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Chapter 1603 Return
Winter in Shanghai is not warm, and it even snowed lightly around noon, which is quite rare.

But the south is ultimately more intense than the north. The snowflakes melted as soon as they landed, turning into puddles that covered the streets, and cars whizzed past.

Due to the changing weather, the traffic on the streets is constantly increasing, leading to congestion. Every now and then, a few horns sound, their beeps announcing the hustle and bustle of the big city.

The pedestrians were bustling with activity, many taking photos with their phones to commemorate the first snowfall of the year.

It's snowing, that's what my WeChat Moments post is all about today...

An S8 smoothly pulled up in the middle of the alley. Wang Yan, dressed casually in a coat and a baseball cap, got out of the car. After walking about two hundred meters down the alley, they arrived at the mala tang (spicy hot pot) restaurant.

Due to the rain and snow, the surrounding students were less inclined to come out for meals, resulting in few dine-in customers at the restaurant. Conversely, the takeout business was booming.

Several delivery riders were gathered together, chatting while waiting for their orders. They talked about how many deliveries they'd made, how much they'd earned, where the accident had happened, which friend had fallen down—just everyday chatter to pass the time…

After picking through various items, ordering spicy and salty dishes, along with a large bowl of rice and a bottle of soda, Wang Yan finally went inside and sat down at a table in the far corner.

"You're really tough when you pair spicy hot pot with Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor)."

Gu Li had a half-jin bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) next to her, which she was sipping through a straw, with her legs propped up on the chair crossbar. In this posture, she seemed to be an even more innocent delinquent than Nan Xiang.

"It's none of your business." She glanced at Wang Yan, seemingly not a very good drinker, already slightly tipsy.

"Hey, don't try to scam me. Nobody wants to help you." Wang Yan waved his hands repeatedly, looking like he wanted to avoid the situation. "Didn't you say you had something important to tell me? So, what's the important thing?"

Gu Li shook her head, took a sip of wine, and ate a bite of spicy hot pot.

"Just half an hour ago, Lin Xiao, Nan Xiang, and Tang Wanru ate spicy hot pot here, and then happily took a taxi to go shopping together. Isn't that ridiculous? I initially excluded Nan Xiang, only to find out in the end that I was the one who was isolated."

"Isn't Tang Wanru still living with you?"

"Her? She has nowhere to go. Her home is too small, so she's just staying here for free." Gu Li said this without any sentimentality.

She looked at Wang Yan, who was playing with a beverage bottle in his hands, and said, "You're really happy now, aren't you? Now I'm a stray dog ​​that nobody wants, has no home, is seriously ill, and doesn't know when I'll die."

Wang Yan shook his head. He had said everything he needed to say, but Gu Li still only had such a distorted and superficial understanding, so he was too lazy to say anything more.

In fact, what Wang Yan said was to save Gu Li. After all, if Gu Li couldn't think things through and reconcile with herself, and was always trapped in her own thoughts, she would really be courting death if she continued to be so stubborn.

Gu Li now possesses the initial qualities of this melancholic, suicidal temperament.

Despite all the trouble she caused, Gu Li's crime didn't warrant the death penalty; at most, she'd face a few years in prison. Of course, this only describes how annoying Gu Li was, not that she actually committed any crime.

Of course, this is under Wang Yan's direction. In the original drama, Gu Li was involved in stealing business information, concealing huge amounts of illegally obtained property, and even instigating Gu Yuan to commit financial fraud. She would be sentenced to life imprisonment at the very least...

"Talk about something."

Gu Li looked at the indifferent Wang Yan and sneered, "If you really cared about something important, you wouldn't have come at all. The reason you came to see me after I called you is just because you took the time to see me make a fool of myself. You wanted to see how miserable, how pitiful, how rotten and stinking I am!"

Wang Yan laughed and said, "You're thinking too extremely, and you're also imagining me in a very dark light. We don't have any deep-seated hatred for each other."

"You don't actually have any good intentions, do you?" Gu Li leaned closer, her breath reeking of alcohol. "Why don't you just tell me straight, what do you want in return for letting me go?"

"You have a huge misunderstanding about me. The hardest thing for people to overcome and get rid of is prejudice. If you look at everything with prejudice, then what you see is the world's full of malice towards you."

"My world is you, and you are the only one who harbors malice towards me."

