Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 577 - V449: Qiu Zhixuan’s tears had already begun to dry, leaving only emptiness in her eyes. 2000
After a pause, and when Qiu Zhixuan’s crying subsided, she sniffled, took out her phone from her bag, and called Bai Qifan.
"Hello, where are you? Could you come pick me up?"
In the cold, silent night, Feng Chengjin heard her words and stopped in his tracks.
After hesitating for a moment, he slowly stepped back into an empty alley.
After waiting for almost 40 minutes, seeing a black Audi car drive up, Bai Qifan got out of the car, looking at the somewhat intoxicated Qiu Zhixuan who was barely keeping it together by squatting. Bai Qifan quickly took off his coat and without a word, draped it over Qiu Zhixuan’s shoulders, then helped her into the car as she could barely keep her balance.
The car soon drove away.
In the shadows, Feng Chengjin watched everything unfold from a distance, and let out a self-mocking, sarcastic laugh.
After pausing a bit longer, as if the cold no longer mattered, he flicked away the cigarette butt from his fingers, put one hand in his pocket, and turned to leave...
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Later. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
The next day, when Qiu Zhixuan woke up, the pain from drinking prompted her to call in a sick day. She then sat in her bedroom, staring blankly out the window towards the gate.
That chance encounter last night made her realize a lot of things when she woke up.
Especially the fact that it must have been someone who deliberately arranged for her to meet Feng Chengjin, made her understand that there are still people who hope she and Feng Chengjin would reconcile.
But was that really considered a meeting?
A meeting, better not to meet at all. The hope she held onto for two years came crashing down, utter despair akin to the collapse of the Eiffel Tower in her heart.
Does he still love her? In a mere two years, has he completely forgotten her? The realization tore small holes in her heart, one after another.
She didn’t dare to guess, nor dare to think about it.
She could only sit on her bed, staring at the gate, waiting second by second.
At yesterday’s banquet, he already knew everything about her, including her address and where she worked. If he still had even a trace of feelings for her, if...he still thought of her, if he still wasn’t resigned to the answer from back then, he would come looking for her...
However, from morning until dusk,
Feng Chengjin never appeared.
He didn’t even show up at the doorstep, and when she, desperate, went to the alley, she still didn’t see any sign of Feng Chengjin.
Desolation made Qiu Zhixuan cry until tears failed to come.
He would not forgive her, he wouldn’t love her again, he had clearly moved on completely, and no matter what happened between them, it wouldn’t matter anymore...
As Qiu Zhixuan returned from the alley to the yard, she sank against the doorframe, her tears dried up, leaving only an empty gaze.
There’s no greater sorrow than a dead heart.
Qiu Zhixuan’s pain and despair were witnessed by Qiu Yuan and Gu Qingfeng from inside, who both lowered their gaze, unwilling to watch.
After all, no one had expected this outcome.
They thought that seeing Feng Chengjin again would either continue the unresolved issues of the past or finally have a talk to let things go, move on, and wish each other well.
After all, they were both adults now, one was twenty-eight, the other thirty-six; is there any hurdle they couldn’t overcome?
Yet, they were wrong.
No matter how much they guessed, they would never have guessed that Feng Chengjin would choose a path of complete disregard.
Not responding, not asking, not forgiving, not entangled, not contacting...
Just that cold and indifferent letting go, directly collapsing all the beliefs their daughter had persisted in for two years...
In deep regret, Gu Qingfeng for a moment didn’t know whether to blame Feng Chengjin for his cold heart which they completely underestimated or regret that it was all the karma they themselves had created.
...
Time flowed backward, everything seemed to return to the day of their daughter’s full moon celebration.
They had just returned to Rong City holding their newborn daughter from Beijing.
That day, he was busy entertaining guests.
That eight-year-old, extremely handsome young boy, accompanied by the Feng family’s steward, approached Qiu Yuan.
Seeing Qiu Yuan, Feng Chengjin politely smiled, handed over a red envelope, and said, "Aunt Qiu, my dad and my brother are abroad and can’t make it, they asked me to bring a red envelope on their behalf and congratulate Uncle Gu and Aunt Qiu on the birth of your daughter."
The polite and courteous eight-year-old Feng Chengjin was quite liked by Qiu Yuan, and she found him very agreeable. In her happiness, Qiu Yuan also showed him Zixuan in her arms.
Feng Chengjin seemed to think Little Zixuan was quite pretty and bent down with a smile to gently touch her face.
Little Zixuan woke up, staring quietly at Feng Chengjin with big, grape-like eyes and then...spit up milk.
The scene was extremely awkward, even the eight-year-old Feng Chengjin found it a bit ridiculous yet amusing.
But it wasn’t a big deal, kids are funny like that, it’s something to laugh at and move on.
At that time, however, while looking at the thick stack of gift money, and scanning the room only to find no sign of Feng Jingguo and Feng Chengxuan, that "old family relationship" created a deep-seated feeling of unease within him.
Especially since he had sent out all the invitations twenty days in advance.
Old Master Feng Shixing of the Feng family and Old Master Gu Lichen of the Gu family, after all, had sworn brotherhood in their youth and were truly inseparable during the years they both came to Rong City during the reform and opening-up...
In the end, for his daughter’s full moon celebration, only an underage Feng Chengjin attended...
It was probably nothing, maybe they really were busy.
Given the good relations between the two families, it was let go.
Gu Qingfeng didn’t think much of it, planning to make up for it by inviting them to another gathering later, but when he did extend the invitation for the second round of gatherings, despite having called in advance, Feng Jingguo had something else come up abroad, and Feng Chengjin came again.
Repeated twice, at one point Gu Qingfeng wondered if the Feng family really valued the Gu family at all.
Lately, whenever Yun Feng Real Estate from the Feng family came to bid on government contracts, even though he helped out for the sake of the past relationship between their fathers, the knot in his heart grew bigger.
Especially in the end, as Yun Feng Real Estate continued to expand, Feng Jingguo, the "old brother," gradually turned from regularly gathering to catching up over a meal, to not contacting unless business was involved.
Later on, when he stumbled upon the down-and-out heiress of the Su family, Su Xin, and looked at the things Feng Jingguo had done...
