Chapter 37 discusses how to effectively treat heartbreak...
On a weekday afternoon, everything is quiet.
Yun Jin stood alone for a moment, then took out the property certificate from the drawer.
It's still her name.
The butterfly of 2013 has already flapped its wings; who knows what kind of hurricane it will cause in 2025?
But as long as the house is still hers, everything is within her control.
Yun Jin put the property certificate back in its original place and started taking off her clothes as she walked towards the bathroom. By the time she entered the bathroom, her clothes had already formed a winding path on the floor.
The showerhead sprayed hot water, bubbling with white steam, washing over her beautifully shaped body. Yun Jin brushed her hair aside and tilted her head back to greet the downpour.
Half an hour after she finished showering, she carefully completed her entire skincare routine before collapsing onto the bed and falling into a deep sleep.
She was truly sleeping soundly, without dreaming or waking up, as if the whole world, including her, had ceased to exist.
When I woke up, it was already dark, and the clouds outside the French windows piled up like moldy, spoiled cakes.
Yun Jin stared out the window for a long time, then turned over and picked up her latest phone, only to find that Hua Cheng had sent her a lot of messages.
Hua Cheng: Honey, I'm off work.
Hua Cheng: You're not back yet? Do you need me to pick you up?
Hua Cheng: Although you said beforehand that you wouldn't check your phone, I'm really worried because I haven't received your messages.
Hua Cheng: The rice is ready. Let me know when you get back so I can cook some dishes.
Hua Cheng: Wife...
Below is a bunch of boring crying emojis.
Yun Jin repeatedly looked at these messages, the light reflected from the phone flickering in her eyes, finally turning into a '1' and sending it out.
As soon as Hua Cheng received the reply, he immediately started cooking.
All the ingredients had been prepared in advance; now all that was needed was the final cooking. He was quick, and by the time Yun Jin returned to her brightly lit home, the last dish was already on the table.
Upon hearing the door open, Hua Cheng immediately dropped the spatula and ran out.
Yun Jin had just changed into her slippers when she felt a breeze carrying the aroma of food waft towards her, and the next second her face was cupped in her hands.
Hua Cheng stared at her face for a long time, making sure she hadn't cried, and then kissed her forehead with satisfaction: "Come and eat."
After saying that, he quickly went to serve the dishes.
After he had moved all the dishes to the dining table, he looked up and found Yun Jin still standing in the entryway, staring at him with an expression he couldn't understand, as if she were studying some unknown creature.
Hua Cheng felt a chill run down his spine under her gaze and asked awkwardly, "Why aren't you here yet?"
Yun Jin paused for a moment, then walked calmly to the dining table.
The dinner menu was exactly the same as the morning menu. Hua Cheng piled the rice high in the bowl and handed it to her, saying, "Eat more, and then we'll go for a walk in the neighborhood."
Yun Jin didn't refuse, but she felt a little full after eating only half a bowl of rice.
Hua Cheng finished the rice she had left over, expressing his understanding: "It's normal to not have a good appetite after just breaking up with your boyfriend."
Yun Jin was speechless.
After dinner, Yun Jin wanted to go back to her room to sleep, but Hua Cheng dragged her to change into her sportswear and forcibly took her out.
It's already late October, and Pingcheng has entered late autumn. The air is damp and cool, gently stimulating the nasal cavity.
The area where they live is so sparsely populated that even after dinner, it's not very lively outside. There are only two nannies playing with the children at the fitness equipment area.
Hua Cheng waited silently, and as soon as one of the children got off the swing, he rushed over to claim his spot.
"Wife, come quick!" He ignored the nanny's strange looks and waved frantically at Yun Jin.
Yun Jin ignored him, found a place to sit down, and began to review the meeting minutes from the afternoon.
Seeing that she wasn't coming, Hua Cheng simply swung back and forth on the swing by himself. The couple each did their own thing and enjoyed themselves.
The meeting minutes from the daytime session lasted for more than two hours. Yun Jin glanced at the key points and was about to put her phone away when she suddenly met a pair of pitiful eyes.
It is a six-year-old child.
Yun Jin paused for a moment, then asked, "What's wrong?"
