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Ye Wenyu immediately slipped into a corner.
A thought flashed through her mind: Cai Wenchuan had just received a phone call saying he wanted to meet a friend, and that friend was Lin Tingyue?!
What did Lin Tingyue want to see Cai Wenchuan about?
Ye Wenyu shuddered as she recalled that when Cai Wenchuan confronted Lin Tingfeng fearlessly, he had said that many people wanted to get rid of Lin Tingfeng. She had therefore deduced that Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue were in cahoots, and now it seemed her deduction was correct!
She hid in a dark corner watching Cai Wenchuan. He gazed at Lin Tingyue, his face radiant, his eyes shining like stars—a look only a man could have when he deeply loved a woman.
A few days ago, when Cai Wenchuan confessed his feelings to her and asked her to be his girlfriend, she refused because she didn't love him. She even wondered if Cai Wenchuan's persistent and strong insistence on her being his girlfriend meant that he had liked her since childhood.
Now, seeing him gazing at Lin Tingyue with such deep affection, Ye Wenyu knew she had been deluding herself. Cai Wenchuan didn't love her, just as she didn't love Cai Wenchuan. This truth was as clear as day after night.
So why did Cai Wenchuan insist on having her as his girlfriend?
As Ye Wenyu pondered, countless questions arose in her heart. She peeked out from behind the pillar where she was hiding and was shocked to find Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue holding hands tightly. Lin Tingyue's eyes were filled with tears, and her shoulders were trembling, clearly crying. Cai Wenchuan looked at her with deep affection and heartache, and he would occasionally lower his head to kiss Lin Tingyue's slender, fair hands.
What on earth is going on?!
Why be with her if he doesn't love her? Ye Wenyu felt like she had been tricked and deceived, as if ice water had been poured over her head, making her tremble from head to toe.
Memories flooded Ye Wenyu's mind like mirror images. Countless times, Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue had appeared together. She hadn't understood why they were so close, so inseparable, but now, seeing their hands clasped tightly, and recalling the countless times they had appeared side by side, she understood a different meaning.
Could it be them? Really?!
The idea flashed into her mind like a summer lightning bolt and lingered for a long time.
Could it be that Mom saw the two of them before she died, and her initial guess was correct?
Could it be that during the more than ten years of separation, Cai Wenchuan has fallen in love with Lin Tingyue?
Ye Wenyu felt as if she were experiencing an earthquake and tsunami. Her mind went blank, her body trembled, and it felt as if a million bees were buzzing around her ears. She looked at Cai Wenchuan and saw that his eyes were also filled with tears, as if he was very excited. He looked at Lin Tingyue with deep affection, his eyes as red as a rabbit's.
Ye Wenyu was dumbfounded, standing there like a pillar, forgetting the time and the place. She felt as if she had walked from one maze to another.
Is this like escaping from one wolf's den only to fall into another?
Lin Tingfeng is a mystery, and now it seems that Lin Tingyue and Cai Wenchuan are also mysteries!
Everyone had ulterior motives and plans, but she was the most foolish and confused one.
She was like a pawn, constantly being used and deceived.
She is as pure as a blank sheet of paper, her mind as simple as an open book, while others have hearts as complex as an abyss.
She even suspected that Cai Wenchuan's appearance when she broke up with Lin Tingfeng and moved out of his house with her suitcase might have been for a purpose. Furthermore, the next morning, when she hadn't mentioned anything, Cai Wenchuan seized the opportunity to ask her to be his girlfriend, which also seemed to have ulterior motives. She had always been grateful for this, but now it appeared that perhaps Cai Wenchuan's desire for her to be his girlfriend also harbored ulterior motives!
In the more than ten years since they parted, he was no longer the Wen-gege who treated her like family. He became more and more unfamiliar, his heart as vast as the sea.
Ye Wenyu felt incredibly foolish, but she didn't want to continue being foolish. So, she turned around and secretly left the coffee shop.
She planned to ask Cai Wenchuan about it carefully when he came to see her that evening.
However, as dusk fell, she received a phone call from Cai Wenchuan. Ye Wenyu answered, but the person speaking was not Cai Wenchuan. It was a strange man's voice: "Hello, are you Cai Wenchuan's friend? I am a police officer from [Police Station Name]."
Ye Wenyu panicked, her body began to tremble, and not knowing what had happened, she stammered, "Yes, what happened?"
The policeman said, "Cai Wenchuan put your number first in his contacts, so I'm calling you. He was in a car accident and is currently in the hospital, unconscious and in critical condition. Please come over here. The address is—"
Ye Wenyu hurriedly jotted down the address, thanked them, and rushed to the hospital.
My heart is in a panic, like an ant in a flood; the world has collapsed.
When she arrived at the hospital, Cai Wenchuan was already dead. In the hospital corridor, only Lin Tingyue and Uncle Cai and Aunt Cai were standing there. Lin Tingyue was like a wooden statue, and the Cai family elders, the white-haired people sending off their black-haired son, the two old people were crying together.
The hospital's dark corridors were like hell.
Ye Wenyu stared blankly at the place where Cai Wenchuan's body was lying. The doctors and nurses had already left. Cai Wenchuan's body was covered with a white sheet, from head to toe.
The scent of graves had permeated everywhere.
She stood there, rooted to the spot. This very morning, he had been holding her hand, chatting and laughing with her—so young, so learned—and by evening, he was a cold, lifeless corpse. The stench of death was omnipresent; life was as fragile as glass. It was too unbearable. Could this really be real?!
But Uncle Cai and Aunt Cai were crying there, crying so sadly.
Ye Wenyu looked at Cai Wenchuan's corpse, then at Uncle Cai and Aunt Cai. Lin Tingyue walked up to Ye Wenyu and said in a hoarse voice, "Come out with me, I have something to say to you." After saying that, she walked out first.
Her shadow was extremely thin, like a paper doll.
Ye Wenyu seemed to have lost her soul, following behind Lin Tingyue. The two walked one after the other until they reached the hospital garden and found a quiet corner to stand in.
The withered yellow leaves lay scattered on the ground, and a gentle breeze blew softly, as if Cai Wenchuan's spirit were nearby.
Lin Tingyue suddenly said, "It wasn't a car accident!"
"What?" Ye Wenyu suddenly looked up. She couldn't understand Lin Tingyue's words.
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