It was more than a month later when Ruan Yihan learned the news.
During this period, she was half busy with work and half to numb herself, and her mobile phone was basically turned off.
In that phone, besides grandma, Xiao Hai is Jiang Zhenyue.
Her grandma was right next to her but she wouldn't send her any messages, and neither would Qin Haiyao. The only messages Yueyue sent were all about Qin Haiyao. Every time Ruan Yihan read them, her heart ached. In the end, she simply stopped reading them.
This month.
She often dreams of Qin Haiyao.
In the dream, she always looked unhappy, either walking alone on a country road, or sitting alone in the sea of flowers where they once kissed. The wind blew her hair, and Xiao Hai stretched out a hand to hold a wisp of wind without saying a word.
The last time she dreamed of Xiao Hai, she was sitting in the flower garden. She turned and looked at Ruan Yi Han, tears in her eyes: "Ah Han, why don't you come? I can't hold on any longer..."
I woke up from the dream suddenly.
Ruan Yihan was covered in cold sweat, she was gasping for breath, and her heart was beating violently.
She looked at the watch. It was exactly eleven o'clock at night. Just as she calmed down for a moment, the doorbell rang.
Who could it be at this hour
Ruan Yihan was afraid of waking up her grandmother, so when she was about to open the door in her slippers, her grandmother got there first. Grandma Ruan opened the door in her pajamas.
It’s Song He.
Song He bit her lip as she looked at Ruan Yihan, her eyes filled with fear and uneasiness: "Ah Han, something happened."
These words seemed to confirm her dream. Ruan Yihan opened her eyes wide in an instant and stared at Song He.
She wanted to ask, but she didn't dare to open her mouth.
Her heart was beating so fast it almost burst out of her chest.
Song He was also frightened by her fierce look and did not dare to tell the secret. Grandma Ruan looked at Ruan Yihan, then looked at Song He: "What's the matter?"
Her trembling voice revealed her uneasiness.
Now, she has long been indifferent to many things. Her only relative, grandma, is by her side. Ruan Yihan's heart is trembling. Xiaohai, could it be Xiaohai...
…
Ruan Yihan, who knew everything, rushed out of the room to drive the car, her hands were shaking.
Behind her, Song He kept calling her, and Grandma Ruan became very anxious.
The night was as dark as ink, without a single ray of light. Ruan Yihan's hands were shaking as she rushed to the front of the car to pull the door. Song He ran out of breath and grabbed her: "Ah Han, don't do this! I'll go with you!"
"Get out...get out of here!"
Before she knew it, Ruan Yihan's face was covered with tears. She reached for the car keys in her pocket and her whole body was shaking.
Song He was also anxious when she saw her. She got the news from Sister Hui. She was going crazy when she knew about it. She couldn't believe that Cindy could do such a thing. Song He knew how important Qin Haiyao was to Ruan Yihan, so she ran over to tell her as soon as possible.
"Xiao Hai, Xiao Hai..."
Ruan Yihan murmured, and Grandma Ruan came over and hugged her granddaughter. She looked at Song He, and Song He nodded. She took the car keys from Ruan Yihan.
There's no point saying anything now.
She had to see her immediately.
Get in the car.
Ruan Yihan's body and heart were cold, and her mind was full of what Xiaohai said to her last.
—Ahan, I’m not going anywhere. I’m waiting for you here.
Waiting for you to come back and love me.
…
Tears slid down her cheeks one by one, and the severe pain spread from the tip of Ruan Yihan's heart bit by bit. The fear and anxiety of impending loss made her unable to breathe.
Many images flashed through my mind.
They're all about Qin Haiyao.
In the end, Ruan Yihan controlled her emotions and opened the life phone with trembling hands.
Soon, a series of prompt sounds rang out.
All the information comes from Jiang Zhenyue.
—Ahan, answer the phone!
Why, have you been acting like an ostrich till now
Ruan Yihan, Xiaohai is injured!!!
She is seriously injured. If you don't come... it will be too late.
