Sang Wuyan was holding the stuffed doll in a daze.
"He must have drunk too much just now." Cheng Yin said, "So he was talking nonsense. Don't let your imagination run wild."
"Even though I know it might be a joke, I'm still very happy to hear that he wants to marry me." Sang Wuyan's smile was a little sad.
Cheng Yin looked at the date on her phone and said, "Don't forget that you have to go home tomorrow."
Sang Wuyan turned around and saw the day shown on the pendulum. The day after tomorrow was his father's death anniversary.
Later, when Sang Wuyan received a call from Wu Yu while burning incense for his father at the cemetery, he remembered that he had forgotten to contact him.
"Where did you go the day before yesterday?" he was worried.
"I met a friend, and he took me away because he had something to do."
"oh."
The call paused for a moment, and Wu Yu asked, "Where are you, it sounds open?"
"I am visiting my father's grave in Zhongshan." Sang Wuyan replied.
"I'm so sorry to bother you at this time."
"It's okay, it's been three years. No matter how sad I was then, it's gone now." Sang Wuyan said as he stood in front of the tombstone, watching Mother Sang place the fruits and lilies she brought on it one by one.
"What do you mean three years?" Mother Sang turned around and scolded, "It's obviously two years. Look at your memory."
Sang Wuyan took away the phone and said, "I mean the third year." Then he put the phone to his ear again.
"Wu Yan, shall I drive to pick you and your aunt up?"
"Don't bother you, we called a car."
When he hung up the phone, Sang Wuyan said softly, "Thank you, Mr. Wu."
Wu Yu was stunned. The three words "Mr. Wu" already expressed Sang Wuyan's tactful refusal.
Mother Sang asked, "Who's calling?"
"The Wu Yu you often mention."
"He's a nice kid."
"Mom—" Sang Wuyan burned incense for his father while talking to her.
"Mom's biggest wish now is that you can find a good home as soon as possible. After what happened to your father, I have let everything go. As long as I know how to cherish you and support the family, everything will be fine."
"Mom, you are a working woman, so why are you talking about whether to support me or not? It's not like I can't make money." Sang Wuyan smiled.
"And of course good health."
It's not like they're waiting for him to do hard labor, Sang Wuyan thought. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Sang's mother mutter, "Otherwise, if one person goes, the other will be too lonely."
On the way, Mother Sang said again: "This little Wu is really good, with a handsome appearance. Although his family is not well off, children from such families know how to cherish things the most. They have good jobs, can earn money, have good tempers, and treat people very kindly."
Sang Wuyan laughed again, "Didn't you just say that nothing mattered? Why are you listing rules and regulations again?"
Mother Sang turned to her daughter and said, "Of course you can't marry someone who makes you suffer. And you know you have an impatient temper, so you have to find someone with a good temper. Otherwise, if two bad personalities come together, you'll end up fighting all day long."
Sang Wuyan suddenly had a flash of Su Nianqin's angry look and immediately wanted to laugh. The old man's words always made more sense.
After parting with her mother, Sang Wuyan promised her that she would go home for dinner later, and then she would take some time to go to the commercial district to buy some things.
When she passed by a boutique, she saw a couple's outfit in the window. It was a thick, creamy white sweater that looked very warm to wear. The sweater was solid color with a simple twisted rope pattern. It had a cute hat on the back and the buttons on the chest were made of solid wood.
Sang Wuyan imagined that Su Nianqin looked very homely wearing it, and was a little dazed, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"Hey, Miss 007." Someone called from behind.
She was wondering how someone could call each other like that on the street.
When she turned around, she found that it was Peng Ruixing who called her. The young master of the Peng family had just parked his BMW and was holding a beautiful woman's slender waist as he was about to enter the coffee shop.
"007 actually let his Bond girl go shopping here alone?" He applied that title to her again, and some strange looks gathered around her, making Sang Wuyan very embarrassed.
Peng Ruixing came over with a smile, said a few words to his female companion, and asked her to go in first. Sang Wuyan saw that he was wearing a light pink shirt under his silver casual suit jacket, with only a few buttons buttoned, revealing his strong chest, which was particularly pleasing to the eye. Sang Wuyan was reluctantly amazed. It was the first time she saw a man who could match pink so well.
