Chapter 39
“I might be very busy these days. I’ll stay here with your brother every year and come see you as soon as I’m done.”
These were the words Wen Yan said to Sang Nian a week ago. After he left the manor that day, the two hadn't seen each other since, not even through video calls, only exchanging a few brief chats each day. Sang Nian knew Wen Yan was busy and didn't want to bother him, especially since he was taking care of Qiu Yang every day and had almost no time for himself.
But he didn't expect Wen Yanyan to be so busy.
That morning, Sang Nian went to the greenhouse to pick flowers. The greenhouse left by Shi Zhile was large and beautiful, filled with roses of all colors. Sang Nian would come here almost every day to pick fresh flowers and place them by Qiu Yang's bedside.
Although roses are beautiful, they are covered with thorns. Every time I pick roses, I have to be very careful, or I will get pricked by the thorns.
Today was no different. He was half-squatting to pick flowers when suddenly a wave of dizziness hit him, and he collapsed to the ground in a daze.
Flowers were scattered all over the ground.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying in his own bed. And beside him was Ye Shu, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
Seeing him awake, Ye Shu finally felt relieved. She took Sang Nian's hand and asked, "How are you feeling?"
Sang Nian forced a smile and asked, "What are you doing here?"
“Wen Yan asked me to come. The housekeeper called him and said you fainted. He’s currently abroad and can’t get away, so he asked me to come.”
"Wen Yan has been very busy lately?" Sang Nian clutched the blanket covering him, feeling a little disappointed. Wen Yan hadn't come back even after he fainted; had something happened to him?
Or is he tired of himself?
Ye Shu didn't notice Sang Nian's unusual behavior and continued, "Of course he's busy, but it'll be over soon. But he didn't come back even when you fainted, which made me a little angry. So, Nian Nian, I don't want to tell him about your pregnancy yet, so you need to keep it a secret from him too."
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Sang Nian slowly raised her head and looked at Ye Shu with a blank expression. Ye Shu coughed and said, "I had the same expression just now, but the doctor confirmed with me again and again that you were pregnant before I dared to believe it."
"I am pregnant?"
Sang Nian asked blankly.
"right."
Sang Nian's eyes widened in disbelief, then he slowly raised the corners of his mouth, his eyes filled with surprise, mixed with a hint of fear. He gently placed his hand on his lower abdomen and slowly asked, "I really have a baby here?"
Seeing the joy in his eyes, Ye Shu felt relieved. She nodded and then gently placed her hand on Sang Nian's lower abdomen, saying, "Yes, you have a baby here, already two months along. The doctor said you fainted this time because you've been too tired lately. Humph, Wen Yan kept telling me he would take good care of you, how did he end up like this?"
“It has nothing to do with Brother Wenyan.” Sang Nian immediately denied it. He said that he fainted because he wanted to take care of Qiu Yang’s affairs personally, and it was not Wenyan’s fault.
Just after he finished speaking, Ye Shu's phone suddenly rang. She opened it and saw that it was Wen Yan calling, so she answered.
"How is Niannian?" Wen Yan's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone. Sang Nian heard Wen Yan's voice for the first time in a long time, and his eyes instantly filled with tears. He was still immersed in the joy of having Wen Yan's baby, so he immediately shouted into the phone, "Brother Wen Yan, I'm fine."
Upon hearing Sang Nian's voice, Wen Yan suddenly chuckled, and then he asked Ye Shu to hand the phone to Sang Nian.
Sang Nian took it.
“I thought you weren’t awake, so I called Ye Shu. Are you really okay? I just called Dr. Li, but he didn’t say anything, he just told me to ask Ye Shu.”
Dr. Li was the same doctor who had been treating Qiu Yang; he was Sang Jing's old classmate and also the doctor who treated Sang Nian this time. He didn't tell Wen Yan about Sang Nian's condition because Ye Shu had asked him to.
Sang Nian gripped his phone tightly, looked down at his lower abdomen, and said, "Brother Wen Yan, I'm really fine, I just miss you a little." He wanted to see Wen Yan and tell him about this in person.
Wen Yan hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Okay, I'll go back as soon as possible. You rest well at home and wait for me to come back."
After hanging up the phone, Ye Shu pouted and said, "Tch, as soon as possible? How long is 'as soon as possible'? He's currently abroad, how can he come back so quickly? All he does is make verbal promises all day long. Niannian, you must never believe Wen Yan."
Ye Shu had a lot of complaints about Wen Yan, especially his recent indifference towards Sang Nian. Although this was a bit of an exaggeration, and Ye Shu knew that he was busy dealing with the Sang family and couldn't be distracted, she just couldn't stand Wen Yan.
"Alright, Ye Shu, Wen Yan is the company's CEO, so it's understandable that he's busy at the end of the year. But I didn't even know he was abroad right now. Do you know when he'll be back in China?"
Ye Shu shook her head, and then she saw the light in Sang Nian's eyes dim, so she quickly said, "I'll go ask Xu Muze, he should know."
The light in Sang Nian's eyes instantly ignited again.
Ye Shu sighed silently, then resignedly called Xu Muze.
"What's up?"
Xu Muze's indifferent voice came through, and Ye Shu was speechless for a moment. Then she cursed, "Crazy," and asked, "Do you know when Wen Yan will be back?"
Xu Muze glanced at Wen Yan, who was looking at plane tickets beside him, and said wearily, "We're already on our way to the airport tonight."
"Send me the flight information." Ye Shu paused, looked at Sang Nian's eager eyes, and then added as if possessed, "Don't tell Wen Yan."