The last message was sent by Jiang Zhenyue last night. It was just a few simple words, but they were like a knife that cut into Ruan Yihan's heart and she stomped on it hard with her foot.
—You will regret it.
Do you regret it
Ruan Yihan wiped the tears from her face, she looked ahead, and murmured neurotically: "No, she promised me that she would wait for me, she won't leave like this." She reached into her pocket and touched the paper crane that Xiao Hai had handed to her personally.
Song He no longer knew what to say to comfort Ruan Yihan, and could only try to stay calm and concentrate on driving.
There was no one on the road at night.
But when they arrived at the village, the mountain road went south. By the time the two men entered the village, the east was already faintly white and the sun was gradually rising. Although it was weak, it was enough to warm the earth.
The further the car drove in, the more tense Ruan Yihan's heart became. For a moment, she was even afraid to reach her destination.
Arrived at the gate of the yard.
Jiang Zhenyue stood there with her arms folded. She received a message from her grandmother in the evening and knew that Ruan Yihan had arrived.
She watched the car approaching from a distance, expressionless.
Ruan Yihan looked into her eyes with a desperate expression, like a prisoner waiting to be sentenced.
The yard was basically the same as when she left it.
However, there were wild mushrooms picked by Xiao Hai himself drying in the middle of the yard. When Ruan Yi Han was cooking for her last birthday, she casually mentioned that they were delicious, so she would go to the mountain to pick them whenever she had time, thinking of waiting for her to come over and eat them.
Jiang Zhenyue felt sad when she saw her like this, and she advised her, "Xiao Hai, there aren't many mushrooms here to begin with, just pick them and eat them, otherwise they'll go bad."
The mountain road is difficult to travel on, and the mushrooms are the freshest after the rain. Xiao Hai, a girl, doesn't know where she got so much perseverance. No matter how slippery the mountain road is, she goes to pick them like a compulsive person.
Qin Haiyao smiled slightly. She was sometimes stubborn and said, "I'll dry it in the sun."
In this way, she dried pile after pile of mushrooms. In the end, the hemp bags were full, but she still didn't wait for the person who said that the mushrooms were delicious.
…
Under the faint morning light.
Jiang Zhenyue looked at the tears on Ruan Yihan's face and asked lightly, "You're here? President Ruan, you're finally here?"
These two sentences were sour and bitter, choking Ruan Yihan's hands and feet cold. She stared at Jiang Zhenyue: "She, where is she?..."
Her voice was so soft that it seemed like it would break if the wind blew.
Jiang Zhenyue stared at her for a long time and said calmly: "Come with me."
For a moment, her heart dropped into her stomach. At that moment, Ruan Yihan's eyes became hot with excitement, and Song He, who was following behind her, also breathed a sigh of relief.
She received the news from Sister Hui.
Sister Hui called her late at night and said that she received a panicked call from Cindy on the landline in her hometown, saying that she had killed someone and ran away. Now the police are looking for her everywhere and have found her in her hometown. She has no place to hide anymore. She has already bought pesticides and other things, and just hopes that in the end, her body can be buried in front of her parents' grave.
At that time, Sister Hui thought it was late at night, and she thought Cindy had dreamed that her parents were drunk and talking nonsense again. But in the end, when she heard Cindy's almost frantic crying, she knew that all this was not fake.
"Who did you kill?"
Sister Hui asked tremblingly, and Cindy murmured: "Qin Haiyao, Qin Haiyao..."
Blood debt must be repaid with blood.
It was Qin Qin who caused the car accident and killed her parents. After she died, all Cindy wanted was to seek revenge on Qin Haiyao.
But not everyone has the courage to kill.
Cindy regretted it the moment she stabbed him with the knife. If she wanted to withdraw her hand, there was no turning back.
When the woman fell, she thought she would feel the pleasure of revenge, but when she saw her hands full of hot blood and the last smile of relief on the woman's lips, she almost collapsed.
When Jiang Zhenyue rushed in and saw Xiaohai fall down, all the wine bottles in her hands fell to the ground. The loud noise made Cindy temporarily regain her sanity, and she jumped out of the yard and fled in panic.
