CH 9.2

Chapter 9.2 - The Nightingale 

After finishing her lunch, Su Yan returned to her room, saw a tablet and mobile phone on the bedside table, and she felt very relieved.

Although she didn't want to contact her family and friends at the moment, that didn't mean she wanted to cut connections with the outside world.

As she went to check the devices, the screen on the mobile phone flashed up, indicating a text message from an unknown number.

There was no screen password set on this phone, Su Yan opened it with a light touch and then clicked to read the text message.

"Sorry, I'm too busy today, I will return tomorrow morning."

Su Yan knew who had sent this message in an instant, and she immediately felt ashamed.

Don't think too hard about it; he probably sent this message because his aunty told him to. Su Yan tried to comfort herself. 

Then she typed a reply to send, but before sending it, she realised that explaining it would be more awkward, so in the end, she didn't send a message back. 

After deleting the message, she threw the phone on the bed, and then sighed for a long time, a little tired and relaxed.

Things that happened today were really unexpected.

When she was thinking, her eyes drifted toward the scenery outside the French windows.

The beautiful scenery had a healing quality, which made people yearn for it. She could not help but walk toward the French windows.

Outside the window was the balcony. The ground of the balcony was paved with walnut-colored wood flooring, with transparent glass fences on the edges, and a set of tables and chairs for people to enjoy the scenery was placed in the centre of the balcony.

Su Yan walked to the edge of the balcony and laid down on the fence. She saw a rectangular swimming pool, but it was not stocked with water, and beyond that, there was a garden with a few light-coloured flowers, tall trees, and lush bushes that spread down the mountain. Seeing this, Su Yan could understand that Bai Xingfang didn’t like bright colours,  but only liked fresh and elegant things. But what made Su Yan even more curious was the green net on the east side of the garden. It was a circular net, which was supported in a shape similar to a yurt, but much higher than the yurt. At first glance, it looked like a giant birdcage covered with a net. That reminded Su Yan of the bird cages that were covered with green nets in zoos where birds were kept to prevent birds from flying away.

When she was floating in her thoughts, a sudden knock on the door brought Su Yan back from her thoughts. "Come in." She said.

The fat aunt walked into the room; she put the things in her hand on the bedside table and said, "These are your daily necessities."

There were facial cleansers, toothpaste, a toothbrush, and other items.

Su Yan quickly thanked her : "Thank you!"

"You're welcome; just tell me if you need anything." The housekeeping aunty didn't intend to bother Su Yan, and she was about to leave, but Su Yan stopped her and pointed to the garden, asking, "What is that? Is it a birdcage?"

"Well, sir, once a nightingale was raised," the fat aunty said, nodding.

Nightingale? Is it the kind of nightingale in fairy tales?

"How long? Then did it die?"

"It has been many years ago." The aunt replied.

Su Yan felt a bit regretful because she had never seen a real nightingale before and had missed the chance to see one.

Aunt Fat: "However, the flowers in the birdcage are still pretty. If you are interested, you can go and have a look."

Su Yan thought: It really is a birdcage, but the big family is different. The birdcages are so high-end and luxurious. It's like a palace-level birdcage.

What a happy nightingale.

But there was no freedom; trapped in the extravagant palace in the name of love, life appeared to be unhappy.

She was in a daze when she suddenly heard her aunt asking softly: "That wedding dress of yours..."

Before the aunt finished speaking, Su Yan said without thinking: "Just throw it away... I don’t want it anymore."

This wedding dress was tailor-made by Xie Yu from a well-known Italian designer. Every piece of yarn and every flower on it were hand-stitched, and it took three months to finish.

On the day she tried on the wedding dress, Xie Yu accompanied her there.

He also said that she must be the most beautiful bride in the world.

She may not be the most beautiful bride in the world, but she must be the most miserable bride. She became a laughingstock on the wedding day. All of this was given to her by her groom, so she still has this wedding dress What are you doing?

She didn't want such hypocrisy.

Not only did she no longer want this wedding dress, but she also didn't want anything about Xie Yu.