Xuanli met Qin Tiansheng in the library.
That day, she was eating plain noodles as usual, wearing a T-shirt with a washed-out collar, and sitting in the corner by the window, reading quietly with a French poetry collection.
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne…
(The Seine flows under the Mirabeau Bridge, do you still want to remember our love?)
When she was about to reach the end of the poem, a calm and magnetic voice joined her, using smooth and perfect pronunciation to wrap up her not-so-standard pronunciation.
...Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
(Night comes, listen to the bells ringing, time passes and I am still here)*
Wu Xuanli raised her head and was instantly caught in a pair of charming and deep eyes. Time had carved traces of wisdom in the corners of his eyes, and the shadows of the trees outside the window swayed golden spots on his straight suit.
The man smiled faintly and said to her, Bon courage.
He turned and left, and the principal and the leader who were standing nearby also left with him. Before Wu Xuanli could react, someone came over and excitedly told her the man's name.
Qin Tiansheng, this library was donated by their family.
The second time she met Qin Tiansheng was at the school anniversary party in late autumn. She was asked by her senior sister to be the etiquette lady, responsible for leading the award presenters to the stage and off the stage.
She was not used to wearing high heels, and her legs were cold and sore under her cheongsam after standing all night. The final award was presented by Qin Tiansheng. She endured the pain of her heels rubbing against her flesh and led him to the stage, but she stumbled on the stairs and was about to fall. Qin Tiansheng supported her and whispered in her ear, "Be careful."
A short sentence in Cantonese was filled with countless ambiguous and charming things. Wu Xuanli stood in a corner of the stage and listened to Qin Tiansheng's speech in not very standard Mandarin, her fiery eyes depicting his tall back inch by inch under the spotlight.
Girls always love to dream, and Wu Xuanli is no exception. What she never expected was that her dream would come true.
A few days after the school anniversary, she received a gift, a pair of red flat shoes, the size was just right, and the small bow was delicate and exquisite. Her roommate who weighed 2.55 also had a pair of these shoes, so she knew that these were not luxury items, but they were still very expensive items for Wu Xuanli.
There was a small card inside the shoe box that said, "I hope you like it."
Apart from Qin Tiansheng, Wu Xuanli couldn't think of anyone else who would give her this gift.
She held the red shoes to her chest and kept imitating the heroine in Hong Kong movies, saying, "I like them so much."
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What happened afterwards was similar to the story of Daddy-Long-Legs. The gifts were all sent by Qin Tiansheng through someone else. Wu Xuanli was unable to meet him. She asked the person who sent the gifts if she could thank Mr. Qin in person. The other person said that Mr. Qin would come to see her when he was free.
She began to have common topics with her roommates and also tried to attend classmates' gatherings.
On the night of her birthday in winter, she was taken to the top floor suite of the hotel by Qin Tiansheng's men.
The gorgeous bouquet of roses, the black gift box tied with white camellia silk, the flickering candlelight on the dining table, the wine-red liquid swaying in the wine glass, and the dazzling night view like the Milky Way outside the window, each of them is a devil that has been lurking in Wu Xuanli's heart for a long time.
When Qin Tiansheng lifted her chin and prepared to kiss her, Wu Xuanli still had a trace of rationality.
She put her hands on the man's chest and asked him, but aren't you married?
The man let go of her, took off the wedding ring on his ring finger, put it on the bedside table, sat on the bed with his long legs crossed, and just looked at Wu Xuanli quietly.
Her fingers wrinkled the white hem of her skirt. Wu Xuanli looked at the golden ring, then at Qin Tiansheng's eyes that sucked people into the abyss, and finally walked towards him step by step.
Moths fly towards fire.
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Chen Shanye chuckled: "...Yangyang is not my child? Oh, then tell me, whose is it?"
Wu Xuanli choked. Of course she couldn't say the man's name.
Her secret relationship with Qin Tiansheng lasted until the year of graduation. At that time, Qin Tiansheng doted on her and let her go to France as an exchange student for half a year as she wished. But Wu Xuanli wanted more and more, and she delusionally wanted to stand by Qin Tiansheng openly.
So she received the first warning from the Qin family. She was kidnapped directly at the school gate and taken to an abandoned factory where she was tied up for the night.
