"Let her in." Shi Yi replied in a tense voice.
She put down the phone and didn't move for several seconds. She couldn't think of any other reason why Fu Siyu came to her except because of Fu Shitian. But why was it because of Fu Shitian
She couldn't deny that she had uncontrollable expectations in her heart.
But what kind of relationship do Fu Siyu and Fu Shitian have now? Are they really good friends? Or is there something else going on
Shi Yi heard footsteps getting closer.
She withdrew her hand from the receiver, rubbed her brows, took a deep breath, and calmed down.
After three knocks on the door, the expected announcement came: "Mr. Shi, Miss Fu Siyu is here."
Shi Yi responded, "Please let her in." He lifted the long hair beside his ear and stood up.
Qiao Man opened the door and a familiar young woman appeared at the door. She was wearing a short skirt today, and the half of her prosthesis below the knee was exposed to the air.
Shi Yi was not surprised. He just looked at her, smiled slightly, walked from behind the desk to the sofa, and greeted her: "Please sit down." It was not very warm, nor very cold, but a very appropriate politeness for a sophisticated person.
Elegant, decent, cool and noble. Just standing there is enough to be pleasing to the eye.
Fu Siyu couldn't help but sigh. No wonder even someone as outstanding as her sister couldn't escape this disaster.
She nodded and smiled back at Shi Yi, and as she walked in, she greeted him politely: "I came here without even saying hello. I hope I didn't disturb you, Mr. Shi."
Shi Yi smiled faintly and said, "Nothing." She watched Fu Siyu sit down, then she sat down with him and asked, "Tea or coffee?"
Fu Siyu smiled: "Is plain water okay?"
"Of course." She turned her head and looked at Qiao Man, who then sensibly went to the water dispenser to get two glasses of water, and then quietly left the office.
Shi Yi did not take the initiative to greet him, but looked at Fu Siyu calmly, obviously waiting for Fu Siyu to explain his purpose.
Fu Siyu held the disposable paper cup, feeling a little nervous, but she didn't show it. She looked at Shi Yi and said calmly, "We met at the hospital that day, but I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Fu Sitian's sister, Fu Siyu."
Shi Yi nodded: "I know. Ming Ruo introduced her to me. When I was in college, I also heard your sister mention that she had a younger sister."
Fu Siyu looked at Shi Yi's expression calmly. When she talked about college and Fu Shitian, her expression was still calm and composed, and Fu Siyu could not catch any information.
She followed up the conversation and pretended to be uncertain: "My sister mentioned me. So, Mr. Shi, you are indeed my sister's college classmate."
Shi Yi nodded.
Fu Siyu said a little embarrassedly: "To be honest, Mr. Shi, I came here today because I want to ask you something."
Shi Yi raised his eyebrows slightly: "You say."
Fu Siyu said tentatively: "It's about my sister."
Shi Yi's expression still didn't change. His eyes were still, waiting for her next words.
Fu Siyu confessed: "I want to ask you if you know about the love affair my sister had in college."
Shi Yi said "Hmm?" lightly, with a slightly scrutinizing look in his eyes, as if he was puzzled, but still calm.
Fu Siyu was a little unsure whether it was right for him to sneak over here today despite Fu Sitian's repeated warnings. The woman in front of him was really hard to figure out.
Fu Siyu sighed, but continued to play the role, explaining with a worried look: "You are my sister's good friend in college, and I am not afraid of you laughing when I tell you this. It's like this, my sister has done well in her career in the past two years, and outsiders think she is glamorous, but in fact, our family knows that she is not doing well. In the past few years after graduation from college, many people have introduced potential partners to my sister or pursued her, but she refused to see anyone and didn't want anyone. She even wore a ring because she was afraid of trouble. She told her family that she was busy with work and her career was on the rise, so she didn't have time to think about it, but I know that she has someone in her heart and is worried about him and can't get over it."
After saying that, she stared at Shi Yi.
Shi Yi's heart was beating very fast, but he didn't show it on his face. "So you suspect she's still immersed in the relationship she had in college?"
Fu Siyu was disappointed. Shi Yi was too calm and objective. If she hadn't seen the photo of Fu Shitian pressed under her pillow and heard her call "Shi Yi" in her dream, she would have doubted whether she had found the wrong person.
"Yes." She suppressed her disappointment and still conveyed the message she wanted to convey: "I feel like she still likes that person and has never let go. She has a very precious watch that she has hardly ever taken off in recent years. I know it was given to her by the guy she dated in college."
Her sister was a taciturn person and always thought too much about others. She suspected that she still liked this matter, and her sister might not have told Shi Yi. She didn't know what happened between them, why they broke up, or when they broke up, but she wanted to give Fu Shitian a chance. No matter what Shi Yi's attitude was now, at least, she wanted Shi Yi to know her sister's attitude.
Shi Yi's heart was in turmoil, his thoughts were mixed, but he still asked calmly: "Have you asked her directly?"
Fu Siyu was frustrated: "I asked her, but she just brushed me off."
Shi Yi's eyes were calm and his tone was gentle: "Since it is something she doesn't want others to know, then I have no right to reveal anything for her. I'm sorry, I don't know much about this matter, I'm afraid I can't help you."
Sexual orientation is a big issue that will stir up a storm in any family. She doesn't trust Fu Siyu, and she is even less sure what Fu Siyu's real intention is in asking about this matter.
Fu Siyu was choked by the coldness in her words. She suddenly didn't know whether she should say the rest of the words and the rest of the things. She really couldn't figure out Shi Yi's attitude. Last time in the hospital, Shi Yi was too cold, and today she didn't show any different emotions towards her sister or the past. If she really treated her sister just as her sister said, that she was a person who should not have appeared in the past and the times had changed, then her showing her sister's suffering and wounds to her bloody body was meaningless except to make her sister more embarrassed.
