Chapter 124: Don't Want to Fall Asleep
The husband, a sleazy looking man gave tearful speeches. Yun Qian ng's family was missing from the scene. Yun Sui Bo was dead. His wife had left the country to visit her son who was studying abroad. Not one person who knew her was there except this dramatic husband of hers.
He watched the man carefully and wondered what she saw in him. He wasn't successful by any ans. He could barely grow a business or sustain it. Did she love him?
He moved away from the crowd for so silence. The rest went to eat at the buffet. Sothing about binge-eating at funerals and bringing peace to the death.
And he heard it.
The husband.
Bragging.
About killing Yun Qian ng.
He froze in his spot as he heard him speak on the phone with soone, calling them terms of endearnt, talking about a child.
Mo Qingchen followed Bai Ye Qing for the next few days, abandoning his work, obsessed with finding out the truth. And he found every little detail out.
The contract between Yun Sui Bo and Bai Ye Qing stating that their companies would help each other out. That Yun Sui Bo would take control of Venus when Yun Qian ng gave birth. And then how this scumbag had killed so many people to grab whatever he could get.
He had drugged Yun Qian ng so that her health depleted. She was depressed and unable to carry children. She was miserable.
Yun Qian ng was miserable because she cared too much about family and being loved.
He understood his obsession and he distanced himself.
News about an accident killing Yun Qian ng's step-brother ca a few months later. The news spoke about the devastation of a family that died shortly after one another.
Mo Qingchen poured his soul into his work. He worked hours that were not humanly possible. He coded and recoded until everything was perfect.
Years and years passed. He was forty. He barely slept.
He was working, he said as an excuse.
His family rarely saw him.
He never married.
He worked until he couldn't think about anything but work.
He didn't know why guilt gnawed at him.
It was not like he could have done anything.
It was not like he could have saved her from this horrible fate.
He finally finished the project that he had been working on for years. He went ho that evening at seven. He was tired.
He wanted to sleep.
So, he fell asleep.
When he woke up next, he was back in ti. Everything remained constant, except for ti.
A glitch in the matrix? He wondered. But a glitch wouldn't explain how every detail remained the sa.
So, he went back to Einstein and Quantum Physics. He thought about String Theory and a small vibration in the fabric of the universe shifting it drastically.
He had sohow traveled to another universe parallel to his own.
He saw an interview with Yun Qian ng in a financial magazine shortly after. Her answers were powerful and spoke true to her ideals.
It was a sha. It was a sha that a mind this bright would be extinguished.
Before it happened. He wanted to et her once.
When his secretary brought in the proposal from the planning and accounting team with a proposal to shift their office, he noticed a building close to Yun Qian ng's headquarters.
"This one," he had said instinctively.
The move happened.
Yun Qian ng kept climbing to glory.
A few months went by but he never saw her.
One day, finally, his secretary ca in with a proposal from his father. Sothing about going on a news show to battle out sothing on construction and housing laws.
"You know I don't do these things," he said gruffly, shoving the file away.
"Your father insists you do it."
Mo Qingchen looked up from his work and glared at the obviously pregnant woman. "Get out," he commanded.
"You'll be going against Miss Yun, a shareholder of Yun Corporation. Your father asked to inform you that this is about family honor."
Mo Qingchen grew silent.
Yun Qian ng.
He mulled her na over in his mind. His pen twirled between his fingers.
"Are you sure she is coming?" he asked.
The secretary stiffened but nodded. "Yes, I received word from the news station that their side has confird."
He nodded and looked back down. "Okay. Make sure to keep my schedule cleared."
There was silence for the longest ti.
"Leave," he said after a minute. The secretary scurried away, wondering what the hell was happening. So easily convinced?
And the ball rolled on and on. He wanted to et her and talk to her, give her a wake-up call. He never expected her response.
She seed to hate him for no reason.
Another eting.
Another coincidence.
And then he sought her out.
Sought her out until she was living under the sa roof as him.
The only thought he had in the monts before his eyes drooped were these: "I don't want to fall asleep. In this universe, Yun Qian ng is alive and happy. I don't want to go back. I want to stay right here."
- - - - -
Li Jun finally received the contact details of Bai Ye Qing's lawyer. He was soone by the na of Jiang, aning that he was probably a maternal cousin of Bai Ye Qing. He worked as an associate lawyer in the top firm in the country.
Li Jun picked up his cell phone and called his senior from the university.
"Senior," he greeted when the other picked up the phone after a couple of rings.
"Li Jun, what a surprise! Why are you calling this late in the night?" he asked. He sounded excited and happy so Li Jun didn't apologize.
"Oh, it's just a case that I am working on and the na of your firm ca up… so I wanted to check with you," he began.
"A case?" the senior responded, confused. "You don't take up small cases and if you are calling , it should be sothing complicated. What is the case and who is the lawyer?"
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