Chapter 20 (1/2)

Please welco me out with chapters here and there – LilZah

Life will always go on We’ve caught a glis to “her diary” This chapter, we get toto pick up the pieces of her life

[Chapter 20]

After Li Chuan and I broke up, I sent eot a replyOn the very next day after he left, I called him once out of despair, but was notified that his nuer in useI called Ji Huan, but he knew nothingHe helped me contact Li Chuan’s office anyway and was informed that Li Chuan was transferred back to CGP’s head office in Europe on short notice; he would finish his current design sketches in EuropeTherefore, he was still CGP’s head architect designer even though it was nothing more than a titleNonetheless, CGP needed his name to attract business

Ji Huan said, he only knew Li Chuan based on his profile description posted on CGP’s website because Li Chuan never talked about hiot froner born in Zurich, SwitzerlandHe graduated fro in architectHe has won the following awards:first place in year xxxX Switzerland’s Youth Architect Designer Awards, gold in year xxxX United States’ P/A Awards, and first place in year xxxX France’s AS-4 Architect Design AwardsHis knoorks include: city C’s national stadium, Province M’s Royal Museum, City S’s football field, and other resorts, cos, music halls, and exhibition places

This impressive resume was not the Li Chuan that I knewThe Li Chuan that I kneas soht, acco scolded by my dadLi Chuan always took care of hlyFurthermore, he would tellhis cane; he would ask ht when he was sick and couldn’t get upOne night, when I was sipping my coffee in sadness because I had a writer’s block while working on my essay, he actually asked me if I wanted his “sex service”We made love romantically and I finished hest mark on it

That day, when Li Chuan broke up withlot, it only took 5 et ho Ze

I was in a daze when I bumped into Xiu Yue on my way back toup spread all over the dormXiu Yue came and asked if I would accept Sixpence now that The Moon was gone

I shook my head fir courses and studied like madAt the end of my third year, I suddenly realized that I had already finished all my required coursesI asked the counselor what I should do and he suggested that I continue to graduate studiesHe reco Er’s dad, the English program’s most respected professor and expert on the novelist DH LawrenceIf it wasn’t for the school who plead to his wife, he would have hopped over to Peking University long agoI had taken Professor Feng’s “Modern British Literature” course beforeHe quite liked h score, so I decided to talk to hiave a pat onthe entrance exa to recite politics, so I’ll save you from the trouble”I receivedthat I was auto perforraduate student, I didn’t need to pay for tuition, but I would only get 225 asupportEven with a scholarshi+p, I still needed to workMy dad stopped sending ht with hiot accepted to Sun Yat-Sen University’s Medical DepartmentHis tuition ice as expensive as ot a lot heavierJust like ot a job to work after class in order to help pay his tuition and living expensesMy dad sent hih, so I saved up ave it back toZhouHe grew so flowers on bike from the shop he worked atIthi, Xiao Dong deposited it back into h to spendKeep the money for yourself”

My days wereto classes or to work, I stayed in the libraryEvery Monday, I was deter letters to Li Chuan, but eekend ca to the internet café to check my inboxWhenever I saw “0” new mail, it was like motivation and I couldn’t help but write him another letterIn the first two years, I would ask hoas or what he was doing in radually, I only wrote about myselfSometimes I wrote about what happened in school such as, “This se, Verbal, Writing, and ShakespeareI got a really high mark on my essay on DH Lawrence last semesterI expressed openly in class that I could not believe how Lady Chatterley made Clifford suffer so much, which made my professor mad”Sometimes I wrote book reviews such as, “I went to the library and borrowed a super difficult book, ‘Lotus Sutra’It took me a week to finish, but I couldn’t understand a word of it”So is so dusty and windy this year, so I bought a big scarf,” or, “Remember the thicket?There is a pool there nowThere’s also a Hunan restaurant beside it and their Simmer Fried Meat is delicious”

I felt like I wasn’t writing letters, but rather, I was planting a clu like the grass in spring, they sprout all around us, wherever we roam (From the poem ‘清平乐’ by Li Yu There are many ways to translate the line in the poem…)

In these three years, I rarely went ho Chinese New YearDad and I did not talk to each other for a yearIn the end, I told hiht away, but later he asked if I was heartbrokenI told him it was all in the past nowI turned ot a scholarshi+p every year

During the suot a phone call fro before the holidays, “Jie, conosed with dilated cardio sent to the hospital, the school staff thought Xiao Dong was a doctor so they called hi had actually only completed first year inelse he could doMy dad fainted in the classroo admitted to the hospitalIn the next few days, he had to rely on medicine to sustain his lifeThe school sent cheques in the first few days, but soon after, they told Xiao Dong that the school could no longer support dad’s hospital feesThe doctor advised that the chance of curing this illness wasa heart transplant, there was no other treat how ery feeThe survey is high riskEven if it is successful, you will have to spend thousands everyfrowned

“Can…Dad still talk?”at a ti, go research and find the best heart surgeon in ChinaI will get theup the phone and i Ze Garden, Li Chuan’s flat

I still had the keys to his flat

I opened the door and just as usual, not a speck of dustThe flat’s maintenance fee was rather expensive, so there was always so was the way it hen Li Chuan leftMy heart felt stuffed, but there was no time to reminisce or be upset

I found the letter on the coffee table and dialed the nus, aCun’s law firm”

“That’s me”

“Oh, Miss Xie, it’s been a while,” he actually re that I can do for you?”

“Could you come by my office?It’s not quite convenient to talk aboutZe Garden is, right?Our law firm is on the second floor, unit 204”

I let out a breath of reliefHow convenient, it was right belowI went down and found the placeA bald uided me to his officeHe was obviously very experienced in the industry, otherwise he would not be able to afford renting an office at a first-rate place like Long Ze Garden

“Miss Xie, I need to see your docu and seee Department as he spoke perfect Mandarin

I handed him my identity card and student cardHe nodded and took out a wooden box from the safeHe then took out a cheque book and asked, “Miss Xie, how lanced at me, “Or you can take the cheque book and use it whenever you want”

“250 thousand”200 thousand for the surgery and 50 thousand for ot inalI looked at it and saw that Li Chuan had already signed his naChen Dong Cun asked, “Miss Xie, you don’t want to complete the transfer of ownershi+p for the two condo properties as well?”

I replied, “I don’t need those propertiesI only need this 250 thousand, which I’ from himI will pay him back later for sure”I wrote my “IOU” as I spoke and stuffed it into his hands

Chen Dong Cun took the piece of paper with a smile and put it inside the box, “Miss Xie, anytiive me a call”

He sure was a veteran lawyer; he spoke without emotions, kneas appropriate and didn’t push back

My dad’s heart transplant surgery was done in KunHis condition did not permit him to be transferred to a better hospitalThat day, thirty specialists observed hiery was a success, butand I were notified that our father was in critical condition almost every dayWe didn’t lose hope and continued to care for ht for his life but he still left us after twenty-five daysWe knew that the surgery was high risk, but even after the funeral, we could not accept the fact that dad left us so quickly