Chapter 1219 - 1216: Love 5

She shook her head: "The driver can take me."

Wan Donglin glanced at her, but she looked away. Soon, the driver brought the car around, and she quickly got in. In her haste, she forgot to say goodbye to Wan Donglin.

He watched her leave, standing in the same spot for a long, long time.

Yan Xixi got out of the car at the gate, and drove her white Mercedes.

On an early summer afternoon, the sun at three or four o’clock was scorching, and the temperature only dropped sharply when the car entered the long, tree-lined Mountain Road.

Yan Xixi opened the sunroof, enjoying the refreshing breeze. She let out a long sigh, suddenly noticing the sunlight dimming rapidly, as if it were about to rain. She immediately accelerated.

This was the largest cemetery area in the city.

She parked the car and took out two large bouquets of flowers.

As she passed by the pine and cypress grove to the left, she stopped. From afar, she saw Huang Ma’s smiling face engraved upon the tombstone. This photo was chosen perfectly; it showed her at the height of her beauty in middle age, vibrant and enchanting—a woman full of allure, utterly captivating. No wonder Huang Dad was always so submissive to her.

She has never had any fondness for this old woman, who seemingly changed her entire life in the shadows.

But in an instant, life and death were worlds apart.

The perfect trio of the Huang Family suddenly went their separate ways, uncertain of their fates.

Was this Huang Ma’s fault?

If her spirit lingered, would she feel regret?

Yan Xixi didn’t know, yet she understood that our culture emphasizes forgiveness, respecting the dead—whatever Huang Ma did in life, the living no longer have the right to blame her.

She, Yan Xixi, least of all.

She merely placed the bouquet silently in front of the tombstone and quietly left.

At the sunny southern mountain pass, she walked a long stretch and arrived before her parents’ tombstone.

Father’s tombstone had been small and narrow, but after Mother’s death, Wan Donglin paid for them to be buried together, choosing a grand and spacious burial site.

The greatest tragedy for an ordinary person from A Country is not being unable to afford a house while alive, but worrying about cemetery expenses after death.

Unable to afford to live, unable to afford to die.

This cemetery cost a significant sum of money. This was the beginning of her indebtedness to Wan Donglin.

From the start, it was agreed to be a transaction—thus, she never escaped this shackle throughout her life.

She laid down the bouquet and took out the rich offerings, silently knelt, and recited: "Dad, Mom, rest assured, I have graduated from South Country University... Whatever happens in the future, I will surely have a very promising career..."

A wind blew, the sky darkened further, yet there was still no rain.

"Oh, there’s one more thing I must tell you, I’m getting married... The family is decent, they are wealthy, very, very wealthy, and they treat me well... Especially Empress Dowager Liu, she’s very kind to me... Ah, Mom, Dad, don’t worry, I will surely live happily from now on..."

"..."

She suddenly turned inside, tears streaming down.

No amount of glory, no amount of wealth counts for anything.

Even now, she is still alone, with no one to share it with.

If Mother were still alive, at least she would feel comforted, at least she could pride herself above all the relatives, at least she could make the friends and family who once avoided them envious and jealous—after all, the daughter of the Yan Family has married into a wealthy family, and wealth is limitless from then on...