Xu Muze scoffed and then said okay. After hanging up, Wen Yan asked him who had called, and Xu Muze casually made up a lie, saying, "My old man asked me when I'm coming back."
The reason he agreed to help Ye Shu was entirely because Ye Shu had put in a lot of effort in the matter of Tao Zeqian offending Wen Yan. Although the Tao family is now bankrupt and Tao Youmin is in jail, Tao Zeqian has not suffered any harm under Wen Yan's ruthless methods because of his relationship with Xu Muze and Ye Shu.
But Shanghai could no longer accommodate Tao Zeqian.
"So you've been in contact with Tao Zeqian recently?" Wen Yan asked.
Xu Muze laughed self-deprecatingly, "How could I be so pathetic as to fawn over someone who doesn't like me? You're lucky, brother, that after everything that's happened, Sang Nian is still by your side."
Mentioning Sang Nian, Wen Yan's cold and stern expression immediately softened, and he smiled and said, "That's what I deserve."
Hearing his tone, Xu Muze got goosebumps. "Hey, stop showing off. When you get back, tell your family Niannian what you did this week, and they'll love you even more, love you to death. To be honest, Wen Yan, we grew up together, how come I never noticed how two-faced you are?"
Wen Yan glanced at Xu Muze indifferently and said, "That's not how you use the word 'human face but beast heart'."
"The meaning is clear, but you showed no mercy to the Sang family. I'm starting to doubt if you're still the same Wen Yan you used to be."
"The Sang family owes each year a debt that can never be repaid."
"How else do you want to pay me back, brother?" Xu Muze shouted. "Some went bankrupt, some went to jail, and one even went insane. Poor Sang Wenhua, who was so concerned about his reputation, begged you to let them go, but what did you do? In such cold weather, you made an old man with gray hair stand in the snow waiting for you for half a day. In the end, he was so angry with you that he went to the hospital and hasn't woken up yet."
"You sympathize with them?"
Xu Muze scoffed, "No, but thinking about it now, it's quite gratifying. It's just that Sang Ning is dead, and he can never repay the debt he owes Sang Nian."
It wasn't just the kidney Sang Nian gave Sang Ning; it was also Sang Ning's deliberate scheme against Sang Nian, orchestrating the events at the Liu family funeral, even after knowing her illness had relapsed and she was nearing the end of her life. No one expected Liu Wenyuan to appear at the funeral and change the entire course of events; otherwise, poor Sang Nian would likely have met with dire consequences.
It's lamentable that Xu Muze, who prides himself on his extensive experience in dealing with people, still couldn't connect the person who had schemed everything with Sang Ning after hearing the truth. It wasn't until Wen Yan mentioned that he and Tao Wanru were the ones who had abandoned Sang Nian that Xu Muze felt an even greater tightness in his chest.
It is truly unfathomable how even the closest of kin can turn into the most wicked.
Therefore, he was not surprised by what Wen Yan did, nor did he sympathize with those people.
"The past is the past. I won't look back, not even year after year. From now on, as long as I'm by his side, that's enough."
Xu Muze touched his nose and suddenly asked Wen Yan, "So, after Qiu Yang wakes up, will the three of you live together?"
Wen Yan's face darkened instantly.
"Shut up."
Xu Muze chuckled triumphantly, "So you've been showing off your love in front of me, a lonely bachelor, every day, huh."
The plane landed in Haishi 15 hours later. After landing and collecting his luggage, Xu Muze received a text message from Ye Shu, which had been sent ten minutes earlier.
“Niannian and I have arrived and are waiting for you outside. Don’t tell Wenyan, just say you took a taxi.”
"So mysterious," Xu Muze couldn't help but mutter. Wen Yan didn't hear him clearly and thought he was talking to her, so she asked, "What did you say?"
Xu Muze waved his hand and said, "It's nothing. My taxi has arrived. Let's go together."
Wen Yan assumed he was having another episode, why he insisted on taking a taxi when he had a driver to pick him up. But he didn't say anything, just dragged his luggage behind Xu Muze, taking out his phone to call Sang Nian.
Aside from the terminal, Xu Muze looked around and spotted Ye Shu's car across the street. Ye Shu stood outside the car and waved to Xu Muze.
Wen Yan answered the phone after it rang three times, and he immediately said, "Niannian, I'm going back to Dingzhou tonight."
Sang Nian hummed in response, her tone not particularly excited. Wen Yan grabbed his phone in disappointment, but then he heard Sang Nian's voice coming from not far in front of him, and at the same time, his own voice came through the phone.
Wen Yan was startled and immediately looked up.
Across the street, Sang Nian, wearing a white down jacket, was standing behind a car, excitedly shouting, "Brother Wen Yan, I've come to pick you up and take you home!"
The gloom in Wen Yan's eyes and the weariness in his eyes were instantly swept away. He waved enthusiastically to Sang Nian, and then, ignoring Xu Muze beside him, he immediately strode towards Sang Nian.
Sang Nian watched Wen Yan run towards him step by step, his heart pounding in his chest. He reached out and covered his lower abdomen, saying softly, "Baby, Daddy's home."
At the same time, at one end of the road, a car suddenly accelerated and drove towards Sang Nian. Without any hesitation, the person in the driver's seat suddenly stepped on the gas pedal.
The roar of the car engine suddenly drew closer. Sang Nian noticed it and slowly turned his head. Then he saw Tao Wanru's crazed and bloodthirsty expression in the driver's seat.
Before he could even react, the smile on his lips froze on his face, and then he heard a heart-wrenching scream in his ear.
"Year after year!"
"Bang!"
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