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    Chapter 77

    After getting off the bus, Shen Xian did not go back to the hotel with Li Fangqing and the rest of the band.

    “Let’s go eat first.” Shen Xian said to Lan Yuan. She always remembered that Lan Yuan only drank a few sips of water along the way.

    “Okay!” Lan Yuan nodded, and Shen Xian made the decision.

    “Give me your luggage and you can eat slowly. There’s no need to rush back.” Lisa said with a smile.

    In the end, the two chose a Huaiyang restaurant.

    “Just order what you like.” Shen Xian took a sip of tea and said to Lan Yuan.

    After a while, the waiter brought the meal Lan Yuan ordered——

    Big boiled dried shreds, mushrooms and rapeseed, shepherd’s purse steamed stuffed buns, and Wensi tofu soup.

    “Why are they all vegetarian?” Shen Xian looked at the dishes.

    “I like to eat light food now.” Lan Yuan excused herself. Only now did she realize how presumptuous it was to give Shen Xian meat wontons that day.

    Shen Xian laughed helplessly, “Don’t worry so much. People around me also eat meat. I can accept it.”

    Lan Yuan understood from this sentence that Shen Xian already knew what Lisa told him about those seven years.

    “Eat quickly.” Shen Xian served Lan Yuan a bowl of tofu soup.

    “Okay.” Lan Yuan drank the bowl of soup seriously.

    The meal was eaten very slowly, and the two of them didn’t talk much——

    Shen Xian was already anorexic and couldn’t eat, but he kept forcing himself to eat.

    Lan Yuan wanted Shen Xian to eat more and deliberately slowed down.

    “Is your husband good to you?” Shen Xian put down the bowl and chopsticks and wiped her mouth and asked. She couldn’t hold back her curiosity.

    Lan Yuan didn’t expect that Shen Xian would ask about her family, so she paused in her heart, put down her spoon and answered Shen Xian’s question: “We have a respectful relationship.”

    “Very good.” Shen Xian lowered his eyes, remembering the scene of Lan Yuan and her husband as a couple. He was silent for a while before answering, with a forced tone.

    “Chen Chen, I actually…” Lan Yuan looked at the disappointment in Shen Xian’s eyes and wanted to tell the truth.

    “I saw your child that day, and he was quite cute.” Shen Xian pretended to be relaxed and said, because the atmosphere at the dinner table was too gloomy, and she was afraid that Yuan Yuan would be unhappy.

    “It’s not bad. In fact, the nanny takes care of the child more often.” Lan Yuan told the truth. She hugged Zhao Jing very rarely. Most of the time, she was willing to hug the child only when Zhao Jing had to stick to her.

    “He was born in your ten-month pregnancy. Why do you feel like you don’t love him?” Shen Xian didn’t feel much love for the child from Lan Yuan’s tone.

    Lan Yuan touched her belly. She had never been pregnant with a child before and didn’t know what it was like to have her own flesh and blood. She really didn’t love Zhao Jing and only regarded Zhao Jing as a responsibility on her shoulders, nothing more.

    “Xiaojing’s boy is closer to his father. I prefer girls.” Lan Yuan explained, using a double entendre to express her love for Shen Xian in a subtle way.

    “If you like my daughter, I will take you to meet Awen one day.” Shen Xian said with a smile, feeling happy when he thought of Awen.

    “Okay!” Lan Yuan also wanted to meet Du Wenshu and thank her personally for warming Shen Xian’s life for a moment.

    After the meal, the two of them walked back to the hotel along Feixia Road. They happened to pass by Paramount, and the sound of singing and dancing came from inside.

    Attracted by the sound, the two of them glanced at the decorated door at the same time. They both remembered the days when they had waltzed in the ballroom. They were silent for a while and continued to move forward.

    They all acquiesced that the other party would never dance with them again!

    Finally arrived at the hotel door——

    Lan Yuan opened a new room for herself, and Shen Xian and Lisa lived in a double room.

    “Good night.” Shen Xian lived on the third floor and said goodbye to Lan Yuan in advance.

    “Good night.” Lan Yuan replied. She lives on the fifth floor.

    Lan Yuan had just finished taking a shower when she heard a knock on the door. She opened the door with anticipation, only to find that it was Lisa, her eyes dimmed.

    “Chen Xian asked me to bring you clothes. She knows you didn’t bring any change of clothes.” Lisa handed a set of clothes to Lan Yuan.

    Lan Yuan knew by the smell that these were Shen Xian’s clothes – black trousers, white shirt and sweater.

    “Thank her for me.” Lan Yuan said holding the clothes.

    “If I don’t do it, you can go and thank me in person.” Lisa joked.

    “Then I will personally thank you tomorrow morning.” Lan Yuan said with a smile. She understood that Shen Xian could not come over late at night, and she would not go to Shen Xian’s place rashly.

    They both know very well that this thunder pool cannot be crossed now!!!

    At one o’clock in the morning, Lan Yuan heard the knock on the door again. She cautiously walked to the door and opened the door when she heard Lisa’s voice.

    “Ann has a nightmare and keeps calling your name.” Lisa said anxiously.

    Lan Yuan put on a coat and immediately got off the elevator and came to Shen Xian’s room and turned on the light.

    After Lisa saw Lan Yuan go in, she helped close the door and guarded the door.

    “Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan” Shen Xian kept shouting Lan Yuan’s name with sweat on his forehead.

    “I’m here, I’m here.” Lan Yuan held Chen Xian’s hand and kept comforting her.

    Chen Xian gradually calmed down when he heard the familiar voice, opened his eyes, and saw Lan Yuan’s nervous expression.

