Sang Wuyan returned to City B and found a job at a radio station, earning money while preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. The company also allowed Sang's mother to retire one year early and recuperate at home.
The funeral was quite grand thanks to the enthusiastic management of the leaders of Sang's father's unit. Wu Yan fainted from crying several times over her father's body, but Sang's mother remained calm.
At that time, Cheng Yin worriedly reminded Wu Yan: "You have to take good care of your aunt."
Sure enough, after Mr. Sang was buried, Mother Sang went to her father's office every day and locked herself in to talk to herself, or took a long-distance bus to the place where they had been educated youth and cried. When the time came, she would go home calmly as usual to cook for Wu Yan, looking very happy.
She kept applying for night shifts at the radio station. The director, who was usually fierce and ruthless, liked to find fault with everyone, but he almost always responded to her requests. She would get off work at nearly one o'clock every day, and after returning home, she would continue to stay up late to review for the postgraduate entrance examination, and would not go to bed until the sky began to turn gray.
A colleague asked: "Why do you like the night shift so much?"
Sang Wuyan smiled and said, "Something happened at home during the day."
During the day, Sang Wuyan always followed her mother closely, and would rush back just before her mother left, pretending to have just come back from shopping or just got home. She also begged the leaders of her father's school to help her mother keep the office.
The two of them spent a year like this. If Cheng Yin hadn't been there, Sang Wuyan felt that he would have gone crazy first.
Sang Wuyan was admitted to the graduate school of Sang's father as he wished.
A year later, several days after her father's death, Sang's mother suddenly asked, "Yanyan, was your father buried yesterday?"
Sang Wuyan was stunned and then replied: "Yes."
Everything was back to normal, except that Sang's mother suddenly missed a year in her memory. She knew it was a kind of selective amnesia caused by psychology, just like a shy person who forgets his lines as soon as he goes on stage when he is extremely nervous.
Mother Sang sometimes feels sad, and she spends most of her time with her friends at the senior citizen university. She often says, "Yanyan, you don't have to worry about me. You can go back wherever you want. I don't need anyone to take care of me. I am quite comfortable on my own."
Sang Wuyan understood the meaning of his words, but her mother didn’t know, and it seemed she could never go back.
I don't know if the last words she said to Su Nianqin at that time were a curse or a prophecy. He really did it and never appeared in front of her again.
Su Nianqin was not a person who liked to attract attention, but Sang Wuyan still got bits and pieces about him from various media. For example, Su Huaishan was discharged from the hospital after a critical period; for example, Su Nianqin returned to the Su family and started to get involved in the family business; and... Yi Jin announced that he would stop writing songs.
It was only when she looked at the newspaper that she noticed that the two words "Yi Jin" were just taken from the quilt.
One now.
Clothes now.
What this means is that there is no such person as Yi Jin anymore in this world.
After so long, the pain of losing her father has gradually dissipated. At that time, she felt extremely regretful about her father's sudden death, with a heart full of grief, self-pity and remorse that she had nowhere to vent. In the end, she even blamed Su Nianqin for her father's death, so she said such decisive words to him.
She smiled, but it didn't matter anymore.
No matter who he loves, some things only happen once in a lifetime, and once you miss them, you can never go back.
In the blink of an eye, she is in her second year of graduate school.
Wei Hao and Xu Qian finally got married after a long relationship that started in high school. When their high school classmates heard the news, they were all envious.
Sang Wuyan agreed to be the maid of honor, and the best man was a male colleague from Wei Hao's company. Li Lulu was also there on the wedding day. She was admitted to the graduate school of M Normal University the year she graduated, and became Sang Wuyan's senior.
When sending the bride off, Sang Wuyan got on the main wedding car as a bridesmaid.
Xu Qian suddenly said while sitting in the car: "Sang Wuyan, I always feel that you are luckier than me. My family is not well off, and I have to be nice and flattering to get everything, so I am very jealous of you."
"Why is the bride saying this?"
