Bai Ling, pulling Shen Ying along, stopped at the school gate:
"There's still more than half an hour until four o'clock. Going there too early might disturb the teacher's class. Comrade Shen Ying, let's wait here."
She recognized Su Yujing's car as soon as she entered the campus and guessed that Jiang Yu should be inside. She deliberately chose a place with a wide view so that the person in the car could keep an eye on her every move.
Shen Ying hadn't paid any attention to the matter; his mind was entirely focused on Shen Sui Sui. He nodded, agreeing with what the woman said. He didn't notice her intimate gesture. In his view, it was just a tug on her sleeve, nothing out of line.
"You promised to treat me to dinner, you can't go back on your word!"
Bai Ling playfully tilted her head towards him, unable to hide her smile. To the man, agreeing to treat him to a meal afterward was perfectly normal, and he readily agreed.
As time passed, a number of parents gathered at the school gate. While Luo Zewen was still complaining about how this young lady was two-faced, Jiang Yu lowered her eyes, pretending not to care, and said:
"Now that someone has gone, I don't need to worry anymore. Let's go back, or the doctor will start questioning us."
Her eyes dimmed, losing all their luster. Seeing this, Su Yujing agreed without saying another word.
Some things she needs to process, move on from, and find redemption on her own. No one else can help her.
As the car drove away and onto the main road, Shen Ying felt as if she had lost something. Looking back, she saw nothing.
Where he couldn't see, Bai Ling revealed a smug smile.
"Parents, please line up and walk into the school one by one."
As he looked around searching, a loudspeaker blared from the entrance. The supervising teacher was calling out to the parents outside, her voice full of enthusiasm.
"Let's go, it's about to start."
Bai Ling reminded the man with a beaming smile. Shen Ying gave a soft "hmm," said nothing, turned around, and lined up in an orderly fashion.
Back at the hospital, Jiang Yu lay on her bed, staring at the ceiling, recalling every moment she had spent with the man. What she had just witnessed was too painful to bear. She couldn't even bear to think about it anymore; how much pain she would feel seeing them together again in the future.
After seeing them off, Luo Zewen returned to the garment factory. In the room, only Su Yujing was with him.
"If you really can't bear to part with him, then try to persuade him to stay. It's clear that Comrade Shen Ying still has deep feelings for you. He even tried his best to avoid Miss Bai's unintentional touch."
As a man himself, he could sense Shen Ying's physical rejection of Bai Ling; such natural movements couldn't be faked. Besides, judging from the man's expression, he had no idea where Jiang Yu had gone.
As for Miss Bai, she seems to have a lot of ulterior motives and is anything but simple. It's clear that she played a significant role in the closure of the Sui Sui Nian Nian clothing store and Commander Bai's furious reaction to it.
"No, I was just worried that Sui Sui might be disappointed if she didn't see me. Also, I was a little tired after going out just now, so I didn't want to talk."
Jiang Yu tried her best to avoid the topic; she just wanted to bury her sadness in her heart and didn't want it to be brought up and discussed in detail. The man understood her thoughts and remained silent.
As evening fell, Luo Zewen, returning from Qingyun, let out a long sigh of relief, trying his best to remain calm:
"President Su, this afternoon, Mr. Su and Mrs. Su visited the company. They heard that Mr. Gong Sheng is coming to the provincial capital to give a lecture. Do you think we should send a few designers over to learn from him?"
Moreover, Mr. Su specifically instructed that this matter must be taken seriously, and it would be best if you could accompany him.
When Su Yujing returned to the company in the afternoon, his parents saw Luo Zewen but not their son, and bombarded him with questions. He was so flustered, unsure what to say or not to say, that he was sweating profusely.
However, they didn't make things too difficult for him. They simply took out a few tickets to Mr. Miyazaki's lectures and asked him to pass them on to his son.
After seeing them off, Luo Zewen hurriedly came over to report the news. Su Yujing took it, glanced at it, and saw that the date on it was tomorrow, which seemed rather urgent.
This training will require staying in the provincial capital for at least a week, with accommodation and meals to be covered by the participants themselves. Although it is a rare opportunity, Jiang Yu is still quite weak and cannot leave for the time being.
He opened his mouth, intending to let Luo Zewen handle it as he pleased, when Jiang Yu, who had been staring blankly at the ceiling, spoke up:
"Let's go listen to Mr. Gong Sheng's lectures together and learn more. If we learn something good, it might even help Qingyun reach a higher level."
She said she was going to study, but she actually had ulterior motives. Having been here for so long, besides dealing with a lot of messy things, she hadn't really tried to pursue what she liked.
She only opened the Suisui Niannian clothing store to make a living, out of necessity. Currently, she's going through a low point in her emotional life, and the only person who brings her warmth is Mr. Gong Sheng—her teacher.
Although it's uncertain whether there are any differences between the book and reality, the description suggests it's the same person.
She wanted to see her teacher.
"But you're like this now..."
Su Yujing was very worried. The woman's weak body hadn't fully recovered, and it would be a several-hour drive to the provincial capital. A week of study there—anyone would be concerned.
"It's okay, I'm not actually that weak. Believe me, if I don't seize this opportunity, I'll be depressed for a long time. President Su probably doesn't want to see me with a long face at the company every day, looking like I owe eight million yuan to everyone, right?"
Under Jiang Yu's coercion, enticement, and repeated assurances, the man reluctantly shook his head and agreed.
......
In the state-run restaurant, Bai Ling carefully examined the menu in her hand. Opposite her sat Shen Ying and his daughter Shen Suisui, watching her silently.
She had a lot of complaints about her father bringing this unfamiliar aunt instead of her mother to the graduation ceremony.
But it's not appropriate for children to interfere in adult matters, so she didn't say much. Her dislike of this aunt wasn't just because the woman's gaze towards her father was filled with adoration and felt extremely unnatural.
There was also her dislike for An'an when she attended Uncle Bai Chen's wedding that day, and her sense of crisis that An'an might take away her mother's position.
I need to find some time to have a good talk with my dad about this.
"Dad, where's Mom? Did she say when she's coming home?"
In the quiet environment, Shen Sui Sui suddenly uttered these words, which displeased the woman who had been holding the menu and ordering food.
Of course, Shen Suisui did this to annoy the other party and make her realize her own position.
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