Chapter 539 - Loving You Is Akin To Being At A Tiger’s Mouth, I Have Escaped Danger (1/2)

She bent her body down in front of the bed stand, before taking out a key to open the lowest drawer on the bottom.

There was an exquisite box inside the drawer, and she used both of her small hands to take out the box out.

The box was open, and the entire room was illuminated.

Inside the box were the items that she’d gotten from Yin Muchen over these three years, and they were items that he gifted to her when they were together.

The box was full of jewels and precious pearls. The small ones were worth fifty thousand, and the large ones were items like a cheque worth five hundred thousand, and also the business contracts that he gave her.

He once said while laughing, “You were together with me for the past three years, and you are already a millionaire.”

Heh, she had money now.

Yin Shuiling hugged the box in her embrace before she stood up straight. She stepped out of the villa and went to the garden behind the villa. She found a good place, and dug a small hole in the mud before burying the entire box inside.

She covered the hole back up with mud, and she placed the small flower on top before standing up to leave.

The night was silent. Yin Muchen was alone in the study as he sat down in the office chair. He received a picture message, and it was a picture of a winter rose. The message below the picture was the floriography of the winter rose — Chasing after Love.

Yin Muchen’s line of vision landed on the last word- — Love?

Love…

Had she given it to him in the past?

Yin Muchen had yet to get an answer, and his subordinate sent a name list for the Gaokao examinations. Yin Shuiling ranked first in arts in the entire T City. She was ranked third in sciences, and with these good results, she was sponsored to further her studies in England.

…

The day she was going to leave, Yin Shuiling, Fan Chengsi, and a few good friends were gathered in a bar to drink with one another.

Yin Shuiling was apologetic as she looked at Fan Chengsi. “Fan Chengsi, I am sorry, I have caused you to be entangled in this mess.”

Fan Chengsi had a smile on his bright, handsome face. “Shuiling, it’s fine. Yin Muchen just gave me two punches. I am a masculine man. This bit of pain is not much, hah.”

Actually, Fan Chengsi brushed this off simply. That day, Yin Muchen locked him up, and that man beat him up as if he were crazy. He almost beat him up so badly that Fan Chengsi thought he was going to be disabled. Yin Muchen also took offence with the Fan family, and the supermarket chains that the Fan family owned worldwide were all in danger.

After that, she miscarried the child and ended up in a bad situation. It was only then that Yin Muchen stopped doing anything to the Fan family.

The Fan family managed to escape this time.

Yin Shuiling curled the corners of her lips up and let out a sweet and sincere smile while she looked at this muscular boy, “Fan Chengsi, thank you. Knowing a person like you feels so good.”

Fan Chengsi listened to her, and his eyes lit up. “Yin Shuiling, hearing you say this, everything is worth it.”

They both smiled.

Fan Chengsi had a sip of the c.o.c.ktail, and had a look at the friends that had gone to dance. He looked at the girl who was using the straw to drink fruit juice. He lowered his volume and asked her, “Shuiling, I heard that you were…pregnant, and you lost the child?”

Yin Shuiling’s long, thick eyelashes froze.

Fan Chengsi quickly explained himself. “Shuiling, don’t overthink this matter. I found out about this when Yin Muchen came to question me that day. He asked me if the child was mine. At that moment, I froze. All of the blood flowing in my body rushed towards my head, and after that, I admitted to it. I said that the child was mine.”

Yin Shuiling turned her gaze sideways to look at the boy. She laughed and said, “You are really so foolish. Why did you have to get yourself involved in this mess?”

Fan Chengsi was serious as he said, “Shuiling, I know that you are not an easy girl. You must have loved the person before you… I think that the child…was Yin Muchen’s, right? But because of numerous misunderstandings, Yin Muchen thought that that child was mine. I was thinking, since you did not explain it to him, you must have your own reasons for not explaining it. I respect you. You did not want him to know, and I would’ve shoulder this responsibility for you. If your child were still around, in the future, I would be his father.”

Yin Shuiling listened to him and did not say a single word.

