CH 14.2

Chapter 14 Part 2

“Qingqing ah, happy birthday!” Tan Haize saved his cheerful side for his one and only daughter, “Dad is on a business trip, but I prepared a birthday present for you. I sent someone to deliver it to you. Are you at home, or…?”

Why did this line sound like her mother’s?

Ning Qingqing replied, “I’m at my apartment.”

“Oh, you and Xiao Shen are still alright, right?” Although Tan Haize re-married and started another family after the divorce, he had always kept tabs on Ning Qingqing.

“En, we’re alright. Thank you, dad, for the gift.” Ning Qingqing said.

“Why are you so polite with your dad?” Tan Haize laughed, “Dad is on a business trip to Manhattan, hehe, guess who your dad saw?”

Ning Qingqing who was gloomy now wanted to laugh because of what both her parents said. She answered, “You saw my mother because she called me just now saying that she was on a business trip in Manhattan.”

” Oh——” Tan Haize was very disappointed, “Turns out I was one step behind her.” He lost the competition this time.

Ning Qingqing did not understand the rivalry between the two at all, and said instead, “Then take care of your health during your business trip.”

“En, I know, it’s still my daughter who cares the most!” He sighed.

Because after his second marriage, his current wife gave birth to a son who was ten years younger than Ning Qingqing. He was currently going through a rebellious period. He was already in middle school, but his parents were still being called.

The two exchanged a few pleasantries and then hung up.

The room suddenly fell silent again.

There was a song lyric that said, “I am most afraid of sudden silence”. Ning Qingqing looked at the table full of food, no matter how much she ate, she could not make a dent.

There was still a lot of cake left, so she carefully packed it up and put it in the refrigerator.

After clearing the dining table, she started cleaning the room again.

They say that when you are busy you will forget the time, but there is always a time when the housework is done.

Once she finished everything, she felt that the feeling of emptiness was more obvious now than before.

It gradually quieted down outside, even the bustling city had to sleep. People who worked overtime or who had late gatherings occasionally passed by on the street until it finally became empty.

Ning Qingqing looked at the clock on the wall; it was only half an hour until midnight.

She knew that she would not get an answer after all.

In other words, the silence was the final judgment Shen Zhiqian gave her.

She got up and went to her study. She found a suitcase, picked up the framed photo of the two of them from the desk, and put it inside the suitcase.

The photo frames and the gifts, one by one, the items she put away were filled with many memories of her youth.

She could not fit them all in one suitcase, so she continued to pack with another, only to realize that over the years she had gathered a lot of things that belonged to both of them.

Once the two large suitcases were filled and packed, the items in the apartment were reduced to half.

Ning Qingqing locked the two suitcases and put them in a corner.

At this moment, Gu Youchen was driving over from the private airport. Qin Yanyue said that Ning Qingqing entered the community and never came back out.

The little girl was trying her best, she had been keeping watch by the gate of the community and had not stepped a foot away even until now. She had been teasing the stray dogs at the gate with the community security guard the whole night.

When Gu Youchen arrived, Qin Yanyue was yawning by the door of the security office.

He hurriedly let the little girl wait for him in the car.

Not long after, the Qin family’s car also drove over and brought Qin Yanyue home.

Gu Youchen stood at the gate of the community and called Ning Qingqing.

In her room, Ning Qingqing heard the sound of her phone next door and subconsciously glanced at the clock on the wall.

It was exactly 12 o’clock.

She rushed to the next room and picked up her phone.

Her screen displayed – “Tiramisu-loving joker”.

It was Gu Youchen? The light in Ning Qingqing’s eyes got completely extinguished.

At this moment, the hand of the wall clock turned past midnight.

Her birthday was over, and there was only a happy birthday message sent by Shen Zhiqian more than ten minutes ago on her phone, and the Porsche car keys on the table.

In the end, her 9-year-long first love had come to a close in this way.

Ning Qingqing did not answer Gu Youchen’s call; she did not have any energy to deal with others now.

After the phone automatically hung up, Ning Qingqing picked up the phone, opened the chat with Shen Zhiqian, and sent him a message——

“Zhiqian, let’s break up. This is my decision after careful consideration. No matter what you think, we are already over. I wish you all the best in the future.”

Only after clicking send did Ning Qingqing realize that her hands were shaking badly.

Nevertheless, the message was already sent, and the time displayed on it was 00:01.

It was over. On the first day of becoming 26, she cut off the past and stopped waiting for someone.

Her dignity let her part with the past that was difficult to let go of and began a new stage of her life that was filled with possibilities.