"Invitation!" Bai Lang handed her a red envelope, still furious. "He's really awesome. He actually invited all the senior members of our National Security Bureau to attend his engagement party, including you!"
Bai Suye slowly opened the envelope and the invitation slipped out.
It was indeed an invitation.
Red, very festive...
On it, the two names 'Night Owl' and 'Nalan' were written side by side.
As she watched, she felt her eyes were about to turn red.
"Don't be sad, I'll throw the invitation into the trash can for you right now!" White Wolf said as he was about to throw the invitation away.
"Why did you throw away such a good invitation?" Bai Suye took the invitation back and put it under the bed. Then, she threw her cell phone to Bai Lang. Bai Lang looked at her suspiciously, "What's wrong?"
"My phone seems to be broken. Can you help me take care of it? There are a lot of emails in it. Just let someone from the National Security Agency handle it."
"What about this invitation..." Bai Lang took the phone and looked at her worriedly for several times.
"I will discuss this with my boss, you don't have to worry about me."
Bai Lang wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing. In the end, he just said, "Doctor Fu asked you to stay in the hospital for two days. During these two days, you should not go anywhere and stay in the hospital well."
"Okay, I know." Bai Suye was rarely so obedient.
White Wolf closed the door of the room and went out.
For a moment, she was the only one left in the huge ward. The room was very quiet, so quiet that it made people feel uneasy. She took out the invitation from under the pillow again and stared at it for a long time.
In fact, this day will come sooner or later...
But when it really came, the pain in my heart could not be hidden...
… … … …
In the following days, after Bai Suye was discharged from the hospital, she threw herself into her work as if nothing had happened. Bai Lang would always peek at her and find it incredible. Bai Suye was waiting for the director to come to her in person, and sure enough, she was called to the top floor two days before the engagement party.
"What do you think of this engagement party?" the director asked her politely, as if he was chatting about family matters.
"Ferens has a feud with our National Security Agency. I don't know what he is planning by inviting us over this time. If I had a choice, I would naturally choose not to go."
The director looked at her face for a long time, as if trying to guess her thoughts. Finally, "Go ahead. Although we are at odds with Ferrens, we still have to give him enough face. Since he dares to invite us openly, he naturally dares not do anything to us."
"Since you want me to go, then I will go." Bai Suye nodded and agreed to the other party's wishes.
The director was obviously quite satisfied with this decision. "Let Bai Lang and the deputy director go with you. As for the gifts for the newlyweds, the bureau will prepare them, so you don't have to worry about it. You can go back and prepare the flight tickets for tomorrow morning."
… … … …
The next day.
Judea.
The temperature in Judea today is several degrees lower than that in Country S.
The hotel they stayed in had already been arranged by Ferens - this hotel was owned by Night Owl, a seven-star sailing hotel. A landmark in the center of Judea, this hotel was also internationally renowned and ranked among the best.
White Wolf followed her with the luggage, looking around the hotel, and sighed: "I've heard that Ferrens and Night Owl are both wealthy people. Now it seems that they are not false at all."
Bai Suye didn't care about that. In fact, everyone in the National Security Bureau knew all of Night Owl's businesses. She was even more familiar with this hotel.
She looked around the entire hotel and found that it was decorated in a festive manner.
The invitation clearly stated that the engagement party would be held in the largest hall of this hotel two days later. This would probably be the most grand engagement ceremony in the entire city of Judea.
The hotel waiter led the three of them to the presidential suite on the top floor to stay.
The hotel has a great view. The room she stayed in was very special, and she could see the sea in the back. The French window was opened a little, and there was a salty smell in the air, and the sound of waves drifted into her ears.
Judea…
After ten years, she is back...
I once met, got to know, and fell in love with Night Owl here...
In the past ten years, she has not dared to set foot on this land, fearing that the guilt and sweet past will drown her...
She never expected that the reason she would set foot here again would be for Ye Xiao's engagement party.
Things in this world are really unpredictable.
"Minister, let's go have dinner together. The deputy director has made an appointment with his friends, so there are only two of us left." Bai Lang called her room to make the invitation.
"You eat alone, I have something to do later." Bai Suye refused.
White Wolf hesitated for a moment, "Minister, you are not going to look for... Night Owl?"
"What nonsense." Bai Suye was too lazy to talk any more with Bai Lang and hung up the phone directly.
After that, she took out a black formal suit from her suitcase, put on sunglasses, and left the hotel alone. After not being here for ten years, Judea had changed a lot. She got in a taxi, told the driver the address in the language of Country T, and then sat quietly in the car, watching this strange yet familiar city slowly pass by her.
Here, almost every street and alley is where she and Night Owl once walked hand in hand...
But, ten years have passed, and it seems like a lifetime ago...
"Miss, we're here." The driver stopped the car.
Bai Suye paid the bill and got out of the car. In front of her was a cemetery. The tombstones stood there like sharp weapons that were ready to kill her.
She took a deep breath and turned to the flower shop nearby. The flower shop was doing good business, and it took a while for a clerk to be free to serve her.
"Miss, what flowers would you like to buy?"
"Little daisies, white." She spoke the language of Country T fluently. "Give me 25 in total."
"So many?" The florist was quite surprised.
She smiled and said, "Yes, 25 bunches."
That year, the bodies of the 25 Night Owl brothers who died tragically in that battle were finally buried together here.
"Then please wait a moment. I'll bring it over from the warehouse right away."
"Okay, no rush."
Bai Suye nodded, waited in the flower shop for 20 minutes, and then went up with 25 bouquets of flowers. Her arms were so full of flowers that they almost fell to the ground, attracting passers-by to cast inquiring glances.
She offered daisies to each of the 25 graves with a pious and guilty heart. She knelt down in front of each tombstone and kowtowed heavily. By the time she had kowtowed 25 times, a large piece of skin on her forehead had been broken and blood was oozing out.
She knew that such an act could not make amends to the living, nor could it earn forgiveness from those who were sleeping in the underground, nor could it redeem her heart that had been tortured by guilt for a full ten years...
But this is the only thing she can do now.