Chapter 71 Ex-wife White Moonlight 4 He found a lame job for himself...
As night fell, a small car sped along a winding mountain road, its high beams constantly dissipating in the fog.
The window behind the driver's seat was rolled down, faintly revealing the man's well-defined face. He had his eyes closed, and the dim light cast a small shadow on his tall nose.
The team leader in the co-pilot seat was so tired that he fell asleep. He raised his hand and glanced at the pointer. It was three o'clock in the morning.
Nearly twenty hours had passed since they came down from the mountain.
Although Ali almost fell off the cliff, fortunately he was not injured at all. After he was carried back to the tent, he fell asleep quickly.
On the contrary, he had a dislocated right elbow and a wound of more than ten centimeters on his arm. When people around him found him, half of his clothes were soaked in blood.
The team leader was so frightened that he quickly found a car to take him to the city hospital.
By the time I rushed back after treating the wound, it was already late at night.
Sheng Yu leaned back in his seat, thinking of Ali's appearance on the mountain over and over again.
On the way down the mountain, she was almost incoherent, looking extremely frightened, as if she was trapped in some traumatic memories from the past.
I even thought they were still in the past, but my memory of their divorce was blank.
Sheng Yu was extremely tired at the moment, but his mind was exceptionally clear.
This near-miss seemed like an opportunity, or perhaps, it was just a lame excuse he made for himself, allowing him to let go of something and re-examine every word and every action they had said since they met again.
After many years, she has become more mature and calm, and more capable and focused at work, as if she has really become what she imagined herself to be when she grew up.
But Sheng Yu never saw her smile from the heart again.
Every smile she made these days was filled with bottomless bitterness and exhaustion.
But it is clear that she was not like this before.
When she was in school, although her family was poor, she never felt inferior or cramped. She always loved to laugh and make noises, and was as bright as a little sun.
After that "debate", Sheng Yu would always cross most of the campus and appear beside her inadvertently, then pretend to meet her by chance with a stern face.
And she actually believed it every time, even more than he did, that the fate between them was very deep.
Gradually, everyone knew that the freshman hunk from the Finance Department was chasing the freshman hunk from the Journalism Department.
The two talented men and beautiful women are a perfect match made in heaven, except for their family background.
Sheng Yu scoffed at such sour remarks. She was in love with him, not his family.
When his roommate said this to him, Sheng Yu, who always looked down on others, took only a few seconds to come to the conclusion: those people were jealous of him.
Jealous of him, he is about to marry the beauty.
Before these messy discussions reached her ears, Sheng Yu had already cut off the source completely to avoid affecting his long-prepared confession.
But soon after, Sheng Yu disappeared from her side and was not seen for two whole weeks.
Everyone around her speculated that Master Shengda had gotten tired of playing with her and dumped her.
She looked at the chat box on her phone that had not been replied to for several days, turned off the screen expressionlessly, picked up her bag and walked towards the Finance Department.
She found Sheng Yu on the rooftop of the Finance Department teaching building.
He sat on the edge of the rooftop in a daze, his legs swinging unconsciously in the air.
She stopped behind him and called out.
Sheng Yu thought she was here to accuse him, so he said coldly, "Since you've come here, let's call it a day."
"Who said I came to you for this?"
Sheng Yu sneered: "My roommates asked you to persuade me, please go back, I don't need your advice--"
"Your roommate said you've been skipping classes for almost two months. Do you still want to get the credits for this semester? Do you still want to get your diploma?"
She folded her hands in front of her chest, and her small face, the size of a palm, was full of seriousness.
"Ah?" Sheng Yu almost couldn't maintain the cold and defiant expression on his face.
Because of this moment of distraction, he was pulled down from the rooftop by this seemingly weak girl.
They both fell to the hard concrete floor.
Then, under her coercion and inducement, Sheng Yu finally confessed that he had recently discovered that his father had an illegitimate child outside, who was only one year younger than him and was in the same university as him.
After a minute, she seemed to digest the news quickly and comforted him in her own way.
The two of them sat on the roof for a long time. She talked until her lips were dry before she finally pulled Sheng Yu out of his dilemma.
His restless heart of the past few days gradually calmed down because of her company, and was then steadily caught by her.
Looking at the girl's chattering mouth, Sheng Yu suddenly said:
"Xiao Li, be my girlfriend."
