Su Ruanruan curled up in the passenger seat, her little face pallid.
Bao Jingyan took her small hand.
At the red light, he kissed it gently.
Su Ruanruan called out to him with a trembling voice: "Bao Jingyan."
"I love you, Ruanruan," he said, looking into her eyes, "Do you want to be with me?"
"Even in death, we won’t part?"
She said she would never leave Bao Jingyan.
Bao Jingyan did not speak again.
His complexion had slightly improved.
An hour later, he parked the car in the parking lot.
He said to her, "You go ahead by yourself! I’ll come over after dealing with some matters."
Su Ruanruan did not ask; she obediently listened to him.
Bao Jingyan couldn’t bear to part with her.
He felt so heartbroken.
Resting his forehead against hers, he murmured, "My Ruanruan is so good."
Su Ruanruan did not speak.
She just gently held his middle finger...
Bao Jingyan’s voice was hoarse: "Remember what you said, that even in death, we won’t part."
She hummed in response.
She said: "Bao Jingyan, I’m going to board the plane now."
He let go of her, got out of the car, and took her luggage.
Xiao Ran was waiting for them in the VIP lounge.
She handed the boarding pass to Su Ruanruan and said softly, "President Bao will arrange everything."
Su Ruanruan clutched the thin card tightly.
She looked up at Bao Jingyan.
Her gaze lingered with longing.
In a soft voice, she said, "I’m leaving, Bao Jingyan."
He did not make a sound, only gazing at her intently.
Su Ruanruan looked down, thinking of turning away...
Suddenly, Bao Jingyan pulled her into his embrace.
His body was burning hot as he held her with all his strength.
Su Ruanruan’s body ached as if her bones were being crushed by him.
But she did not utter a sound.
She cried... out of fear.
Slowly, a crowd gathered around.
Sun Jingan approached them.
His gaze was particularly complex: "Jingyan, the old lady is in shock, she wants to see you!"
Bao Jingyan’s Adam’s apple bobbed: "I’ll return with you."
Sun Jingan slightly lifted his hand: "Miss Su cannot leave Jiangcheng either."
Bao Jingyan was almost ready to lash out.
Sun Jingan’s tone cooled: "The old lady’s life is hanging by a thread, think about the consequences, Jingyan!"
Bao Jingyan calmed down.
He gently touched Su Ruanruan’s hair and said softly, "Let Xiao Ran take you home! I’ll come back after I’m done, be good."
Su Ruanruan stood there.
She watched him hurriedly leave with Sun Jingyu.
Although she didn’t know the whole truth, she guessed... it had something to do with Bao Jingyan’s mother, Sun Weilian.
It was a call from Bao Jingse.
Su Ruanruan gently answered.
After about two minutes... the phone slipped from her fingertips.
Shattered on the ground.
Xiao Ran asked her worriedly, but she said nothing.
Until she was seated in the car, Xiao Ran asked where they were going.
Su Ruanruan absent-mindedly said: "To Bao Jingyan’s villa. I will wait for him there."
Xiao Ran held her hand.
Su Ruanruan returned to the villa.
Aunt Li was worried, but Su Ruanruan said nothing.
She sat alone in the bedroom waiting.
She knew she was the most selfish person in the world, but she did not want to give up on Bao Jingyan.
He... he didn’t want to give up on her either.
She had promised him, even in death they would not part.
Su Ruanruan waited in the villa for three days and three nights.
She ate very little, she was totally anxious.
Because she could do nothing, and she could not share his burden.
All she could do was wait, wait for him to come back.
She imagined countless times that he would come back and embrace her...
He might be in a bad mood, but he would say in a muffled voice: "Ruanruan, I will send you to Britain."
She was willing to go to Britain, willing to go for a month or even a year.
Just to see him once.
He had said, she was young, and they could wait for each other.
Su Ruanruan closed her eyes, with tears at the corners...