novelraw Chapter 291: You Are Many Years Late (10)
Chapter 291: You Are Many Years Late (10)
Later on, somehow.He would sit with her every day under the tree watching other children play, yet she never said a word to him from beginning to end.
Until one day, someone sent an assassin to kill him.
Though Uncle Zhong and others were always secretly protecting him, he was still injured.
So he went to a corner in the orphanage backyard to apply medicine.
To his surprise, she, who had never paid attention to him, came over.
Watching him from a distance handle and bandage the wound silently.
"Not planning to help out?"
She hesitated for a moment and carefully helped him treat and bandage the wound.
Gradually, their relationship improved a lot.
Qiao Mo gently swayed on the swing, looking at the familiar courtyard before her, listening to his words, trying hard to recover some memories.
But to her disappointment, her mind was still blank.
No impression at all.
As if he had never been in her life.
Fu Nancheng did not force it, he took her for a good walk around the half-demolished orphanage, every time he saw something, he couldn’t help but talk about past events related to her.
Qiao Mo listened attentively, occasionally imagining what she and he looked like as children.
It’s been ten years.
Amazingly, he remembered so clearly.
Qiao Mo thought, even if she hadn’t lost her memory.
Probably all of this would just be a vague impression.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the afternoon was over.
Fu Nancheng took her to the old locust tree not far from the orphanage.
The old locust tree was about the girth of three people hugging it, with a sturdy and straight trunk, it was clear it had been there for many years.
"At that time, I stayed at the orphanage for less than a year and promised to take you away when I left. But because the Fu family was in turmoil, I couldn’t fulfill it immediately."
Qiao Mo nodded: "And then?"
"Later when I came to find you again, you had already been taken away and the orphanage had disappeared, leaving only these ruins."
Fortunately, at that time they had made an agreement, in case they couldn’t find each other one day.
They would come to wait under this old locust tree on the eighth of every month.
Luckily, not long after, they met again.
Fu Nancheng sat in the wheelchair, looking up at the old locust tree.
Countless times, he stood under the tree waiting for her...
Countless times, overwhelmed with emotions.
He seemed to see the silhouettes of them laughing and playing under the tree, seeing her smiling as she walked towards him.
In fact, when he first arrived at the orphanage, he didn’t know that his parents had already passed away.
It wasn’t until he returned to the Fu family that he learned his parents were no longer alive.
And she, whom he had known for less than a year, became his entire emotional support.
"Later the family forced me to marry, and you said you were very uncomfortable after being taken back home, so I planned to take you abroad."
"Did we agree to meet here?"
Fu Nancheng nodded slightly.
Yes, we agreed to meet here, if not on the eighth of this month, then on the eighth of the next month...
Back then, he didn’t wait for her, but he refused to give up.
So that later, for over a month, he came here almost every day.
He didn’t believe she was like that...
Oddly enough, they had been in contact for years, yet he didn’t know whose child she was.
He had been to her school, the address where they exchanged letters.
Unfortunately, she seemed to never have appeared in his life, disappearing completely...
Later, for more than half a year, he came here on the eighth of every month to wait for her.
But to his disappointment, he never saw her again.
"Xiao Mo, you’ve been late for so many years." He spoke softly.