"Auntie, can you let Uncle get off the swing?" the child pleaded softly, pouting. "I want to play on the swing too."
Yun Jin looked up and saw someone let out a shout and swing into the sky.
She looked away: "No."
Child:"……"
Yun Jin patted his head and said, "There's no rule here that adults have to give way to children. If you want to play, just line up."
The child thought that this aunt would be easier to talk to than the strange uncle who was happily swinging on the swing, but he was surprised to be rejected outright.
He remained silent for a long time before leaving dejectedly.
Yun Jin stood up, stretched a few times on the spot, and when she looked at the swing again, she saw the child standing in front of Hua Cheng, timidly saying something.
After listening for a few minutes, Hua Cheng first looked up and asked Yun Jin, "Do you want to play?"
"No, I'm not playing." Yun Jin replied decisively.
Hua Cheng then gave the swing to the child.
The two left the gym equipment area and continued strolling around.
Hua Cheng clung to Yun Jin like a ghost, using his height advantage to rest his chin on top of her head, and they took every step as if they were inseparable.
Liu Zhuang, who was also taking a walk in the neighborhood, clicked his tongue and turned to chat with Chen Yueqin: "This kid can be really annoying when he's clingy."
"Yun Jin doesn't mind, yet you're complaining." Chen Yueqin rolled her eyes at him.
Liu Zhuang immediately retorted, "With Yun Jin's personality, how could she not mind?"
"Then look, did Yun Jin push him away?" Chen Yueqin turned his chubby face away.
Liu Zhuang stared intently at their backs for a long time, then muttered, "It seems like they don't..."
Not feeling rejected, Hua Cheng clung to his wife and went home. As soon as they entered the living room, he suggested they watch a movie together.
Yun Jin stopped and looked at him leisurely.
"...What's wrong?" Hua Cheng felt guilty under her gaze.
Yun Jin narrowed her eyes: "Besides watching a movie, what other plans do you have?"
Hua Cheng's gaze drifted to one side.
After a while, he floated back and found that Yun Jin was still staring at him.
He could only honestly answer, "There's also late-night snacks, stargazing at dawn, and sunrise viewing in the early morning."
Yun Jin laughed: "After doing all this, I won't need to sleep all night."
“I was just afraid you’d get sad if you had free time, especially since it’s the first day after the breakup,” Hua Cheng scratched his head, feeling resigned. “Besides doing these things, I don’t know how else to comfort you.”
"Do you think I need comforting?" Yun Jin asked in return.
Hua Cheng paused, then looked into her eyes.
Her eyes were dry and beautiful, like an endless wilderness, calm and serene, without much human emotion.
Hua Cheng: "It seems... not really necessary."
"I've accomplished everything I wanted to do, so why should I be sad?" Yun Jin straightened his collar, brushed the dust off his sleeve, and looked at him again. "Right now, I don't want to do anything, I just want to sleep."
Hua Cheng couldn't understand what she was saying, what she wanted to do, how she had accomplished all of it, and what it had to do with heartbreak and sadness.
But there was one sentence he could still understand.
She wanted to sleep.
A smile appeared in Hua Cheng's eyes: "I'll sleep with you."
Then they went to sleep.
Although she had slept for a long time in the afternoon, Yun Jin still fell asleep as soon as her head hit the bed. Hua Cheng carefully held her, listening to her soft and peaceful breathing, and silently breathed a sigh of relief.
Sleeping so soundly, she probably really isn't sad.
Hua Cheng once again exclaimed, "This little piece of trash is nothing special," and closed his eyes happily.
Because of Yun Jin's matter, he hadn't had a good night's sleep in a long time. Now that his heart was finally at ease, he gradually fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, as soon as Yun Jin opened her eyes, she saw his overly serene face.
History is destined to repeat itself.
Without hesitation, she reached out and slapped him.
"Huh?!" Hua Cheng woke up with a start, looking around in confusion.
Yun Jin calmly said, "You had a nightmare. Go back to sleep."
"oh……"
Hua Cheng didn't suspect anything, kissed her and went back to sleep. Yun Jin waited until he was sound asleep before getting up to change her clothes.
