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Ye Wenyu hurriedly left the hospital and boarded the bus back to school, finally letting out a sigh of relief. The bus was nearly empty during the Spring Festival; the carriage was practically deserted. Ye Wenyu sat blankly in her seat, recalling the events of the day, her heart filled with turmoil.
The wind howled outside the car window, and the cold winter air made the golden sunshine seem less warm than in spring.
Ye Wenyu leaned back in her chair, deep in thought.
The past is like smoke, but my heart is filled with turbulent emotions.
It turned out that after the Cai family moved, she became a maid in the Lin family. She always thought that Uncle Cai had made a fortune in business because when she was a child, she missed Cai Wenchuan and asked the neighbors for their phone number. When her mother found out about this, she told her not to contact them anymore. She heard that the Cai family had become rich and did not want to associate with their former poor friends. So, as a "former poor friend", she wisely did not try to contact Brother Wen again.
Unexpectedly, they didn't make a fortune through business, but instead became servants to the Lin family. However, there's nothing shameful about being a servant. They earned their due income through their own labor, so why was Cai Wenchuan so unable to let it go? Besides, the income of a servant to the Lin family was said to be higher than that of a mid-level manager in a typical company. Moreover, the Lin family was like a large, flourishing tree with roots reaching everywhere. Its resources, connections, and platform were all excellent. As the saying goes, "It's good to have a big tree to lean on." Being a servant to the Lin family might be more convenient and smoother than making a fortune by running a small business on their own.
Why is Cai Wenchuan so resentful?
Uncle Cai and Aunt Cai were servants in the Lin family. When Ye Wenyu heard this news today, she was shocked, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt relieved. What puzzled her was why Cai Wenchuan could not get over this knot in his heart. She knew that he had always been bothered by it, so in the past, when she mentioned his parents, he would always change his expression and then avoid talking about it.
Because of his family background, he was extremely insecure.
Ye Wenyu reminisced about Cai Wenchuan from her childhood. Although the Cai family was only slightly better off than hers back then, anyone with better financial means would have moved out of the factory's welfare housing and bought a commercial apartment elsewhere. But the Cai family didn't. Uncle Cai, like Ye Wenyu's mother, was an ordinary worker in the factory. He was honest and extremely obedient, but he lacked assertiveness, so he never earned much money in his life. Aunt Cai was a housewife with no income.
However, the Cai family always kept the house clean and tidy. Back then, Cai Wenchuan was always smiling, as if sunshine was dancing on his face. He was confident, lively, warm, kind, and academically excellent, unlike the gloomy man he became as an adult.
I wonder if Uncle Cai regrets quitting his job at the factory and becoming a maid for the Lin family now that Cai Wenchuan has become what he is today?
Ye Wenyu frowned, lost in deep thought.
Why is Cai Wenchuan like this? He is clearly very outstanding. He was admitted to a prestigious university, and then went on to pursue a master's and doctoral degree. Now he is doing postdoctoral research in Germany and has become the youngest and most famous professor at Q University. He even has a certain reputation online. He has already made great achievements and can definitely be considered a successful person in society. At a young age, he is already shining like a star. However, he seems to hate his family of origin and can never get rid of it.
No one can ever truly escape their family of origin. The only thing one can do is accept it and find inner peace.
Ye Wenyu shook her head, then thought of the relationship between Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue. At the hospital, when she and Jiang Zhiming entered the ward together, Cai Wenchuan simply called her name without explanation, but Lin Tingyue hurriedly explained to Jiang Zhiming, "Zhiming, you've misunderstood. Xiaowenzi and I grew up together. He's the son of my family's housekeeper, so there's no way there could be anything between us—"
How heartbroken Cai Wenchuan must have been at that time.
The fact that Lin Tingyue would say such things in front of Cai Wenchuan shows that she really doesn't hold much of a place for him in her heart.
Why did Cai Wenchuan seem bewitched whenever he saw her, with only her in his eyes and heart? She was like a little enchantress who had completely taken control of Cai Wenchuan's soul. Thinking about it now, it's truly terrifying.
To deeply love someone who doesn't love you back at all—what a painful feeling that must be.
Is it just because she is the eldest daughter of the Lin family? But as far as she knows, Lin Tingfeng, as the actual head of the Lin family, has not given Lin Tingxuan or Lin Tingyue a single penny of assets.
Cai Wenchuan wasn't after the Lin family's money like Jiang Zhiming. So, did he really love Lin Tingyue as a person? Besides being extremely beautiful, what other good qualities did that girl have? Empty-headed and willful.
I can't understand it.
Perhaps men are visual creatures; they judge everything by appearance, so being beautiful is the biggest and only reason.
Ye Wenyu shook her head again. She felt that everything about the Lin family was too complicated. It was complicated in the previous life, and in this life, when she discovered some of the truths that she had not discovered in the previous life, she found that the Lin family in this life was even more complicated than in the previous life.
She felt as if she were in a deep maze.
Moreover, Lin Tingfeng seemed different from what she had known before. Before this, she always thought that she was the person who understood him best in the world, because love and hate, like everything else, give people a strange understanding of each other. She had a love-hate relationship with Lin Tingfeng, so she became the person who understood him best.
But now it seems she doesn't understand Lin Tingfeng at all; the two of them together feel like they're still young despite their white hair.
well--
What went wrong in our past life that led us to a point of no return?
Ye Wenyu sighed, looking out the window at the rapidly receding winter scenery. The bare trees stood stiffly like naked men in the cold winter, and her thoughts gradually drifted back to her previous life.
In her previous life, she was moved by Lin Tingfeng's doting affection for her—he didn't give Lin Tingyue a single piece of real estate, but in less than a year, he gave her tens of millions of dollars worth of property, which made Lin Tingyue jealous and out of control, causing her to make a scene.
Deeply moved by this affection, she took the initiative to offer herself to him and become his woman.
Ye Wenyu still remembers the scene when she woke up the next morning. Golden sunlight filled every corner of the room like honey. Lin Tingfeng had already gone to the company, but she was not sleeping in her own room, but in his. There was a large bunch of green Monstera deliciosa on the bedside table, and the pillow still had the warmth of his body. Recalling the passion of the night, her body was tired and heavy, but her heart was happy. Her face was flushed with pink. Holding Lin Tingfeng's pillow, she sweetly drifted into a dream again.
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