"It was Wei Hao who made me understand that people can't think like that. Everyone has their own life and happiness, and they can't always compare their shortcomings with others. I don't want to apologize to you at all for what happened with Wei Hao. Because he is my happiness, and everyone is selfish at this moment. I grabbed it, so I am very happy now. You should also work hard."
Sang Wuyan nodded and smiled at her.
At the end of the ceremony, when the bride threw her bouquet, Xu Qian winked at her and threw the flowers at her face. Many unmarried young men laughed and shouted that the bride was biased.
Xu Qian said: "How am I biased? Isn't it just giving you a chance? Not only can you grab the flowers, but you can also grab the bridesmaid and become the wife of the leader."
Mother Sang was also at the banquet at the time. Perhaps inspired by Xu Qian or because she had really reached that age, she began to worry about her daughter’s personal problems.
"What do you think of Xiao Xiao who came to our house last time?" asked Mother Sang.
Seeing that Sang Wuyan was busy eating and didn't answer, she continued, "He's a nice guy, polite, and of suitable height."
"Who is Xiao Xiao?" Sang Wuyan asked curiously.
"How come you have forgotten your father's former student? She's the one who calls you "junior sister" when he sees you!" Mother Sang reminded.
Sang Wuyan thought for a long time but still couldn't remember what this person looked like.
A few days later, Sang's mother asked again: "Are there any boys in your class who you can get along with?"
"Yes. He's a nice guy. He even helped me find materials for my thesis."
"How are the people?"
"Mom, you're here again. They're all married."
Sang Wuyan helplessly turned the page of the gossip magazine in his hand, and unexpectedly saw a photo of Su Nianqin. The photo was very small, he was wearing a black suit, and his face was not clear. The article was basically commenting on the golden bachelors who were most coveted by women in the year.
In just three years, he has successfully taken over all the family businesses from his father Su Huaishan.
"What are you looking at?" Mother Sang asked casually when she saw her reading intently.
"Nothing." Sang Wuyan quickly turned another page of the book to cover it up.
Since this indirect approach didn't work, Sang's mother went straight to the point and started looking for a blind date for Sang Wuyan. She attended senior citizen activities and got to know many people of the same age. She would ask anyone she caught, "Does your son have a girlfriend?"
Sang Wuyan really couldn't stand it anymore, but she couldn't tell her parents directly, so she had to find a room to move out, saying that it was difficult for a girl who lived with her parents to find a boyfriend.
Mother Sang was used to accepting new ideas in the new era. After thinking about it, she felt it was right and readily agreed.
After asking for help from others, Mother Sang finally screened out a few suitable candidates.
The first one is a teacher, new to Dad Academy.
"They've all bought houses outside, and they're rooftop duplexes." Mother Sang emphasized this selling point.
She now followed Mother Sang's wishes. If she asked her to go, she would obey. Whether to go or not was one thing, whether it would succeed or not was another.
The first blind date was inevitably awkward. The two talked on the phone first, and then agreed to meet at the entrance of the island.
The other person said, "I'm wearing a brown jacket."
Sang Wuyan lowered his head to examine his striped shirt. He couldn't think of what color to describe it as. He also felt that it would be impolite to hesitate for too long on the phone, so he blurted out, "Then I'll get a copy of the Digest Weekly."
Puff! Cheng Yin laughed when she heard it nearby.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Sang Wuyan, you are too unsophisticated. Why don't you just hold a copy of "Friends" in your right hand and a red rose in your left hand? The signal for contact is: I won't tell you even if you kill me."
"Get out!" Sang Wuyan pretended to be angry.
When I got to the lower floor of the upper island by bus, I saw a man wearing glasses and a brown jacket. Sang Wuyan took out the newspaper from her bag. The man came over with a smile when he saw her, "Miss Sang?"
The man had small eyes and a fleshy face, and when he smiled, his eyes almost disappeared.
Sang Wuyan nodded and went up to have coffee with him.
"How is it, how is it?" As soon as she got home, Mother Sang called.
"fine."
"What do you mean okay?"
"It just won't work."
"Why not?"
"Mom, I'm still studying at their school. What if he comes to teach us? Wouldn't that be a teacher-student relationship? What a bad influence."