When Yun Jin finished getting ready to leave, Hua Cheng was still asleep. She didn't plan to wake him and walked out alone.
A minute later, she came back.
Hua Cheng slept until after 10 a.m., and when he opened his eyes, he was alone in the room.
He sleepily texted Yun Jin, asking if she had any plans for lunch.
Five minutes later, Yun Jin replied: No.
Hua Cheng smiled and replied: I'm going to find you for lunch.
Yunjin: 1.
Hua Cheng jumped out of bed and pulled back the curtains.
After several days of gloom, the sky finally cleared, and the bright sunlight streamed through the thick glass windows, bathing the entire bedroom in a golden glow.
Hua Cheng stretched and felt relaxed all over. His head, which had always been aching, was now clear and bright, as if a miracle had occurred and he had been cured without any medicine.
The moment the thought popped into his head, he laughed at himself, realizing he was really going crazy.
After basking in the sun by the window for a while, Hua Cheng took out new sheets and duvet covers from the closet, then ripped off the ones from the bed and stuffed them into the washing machine. Finally, he rushed into the bathroom for a quick shower and walked out smelling fresh.
Thirty seconds later, he turned back and fell silent, staring at the empty wall opposite the bed.
Yun Jin was in a meeting when her phone suddenly vibrated, attracting everyone's attention.
She calmly opened the message, which was from Hua Cheng: "Honey, something bad has happened! A thief has broken into our house."
Yun Jin: "..."
That was too unreasonable, so she chose to ignore it.
Hua Cheng persisted: A thief really broke in.
The accompanying photo shows an empty wall.
Hua Cheng: Your hideous electronic perpetual calendar is gone!
Yun Jin really didn't want to talk to him, but seeing that he was always typing, she knew that ignoring him would only result in more boring messages, so she reluctantly replied: I threw it away.
Hua Cheng: Why throw it away?
Yunjin: Ugly.
Hua Cheng: Why didn't you think it was ugly before?
withdraw.
Hua Cheng: Why did you choose to throw it away today?
withdraw.
Hua Cheng: I know, this was given to you by that little rascal!
Hua Cheng: Such an ugly thing, only he has the nerve to shamelessly offer it up!
Hua Cheng: Honey, you've gone too far! You actually hung the trash he sent us on our bedroom wall! Are you even thinking of bringing him home?!
The constant ringing and sending of messages is seriously disrupting the meeting atmosphere.
Yun Jin took a deep breath and replied: Shut up.
Hua Cheng: ...
The world is quiet now.
After the meeting ended, there was still half an hour before the end of the workday. Yun Jin, unusually, took a break and, instead of looking at the documents that needed to be signed, searched online for the history of Yuncheng Technology's development and excerpts from early interviews with Hua Cheng.
Everything was exactly as she remembered.
The wind that the butterfly created in 2013 didn't even reach 2025.
How could that be?
Hua Cheng only rented a room with Liu Zhuang a few days earlier, but she still couldn't rent the house that was originally on her life's trajectory. Now that she has changed several of the most important milestones in her life at the age of twenty, why can she still overlap with the original life's course?
Yun Jin thought of Xue Hong again, of the Royal Bar that had closed down prematurely, and of Lan Li whose memories had changed.
Then I thought of Fatty and Huacheng.
The only difference between the two of them and others is probably...
Knock knock knock.
There was a sudden knock on the door.
Yun Jin suddenly looked up and met a pair of smiling eyes.
"Mr. Yun, are you hungry?" Hua Cheng asked with a smile.
Yun Jin lowered her head and began to read the documents.
On the computer screen, Hua Cheng's interview video was still playing. When Yun Jin's name was mentioned, he smiled shyly.
“I met Yun Jin in the summer of 2014. It was her first time in Pingcheng, and she was working as a waitress in a restaurant…”
Hua Cheng heard his own voice, strode to his desk, leaned over the desk and turned the computer around. The next second, he was looking directly at his twenties self.
"You're still looking at me during work hours, do you miss me that much?" Hua Cheng asked with a smile.
Yun Jin quickly signed the document, picked it up, and patted him on the shoulder: "Give it to Xiao Zhou."