After saying this, Gu Li noticed the ambiguity in her words, but she didn't explain. She just glared at her even more fiercely.

So Wang Yan replied as she wished, "Are you confessing to me here? I understand now. So all that you did was for this? You should have just told him you didn't like Gu Yuan. Why did you have to make it clear to him earlier instead of causing irreversible consequences?"

"roll!"

Just then, the mala tang was ready, and the husband-and-wife owners brought it over, along with some rice. Wang Yan eats mala tang as a side dish; it tastes better with rice, and it doesn't taste so oily. The fragrant rice helps to balance it out.

And so, the two ate a bowl of spicy hot pot without saying a word.

Gu Li didn't say much. She had already told Wang Yan everything she should and shouldn't have said, so all that was left was silence.

Gu Li said, "I didn't expect that you would be the only person I could talk to. But after talking to you, I found that I had nothing left to say."

Wang Yan lit a cigarette and strolled with Gu Li towards the parking lot: "You're annoyed too."

"maybe."

After downing half a jin of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor), Gu Li's face was already flushed. "Thank you for taking me home last time."

"Why do I hear a hint of disappointment in your voice? What's wrong? Did I disrespect you?"

Gu Li didn't understand what respect meant, but she understood what disappointment meant.

"Do you really think I'm that despicable? Someone who would have wanted to ruin me like this, and then sleep with me?"

"It seems so to me. Otherwise, why do you keep contacting me?"

"Then what are you doing here?" Gu Li asked, her neck stiff, staring directly into Wang Yan's eyes.

Wang Yan chuckled and raised an eyebrow at her: "You're just throwing caution to the wind, but I certainly don't care. It's hard to say who'll benefit more between us."

"Do you think I care? I'm already like this, I'll just live one day at a time."

"Your illness hasn't spread, you're doing quite well, you can still live."

Gu Li gave a bitter laugh: "I'm already like this, what does it matter if the situation is good or bad?"

"Your problem is psychological; you've really found the right person."

"You can cure me? Would I be in this state if it weren't for you? I don't know what I was thinking, actually thinking of asking you." Wang Yan reassured her: "You're right. As the old saying goes, a heart ailment requires a heart remedy, and the one who tied the knot must untie it. That still makes sense."

"You're shameless. Were you planning to sleep with us all along?"

"Well, Lin Xiao, Nan Xiang, and you are all quite beautiful. And you sisters are so united. As a man, I can understand if you have some nice thoughts, like wanting to sleep together, right?"

"nausea!"

"I've already said it; otherwise, who would know? You should thank me for my honesty."

Gu Li suddenly became curious and asked, "You and Lin Xiao, Nan Xiang and the other two..."

"Your idea is disgusting. The three of us are innocent!" Wang Yan retorted. "I'll mediate later. You're all good sisters, how can you not resolve your differences? We've arrived, the car is there."

Gu Li breathed a sigh of relief, got into the passenger seat, and drove away with Wang Yan...

The process was quite enjoyable, especially for Wang Yan. Gu Li enjoyed it at first, but then it became less enjoyable. Of course, it wasn't Wang Yan's fault; Gu Li herself was acting out of control. She had nowhere to vent her frustration, and although she was feeling negative, she didn't have the courage to die. She harbored immense fear.

Her boyfriend went to jail, her family fell apart, her best friends drifted away from her, and her past sharp tongue could no longer be used; no one was willing to bear her negative emotions anymore.

Wang Yan, this seemingly antagonistic person, was a good choice. She knew everything, kept her mouth shut, and was shameless. She was a perfect confidante. Although she didn't really have anything to say, she only vented through actions.

On the other hand, Gu Li's behavior shows that she has truly reflected on her own shortcomings. Although she still stubbornly pushes all the problems onto Wang Yan, she has actually begun to look for the reasons within herself.

By this point, she would realize that Wang Yan was truly a victim. Even Wang Yan's retaliation would seem rather merciful…

After all, if Gu Yuan had spent money to instigate Xi Cheng to take revenge on Wang Yan without Wang Yan's resistance, Wang Yan would only have just recovered from his injuries more than half a year later. His studies were delayed, his future was ruined, his health was damaged, and justice still couldn't be found. Is there any justice in this world?
Wang Yan's retaliations all stemmed from this point. Everything that followed was an extension of this event.