…
Jiang Zhenyue took Ruan Yihan along a walk. The country road was once filled with the fragrance of flowers, but now, as autumn was approaching, all the flowers were withered and dying, and there was loneliness and desolation everywhere.
Ruan Yihan felt more and more disappointed. She couldn't help but call Jiang Zhenyue, "Yueyue, where are you going?"
Aren’t you going to meet Xiaohai
Why come here
Shouldn't Xiao Hai be in the hospital now
Jiang Zhenyue didn't say anything. Her steps became faster and faster, and finally, she stopped in the middle of the flower bed.
She pointed to the small area and said calmly: "She is right here."
She did what she promised Qin Haiyao.
—We have drunk so many cups of wine together. If it were in ancient times, I would have been your wife.
Ah Han, we are very happy, right
If possible, Ahan, let's give ourselves five years and not let go so quickly, okay
This is my last wish to God.
If I say my heart is always with you, would you believe it
Ah Han, I love you.
I will wait for you here, waiting for you to come back and love me.
…
Silence, madness, pain, can't believe it, can't believe it...
At that moment, nothing could describe Ruan Yihan's mood. She stood there stiffly, her soul seemed to be drained away, and her breathing seemed to be paused.
The only part of my body that moved was the tears on my cheeks.
So hot, so scalding, falling to the ground, watering their past.
Xiaohai, Xiaohai, here I come, I come back to see you...
The faint afterglow in the sky was icy cold, and when it fell on people, the chill was biting.
Ruan Yihan's knees softened and she knelt on the ground. She supported herself with both hands and tears fell down one by one. "How is it possible, Xiaohai, Xiaohai..."
She can't be dead.
impossible…
Jiang Zhenyue's tears also fell. She bit her lip and didn't look at Ruan Yihan: "Xiao Hai said that this is her fate. She feels very tired. Death may be a relief for her. She doesn't even want to hold Cindy responsible. She told the police that Cindy accidentally hurt her. She said this is her fate. Ruan Yihan, she just wants to die."
Villages are different from cities. There are surveillance cameras everywhere, and the skynet and ground network leave people nowhere to escape.
At that time, there were only Qin Haiyao and Cindy. When Jiang Zhenyue went in, Qin Haiyao had already fallen to the ground. She did not see the whole process, but she could guess what happened.
She will never forget that day.
She hugged Qin Haiyao, her body covered in blood. Qin Haiyao's last look was towards the door. Seeing that there was no one there, she sighed softly.
She is still waiting for her.
When he was about to die, he was still waiting for her.
…
"She said she didn't want to go back to the city. If she died, she would be buried here." Jiang Zhenyue wiped the tears from her face. "She said that she was not recognized by her mother in her life, and people in the underworld would not recognize her as a member of the Qin family. She couldn't do that when she was alive, but she wanted to be your wife when she died."
Jiang Zhenyue simply knocked on the tombstone with a piece of wood.
—Wife of Ruan Yi-han.
Just like Xiao Hai said, just a few simple words, yet they were all returned to Ruan Yihan in blood.
Ruan Yihan knelt down in front of the grave step by step. Her hand touched the words "Ruan Yihan's Wife", her eyes filled with empty tears.
"Impossible, impossible..."
Xiao Hai said he would wait for her.
She is such a strong woman, she won't lie to herself.
But, but…
Ruan Yihan's tears fell like beads that had broken off the string. Jiang Zhenyue looked at her and shed tears silently.
The sun rose in the east. Ruan Yihan hugged the tombstone with all her strength and cried out in agony: "Xiao Hai, Xiao Hai, Qin Haiyao! Qin Haiyao..."
It was autumn, and the fallen leaves formed a yellow carpet on the ground, making the place seem even more lonely and desolate.
Ruan Yihan looked up at the sky and cried heart-wrenchingly. She regretted it. It was not until this moment that she truly regretted it.
Why…
Why didn't she come back earlier to see her...
Why did she leave even though she knew she couldn't bear to leave...
She was in pain and sad, but so was Xiao Hai...