He had prepared for this confession ceremony for a long time, but he never expected that it would happen in such a scene.
Not romantic at all, not grand at all.
She was also stunned at that time, but soon smiled and agreed to him softly.
"Can I kiss my girlfriend now?"
Hearing this, she opened her eyes wide and looked at him with some nervousness and expectation.
Sheng Yu could no longer control his pounding heart, so he lowered his head and leaned over.
It should have been a cloudy day, but with her arrival, the sky became clear.
The two eighteen-year-olds bathed in the warm sunlight, without sorrow or hatred.
At this moment, night fell, and 29-year-old Sheng Yu looked out the window with his lips tightly pursed.
What on earth had she been through during the years they had been apart?
*
The car soon stopped at the camp. Sheng Yu said a few simple words to the team leader and then walked towards his tent.
It was dusk, and only vague outlines remained of the distant mountains.
There were no lights in the pastoral area at night. Sheng Yu exhaled a breath of white air and stepped on the dead leaves, making an incoherent sound.
Suddenly, his steps stopped.
There was a light on in the tent not far away, and the faint light shone through it, as if it would be swallowed by the darkness at any time.
Sheng Yu stood there for a long time with a frown on his face. The cold wind blew up the corners of his clothes. On such a night, time seemed to have stopped.
He remembered that she didn't like to turn on the light when she slept.
The tent was slowly opened, and Sheng Yu walked in quietly, blocking out the biting wind.
The room is quiet.
The dim candlelight was placed at the head of the bed, illuminating the profile of the person on the bed clearly.
Sheng Yu paused his hand that was originally reaching for the candle, and sat down on the edge of the bed as if possessed by a mysterious force.
Her breathing was slow, half of her face was buried in her long curly hair, and the quilt was draped loosely over her body, revealing a section of her slender wrist.
Sheng Yu inevitably thought of the time after they got married. Every time he came home from get off work, he would always see her accidentally falling asleep on the sofa.
As soon as he got close, she would open her eyes and snuggle into his arms.
Then, he would carry her back to her room with heartache, and tell her to go back to her room and sleep first when she felt sleepy, and not wait for him.
She always agreed, but the next time I came home, I would still see her curled up in a small ball on the sofa.
Because he was thinking about her at home, Sheng Yu always ran home after working overtime.
But for the last time, he excitedly opened the door and wanted to tell her that he had applied for an overseas assignment, which would not only double his salary so that they could live a better life, but he could also take her with him.
As expected, she was sitting on the sofa behind the door, but her back was facing him, and she pronounced his death sentence in a cold tone.
Sheng Yu thought, he must hate her.
The initial strong hatred, under the catalysis of time, not only did not fade away, but became more and more intense, and it must devour everything before it could stop.
His cold palm slowly stroked her hair, profile, and then her fragile neck.
The cold touch made her shiver in her sleep. She wanted to step back, but Sheng Yu easily restrained her.
He leaned over slightly, blocking the only light in the tent. His elongated shadow completely enveloped her on the bed, leaving her no chance of escape.
Suddenly, my fingers touched something under my pajamas, with a slightly metallic touch.
He lifted the thing a little and held it up to the light.
It's a silver necklace.
Her words in the car are still ringing in my ears. She cherishes this seemingly inexpensive necklace so much that she is reluctant to take it off even when sleeping.
Sheng Yu narrowed his eyes and looked at him coldly.
It seemed that he was the only one who remembered that she didn't like necklaces. She felt that wearing a necklace was like putting a circle around her neck, which was very uncomfortable.
So she never bought it, nor did she let him buy it.
Sheng Yu's jawline was extremely tense, his Adam's apple moved slightly, and his eyes were bottomless, surging with suppressed anger, yet terrifyingly calm.
He slowly raised his fingers, wanting to see the necklace clearly, but suddenly he let go as if he had thought of something.
Is the truth before our eyes not enough?
Do you have to tear it open and expose the bloody flesh inside before you will stop?
Those habits and preferences that she once adhered to have long since changed for another person.
Sheng Yu picked up the candle lamp on the bedside and walked out of the tent.
*
The next day, in order not to delay Song Yuqing and the others' journey, Ali and Sheng Yu chose to stay in the camp to rest.
