The plane glided to a smooth landing .
Qiao Lian walked out of the airport, her face pale as though drained of blood .
She hailed a cab and headed towards her childhood home in Suzhou .
This city never seemed to change . It had the graceful and subtle trademarks of the water towns in Jiangnan .
Along the way, she turned to look at the street scenes, but her heart felt cold and bare .
In the eight years that she had been in Beijing, there wasn’t a moment that she hadn’t wished to be back here, to clear her parents’ names and unearth the truth behind the collapsed building .
But right now, she felt as though nothing could raise her spirits, and she felt completely exhausted .
She took a deep breath .
She patted her face lightly .
Qiao Lian, stop being so depressed .
Wasn’t not being able to be with Shen Liangchuan just a minor problem?
It wasn’t as though she had never fallen out of love, like she had done eight years ago .
So why behave like life had become meaningless without love?
You have a lot on your hands! Mom and Dad are waiting for you to clear their names!
At this thought, she straightened her posture and tried to look energized .
The driver asked, “Miss, where are you headed?”
Qiao Lian gave him the address of the cemetery .
With her suitcase in tow, she went to the cemetery and stood before her parents’ graves .
It had been eight years .
The tombstone looked clean and tidy, as though someone had been looking after it all this time .
She set her suitcase to the side, walked up to the side of the graves and sat down .
She stared blankly at the space in front of her .
“Dad, Mom, I’m here to see you . ”
“Xiao Yi has gone overseas, and I’m sure he’ll make something good out of it . ”
“Dad, Mom, I’m back here too . I’ll uncover the truth and clear your names . ”
“Dad, Mom, I got married . ”
“But I got a divorce too . ”
“But it’s okay, just like eight years ago, Mom, you were right . Life is not only about love . ”
Qiao Lian paused and laughed .
Then she hung her head and continued, “Mom, do you remember Zi Chuan?”
“He was the boy I had an online relationship with eight years ago . In the end, I gave him 100 thousand because we wanted to set up a team club . When you found out, you got angry at me and said that I trusted people too easily . ”
“I still remember that you made me ask for that money back, and I even argued with you about that . ”
“Later on, I had arranged to meet up with him in Beijing, but he didn’t turn up . Mom, you said that perhaps he was a conman and it had all been to get the 100 thousand . You even said it was ok to lose that money, to just take it as a life lesson . ”
“At that time, I disagreed with you and said that Zi Chuan wasn’t that sort of person . ”
“Eventually, he broke my heart . For the last eight years, I had not believed in love . ”
“But now I understand, love is the most amazing thing in the world . He had endured so much for my sake… Oh, his name is Shen Liangchuan . ”
“You’ve never met him . But if you were still alive, Mom, I’m sure that, like me, you would love him, and love his movies and tv series . ”
Qiao Lian took out her cell phone and searched for his photo . She continued, “Mom, this is him . Isn’t he handsome?”
As soon as she said this, the cell phone rang .
The screen showed that is was Shen Liangchuan .
She looked at the screen steadily and, after a moment, she smiled and removed the phone’s SIM card .
Also at this point, outside the cemetery, a very large Bentley sedan pulled up slowly and stopped at the entrance . The overbearing frame of Lu Nanze emerged from within .
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