Chapter 11: Love's Great Reversal 3
In the spacious and bright airport, Qian Mengmeng stood breathlessly in the waiting hall. She looked around, but there was no sign of Pei Haochuan in the busy airport. Qian Mengmeng anxiously looked for Pei Haochuan's flight number on the scrolling screen, but she couldn't find the corresponding flight. Qian Mengmeng ran to the customer service center and anxiously asked for Pei Haochuan's flight information.
"I'm sorry, Miss. The flight you are inquiring about took off an hour ago and should have flown out of China by now..."
It was like a wake-up call. Qian Mengmeng's eyes went dark. The energy she had used to run from home to the airport was quickly depleted as if someone had poked her with a needle. She slowly slid down to the cold ground, leaning against the table of the customer service center.
"He said he wanted to break away from his old life."
Mr. Pei’s words rang in her ears, and Qian Mengmeng’s tears, which she had been holding back for a long time, finally fell.
In the busy waiting hall, Qian Mengmeng cried without caring about her image. People passing by looked at her sideways, but Qian Mengmeng had no time to care.
It was she who drove him away. She said so many cruel words to him, so he had to give up everything he had now and go to the United States to start over. Qian Mengmeng's heart ached dully. She never knew that she liked Pei Haochuan so much, and she never knew that losing him was such a heartbreaking thing.
“Ding Ling Ling…”
Qian Mengmeng's cell phone rang. She answered the call and heard Pei's father's anxious voice: "Mengmeng, the security guard of Haochuan Community just told me that he just went back to get something. You should go find him now. I can't get through to him on the phone... By the way, he is not in the villa. He lives in another apartment during this period. I 'll give you the address. Go find him now!"
Pei's father's address was sent to her very quickly. Qian Mengmeng hung up the phone and ran away. This was the first time in her history that she took a taxi twice in one day. Qian Mengmeng kept urging him along the way, and the car soon arrived at Pei Haochuan's residence. This was a well-known apartment in Qingtong City. Qian Mengmeng ran inside after getting off the car, but she was stopped after just two steps in.
"There's a fire inside, miss, don't go in."
As if struck by lightning, Qian Mengmeng grabbed the security guards who were coming in and out and asked, "Whose house is on fire? What happened?"
But the security guard didn't need to answer. Qian Mengmeng saw that on the floor of Pei Haochuan's apartment, thick smoke was billowing out from inside, and fierce flames could be seen in broad daylight.
"What's the room number where the fire started?"
Qian Mengmeng heard her own gloomy voice asking the security guard.
"Is it 908? I don't know, a young man who just moved in recently. Sigh... What a pity..."
Qian Mengmeng's legs went limp, and she knelt on the ground with her knees knocked to the ground. Her vision went dark. 908... was Pei Haochuan's room. Pei Haochuan... was in the room now...
The fire was so severe that almost the entire building was on fire. Reporters and media had already gathered around the community, and fire trucks had surrounded the area so tightly that no one could get through.
Thinking that Pei Haochuan might be inside, Qian Mengmeng roared and rushed in, but was stopped by the firefighters.
"Don't you want to live? Such a big fire will burn you to death!"
"Let me go, I want to save people, Haochuan, Haochuan is still inside..." Qian Mengmeng tried desperately to break through the firefighters' obstruction, but couldn't.
Finally, the firefighter couldn't stand it anymore and threw her to the ground: "Comrade, can you wake up a little? We are rescuing people! We are professionals! If you hadn't been here making trouble, we would have rescued the people long ago!"
Qian Mengmeng stared at the firefighters blankly. It took her a long time to realize that her face was cold. She got up again and said, "Please let me in. I want to save people. My boyfriend is still in there..."
"I'm telling you, girl, what's wrong with you? There's such a big fire, and you rush in? You don't want to die, but we do!"
Qian Mengmeng was crying so hard that she was out of breath . She grabbed the firefighter's clothes tightly and cried loudly: "Please, let me in, my boyfriend is really in there, he will die! He will be burned to death in the fire!"
"Can you please stop being unreasonable? It's really..."
Just when the firefighters were at a loss, a familiar voice rang out.
“Mengmeng!” It was Qian’s father. I don’t know when he came over. Qian’s father hugged Qian Mengmeng and cried, “You can’t take risks! You are my only daughter. You can’t abandon me!”
"Dad?" Qian Mengmeng, who was confused, burst into tears when she heard her father's voice. "Dad, we were all wrong! Haochuan... It's all my fault that Haochuan became like this! It's all my fault! Mom didn't die in a car accident, and Uncle Pei didn't betray us. We were wrong, we were wrong!"
Qian Mengmeng cried and tried to rush in: "Dad, let me go, let me go to save Haochuan, he is in there, he must be in there, we can't be so selfish."
Qian Mengmeng felt as if her heart was on fire. She blamed herself, felt guilty, and felt heartbroken! Because of her, Pei Haochuan wanted to go to the United States. Because of her, Pei Haochuan wanted to cut off all ties with this place so anxiously. It was all because of her!
If Pei Haochuan died... If Pei Haochuan was gone...
Qian Mengmeng didn’t dare to think further, she could only keep rushing into the fire.
"Meng Meng," suddenly, a gentle but infinitely sad voice sounded beside Qian Meng Meng's ears, "Don't rush in, it's useless."
Qian Mengmeng turned her head slowly, and then saw Father Pei with a smile on his face that was uglier than crying. The string in her heart collapsed instantly, and Qian Mengmeng cried and hugged Father Pei: "Uncle, Uncle Pei, I'm sorry!"
Father Pei patted her shoulder sadly: "Uncle doesn't blame you. Your father and I have made things clear. There is no misunderstanding between our two families."
"Yes, Mengmeng." Father Qian also choked up and said, "It's all Dad's fault. It's all because Dad is useless. For so many years...for so many years, I have wrongly blamed your Uncle Pei..."
"Uncle," Qian Mengmeng sobbed, "Haochuan is still in there, he... it's all because of me, I was the one who insisted on breaking up with him... that's why he wanted to leave, it's all my fault, it's all my fault... He tried so hard to keep me, why... why didn't I agree to him... I regret it so much, I regret it so much..."
Uncle Pei patted her shoulder, his eyes reddened: "It's okay, Mengmeng, you have to believe in Haochuan like me, and believe that he will be blessed by heaven."
"Yes, Mengmeng," Qian's father also tried to comfort her, "It will be fine. It will be fine."
"But..." Qian Mengmeng wanted to say something, but she didn't dare to say the fact that no one wanted to face. She looked at the sad father Pei and her father who was worried about her , so she suppressed the thought in her heart and nodded while crying, "I know... I'll just wait."
The rescue work lasted for a whole day. It was already the next morning when the fire was completely extinguished. Qian Mengmeng and her friends went forward again and again to look for news about Pei Haochuan, but they could not find any information at all.
"He was not on the rescue list, nor on the list of victims."
When Father Pei brought the news to Qian Mengmeng, who had been waiting outside the apartment for a day and a night, she looked at Father Pei with almost despair.
"what do you mean……"
"Haochuan might..." Father Pei's eyes were red. He took a deep breath and said in great sorrow, "There are also some with broken arms and legs, and the owners cannot be found. Mengmeng, calm down. Haochuan..."
It is possible that he died without a complete body...
Qian Mengmeng looked up in a daze in the direction of Pei Haochuan's room. The next second, her eyes went dark and she fainted .