Why on earth did she waste so much time dwelling on the disputes of the previous generation? What did this have to do with Xiao Hai...
At the very least, she had the love of her grandmother and was pampered and cared for since she was a child.
But what about Qin Haiyao
She has been suffering since birth.
Xiao Hai, Xiao Hai... The woman who loved her with her life, is gone just like that...
No, they agreed to be together forever.
Qin Haiyao, how can you go back on your word
…
Ruan Yihan cried so hard that the whole world was in chaos, she cried until her whole body became weak, and she cried in excruciating pain.
Jiang Zhenyue looked at her in silence.
Not far away, a girl in red came riding a horse. She came to Jiang Zhenyue and Ruan Yihan and pulled the reins. "Senior sister, what are you wasting time on? Why don't you take the people over now? Master is still waiting."
She looked at Ruan Yihan, somewhat surprised.
Jiang Zhenyue frowned irritably: "Lazhen, don't get in the way."
She is teaching a lesson to all lovers in the world who don't know how to cherish each other.
The girl called Lazhen also had a rebellious temper. She ignored Jiang Zhenyue's warning. She stared at Ruan Yihan with her penetrating eyes for a while and asked, "Is that her? She is really beautiful."
This made Ruan Yihan turn her head, she stared at Lazhen, and heard the meaning of her words. She was a typical ethnic girl, with rare heroism and domineering, and a pair of clean and sharp eyes, staring at Ruan Yihan like an eagle.
Lazhen met Ruan Yihan's eyes and curled the corners of her lips: "It's fake."
What
Ruan Yihan looked at her, and Lazhen pointed at the tombstone she was holding tightly: "This is fake."
That moment.
Ruan Yihan felt like she was hit hard on the head by someone. It hurt a lot, but at the same time, she felt like she was saved by God. She slowly turned her head and stared at Jiang Zhenyue. Her lips trembled like fallen leaves. She wanted to ask, but she didn't dare to open her mouth.
Xiao Hai, Xiao Hai she...
Jiang Zhenyue rolled her eyes at Lazhen and looked at Ruan Yihan: "Ah Han, how does it feel to lose someone?"
How does it feel to lose
…
Meeting Jiang Zhenyue's eyes, Ruan Yihan froze for a moment, then she lowered her head and, like a madman, threw the object at the grave with her bare hands.
Lazhen was startled and wanted to pull her, but Jiang Zhenyue shook her head at her and stopped her with her eyes.
How could she want to see Ruan Yihan sad? How could she have the heart to lie to her
But... she had to do it.
Only in this way, by experiencing the separation of life and death, can you know that this world is really as others say.
In the face of life and death, everything is insignificant.
What love, hate, grudges, is she going to live with hatred and resentment for the rest of her life
That's fine.
Xiao Hai finally gave her a life.
The soil carried the lingering scent of fallen flowers. Ruan Yihan dug until her fingertips were covered in blood. She dug with all her strength, seemingly not feeling the pain.
Fortunately, Jiang Zhenyue still had some conscience and didn't bury it too deep.
After digging that away, a glass bottle was revealed.
Ruan Yihan paused for a moment, then she carefully took out the glass bottle.
There was only a pink paper crane in the bottle.
That was folded by Qin Haiyao herself in this life and placed inside.
The wind blew away the tears on Ruan Yihan's face. She stared at it for a while and opened the bottle cap.
The thousand paper cranes fell out alone.
Ruan Yihan rubbed the blood and dirt on her hands onto her legs. She lowered her head and picked up the thousand paper cranes with trembling hands.
Lazhen looked at this scene, grimacing in pain for Ruan Yihan. She couldn't help but get closer to Jiang Zhenyue and said, "Senior sister, you Han girls are pretty amazing. Isn't she in pain?"
Jiang Zhenyue looked at her expressionlessly: "In such a touching moment, can't you just shut up?"
Lazhen immediately shut up and stared at Ruan Yihan.
Ruan Yihan tremblingly shook open the pink paper crane. In the middle of the crane were a few words written by Xiaohai with a pen.
—Ahan, I love you and I never regret it.