Chapter 98 I climb hard just for myself
Chen Zan only stayed in the capital for two days in total, and New Year's Eve was approaching in the blink of an eye. She booked an early morning flight back to Rongchuan, and arrived home just in time for lunch.
The same arrangement was made for Xu Anan. Zhou Jingyu got up in the morning and sent her to the airport. She originally didn't want him to see her off, but he thought that since he didn't pick her up when she arrived, it would be incompetent if he didn't see her off when she left.
When getting off the car, Zhou Jingyu hugged her for a while, bit her ear and said that he would return to Rongchuan after the New Year.
Chen Zhan curled his lips and said, "I understand, Mr. Zhou, there's no need to rush for the next two days."
Seeing that she was heartless, Zhou Jingyu sighed softly in his heart, "Zhanzhan, have you ever thought about coming to the capital?"
Chen Zan was stunned when he heard this and looked at him.
Zhou Jingyu continued, "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will select sophomores to second-year graduate students from some universities for targeted training. Rong University is not bad, but the chances are slim. You should apply for the Foreign Languages Department of Peking University as a graduate student and come to Beijing to accompany me."
She had said before that she might take the exam for the Translation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and coming to Beijing to develop is the best choice. Zhou Jingyu will leave Rongchuan by the end of next year at the latest, or even earlier, but he doesn't want to be separated from Chen Zan like this. It would be best if they were in different places for a while, and then wait for her to be admitted to Peking University. That would be perfect.
How could Chen Zan not understand what Zhou Jingyu meant, but she didn't want to ruin the wonderful atmosphere of the past few days at this time, although Zhou Jingyu and the group of young men and women in the compound around him gave her the illusion that there was a possibility between her and Zhou Jingyu.
But she was always aware of the unbridgeable class gap between them, so she said seriously: "Mr. Zhou, I will work hard to climb up, but that is not a choice made for anyone else. I think everything I do is for myself."
She didn't want to be anyone's appendage in the future, and she didn't want to be like Ye Jing, who went to the capital and was told that night that Jiang Yushan would not bring her to such an occasion because his fiancée was there and his lover had to be hidden.
Although it is very likely that Zhou Jingyu will not be so cruel to her, who can say for sure what will happen in the future, and she only wants to be Chen Zan.
Chen Zan's overly sober remarks almost dealt a heavy blow to Zhou Jingyu. The wonderful atmosphere of the past few days not only almost confused Chen Zan, but also actually trapped Zhou Jingyu. Now it seemed that Zhou Jingyu was the only one who was becoming less and less sober.
Zhou Jingyu couldn't tell what she felt at the moment. On the one hand, she was happy that Chen Zan had this kind of self-awareness, but on the other hand, she felt that she was probably not important in his heart.
Mr. Zhou, who has always been arrogant, unexpectedly has such an unconfident day.
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Chen Zan returned to Rongchuan. Xu Anan specifically asked her to bring some specialties from Zhonghai City and take them back to avoid suspicion.
He also asked her how her trip to Beijing was going.
Chen Zhan thought about it and said truthfully, "Very happy."
Even if she saw that person, she was still very happy. At least she knew who her father was. Although she had never thought about recognizing him, she had been kept in the dark for nineteen years, and deep down she had been looking forward to the word "father".
This time, when I met him by chance, the little hope in my heart disappeared and I let it go completely.
Xu Anan saw that Chen Zhan was honest and kind, "That's good, I didn't take the money in vain."
On New Year's Eve, Chen Zan accompanied her grandmother to watch the Spring Festival Gala. The nanny had gone home. Director Gu stayed at their house for the New Year this year and was making dumplings with Ms. Xu in the kitchen. She would glance at them from time to time.
This caused Chen Jiaohua to look at her suspiciously: "Zhanzhan, what are you looking at?"
Chen Zhan said, "I just think that Mom and Director Gu are doing great this way."
Chen Jiaohua patted her hands and said with emotion, "I just hope your mother can be happy."
Chen Zan nodded, "She will."
