Chapter 194 My Swallows Have Returned
When the accident happened, the van fell into the river. She was unconscious and had a high fever when she was rescued. She kept muttering, "Brother Yanzi, why aren't you here yet?"
After Zhuang Yi found out about this, for safety reasons, he wasn't even allowed to step out of his room for a month.
He could only get news about her from the bodyguards who guarded the ferry crossing each day.
"Miss Qu still has a fever. The doctor said the fever is too high and they are worried that it may damage her brain."
She woke up once, crying and asking for Brother Swallow.
"Her family is giving her traditional Chinese medicine, saying it can calm her nerves."
Every time he heard it, he felt immense regret.
It's all his fault.
He is to blame for all the crimes.
He used his influence to expose the human traffickers and their entire network of connections.
Besides Qu He, there were two other children on the vehicle; their base also held several children imprisoned.
Zhuang Bieyan dared not even think about it.
If, by any chance, Qu He gets arrested, he will never forgive himself for the rest of his life.
He longed to go to the hospital, even just to catch a glimpse of her from afar, but he dared not see her and could not leave the hospital.
A month later, when he finally found an opportunity to repent and make amends, he was told that she had forgotten him.
"Miss Qu, I don't seem to remember you."
The bodyguard's voice was soft, yet it was like a knife, piercing through all his expectations.
The high fever and immense mental stress caused her to selectively forget everything about "Brother Swallow".
Her parents completely removed all items related to him, as if he had never existed in her life.
That day, Zhuang Bieyan was in his room, watching the sun rise in the east and set in the west, as he was gradually swallowed by the night.
He held the ceramic swallow tightly in his hand.
"It's better to forget. Rather than letting her live with the hatred of betrayal, it's better to forget completely. At least she can be happy."
He locked all the swallow paintings she had given him in a safe, burying the memories of Yujia Ferry with them.
He forced himself not to think about the days at Yujia Ferry, burying that memory deep in his heart, like hiding a wound that couldn't see the light of day.
Yet he still appears at her opening ceremony every year to fulfill that promise he made to her alone.
It seems like this can make up for something.
On his eighteenth birthday, Zhuang Liuyue told him that she could help him escape the Zhuang family's surveillance and go to England to lay low.
"I'm going to have an arranged marriage. I'm marrying Shang Shijin, the person I love."
He could only manage a forced smile when his sister spoke with a laugh.
Before parting, Zhuang Liuyue took him to the Ring City Amusement Park.
He said he wanted to be alone for a while, but then he saw that familiar figure.
Qu He sat on the bench, holding a bag of fries in her hand, eating them in small bites, like a well-behaved kitten.
He subconsciously lowered his head, trying to avoid her gaze, but couldn't help looking up again.
She no longer recognized him; there was no trace of familiarity in his eyes.
At that moment, the memories he had kept hidden in his heart suddenly surged forth.
He wanted to take her back, hide her away, and raise her well, even if it was just to keep her company, it would be better than walking alone in this boundless loneliness.
Every moment at Yujia Ferry, her laughter and joy, are more vivid than I remember.
He sadly discovered that he had never truly forgotten for a single moment.
He deceived her again, deliberately pushing the wheelchair uphill and then secretly letting go.
She did indeed come over.
Are you alone? Want to wait for the fireworks together?
That night, she took him to see a grand fireworks display, gave him a small lotus keychain, and said with a smile, "See you next time!"
He clutched the keychain, feeling a mix of bitterness and embarrassment.
He could have endured the darkness, but her light shone in, making it impossible for him to go back to the way things were before.
On the plane to England, he held onto that black safe; he didn't close his eyes for a single second during the eleven-hour flight.
He opened the sketchbook, which was full of her drawings of swallows. As he looked at those drawings, his mind was filled with images of her.
It turns out that he had never forgotten; on the contrary, with the passage of time, it became clearer and clearer.
The moment the plane landed, he finally understood his own heart.
He wants her.
From that time on, Quhe was included in his life's blueprint.
At the age of twenty-four, he made a powerful comeback as the undisputed heir to the Zhuang family business.
After settling his sister in, the first thing he did was go to her university.
He sat in her usual coffee shop for an entire day, thinking of countless ways to start their reunion.
The coffee in my hand went cold and then hot again. I thought of countless ways to greet people, feeling as nervous as a young boy.
But he didn't get a chance to speak.
He saw her holding flowers, laughing as she ran to a man's umbrella.
That man was Qian Zhaoye.
The wind blew in through the window, ruffling his tie.
The embroidered swallows on it are incredibly lifelike.
His swallows have flown away.
He began a frantic investigation into Qian Zhaoye.
He would sit in the same spot they had sat at the restaurant where they went on their date.
He would also buy tickets for the same movie screening at the same theater they went to.
Knowing that Qian Zhaoye was starting a business, he anonymously invested a large sum of money.
He was afraid that if they didn't have enough money, she would suffer.
Later, he heard that she had given up her dream of painting and gone to work for Qian Zhaoye's company in order to support him. He was so angry that he wanted to withdraw his investment immediately.
But then he thought, she must be having a hard time right now, and he shouldn't add to her troubles.
Later, she founded Heyuefang, and he secretly invested in the nearby commercial street, just to boost her business.
He thought that he would probably only be able to watch her from afar for the rest of his life.
It wasn't until after that social event that he witnessed Qian Zhaoye and Qiao Mian kissing passionately in the car!
He cherished this person in his heart for ten years, someone he considered a luxury to even touch, and yet he was betrayed and treated so lightly!
"Hit it," he calmly ordered the driver.
Later, he personally collected all the evidence and sent it to Qu He's email address through an anonymous account.
He didn't know if what he was doing was right or wrong, but he knew he couldn't let her remain in the dark any longer.
And this is his only chance.
He was prepared for her resentment, but he never expected to see her in a wedding dress, running into his arms.
He held her in his arms, looking at the reddened corners of her eyes, feeling both pain and joy in his heart.
Ten years have passed, and his swallows have finally flown back to his side.
But within this joy of regaining what was lost, there was always a hidden fear.
His love was tinged with guilt from the very beginning, which made him cautious and insecure.
He was afraid she would remember, afraid that if she knew the truth, she would hate him, blame him, and leave him again.
So he would rather she forget the past forever, forget that "Brother Swallow".
She would only be his wife at his farewell banquet.
He will spend his whole life slowly repaying those feelings of guilt.
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