Ruan Chen climbed over the back wall of the Fu family's old house.
The five-meter-high wall was easily scaled by Ruan Chen in three steps. He grabbed the edge of the wall with one hand and landed lightly without even getting dusty on his body.
The back wall of the Fu family's old house is right next to the commercial street. Ruan Chen and Luo Lanze had agreed to meet in the evening, so she wasn't in a hurry. Since she had the rare time and the mood, she strolled leisurely along the commercial street.
Just as she had predicted, the two timelines quietly converged, and the layout of the buildings subtly influenced each other. Everything Ruan Chen saw now was exactly the same as the fleeting glance she had taken when she left that space.
A promotional video was playing on a loop on a large LED screen on the street. Ruan Chen had only glanced at it casually at first, but was immediately drawn to the color scheme of the background and started watching the promotional video.
In the promotional video, Ms. Yu Lei looked more prosperous than when Ruan Chen left, with a radiant glow on her cheeks, and she smiled as she led several children to introduce the Chen Lei Foundation.
"All the foundation's charitable funds come from the auction of my students' paintings... Although she has stopped painting for many years, she has always been concerned about these artistically talented children who are unable to pursue their dreams due to their family circumstances..."
"The restored 'Winter Begonia' fetched 50 million at the last auction, all of which will be donated to the foundation's operations..."
Ruan Chen smiled slightly. The Chen Lei Foundation was an arrangement she made before leaving.
Firstly, she genuinely wanted to do something for those children, and secondly, she was worried about Yu Lei's lonely and desolate old age. After all, Ruan Chen didn't know how long it would take for her to return, or even if she could ever return to this world.
Ruan Chen watched the promotional video with his hands in his pockets, then turned around to buy some snacks at a side street.
Turning around, I saw a tent set up by the roadside, a few tables, and a banner that read "Free Medical Consultation".
There were only a few scattered nurses, while the elderly men and women in line formed a long queue, impatiently chattering to the doctors about their symptoms.
The nurses were frantic and turned to a handsome man in a white coat for help, "Dr. Lin, let's triage the patients first, it's too chaotic like this."
"Dr. Lin, could you call the department and ask them to send a few more people over? It's Saturday today, so there's always a lot of people coming over."
"If we had known, we would have gone to the charity clinic in the suburbs. There should have been fewer people there, right?"
"Pshaw, there are fewer people in the suburbs, but you have to get up at six to take the bus, and you get back quite late at night."
"Dr. Lin, stop spacing out."
Dr. Lin, who had just been smiling and patiently helping the nurses with their work, was now lost in thought.
She only learned about Ruan Chen's disappearance three months later. At that time, Shengling Technology was holding a founders' meeting. Mu Xiangrong, Bai Jiaojiao, Song Cheng, and Lin Fengzi were all present. After waiting for almost an hour, Ruan Chen, who was always punctual, still hadn't appeared. Only then did they realize that something was wrong.
The group first called Ruan Chen, but her phone was off.
Lin Fengzi had Fu Jianzhi's phone number, so she called him a second time. The reply she received was that Ruan Chen had gone abroad and might not be back for many years.
After learning that it was about Shengling Technology, the young man was silent for a few seconds and then asked Brother Lin if it was convenient for him to talk over there.
After receiving Lin Fengzi's affirmative answer, Fu Jianzhi said unhurriedly, "Brother Lin, did you block our Ruan Chen?"
Lin Fengzi's heart skipped a beat.
He didn't block Ruan Chen, but he remembered that he had indeed received an email from Ruan Chen three months ago.
After Bo Nian's incident, Lin Fengzi lost his mental network. His family warned him that getting too close to Ruan Chen would lead to more danger. Even though Lin Fengzi didn't care, he was worried that there was a powerful force manipulating the world, causing his grandfather to suffer the fate of outliving his son. So he kept a little distance from Ruan Chen.
That's how it was back then.
When he saw Ruan Chen's email, his first instinct was to open it, but for some reason, he clicked the close button instead, thinking he would look at it after finishing his final exam review questions.
After that one hurdle, I completely forgot about it.
Later, Lin Fengzi read the email, which contained Ruan Chen's rambling nonsense and his plans for Shengling Technology over the next ten years—she had also sent over a hundred gigabytes of data to the Shengling Technology technical department's email address.
Lin Fengzi always felt that many of those words were ominous omens.
Shengling Technology's future development is very promising. In addition to the detailed plans left by Ruan Chen as guidance, the information she provided has helped Shengling Technology overcome technical difficulties more than once, and there is also the secret assistance from several families in Jingzhou.
It can be said that Shengling Technology even changed the fate of Mu Xiangrong and his companions.
Lin Fengzi regretted it for seven years after that.
He even shamelessly went to the Ye Group to ask Ye Huanhuan if Ruan Chen had really gone abroad.
He also asked the newly crowned Best Actor, Ruan Luo, where his sister had gone.
The answer was the same: Ruan Chen went abroad.
But Lin Fengzi always felt that the girl was no longer in this world.
She died.
He lost the chance to see her one last time and say one last word to her.
He also asked his grandfather, begging him to investigate, but Marshal Lin remained tight-lipped about the matter, warning Lin Fengzi that it was not his business.
Later, Lin Fengzi did not become a military doctor as his grandfather had hoped, nor did he become a scientific researcher as his father had planned. After graduating, he went to a deserted island and worked in medical rescue for nearly five years before returning to Jingzhou and becoming an ordinary grassroots doctor.
Although he is also one of the founders of Shengling Group, a rising star in the technology industry with a market value of 200 billion yuan, people in the know in private all call him Chairman Lin.
Mr. Lin, now wearing a white lab coat that was a little dirty from moving tables, leaned against his secondhand mountain bike, which rattled everywhere except for the bell, and stared at the figure a few steps away, thinking that he might be experiencing early symptoms of schizophrenia.
Otherwise, why would I see someone who has been dead for seven years in broad daylight?
Ruan Chen turned around and met Lin Fengzi's gaze. The long eye contact made her a little impatient, but Lin Fengzi didn't take the initiative to greet her.
Ruan Chen was unsure what Lin Fengzi was up to or what was going on—was it because one of the nurses around him was his sister-in-law, or had Lin Fengzi suffered some misfortune and fallen on hard times, making him afraid to acknowledge her?
"Bankrupt?"
As Ruan Chen pondered this, she stepped forward and offered her arm, indicating to Dr. Lin that he should take her blood pressure.
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