"This... I'm afraid it doesn't matter."
"You said it's okay to have a teacher-student relationship, mom, you're too open-minded."
"You're about to graduate anyway."
"Also, his eyes are small, and it makes me uncomfortable to look at them."
"… "
The second one is also a teacher, also teaching at a university, but at the university next door.
This time they met at Pizza Hut downstairs, and Sang Wuyan wore a bright red dress that was eye-catching and easy to describe. When going upstairs, Sang Wuyan walked behind the teacher, estimated his height, and sighed in his heart.
After dinner, Sang Wuyan called his mother and said, "It's too short. It won't work."
"He's not very short, at most not tall." Mother Sang looked at the information given by the matchmaker while wearing glasses.
"No, I'm already so short. If I find someone shorter, it will affect the next generation."
"… "
The third one is still a teacher, but he teaches in high school.
Because her husband is in this profession, Mother Sang always feels that being a teacher is a good thing, as they have stable jobs, high social status, few social engagements, and it is difficult for them to cheat.
Cheng Yin shook her head. "Xiao Sang, I think you want to be famous in the education circle of City B. Is your mother going to bring all the unmarried male teachers in our city to you for your review?"
Before leaving, Sang Wuyan said to Cheng Yin: "Get lost, get lost, get lost!"
"Ms. Sang, when will you graduate from graduate school?" the man asked.
"next year."
"I also want to apply for the postgraduate entrance examination at your school. It's hard to teach high school students nowadays, and the social responsibility is great. How did you review for the postgraduate entrance examination?"
"Read books and do exercises."
"Did you find someone to review the questions?"
“Nowadays, psychology is a nationwide unified examination, so it mainly depends on yourself. But at that time, I also found a graduate student who had just been admitted to our department to help me review.” In fact, that person was Li Lulu.
"Then Miss Sang, can you help me review? I am also preparing for the exam. I failed the professional course and English last year, and I want to try again this year."
As soon as he got in the car, Sang Wuyan called home.
"Mom, this guy is not here to find a girlfriend." Sang Wuyan said gritting his teeth.
"What is that for?" Mother Sang wondered.
"He wants to find a tutor." Sang Wuyan defined.
When the fourth person's information was delivered to Sang Wuyan, Sang's mother said confidently, "Wuyan, the person I found for you this time is so perfect that there is nothing like him in heaven or on earth. He is nice and handsome, his height is fine, and his job is even better."
"Which school is this teacher from again?" Sang Wuyan rubbed his forehead.
"He's a lawyer."
The coffee shop on the first floor of the Holiday Inn is shockingly expensive in City B. However, today it is the place for Sang Wuyan's blind date. Sang Wuyan arrived a little late, and the other party said on the phone that he was in seat nine by the window, and asked Sang Wuyan to come in directly. The waiter took her to her seat, and she was about to sit down when she heard someone call "Mr. Su".
Whenever she heard this title, her heart would beat faster and she would immediately look away, and then she would be disappointed again and again. She didn't even know whether she was looking forward to it or afraid.
She stood in front of seat number nine and looked in the direction of the voice again. The person who spoke was a middle-aged man next to her.
Then, Sang Wuyan saw Su Nianqin coming towards him.
If it weren't for the three words "Mr. Su" as the foundation, she would hardly recognize him.
He was wearing a dark grey suit with a neatly buttoned collar, looking tall and outstanding. His skin was darker than before, his face was still handsome, but his bones were filled with a deeper indifference than before. This indifference attracted women like moths to a flame, and she was one of them.
His appearance caused the bartender to look up at him frequently. The person who was holding his elbow and guiding him was not Yu Xiaolu, but a woman dressed exquisitely. The two of them were not intimate, so it was obvious that they were secretaries or something like that.
The colors of the suit, shirt and tie are well matched, which shows that the woman with him is much more careful than Yu Xiaolu, and must be good at housekeeping.
Sang Wuyan stood there in a daze.
Then he passed her by.
