Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 552: V425: They all say that the most painful thing in the world is deep affection but shallow fate. He, however, feels it is deep fate and shallow affection…_2
Feng Chengjin spoke very casually.
Liang Yichao paused for a moment and didn’t have the mind to persuade him, after all, who can persuade whom between the two of them now?
So, as they smoked more and more, Liang Yichao gazed into the void for a while and said, "What do you think these women are thinking? Does it not matter whether men love them or not? Or are women born without a heart?"
Feng Chengjin smoked for a while too, his eyes darkened, pondering, and after a long time, he said, "I don’t know either..."
And so... the afternoon before leaving the hospital passed just like that.
The two men didn’t talk much, but before leaving, Feng Chengjin did ask Liang Yichao, "What are you planning to do in the future?"
Liang Yichao, with little thought, laughed at himself and said, "What can I plan? Didn’t Yu’s grandmother just look down on me being uneducated and want to match with the wealthy of higher educational levels? Anyway, she’s getting married, and it’s not like she’s the only woman in the world. So as soon as I can, I’ll study abroad to see if the foreign knowledge is really difficult or useful. I might as well try flirting with foreign girls, and play around with other women’s bodies—half my life is over, and damn, I’ve only slept with one, quite a disgrace in the world of socializing!"
Liang Yichao’s words were sarcastic and self-destructive, even carrying a hint of revenge.
If it had been in the past, Feng Chengjin would have somewhat disapproved, would have frowned, but now he didn’t see anything wrong with it, thinking even... maybe Liang Yichao was right to choose this way.
As a man, who are you so persistent for?
So, Feng Chengjin nodded and left.
As for what Feng Chengjin would do in the future, Liang Yichao forgot to ask, but when he remembered, he found that beside the ashtray in front of him, he had only smoked five cigarettes, and from the pack he had just opened earlier, only two cigarettes were left.
It seemed he had understood the choice of someone introverted like Feng Chengjin. In dismay, Liang Yichao shook his head and laughed at himself, feeling quite good, then paused, took one of the remaining two, and lit it.
Then he changed the channel with the remote, rewinding the VCR to watch it again...
...
As for Feng Chengjin, after leaving the hospital in a wheelchair, he didn’t go anywhere else but went straight to Gu Zixuan’s home.
Using a key, he asked the servant to unlock the door. Entering, he saw that everything in the Gu Family was well arranged, things were packed if needed, sealed if necessary. A dust cloth was draped over the sofa, furniture, like a promise to compensate someone.
He wheeled himself to Gu Zixuan’s bedroom, pushed the door open, and took another look.
Gu Zixuan’s bedroom was tidied up nicely.
The piano, bed, violin, books, and music CDs were all properly sealed.
Including the jewelry box he gifted her and other presents, all packed well, not a thing taken. Very considerate.
With a slight smile, Feng Chengjin found nothing inappropriate.
Especially thinking of how He Qimo once had a way to enter with a key.
Looking at how he finally got hold of the Gu Family’s key, it seemed good as well.
Locking the door, he didn’t linger and returned to his villa in Pinghu District.
Inside the bedroom, it seemed Gu Zixuan hadn’t been back since she left; her clothes or anything of hers in the room weren’t packed or tidied.
However, since they were hung separately, packing or not didn’t really matter.
Going to the conservatory, the orchids that Gu Zixuan whimsically planted some time ago were now blooming, but due to perhaps the wrong humidity or variety, the flowers were very small and pale, looking as if they were on the brink of death.
So when he saw those surviving flowers, Feng Chengjin didn’t mind much, as he didn’t care to tend to flowers anymore in the future. He decided to give them away, letting the servants take them home.
Except...
He walked to the only room full of Gu Zixuan’s photos, along with all the news, newspapers, magazines, and journals he had collected about her over the years.
Including things he occasionally bought while they were together, intending to give them to her as a dowry when they got married, also planning to use them for a wedding VCR.
But it seemed they wouldn’t be used anymore?
Feng Chengjin showed no expression.
Just looking at the things he liked the most...
These were toy roly-poly animals he chose for his future child while buying toys for Youxuan back then.
Reaching out, he gently picked up a puppy-shaped roly-poly with his fingertips, fiddling with it in his hand.
Finally, he opened the flower box containing the eternal life flowers he brought back from the hospital, now placed on the small round table in the room.
Opening the lid, he looked inside with self-mockery and sarcasm, especially at the words she wrote personally.
After a moment, as he put back the puppy roly-poly, he also returned the eternal life flower box to its place.
As he left the room, he gave a light final instruction, "Burn everything inside, leave nothing."
The hopeless and empty look in his eyes pained the butler’s heart with no remedy, especially knowing everything by now.
Thinking back over the past eight years, despite the master’s and mistress’s pressure, President Feng persistently kept everything. How could he...?
The butler couldn’t bear it but couldn’t persuade the gentleman. He knew the gentleman never acted impulsively, and seeing his cold demeanor, he couldn’t bring himself to mention anything hurtful. So after much deliberation, he only asked once, "Are you sure?"
Feng Chengjin offered him a silent back as he wheeled away.
The butler understood and waved to the servants, saying, "Get an iron bucket, we are burning things," and proceeded as instructed.
Feng Chengjin wheeled away into the distance.
He understood what the certainty the butler asked about meant.
But whether he was sure or not no longer mattered because he really didn’t care anymore.
He could accept whatever Gu Zixuan did, could disregard any right or wrong, not investigate, but there was one thing he could never endure—
The child!
And so, without the child, they parted ways. From now on, she would live her life, he would live his, and that was quite okay.
Leaning against the direction of the floor-to-ceiling window, he looked at the sky outside. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Some fates were flawed from the start, so there was no need to continue them.
Sometimes feelings were misplaced from the beginning, so there was no need to deepen them.
It’s said that the most bitter thing in the world is deep affection with shallow fate, but he thought the most bitter thing in the world was deep fate with fading feelings...
