That night, after the group had dinner, Sheng Qianqian asked Sheng Qianxing to go outside for a talk.
Since Sheng Qianye and Rong Shang lived next to each other, they naturally went home together.
When she came out of Sheng Qianxing's house, she saw Sheng Qianqian and Sheng Qianxing arguing and pulling each other in an open space a few dozen meters away.
Sheng Qianye didn't hear what they were saying and assumed they were just flirting.
But Rong Chang was different.
She heard Sheng Qianxing break up with Sheng Qianqian with her own ears.
Sheng Qianqian was naturally unwilling to accept this. She had obediently stayed in Sheng Yi'an and waited for him for so long, but now that he had achieved success, he had so heartlessly kicked her away.
Sheng Qianqian was somewhat disheartened.
She yelled at him, demanding to know if he was having an affair.
But Sheng Qianxing didn't say another word from beginning to end.
He wouldn't say anything because he didn't have the patience to chat with her about trivial matters.
*
"Do you have a good relationship with your uncle and aunt?"
On my way home, dark clouds loomed overhead, and the weather, which had just rained, felt somewhat muggy.
Just as they were about to reach the hotel entrance, Rong Shang suddenly asked him this question. Sheng Qianye was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to look at him, smiled gently, and answered, "Yes."
“My father and my uncle are brothers and live in the same village. They have always had a good relationship.”
He raised an eyebrow and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I just think your aunt talks strangely."
Without saying it explicitly, Rong Shang was just thinking of saying something to remind Sheng Qianye to be more careful.
However, although she knew that Sheng Qianxing's family had ill intentions, she was still not quite sure what they were planning.
But she said something strange, but Sheng Qianye didn't notice. He chuckled and said, "That's just how my aunt is. She's straightforward and always says what she thinks, but she doesn't really have any bad intentions."
Sheng Qianye paused, her shimmering gaze pausing, as if recalling the past as she spoke.
Rong Shang noticed that his expression was a little off, and she raised an eyebrow slightly, "What's wrong?"
“I…” Sheng Qianye’s Adam’s apple bobbed, and he suddenly turned to the side, as if he was suppressing some emotion. After a few seconds, Rong Shang heard him say in a calm voice, “After my parents left, they became my closest relatives.”
Since we're family, let's just take things as they come and not worry about so much.
It was late at night. Sheng Qianye escorted Rong Shang to the entrance of Shengji Hotel, then walked towards the open space outside, preparing to go home.
Rong Shang watched his departing figure from behind. The dim light at the intersection shone on him. The man walked slowly, and as he turned the corner, a trace of fatigue appeared on his handsome and deep face.
*
She returned to the hotel at ten o'clock and took a shower. Because she didn't have many clean clothes to change into in the past few days, Sheng Qianye asked his assistant to drive to town to buy her a few clothes.
Now dressed in clean clothes, Rong Shang stood by the window looking out.
It is said that Director Fang filmed this movie in 2000, the year before Sheng Qianye committed suicide.
Nineteen years ago, many families still lived in Shengyi'an.
Nowhere you look would you recognize it as the desolate place it was nineteen years later.
Rong Shang pondered, unsure whether she had returned to the past or entered someone's dream.
A moment later, someone knocked on the door.
When Rong Shang asked, she learned that the red-clad female ghost—no, it was Sheng Qianqian—had arrived.
She was feeling down because of what happened that night.
But she said that in Shengyan, she only became familiar with Sheng Qianxing, and now that they had fallen out, she didn't know who to confide in.
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