Chapter 378: Humans Are All Self-Delusional
After Dongli Ao finished his breakfast and went to wash his hands, Dongli Shenghua tilted his head and looked at Beauty Wu. He said, “You’re in a bad mood.” His affirmative tone made Beauty Wu uncomfortable.
“Don’t worry, even if she’s in a bad mood, she’ll still work diligently. She won’t let anything happen to Mr. Dongli.”
His sarcastic tone made Dongli Shenghua shake his head and laugh.
He could not help but ask Beauty Wu, “Are you blaming me?”
“…No.”
It was obvious that she did not mean what she said.
“What did I do wrong?” Dongli Shenghua thought about it carefully and could not remember offending her recently.
Beauty Wu shook her head. Just as she was about to say that nothing’s wrong, she thought of something and changed her words. She said, “Mr. Dongli did something wrong.”
“What’s the matter?” Dongli Shenghua had already put down his spoon and was looking at her sternly.
Beauty Wu met his gaze.
She said coldly, “You shouldn’t have thought of me.”
“If you’re referring to me wanting to marry you to be my son’s mother…” He smiled faintly but said, “Sorry, I can’t stop.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re the most like her in the world.”
For the first time, Dongli Shenghua said bluntly and clearly to Beauty Wu, “Because you’re like her, because Xiao Ao likes you, because I have a good impression of you too. We get whatever we want.”
His words were arrogant and domineering. When Beauty Wu heard this, she was speechless.
She suddenly asked, “Mr. Dongli, can I resign?”
Dongli Shenghua narrowed his eyes and asked her, “What do you think?” His eyes were dangerous. He looked like he would kill her if she dared to resign.
Beauty Wu could only give up.
Alright, you deliberately provoked me. Be careful when I let you into prison one day. Don’t blame me for not thinking about family!
Even if you are my uncle, I will still not be soft-hearted.
The news that the art festival was going to hold a cake compet.i.tion spread like wildfire. All the employees in the company were discussing this matter. Two days later, the company officially issued a doc.u.ment announcing that the art festival was going to hold a cake compet.i.tion and the winner would receive top fas.h.i.+on resources and the qualifications to be the spokesperson of a first-tier makeup brand.
All the celebrities placed their attention on the last sentence, especially those celebrities who were in the middle and lower ranks. They all wanted to rely on this compet.i.tion to gain resources and make a name for themselves.
For a moment, those who did not know how to make cakes started to sign up for cla.s.ses to learn how to bake. Those who knew how to make cakes would spend their time at home thinking about new variations. For a moment, the entire company seemed to be possessed.
On this day, Dongli Shenghua gave himself a day off. Beauty Wu did not know what he was going to do, but seeing his handsome face tense the entire day, she guessed that he was in a bad mood, so Beauty Wu did not provoke him. She returned home and slept soundly.
She was woken up by a phone call.
It was Dongli Shenghua.
He only said, “I’m on the northern slope. Come pick me up.”
Dongli Shenghua’s tone was sorrowful.
Beauty Wu sat on the bed in a daze for a few minutes. She changed her clothes and rode her bike to the northern slope.
Although the Northern Wilderness Slope was called a slope, it was actually a mountain. It was a mountain more than a thousand meters above the sea in the suburbs of Binjiang City. It was considered the highest mountain near Binjiang City. Standing on the mountain, if the weather was good, one could see almost the entire Binjiang City. However, the weather in Binjiang City was mostly foggy and one could not see the entire city.
This month, the sky turned dark early. At three to four in the afternoon, the sun started to set in the west. On the peak of the Northern Field Slope, one could witness the entire process of the sunset.
Beauty Wu climbed to the top of the mountain and saw Dongli Shenghua.
He was not wearing a suit and was wearing a black mountaineering outfit. His shoulders were yellow. Beside him was a mountaineering bag and a bottle of mineral water.
Beauty Wu took a few more glances before breaking the silence.
“Mr. Dongli.”
Dongli Shenghua turned around. When he saw Beauty Wu, his eyes filled with nostalgia.