Ali was originally staying in her tent to write a manuscript, but her computer quickly ran out of battery due to the low temperature. She had no choice but to put on her coat and take her computer outside to charge it.
This place is far away from the town and the power supply is insufficient, so the only way to charge is to go to a nearby small power station.
Fortunately, the nearest power station was right behind the herdsman’s house where they were staying.
When Ali walked in with his computer, he saw Sheng Yu inside at a glance.
He had a bandage on his right hand and was sitting by the window, whispering about work on the phone.
Ali found a seat farther away from him and sat down. The herdsman aunt quickly brought over a large box of drinks, saying they were for her.
Ali smiled and took a look, and was surprised to find that there was the orange juice that she loved to drink a long time ago.
I heard from the tour leader before that if local herders want to buy daily necessities, they have to drive to towns dozens of kilometers away. Moreover, the orange juice she likes to drink is not a big brand and is difficult to buy even in city supermarkets. I didn’t expect that it is available here in Jiangyuan.
Ali took a bottle and thanked the herdsman aunt.
She unscrewed it and took a sip. It tasted the same as before.
Ali put on his headphones and turned his attention back to the documents on his computer.
Half an hour later, she finally looked up from the computer and found that Sheng Yu had sat down opposite her at some point. When she looked up, he was looking at the bottle of orange juice in her hand.
Ali took off his headphones and closed his computer: "I haven't thanked Mr. Sheng for what happened yesterday. You saved my life."
After a few days of adaptation, she was able to remain calm when facing Sheng Yu, which was a good sign.
Sheng Yu retracted his gaze: "Miss Xiao, you still want to learn from me, how can I watch you die?"
Ali was choked. It turned out that he still remembered what was said at the campfire that night.
She coughed twice and asked, "How is the injury on Mr. Sheng's hand?"
Sheng Yu placed his bandaged right hand on the table and moved it towards her: "Like this."
There weren't many people in the station at that time, and the sound of the two people talking was somewhat obvious in the empty room.
Seeing his shameless look, Ali felt a headache coming on. He lowered his voice and said, "Mr. Sheng, please give me your bank card number or contact information. I will transfer the medical expenses to you as soon as possible."
Sheng Yu leaned back in his chair and said calmly, "Is this how Miss Xiao approaches men? It's quite direct indeed."
Ali pursed his lips, feeling that he had been led astray. "I sincerely want to thank Mr. Sheng. If Mr. Sheng doesn't accept this approach, we can discuss it further and see what method is more appropriate."
During her years at the newspaper, she had met many difficult interviewees. Compared to them, Sheng Yu was much easier to talk to.
Ali quickly adjusted his mindset, put on a working attitude, and waited for Sheng Yu to speak.
Sheng Yu took in all the subtle changes on her face, his brows darkening as he said, "No need."
Ali was stunned for a moment and was about to speak when Sheng Yu's phone rang.
He took a look, took his phone and walked out.
Seeing him leave, Ali couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
I don’t know what medicine this person took wrongly, he is acting particularly strangely today.
Seeing the herdsman aunt coming in from outside, Ali stopped her and said, "Auntie, where did you buy those drinks just now? I want to buy some more later."
The aunt pointed outside and said, "That young man bought them. He bought a lot from the city and said they were for us."
Ali's breath choked, and he scratched the table unconsciously, and an outrageous idea gradually emerged in his mind.
She looked out the window and it seemed that the signal was not very good. Sheng Yu walked a long distance before answering the phone.
Yes or no, it's always okay to say thank you.
Ali hesitated for a long time before getting up and leaving.
When she walked over, Sheng Yu had already hung up the phone.
"Thank you for the drink," Ali walked forward, unconsciously holding his phone.
Sheng Yu put the phone back in his pocket: "You're welcome, I just bought it."
After expressing her gratitude, Ali suddenly didn't know what to say. She looked at the grassland not far away awkwardly and remained silent for a while.
Sheng Yu didn't say anything and stood with her for a long time.
Finally noticing that he looked a little off, Ali casually asked, "Is there something going on at the company?"
Sheng Yu glanced at her and said, "No, Yan Xia said she has arrived at the airport and will be able to meet up with us tomorrow."
Ali was startled and asked uncertainly, "Yan Xia... is it?"
Sheng Yu's expression remained unchanged as he lowered his eyes to look at her: "My fiancée."
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