Seeing her stop there, Li Nanchuan stubbed out his cigarette butt and walked firmly towards her.
"Just got off work?" His voice was deep and magnetic, gentle as always. "Have you eaten?"
Shen Youjin pursed her lips and showed him the bag in her hand.
It seemed as if they were old friends, so familiar with each other.
Only then did Li Nanchuan notice the things in her hand. It was from that store they used to like. After all these years, he thought she had already changed her taste.
"Yeah." Li Nanchuan looked at her and suddenly said out of the blue, "The fiancée was arranged by my family. It wasn't my intention."
Hearing this, Shen Youjin's heart suddenly tightened.
Did Li Nanchuan come here specifically to tell her this?
But what was the use?
They had already broken up, and it was he who dumped her!
"The time for me to explain has passed." She brushed past him. "Li Nanchuan, you're too late."
Back then, she called his phone again and again and waited at the gate of the Li family for so long. In the end, she didn't even get to see him. What was the point of saying these things now?
Even if the Li family agreed to her existence, she could never be his fiancée.
Her mother was a murderer. Before the charges were cleared, their marriage wouldn't even pass the political review. They were the least likely couple!
"Xiaojin!" Li Nanchuan unexpectedly grabbed her slender wrist. "Wait!"
The warm palm touched her soft skin. She turned around, and a strange emotion flashed across her clear eyes.
"Do you still have something to say?" she asked.
Li Nanchuan stared at her with his deep, night - like eyes. As if making some kind of determination, he said, "Break up with Jiang Zeshen, okay? He's not suitable for you."
His affectionate look was just the same as before, which awakened the mystery hidden in Shen Youjin's heart.
"Then tell me, why did you break up with me back then?" She was wearing a black dress, and the hem of the dress was like a bewitching rose under the light. "Where did you go after we broke up? Why didn't I see you again?"
The capital city was big, but it wasn't so exaggerated that she couldn't see someone even when she deliberately wanted to and wandered around his living area.
Hearing her say this, the hand holding her wrist slowly loosened, and his affectionate eyes became rational and clear again.
"It's all in the past."
Hearing this, Shen Youjin smiled silently, as if mocking her own persistence.
"In that case, do as you like! But don't interfere in my business anymore. You're not worthy!"
She didn't want to entangle with him anymore and turned around to leave.
Li Nanchuan watched her fluttering back. His hand, which was like a work of art, still hung in the air, as if trying to catch something that no longer belonged to him.
It was not until she disappeared from sight that he came to his senses.
The new political elite, who was always powerful and influential outside, was now heavily shrouded in a sense of loss.
When Shen Youjin got home, she suddenly felt a bit regretful the moment she closed the door.
She should have taken this opportunity to ask what happened that night, but she was so emotional that she just missed it!
That night, Shen Youjin had a very long dream. In the dream, her mother's company went bankrupt, and the two of them had a very hard time during that period.
Everyone said that her mother was so severely hit that she had a mental breakdown, so she killed someone and then jumped off a high - rise building.
At that time, she was still in high school. The Shen family didn't want her, and she didn't want to live under someone else's roof. She lived in the school dormitory with the only alimony Shen Guoliang gave her. She didn't even know how she managed to finish high school.
In college, she didn't take any more money from the Shen family. She worked part - time while investigating the murder case from that year. She didn't believe that her gentle mother would kill someone, nor did she believe that her mother would commit suicide by jumping off a building!
It was not until she met Li Nanchuan. He had power and influence and didn't care about those rumors.
He said he believed in her and would help her find out the truth.
It was very difficult to find even a single clue about the case that happened a few years ago, but Li Nanchuan still didn't give up.
She gave all her innocence and trust to him alone, but one day later, he abandoned her.
Her world collapsed overnight, and her heart seemed to be dug out a piece...
...
The next morning, Shen Youjin was woken up by the alarm clock. The pillow was already wet.
She looked at the time and then remembered that it was Saturday and she didn't need to go to the company.
There was an unread message on her phone. It was from Gu Zhiyuan. "I'll pick you up at six this afternoon."
Shen Youjin twitched the corner of her mouth. She really didn't want to see this old fox.
However, she quickly adjusted her state. After getting up and washing up, she made herself a nutritious meal, then went to buy folic acid and vitamins for pregnant women and went back home.
Fortunately, she didn't have any morning sickness reactions yet, so she just needed to pay a little attention to her diet.
She didn't plan to abort this child. No matter who the father of the child was, she would give birth to it. She needed a relative who was connected by blood so much.
This would make her feel safe. She was no longer alone in this world.
She stayed at home all day. Just when she was about to go out, her phone suddenly rang. It was Fu Qingye.
She originally didn't want to answer it, but thinking of Fu Qingye's personality, she hesitated.
As soon as she answered the phone, Fu Qingye's angry voice came over. "Shen Youjin, you're really something! You helped Jiang Zeshen deal with me, didn't you?"
Shen Youjin was holding the phone in one hand and didn't know what had happened.
"What's going on?"
"What's going on?!" Fu Qingye suddenly raised his voice, like an angry lion. "The engine of my favorite Lamborghini was filled with sugar and honey. After it heated up, the engine was destroyed. Now the whole car is useless!"
Shen Youjin was stunned. People who knew about cars all knew how serious the consequences would be if sugar was poured into the engine.
Sugar would melt when heated. As the engine started, it would block the engine and solidify firmly on it, making it impossible to clean.
In this case, the engine had to be replaced, and this was not covered by insurance, so there would be no compensation.
Although the young master was not short of money, after replacing the engine, the car was no longer the same as before. This was really a despicable thing to do!
"This has nothing to do with me." She held back the urge to laugh and said to him, "If you have evidence, you can call the police. Don't come here and rage in vain!"
Hearing this, Fu Qingye was so angry that his fingers trembled. Since they broke up, Shen Youjin's attitude towards him had been getting worse and worse. Now she even dared to talk to him like this!
"Shen Youjin, have you forgotten who helped you get back the necklace left by your mother?" His voice was cold. "Or have you forgotten who made you live so well in the capital city? Shen Youjin, you're really an ungrateful person!"
After saying that, Fu Qingye hung up the phone directly.
Shen Youjin's hand that was about to pick up the keys stopped. She did owe Fu Qingye for the necklace!
If it weren't for him, the "Eternal Night" left by her mother would already be on Shen Tianzhen's neck!