This is the beautiful butterfly effect, and also an inexplicable cause and effect.

Having lived for over a thousand years and traversed endless time and space, Wang Yan is, to some extent, a god who controls cause and effect. He can influence the cause, and although he cannot precisely control the effect, he can control it within a certain range.

Of course, calling him a god is just bragging. The main point is that he knows the plot and the characters' personalities. As the saying goes, high-level strategy targets people's personalities. He changed the course of events and understood people's characters, so naturally he had control over many things…

"I never imagined we'd be like this one day." Gu Li also lit a cigarette.

Wang Yan smiled and said, "This is fate."

"Hey, do you think I'm really that pathetic?"

"How could that be? I told you before, you've really thought it through. Otherwise, you really think I'm your mortal enemy, and the only reason we're so close is that you have a knife and some poison or something, and you want to get close to me and then kill me."

"I don't want to die with you." Gu Li was extremely unwilling and still held a grudge, belittling Wang Yan.

“Unless you commit suicide on the spot, it will be difficult for you to die with me. The process will take several months, and you won’t die that quickly. Especially since you are sick, humanitarianism does not allow it.”

"I didn't expect you really didn't tell Lin Xiao and the others..."

Wang Yan blew a smoke ring out of boredom: "So you mean you want me to tell them?"

"A little... I've seen it on TV where when someone gets sick, everyone's grudges seem to dissipate. I don't have much of a grudge against Lin Xiao and the others. If they knew about my illness, they should be able to come back to me, right?"

Gu Li smiled through her tears, "But I've thought about it carefully these past few days, and this is actually just my way of escaping. Everyone knows I'm sick, that I have cancer, so they can forget all the unpleasant things and everything will be back to normal. But I also know that's almost impossible. Maybe they'll just laugh at me, say I deserve it, say I'm getting my comeuppance."

"It's not as bad as you make it out to be. People still have compassion. They feel sorry for stray cats and dogs on the street, let alone a grown person like you."

Are you trying to comfort me?

"of course."

Gu Li let out a long sigh: "I don't know what terrible things I did in my past life to be able to meet you in this life."

"What do you mean by 'misfortune'? It's all fate." Wang Yan waved his hand and then said, "I'll talk to Lin Xiao and Nan Xiang later and ask them to smooth things over."

"And then let you fulfill your disgusting ideas?"

Wang Yan said, "Let's examine your illness first. If you trust me, I can treat you, but this is a folk remedy. Many people who fall ill have believed in traditional Chinese medicine, which has delayed the best time for treatment and caused irreversible consequences. Of course, there are also those who have been cured, but they are relatively few. It's up to you to choose."

"I definitely trust the doctors at the hospital!" Gu Li glanced at Wang Yan, looking at him like he was nobody. "Later, please prescribe some medicine to help me recover faster."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile. Gu Li had already made her choice, so of course he wouldn't rush to prove anything...

And so, Wang Yan and Gu Li absurdly reconciled.

Afterwards, Gu Li received treatment, and the news of her illness was also revealed by Tang Wanru. Lin Xiao and Nan Xiang went to visit her. The best friends apologized to each other and cried together, as if they were all better in an instant.

They're both a bit mentally unstable, a bit masochistic; it was the right thing for them to come together...

However, Wang Yan did not reveal his relationship with Gu Li; he planned to give Lin Xiao and Nan Xiang a surprise later.

Of course, before that, Lin Xiao and Nan Xiang gave Wang Yan a surprise. It was the night before the New Year, and because of his many years of loneliness, the two of them had dinner with Wang Yan...

Since they had already reconnected, their relationship gradually returned to normal. They were already genuine best friends, which was already quite absurd. Their bottom line had been lowered beyond repair, so it seemed reasonable for them to slip even further and become even more absurd.

Once Gu Li's illness was resolved and she returned to life, everything was laid bare, and everything started anew. It seemed that Gu Li, Lin Xiao, and Nan Xiang hadn't changed much, only other people and things were missing, and Wang Yan filled that void.

Of course, Wang Yan wasn't idle; his main business was still selecting lifestyle products. During the initial rapid development, he was actually quite busy. Especially since he was the core technology expert, most of the problems lay with him.

If it were someone else, they really couldn't withstand his intense work day and night...

All I can say is, it's excellent...

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