No one was talking in the restaurant. The cold light pouring down from the ceiling made the space seem even quieter.
Gu Qingwu was the first to react, with confusion in her eyes, but as a younger sister, she couldn't say anything, so she simply looked at the night view outside the floor-to-ceiling window. Their apartment was located in a bustling area in the city center, and looking down, she could see the night view of thousands of lights.
Next to him, He Suichen rejected her ruthlessly: "Brother, why don't you just move in here? Why bother living next door?"
He Yunjian also wanted to, but Yu Siqing had no intention of agreeing to live together.
He pursed his lips and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Xiaoli'er, who said in a baby voice, "No, candy."
The little guy pointed at the sweet and sour pork ribs and said he didn't want to eat it anymore, asking his father not to feed him.
He Sui's eyes gradually softened, and he kissed his daughter's forehead: "Why don't you eat candy?"
Little Li'er said softly: "Because I'm so sweet."
Yu Siqing curved her lips to reveal a light smile, inadvertently revealing a bit of envy on her face. Thinking back to the past, she also hoped to give birth to a daughter as cute and sweet as Xiaoli'er. Unfortunately, things did not go as she wished. Yu Jiafan not only suffered from congenital autism, but was also not very close to her.
This regret cannot be described in words.
He Yunjian noticed that her eyes darkened for a moment, and her thin lips pursed, and she stopped talking.
The two of them were exposed by the hot searches, and he didn't hide anything, not even bothering to pretend.
After eating and drinking, he sat on the sofa, made a cup of tea to relieve his greasiness, and waited for He Sui Chen to take his wife and daughter away. Judging from their attitude, they seemed to intend to stay overnight.
Before Gu Qingwu left, he said to Yu Siqing: "If the eldest brother harasses you, you are the owner and the housekeeper will help."
He Yunjian: “…”
Yu Siqing first sent He Suichen and his wife out, then turned back and reminded the man who was sitting still: "It's very late... Shouldn't you go back upstairs?"
He Yunjian checked the time on his phone: "It's only one in the morning..." Just as he was about to say it was not too late, he caught a glimpse of Yu Siqing's cold expression from the corner of his eye. It was obvious that if he forced her to stay overnight, the relationship that they had finally eased would instantly fall apart.
He Yunjian put down his teacup, straightened the collar of his shirt as if nothing had happened, and said to her, "Would you like to go jogging together tomorrow?"
Yu Siqing pursed her pale lips and didn't agree. He then stretched out his hand and gently held her white fingertips, refusing to let go until she agreed.
After a while.
A voice like a wisp of smoke sounded, without any emotion: "Hmm."
…
Yu Mandong found that the tenant of the apartment in District F had become popular and was listed on the front page of the hot search. Netizens found out that he was the president of a listed company. She was shocked and replied to a gossip blogger: "He Yunjian rents in my community. He and the female owner downstairs are not husband and wife, although they are often seen walking together... But would normal couples live separately?"
Unfortunately, no one believed her, and many netizens criticized her as a black fan.
— "It's so funny. He Yunjian has so much money that he can buy out the entire neighborhood where you live and sleep in a different house every night. How could he possibly rent a house?"
— "Can you please make your story more realistic? I have a cousin who works for a branch of He's... She gossiped that He Yunjian's wife is called Yu Siqing. Although she looks frail from behind, she is a highly educated strong woman. Before she left, she was one of the company's managers."
—"Yu Siqing? Siqing? This name sounds nice."
Yu Mandong was so angry about the internet that she ate three extra buns for breakfast. She turned around and saw He Yunjian and the female owner downstairs walking out of the elevator. They were dressed casually in sportswear, as if they had made an appointment to go for a morning jog.
She raised her phone and secretly took a photo of the two of them.
Compared to the photo taken by passers-by yesterday, the quality of this photo is very clear, even Yu Siqing's fair profile can be seen clearly.
Yu Mandong was about to post it online to prove that what she said was true, but then she thought, why not take a few more photos, since they had already met the two people jogging in the morning. So she secretly followed them to the park with her phone in hand.
Looking around, Yu Mandong immediately found the two people jogging in the morning. She took picture after picture with her mobile phone. More than half an hour passed. In the front, Yu Siqing was tired from running and found a bench to sit down and catch her breath.
He Yunjian was in good physical condition, and the thin fabric of his shirt was not stained by sweat. The skin on his wrists exposed at the cuffs was cold and white. He opened the bottle of mineral water with his long fingers and handed it to her first.
After Yu Siqing finished drinking, only one third was left, so he naturally took it and finished it.
The morning sun was bright, and she inadvertently raised her head and looked at the tall and slender man with black eyes and white muscles standing in front of her. She was in a trance for a few seconds, because they had run together in the morning when they were in New York.
At that time, He Yunjian was not sick and had better physical strength. He often picked her up by the waist and ran a lap when he saw that she could not run anymore.
Yu Siqing truly felt the unbridled sweetness of being in love with him, as if she had temporarily forgotten the disparity in their status, and her thoughts were confused by the morning breeze at that time.
When she came to her senses, it was He Yunjian who was half-kneeling on one knee on the ground, holding the part of her ankle exposed by her trouser leg with his bony fingers, which was a little chilled by the morning breeze: "Girls' hands and feet can't stand the cold, do you still not like wearing socks?"
These words came out of his mouth almost naturally, and even He Yunjian himself was stunned for a moment.
He didn't know why he said "you are still" these words.
There was trembling emotion in Yu Siqing's eyes. She couldn't help but move her ankle back, stood up and walked towards the apartment.
She walked for a long distance, then suddenly stopped and turned around, seeing He Yunjian still squatting there motionless, his profile blurred by the light golden sunlight, so her true expression could not be seen clearly.
…
Yu Mandong discovered that He Yunjian and the female owner seemed to have parted on bad terms. She slid her finger across the screen and zoomed in as closely as possible, and discovered that veins were popping out at the man's temple, and he seemed to be in unbearable pain. Just as she was watching with great interest, his sharp eyes suddenly swept over here.
He was startled and half of his shoulder trembled violently, and the phone between his fingers fell straight onto the stone.
The black screen was shattered into pieces, so I couldn't take a secret photo, and instead I ended up wasting several thousand dollars.
Yu Mandong wanted to cry but had no tears: "..."
Yu Siqing did not part ways with He Yunjian on bad terms. After returning to the apartment, she returned to normal. After cleaning the house inside and out by herself, she felt calm again and no longer tried to avoid men.
The two of them get along as usual, eating lunch together, taking naps together, and in the evening, they would go to pick up the children from school together.
Occasionally, Yu Siqing felt as if she had never been separated from He Yunjian. Since he couldn't occupy the apartment next door, he would start to leave his things in her apartment without making a sound.
Occasionally it's a watch, cufflinks, or a pinky ring, a small, inconspicuous item.
Yu Siqing would put them away in the drawer, and two days later, He Yunjian would throw a pair of cufflinks on the sink.
Over time, she realized that this man was using this method to mark his territory, just like a pet would rub against a place to leave its scent. So when He Yunjian threw things into the apartment again, Yu Siqing did not pick them up.
In this family, Yu Jiafan is the one who welcomes his father the most. He talks more and becomes more lively.
Even for the sake of the child, Yu Siqing could only acquiesce to this man's frequent visits to her house, until the end of the year, when it was a cold day and there was wind and snow outside.
Recently, He Sui Chen and his wife took Xiao Li'er back to live in their ancestral home. Without her younger sister to play with, Yu Jiafan likes to go there and learn piano.
Since he had been on vacation, he had gone to piano lessons every day regardless of rain or shine. Usually, Yu Siqing would pick him up and drop him off personally. Recently, the weather had cooled down significantly and it was snowing heavily. In the morning, He Yunjian took Yu Jiafan out of the house and let her continue to lie in bed.
Yu Siqing lay in bed until after nine o'clock, and only got up when she heard the doorbell of the apartment. Thinking that He Yunjian had forgotten to bring his keys, she casually wrapped herself in a large, warm white nightgown and went out to open the door.
Outside the door stood an ordinary middle-aged couple who didn't know each other. When they saw her, their eyes lit up instantly: "Siqing? Are you Yu Siqing?"
…
In the spacious and tidy living room, warm wind blew, the off-white curtains were hanging down to the ground, and the wind and snow were everywhere outside the window, but there was no sense of coldness at all. Yu Siqing made a cup of warm tea for the middle-aged couple. Because it was too hot, the vicissitudes of life man who claimed to be her father coughed heavily in his throat several times, and his face instantly flushed.
She sat beside him without moving, and said in a very calm tone: "Drink slowly."
The man calmed down and said his last name was Feng. He took out two old photos from his pocket and said, "Siqing, this is when you were just 100 days old... and your mother's wedding photo when she was young. Doesn't she look a lot like you now?"
The couple discovered Yu Siqing because of a recent trending search on Weibo. Netizens dug out her detailed information, including her orphan status, company management positions, and ID photos, all of which were listed on Baidu Encyclopedia.
Yu Siqing's face looks so much like her biological mother's.
The man explained awkwardly, and then said: "We also have your birth certificate..."
Yu Siqing had never thought about looking for her relatives, and frowned slightly: "So?"
The silent woman next to him finally couldn't help but speak. She was no longer fair and beautiful, and she looked several years older than her peers due to the ravages of time: "Siqing, your parents really couldn't support you at the beginning. At home, you had several sisters to feed... so they abandoned you at the door of the orphanage..."
Yu Siqing didn't want to hear this, but smiled: "So what?"
She asked the same question again, and the man looked at her hesitantly, but there was no so-called fatherly love in his eyes. Instead, they were muddy, like the dirty water in the sewer on the street, covered with a layer of dark light.
Ten minutes later.
Yu Siqing learned from the couple that they came to recognize their daughter in order to ask for alimony so that they could use it to buy a house for their beloved son to get married.
She smiled self-deprecatingly, turned her head and looked at the snow outside the window, with a sense of fatal confusion in her heart, but this feeling only lasted for a moment and soon disappeared. She asked very calmly: "Why did you choose to abandon me?"
"Thinking of love..."
"Have you ever thought about going back to the orphanage to find me? Even for a second, just a second."
The atmosphere in the living room was so quiet that it made people feel suffocated. Yu Siqing looked at the two speechless people with a cold expression between her eyebrows. She completely brought out the temperament she had when negotiating with people in the business world, unknowingly putting a lot of pressure on people.
In the end, it was He Yunjian who came back after sending the child to school.
When he saw that there were strangers in the apartment, a hint of surprise appeared in his deep eyes, but his expression was not obvious.
The couple recognized He Yunjian and stood up hurriedly to greet him. Then, embarrassed but courageous, they told the whole story.
Yu Siqing only remembered that it was funny, and the corners of her light-colored lips were always smiling.
When her patience was about to run out, He Yunjian promptly escorted them out the door with a neutral attitude, and did not say whether he believed in the identity of the couple.
The door of the apartment was closed, and I felt cut off from the world in an instant.
Yu Siqing hugged her knees and sat in front of the French window, looking outside with gentle eyes. In her mind, the last question she asked emerged: "The old dean said that when he found me, there was a note stuffed in my clothes, and it said Siqing. Why Siqing?"
The answer to this question was from a haggard woman who claimed to be her biological mother: "I gave you the name. I wanted you to miss your biological parents from time to time when you grow up."
Yu Siqing-
Yu took the old dean's surname.
My thoughts and feelings have not changed a single word.
Because it was the name given by her biological parents, and also because the old dean hoped that she would be a kind-hearted and affectionate child who would take care of her throughout her life and death when she grew up.
Yu Siqing, this name is like the most vicious curse.
Haunting her for life after life...
Whether it is to his parents, the old dean, and He Yunjian.
Looking back over the past thirty years, she has been thinking about love, the most painful and difficult love in the world.
The author has something to say: The name Yu Siqing really fits the story of the sister-in-law.
The first 100 in this chapter will receive a red envelope, and the last 100 will be randomly dropped. Good night~