Hua Cheng obediently went to run errands for her.
When he returned after delivering the documents, the computer was already off, and Yun Jin was all ready to go out with him.
Hua Cheng smiled and reached out to take her hand, but accidentally touched the watch on her wrist.
I threw away the ugly perpetual calendar, so why is the ugly watch still here?
Hua Cheng frowned and looked at her in protest.
"Neither the perpetual calendar nor the watch were gifts from him," Yun Jin felt she needed to explain.
Hua Cheng didn't believe it. His wife's taste wasn't that bad; it must have been that little jerk who gave it to her.
“Wife…” He shook her hand, his fingers silently covering the watch face, “We’ve already thrown away the perpetual calendar, so let’s throw away this watch too.”
Yun Jin remained silent for a moment.
"Well, you don't have to throw it away if you don't want to. This little thing is quite unique after you look at it for a while." Hua Cheng didn't want to force her, so he immediately changed his mind.
Yun Jin snapped out of her daze and calmly took off the watch: "I won't throw it away, but there's no need to wear it anymore."
Although she didn't understand many things, she had already done what she needed to do, so there was no need for her to wear it all the time.
As for those unsolved mysteries, they are not that important in the face of established facts.
After finally taking off the watch they had been wearing for months, Hua Cheng and Yun Jin both looked somewhat relieved.
Hua Cheng was the most relaxed, disregarding President Yun's authority, and insisted on holding hands with him to go to the cafeteria.
"Oh, right," Yun Jin suddenly remembered something, "shouldn't you go for a follow-up checkup?"
"Next Friday," Hua Cheng replied.
Yun Jin: "Let's go ahead of time."
"Why?" Hua Cheng asked, puzzled.
He has been taking targeted drugs customized for him by a foreign medical institution, so he doesn't need to have frequent check-ups like other late-stage patients.
However, the follow-up examination for pathology is not so pleasant, so as long as his physical condition is relatively stable, he and Yun Jin have never brought forward the follow-up examination time.
Asking him to go ahead of time all of a sudden is very unlike Yun Jin.
Faced with Hua Cheng's doubts, Yun Jin didn't explain much, only saying, "I just want to see your follow-up examination results as soon as possible."
Make the final confirmation.
Hua Cheng stared at her for a moment, then smiled and said, "Although I really want to agree, the attending physician is attending a conference abroad and won't be back until Sunday night, so I can't say yes sooner."
He lied.
The attending physician did not go abroad.
He just didn't want to have a follow-up examination earlier.
It was probably because the results of the last check-up were quite good that Yun Jin had the illusion that things might get better, which is why she was so impatient.
But how could it be good? Recently, he has often felt strained and has frequently experienced low blood sugar. It is foreseeable that the results of this follow-up examination will not make him happy.
Since unhappiness is inevitable, why not postpone it, and postpone it even further?
Yun Jin didn't doubt him. Upon hearing this, she frowned but didn't insist any further.
Anyway, it's already Wednesday, so we can just wait a few more days.
The two had lunch together and then took a nap together in the office. In the afternoon, Hua Cheng went to the market and went on a shopping spree, while Yun Jin was making waves at the international conference. In the evening, Hua Cheng came to pick her up from get off work.
Although she had emphasized to him that night that she was not sad about the 'breakup', Yun Jin knew that he had not been convinced.
Someone imagined a dramatic breakup story with her as the female lead and felt obligated to help her out of her sorrow.
Yun Jin was too lazy to explain anymore, so she simply let him do as he pleased. As a result, this man took the "taking an inch and wanting a mile" approach to the extreme, sticking to her 24 hours a day and always coming up with unexpected ideas to make her look foolish.
Going on dates, shopping, and having meals are tolerable, but staying up late to go on a cruise to see the stars shows he has the leisure and inclination. But taking her to a children's amusement park to recapture her lost childhood, isn't that a bit too much?
When he was fighting with a five-year-old for the right to use the slide, Yun Jin couldn't stand it anymore and pulled him out.
"old……"
"Shut up."
"Don't you like it here?" Hua Cheng asked with some regret. "I think it's quite fun."
