Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 469 - 338, I have been waiting all along, but can’t wait any longer, is that so? (2 more 2)_3
Shi Nian, in Tang Yanqing’s arms, turned to look at Huangfu Huazhang.
Perhaps he himself didn’t even know that in this dazzling sunlight, his entire aura had quietly transformed.
Just like the vampires in movies, elegant and exquisite under moonlight and starlight, yet under the sunlight, they can’t control their form, their features become hideous, their posture starts to tremble.
The Huangfu Huazhang of now, was no longer the noble and graceful figure from memory.
Shi Nian only felt his heart ache, unable to suppress the regret, why is such a person surrounded by darkness? Why couldn’t he abandon the darkness earlier and step into the sunlight himself?
Fifteen years ago, before becoming William Ford, before gaining power and wealth... he originally had so much time, so many opportunities. Why couldn’t he resist everything from M Country, why couldn’t he live this life quietly and peacefully?
Perhaps in the end, he still couldn’t be reconciled. Everything, everything, ultimately boils down to being unresigned.
Unresigned to being an illegitimate child unseen by the world, unresigned to never being acknowledged by his father’s family, unresigned to sitting by the window all his life like a wasted person, unresigned... to live this life quietly and unnoticed.
So to gain everything he has now, he chose that dark and lonely road, stubbornly moving farther and farther away from the sunlight.
She wept, looking at him, and whispered, "Sir, I promise you..." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Huangfu Huazhang shuddered abruptly, suddenly laughing: "You agreed? Ha, Nian, you finally agreed to me!"
But Shi Nian shook his head with tears: "Sir, listen to me... I promise you, I’ll definitely help you investigate the old case from fifteen years ago, to bring justice to your mother, not letting her die in injustice."
Huangfu Huazhang was heavily stunned: "You only agreed to this?"
Shi Nian grasped Tang Yanqing’s clothes tightly, unable to restrain tears: "Sir, please wake up, can you? Even without me, sir, you must see your own path clearly, which is light and which is dark. So I beg you, sir, don’t go even further. Come back, please?"
Huangfu Huazhang held his breath, afraid to breathe as he listened to her words.
After listening, he had to tilt his head to savor for a while, then raised his head to look over, quietly asking: "Nian... are you trying to say that you finally want to abandon me too?"
His finger suddenly pointed at Tang Yanqing: "For him, you chose to abandon me? For someone who only came into your life four years ago, did you forget my ten years of waiting for you?!"
He tried hard to smile: "My little girl, I’ve waited for you for twelve years; oh no, adding this year, it’s thirteen years now. Thirteen years, does it not surpass his four years?"
Shi Nian shed tears. She couldn’t bear to speak out: Sir, thirteen, thirteen is not a lucky number.
Sir hanging that ’The Last Supper’ in Kangchuan University’s history museum, did sir forget what thirteen represents?
That is abandonment, that is separation, that is... eventually cannot always be together.
Sir, so clever, when you mentioned this number, did you not already understand in your heart? Even if I don’t articulate it now, has your heart already welled up with this tragic understanding as if it were fate?
Shi Nian wiped her tears with the back of her hand and boldly met Huangfu Huazhang’s gaze.
"Sir, I do cherish it, I am unwilling to let go of the man from thirteen years ago who unexpectedly loved me. But sir, I am no longer the thirteen-year-old girl I once was, and what about you, sir, are you still that white-clothed youth quietly sitting by the window, under the flower rack from thirteen years ago?"
"Time has changed, the us of now has both changed. I am no longer a little girl, I am now a journalist; I have experienced the life-and-death struggle between right and wrong, the birth and death of family, and even the failure of marriage. Now my heart has gone through numerous wounds, yet after healing, has become strong and resolute. I know what I should do, and I have the ability and skill to do what I should do, I don’t need a man’s one-sided protection, I don’t want to be a bird under a man’s wing, I just want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the man beside me."
"And you, sir? You are now M Country’s William Ford, perhaps no longer the Huangfu Huazhang in that little alley of China from thirteen years ago... I cherish and feel sorry for the Huangfu Huazhang in that little alley of China, but what has William Ford left me?"
"Facing William Ford, I can’t help but think of Nisha, Zhou Guanghan, S, Sean, Rosa, Xiong Jie, Meng Chuyan! Sir, I’m sorry, facing William Ford, I can’t only think of you."
Shi Nian wiped the tears at the corners of her eyes.
"In the stories of China, it is said that if a person dies unjustly, their spirit lingers, remaining in the world until the murderer is found, only then can they peacefully depart. Sir, do you want me to stop seeing those people? Then help me, as well as yourself, to bring justice to their grievances, letting them depart peacefully, okay?"
"By then, even if you are wearing prison clothes, inside an iron prison, I will still find you handsome, just as noble and elegant as before. By then, I can truly see only you, is that alright?"
Shi Nian was full of tears, while Huangfu Huazhang staggered back several steps.
He stared at her, tightly: "You’ve already decided, haven’t you?"
Perhaps what she said was right, he was just Huangfu Huazhang back then, but now he is William Ford. To have this late-arriving name, to win everything represented by this name, gradually he is no longer himself.
He is now William Ford, no longer Huangfu Huazhang!
He also didn’t want this, he also wanted to be Huangfu Huazhang again... but what is the most ruthless in this world? It is time. No one has the power to reverse time, there’s no way to go back to the past.
So he and she, after all, can never go back?
So now he can only watch as she chooses Tang Yanqing’s embrace, completely exiting his life?
Because he is William Ford, he is no longer Huangfu Huazhang, no longer Huangfu Huazhang...
Even the Huangfu surname, the surname inherited from his mother, has somehow distanced from him, no longer belonging to him?
So what have all his years of struggle, all these years of striving, ultimately resulted in?
Isn’t it every man’s wish to have a day of success, to become strong and noble, just to present themselves to the one they love most? Why when he achieved it, did he end up losing his little girl?
He had always been waiting for her to grow up, always.
But why, when she grew up, when she walked to his face, was she actually moving further and further away, far and far away?
