Chapter 4: People from far away live in my heart 01
I closed the diary almost reflexively. At this moment, a chill ran down my back. This feeling was the worst ever of being caught doing something bad.
"I'm reading my father's diary." I recovered and said in a depressed tone, and under Ning Qiyuan's gaze, I put the diary back to its original place.
He must not be allowed to see what's in the diary.
Those things may just be my father's guesses. I can't let the words my father wrote affect Ning Qiyuan. He has a better life now and should not live in the sadness of the past.
Just like me.
Fortunately, Ning Qiyuan didn't suspect anything. He just leaned against the door with his arms folded, looked at me, and said in a cold voice: "Tong Shuchen, do you want to listen to a bedtime story?"
I was stunned and didn't understand what he meant.
"If you go to bed now, I will tell you what happened in the past two years."
"Ning Qiyuan..."
"I won't tell it a second time." Ning Qiyuan didn't give me a chance to speak more.
Ning Qiyuan always keeps his word and will never repeat .
I was afraid that he would regret it, so I immediately stood up and turned off the light in my dad's room, then walked to my own room. After entering the room, under Ning Qiyuan's gaze, I crawled into the quilt, opened my eyes, and waited for him to speak.
Ning Qiyuan followed him into the room, looked around, and finally sat at the end of my bed.
From my angle, I could just see his profile, but the light was dim, so I couldn't see the expression on his face.
His voice rang out quietly in the room: "After I left two years ago, I had no intention of coming back. I went to work in a shopping mall in Li City, where I lived and ate. Until one day, I met my mother. You must be wondering, how could there be such a coincidence? The fact is, I knew my mother was in Li City from the beginning. I hated her, but I also missed her terribly."
"My mother didn't know my father was dead. After I told her, she decided to take me back to her new home. I didn't want to go to her new home at first, but my mother apologized to me and told me that she was living in fear every day because of what my father did. She couldn't stand it, so she left cruelly. I forgave her. I knew I couldn't really hate her."
"My stepfather is a very nice person. And my younger brother Shuai Xiao also likes me very much. My stepfather is the boss of a large company. He sent me to study abroad. In the past two years, I have been abroad and seldom come back. But some time ago, my mother was sick, so I came back from abroad, but I didn't expect to meet you.
"Tong Shuchen, I've been fine in the past two years."
This was the first time in all the years I had known Ning Qiyuan that I heard him speak so much to me, and in such a calm tone, as if time had washed away all the hostility in him, polished him into a rounded figure, and he even learned to comfort me by telling stories.
Dad, did you see that?
Ning Qiyuan is back, and he is different from before.
Are you feeling at ease now?
Before I knew it, I fell asleep again - my mind and body had already reached their limits.
However, I fell asleep in a daze, but every word my father wrote in the diary kept appearing in my mind, making me sleep very restlessly. I felt as if I was surrounded by a sea of fire, and then in a world of ice and snow. I felt very uncomfortable. I looked at the dark sky in front of me, hoping that someone could come and save me from the pain.
"Dad, Ning Qiyuan..."
In my dream, I seemed to have forgotten that my father had left, and I called him over and over again, calling Ning Qiyuan.
In my subconscious, they are the only two people who can save me.
Later, there really was a slightly cool hand holding mine, and I felt the cool temperature coming from his palm. Gradually, I felt less uncomfortable and my consciousness became clearer.
When I woke up, it was already midnight. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Ning Qiyuan sleeping quietly on the corner of my bed.
The soft moonlight shone in from the window and fell on his side face. I felt warm in my heart and thought he was incredibly handsome at that moment.
He didn't leave me.
I remembered what he said to me that day in the morgue while he hugged me, "Tong Shuchen, you still have me. You are not alone." I don't know what made Ning Qiyuan say such a thing even though he clearly planned not to have any contact with me in the future. Maybe it was because he sympathized with me, but no matter what the reason was, as long as he no longer stayed away from me, it was enough.
Ning Qiyuan was sleeping soundly, and I didn't want to wake him up, so I got out of bed and went outside to get some water. But when my hand was about to hold the door handle, another hand reached out and opened the door.
I was stunned, and when I turned my head, I saw Ning Qiyuan: "You..."
Ning Qiyuan didn't say anything. He grabbed me and brought me back to the bed. Then he covered my forehead with one hand, touched his own, and then seemed to be relieved. He ordered me, "Sit here and don't move." Then he turned and went out. When he came back, he had a cup of warm water in his hand.
I said "thank you" and took it and drank it, but when I realized that it was not boiled water at all, I choked and started coughing.
He gave me ginger tea.
Subconsciously, I decided not to drink any more, but he whispered in my ear, "Tong Shuchen, if you don't want to have a fever anymore, just drink it." As he spoke , he reached out to hold my cup and forced me to drink.
He fed me like this and I drank a cup of ginger tea, my whole body warmed up. Just when I was about to ask him when he made the ginger tea, my stomach started to growl. I was so embarrassed that I didn't know what to say, and my face became hot.
"I……"
"Tong Shuchen, you know, I have never cooked. There will be no food outside at this time." Ning Qiyuan said directly.
Just when I was about to say that I would just bear with it, I heard him say to me with embarrassment: "But I can reluctantly let you teach me."
I burst out laughing.
When Ning Qiyuan lived in my house, it was either my father or I who cooked. He never did any housework, and it was probably the same in the past two years.
The kitchen lights were on and I stood by, instructing him to boil water and cook noodles.
It was a simple matter, and he just needed to follow the steps step by step, but he still did it in a hurry, and even mistook sugar for salt and soy sauce for vinegar. If my father were still alive, he would not know whether to cry or laugh when he saw such a scene.
"Tong Shuchen, are you born to do this?" Ning Qiyuan said to me with gritted teeth, probably knowing what I was thinking.
I replied in a hoarse voice: "At least I did it better than you the first time."
"I fought better than you the first time I fought." Ning Qiyuan turned around and gave me a blank look.
I was choked and speechless.
Soon, the noodles were cooked, and Ning Qiyuan and I had a bowl each. Ning Qiyuan also fried a golden egg, and he was very proud of it for a long time.
Ning Qiyuan was probably hungry too, so he started eating. But I looked at the big bowl of noodles and the golden fried eggs and couldn't help but have tears in my eyes.
I looked up at him, and even though there were tears in my eyes, his face was still very clear.
At this moment, I also completely understood one thing -
In the past two years, I have always felt that I could not forget him and wanted to find him because he left without saying goodbye and failed my father's expectations and teachings of him. It was not until now that I really realized that it was not the case at all.
I can't forget him because I like him.
