SYLM Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Accidents Always Come Faster Than Tomorrow

The first accidental meeting between mother and daughter ended unhappily.

After returning home, Chen Lu repeatedly locked the door several times before walking to the window with a calm face. From this position, she could see the movements downstairs perfectly.

The huge black umbrella stayed in place for a long time, so long that Chen Lu became annoyed and wished she could go downstairs and drive the person away. Only then did Chen Qingyu leave, holding the umbrella.

Her already bad mood was completely ruined. Even though Chen Qingyu had disappeared from view downstairs, Chen Lu still stood mechanically at the balcony window, looking down.

She hadn’t come back for so many years, so why come back now? What was she trying to do by coming back now? Did she want to repair their so-called mother-daughter relationship? Didn’t she think it was too late?

Ridiculous. Hateful. Hypocritical.

Frustration, anger, grievance, resentment, hatred, pain, and a series of other late-arriving complex emotions flooded her mind. Chen Lu felt her eyes were sore and swollen, and the root of her tongue was bitter. When she finally slumped down on the balcony, her empty, unfocused gaze still stubbornly stared out the window.

Since her maternal grandmother passed away, this was the first time Chen Lu felt like she couldn’t hold on any longer.

Chen Lu had heard some things from her maternal grandmother about her parents’ situation.

Her mother was naive and inexperienced when she was young and was deceived by a man who was more than ten years older than her. She quickly fell in love and became pregnant out of wedlock. It was only after she had the child that she discovered the man already had a family. Her mother couldn’t accept being a third party, so she resolutely cut off all contact with the man.

Initially, her mother intended to abort the child in her womb, but after her maternal grandmother’s repeated persuasion, she decided to keep the innocent little life in her womb.

And so Chen Lu came to be.

When Chen Lu was in kindergarten, she was often ridiculed by other children as a wild child without a father or mother. At that time, Chen Lu ate her meals with tears every day. Afraid that her maternal grandmother would worry, she didn’t dare to tell her that she was being bullied at school.

When she was squeezed into a corner by a group of children, afraid to make a sound, when other parents whispered about her, when the teacher complained that her meal fees were paid late… There were many times when she couldn’t even remember what had happened at the time. Chen Lu resented her mother, resenting her for giving birth to her, resenting her for giving birth to her but not caring for her.

But as she grew up, Chen Lu began to understand that her mother was also a victim. The man who had an affair and made her mother pregnant, and then disappeared beautifully, was the most hateful.

Later, in those years of living with her maternal grandmother, after experiencing many things, Chen Lu even began to think that it was right for her mother to abandon her back then.

Life as a single mother was quite difficult. For her mother, she was simply a burden, a child who should never have come into this world. Her existence constantly tore open her mother’s scars. Her mother was only twenty years old when she gave birth to her and had a lot of wonderful life ahead of her. She shouldn’t become a stumbling block in her wonderful life.

Over time, Chen Lu accepted the fact that she had been abandoned by her parents.

Did she hate Chen Qingyu then?

No, she didn’t actually hate her. Didn’t people have the right to choose a better life?

She just felt sorry for her maternal grandmother who had worked so hard to raise her. She was both grateful and thankful that her maternal grandmother hadn’t given up on her, and saddened that her maternal grandmother hadn’t given up on her.

Wouldn’t it have been easier to live a more relaxed life if she had been abandoned?

Even her mother had abandoned her, so why didn’t her maternal grandmother do the same as her mother? Even if her maternal grandmother didn’t want her, she wouldn’t blame her.

With this thought in mind, Chen Lu anxiously waited at the kindergarten entrance every day for her maternal grandmother to pick her up.

It wouldn’t matter if her maternal grandmother didn’t come to pick her up.

But her maternal grandmother never failed to come.

The slightly hunched old woman would always appear at the kindergarten entrance on time, smilingly take the schoolbag from her hand, and lovingly ask her what she had learned at kindergarten today.

Later, her maternal grandmother passed away, leaving her alone.

Before her death, her maternal grandmother desperately wanted to see her daughter. At that time, the name Chen Qingyu once again broke into Chen Lu’s life.

Chen Lu couldn’t contact Chen Qingyu and couldn’t fulfill her maternal grandmother’s last wish. This became a thorn that pierced straight into Chen Lu’s heart. She felt like she was the most useless person in the world.

So, did she hate Chen Qingyu now?

Yes, she hated her.

Rather than hating Chen Qingyu as a mother for being absent during her growth, Chen Lu hated Chen Qingyu’s ruthlessness towards her maternal grandmother as a daughter even more.

Nineteen years, a whole nineteen years. Chen Qingyu had never contacted her maternal grandmother once. Even her maternal grandmother’s wish to see her daughter before she passed away became a luxury.

Chen Lu hated Chen Qingyu. From the day her maternal grandmother passed away, there wasn’t a single day she didn’t hate her.

Hate lasts longer than love. How much Chen Lu loved her maternal grandmother was how much she hated Chen Qingyu.

A sudden rain, a sudden appearance of someone, all of this completely disrupted the original rhythm of her life, and even made Chen Lu put aside the matter of sending a message to Gu Wan Jun.

The next day on the way to school, Chen Lu became highly vigilant, watching out for anyone following her.

When she went home from school in the evening, Chen Lu, who had been tense all day, had a migraine. After taking medicine, the emotions and thoughts that had been flying around all day finally stopped to rest.

After calming down and feeling that she was in a state to comfort someone, Chen Lu unlocked her phone and opened the WeChat chat box pinned to the top. She sent a message to Gu Wan Jun, asking her what was wrong and if something had happened at home.

The message was like a stone sinking into the sea. Chen Lu waited in Gu Wan Jun’s chat interface, but she never received a reply from Gu Wan Jun.

The appearance of her mother, Chen Qingyu, to some extent aroused the anxiety and inferiority hidden in Chen Lu’s heart. Her usually calm and rational brain fell back into the vicious cycle of being afraid of being abandoned.

After a sleepless night, she finally made it to dawn.

Chen Lu felt that she couldn’t wait any longer. She had to know about Gu Wan Jun. So, after the Morning Self-Study, she knocked on the door of the liberal arts office ahead of Fu Yi Wen.

Tang Ying had expected Chen Lu to appear in the liberal arts office, so when Chen Lu seriously asked about Gu Wan Jun, Tang Ying’s tone was quite calm:

“Gu Wan Jun is fine. It’s just that something happened at home that she needs to go back and take care of. She’ll be back in a few days.”

“Did Teacher Gu tell you that herself?”

“Yes, we just talked on the phone last night.”

“But I sent her a message last night, and she didn’t reply to me.”

“Gu Wan Jun said that a sentence or two in a message wouldn’t explain it clearly, and she was afraid of delaying your studies, so she asked me to pass on the message. She also told me to tell you to focus on preparing for the exam and that she would be back soon.”

“Really?”

“What, you don’t believe me? Do you want me to call Gu Wan Jun right now to verify?”

“…”

Chen Lu didn’t speak or deny it. Her bright, clean eyes just stared at Tang Ying, as if waiting for her to make the call.

Obviously, Chen Lu didn’t completely believe Tang Ying’s words.

Seeing Chen Lu staring at her, Tang Ying would usually have told her to get lost without hesitation. But today, it seemed like the sun had risen in the west. Tang Ying just rolled her eyes at Chen Lu unhappily, then picked up her phone, unlocked it, and while pulling up the address book, said in a cold tone:

“I can make the call, but Gu Wan Jun is quite busy these days. She seemed to be busy until late last night, so she probably hasn’t woken up yet at this point. You answer when it goes through. I don’t have a habit of disturbing people’s sleep.”

She scrolled through the address book to Gu Wan Jun’s name, and as Tang Ying was about to press the dial button, she was stopped by Chen Lu the next second:

“No need. Let her rest well. Thank you, Teacher Tang.”

Chen Lu bowed to Tang Ying, then turned and left. She ran into Fu Yi Wen who had just entered the office at the door.

It goes without saying that Chen Lu came to Tang Ying to ask about Gu Wan Jun.

And judging by the looks of it, she must have gotten something out of it, otherwise, her Lulu wouldn’t have left so quickly.

Hey, that’s not right. How come she couldn’t get anything out of Tang Ying, but her Lulu could? That’s not fair!

After Chen Lu left the office, Fu Yi Wen happily went up to Tang Ying, wanting to mention Gu Wan Jun, but Tang Ying shot her a glare:

“Isn’t this place big enough for you to stand? Why are you squeezing in here?”

“?”

Fu Yi Wen’s eyes widened, and she was about to cry injustice when she heard Tang Ying call her full name in a clear and serious tone:

“Fu Yi Wen.”

Fu Yi Wen was startled and immediately stood at attention, almost saluting: “Here! What, what’s wrong?”

“Keep an eye on Chen Lu’s condition for the next few days. If you notice anything wrong, come and tell me.”

“Ah? Keep an eye on Lulu? Why?”

“Just keep an eye on her. Also, you can’t tell Chen Lu about this.”

“Ah? I can’t tell Lulu either? No, this—”

“Can you do it or not? If you can’t, I’ll find someone else.”

“I can do it, I can do it! Look at you, always so impatient, so impatient!”

Fu Yi Wen quickly agreed, her head buzzing.

Although she didn’t know the significance of Tang Ying’s instructions, based on Fu Yi Wen’s understanding of this person, she would never harm Lulu. She’ll just keep an eye on her as she was told. After all, Tang Ying was now the acting homeroom teacher of Class 12, so it was only natural for her to understand the students in the class.

After taking the political science papers, Fu Yi Wen left the liberal arts office.

A moment later, the class bell rang.

After confirming that class had started and that no students would be coming to the office for a while, Tang Ying relaxed her straightened shoulders and allowed her eyebrows to furrow together.

That was close just now. Fortunately, she managed to muddle through.

Tang Ying opened the chat box with Gu Wan Jun, and all she could see were green message bubbles that she had sent.

It wasn’t just Chen Lu who hadn’t received a reply. Her messages had also sunk without a trace.

She had made countless phone calls and sent dozens of messages, but Gu Wan Jun hadn’t replied to any of them. In this situation, Tang Ying’s contacts with money to burn came in handy.

Perhaps the money was good enough, or perhaps the news was easy to find out this time. The contacts quickly brought Tang Ying feedback.

But it was quite bad news.

Tang Ying frowned and opened a certain chat box. She opened the confidential document she had received last night and read it again from beginning to end—

[At 11:00 PM Beijing time on May 19th, the police identified a major criminal suspect in several recent serial □□ cases in Yunjiang City. The suspect had two previous convictions for residential robbery and □□, but because he suffered from mental illness, he was given lenient punishments both times.]

[During the arrest that night, the suspect was agitated during the face-to-face confrontation and resisted arrest with a gun. As the two sides stalemated, a Zhou surname criminal police officer with rich experience (name withheld) found the right opportunity to wound the suspect’s shoulder and calf, and finally subdued him and sent him to a well-known hospital in Yunjiang City for treatment.]

[After receiving the suspect, the Gu surname doctor on duty that night in the emergency department (name withheld) immediately began treatment for the patient. However, what is distressing is that during the treatment, the unscrupulous suspect used a wire hidden in the lining of his sleeve to pry open the handcuffs on the head of the bed, and then smashed the glass utensils next to him, using the glass shards to cut the carotid artery of the Gu surname attending doctor who was closest to him.]

[The incident happened suddenly. After hearing the sound, the criminal police officers guarding outside the operating room rushed into the operating room as soon as possible and controlled the suspect. But unfortunately, the Gu surname attending doctor whose carotid artery was cut died on the spot due to the severity of the injury.]

[After committing the murder, the criminal suspect took the initiative to throw down his weapon, showing a mentally disordered appearance, completely giving up resistance, and allowing the criminal police officers who rushed in to deal with him.]

[It is reported that the Gu surname attending doctor and the Zhou surname criminal police officer who decisively fired the gun when subduing the suspect are a married couple. Last month, the couple happily welcomed a daughter, and the happy life of the family of three had just begun.]

[After learning that his wife had died on the spot, the Zhou surname criminal police officer who had dealt with the murderer might have been missing his wife or knowing that the criminal was likely to use loopholes in the law to escape the death penalty again, like the previous two times. With the criminal completely controlled by colleagues with handcuffs, the Zhou surname criminal police officer directly pulled out his gun and pointed it at the suspect’s head, killing him on the spot. Afterwards, the criminal police officer was controlled by other criminal police officers, his guns, handcuffs, and police officer’s certificate were confiscated, and he is now transferred to relevant departments to await investigation and handling.]

[The incident was sudden and involved medical personnel and public security personnel. In order to avoid causing a more serious social impact, the police station and the hospital blocked the news at the first time after the incident. The follow-up processing results are pending investigation.]

After reading the document, there were also two text messages and a pdf document attached by the informant—

[It was a bit difficult to find out about the protagonists of the incident, but I found out, and I need to add money.]

[The Gu surname attending doctor is called Gu Wanrong, and the Zhou surname criminal police officer is called Zhou Haibin. Their specific information is in the next document.]

[Victim – Basic Information of Doctor Gu Wanrong & Criminal Police Team Leader Zhou Haibin.pdf.]

Gu Wanrong. Zhou Haibin.

Gu Wan Jun’s older sister and brother-in-law.

She scrolled to the end of the message bar, and her fingernails turned white as she pressed the screen. Tang Ying locked her phone, her expression complex and difficult to discern.

Accidents always come faster than tomorrow. How could this kind of thing happen to Gu Wan Jun?

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