The group of people who kidnapped her did not touch a single hair of hers, but called two prostitutes and had a group sex in front of her. The men looked at her while having sex, and their crazy and explicit eyes made Wu Xuanli frightened all night.
She understood what this meant. As long as they wanted to, they could do it to her at any time.
She couldn't afford to play this game.
Wu Xuanli didn't know whether this was Mrs. Qin's idea or someone else's in the Qin family. In any case, she was scared. She told Qin Tiansheng that she would no longer play with him and hid back in her hometown. At the class reunion, she met Chen Shanye, who used to sit behind her in the classroom.
She remembered that Chen Shanye liked her in high school.
She took the initiative to propose to Chen Shanye in order to seek a little sense of security, but one night a few months later, Qin Tiansheng suddenly appeared downstairs of her house.
Qin Tiansheng's words "I miss you so much" made her go through fire and water for him again.
The all-black stretched sedan, which looked out of place in the small county town, was swaying slightly in the moonlight and bushes. The driver and bodyguard stood not far away feeding mosquitoes, and moths crashed into the fine and dense web woven by the spider.
The guilt of physical infidelity made Wu Xuanli "compensate" Chen Shanye in the following days.
But Wu Xuanli never saw Qin Tiansheng again after that, and all the contact information Qin Tiansheng left was invalid. She could only occasionally see photos of him and Mrs. Qin attending events in online news, with the ring on his ring finger shining brightly.
She gave up and decided to continue with Chen Shanye. At this time, she found out that she was pregnant.
There were only two men who had sex in a short period of time. Whose child is this?
Before Wu Xuanli could figure it out, Chen Shanye had already proposed to her. He even went to see the wedding house and was ready to write her name on it.
xWhen a man does this for you, it’s impossible not to be moved, and Wu Xuanli is no exception.
When Chen Siyang was born, the whole family said that he looked like Chen Shanye, a black and yellow monkey. Wu Xuanli was lying on the hospital bed, trying to see if she could tell the man's appearance from the child, tears streaming down her face.
Ni temps pass
Ni les amours reviennent
(The days and love that have passed will never come back)
"Welcome!" The coffee shop clerk greeted the new customer who walked into the store in a cheerful voice.
The man and woman sitting in the corner were facing each other. Neither of them had time to pay attention to other things at this time. The coffee and boiled water on the table slowly cooled down, and the air condensed around them.
"I know it's shameless for me to say this now... But, I'm thinking about whether I should do a paternity test for Chen Siyang, like this, like this..."
Wu Xuanli couldn't say any more. It was too ugly to throw the jar like this, but this was the little hope she grasped at, like a firefly, shining a faint light in the darkness.
If Chen Shanye agreed to a paternity test, and Chen Siyang happened to be Qin Tiansheng's, then she would...
“Heh… heh…”
The intermittent laughter cut off Wu Xuanli's confused thoughts. She raised her head and looked at Chen Shanye in confusion.
The jazz music playing in the coffee shop and the noisy chirping of cicadas intertwined to create a harsh irony. Chen Shanye rested his elbows on his knees, his back trembling with laughter. His face was hidden behind his crossed palms. Wu Xuanli couldn't see his expression clearly. He was laughing, but there was no warmth in his laughter.
"Let me ask you, Wu Xuanli, if Chen Siyang is really my child, would you be very disappointed?"
Chen Shanye raised his eyes, covering the lower half of his face with his hand, and his voice gradually faded away amid the chirping of cicadas.
Wu Xuanli stayed where she was, looking at Chen Shanye's deep eyes as if a wild beast with shiny black fur had crawled out, its sharp claws waving towards her with a cold wind, ready to tear her apart in the next second.
Without waiting for her to answer, Chen Shanye sat up straight and took out his cell phone. He pressed a few buttons and threw the phone on the table.
The phone slid out a little and hit the mug of coffee, making a crisp sound.
"I'm really sorry to disappoint you, Chen Siyang, my last name is indeed Chen."
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————Author’s nonsense————
The French poem for this chapter is "Le pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge) by Apollinaire
This translation is from Rain: A Collection of Modern French Poetry (1989).
The French poem quoted is about 200 words long and is not included in the word count.
.This chapter can be used with【Night.18】
.I am not trying to whitewash myself, I am just telling the story!
Everyone can express their own ideas, but don’t get too excited, use civilized words, be polite to others, and be good!
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