Beauty Wu thought that she might climb the mountain, so she wore a pair of tight jeans and a pair of white sneakers. She wore a tight gray halter top with a black leather jacket over it. Dongli Shenghua was used to seeing her in work clothes, so when he suddenly saw her in a casual outfit, he couldn’t help but take a few more glances.
“Could it be that I look more like my aunt in this?” Beauty Wu thought that she was wearing the same outfit as her aunt.
Dongli Shenghua did not speak and only retracted his gaze.
Beauty Wu walked to his side and stood beside him. She looked at the setting sun and fell silent.
The sunset was really beautiful. It would be even better if the person beside her could change.
No one spoke on the mountaintop. For a moment, only the sound of the wind could be heard.
Beauty Wu finally retracted her gaze. She lowered her eyes and looked at Binjiang City in the distance. She suddenly said, “When I came just now, I didn’t see your car at the foot of the mountain. Did Mr. Dongli hail a taxi?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s terrible. I rode my bike here. How am I going back later?”
“You can send me back.”
Without hearing Beauty Wu speak, Dongli Shenghua looked down at her and said, “Or I can give you a ride.”
Beauty Wu looked up at him and caught the faint smile that flashed across his lips.
She thought to herself, He’s quite a good-looking person. Why did he have to start a drug trafficking business?
“This is where I proposed to your aunt.”
Beauty Wu was really surprised.
“Here?”
“Yeah.”
“It was also such a sunny day. When the morning sun rose, I proposed to her.” He took a deep breath of the slightly cold air and thought of the scene at that time. When he spoke again, his tone was inexplicably filled with a hint of sadness. “At that time, I thought that I would grow old with her.”
There was something that Beauty Wu was extremely curious about.
She asked Dongli Shenghua, “How exactly did my aunt die?”
She thought she died of an illness, such as cancer.
Dongli Shenghua said, “She was killed.”
Beauty Wu froze.
She looked at Dongli Shenghua in shock. She could not bear to look at him. “W-What happened?”
Dongli Shenghua thought of the scene of Wu Nabing’s death and felt some pain in his heart. He did not explain in detail and said, “She died to protect me.”
Thinking of Dongli Shenghua’s ident.i.ty, Beauty Wu was a little angry.
His most beloved person had been implicated by him in order to save him, but he still refused to repent.
“So wherever you go now, you have to bring bodyguards.”
“Yes, I’m afraid of death.”
Dongli Shenghua said, “Will you look down on me?”
“Everyone is afraid of death.”
When Beauty Wu first went on a mission and fought with those drug dealers, she was afraid. She was afraid all the time, so she got used to it.
“Today is her death anniversary,” Dongli Shenghua said again.
Beauty Wu was surprised again.
“Did you pay respects to her?”
A rare look of pain appeared on Dongli Shenghua’s face. He said very softly, “I don’t have the guts to see her.”
Beauty Wu could more or less understand his current mood. Every year, when it was Chengcheng’s death anniversary, Beauty Wu would also be like this. She would be unable to sit still, feel guilty, and blame herself. She didn’t even have the courage to pay respects to him.
After that, Dongli Shenghua stopped talking.
He seemed to be immersed in his memories, probably thinking about his past with Wu Nabing.
Beauty Wu looked around for a long time.
She suddenly said, “You don’t actually like me, nor do you want to use me as a subst.i.tute. It’s just that because I’m her only relative, and I’m the person who’s most like her in the world. You have a guilty conscience towards her, so you want to marry me and make up for your guilt towards my aunt.”
Dongli Shenghua looked at her with a thoughtful expression.
Beauty Wu looked up at him and said, “Uncle, if she’s gone, she’s gone. If love can be easily gotten over, then there won’t be many people in this world who are trapped by love.”
Dongli Shenghua’s eyes flashed with embarra.s.sment.
He definitely understood this logic and refused to admit it.
Humans were creatures who were good at deceiving themselves.
“The weather is cold. Let’s go.” Beauty Wu turned around and left.
Dongli Shenghua hesitated for a moment before picking up his bag and following behind her.
On the way back, it was Dongli Shenghua who drove Beauty Wu. Beauty Wu thought that Dongli Shenghua would not be used to driving, but that person put on his safety cap with familiarity and started the car. He drove very steadily, and was not like a novice at all.