    Thinking it was still a dream, Shen Xian straightened up and hugged Lan Yuan in his arms, and then began to ask for Lan Yuan, pressing him under him and kissing her fiercely and crazily.

    Lan Yuan felt Shen Xian stick out his tongue, and was afraid that things would develop out of control, so she quickly struggled and pushed Shen Xian away. She was a married woman now, so she couldn’t drag Shen Xian into the water, and she couldn’t let Shen Xian bear the blame.

    “Shen Chen, Shen Chen, please wake up.” Lan Yuan tried her best to push Shen Xian away, pushed her to the side of the bed, and stood up.

    Shen Xian also woke up completely. She also realized that she had almost forced Lan Yuan to cry. She didn’t want to do this and didn’t want to hurt Yuan Yuan.

    Upon seeing this, Lan Yuan climbed onto the bed again, held the person in her arms, and kept comforting him, “It’s okay, you just had a nightmare.”

    “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Shen Xian curled up in Lan Yuan’s arms and kept apologizing.

    “It’s okay, it’s really okay, nothing happened to us.” Lan Yuan said softly.

    “You won’t ignore me because of this, will you?” Shen Xian asked tentatively.

    “No, I said I will follow you every step of the way. Go to sleep and I’ll coax you to sleep.” Lan Yuan wiped the sweat from Shen Xian’s forehead and gently patted her shoulder to coax her.

    “Actually, I just dreamed about my dad again. He passed away.” Shen Xian talked about his nightmare.

    “It must be very painful for something like that to happen. I’m sorry, I didn’t know anything at that time.” Lan Yuan said with a feeling of gratitude.

    “You all know that he shot himself, but only my mother and I saw that scene——”

    “His head was bloody and bloody, and his brains and flesh were scattered on the walls, windows, floors and bookcases.”

    “My hands touched those things, and the flesh and blood were hot and sticky. I washed them many times and couldn’t wash off the blood on my hands.”

    Chen Xian trembled and told Lan Yuan about the scene of his father’s death.

    It was these scenes that trapped Shen Xian in her dream. She could never leave the study, her hands would always be covered in blood, and she would watch her father gradually rot in front of her.

    “In fact, if I had discovered something strange about him earlier, returned to China earlier, and told him that I forgive him earlier, he would not have committed suicide, and I would not have lost my father!”

    Shen Xian choked and said, tears flowing out uncontrollably. She always felt that she was the murderer of her father, and she always lived in self-blame and pain.

    “Father is gone, and you don’t want me. I was in so much pain, so painful, that I almost couldn’t hold on anymore, Yuanyuan!”

    After knowing about Shen Xian’s seven years of pain, Lan Yuan thought that if she had followed Shen Xian on the ship to England that day, wouldn’t everything be as broken as it is now?

    Can Shen Xian reconcile with his father?Does it mean that Shen Xian’s father will not commit suicide?Will Chen Xian be happy forever?

    But unfortunately, the tragedy has become a reality.

    “I’m sorry, Shen Chen. In fact, it was me who caused you to lose so much.” Lan Yuan hugged Shen Xian and cried bitterly. She completely regretted it.

    “It’s all over. It’s not that painful to talk about it anymore.” Shen Xian wiped Lan Yuan’s tears.

    After holding it in her heart for seven years, this was the first time Shen Xian confided in her father’s death. She didn’t want or dare to tell others.

    Only in front of Lan Yuan, in front of the person she trusted and loved the most, did Shen Xian dare to share her cowardice and pain.

    “Do you know what was written in my father’s suicide note?” Shen Xian asked Lan Yuan.

    “What is it?” Lan Yuan asked.

    “It’s a blank piece of paper with no words on it!” Shen Xian smiled and continued –

    “I didn’t understand why we had to leave a blank slate at first, but over the years I gradually understood.”

    “He felt that his sins were too numerous to write down and he couldn’t write them down one by one to repent. He also felt that he was a sinner and was not worthy of placing his hopes on his wife and daughter, so he did not write.”

    After listening to these words, Lan Yuan felt Chen Xian’s father’s inner resistance and struggle against the world and the selfless love of his wife and daughter. It was this character that led to his death!However, it is precisely this kind of character that has cultivated the pure and true Shen Xian!

    “Actually, he was great as a father and husband, so I forgive Mr. Robert Pattinson, but not Chief Robert Pattinson.”

    Shen Xian finally ended her long conversation and fell silent. She and her father finally reconciled.

    Lan Yuan looked at Chen Xian, who was sleeping soundly in her arms, and felt infinite heartache. From twenty to twenty-eight years old.

    It took nine years for Shen Xian to reconcile with the past. The years of walking alone were too painful.

    After helping Shen Xian for a lifetime, Lan Yuan opened the door and saw Lisa squatting at the door, almost asleep, and whispered: “Go in and have a rest.”

    “Forget it, you can sleep in this room tonight. I’m afraid she will continue to have nightmares. She sometimes has several nightmares in one night.” Lisa added.

    When Lan Yuan heard this, she blamed herself again.

    “Give me your room key. I’ll sleep in your room and you sleep in my bed!” Lisa reached out to Lan Yuan.

    “I came in a hurry and didn’t lock the door.” Lan Yuan explained.

    Lisa rolled her eyes with abuse in her eyes – why didn’t you tell me earlier? If you had told me earlier, I wouldn’t have slept at the door. You deserved to have the corner of your mouth bitten by Shen Xian and bleed.

    “You go upstairs and sleep, leave it to me here.” Lan Yuan opened the door and returned to the room.

    When Chen Xian woke up in the morning, he found the black-haired woman in the bed next to her – Lan Yuan, and remembered what happened last night.

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