He is a man who fully understands his strengths.
"Mr. Peng, my last name is Sang, Sang Wuyan." Sang Wuyan almost begged him to remember his name.
"Oh, Wuyan. Where is your flower-guarding prince and fiancé?" He chuckled.
"He is not my fiancé." Sang Wuyan corrected.
"Are you giving me a hint?"
"What?"
"When a woman deliberately denies that she has a fiancé, she is giving the man a hint."
Sang Wuyan had nothing to say.
Peng Ruixing said: "I want to treat you to an ice cream."
"I'm not a three-year-old child."
"It's not a bad thing to still be childish, and I know there's a delicious restaurant across the park."
"Why do you always..." Sang Wuyan frowned helplessly.
"Because I'm very interested in the woman Su Nianqin fell in love with, and I want to study why he chose you and didn't even look at my beautiful sister."
"Mr. Peng, I think, firstly, Su Nianqin is almost blind, so of course he can't see your sister's beauty; secondly, Su Nianqin is not my fiancé, I was just joking with you that day."
"Oh? I've known him for a year or two, but I've never seen him joke around. Especially when he's joking around with you."
Sang Wuyan said: "How credible do you think he is when he says I am his fiancée?"
Peng Ruixing looked Sang Wuyan up and down, and concluded, "He's definitely not very reliable."
Sang Wuyan said dejectedly: "They say that bystanders see more clearly, but you are being too sincere."
Peng Ruixing laughed, "But if your family had a billion-dollar fortune, this story would be credible."
“This is a daydream.”
"Then there is one more possibility," Peng Ruixing said, "Maybe the man loves you madly."
Sang Wuyan gave a truly bitter smile, "Impossible. I guess I liked him in the past, but I can't say I loved him. It's even more unbelievable that you're going crazy."
Peng Ruixing raised his thick eyebrows when he heard Sang Wuyan's next words, "You said Su Nianqin doesn't love you? Then I have to study it more."
Sang Wuyan shrugged.
"Come on, let's go. Eat something. It won't take you too long anyway. Besides, it's broad daylight and in front of everyone. I won't let you lose a piece of meat."
She thought that if Peng Ruixing wanted to treat her to ice cream, he would at least drive his BMW to Haagen-Dazs, but she didn't expect that he just bought two Cornettos from a roadside freezer.
"You are so stingy." Sang Wuyan shook his head, and he and Peng Ruixing walked on the path on the lawn, each holding a strawberry cone.
"This is called interest." Peng Ruixing corrected.
She looked around from time to time.
"What are you looking at?"
Sang Wuyan covered up and said, "Where's your girlfriend?"
"She is my... secretary. I have asked her to go back first."
"Do you have a dozen beautiful women in your family who are all secretaries and assistants?"
"Wu Yan, it's not right for me to hire a beautiful woman as my secretary. Su Nianqin's special assistant Qin should be as beautiful as a fairy.
"Don't call me Su Nianqin all the time in front of me." She felt uncomfortable listening to it.
"Are you jealous of men?"
"… "
After a while, Sang Wuyan looked around vigilantly again.
"What are you looking for?"
"No." She was afraid that Su Nianqin would suddenly appear from somewhere and do something shocking.
Sang Wuyan was about to cross the intersection and find a chair to sit on the opposite side.
Suddenly, a bicycle rushed over and was about to hit him from behind. "Be careful!" Peng Ruixing was quick to protect Sang Wuyan and pull him over to avoid the bicycle, but they lost their balance and both of them crashed into the trunk of the locust tree next to them.
A layer of skin was scraped off Sang Wuyan's forehead and blood oozed out.
He exhaled with lingering fear, "You were so reckless both times I met you. I guess Su Nianqin must have been tortured by you in the past."
Sang Wuyan felt a little embarrassed.
Peng Ruixing saw the wound on her forehead and took out a handkerchief to wipe it for her. "We need to go to the hospital."
She shrank back defensively, avoiding his movements, "Thank you, I can do it myself."