Knowing that Beauty Wu was very puzzled, Dongli Shenghua helped her resolve her doubts. He said, “I used to drive motorcycles with your aunt.”
Beauty Wu had almost forgotten that he used to be a poor boy.
When they reached the city, Dongli Shenghua got down.
“I’ll take a taxi back. You can drive yourself back.”
“Okay.”
Beauty Wu watched as Dongli Shenghua got into a taxi and rode home.
There were only three seconds left before the traffic light turned red. Beauty Wu could have driven the motorcycle and caught up. However, she stopped and as she watched the green light turn red, she thought of Wei Shuyi. He said, “You know that driving a motorcycle is very dangerous, but you still drive it. Do you want to die?”
Beauty Wu looked at the red light and gradually, her eyes filled with tears.
She suddenly missed him.
She wanted to call him, to find him, to kiss him, and to tease him…
She missed him so much that her heart ached and she wanted to cry.
Beauty Wu leaned on the motorcycle and quickly rubbed her eyes. When the green light was back, she drove the motorcycle at the speed of an electric scooter and returned home.
When she went to work the next day, she saw that Dongli Shenghua had already returned to normal. Beauty Wu thought, “He’s indeed someone who does big things. Even if he wants to be sad, he won’t allow himself to be sad for long.”
If he wanted to be a big shot, the first thing he had to learn was to control his emotions.
Beauty Wu could not control herself, so she was not someone who did big things.
At three in the afternoon, Dongli Shenghua was going to visit a sick artiste in the company. Beauty Wu had to accompany him.
In the car, she received a call.
“h.e.l.lo.”
“Is it Beauty Wu?” The man’s voice on the other end was a little rough and loud. It was obvious that he was used to talking loudly.
Dongli Shenghua also heard this voice and looked up at her.
Beauty Wu said yes.
“Who are you?”
“You have a parcel. Are you at home?”
“I’m at work.”
“Then I’ll put it in your district mail box.”
“Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, Beauty Wu logged into WeChat and asked Qin Zhu if her parcel had arrived.
Qin Zhu calculated the time and said that it should be today.
Beauty Wu turned off her phone.
“Delivery?” The voice came from the back.
Beauty Wu nodded.
Pan Jie had previously eavesdropped on Beauty Wu’s phone and knew that she was not someone who liked to buy things online. After listening to her for so long, he realized that she had only received a parcel once. Dongli Shenghua said, “Do you often buy things online?” He often saw that the female employees in the company received parcels all day long.
“Not really. This is from a friend of mine. She went on a trip to j.a.pan. I asked her to buy some things for me.”
“Oh.”
Beauty Wu got off work at night and went straight home.
She took a shower and turned on the television. When she saw the advertis.e.m.e.nt on the television, she remembered that she had forgotten to bring the parcel up when she got home.
After finding the key, Beauty Wu ran downstairs.
They each had a delivery box downstairs. It was quite big and could hold seven to eight small items.
Beauty Wu found the mail box with the words 5-2. She inserted the key into the keyhole and opened the door. The moment the door opened, two parcels rolled out of the box.
Bending down, Beauty Wu picked up the parcel and glanced at it. Seeing that the parcels came from j.a.pan, she did not think too much about it. She stood up with the parcels in her arms and was about to close the mailbox when she saw a lonely paper box lying inside.
“There’s another one?”
Beauty Wu was a little surprised.
Zhu Zhu said she had only two packages.
Then where did this come from?
Was it delivered wrongly?
Beauty Wu put down the parcels under her left arm and took out the parcel from the box. She glanced at the parcel and saw that it was for her. However, the sender, the sender’s phone number, and the sender’s phone number were not written. On the entire delivery page, there was only the address and name of the receiver, as well as the time it was sent.
August 25, 2020.
Five months had pa.s.sed since then.
It had been so long!
Beauty Wu was extremely surprised.
A delivery without a sender’s name or phone number was usually very dangerous. As a qualified police officer, Beauty Wu naturally wouldn’t blindly open an unknown parcel. Beauty Wu didn’t even dare to take it home. She placed the parcel beside her ear and shook it hard. She heard a thumping sound.