The Pianist And The Lady[Republic Of China Gl] Chapter 73

Chapter 73

In the past, when I went there, the willows lingered, but now when I come to think about it, it is raining and snowing.

Lan Yuan got on the train back to Yangzhou. Although it was not a snowy day, looking at the newly sprouted trees that kept receding, she remembered the day she took the train with Shen Xian that year.

They were not lovers at that time. Shen Xian would prepare a clean cup for her, protect her inside from outsiders, help her carry her luggage, and take her home after getting off the car.

But everything is in vain, such good days will never come back, and the mood will not be the same as before.

Things in the world are impermanent. Lan Yuan raised his gaze away from the window. He took out the ring and the ticket that Shen Xian had given him and looked at them over and over before closing his eyes to rest.

After they got married that year, she returned the two checks sent by Shen Xian to Hunter, but kept the boat tickets and the ring. She still wanted to leave some memories for herself.

After getting off the bus, Lan Yuan hailed a rickshaw and returned to Lan’s house. She put her luggage in the room and did not visit her mother, eldest brother and Su Wan. She only waited to watch Shen Xian’s performance in the evening.

After the Lan family was saved by the funds provided by the Zhao family, it did not regain its former prosperity. Lan Zhi was not a business person, and it was difficult to barely maintain the family business.

However, the Lan family is not in such decline. Although it is no longer one of the largest households in Yangzhou, the skinny camel is bigger than a horse, so it is still somewhat prosperous and powerful.

Su Wan became the top leader in the family, controlling all matters in the family and also handling the Lan family’s business. She was more courageous and resourceful than Lan Zhi, and many businesses were negotiated through Su Wan.

As for the relationship between Lan Yuan and Su Wan——

Lan Yuandu always felt guilty towards Su Wan, so he gave in to her everywhere.

Su Wan never had nice things to say about Lan Yuan in private, so Zhao Wencheng would be a bit mean-spirited when she accompanied Lan Yuan back to her parents’ home.

In the evening, Lan Yuan changed into a white cheongsam underneath and a windbreaker outside. In order not to attract attention, she even put on a hat and wrapped herself up tightly to watch Shen Xian’s performance.

The Zhao family and the Lan family together are very prestigious in Yangzhou, and Lan Yuan can enter just by swiping her face.

After knowing that the pianist on the stage was Chen Xian, Lan Yuan lost her elegance in listening to music and stared at Chen Xian’s face with all her attention.

This time she found a corner of the table near the stage, like a voyeur.

Shen Xian wore a black skirt this time and did not wear a coat for the sake of beauty. Lan Yuan was concerned about Shen Xian’s body and worried that she would be cold.

After the performance, Lan Yuan quietly slipped away and ran backstage, continuing to peek at Shen Xian through the crack in the door.

Shen Xian was taking off her makeup at this time, looking in the mirror, concentrating on it. Without her makeup, she still looked like she was twenty-one years old, young and beautiful.

In Lan Yuan’s heart, she has bright facial features, thick eyebrows and big eyes. She is beautiful enough without any additional makeup.

Suddenly, Lan Yuan heard the sound of something falling in the dressing room, and looked up –

Shen Xian lay on the dressing table and held his stomach to endure the pain, his back weak and trembling.

Concern leads to chaos, Lan Yuan barged in directly and saw Lisa and Shen Xian.

Lisa immediately noticed something was wrong with Shen Xian and quickly got her painkillers from the bag.

Chen Xian swallowed the medicine directly in front of Lan Yuan.

Lan Yuan saw that she was very skilled in her movements, so she must have eaten regularly. She then thought of Shen Xian’s sick face in the photo sent by Li Fangqing, and her heart couldn’t help but feel pain – Shen Chen must have suffered countless hardships in the seven years she couldn’t see it!

“Are you feeling better?” Lan Yuan asked Shen Xian anxiously, planning to take him to the hospital directly.