Fan Chengsi felt that he went overboard with what he said. Yin Shuiling had no intention of dating him at all, and he was saying the word “father” and all. He was also afraid that he would scare her off.

Fan Chengsi was red in the face, and he changed the subject. “Yin Shuiling, in two days, you are going to England to further your studies. I have already discussed it with my family; I am going to England with you.”

“I don’t want that.” Yin Shuiling shook her head. “Don’t go with me. I am fine going alone.”

Fan Chengsi was older than her by one year and had already furthered his studies in the top university in the country. Furthermore, he was the only son of the Fan family, and his father had slowly already allowed him to take over the operations of the supermarket chains that the Fan family owned. He could not leave behind his own family and responsibility to chase after her in England.

She was unable to take responsibility for that.

“Yin Shuiling, you would be going to a foreign place with no familiar people. It is not as easy as you may imagine. Furthermore, you are so beautiful that it is not safe. I want to go over to take care of you and protect you.”

“Fan Chengsi, I’m a grown woman. I can take care of myself, I am very serious as I tell you this: don’t follow me to England, otherwise, I will not be your friend anymore.”

Fan Chengsi wanted to speak, but Yin Shuiling continued, “Fan Chengsi, aren’t you studying fas.h.i.+on design? I hope when I return to the country, you will have already attained success. A truly charismatic man will not chase after a girl but let himself become truly strong and powerful. Fan Chengsi, when I return, I will definitely look for you. At that time, I will come to rely on you then.”

What she said touched Fan Chengsi’s weak spot. He was 19 years old right now, but in front of that man Yin Muchen, he was extremely weak in comparison.

If he were not strong and powerful, how was he going to protect the person whom he loved deeply?

Fan Chengsi nodded his head. “Okay then…but Yin Shuiling, we have to maintain contact with one another, okay?”

“Okay.” Yin Shuiling nodded her head.

…

The two chatted for a while. Yin Shuiling turned her gaze sideways and saw a lead singer seated at the bar nearby. The frontman held a guitar in his hands as he tested the sound.

“Yin Shuiling, do you want to play guitar and sing a song?”

Yin Shuiling was famed for her talents. She did not know how to play every instrument extremely well, but she could play a few songs at a beginner level. Her voice was even sweeter, and she sang very melodiously.

“Can I?” Yin Shuiling was moved by this mesmerizing night view and was also affected by this good boy by her side. She winked her eyes cheekily as she asked the question.

“Of course you can; look at me.”

Fan Chengsi walked over, and he conversed with the singer for a few moments before taking a few notes from his wallet. The singer handed his guitar over to Fan Chengsi.

Fan Chengsi handed the guitar over to Yin Shuiling, and he laughed and said, “Play a song then. You can go ahead and sing the song that you want to sing the most.”

Yin Shuiling placed the guitar in front of her and used her small fair hand to strum it.

The song that she wanted to sing the most before she left?

Actually, she also did not know what she wanted to sing herself, so she played and sang casually —

Stub out the cigarette

It would be better for your body

Although it would be very hard for you to get through, the nights when I miss you;

I do not bear to part with the photos where we were hugging one another

But I also do not want myself to look at those photos at the same time

I hide them at the back of the photo frame;

Open the windows then

It would be better for your emotions, it would be better

If you do so, I can still have a smile on my face, and bid you farewell;

This is the CD that I loved the most

You said that this is only a part of the music

But in the future, it would make me recall…

Yin Shuiling did not know what she was singing about, but Fan Chengsi, and everyone present on the scene could tell from the lyrics alone, this was the old cla.s.sic songs from the 80s that was extremely popular — Escaping the Tiger’s Mouth

She did not know when the loud and extravagant jazz music in the bar stopped playing. The people that were moving about the dance floor. The people who were drinking and having fun at the bar all turned their attention towards Yin Shuiling’s direction.

The girl was dressed in a simple light blue skirt with multiple folds today. She looked pure and elegant like a lily. She was at the age of 18, in the prime of her beautiful youth, without any troubles or worries.

But she chose a song that was so melancholic and sad.

No one understood why an 18 year old girl like her would chose such a song like that.