For a moment, Sang Wuyan was a little dazed, and even his hands and feet began to tremble slightly.
It was so sudden that she met him without any preparation. In the past few years since they last met, he was no longer the Su Nianqin she was familiar with. He became even more unattainable.
At that time, he was a substitute teacher and she was a trainee teacher.
Today, he is the heir to a chaebol, and she is still an ordinary student.
After the breakup, she rarely mentioned his name in front of others, forcing herself to forget him. However, every time she saw his name, news about him, or pictures of him in newspapers or magazines, she couldn't help but cut them out and put them in her diary, keeping them as a secret.
Before going on blind dates a few times ago, she always thought that if this one was the right one, she would just get married and let the past be the past forever.
Sang Wuyan had always thought that she had really done it, but until she saw him suddenly appear there just now, walking slowly towards her with a faint smile. That was not the Su Nianqin she knew at all. At one time, those expressions were all hers. Thinking of this, the sweetness, sadness, bitterness, and romance of first love all surged into Sang Wuyan's heart, and it was difficult to distinguish the various flavors.
He couldn't see her, so he passed her without noticing.
At that moment, she felt as if time had frozen. He walked past her, so close that Sang Wuyan could almost hear the friction of their clothes.
He didn't notice her, didn't even pause.
Sang Wuyan smiled, as if mocking himself.
"Miss Sang, are you okay?" The man who had been waiting for her to sit down asked with concern when he saw her pale face.
"fine."
Because it was daytime, there were not many people in the cafe, and soothing piano music was playing. A few customers were chatting, all in low voices.
The voice she spoke to the blind date wasn't loud at all, but it still caused Su Nianqin next to her to pause.
Sang Wuyan was a little surprised. She didn't know that after so many years, he could still be so sensitive to her voice.
"Ms. Sang?" The man shouted her last name loudly without knowing the situation.
Miss Sang? Su Nianqin raised his eyebrows. He turned around, slowly took two steps back, and stood in front of Sang Wuyan's table.
"Ms. Sang?" This time it was Su Nianqin who asked, "This surname is not common. Maybe we are old acquaintances."
When the blind date guy heard what Su Nianqin said, he stood up out of courtesy and asked, "What's this gentleman's name?"
"My surname is Su, and I am an old acquaintance of Miss Sang in City A. Of course..." Su Nianqin said, "If Miss Sang is a forgetful person, I'm afraid I don't remember it very well." He smiled and made sarcastic remarks.
Sang Wuyan's face turned pale.
"Nice to meet you." The man shook hands with him politely.
The secretary next to him reminded him quietly: "Mr. Su..." and then guided his hand to shake the man's.
Sang Wuyan discovered that after three years, his interpersonal skills had improved significantly. At least he knew to shake hands with others no matter whether he was in a good mood or a bad mood.
Unlike ordinary blind people, Su Nianqin rarely wears sunglasses because they would block his only sense of light. So it was not until this moment that the blind date man realized that there was something wrong with Su Nianqin's eyes.
"Miss Sang and I are old friends who meet in a foreign land. It's a rare occasion. But I don't know who this gentleman is?" Su Nianqin asked with a smile.
"Miss Sang and I..." said the man.
"He is my boyfriend!" Sang Wuyan quickly retorted.
Su Nianqin narrowed his eyes slightly. In the past, that was his signature expression before he got angry, but now he asked calmly, "Then please, Miss Sang, introduce your boyfriend to me."
"His last name..." Sang Wuyan paused and looked at the man. Before going out for a blind date, Sang's mother gave her a special lesson, including the man's family background, how to act like a lady, and how to find out about the other person's family background without showing any emotion. She repeated it twice in her mind while walking on the road. Unexpectedly, after suddenly meeting Su Nianqin, all the messy things were thrown out of her mind.
"My last name is Wu, Wu Yu." The man added for Sang Wuyan with a smile.
Sang Wuyan was embarrassed, but she never expected that Su Nianqin had become more slippery and cunning than before, and she could reveal her true colors with just one sentence.
Afterwards, Su Nianqin returned to his seat and talked about his own business.