Fog Returns to the Capital

Chapter 125 Witnessing it with my own eyes
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Lin Nan sat with Zhou Jinghuai for a while, remaining silent for a long time, before finally unable to hold back, "Haven't you been waiting for her to come back all these years?"

"If you insist on marrying her now, you have far more leverage than you did back then."

"Different."

After a long while, Zhou Jinghuai finally uttered three words in a deep voice.

In the past, he always held the initiative.

But that's not the case now.

not to mention.

Even though he is no longer the same as he was years ago, he still wants to maintain the image in her heart.

Lin Nan guessed that when Zhou Jinghuai said "different," he probably meant that Miss Li already had a boyfriend.

But if he wanted to, changing from "having" to "not having" would be an incredibly simple thing.

I don’t know how long it took.

Zhou Jinghuai got up and went to the dressing room.

When he came out again, he was fully dressed.

"It's so late, are you still going out?" Lin Nan asked tentatively.

Zhou Jinghuai didn't respond, but he had already walked outside.

Lin Nan was worried, so he hurriedly followed.

The courtyard was covered with a thin layer of snow, and the towering magnolia tree had lost all its branches and leaves, leaving only its thick trunk standing there quietly.

The courtyard was very quiet.

The cold winter wind swept by, and snow fell heavily to the ground.

Zhou Jinghuai stood under the magnolia tree for a while, then walked towards the gate.

Lin Nan chased after him with his coat and just happened to see Zhou Jinghuai get into the car parked in front of the gate.

Lin Nan was worried, so he got into the car too.

The car was completely silent, just like the silent alleyway.

The driver waited for a long time but didn't hear any instructions. He didn't dare to ask Zhou Jinghuai in the back seat, but subconsciously looked at Lin Nan.

Lin Nan, who is usually very shrewd and diplomatic at work, found himself in a difficult situation. Even after following Zhou Jinghuai for many years, he still found it hard to guess what Zhou was thinking.

Lin Nan, who was racking his brains, glanced at the face of the person behind him. Something suddenly flashed through his mind, and he quickly instructed the driver, "Go to Haidian."

He remembered what day it was.

It was the day Li Wu was shot.

Every year on this day, Zhou Jinghuai would have nightmares. Having received the definite instructions, the driver quickly started the car.

More than forty minutes later, the car slowly pulled up next to an upscale residential area.

Under the dim streetlights, at the deserted entrance of the residential area, only a few scattered green plants were resisting the frost, their branches swaying in the howling wind.

Ignoring Lin Nan's attempts to stop him, Zhou Jinghuai got out of the car, the cold wind blowing against him making his clothes flutter.

Under the cover of night, Zhou Jinghuai almost blended into the boundless darkness.

Looking at the residential building not far away, where only a few lights were faintly lit, Zhou Jinghuai recalled the reason why she bought the house back then.

He got angry and locked her out, leaving her crying outside for most of the night in her thin dress. Later, she sobbed as she told him that she had always been good and would never cause him trouble…

At that time, she respected him, feared him, but also loved him.

Even though she was unaware of it beforehand, she still apologized to him afterwards, afraid that she might have affected him in the slightest.

Aside from his excessive arrogance back then, which led to Li Wu being shot, Zhou Jinghuai has very few regrets in his life.

But now.

Looking at the boundless night sky, Zhou Jinghuai felt a pang of regret.

It was the regret of knowing that if I talked to her nicely, she would listen, but I still got angry at her directly, and then it brought out even more regret that was buried deep in my heart.

These are the trivial details that we didn't pay attention to back then, but as time goes by, they gradually settle into deep regrets.

Zhou Jinghuai is deeply immersed in a past he can't bear to think about.

He was completely trapped inside.

Until a black car drove straight past him and finally stopped at the empty entrance of the residential area.

The car door opens.

The man in the driver's seat quickly walked around the front of the car, opened the passenger door, and gentlemanly placed his hand on the top of the door.

Then--

A young girl got out of the passenger seat.

Unlike the solemn and dignified demeanor she displayed in the Great Hall of the People that day, Li Wu wore a long white coat, her thick, cascading hair cascading casually over her shoulders.

Looking at it from a distance.

Even just a side profile under the streetlights was breathtakingly beautiful, almost ethereal.

Then, the man raised his hand and tucked a strand of hair that had blown into her face behind her ear. The two looked at each other and smiled simultaneously.

Under the dim light of the streetlights.

The two, one big and one small, stood together very intimately, like a perfect couple.