Three years after our breakup, you came back to China, and I'm just giving up. Why are you cryi

The river breeze, carrying moisture, made one's cheeks feel cool.

The moonlight spilled onto the river, rippling with the waves, like a silver river.

Lu Hao and Su Yu walked side by side along the plastic track by the river. Neither of them spoke, and only their footsteps echoed in the night.

The wind tousled Su Yu's hair, with a few strands clinging to her fair cheeks.

"How did you know all this?" Lu Hao spoke first, his gaze fixed on Jiang Xin without looking at her.

Su Yu stopped and turned to face him, the river wind making her trench coat flutter.

Instead of answering, she asked, "I just didn't expect you to do something like this."

Her tone was calm, without accusation, more like a statement, a expression of bewilderment.

Does it matter?

"important!"

Lu Hao stopped talking, walked to the stone railing next to him, rested his hands on it, and gazed at the dazzling lights of the city on the opposite bank.

The river water lapped against the embankment, making a dull sound, one after another, as if striking the heart.

"What's done is done, so why ask why?"

He pulled out the nearly empty pack of cigarettes from his pocket, shook it for a while before finally managing to get one out.

Su Yumo walked silently to his side, lit the cigarette for him, and then leaned against the stone railing like him, but her gaze did not fall on the river view. Instead, it fell on Lu Hao's profile, which was somewhat blurred by the smoke.

"Ms. Xiao of Xiyue Apparel is indeed very beautiful."

Lu Hao paused, his fingers holding the cigarette, his brows furrowing. He turned his head and asked, "Why are we bringing her into this again?"

"Xiyue Apparel and Yunlan Apparel are rivals, and you personally handled Yunlan Apparel's plan, which has now been leaked to Xiyue Apparel. Doesn't that say something?"

That's just your guess.

"Heh..." Su Yu chuckled, "You resigned from Yunyou because of this, right?"

She didn't wait for Lu Hao to refute her and continued talking to herself.

"Hmm... let me guess. Yunyou Company is vehemently denying that they leaked the plan, but they haven't pushed you, the person in charge, to take the blame. It seems someone is protecting you."

"Given your personality, you resigned to avoid implicating someone in the company. You even planned to have that person shift all the blame onto you, but they didn't do that."

"So... this person is your boss, Lin Ran, right?" Su Yu sniffed and added casually, "She's quite pretty too."

Lu Hao was surprised that Su Yu knew so much.

He felt like a person who had been stripped naked, with all his thoughts laid bare before her.

He couldn't answer, nor did he know how to explain, so he could only remain silent, smoking one cigarette after another.

The wind took away half of it, and he took away the other half.

But he doesn't intend to act crazy.

He quickly burned the cigarette to the end, burning his fingers, before he seemed to wake from a dream and threw it away, then took out a second one from the cigarette pack.

Su Yu quietly lit the lamp for him, simply keeping him company without saying another word.

After an unknown amount of time, a ring of cigarette butts had fallen around Lu Hao's feet.

He crumpled the empty cigarette box into a ball and held it in his palm.

He turned his head and looked at Su Yu, who was still standing beside him, smiling at him.

"What... exactly are you trying to say?"

"I'm waiting for you to speak," Su Yu said calmly.

"Heh..." Lu Hao chuckled self-deprecatingly, "You expect me to beg you? And then you'll help me sort things out?"

Su Yu nodded seriously, "I can."

"And the price?"

"Sever all ties with Lin Ran and Xiao Xiyue..."

"impossible!"

Without a second thought, Lu Hao interrupted her.

Su Yu wasn't angry at all; her smile deepened. "Are you sure you don't want to hear me finish?"

"I..." Lu Hao opened his mouth, but he couldn't bring himself to say "no".

He knew very well that since Su Yu dared to say that, she must have the ability to do so.

If this matter can be resolved, Lin Ran will not only be able to keep his position, but Wang Ba may even be able to use this opportunity to turn the tables on Vice President Li.

Lu Hao's breathing gradually quickened, and his hands, which were supporting him on the stone railing, trembled slightly.

He closed his eyes and breathed deeply the cool river breeze.

He clenched his fist, then relaxed it.

After a long silence, he seemed to use all his strength to squeeze out a single word through his teeth.

"explain."

Su Yu smiled, her eyes crinkling into crescents, more beautiful than the crescent moon in the sky.

"I can not only get Yunlan Apparel to not hold Yunyou Company accountable, but I can also get Yunlan Apparel to immediately stop all commercial suppression of Xiyue Apparel."

"What did you say?" Lu Hao suddenly opened his eyes and stared at her intently.

Su Yu repeated herself, word by word, her tone resolute: "I said, I can make Yunlan Clothing stop here. They won't pursue Yunyou, nor will they target Xiyue anymore."

Lu Hao was completely dumbfounded.

Not only can he handle Yunyou, but he can also prevent Yunlan from getting a needle in the moon?

When did Su Yu acquire such great power?

He knew Su Yu's family background perfectly well; she came from an ordinary middle-class family. What made her stand out?

What exactly did she go through in these three years?

"you……"

"Don't ask why." Su Yu interrupted Lu Hao, her eyes resolute. "As long as you agree to my conditions, everything will be resolved tomorrow."

Lu Hao touched his nose, turned back, and looked at the river again.

After a long silence, he finally replied with a single word in a hoarse voice.

"it is good."

Upon hearing this, he seemed to lose all his strength.

Thinking about it, it's true that my own wishful thinking back then led to the current situation.

And now, the only price for cleaning up this mess is cutting off all contact with them.

He, Lin Ran, and Xiao Xiyue were not from the same world.

Lu Hao, you really are greedy.

The lingering attachment is nothing more than lust for someone else's body.

Despicable.

"Lu Hao, remember what you said today." Su Yu smiled, a very happy smile.

Lu Hao turned around, leaning against the cold stone railing, and looked at Su Yu, who was smiling brightly before him. He said, "You've really got a clever plan. You've cleared out all the women around me, hoping that in the end I'll have no choice but to come back to you, right?"

The smile on Su Yu's face slowly faded.

Her bright almond-shaped eyes stared straight at him without answering, instead asking a completely unrelated question.

"I learned a song after I returned to China. Would you like to hear it?"

Lu Hao frowned, not understanding what Su Yu was up to.

But he knew the answer lay in this song.

"Listen to this, it's been so long since I've heard you sing. Back in the day, you were the president of our university's music club."

Su Yu laughed again, with a hint of nostalgia: "It's a pity you didn't bring your guitar, so you can't accompany me."

After she finished speaking, she left the stone railing, put her hands behind her back, and walked lightly along the riverbank, step by step.

A clear, ethereal voice drifted on the night breeze.

"Let's pretend we have no tomorrow, let's pretend we only have the present, let's pretend we've never left, and still fill your heart. Your eyes are full of expectation, my heart is full of the future, the air is filled with love and affection, but I find that the feeling is gone."

Lu Hao's heart skipped a beat.

He had heard this song before; it was an obscure song by Wu Bai, titled "Evening Breeze."

"You remain silent, seeking only relief with your head bowed. You are my dearest love, how could I not understand? The bygone era has become a source of pain, and I am more familiar with much helplessness. Unwilling to see your misty, tearful eyes, I will become the evening breeze."

Su Yu's singing continued, and her silhouette grew longer and longer under the moonlight, becoming increasingly blurry.

Finally, only a dark shadow swaying in the wind remained.

The evening breeze carried her last lyric, like a lover's whisper, gently to Lu Hao's ear.

"Blow slowly...send gently...on the road of life...you go..."