“It’s okay.” Shen Xian said coldly, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

Lisa knew about their relationship, but now she just wanted to stay away, fearing that the city gate would catch fire and affect Chiyu.

“What disease do you have? Can you go to the hospital with me?” Seeing that Shen Xian didn’t rush her, Lan Yuan took a step closer to talk to Shen Xian.

“Get out.” Chen Xian pointed at the door.

“You need to see a doctor now.” Lan Yuan was unwilling to leave.

“You didn’t worry when I slit my wrists back then, so why bother showing off now!” Chen Xian sneered and looked at Lan Yuan with disdain.

“Today is different from the past. Let me take you to the hospital.” Lan Yuan knew that she was in the wrong and couldn’t defeat Shen Xian.

“Today is the same as in the past. Miss Lan is as ruthless and unjust as ever.” Shen Xian stood up with strength. Since Lan Yuan won’t leave, then he will leave.

“Don’t move, just sit down, I’m leaving.” Lan Yuan took a step back and was about to leave. She didn’t want to irritate Chen Xian anymore.

Lan Yuan walked to the door and was about to open it when she heard the sound of falling. Looking back, Shen Xian suddenly fainted and fell to the ground.

Lisa was caught off guard and quickly supported Shen Xian.

“What’s wrong with Chen Xian? Go call the doctor quickly.” Lan Yuan also ran over to support Shen Xian and asked Lisa anxiously.

“Do you have any candy at home?” Lisa asked Lan Yuan.

“Yes.” Lan Yuan nodded, but she didn’t understand why Lisa asked this.

“Then go to your house. She just fainted due to low blood sugar. Just add some sugar and she’ll be fine.” Lisa explained.

Of course, Lisa knew that there was actually candy in the hotel, so she deliberately suggested going to Lan Yuan’s house just to help Shen Xian.

Lan Yuan held Shen Xian in his arms. Shen Xian was as light as a feather.

She knew that Shen Xian was as skinny as a stick, but she didn’t expect that Shen Xian could be so light. His bones were a bit harsh. Lan Yuan couldn’t help but feel bitter in her heart. How did Shen Xian get through those days that she didn’t know?

The driver opened the door for Lan Yuan. Lan Yuan gently put Shen Xian on the back seat, then sat in and supported Shen Xian, letting her lean on his shoulder.

Lisa knew someone was taking care of Shen Xian, so she smiled casually and went to sit in the passenger seat honestly, not joining in the commotion in the back seat.

In her peripheral vision, Lisa also saw Lan Yuan’s right hand resting on Shen Xian’s wrist.

Lan Yuan finally touched the scar on Chen Xian’s wrist. Unlike the tight and delicate skin on other parts of Chen Xian’s body, the scar protruded like rough tree bark, and they were two almost overlapping scars!

Two!Lan Yuan realized that Shen Xian had cut his wrist more than once!

Why did Shen Xian cut his wrists twice? Lan Yuan had another question in her mind.

“Don’t worry too much. Ann is fine. It’s just hypoglycemia caused by not eating.” Lisa explained to Lan Yuan again.

Lan Yuan became even more worried, “Why doesn’t she eat well?”

“Isn’t it all because of you?” Lisa whispered, lacking confidence.

“Does she faint often?” Lan Yuan continued to ask without hearing Lisa’s words clearly.

Because Lan Yuan felt that Lisa seemed to be used to Shen Xian fainting due to hypoglycemia.

“The frequency is not bad. I faint about ten or eight times a year.” Lisa clapped her fingers.

“Have you been staying with her all these years?” Lan Yuan remembered that Lisa and Shen Xian grew up together.

Lisa noticed the sourness in Lan Yuan’s tone and hurriedly explained, “We are just musical partners. We only stay together during performances and rehearsals.”

“Why don’t you always urge her to eat well?” Lan Yuan only felt that Lisa was unreliable and did not think about it.

“Ann’s liver and stomach have been in bad condition. She can’t eat many things, and she doesn’t like to eat. I can’t hold her head to eat. She’s a bit anorexic.” Lisa suddenly felt like a pot was being placed on her head, and she quickly threw it away.