Yun Jin glanced at him: "Then you can stay and play. Remember to cover your face. If news like 'Chairman of Yuncheng Technology is a pervert at a children's playground' breaks tomorrow, I won't help you with public relations."
Hua Cheng was amused by her: "I was grabbing the slide, not a kid, so how is that weird?"
Yun Jin remained silent, simply continuing to walk forward.
Hua Cheng followed behind her with a smile: "Are you really leaving? The tickets here aren't cheap either. It's a bit of a waste to leave after only five minutes here."
Yun Jin seemed not to hear.
Hua Cheng's smile deepened, and just as he was about to tease her again, he suddenly felt dizzy and his vision went black.
He suddenly stopped, and Yun Jin, who had already walked some distance, seemed to sense something and turned back without thinking.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
Hua Cheng paused for a moment, then looked at her and said, "Wife, I think I have low blood sugar."
Yun Jin: "..."
Hua Cheng waited another minute, then breathed a sigh of relief: "It's all set now."
Yun Jin bought him a bottle of drink and two pieces of bread from the supermarket next door. Hua Cheng ate them obediently and immediately felt much better.
"After the follow-up examination, I'll have a nutritionist adjust your diet," Yun Jin said.
Although Hua Cheng felt it was making a mountain out of a molehill, he never had a say in such matters, so he could only nod in agreement.
Yun Jin glanced at the time and realized that it was already nine o'clock in the evening.
“Go home,” she said.
Hua Cheng agreed, "Wait here for me, I'll go get the car."
Yun Jin remembered how he had low blood sugar earlier, frowned, and was about to refuse when he turned and ran away.
She stood at the entrance of the mall, facing the passing vehicles and crowds.
Across the wide road, an advertising screen was playing Yuncheng Technology's latest promotional activities. When the most popular celebrity appeared on the screen, two young girls next to them suddenly let out suppressed screams and took out their phones to snap photos incessantly.
It's warm tonight, even the wind feels warm, as if the departed summer has suddenly returned.
Yun Jin was staring intently at the billboard when a loud roar suddenly came from beside her. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Hua Cheng leaning against a bright red motorcycle, smiling at her.
Fresh and alive.
"What are you standing there for? Come here!" Hua Cheng called out to her when she saw that she was standing still.
Yun Jin snapped out of her daze and walked towards him: "Why is this car here?"
"Fatty drove it here for me." Hua Cheng took out a helmet and put it on her head.
Yun Jin looked around: "Where's Fatty?"
“They’ve already left.” Hua Cheng turned her head back.
Yun Jin: "Did you enslave him again?"
“How can you call that enslavement?” Hua Cheng expressed his dissatisfaction with her choice of words. “Isn’t it only natural for an older brother to help his younger brother?”
At the same time, Liu Zhuang, who was responsible for driving the off-road vehicle home, cursed and vowed to sever ties with Hua Cheng.
"He was very supportive when he heard I wanted to take you for a drive," Hua Cheng said seriously.
Yun Jin doesn't believe a single punctuation mark.
Hua Cheng smiled and patted the car frame, saying, "It's been sitting in the underground garage for several years. I took it to get cleaned up a couple of days ago, and I didn't expect it to still look brand new."
This car was a gift from Yun Jin.
After accidentally learning that he had worked illegally at a car repair shop for a long time when he was eighteen.
Back then, he was always covered in dirt and grime, wearing clothes stained with engine oil and dust, serving wealthy young men around his age, one of whom drove this particular car.
Bright, flamboyant, unrestrained, and expensive, it clashes with the dirty repair shop and his own filthy appearance, yet they strangely appear in the same time and space.
The car was left at the repair shop, and for a long time, he would often stare at it in a daze. Several times, he would walk up to the car and, if he turned the key, it could temporarily belong to him.
It's common for employees to steal customers' bikes at repair shops; as long as they're careful, there shouldn't be any trouble.
But he didn't do that.
Later, the customer rode the bike away, and a few days later it was returned as a pile of scrap metal. It was said that it slid off during a race and crashed.
"Luckily, the new model I ordered has arrived. This one's just scrap." The customer said casually, selling the pile of scrap metal to the repair shop at a very low price.
