Fog Returns to the Capital

Chapter 135 The gentleman has been waiting for you to come back
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Li Wu remained silent for a long time before finally moving her lips and stammering, "You said it yourself, that was before."

"Now I'm engaged, and you're married..."

Zhou Jinghuai was taken aback.

"You didn't believe a word I said to you that night, did you?"

Zhou Jinghuai's voice lowered, tinged with a barely perceptible hint of unease.

Li Wu didn't speak.

Silence is the default.

"You once said that you would believe me unconditionally and would always love me the most."

Zhou Jinghuai stared intently at Li Wu with his deep black eyes, his voice deep and extremely slow, each word exceptionally clear.

Li Wu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and an indescribable feeling of suffocation washed over her.

But her voice was calm and composed, with a composure that even deceived herself: "I used to think so too."

"You don't believe me anymore, do you?"

Li Wu didn't answer immediately; her heart clenched sharply for a moment. The dull ache in her heart instantly transformed into a sharp pain, making it difficult for her to breathe.

After a long silence.

Li Wu looked up and met Zhou Jinghuai's eyes. Her voice was soft and slow, "But those were things you threw away yourself, weren't they?"

Zhou Jinghuai sat there quietly with his eyes lowered, not saying a word for a long time.

I vaguely remember when we were together, every time he returned from a business trip, no matter how late, she would always wait for him. As soon as she saw him, she would happily rush up to him, throw herself into his arms, and hug him tightly.

At that time.

He was her faith; she believed in him unconditionally and loved him.

But later.

He lost her with his own hands.

"People always have to move forward."

Li Wu looked at the man sitting there with his eyes lowered, his expression calm and his whole being as pure and aloof as cold jade.

Li Wu's heart skipped a beat, but she tried to regulate her breathing and make her voice sound calm. Besides, seven years had already passed. "I don't like to go back. That would make all the effort I've put into the past seem meaningless."

"Let bygones be bygones."

"Zhou Jinghuai, we should all move forward."

Done.

After a few seconds of silence, Li Wu stood up, nodded slightly to Zhou Jinghuai, and then turned and left.

The door opened and then closed with a thud.

The private room fell silent once again.

A gust of cold wind howled in through the gap in the door, bringing a chill.

The locust tree in the courtyard swayed in the cold wind, and a withered leaf was blown to Zhou Jinghuai's feet.

He was unaware of it.

……

Later, Lin Nan escorted Li Wu back.

The journey was completely silent.

Li Wu turned her head to look at the night view outside the window, her eyes silent, lost in thought.

More than forty minutes later.

The car had just stopped downstairs in her apartment building.

Li Wu snapped out of her daze, thanked him in a low voice, and prepared to get out of the car, but Lin Nan's voice rang out from the front row.

"The last time I came here was on a snowy night, and Miss Li was accompanied by a beautiful woman."

Hear the words.

Li Wu paused as she was about to get out of the car, glancing suspiciously at Lin Nan in the front seat. She couldn't remember when she had seen him at the entrance of the residential area.

Lin Nan smiled gently at Li Wu, "I came with the master."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Wu's expression faltered slightly.

But before Li Wu could ask, Lin Nan continued, "That night, the gentleman had a nightmare and insisted on coming to see you to feel at ease."

result.

Finally, we saw her leaving hand in hand with someone else.

After thinking for a while, Li Wu remembered which night Lin Nan was referring to, and her expression changed slightly. But it was only for a moment before she returned to normal.

"What does that have to do with me?" Li Wu said calmly.

Lin Nan, "..."

He noticed that Li Wu's expression had become slightly calmer than before. After a moment of silence, he still asked, "Are you still blaming the gentleman for not choosing you immediately?"

"No."

Now, when facing this issue again, Li Wu is much calmer. "I respect his choice and understand his choice."

Li Wu was telling the truth.

She didn't blame Zhou Jinghuai for not choosing her back then; he had his own reasons.

They were just not meant to be together.

"But the gentleman has been waiting for you to come back."

Lin Nan's voice was deep, but he spoke slowly and deliberately, ensuring that every word he uttered was clear. "After you left, the master refused to arrange a marriage."

"It was equivalent to completely shutting out the entire Zhao family, including the Himalayan-like support behind them. At that time, the situation in Beijing was already very serious, and he suddenly broke the superficial harmony with the Xiao family, officially going to war with them."

"Because he refused the marriage alliance, the Zhou family stood by and did nothing. Before that, the leader had suspended him from all his posts. He was clearly the most popular candidate that year, but he was ultimately not selected. Not only that, he was also demoted for two years."

"Those two years..."

Lin Nan didn't go into details, only mentioning that once, when the Yang family elders traveled a long distance to visit Zhou Jinghuai, the old lady left with red eyes.

"But fortunately, in the end, it was he himself who got to where he is today, step by step."

Apart from Zhou Jinghuai.

Lin Nan didn't think anyone else would have the ability to turn the tide like that.

After listening.

Li Wu was somewhat stunned.

She never expected that something like that would happen later.

She thought that after she left, Zhou Jinghuai would rise steadily in rank and achieve great success.

"So what?"

After a long silence, Li Wu spoke softly.

In the past, they were separated by a great distance.

just now.

Even worse.

She was powerless to change that past relationship.

……

Winters in Beijing are always long, so long that it seems like they will never end.

Fine snowflakes began to fall again outside the window.

After drinking the traditional Chinese medicine that Shen Yichen brought, Li Wu was no longer woken up by pain in the middle of the night. However, she has recently started having insomnia again, sometimes unable to sleep for entire nights.

After trying to force herself to sleep with her eyes closed again, only to fail, Li Wu simply opened her eyes.

The room was completely dark.

After a moment of silence.

Li Wu skillfully reached for the bedside table, just as she was about to take two sleeping pills to swallow.

I could faintly hear a knocking sound at the door.

a bit.

Another click.

In the stillness of the night, it was exceptionally clear, yet also exceptionally eerie.