Chapter 264 - 264 This Feels Like Deja Vu

264 This Feels Like Deja Vu

After sending this message, Sang Qianqian put down her phone, washed up, and prepared to go to bed.

She didn’t have time to adjust to jet lag on this trip abroad, and she had to stay up late continuously to wait for Caroline. As a result, her body clock was a little chaotic.

She couldn’t fall asleep at this hour, so she took the necklace and lay on the bed to study it.

Just now, she was a little excited about Santa’s gift, but she didn’t think much about it.

Now that she had calmed down, she felt a little strange. This feeling of being given a gift was familiar.

She recalled the scene of Shen Hanyu giving her ‘Pink Love’ at the auction. That flashback seemed to be inexplicably similar to tonight.

At that time, it was also the auction’s staff who suddenly walked up to her and announced that she was the lucky one.

However, Shen Hanyu shouldn’t know that she was in Europe, let alone know where she was.

Even if he knew, he would never have given her a present. Besides, he must have blocked her, right?

She had sent so many messages these few days, but he had no reaction at all. He didn’t even reply to a single one.

With Shen Hanyu’s personality, since he was determined to break up with her, he would not be able to tolerate her constantly disturbing him with her messages.

Perhaps, tonight was really just her extreme luck.

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Early the next morning, Sang Qianqian did not go to the apartment building to wait for Caroline.

Instead, she directly contacted a private detective to look for Caroline’s whereabouts.

Three days later, Sang Qianqian met her at the entrance of a bar.

Caroline was about forty years old. She was tall and thin, her skin was sickly pale, her eye sockets were deep, her cheekbones were high, and she looked very tired.

It was such a cold day, but she was only wrapped in a coat, a short skirt, and knee-high boots, revealing half of her legs that were blue from the cold. She got out of the car with a tall and strong man, and the two walked to the bar with their arms around each other.

As they passed by a cluster of tall trees, the brawny man actually grabbed a handful of snow and mischievously stuffed it into the back of Caroline’s neck.

Caroline’s entire body trembled, and her expression changed. However, the man laughed arrogantly and evilly.

Sang Qianqian looked at this scene from afar and her brows furrowed.

She thought that Caroline would raise her hand to slap this man. Unexpectedly, Caroline merely shook her clothes, cursed, and followed after the man with a sneer.

Sang Qianqian was completely speechless. She whispered a few instructions to the bodyguards.

The two bodyguards nodded and walked over to Caroline, blocking her way. “Our Young Miss wants to see you.”

Caroline was stunned for a moment. Then, she tightly held onto the arm of the strong man beside her. “I don’t know your Young Miss. I’m not going.”

“That’s not up to you,” the bodyguard said coldly.

“She has to go out for a drink with me, so she has no time to see your Young Miss.”

The burly man pushed the bodyguard fiercely. “Get lost, don’t block u- Ah!”

Before he could finish his sentence, the bodyguard had already twisted his arm and kicked him hard on the back of his leg.

The man’s legs went soft and he knelt on the ground.

The other bodyguard rolled up a handful of snow and gave him a taste of his own medicine. He stuffed the snowball into the back of the burly man’s neck.

The brawny man almost jumped up from the cold as if he had been electrocuted. However, he was pressed down and could not struggle even if he wanted to. He could only beg for mercy.

The bodyguard let go of him and kicked him away. “Get lost.”

The burly man rolled to his feet and ran away while enduring the pain, completely forgetting that Caroline was still there.

Caroline looked at the figure of that person who was running away with a cold expression on her face. It seemed that she was not too sad that the other party had abandoned her and fled.

She turned around and followed the bodyguard into the car that was parked not far away.

Seeing Sang Qianqian, Caroline calmed down instead. “You’re Sang Qianqian, the one who wanted to see me?”

Sang Qianqian nodded her head.

Caroline smiled. “You’re really persistent. I’ve lied to you twice, and you still came to find me.”

Sang Qianqian ignored her mocking tone and sized up Caroline.

She didn’t know if it was because of her excessive drinking or because she was too indulgent in her private life, but when she looked at her up close, she looked very pale. Her endocrine system should also be seriously imbalanced, and even the heavy foundation couldn’t cover the little acne on her face.

Sang Qianqian found it hard to associate the person in front of her with the gentle and scholarly woman in the photo that Professor Fu’er once had.

What exactly happened between Caroline and Professor Fu’er that would cause Professor Fu’er’s career to come to an end halfway through and for him to age so quickly, while Caroline had also given up on herself and become so self-deprecating?

Sang Qianqian’s tone was complicated as she asked, “You’ve been hanging out with that person all this time?”

“So what if I am?”

Caroline shrugged her shoulders. “Who I’m with has nothing to do with you.”

“That person doesn’t love you, so why do you belittle yourself like this?”

Sang Qianqian said earnestly, “Caroline, you deserve better.”

These words were from Sang Qianqian’s heart.

Professor Fu’er was a hundred times better than that person. Although he was a bit older, he was sincere towards Caroline.

An imperceptible ripple appeared in the depths of Caroline’s eyes.

“No one has ever said such things to me. You’re the first one.”

She grinned. “Do you know how people scold me? They call me drunkard, rotten woman, stinky b*tch, scum in the mud pit. They tell me that scum can only meet scum, and that I can’t meet a better person.”

“You can. Professor Fu’er has a photo of your family of three. He…”

She didn’t know if it was the words “Professor Fu’er” or the photos that hit her where it hurt, but Caroline’s face changed. “Enough, don’t talk about the past.”

Sang Qianqian thought to herself, ‘Xie Shi’an is right. When Caroline heard Professor Fu’er’s name, she looked as if she just heard about an enemy. She really loathed him.’

“You hate Professor Fu’er?”

“I’m sorry, but this is my private matter. I can’t tell you.” Caroline said impatiently.

Sang Qianqian chose her words carefully. “Have you ever thought of changing your life?”

Caroline was slightly stunned. “Change what?”

“Change your current life.”

Sang Qianqian said sincerely, “I know that you graduated from the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrew. You once hoped to be a missionary and spread the gospel to the world. Even if you don’t want to go back to Professor Fu’er, you can go back to your normal life. A person who once aspired to offer herself to God should not live such a depraved life.”

Caroline’s face instantly turned extremely ugly.

She glared at Sang Qianqian. “What right do you have to lecture me?”

“I’m not lecturing you, Caroline. I just hope that you can live a better life.”

Sang Qianqian said, “No matter what you need, I can help you.”

“No need. I don’t think I’m not doing well now.”

Caroline’s emotions were clearly agitated, “Don’t think that I don’t know your purpose. You just want me to help you persuade Fu’er to treat Ruan Xiaodie, right? I’m telling you, it’s impossible. Don’t waste your time here!”

After saying that, she pushed the door open and walked toward the bar.

Sang Qianqian hesitated for a moment, but still followed.