Chapter 1559 - 1296: It’s Already Too Late (2)

Chapter 1559: Chapter 1296: It’s Already Too Late (2)

Ji Xiangling raised her eyebrows, Chu Jingyun ignored her and walked straight towards the restroom.

...

On the other side, Yu Yao met with Zhong Jinnan at the scheduled time.

Their meeting place was a somewhat rustic teahouse far from the suburbs.

When Zhong Jinnan arrived, Yu Yao was making tea. Seeing Zhong Jinnan enter, Yu Yao handed him a freshly brewed cup of tea.

She calmly said, "I haven’t made tea in a long time, so I might be out of practice. If it’s not good, please don’t mind!"

Zhong Jinnan stared at Yu Yao’s face for a moment. Yu Yao was already in her early fifties, no longer young.

But when you like someone, many external things become insignificant. For instance, in Zhong Jinnan’s eyes, Yu Yao was still beautiful.

Over the years, he had met many different women—beautiful, charming, gentle, capable—but in his heart, none could compare to Yu Yao.

Even now, he recalls their first meeting, which was over thirty years ago, and at that time Yu Yao hadn’t yet turned twenty.

He had just come to the city T and was unfamiliar with the place, having been fired from several jobs for various reasons.

It seemed like a streak of bad luck followed, as he couldn’t find a job for a week, had no money, not even a place to stay.

Though he had learned martial arts since childhood and had some skills, getting money wasn’t difficult for him.

But the young him was proud and couldn’t allow himself to resort to petty theft.

He hadn’t eaten for three days and was extremely hungry, compounded by the increasingly cold autumn winter weather.

He remembers a heavy rain that day; after another failed job search, hunger and rain overcame him, and he fainted by the roadside.

In a daze, he seemed to hear the sound of a car stopping, followed by the clear, pleasant voice of a young woman.

The woman shouted, "Hey, you guys come quickly, someone has fainted here!"

Then there was another young woman’s voice. She said, "Yu Yao, hurry over here. We don’t know if the person is alive or dead, come on, I’m scared!"

Yet the woman insisted on staying, and he felt the rainwater dripping on his face suddenly disappear. A blurred outline of a woman appeared in his vision.

Then the woman shouted, "He’s not dead; he’s still alive. Yunjin, come see, he’s alive; we have to save him!"

Another woman continued, "But... but it’s raining so heavily, we need to go home!"

The woman seemed to think for a moment, then ran off, instructing the other woman to wait for her before she left.

He lay on the ground, watching the woman in a light yellow coat walk away, her figure gradually blurring until she disappeared.

That was his final memory before falling into a complete coma. When he awoke again, he was already in the hospital. He first asked the doctor about the girl who brought him there.

The doctor replied that indeed it was a young girl who found him and took him to the hospital, and before she left, she paid part of the medical bill, but the girl had already left.

Lying in bed, Zhong Jinnan didn’t speak, but in his heart, he had etched the name "Yu Yao."

Even though he truly didn’t know what Yu Yao looked like, and on that day, in his disheveled state, Yu Yao might not have seen him clearly.

In fact, he later endured hardships to find Yu Yao, but she truly did not recognize him.

Moreover, what made it even more unbearable was that Yu Yao had already found someone she loved, and that person was Song Xiuwen.

Yet he still did not give up, exhausting every way to pursue Yu Yao, but she did not like him. All of his pursuits were in vain.

Even less than a year into her relationship with Song Xiuwen, she recklessly married him.

Before Yu Yao’s wedding, he actually sought her out, but it was useless; Yu Yao was resolute. Like everyone deep in love, she longed for her wedding and dreamed of a beautiful future with Song Xiuwen.

Unable to win back Yu Yao, he left—not because he didn’t care or wasn’t sad; in truth, he was very hurt, very sad, wishing at times that he was not Zhong Jinnan, the one saved by Yu Yao, who loved Yu Yao.

He wished he was someone else, longing for a life without Yu Yao.

Taking a gentle breath, Zhong Jinnan sat down and then took a sip of the tea by Yu Yao’s hand. Yu Yao asked, "How is it?"