CH 283

Easter Eggs (3)

After more than five hours of watching the surveillance replay in the Langjia building’s surveillance room, Jiang Yuhe memorized almost every figure that had entered or left the building.

He also remembered this khaki-colored designer trench coat clearly.

‘It’s her.’

She had been to the concert.

She gave an entirely different feeling from when he saw Zhao Wenjing. He studied the photo on his phone, and then carefully recalled the back shadow under the breeze that night.

It was like playing a puzzle game for a long time, and after many attempts, the missing piece finally was fitted into the right place.

It was a fully embedded sense of belonging.

Jiang Yuhe stopped in the aisle of the restaurant and looked back at the room.

Li Bai, who was accompanying him, noticed the clues and asked, “What’s wrong, Boss?”

Jiang Yuhe began to walk back after a momentary pause and said with an incomparable tone of certainty.

“She’s inside.”

“?”

The two had just returned to the door of the room when it was opened from the inside. A figure came aggressively to meet them, almost toppling Jiang Yuhe.

Jiang Yuhe took a step back due to her momentum.

The figure did not turn her head. She stepped on her high heels and left, the hem of her trench coat fluttering and rising up behind her.

Shen Mingjia’s exasperated voice also followed, “Wen Yu, stop right there!”

Jiang Yuhe’s eyes left the woman’s body and fell back into the room.

Shen Mingjia looked in a great deal of pain. He was curled up like a shrimp with his hands covering his crotch and wine soaking his hair down to his neck.

Despite all this, he still stumbled to chase after her.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell what he has just gone through.

This scene was indeed something Jiang Yuhe never thought of.

He gently curled his lips, turned around and said to Li Bai at the same time.

“Hold him down.”

In an instant, Li Bai already understood that the woman who had just left was the person Jiang Yuhe was looking for, so he naturally tried his best to create opportunities for the boss.

He took two steps forward and stopped Shen Mingjia by the chest. “Mr. Shen, please don’t disturb the people you shouldn’t disturb.”

“…”

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After kicking Shen Mingjia’s lifeblood, Wen Yu got off the elevator at the basement and ran out of the hotel without looking back.

When she took a deep breath in the cool air, the impulsiveness and aggressiveness that consumed her mind slowly calmed down.

But after she calmed down, she was wrapped by a heavier feeling of powerlessness and breathlessness.

She slowly walked to the fountain in front of the hotel and finally couldn’t help but sit down in place and bury her face deep into the crook of her arm.

Wen Yu would never have thought that in just a few days, she had changed from a wealthy lady who everyone in Jiangcheng envied to a destitute lady who was full of debts.

Originally, she wanted to go to Beijing happily to get the cufflinks she ordered, but after calling her father, Wen Yi’an, for more than ten times at the airport, she realized that something was wrong. She contacted her father’s secretary only to find out…

The company was facing a doomed bankruptcy.

Wen Yu lost any intention of going out for fun, so she went home immediately. She spent the whole week with her father, carrying the hard reality of bankruptcy overnight.

The debtors’ claims, the sale of properties, her downgrade in the circle…

In just a few days, Wen Yu experienced the biggest and most drastic change in her life. Despite this, she naively thought that her boyfriend would stand by her at this time.

She wasn’t asking for anything else, but at the very least, he could accompany her through this difficult time.

But no.

All Shen Mingjia gave her was a breakup text message.

There wasn’t even a reason. He directly texted her: [We’re done.]

After that, she was ruthlessly blacklisted.

Wen Yu knew that she was not the same as before, but she couldn’t swallow her anger of being dumped when she was broke. Hence, after being told by a friend that Shen Mingjia was having dinner at a hotel restaurant tonight, she impulsively came to find him.

Then followed by the scene just now.

But after venting, Wen Yu, who returned to reality, did not feel any better.

Bankruptcy had plunged the entire Wen family into turmoil. She was only 22 years old and had never felt a sense of crisis before. However, in recent days she was forced to see the fickleness of the world as well as the fickleness of human nature.

If even her boyfriend, who had always said he liked her, could be so heartless, who else could she trust?

These days, Wen Yu has kept on smiling in front of Wen Yi’an. She had to use optimism to comfort her father and hold up the family.

But when she left all alone in the world, she still had trouble controlling the most real emotions in her heart.

Bankruptcy, being dumped; it was as if all the bad luck poured into her.

Wen Yu buried her head deeply with tears flowing silently down her cheeks, but she was so strong-minded that she did not let out any sound.

Immersed in the world of self-healing for an unknown length of time, Wen Yu suddenly felt the presence of someone else in front of her.

She forgot that she was crying and raised her head subconsciously.

At a glance, he saw a dark figure standing in front of her.

There were outdoor wall lights on the flower table of the fountain, but they only emitted dim yellow shades of light. Nevertheless, they seemed to be all quenched in the eyes of the man.

His eyes were deep but bright, like a ray of light shining in from the abyss. They inexplicably stopped Wen Yu’s tears.

Wen Yu recognized him, but didn’t know why he was standing there.

She didn’t say anything and looked at him quietly.

Jiang Yuhe also regarded her.

That unforgettable figure at first glance, finally appeared in front of him for real.

Although the bright style from that night was absent, even though she was crying here in embarrassment…

It was just this brief and long glance at each other that…

Jiang Yuhe knew.

‘It’s her.’

She was the white moonlight* in his dream, and she would also be the cinnabar mole** he would never forget in his life.

(*White moonlight – this term refers to a spotless woman a man cherishes in his memory whom he loved but who is no longer with him)

(**Cinnabar Mole – considered a love mark)

That night, the wind blew gently; the starry sky was bright, and the moon was bright; and everything was just right.

‘And you just happened to appear and shine on my whole world.’

“Hello, Wen Yu.”

===== The End =====