Chapter 392 - What Matters (1/2)

If Song Zhiqiu didn’t count, Lin Su could be the only genuine girlfriend that Qin Sheng had officially acknowledged, apart from his first true love, Su Qin. As a young lady, with extreme beauty and wealth that could be coveted by any men for the past years, she allowed herself to undergo so much pain and loss for Qin Sheng’s sake. No wonder Yan Chaozong was in desperate pursuit for her. She gave up everything, fell out with her family, and chose to live the most ordinary life with Qin Sheng. How many good and proud women would sacrifice so much for their beloved men?

Especially during those six months when Qin Sheng was sick in bed, how would he have ended up without Lin Su’s good care? In a sense, Qin Sheng’s feelings towards Lin Su were beyond all doubt. He hadn’t meant to avoid Lin Su. The reasons were complicated. One was that he himself was in chaos; he had a mind full of things that he couldn’t even figure out himself, leaving no extra time for him to reach Lin Su at the moment, let alone explaining them to her. Another was that it might be better for Lin Su to live her life without him, after she had gone back to her own family. Otherwise, Lin Su might have been in a tougher situation, if her family found out she was still involved with him.

The only thing he could do then was to show up at the front door of the Lin Family, take their daughter away, and slap the family in the face.

Otherwise, nothing else would matter more to her at present. At present, Qin Sheng was planning to set out for Ningbo after the Spring Festival. He contacted Lin Su so that she would be prepared, only to find that her phone was turned off.

Qin Sheng became upset. He had always trusted Lin Su and didn’t worry about her loyalty to him; as a matter of fact, he was sure she wouldn’t have a change of heart. Lin Su had been going through all those ups and downs with him, and she wouldn’t have backed him up with no strings attached if she had been truly disappointed in him.

What actually worried him was her current situation in her family, in which she undertook great pressures that couldn’t be shared with anyone else. And that hurt Qin Sheng deeply. At the moment he could only hope that her family would be nice to her and didn’t do anything out of bounds, or else, he would skip all the formalities and do something horrible.

Thinking back and forth for quite a while, Qin Sheng was still anxious about Lin Su. He called her again and found that her phone was still off. He heaved a sigh and texted to her, “Dear my love, happy new year. I’m completely fine and will get you back after the Spring Festival.”

Whether she could read it or not, it was out of his control.

The new year was about to arrive in a few minutes. Qin Ran didn’t see his brother around in the living room after her phone calls, so she went upstairs while curious to find him, and the latter was just stepping out of his room.

“Anything wrong? Why the unhappy face?” Qin Sheng seemed obviously preoccupied in his thoughts, and that upset Qin Ran a little bit.

Qin Sheng sighed after deliberation. “Sis, Lin Su’s cell phone was turned off. I couldn’t get in touch with her and I’m worried that her family might be treating her badly.”

Qin Sheng never held back anything from his sister. He was really worried about Lin Su and was planning to fight his way through the front door of the Lin Family.

“Yo. Now that you feel sorry for your love, I’m getting jealous.” Qin Ran didn’t take it seriously and teased him as usual.

Qin Sheng couldn’t understand and asked, “Are you really joking with me when I’m worried like hell?”

“All right. I’m done teasing you at this time of the day. Loosen up a little bit. How is it possible that we’ll just sit and watch the future daughter-in-law suffer alone? Uncle Gongsun already made plans. Lin Su is fine. It’s just that her family rearranged her marriage. She has been under pressure, and almost could have suffered if it weren’t for her grandma’s partiality,” Qin Ran explained. For one thing, the Qin Family had never done anything sloppy before, and secondly, they wouldn’t allow anything bad happen to Lin Su, a rich fair young lady who had the guts to choose to be with a poor guy of an undistinguished family. What’s more, there had to be someone to take care of such things when Qin Sheng couldn’t be distracted.

Qin Sheng was surprised and asked, “Is it true, sis? Nan Gong is on the mission, isn’t she?”

What her family did to Lin Su was as he had expected. Qin Sheng had buried that deep in his heart and would definitely pay them back when it came to that moment.

“It’s not her. Uncle Gongsun assigned this to someone else,” Qin Ran smiled and told him.

Qin Sheng felt puzzled. “Then why isn’t Nan Gong back for Spring Festival this year?”

“Well, she went on vacation in Palau. She’s enjoying herself right at the moment and won’t be back in Beijing until the fifth day of the month,” Qin Ran laughed and said, “Now it’s almost twelve o’clock. Everybody is waiting for you to see the countdown for the year. Hurry up. We just finished video chatting with grandma, and were so close to slipping that you were here, since you are the New Year’s surprise for grandma.”

Qin Sheng felt warm inside at those words and became quite excited at the thought of meeting with that nice old lady who had always been there for him.

People began asking where he was when Qin Sheng was on his way back to the living room, and some were teasing, wondering whether he was bonding with his girlfriend over the telephone. Qin Sheng downplayed it without explanations.

“Ten, nine, eight, seven… three, two, one.”

When the bell finally tolled for the New Year, youngsters were cheering with great joy, offering their best wishes to each other. They had never been so thrilled before, since it was the first year that the two families celebrated New Year’s Eve together. Kids were all the more excited, because it was time for them to receive lucky money from their seniorities.

The old, on the other hand, seemed obviously calmer than the youngsters. After all, they have spent half their lives and were quite accustomed to those occasions. And besides, they were powerful people who had been under both good and bad weather.

At that point, kids began to bend knees to their grandparents and other elderly to pay their new year’s respects. Gongsun had prepared the gift money respectively, according to the family rituals beforehand, and gave them to Qing Changan, Qin Sheng and Qin Ran earlier that day. He kept it simple, with a small sum of several thousand yuan; after all, it was just a Chinese tradition.