When Peng Ruixing saw her painful face, he suddenly had a good idea.
Su Nianqin is in a meeting in the branch company's conference room. He will be returning to the headquarters next week, so he has to make some arrangements.
Xiao Qin is taking notes.
Another secretary knocked on the door and said, "Mr. Su, the sales department at the headquarters called to see you."
"Say I'm in a meeting." Su Nianqin replied, indicating that the meeting should continue.
Three minutes later.
"Mr. Su, Ms. Peng from TORO is calling."
"Tell me I'm in a meeting!" Su Nianqin repeated patiently. Xiao Qin flipped through the documents and thought that the boss's patience had increased.
Another three minutes passed.
"Mr. Su, Mr. Peng from TORO..."
"Tell me I'm in a meeting!" Su Nianqin didn't want to endure it any longer.
The secretary saw Su Nianqin's grim expression and continued to whisper in a timid tone, "Mr. Peng said that a Miss Sang had a car accident and asked you to go over."
Su Nianqin stood up suddenly, and the chair behind him fell to the ground with a bang.
"I just got a little scrape, why should I wait here?" Sang Wuyan sat on the bench in the emergency room.
Peng Ruixing mysteriously asked Sang Wuyan to turn off his phone and smiled, "I just saved your life, please help me do an experiment."
"What experiment?"
"To verify how quickly Su Nianqin treats love." Peng Ruixing said as he explained the phone call just now.
"How can you joke about something like this?" Sang Wuyan's head really started to hurt.
"Seeing that you are in so much pain, I'll do you a favor. I'll also do my sister a favor and let her give up as soon as possible." Peng Ruixing looked at his watch. "Ten minutes have passed. You can calmly observe his expression and determine whether he really cares about you."
After hearing his words, Sang Wuyan felt that she was actually looking forward to it.
ten minutes.
twenty minutes…
Time passes by every second.
People who came to see the doctor came and went, but Su Nianqin never showed up. Sang Wuyan's heart began to slowly sink.
"Let's go." Sang Wuyan finally stood up a little desperately and said, "But thank you anyway." She never thought that Peng Ruixing was such a lovely person.
Peng Ruixing said: "Wait a little longer, the traffic jam is very serious during this period."
Sang Wuyan shook her head. Instead of waiting for the verdict here, she would rather leave and not face the cruel result. She always liked to escape.
At this time, Peng Ruixing received a call.
"Hello-"
"Mr. Peng." Su Nianqin tried her best to suppress her trembling voice and said, "You should at least tell me which hospital it is."
Peng Ruixing slapped his head, he had forgotten about this.
"Wu Yan." He turned around and called Sang Wu Yan, but found that the chair was empty.
When Su Nianqin answered the phone just now, the call had already been hung up. Peng Ruixing did not explain clearly and called the company's landline. Su Nianqin asked Xiao Qin to check all the car accident victims admitted by the city's hospitals, while asking Peng Danqi for Peng Ruixing's mobile phone number. This delayed them for half an hour.
A little later, Su Nianqin arrived like the wind and knocked over several medicine delivery carts in the corridor.
Peng Ruixing lowered his head and explained to him, wondering if Su Nianqin would punch him. Unexpectedly, Su Nianqin let out a long breath, rubbed his forehead and said, "I'm glad you're okay." The panic expression had not completely faded, and the remaining look on his face looked particularly haggard.
The car arrived at the main traffic road outside the hospital. Su Nianqin's face had not yet recovered from the paleness caused by fear. Xiao Qin saw the woman on the sidewalk and said, "It's Miss Sang."
Su Nianqin immediately straightened up and said, "Stop the car!" Before the car even stopped, he opened the door and got out.
"Mr. Su, this is the middle of the road, it's dangerous!" Xiao Qin shouted hurriedly, but it was too late to stop him.
Su Nianqin pretended not to hear anything and just walked a few steps forward.
"Wu Yan—" he shouted.
A pickup truck coming from the lane next to it braked immediately, and the tires made a harsh friction sound against the ground. The driver's eyes turned red, and he popped his head out of the window and cursed: "Don't you have eyes when you walk!"
