When they met again, the boss' eyes turned red, kissed her and said sweet words to her

The system startup sound rang out.

The phone screen turned from dark to bright, and the screensaver was a side-shot photo of a girl sleeping. The gray quilt covered her chin, and her hair was carefully tucked behind her ears, revealing her milky white face with a little baby fat. She was sleeping as sweetly as a pig.

Xu Nanyin gently stroked the face that looked like her yet not like her with her fingertips, and her heart was subtly beating.

At that time, she was very insecure and felt that she looked ugly in photos. Pei Jingmo took her out to play and wanted to take photos with her several times. He tried to coax her in various ways, but she refused. So he indulged her and stopped mentioning the photo.

I don't know when he secretly took this photo.

She clicked on the text message icon.

There was only one message line in the message list, and the note was: My dear wife.

Xu Nanyin was stunned for a moment, held her breath unconsciously, and clicked on the message.

A few lines of words suddenly caught my eye.

[My dear, I am almost terminally ill. I can’t find an antidote except you.]

[Where are you? Come back, please...save me.]

The message was sent at three o'clock in the morning the night before Teacher Wang's wedding.

That was the day before they met again.

Xu Nanyin felt a sudden pain in her heart and tears quickly rose in her eyes. He said that he was sick and he was asking her for help. At that time, she thought he had forgotten her and was very indifferent to him.

She unconsciously clenched her phone, but heard a knock on the door.

Like a conditioned reflex, she quickly stuffed the phone back into the drawer and wiped the corners of her eyes vigorously.

At the door, Ye Qingrou was holding a bowl of fragrant chicken noodle soup, her face gentle and smiling: "Xiao Xu, you didn't eat enough just now, right? Try this."

"Aunt……"

Xu Nanyin tried her best to hide her emotions, lowered her head, and took the bowl of noodles. "Thank you."

She sat down at the table and took a few bites. The chewy noodles were filled with rich chicken broth and topped with spinach, and they were very fresh. But she felt that every bite she swallowed was sour and bitter.

"Xiao Xu..."

Noticing that she was very stiff, Ye Qingrou mistakenly thought it was because of Shen Wei's family of three, and patted her back gently, "Don't worry, Auntie is on your and Jing Mo's side."

"Thank you for coming back to Jing Mo. In the four years since you've been away, Jing Mo seems to have become a machine that only knows how to work. He's emotionless, lifeless, and lifeless. Or perhaps it's better to say... he's world-weary. I'm really afraid that something might happen to him one day, and he'll almost lose his life like he did three years ago..."

"Xiao Xu, now that you're back, he's alive again. I can feel how much he loves you deep down in his heart."

Xu Nanyin couldn't help but tense her back, her breathing becoming a little stagnant. "Auntie, what do you mean when you said he almost lost his life three years ago?"

After a moment of hesitation, Ye Qingrou's eyes gradually turned red.

Three years ago, almost a year after Xu Nanyin left, one night, Ye Qingrou felt inexplicably anxious and uneasy.

For some unknown reason, she called Aunt Zhang and insisted on going to the apartment outside Peking University to see Pei Jingmo.

At that time, Aunt Zhang thought she was in a trance and worried too much. Unexpectedly, when she opened the apartment door, she saw Pei Jingmo lying on the ground with a pool of blood under his head.

Ye Qingrou almost collapsed at that time. It was Aunt Zhang who called an ambulance and sent her to the hospital.

Pei Jingmo was completely unconscious at the time and was urgently arranged to undergo gastric lavage and infusion.

The doctor said he had taken sleeping pills and drunk a lot of alcohol, which triggered a shock reaction. When he fell unconscious, his forehead hit the edge of the coffee table in the living room...

It turns out that this is how he got the long scar on the left side of his head.

Xu Nanyin pushed the bowl of noodles away, put her arms on the table and pressed hard against it. A huge pain gradually welled up in her throat. She lowered her head slightly, and tears silently fell one by one onto the table.

Ye Qingrou couldn't help sobbing: "If I hadn't gone that night, or if I had gone a few hours later, I dare not think..."

"After Jing Mo woke up, I asked him about it, but he didn't want to tell me much. He just said that he attended a business dinner that night and accidentally took sleeping pills as a hangover remedy before drinking."

"Later, when I went to his apartment, I discovered that the drawer of his bedroom bedside table was filled with all kinds of sleeping pills. At first, I thought it was because his grandfather had passed away, and he had just joined the consortium and was under a lot of work pressure..."

"Then there was another time when he fell ill because he worked day and night and refused to stop. When he was unconscious, he kept calling your nickname, begging you not to leave, begging you to come back to him."

"That was the time I saw the phone he hid under his pillow and saw the messages he sent you, and that's when I realized you existed..."

Her shoulders trembled uncontrollably, Xu Nanyin's eyes were red, and she sobbed silently, her emotions overwhelming her.

She never knew that during her most painful days, he was suffering just like her.

Clearly, in everyone's eyes, Pei Jingmo was such a high-handed, carefree, and arrogant person who seemed to care nothing and didn't care about anything. When they met again, he was still cynical and uninhibited. She thought he had been living a good life in the past few years, with a brilliant career and doing whatever he wanted...

But it turned out that four years ago, he was deeply hurt, no less than her.

Seeing her pale face and the way she looked like she was trembling, Ye Qingrou suddenly woke up as if from a dream and gently put her arm around her shoulders. "Xiao Xu, maybe I shouldn't say this... I just kept these things in my heart and never told anyone. When you asked, I couldn't hold back."

"No matter what happened in the past, fortunately you and Jing Mofeng have found your way back and are destined to be together. Don't be sad, just be good to each other in the future."

Xu Nanyin held her face with both hands, and her fingers were soon soaked with tears.

Ye Qingrou's eyes couldn't help but turn red. After thinking about it, she turned around and walked out, leaving her alone to vent her emotions.

After a long time, Xu Nanyin wiped away her tears, got up, went to the bathroom to rinse her face with cold water, and left the bedroom.

I walked downstairs to the last few steps of the spiral staircase and looked up. Pei Jingmo was not in the living room, but there was another tall figure.

Xu Nanyin unconsciously grabbed the handrail of the stairs. The next second, she saw the man slowly turn around.

Ye Zheng.

The moment their eyes met, she couldn't help but turn pale.