Bad liver?Lan Yuan remembered the time when Shen Xian was beaten by his father and injured his liver, but the doctor said at that time that it had been basically healed and would not affect his future life. How could it get worse? Why did he still have stomach problems?

The car drove to the door of Lan’s house, and the two stopped talking.

Lan Yuan asked the driver to drive the car to his yard, then picked up Shen Xian horizontally again and moved him to the bed in his bedroom.

The servants brought sugar water according to Lan Yuan’s instructions. Lan Yuan tried to feed Shen Xian sugar water, but Shen Xian was still the same as seven or eight years ago, unable to feed him anything as soon as he fell asleep.

Lan Yuan was so anxious that she dismissed Lisa and her servants, closed the door, took a sip of sugar water, and put it directly into Chen Xian’s mouth.

Chen Xian resisted this sudden intrusion at first, but after slowly getting used to it, he would respond to Lan Yuan’s movements in his sleep, very greedily.

In the blink of an eye, a bowl of sweet water filled Shen Xian’s stomach.

Lan Yuan took off Shen Xian’s shoes, covered him with a quilt, left the bedroom, and walked gently to the door.

“Let the kitchen prepare some light meals and put them on the pot to keep them warm and not cold!” Lan Yuan ordered the servant who brought the sugar water.

“Okay, miss, I’ll go talk to the kitchen.” The servant excused himself and left.

Lisa saw the water stains on Lan Yuan’s mouth and gave her a thumbs up, “It has to be you.”

Lan Yuan wiped her mouth with her hand, feeling embarrassed.

“Actually, you can put a piece of rock candy in her mouth and slowly melt it, or you can wait for her to wake up and eat something, but you have selfish motives.” Lisa continued, she was testing Lan Yuan.

“Don’t you also have selfish motives and deliberately asked me to bring Chen Xian back!” Lan Yuan also knew that there was candy in the hotel, but deliberately used it and listened to Lisa’s suggestion.

“I like your intelligence. I could tell you liked Ann when we met eight years ago, but you hid it very well.” Lisa glanced at Lan Yuan with admiration and said with a smile.

“Tell me about Shen Xian’s past seven years.” Lan Yuan brought Lisa to her study. She knew that Lisa wanted to tell her these things during this meeting.

Moreover, Lan Yuan was worried about how to find out what happened to Shen Xian in the past seven years. The ready-made clues and witnesses were right in front of her. This was the purpose of testing whether Lisa had been accompanying Shen Xian in the car just now.

“Let me ask you a question first,” Lisa would not tell the past rashly. She had to know Lan Yuan’s attitude first, “Do you still love Ann?”

“I only love Shen Xian. I have only loved her in the past, present and future.” Lan Yuan said firmly.

“Then why did you abandon her?” Lisa asked this question while trying to suppress her anger.

“Do two people who love each other have to be together?” Lan Yuan asked.

Lisa couldn’t answer and remained silent.

Seeing that Lisa was silent, Lan Yuan continued –

“After we got together, Shen Xian had to do jobs she didn’t like in order to make money, such as supporting singers, and was harassed by others. So that I could go to the UK to study, she stayed up late translating manuscripts to earn money. How can I bear this?”

“I feel like I am a burden and drag to her. Without me, she will shine!”

“And my parents have raised me for eighteen years. Even if I hate them, I have to repay the kindness of raising me. My sister-in-law had a miscarriage because of me, and I have to pay the price.”

“All of this makes it impossible for me to firmly choose Shen Xian!”

“She can indeed help me pay back the money, but this requires her to compromise and reach out to her parents. I don’t want her to change her principles, and I don’t want her to be unable to insist on being herself for me!”

“So I chose to break up. She is now doing meaningful things, fighting for the ideals and justice she insists on, and can continue to play the piano. This is better than anything else. This also proves that I did not do everything wrong!”