“A colonel from the Beijing Military Region? That’s quite a high position.”
“Yes, very high. He said it’ll be fine, so it definitely will be.”
Dad slept soundly, Mom lay on the accompanying bed, and I sat on a bench in the hospital corridor, waiting for dawn.
At two in the morning, I dialed Ye Zhengchen’s number. He didn’t speak, but I could hear his heavy breathing.
“What should I do?” I asked aimlessly.
He finally spoke. “What can I do for you?”
Overwhelmed by pain, I cried, realizing that crying could be blissful.
“Wait for me, I’m coming to find you!” he said.
I shook my head, though he couldn’t see. “I’m in Nanzhou.”
There was silence on the phone.
“Wait for me, I’m coming to find you!” he repeated.
The author has something to say: Does anyone know what Ye said to Yu Yin? On Yu Yin’s birthday, everyone said to express their desires. Ye leaned close to Yu Yin’s ear and laughed…
Yi Dai Song: “Wait for me, I’m coming to find you.”
These words burned in my ears.
Why, no matter where I am…
I almost blurted out: I’ll wait for you!
But a cold voice intruded in my mind: “Asking him to save your fiancé, are you being fair to him? He loves you and would do anything for you… You hurt him once, don’t hurt him again.”
The words caught in my throat as I replaced them with: “No need.”
After hanging up, I didn’t let myself regret. Yu Yin had won again.
Her accusation had embedded itself in my heart, becoming an inescapable curse.
In the cold night, I sat on the bench scrolling through my phone contacts, finding no one who could help. Helplessly, I decided to find a lawyer at dawn to discuss my situation.
As the first light of morning emerged, the sky was impossibly clear.
A man in a dark green military uniform stood before me, golden sunlight blurring his outline but illuminating a row of neat buttons.
I tilted my head up, unable to make out his face in the shadow, but my heart trembled.
Long fingers brushed away my cold tears, bringing warmth and familiarity.
At my desperate moment, the person I longed for appeared—two words: touched!
