Falling into the rain

Yu Tingyu also didn't sleep all night and cried again in her dormitory. Her eyes were noticeably swollen the next day.

Shen Sihe was startled when she saw her. "What's wrong, Tingyu? Who bullied you?"

Zhao Xiao also asked her.

Yu Tingyu did not answer.

After a while, Zhao Xiao went out on something, and Shen Sihe secretly asked, "Is it related to Brother Huaixu?"

Upon hearing his name, Yu Tingyu couldn't help but tear up again, her voice hoarse: "I told him I wanted to move out, but he absolutely refused. He even said that if I dared to leave, I wouldn't have to go back."

"Why is Brother Huaixu like this!"

Shen Sihe frowned; she was definitely united with Yu Tingyu in their hatred of the enemy.

"So what are you going to do now? Are you really not going back?" Shen Sihe asked worriedly.

Yu Tingyu was also confused. This was not what she had originally envisioned, and she didn't know how to end things.

Wen Huaixu seemed quite angry with her.

Tears streamed down her face again, and Yu Tingyu's voice choked with sobs: "Sihe, I'm an ingrate."

"How could I say that this isn't my home? How heartbroken he would be."

The moment she closed her eyes, she saw Wen Huaixu's furious face.

She came to the Wen family at the age of nine, and after she turned eleven, she lived with Wen Huaixu. She spent nine years in that house, and her traces are everywhere, and every little detail is still vivid in my mind.

No matter what, you shouldn't have said that.

I drank too much last night; I wasn't thinking before I spoke.

Thinking about it today, I'm starting to regret it.

Shen Sihe hugged her and patted her gently: "It's okay, it's okay. Brother Huaixu definitely won't be really angry with you. It'll be fine in a few days. You should go home then."

"No...this time it's for real, he doesn't want me anymore."

Yu Tingyu shook her head, her voice tinged with grievance.

She could sense that Wen Huaixu's anger last night was not ordinary; she had never seen anything like it before.

She couldn't understand why either.

-

As evening approached, the sky darkened again.

Wen Huaixu continued to work at the company as usual, but everyone around him could see that he was different.

He was especially irritable today, and had no patience at all.

The number of managers who were dismissed due to criticism is too many to count on one hand.

Wang Hang roughly knew the reason. Looking at Wen Huaixu's expression, he respectfully said, "Miss didn't leave the school all day. She was rehearsing with the young master of the Zhao family and Miss Shen."

Wen Huaixu paused slightly while flipping through the documents, but then continued with his work as if he hadn't heard.

Although Wen Huaixu didn't say anything, Wang Hang knew that he had reported correctly, but he had a feeling that the boss was in a worse mood after hearing it.

Wang Hang continued, "President Wen, President Chu and the others are already waiting for you at 'Jingyuan'."

Wen Huaixu gave a curt "hmm," closed the folder, and walked out.

Jingyuan was a place they frequented. Today was special because Wen Huaixu's cousin, Liang Shengyu, was returning to China, and a welcome banquet was prepared for them that evening.

"You just had bad timing. If you had come back yesterday, you would have seen your older brother."

Wen Huaixu had just entered the private room when he heard Chu Lingyu's words.

"I really can't leave. This is a specially approved leave, and I have to go in a few days."

As soon as Liang Shengyu finished speaking, he saw Wen Huaixu's figure. He quickly stood up and respectfully called out, "Second Brother."

"Oh? Second Brother is in a bad mood today?"

As expected of a friend who has grown up together for over twenty years, Chu Lingyu immediately noticed Wen Huaixu's unusual behavior tonight.

Wen Huaixu didn't say anything, found a seat, and called over a waiter, asking him to bring out all the wine he had stored there.

Chu Lingyu and Zhang Qi'an exchanged a glance, both showing a hint of surprise.

He didn't say a word and just started drinking; it seems like this is no small matter.

I just don't know what happened to make the usually calm and collected second young master of the Wen family so melancholy.

Under the blazing lights, Wen Huaixu's face was somber. He was in a bad mood, so the others didn't dare to make any jokes and just drank with him casually.

After a moment, he suddenly spoke, startling everyone present.

"So, how should we discipline children?"