When Sang Wuyan heard the noise, he turned around and saw the pale man in the traffic.
"Su Nianqin!" She almost screamed, "Don't move!"
When Su Nianqin heard her voice, he became more certain of the direction to go and continued walking forward.
"I told you not to move!" Sang Wuyan shouted anxiously, and immediately climbed over the railing, dodged a taxi, grabbed him, held him tightly, and then carefully brought him back to the roadside.
"You!" Sang Wuyan was extremely angry and didn't know what to say to him.
"Do you know that people can die?" she said angrily.
For the first time, Su Nianqin did not get angry with her. Instead, she smiled softly and reached out to touch her cheeks that were red from anger. "It's a wonderful thing to hear you cursing with such vigor and energy."
Sang Wuyan was stunned.
He was smiling, but his lips were pale from panic, his palms were sweaty, and he couldn't help shaking slightly. He was not worried about his life or death, but just because of Peng Ruixing's prank call.
They played a trick on him, but he was not angry at all. Instead, he was very glad that Sang Wuyan was safe and sound.
Sang Wuyan buried her face in his palms feeling a little guilty.
"I'm sorry." She couldn't help but apologize, and then rubbed the lines on his palm lovingly.
"Your forehead..." Su Nianqin felt a piece of gauze on her face.
"It was just scratched. It's a very small wound." Sang Wuyan touched it with his finger.
Xiao Qin got off at the next intersection and walked over.
"Thank God, I will never dare to call her Miss Sang in the car again," said Xiao Qin.
Sang Wuyan apologized to Xiao Qin on behalf of Su Nianqin and smiled embarrassedly.
Su Nianqin was still lingering on the wound on her head that was covered with gauze. She rubbed it gently with her fingertips repeatedly, completely ignoring the fact that it was on the sidewalk during rush hour.
From that moment on, Xiao Qin, who was standing next to him, realized that Su Nianqin could actually be an exceptionally gentle man.
He said, "Wu Yan, do you know that you are very important to me?" Su Nianqin's words were mixed with the sound of horns and engines, on the dusty ring road around the city. At this moment, the traffic was surging, but there were few pedestrians.
Sang Wuyan was suddenly moved by him.
But she forced herself to calm down under his gentle embrace, and then asked: "More important than Yu Weilan?"
Su Nianqin's hands immediately froze in front of her forehead, and she didn't know how to speak for a long time.
That scene seemed to have returned to three years ago. She asked: "If Yu Weilan and I both fell into the river and only one could be saved, who would you save first?"
The two of them went through two big circles. They thought that after so many days and nights, they had matured from each other and could fully accept each other, but in the end they found that they were still at the starting point.
Sang Wuyan lowered her head and said calmly, "I have to go back. Something has happened at home." She had promised Mother Sang that she would go home for dinner.
Su Nianqin said hurriedly: "I... we will take you there."
"No need, just go ahead and do your thing." Then she forced a smile and said goodbye to the two of them.
Li Lulu advised her: "It's not bad to be the second most important woman in his heart."
Sang Wuyan went home and told Cheng Yin what had happened.
Cheng Yin said angrily: "What's the second place? That's nonsense!" Sang Wuyan knew that Cheng Yin didn't have any problem with Li Lulu, but what really made her angry was the other person.
So before going to bed, Cheng Yin didn't forget to curse: "Su Nianqin, what a thing!"
The next day, several radio stations joined together to host a topic about cities. The director said that they would invite a famous host from City A. Sang Wuyan thought it might be Nie Xi, so he ran to the radio station before work, but it turned out not to be Nie Xi.
Sang Wuyan was a little disappointed.
After this incident, the relationship between her and Nie Xi became much more than just that of senior and junior.
A long time later, she met Nie Xi again at an exchange meeting.
When Nie Xi saw her, he asked, "How are you two doing..." She didn't say the rest. In the evening, Sang Wuyan received a call from her.
"I'm embarrassed to tell you face to face. I regret what I said to you at that time. I seem to be the culprit who caused you to be separated for so long and made Nianqin suffer for so long."