On New Year's Eve, Chen Jiaohua couldn't hold back. At 11 o'clock, she gave the red envelope to Chen Zan and went to sleep. Director Gu also gave her a red envelope. Chen Zan was embarrassed to accept it at first, but Xu Jing told her to take it, and she put it in her pocket.
At twelve o'clock, her phone was full of New Year's greetings. She replied to them one by one and also sent a Happy New Year message to Zhou Jingyu.
Zhou Jingyu didn't reply.
About half an hour later, he called. Chen Zan was almost asleep at that time.
"Zhanzhan, Happy New Year." Zhou Jingyu's low voice came from the other end of the phone.
Chen Zhan said gently, "Happy New Year."
Hearing the fatigue in Zhou Jingyu's voice, she asked, "Mr. Zhou, are you very tired?"
Zhou Jingyu was silent for a moment before he slowly spoke, "Well, I have to deal with some people."
In fact, during the Chinese New Year, Chen Zhan could guess who he had to deal with. It was nothing more than his father and his family.
A few days ago, she was in Beijing and learned from Zhou Jintang that Zhou Jingyu's relationship with his family was not good during his trip home.
She pursed her lips and tried to comfort him: "Anyway, they can say whatever they want. The worst that can happen is that you just ignore it."
Zhou Jingyu couldn't help laughing after hearing such a naive idea. He knew that the little girl wanted to comfort him, and he didn't want to be so unromantic as to tell her that some things were not so easy to ignore.
Zhou Jingyu changed the subject.
"Did you receive a red envelope for Chinese New Year?"
"Yes, Director Gu and grandma gave it to me."
"Go open the box and take a look."
Chen Zhan was a little confused by Xu Jing's persuasive tone, but she still got up and opened the box. The box contained two sets of clothes and comic books. She was afraid that Xu Jing would search her room, so she kept them in the box.
In the mezzanine, a red envelope was stuffed in it at some point. Chen Zhan was surprised and couldn't help but laugh, "Mr. Zhou, do you think I'm a child too? You even secretly gave me New Year's money."
She didn't know when he put it in.
Zhou Jingyu hummed lazily, "I don't treat you like a child. I'm just celebrating and wishing you peace in the coming year."
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Zhou Jingyu just came back from Rongchuan on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. Unfortunately, Xu Jing and Director Gu took Chen Zan and grandma to a nearby city for fun during those two days, so they didn't see each other.
When Chen Zan came back, Zhou Jingyu was on a business trip again. After going around in circles, the two of them didn't meet until after the 15th, during the first two days of school.
That night, Zhou Jingyu gave Chen Zan a rough time in front of the fireplace in the Jingfu wine cellar. He didn't drink any of the opened red wine, but spilled it all on the black leather sofa.
The next day, when the aunt was cleaning, she said embarrassedly that the sofa might not be clean enough and asked if we wanted to replace it.
Chen Zan was standing next to her, wishing she could find a hole to crawl into. Zhou Jingyu glanced at her, curled his lips, and said, "Buy a new one. Don't throw away the old one, keep it as a souvenir."
Another souvenir, last time it was a tie, this time it was a sofa. Does this man have a hobby of collecting exotic objects?
At the end of March, Chen Zhan turned 20. Zhou Jingyu wanted to celebrate her birthday, but Chen Zhan didn't want a big one and just had a simple meal. Afterward, Zhou Jingyu gave her an apartment next to the school. She initially refused, but the paperwork had been completed in advance and her name was already on the apartment.
The apartment was cleaned and personal belongings were purchased, so she could move in directly. Sometimes, when Zhou Jingyu didn't want her to run back and forth between school and Jingfu, he would come to the apartment and live with her.
For a period of time in April, Zhou Jingyu often took her to various dinners and public gatherings, and almost the entire upper-class circle of Rongchuan knew Chen Zan's name.
At that time, Chen Zhan was the most popular person. Even Xu Anan sighed when she saw it, saying that Zhou Jingyu was obsessed with her and brought all the good things to her. The wives of officials and wealthy ladies like Jin Yunyi often invited Chen Zhan to play cards and go shopping under various pretexts.
But Chen Zhan didn't go, so he lost face in front of the ladies and offended countless people in secret. Chen Zhan told Zhou Jingyu about this.
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