She was silent for a moment, then said with an awkward smile, "Yeah, I was too nervous and didn't think it through."
Shi Yi clasped his hands together and placed them on his thighs: "It's understandable that you are confused because of your concern. I suggest that you find a chance to ask her again."
He really seems like a completely objective outsider. Fu Siyu frowned slightly and replied, "Okay."
Shi Yi stared at her and suddenly said, "I also have a question for you."
Fu Siyu nodded and let her speak.
Shi Yi asked: "Have you and your sister always had such a good relationship?"
Fu Siyu was stunned for a moment, then replied in a hoarse voice: "No."
Shi Yi tilted his head slightly.
Fu Siyu said: "It's me, I've grown up."
That year, after Fu Shitian was rushed to the hospital for treatment due to acute obstruction of cholangitis, her father brought back a piece of paper that Fu Shitian had written at some unknown time and had hidden in her wallet for an unknown period of time. The three lines of words on it read "I'm sorry," "137," and "Xiaoyu, get well," and the two words her father said as he pressed on her shoulder: "Xiaoyu, it's time to grow up."
"Sister will be tired too."
She will never forget it.
At one point, she didn't understand what the string of numbers meant, until one day when she heard the name "Shi Yi" from Fu Shitian in his sleep, then she suddenly understood.
That was the dream she had talked about Fu Shitian, a dream that she could never obtain and would never be fulfilled.
She looked at Shi Yi's cold and self-satisfied face, and a feeling of depression and grievance suddenly filled her heart. Fu Shitian's imprisonment and Shi Yi's indifference.
She didn't want to explain further. She had already handed over the fire starter, and there was no need to say more now. She stood up and said goodbye: "I thought too simply, then I will go back and think about it. I won't waste your time, so I will go back first."
Shi Yi agreed and did not try to keep him.
She personally escorted Fu Siyu to the office door, opened the door, and saw Fu Siyu was about to walk away. Finally, she couldn't help but called out, "Miss Fu."
Fu Siyu stopped and looked back at her.
Shi Yi moved his throat and asked, "How is your sister's gastroscopy result?"
Fu Siyu was slightly startled, and then showed the most sincere smile since this meeting, and replied: "Very good." After a pause, she invited: "I will get married in a while, and the wedding invitations are still being customized. If you have time, please come and have a drink at the wedding."
Shi Yi nodded.
Fu Siyu said nothing more, turned around and walked away with a slight limp.
Shi Yi stood there silently, his hand slowly resting on the door frame, his whole body trembling almost imperceptibly.
Fu Siyu's words contained too much information. She didn't go on a blind date? Didn't fall in love? Didn't bow to the secular world? Did she still like her? She couldn't tell whether she was ecstatic or afraid. She was afraid that it would be in vain again, afraid that it would be another case of self-indulgence.
Could Fu Siyu's words be trusted? She wanted to believe it too much, and wanted to grasp this last straw. But she was also too scared.
Is that person in Fu Siyu's words her? Is that her? But if he still likes her and still cares about her, why doesn't he give her an explanation or a word of regret
Since their reunion, she had been clinging to that little bit of luck and using that self-deceiving excuse to approach her and pester her so many times, so she had had opportunities to speak up.
What is she thinking
A colleague passed by and saw her extremely unhappy face. He asked in surprise: "Boss Shi? What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
In all the years they had worked together, she had never seen him look so distraught.
Shi Yi's lips trembled, he shook his head, turned into the office and closed the door.
She leaned against the door, not knowing why she wanted to cry, she felt wronged, more wronged than ever before. She raised her head to try to stop the tears from flowing, but they still slid down her cheeks uncontrollably.
She wiped it quickly, took a deep breath, and couldn't bear it anymore. She went to her desk to pick up her bag, and without even saying hello, she walked straight out of the office, went to the parking lot, and drove towards Huaibei Road.
All along the way, her mind was filled with the idea of asking her one last time, no matter what, to give her a last hurrah. She had had enough of this torture of being neither up nor down, neither dead nor alive.
But in the end, when the car arrived at Huaibei Road and Nanyuan Restaurant was visible a hundred meters away, she still backed off.
She parked in the same parking space she had parked last time and stared at Nanyuan Restaurant. Fear overwhelmed anticipation and gripped her heart.
In this life, all the timidity, inferiority and embarrassment seemed to be given to Fu Shitian.
It's not that she hadn't been lucky before, and it's not that no one insisted on not believing that Fu Shitian didn't love her anymore. Yin Fanlu and Chen Xizhu both swore to her that it was impossible, and that they would go and find out more about Fu Shitian, and that there must be a misunderstanding or hardship. She believed it and expected it, but in the end, they only responded to her expectations with silence and sympathy.
It was through repeated dashed expectations and self-humiliation that she confirmed the fact that Fu Shitian really didn't love her anymore and was going to leave her.
It was like grinding bones and scattering ashes. Fu Shitian's words "no" not long ago are still ringing in my ears.
This is the last straw.
Shi Yi wasn't sure if he could really withstand her denial again.
Night slowly fell, and she turned the car around and returned home.
Without turning on the light, she sat quietly on the sofa where Fu Shitian had sat, holding the rabbit. She knew what the most efficient and convenient method was, but she still couldn't do it to her.
She exited the address book interface where the private detective's number was recorded, swiped upwards, and clicked on Chen Xizhu's entry.
The call was quickly connected, and Chen Xizhu's clear voice came out: "Shi Yi?"
Shi Yi moved his throat and squeezed out a sound:
"Xizhu, I met Si Tian."
The author has something to say: 1437 is the number of words in each word of iloveyouforever (I love you forever)
"137" is also the bank password, website m..net...: