SYLM Chapter 71

Chapter 71: Five Years.

Chapter 71 Five Years.

Since that rainy night conversation, the next time I heard about Chen Lu was at Tang Ying’s wedding.

At first, when Gu Wan Jun heard that Tang Ying was getting married, she suspected she was hallucinating. She asked Tang Ying if her family was pressuring her. Tang Ying just replied faintly that everything would be the same after the marriage, so there was no reason not to get married.

Two weeks later, the wedding was held in a high-end hotel in Yunjiang City.

Due to Tang Ying’s special family background, those attending the wedding were all prominent figures.

Gu Wan Jun arrived ten minutes early. Compared to the invited guests from all walks of life chatting and laughing, Fu Yi Wen, clutching her invitation card and arriving early, seemed a little out of place.

After entering, Fu Yi Wen and Gu Wan Jun were seated at the same table.

At that time, it had only been two days since the results of the college entrance examination were released. Judging from the results, Class 12 could be said to have generally performed exceptionally well.

Jiang Zhen Zhen, ranking first in the class, was simultaneously admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University with an excellent score of 698.

Chen Lu, ranking second in the class with 679 points, had already received admission calls from Tsinghua University and Peking University. However, the school revealed that the student herself had not yet made a decision.

The one who had made the most progress among the three was Fu Yi Wen. Compared to her mock exam scores of just over 500, a good score of 608 was enough for her to choose a good university.

She wondered which university Chen Lu would choose.

The little girl had said before that she wanted to be her alumna. She wondered if that still counted.

Whenever Gu Wan Jun thought of Chen Lu, her nose felt sore, and she was heavy-hearted. After sitting down, she unconsciously glanced at Fu Yi Wen, who was looking down at her invitation card beside her, but she couldn’t bring herself to speak.

She had just drawn a line with Chen Lu two weeks ago, so how could she ask about her whereabouts now?

Her nails unconsciously dug into her palm. Gu Wan Jun took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, as if this could alleviate one ten-thousandth of the pain in her heart.

The wedding ceremony started on time.

What shocked Gu Wan Jun even more than receiving Tang Ying’s wedding invitation a few days ago, and made her feel even more complicated, was that Fu Yi Wen, sitting next to her, kept staring at the stage. Only then did she notice that her eyes were swollen like walnuts.

“She looks so beautiful in her wedding dress.”

The hoarse voice sounded as if it had been ground by a file, completely losing its original crispness.

Fu Yi Wen’s lost sigh was hidden in the surrounding laughter. Shock, suspicion, disbelief… All sorts of complex emotions surged up when she heard these words. From those bloodshot eyes, Gu Wan Jun seemed to understand something. She pursed her lips, thinking about how to respond.

“I knew that liking her would lead to nothing, but I still wanted to give it a shot. Now it seems, how could a kid like me compare to the man standing next to her now?”

Fu Yi Wen smiled self-deprecatingly, her tone so bitter that she seemed about to cry in the next second. She turned her head, her red eyes staring straight at Gu Wan Jun:

“Teacher, in your eyes, do you think it’s childish and ridiculous for kids like us to say ‘I like you’ or ‘I love you’? Heh, in this regard, Lu Lu and I are really sisters in misery.”

Fu Yi Wen was right. Two weeks ago, on that rainy night, after being told about the wedding by Tang Ying, Fu Yi Wen called Chen Lu while crying. The only responses she got were Chen Lu’s crying voice, which she was trying to suppress but was still obvious, and the sound of pouring rain. At that moment, she realized that she and her best friend were having their hearts pierced in different places at the same time by the people they each liked, causing them unbearable pain.

Was this the destiny of falling in love with a straight older woman?

Hearing Fu Yi Wen suddenly mention Chen Lu, the hands clasped under the table suddenly tightened, clenching until her fingers hurt. Gu Wan Jun’s eyelids trembled as if they had been pricked by needles, and her cautious gaze unconsciously scanned the people around her.

This nervous look, as if afraid of others knowing something, seemed particularly ironic in Fu Yi Wen’s eyes.

Remembering that phone call from two weeks ago, Fu Yi Wen felt indignant for her Lu Lu. The always straightforward girl furrowed her brow into a small hill, her tone immediately carrying a bit of a sarcastic edge:

“Don’t look around. I’m not saying this to sabotage you and your boyfriend. Don’t worry, as you wish, Teacher, Lu Lu has applied to a university abroad. Perhaps you’ll never have to meet again.”

“…”

Fu Yi Wen’s words were like an invisible knife, stabbing straight into Gu Wan Jun’s chest. The sour and dull pain surged from the bottom of her heart to her throat, choking her, unable to swallow or speak, turning those beautiful peach blossom eyes red.

Gu Wan Jun, oh Gu Wan Jun, you and Chen Lu are going your separate ways, far apart from each other. Isn’t that what you wanted? Why are you still so sad now?

You were the one who made the choice, the one who let go, the one who was cruel. What right do you have to be sad?

The wedding continued normally on stage, and the two sitting next to each other below had their own thoughts.

As the host announced the next part of the ceremony, the bride and groom solemnly vowed to stay together for life.

The music was cheerful, and the surrounding was filled with laughter and blessings, but Fu Yi Wen’s world seemed to have been stripped of sound, leaving only silent pain. Tang Ying’s every smile, every word, was like a dull knife, cutting hard into her heart.

When the rings were exchanged, watching that dazzling diamond ring pushed to the base of Tang Ying’s finger, her heart plummeted to the bottom of the valley. Tears flooded Fu Yi Wen’s swollen eyes again and again.

Amid the host and the audience’s shouts of “Kiss, kiss,” Tang Ying on stage glared at the tall and handsome man in front of her, seemingly coyly. This look gave off a sense of shyness and timidity, making everyone exclaim that they were truly a match made in heaven.

Her breathing stopped, and salty tears fell like rain. Fu Yi Wen couldn’t take it anymore and fled the wedding scene like a madwoman.

Let her deceive herself. She wasn’t tough enough to watch her beloved kiss another man.

Fu Yi Wen’s departure wasn’t quiet, attracting the attention of some of the nearby guests, including Tang Ying, who had just refused to kiss on stage.

That emotionless gaze on stage was directed at her. Gu Wan Jun understood the meaning of Tang Ying’s gaze and nodded in acknowledgment before getting up to chase after Fu Yi Wen.

In the scorching summer of late June, the intense sunlight shone mercilessly on everything in the world. The distant buildings warped in the heat, blurring one’s vision. The ground was scorching hot, and the trees by the roadside drooped their leaves, as if they were listless from the heat. The shadows of the trees shrank into a small ball, barely casting a thin, pitiful shade on the ground.

Even though she had chased after her right away, Gu Wan Jun couldn’t find Fu Yi Wen’s shadow after circling the venue several times.

When she returned, the wedding was over, and the guests were leaving one after another.

Gu Wan Jun received a message and went to the backstage. Tang Ying had already changed out of her wedding dress into casual clothes and was taking off her earrings in front of the mirror.

Looking around the backstage, Gu Wan Jun didn’t see anyone else besides Tang Ying.

“Looking for someone?”

“Where’s your husband?”

“He had something to do with the military and left.”

“What about your aunt and uncle…”

“They all had something to do and left.”

In the sweltering heat of late June, Tang Ying’s voice was devoid of warmth. Her cold demeanor didn’t reveal that she was a newlywed.

Tang Ying wiped the lipstick off her lips with a tissue in front of the mirror and asked casually, “Did you find her?”

“No, I looked around the neighborhood several times, but I still didn’t see her.”

“She’s not a big person, but she has quite a temper.”

Tang Ying snorted coldly, sounding as if she was complaining that Fu Yi Wen was being inconsiderate.

Remembering those eyes that seemed to have opened a floodgate during the wedding, Gu Wan Jun hesitated, “Tang Ying, Fu Yi Wen, she…”

“Are you trying to speak up for her?”

Tang Ying threw the tissue she used to wipe off her lipstick into the trash can, turned around to look at Gu Wan Jun, and smiled noncommittally:

“I thought we would agree on this kind of thing. I won’t choose Fu Yi Wen, just like you won’t choose Chen Lu. The only difference between us might be that you like Chen Lu, so you hesitated and struggled during the selection process, while I never had the possibility of choosing Fu Yi Wen from the beginning, because I won’t fall in love with anyone.”

As Tang Ying spoke, she took off the diamond ring that she hadn’t even worn for very long and threw it casually into a small jewelry box, her tone still cold:

“Whether you like someone or not, whether you hesitate or not, it seems that the results are the same. In the end, we all chose what we needed more, didn’t we?”

Every word Tang Ying said was true, and Gu Wan Jun couldn’t refute her.

This summer seemed hotter than any other year. It was already past three in the afternoon when Gu Wan Jun left the hotel.

The sun was still scorching, but not as aggressive as when it was high overhead at noon. However, perhaps the sunlight was too glaring. Gu Wan Jun, who came out of the hotel, still felt that her eyes were sore and hot from the sun. It wasn’t until she got into the car that she saw her own eyes in the rearview mirror, so red that they seemed burned.

It’s over, it’s all over.

2019. The heat of this summer left the deepest mark in Gu Wan Jun’s mind. It was also this year that her life underwent earth-shattering changes.

She waited and hoped for her beloved niece, but her most beloved sister would leave her forever.

The first class she took as a homeroom teacher graduated smoothly, but it made her lose the person she loved.

Everything is fate, and there is no choice.

At the beginning of the second semester of 2019, Gu Wan Jun declined the school principal’s invitation to become the homeroom teacher of the senior year class. She took the initiative to apply to teach in the freshman year. After that, every week she drove back and forth between Ningcheng and Yunjiang City, spending her limited rest time with her parents and taking care of Duo Duo.

In fact, Duo Duo was a quiet and obedient child. She didn’t cry or make noise when she was full, so she didn’t need anyone to worry about her. The little dumpling’s eyebrows and eyes were exactly the same as Gu Wan Rong’s when she was a child. She just sat in her little cradle, curiously looking at the world, obediently waiting for her mother to come back every weekend to tell her stories.

Yes, mother.

The first time Duo Duo spoke, she touched the face of Gu Wan Jun, who was holding her and telling her fairy tales in a soft voice, with her little pink hand and called out “Mama” in a babbling voice.

The soft,Glutinous，Those pair，Gu Wan，Extremely“Mother”。

Hours，future。

For Duoduo，Gu Wan。

This sentence。

Please，determination。

Chen Lu，Gu Wan，Always、love，One is，Second,。

Next What’s the，Gu Wan。

Instead of，No。

Beauty buff under，Is there any，How many are there，if，He，Put her。

Gu Wanjun brushes kpi Style，In a hurry。

Be a parent，them。

Some，See you，parents。

“dad，mom，you？Duoduo？”

“Duoduo is asleep，Wanjun，You go？”

Gu’s mother，As soon as the words come to an end，Pour water，Gu Wan，She lets，look up，nod：“Um。”

“Last time？”

“Before，He’s down，I don’t。”

Gu Wan，No。

for，Old two，Look，Gu’s mother：“Wanjun，You。”

“How，before，Babu，Now，I’ll go to a blind date，you？”

Gu Wan，attempt。

Can there be，Crossing。

“Wanjun，Me and，Wanrong’s affairs…To you，You forced…”

“mom。”

Gu Wan，Silently，“past，I’m。”

“you want，Wanjun，I know，Consider Duoduo，But，marriage，us，But，us。”

“…”

Mother，Can or，Gu Wan。

consider。

She’s been，Only、One end，At that time。

Available。

because。

As for happiness。

No more Chen Lu，She，for，Happy parents，Happy every day，perhaps。

if…

Gu Wan，Feel。

This game，at last。

Back to，Gu Wan、Kiss，after。

Office，Gu Wan，In hand。

No smoking，Don’t drink，No pets，Nothing，Within the system，Stable income，Filial to parents，Good to the child，so。

Gu Wan。

Change。

On that day，other side、All parties，Too。

night，Gu Wan，When you get home，Fake laugh，Like，Gu Wan。

Mingming，Why？only，How？

Gu Wan，start。

Adjustment，Gu Wan，Like，Kiss，She’s light，Open。

recent，Gu Wan。

Just be。

Box，soon。

When opened，one，Not big，quickly，See you，Mentioned。

Gu Wan，result，above——

【Hope my sister Gu Wan Jun New，Strong and happy，don’t want Influence，Can，brave，Life is smooth，Get what you want。】

elder sister…

if…

She wishes…

pretty，until，Gu Wan，Fear，Wake up。

the next day，Gu Wan，Solemn，And true。

Hear the end，man，Try to keep：

“you say，actually，But Gu Wan Jun , emotion，Give me？”

“sorry。”

“ Gu Wan Jun , I don’t，Let you，But？I don’t，after——”

“My heart，Again，sorry。”

Gu Wanjun Clearly reject。

One night，She wants。

Have a father，Life。

in spite of， Gu Wan Jun City，This is。

day，midsummer，Arrive again，The leaves fall，Only left，On the ground，issue，as if，final。

early morning，river，Air，night，twilight，chill，as if。

2019At the end of each year，domestic，world。

2020Early every year，spring。epidemic，Hospital，every day，Someone left，Medical care，day and night。silence，Extremely harsh，No time。

All major“Disinfected”and“Current limit entry”Notice of，Doorway，people，each other，Everyone，Screen，Each。

same year3moon，educate，All major，classroom，Take it，video，At home，computer、notebook、cell phone。

As Gu Wan Jun It’s also done。

Stay at home， Gu Wan Jun Living at home，One is，Second,。

isolation，Can there be， Gu Wan Jun Not so。

And same Tang Ying That’s not。

epidemic， Tang Ying Fast Gu Wan Jun Home delivery，Most，remain Gu Wan Jun And Gu。

Look， Gu Wan Jun With you Tang Ying Said，All were“Your female，I’ll buy it”For reasons。

Buy something。

That’s，Buy again。

Gu Wanjun have no choice，But too Tang Ying crazy，At the end of last year，Sudden，Express delivery suspension，This is Gu Wan Jun One。

This year，Beyond online classes， Gu Wan Jun Give it to the firm Tang Ying Have called，That person，Anyway， Tang Ying Mom Tang Ying Go home，Can Tang Ying Can’t do it，Eat，She also。

Two，Just in4Early month。

Aries，full，One pair，Weekly，regardless，still，All can，In the mouth The sound of，as if。

Little girl，Like，full，whenever，Will，Exposed，cute。

daughter Gu Wan Jun most。

Duoduo，Early in the morning， Tang Ying Vision。

express delivery， Tang Ying Only。

Through the screen，looks，Reasonable“Aunt Ying”，Duoduo，In the mouth“Auntie、Auntie”。

“What，Is there any，Um？Little Duoduo？”

“OK OK OK，Aunt Ying，us，Now，baby，With Ying。”

“Auntie～goodbye～”

“See you next time，Little Duoduo。”

Small breasts， Gu Wan Jun Another，Screen。

“What，You。”Gu Wanjun Smiling helplessly，start：“How about it，recent？”

Finished，Afraid Tang Ying angry， Gu Wan Jun Want to“Dust”，result，One：

“ Tang Ying ！That fried！Don’t eat！”

“…”

Wait for a while，It’s her，video… Fu Yi Wen ！？

Gu Wanjun Lip line tight，completely。

At first， Fu Yi Wen Filled in Yunjiang City and，Finally Yunjiang City A city985University。

Although，Can Gu Wan Jun Always feel Fu Yi Wen There will be，Where Yunjiang City ，80% Tang Ying 。

Tang Ying First，Year-round，couple，These Gu Wan Jun Everyone knows，Can Fu Yi Wen How did it happen Tang Ying Home？

Gu Wanjun serious，compared to，On the screen Tang Ying Yes，even：

“What’s going on，You。”

“ Tang Ying ，Just now Fu Yi Wen ？”

“You。”

“How did she？”

“Come to。”

“Stay at home？you？”

“…”

Gu Wanjun Listen to the words Tang Ying No good，Tone：“Room，She。”

“But…you…”

“It’s her，Is it difficult？Let’s talk about it，I’m again。”

“This is not。”Gu Wanjun brow：“ Tang Ying ，You know。”

“I know，Then again，you also。”

“and you。”

“…”

Gu Wanjun reaction，It’s like Tang Ying That’s it。

Tang Ying feel。

Compared to Fu Yi Wen ，No。

Tang Ying Flirting，Smiling：

“That’s it，Then this，you Should also。”

“…”

Hear， Gu Wan Jun Can’t bear it，A very anxious tone：“You have Chen Lu News？”

“yes，originally，Now。”

“How do you？”

“Since childhood，Her hand。”

“…”

“well，What a pity，In vain，Now，after all，Take your，you should？”

“…”

Can Gu Wan Jun Failed、Say a word， Tang Ying Great mood。

but， Tang Ying And no，She chooses：

“say，You。”

“…Can？”

“…”

domestic，foreign。

worldwide，Europe、North America，Italy、Spanish，worldwide。

Look， Gu Wan Jun Connected，Can’t sleep all night。

Canada。

College Entrance Examination Chen Lu Apply for the exam。

This Gu Wan Jun still。

Fill out，School， Gu Wan Jun then，At least Chen Lu News，at the same time，it turns out。

But then Gu Wan Jun feel，With power，Can’t go up，in spite of，As long as there is Chen Lu The elimination of。

But now，She Chen Lu News。

Canada， Chen Lu Are you okay。

Beijing。

Sleeping，Look Death， Gu Wan Jun In-House，final Tang Ying daytime。

Doron，Now。

Gu Wanjun Change，Press。

Heartbeat，Pinch，sufficient。

Ringback， Gu Wan Jun feel，Just now，Telephone——

“Hello，Hello，Which one？”

Long-lasting，Bring with，But again，My aunt，Each，as if，Occasionally，Like，Bring with，Message。

Gu Wanjun Almost。

She’s pretty。 Chen Lu Just be safe。

Hold，It seems like this Gu Wan Jun Just do it Chen Lu Closer。

One second，Two seconds，Three seconds……Telephone，From，again：

“Hello？Hello？Listening？”

“…”

Gu Wanjun Open your mouth，almost，finger。

no。

cannot。

Gu Wanjun ，You don’t。

You should let Chen Lu hate you。

Hate。

epidemic，Self-media，novel，All major。

2021New Year，pen name“Morning and dusk”The suspension of，Posted《Cage》。

work，Is there any，But“White Moonlight”Writer——“Floating life”。

Time，《Cage》Debut，Become famous in one fell swoop。

2022Early every year，Two women《Cage》Officially published。

because，No way，reader The work of。

domestic。

“Mother，this？”

Room，4Years old，Body，Being blown，Small breasts，In your arms，Little feet。

Leaning on Gu Wan Jun Adjustment，once，A gentle tone：

“besides，Duoduo。”

“don’t want，Duoduo is not sleepy，Duoduo。”

Little girl，One pair，She，as if。

domestic。

In front of the screen，reader，Barrage——

【Ah, finally，There are so many people！】

【This breaks，Repay！】

【Very excited！Morning and dusk！】

【New fans，Who is there ip Why，Yes to go，Is it difficult？】

【Before，author。】

【？！Which one？like，Want to enter！Please pull！】

【……】

From id The bullet，sufficient“Morning and dusk”The suffering。

She deserves it。

Stare at，Beside you：“Mother？”

“How？”

“I can？”

Gu Wanjun Was stunned for a moment，Asked with a smile：“You want？”

“Post this。”

Child，Little hand“Kiss”Expression，after，Looks expectant。

“Mother，Can I post it？”

“Why？”

“because，Kiss？”

Listen，Gu Wanjun There is one。

baby，actually。

Mother，Happy。

Beijing。

Host，And say the author“Morning and dusk”In progress，immediately。

immediately Chen Lu It’s。

Gu Wanjun Dry throat，Feel，She，And not，until——

“Mother？Mother？”

“Um？How？”

“don’t want，My eyes！”

“…”

Small breasts The sound of the urn，She’s finished，Mother。

Beijing。

As time comes，author“Morning and dusk”on time。

Host“Morning and dusk”Video frame，live streaming，One，beside。

Appearing on the camera，One body，soft，Outline，sweater，Make it easy，But too，Warm yellow，White，Exquisite：

“Hello everyone，I’m the author