Chapter 375: Chapter 375 Compromise
Shen Heyu got out of the car, and the bodyguard who escorted them said to her, “Miss Shen, after you take the young miss inside, soone will lead you to the corresponding place.”
“The old lady has arranged everything. In the new place, you have a job, a house, and everything. As long as you do not co back, do not entangle yourself with President Pei anymore. Whatever is due to you, the old lady will not shortchange you by a fraction.”
Shen Heyu nodded.
From the paintings around her, Shen Heyu realized that the old lady ant to thoroughly make a clean break with her this ti.
No matter how much she had liked her before, hoping that she could get along well with Pei Yansi, or the expectations she had for her and Pei Yansi’s second child.
But all that was built on the assumption that Chen Lingng had never appeared.
The appearance of Chen Lingng overturned everything.
The old lady no longer yearned for her.
After all, to others, Shen Heyu’s love was insignificant compared to the love of the supporting female character.
Everyone hoped that Pei Yansi would marry a woman who truly had him in her heart.
That was Chen Lingng.
Not Shen Heyu.
So, it made sense that the attitude of the old lady changed overnight, and Shen Heyu was aware of it.
Shen Heyu wouldn’t bla anyone, nor would she think any less of the old lady because of it. She knew this was all within the realm of normal human feelings.
She nodded to the bodyguard, took her daughter’s hand, and turned to enter the airport.
Yuexue was very well-behaved, allowing Shen Heyu to lead her. Throughout their trip to the airport, she did not cry or fuss.
An hour later, under the arrangent of the staff, they boarded a private plane.
In the vast space, there were only her and Yuexue.
Occasionally, a flight attendant would co over to provide them with food and water.
Yuexue looked at the gradually fading cityscape outside the window and turned to look at Shen Heyu, asking sincerely, “Mommy, will we ever co back?”
What she really wanted to ask was whether they would see Pei Yan again. But she could sense that her mother was feeling down. If she brought up Daddy, her mother might beco even more heartbroken.
So, Yuexue posed a thoughtful question.
It wouldn’t make Shen Heyu sad, would it?
Yuexue watched her mother carefully.
Shen Heyu stroked her daughter’s head and said gently with a smile, “When you grow up, if you want to co back, you can do so anyti.”
If it were solely up to her to decide, she certainly would not return. She understood the old lady’s wishes; the farther away she could go, the better.
But if Yuexue grew up and wanted to co back to see Pei Yan, he was, after all, her biological father, and Shen Heyu would certainly not obstruct her.
Yuexue didn’t grasp the deeper aning of her words, just asking innocently, “Then when can I grow up?”
Shen Heyu couldn’t help but smile and said, “Once ti passes, you will have grown up.”
Her daughter asked again, “When will the ti pass?”
She was so looking forward to growing up.
Shen Heyu looked at her daughter, as if seeing a younger version of herself. When she was small, she always longed to grow up, and once she did, she fantasized about ti flowing backward to when she was small again.
People are always like this, never satisfied, wanting what they don’t have, and wanting even more of what they do have.
Shen Heyu sighed inwardly.
She said, “Soon, ti will pass very quickly.”
Nothing in this world moves faster than ti. Shen Heyu looked outside at the distant city, and the approaching white clouds, feeling a surge of lancholy in her heart.
She never imagined that she might never et Pei Yansi again. Her eyes eventually reddened, tears twinkling, but those tears ultimately did not fall.
*
Pei Yansi had been waiting at the photo studio for a long ti, but no one ca.
He was almost furious, having waited over half an hour before the bodyguards he had sent out finally arrived late.
Their lateness was one thing, but they ca alone, without bringing Shen Heyu with them.
Pei Yansi slamd the magazine he was holding fiercely onto the table and stared at them, his voice cold, “Where is she? Do you all rember what I said before you left?”
The bodyguards looked at the enraged Pei Yansi, no one daring to speak. Even though they had the old lady’s reassurance back at the Pei Mansion, the sight of Pei Yansi’s indifferent face still left them too scared to talk.
Pei Yansi grew even angrier with their silence. He rose from the sofa, looking down at them, his voice becoming colder,
“You have three minutes to think it through and explain yourselves, or get the hell out of here imdiately.”
The bodyguards exchanged glances but still, nobody spoke. After a long while, the team leader finally said,
“We were supposed to bring Miss Shen here, but she broke a vase and got injured. We didn’t dare act rashly. The old lady intervened and wouldn’t let us bring her.”
Hearing about the old lady made Pei Yansi frown tightly.
The conversation he had with the old lady the night before last seed to echo in his ears again.
She no longer supported him and Shen Heyu as she had in the past. She wanted him to divorce her.
Perhaps she was the one obstructing them.
Pei Yansi had a bad premonition, “Where is Miss Shen now?”
The bodyguard answered, “Before we ca here, Miss Shen was still at the Pei Mansion.”
Pei Yansi breathed a sigh of relief, but the unease in his heart grew stronger, so intense that not even he could explain why.
He had no choice but to take out his phone and dial Shen Heyu’s number.
She had been so obedient and compliant just awhile ago, how long had it been?
Now she had run off, and wasn’t even answering her phone.
Listening to the phone’s cold chanical voice indicating the line was switched off, Pei Yansi felt the anger inside him growing fiercer.
Unable to contact Shen Heyu, Pei Yansi’s sense of unease intensified. He even wondered if she had already left him.
Not daring to delay any longer and unable to reach Shen Heyu, he decided to go back to the Pei Mansion himself to see what was happening.
He hadn’t even left when his cell phone in his pocket began to ring.
He hurriedly pulled it out, glanced at it, and felt his hopeful heart sink again.
Expecting it to be Shen Heyu, it turned out to be soone from the Cheng Family.
Again, it was Chen Lingng.
Pei Yansi rubbed his forehead irritably, feeling utterly overwheld.
Without much thought, he hung up the call and strode outside.
The bodyguards followed him, but they couldn’t keep up no matter how hard they tried.
The phone rang again. Pei Yansi glanced at it irritably and simply turned his phone off.
By the ti Pei Yansi returned to the Pei Mansion, it was deserted.
Looking at his and Shen Heyu’s bridal chamber, now emptied and desolate, he felt a hollow void in his chest, even emptier than the room.
It almost robbed him of his ability to breathe.
He imdiately rushed to the old lady’s room, “Where did you send Shen Heyu? What have you done?”
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