Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 677: Epilogue 30: Parting with you like this, watching from close range (3rd update)_4
If he dies, he hopes his wishes can live on. Then his presence in this world wouldn’t be in vain.
This almost counts as his last wish, so Li Le Wen, as if driven mad, personally returned to Yun City. Through connections at the hospital, he spent a considerable amount of money and used other means to acquire Shi Nian’s egg cells during her two-month recovery period at the hospital.
In Huangfu Huazhang’s precarious condition, harvesting sperm cells posed a risk. The doctors they consulted frankly warned them, yet, unexpectedly, this rekindled his will to live.
Two months later, the Yun City police announced the results of the case. But then, they suddenly discovered that Shi Nian and her daughter were missing, their household registration erased as if they had vanished from the world.
The two of them dared not keep it a secret and reported it to him. The originally frail and weakened man suddenly sat up.
He said no matter where, be it the ends of the earth, he would surely find her.
After two more months of nurturing, miraculously, he could walk again, and the fertilized egg cell they cultivated thrived healthily.
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Months had passed when Huangfu Huazhang returned to M Country in desolation. Gradually losing interest in the company’s affairs, he began directing more of his energies towards Kangchuan University’s affairs.
It wasn’t until he routinely sought to inquire about Xiang Yuan, who also returned to M Country, that he was shocked to find Xiang Yuan was preparing for a wedding. And the bride... turned out to be the young girl he could never locate again.
That day, he stood by the roadside, separated by a bustling thoroughfare, looking across the street. He saw Xiang Yuan leading his young girl out of the mall. Hand in hand, the wind blowing along the long street lifted her hair, with the tips gently brushing her cheeks. She raised her head in the wind, speaking with a smile to Xiang Yuan.
Xiang Yuan also listened with a smile, then laughed and wrapped her in his coat.
Just like this, they walked across the street, out of his sight, from beginning to end, neither of them glanced once towards where he stood.
Her name is Shi Nian, yet she doesn’t know he has been watching over her like this for ten years.
She doesn’t know he went to China for her; she doesn’t know he stayed with her in the darkness; she doesn’t know he once wrote word by word in her palm, telling her a long story.
She doesn’t know he came for her, left for her; she also doesn’t know he once rejoiced for her, mourned for her.
She doesn’t even know that she once tiptoed in the darkness to voluntarily kiss his lips; doesn’t know she once awoke comfortably in his embrace.
Even more unknown to her... because a single thought for her, he has already made a grave error this time.
So all he can do is watch her, watch her charming smile beside Xiang Yuan. Thus, even with countless ways to control the Xiang Family father and son... yet he cannot act, merely watch helplessly as she smiles beside another man.
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Shi Nian and Xiang Yuan’s wedding.
As the bride, Shi Nian was restless and uneasy on this day.
All the guests present were friends and relatives of the Xiang Family, not a single person from her own family.
Even Mom could not attend due to her illness.
All the festivity, all the excitement supposed to center around her as the leading lady, seemed to have nothing to do with her.
She sat alone in the bride’s dressing room, feeling only solitude.
Xiang Yuan was busy downstairs entertaining the guests, yet he took a moment to come up and see her.
As a pair of newlyweds, Xiang Yuan wanted to kiss her.
But for some reason, she evaded it at the last moment.
Xiang Yuan’s disappointment flickered in his eyes, but he suppressed it and embraced her, saying, "It’s alright. Anyway, we will be husband and wife starting from today, and the future ahead is long."
Xiang Yuan left with disappointment, leaving her feeling even more uneasy.
Finally, in the silence, she mustered the courage, found a coat to wrap over her wedding dress, covered her face with a scarf, then quietly went downstairs hoping to evade everyone’s attention to find Xiang Yuan. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
At least, to muster up the courage to give him a kiss.
Yet, she was too flustered, fearful of being recognized as the bride, so much so that she stepped on the train of the wedding dress in the hall, nearly falling.
At that moment, a pair of men’s leather shoes appeared before her, the toes slightly upturned like a defiant nose.
The man reached out to steady her arm, gently asking, "Are you okay?"
The man’s hand on her arm was merely the most courteous touch, yet it felt like electricity coursed through her.
And his scent... that inexplicably familiar scent, made her face flush and heart race.
She panicked, not knowing what was happening to her, and dared not raise her head to face the person, only tightening her scarf to cover her head and face, fleeing in disarray.
She didn’t dare to continue searching for Xiang Yuan in the hall, running breathlessly up the stairs, back to the room.
But the keen-eyed Xiang Yuan noticed it was her and followed her back with a smile all the way.