His voice, soaked in strong liquor, sounded low and hoarse, inexplicably tinged with a sense of loneliness and helplessness.

"A child? No way, second brother, you've had a child after all these years I've been abroad?"

Liang Shengyu was greatly shocked after hearing what he said.

Chu Lingyu and Zhang Qi'an raised their eyebrows, as if they understood who he was referring to as the child.

"You mean Tingyu? Tingyu is so well-behaved, how can you possibly discipline her?"

Wen Huaixu gave a faint scoff, picked up the wine beside him, and drank it all in one gulp.

If she were truly sensible, she wouldn't bring up moving out with a man just to live with him.

She wouldn't say that the place she had lived in for nine years wasn't her home, which broke his heart.

He certainly wouldn't just leave; he didn't receive a single message from her for a whole day and night.

"I remember Tingyu is already twenty years old, why is Second Brother still so worried?"

Liang Shengyu was puzzled. When he went abroad, Yu Tingyu was only fifteen years old and in junior high school. He could have kept an eye on her then, but now that she's all grown up, why is he still treating her like a child?

Wen Huaixu raised his eyes, his sharp gaze shooting at him: "Since she has come to our family, we should be responsible for her for the rest of our lives. Don't say she's twenty years old, even if she's seventy or eighty, I will still take care of her."

Liang Shengyu fell silent after being reprimanded, and dared not say another word.

Chu Lingyu smiled, looking at Wen Huaixu with a leisurely air, and asked surmisingly, "Could it be that my brother and Tingyu are really dating? Is that why you're reacting so strongly?"

Wen Huaixu lit a cigarette, squinted, and exhaled a cloud of white smoke.

"It's not his turn yet."

Zhang Qi'an also laughed, and patted Chu Lingyu's shoulder in a pretentious manner, "Second Brother means there is someone else, so they must have talked."

Chu Lingyu asked, puzzled, "It's just dating, you don't need to use the word 'discipline,' do you?"

Wen Huaixu drank his wine in silence, not intending to tell them about Yu Tingyu's plan to move out.

It wouldn't be honorable to talk about this, so he had to save face for Yu Tingyu.

"Drink less, this alcohol is strong. Qi An drank two glasses last week and passed out, calling out his ex-girlfriend's name," Chu Lingyu advised.

"Go to hell, where did I get an ex-girlfriend?" Zhang Qi'an couldn't help but punch him.

"Mmm, not exactly an ex-girlfriend," Chu Lingyu agreed.

-

Yu Tingyu spent the whole day in a daze in the music room, even forgetting to eat lunch.

The real estate agent she had arranged to meet called to urge her to go see the apartment. She was upset and couldn't make up her mind, so she just said that it was inconvenient today and she would go in a few days.

The sound of a piano should be romantic and elegant, but different moods produce different melodies, and one can faintly hear a sense of loneliness and depression.

Suddenly, the ringing of a cell phone placed to the side interrupted the rhythm of the piano.

"Brother Lingyu?" Yu Tingyu was a little surprised when she saw the caller ID.

"Tingyu, are you free now?" Chu Lingyu's voice sounded a bit garbled.

Yu Tingyu's heart stirred slightly, and she subconsciously gripped her phone tighter: "What's wrong?"

"It's Huai Xu, he's drunk and home alone with no one to take care of him, he looks so pitiful," Chu Lingyu said with a sigh.

Was drunk?

Yu Tingyu unconsciously gripped her phone tighter: "Isn't Aunt Jing home?"

"It seems the old house is short-handed these days, so she went to help out for a few days."

Yu Tingyu was silent for a few seconds, then asked him, "Did my second brother tell me to go back?"

Chu Lingyu didn't know what had happened between the two. After bringing the drunk and incoherent Wen Huaixu back home, he found that no one was there. He had no choice but to call Yu Tingyu.

He answered instinctively, "He's so drunk he can't speak, but he definitely wants you by his side."

certainly not.

Yu Tingyu lowered her eyes.

Wen Huaixu once said that once she left home, she wouldn't need to come back.

So he definitely doesn't want to see her right now.

He might get even more drunk if he sees her.

"...Brother Lingyu, please take care of him. I have a lot of things to do here and can't leave for a while."

After Yu Tingyu finished speaking, she pressed the hang-up button.