Su Yue said softly, "Since you don't want to lie to him, then tell him. You don't have to tell him everything, just tell him a little bit."
Qin Zhizhi looked at Su Yue, her eyes full of confusion: "What do you mean by 'just explain it simply'?"
Su Yue explained, "It means we won't talk about me, we'll only talk about your situation."
Qin Zhizhi suddenly realized and nodded emphatically: "Okay, I understand."
No one knows exactly what Qin Zhizhi said afterward, but they saw Wang Renyi looking at her with great caution, as if he was afraid she would suddenly disappear at any moment.
Wang Renyi stayed with Qin Zhizhi in Shenzhen for a few days, but Qin Zhizhi was already thinking about returning to Nancheng to see her parents in this time and space.
Su Yue thought this matter had nothing to do with her, but before Wang Renyi left, he waited until Fu Shen went to work and then spoke to her alone.
Wang Renyi asked tentatively, "Sister-in-law, did you and Brother Shen already know the truth about Zhizhi, and I was the only one kept in the dark?"
Su Yue nodded frankly: "Yes, we already knew, but you can't blame us for not telling you. Didn't you find it unbelievable when Zhizhi said it? If we had told you when Zhizhi left, would you have believed us?"
She paused, then added, "I don't think you'll believe that; you'll just think we're talking nonsense."
Wang Renyi: "..." If he really said it, he would probably really think that way.
About half a month after Qin Zhizhi and Wang Renyi left, news came that they were getting married.
Su Yue and Fu Shen took Ping An to their wedding banquet, and returned to Shenzhen after the banquet.
Not long after, Tian Huanyan returned to China with her parents.
Upon hearing the news, Huo Xueshen immediately put aside his work and rushed to Shenzhen to meet with them, no matter how busy the research base was.
Tian Zhuocheng and his wife had always admired Huo Xueshen as their ideal son-in-law, and now that he had specially put aside his work to come, they were overjoyed.
Ten years later, the leaders of the research base finally approved Huo Xueshen's transfer application.
He packed his bags and came to Shenzhen to live with Tian Zhuocheng's family.
...
Fu Shen, who had hardly ever been sick in his life, fell ill at the age of ninety-eight and never got up again.
Knowing his days were numbered, he looked at Su Yue, who sat by the bedside with a sorrowful face, and said weakly, "Yueyue, if there is a next life, we will definitely meet again. I will wait for you to appear. Before you come, I will not believe anyone's words, I will not go out and play with others, nor will I confide in anyone. I will never let myself fall into the fatal predicament of these two lives again, and I will never implicate you..."
As he spoke, Fu Shen's breathing became more and more rapid, and Su Yue quickly reached out and gently patted his chest to help him catch his breath.
After a while, Fu Shen closed his eyes and opened them again, slowly shaking his head: "I'm fine now, there's one more thing I need to tell you."
Su Yue fought back tears and softly replied, "What is it?"
She knew in her heart that Fu Shen had reached his end, and although she was filled with sorrow, she could only try her best to accept this fact.
Fu Shen slowly began, “Actually, the year my son got married, it felt like I went back to the past life you mentioned, and like an observer, I saw clearly my short life and the situation that led to it. I bear a lot of responsibility for that, and I’m sorry.”
He paused, recalling the past: "If I hadn't taken the initiative to befriend Jiang Huaidong back in military school, hadn't treated him as my only friend, and hadn't told him everything, I wouldn't have gotten off the train halfway through the journey, losing my life and dragging you down with me..."
Su Yue gripped his hand tightly, shaking her head with a tearful smile: "You didn't drag me down. Didn't I say that even without you, there would be someone else?"
Fu Shen's tone was somewhat stubborn: "Yueyue, let me finish speaking first."
Su Yue choked back tears as she replied, "Okay, go ahead."
Fu Shen's voice became clearer: "After I drank Jiang Huaidong's sugar water, I saw with my own eyes that he and his mother were planning to go find the Red Guards and he was going to find the silly girl next door. His mother was going to the town to find the Red Guards and left first. When Jiang Huaidong was about to go find the silly girl, you happened to come over, so he simply killed you and me together. In order to prevent similar things from happening again, I will never easily trust others in my next life. Even if I encounter someone worse than Fu Liugen, I will never yearn for friendship again."
Seeing that Fu Shen had suddenly become fluent in his speech, Su Yue could no longer hold back her tears and they rolled down her cheeks.
She knew that people often experience such a brief moment of lucidity in the last two or three minutes before they die.
The thought of Fu Shen, who had been with her all her life, leaving her caused the composure she had just managed to build to crumble instantly.
Fu Shen reached out with difficulty, his hand still attached to the IV drip, to wipe Su Yue's tears, but he couldn't reach them.
He said weakly, "Don't cry. I won't be able to wipe your tears anymore, Yueyue. You have to take good care of yourself. When I get to the next world and become someone who can protect you, you can appear again, okay? Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't like me anymore if you see my immature self."
As soon as Fu Shen finished speaking, the monitor next to him suddenly emitted a rapid "beep beep" sound, and finally froze into a straight line.
Five years after Fu Shen's death, Su Yue also peacefully closed her eyes and followed him in death.
The End!
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