That day, Hua Cheng stared at the dilapidated motorcycle for a long time before calmly pushing it into the scrap yard.
"Do you know what I'm most proud of when I think about this?" Hua Cheng, who was in his twenties at the time and whose eyes were no longer clouded, asked with a smile.
Yun Jin, who was slightly younger than him, asked in return, "What is it?"
“I’ve wanted to ride it like crazy, but I’ve never actually ridden it,” Hua Cheng raised an eyebrow, full of praise for his younger self. “I was the only employee in that repair shop who would never steal a customer’s bike.”
Yun Jin remained silent for a long time, then turned around and bought him the same model with a higher configuration.
Their lives had settled down by then, but a motorcycle costing over 100,000 was still quite a luxury, yet she bought it for him.
“Because good children deserve to be rewarded,” she said.
Hua Cheng still remembers how he felt on the day he received the award. He remembers Yun Jin wearing a green silk nightgown and waving a palm-leaf fan around the front door of the house.
Then it crept into his heart.
No... perhaps it was already in his heart long before, but from that day on, he could no longer deceive himself.
"Come on, little sister, I'll take you for a drive," Hua Cheng said with a smile.
Yun Jin glanced at him, but did not refuse.
The wind was gentle tonight, and Huacheng drove slowly. The wind slipped through my fingers and under my armpits, silky and soft.
Hua Cheng drove along the ring road, circling it again and again, until the sky began to lighten with the first light of dawn, before finally taking Yun Jin home.
As they get older and busier with work, it's been many years since they've driven around aimlessly until dawn like this.
They may never be able to drive around aimlessly until dawn again.
Riding bikes all night might have been reasonable when they were young, but at their age it's a bit crazy, especially after sleeping all day. Both of them were sore all over, with their backs hurting the most, and they lay in bed speechless.
Fortunately, Hua Cheng returned to normal and stopped trying to help Yun Jin get over her heartbreak.
The fact that Yun Jin had a third party seemed to have become a thing of the past without anyone realizing it.
It's a new week, a new Friday, the day for Hua Cheng's follow-up check-up.
At six o'clock in the morning, Yun Jin suddenly woke up. Hua Cheng next to her was curled up in a ball, holding his head in pain and muttering in his sleep, as if he had a nightmare.
"Hua Cheng?" Yun Jin nudged him and touched something damp.
She was stunned for a moment, and when she turned on the light, she found that he was covered in sweat. His hair, which was dry and smooth last night, was now all damp and hanging down on his forehead.
"Hua Cheng, Hua Cheng?"
Hua Cheng suddenly woke up, opened his eyes, and looked blankly in the direction of Yun Jin.
"What's wrong?" His voice was terribly hoarse.
Yun Jin wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "Do you have a headache? Do you need to take some medicine?"
Hua Cheng blinked slowly and said, "It doesn't hurt."
"Really?" Yun Jin frowned.
Hua Cheng carefully examined it and nodded: "Hmm, it doesn't hurt."
"Then why are you sweating so much?" Yun Jin touched his forehead. "You don't have a fever. What happened just now?"
Hua Cheng wasn't quite sure either: "You had a nightmare... but I don't remember what you dreamed about."
Seeing that he looked normal, Yun Jin fell into deep thought.
Hua Cheng couldn't hear her voice, so he groped for her hand and grasped it: "Worried?"
Yun Jin remained silent.
Hua Cheng chuckled, "I'm really fine, but if you're still worried, let's go to the hospital now."
Yun Jin thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
After saying that, she was about to get up.
Hua Cheng helplessly pulled her back: "Why are you doing the same old thing again?"
"Hmm?" Yun Jin looked over.
Hua Cheng smiled and said, "At least turn on the light before you get out of bed."
Yun Jin was stunned, and a huge roar rang in her ears.
The cold air from the entire autumn accumulated at the same time, and a huge cold wave suddenly arrived.
The room was deathly silent. Hua Cheng realized something, and the smile on his face gradually faded.
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Author's note: I thought this chapter would cover the hickeys, but... the next chapter definitely will!
Draw 50 red envelopes~
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