ebookland Chapter 174 Recalling Death Again
Chapter 174 Recalling Death Again
“Miss Yun, Shu Yan will be back soon. I’ll get straight to the point: I hope you can leave Shu Yan. If you’re willing to leave him and never appear in front of him again, I can grant you one thing, anything.”
The old man's words struck Yunzhi like a thunderbolt, catching her completely off guard.
She thought that if the old man didn't like her, he would try to appease her by asking about her basic situation and then finding fault with her to reject her. But she didn't expect the old man to come out with a bombshell right away.
In her previous life, although the old man did not agree with her being with Cheng Shuyan, he was never as determined as he is now to be willing to pay any price.
A promise from the head of the Cheng family is worth far more.
If Yunzhi were truly an ordinary person, she could have easily achieved upward social mobility simply by relying on a single sentence from the old man.
"I thought you were like someone in a TV drama, Grandpa, who would just throw a check at me and tell me to break up with Shuyan." Yunzhi couldn't resist joking at this moment.
Although the old man had rejected Yunzhi in his heart, he still observed her carefully. When he saw that there was no greed in her eyes, his impression of her improved considerably.
If it weren't for... he might have actually agreed to the two of them in the end.
The old man took out a check from his pocket and pushed it in front of Yunzhi.
Yunzhi glanced at the blank check in front of her. "Grandpa, are you giving me a bounced check?"
The old man almost fainted from anger because of one sentence she said.
No wonder Cheng Shuyan has his eye on her; she's just as bad at speaking.
"I told you to fill it in however you want, write as much as you want." The old man glared at Yunzhi with annoyance.
Yunzhi's eyes lit up. "Really? Then I'll just write whatever comes to mind."
Looking at Yunzhi's naive and unsophisticated appearance, the old man scoffed. As expected of a child from a humble family, easily dismissed with a little money. If she hadn't been tempted by his promise, she probably wouldn't have known what it meant.
Ha, how much money can she write? At most, a few million, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions...
Grandpa Cheng watched as Yunzhi first wrote a 9, then followed by who knows how many more 9s; she even wanted to write them outside the check.
When Yunzhi finally stopped writing, she looked regretful and even asked sincerely, "Grandpa, I can't write anymore. Could you give me another check? This time, I'll write the number smaller."
The limit of writing so many 9s is not Yunzhi's limit, but the limit of this check.
The old man didn't know whether to laugh or get angry.
He underestimated Yunzhi. Yunzhi wasn't lacking in courage or knowledge; she was far too bold and knowledgeable. She was practically asking him to give her all of the Cheng family's assets.
The old man looked at the string of 9s on the check and felt his blood pressure rise. He felt dizzy and disoriented. It was the first time he had ever experienced dizziness over numbers.
"Grandpa, I feel that my relationship with Shuyan is worth this much money. Grandpa won't regret it, will he?" Yunzhi blinked innocently and asked.
The old man exhaled a breath of stale air, "You really dared to ask for that. I was wrong. You and Shuyan are truly a perfect match."
"So, does Grandpa agree to me becoming your granddaughter-in-law?" Yunzhi asked, propping her head up with one hand, confident of victory.
To everyone's surprise, the old man shook his head and firmly refused her.
"Miss Yun, you can't be with Shuyan." The old man sighed. He originally thought it would be easy to persuade a young girl, but he didn't expect that she would have to play the victim at her age.
"Actually, I won't hide it from you anymore. When Shuyan said he had a girlfriend, I was actually very happy. After all, Shuyan is not young anymore. But lately, I've been having nightmares. In my dream, Shuyan is covered in blood and dies at the scene of a car accident. This dream scares me. I went to see a master, and the master said that your birth charts clash and that being together will not have a good outcome."
The old man stood up and bowed deeply to Yunzhi.
“Miss Yun, our Cheng family has wronged you. We hope you can have pity on this old man. Shuyan’s parents passed away early, and I can no longer bear the pain of a parent outliving their child. If you two insist on being together, then wait until I’m gone. That way, I won’t have to see you and won’t be bothered.”
This old man, who never bowed his head to anyone in his life, and who refused to say a word of weakness even when his own son was on the verge of death, finally bowed his head because of his grandson.
Yunzhi stared blankly at the elderly man with gray hair in front of her.
When Grandpa Cheng mentioned the nightmare he had, Yunzhi's mind went blank. Grandpa Cheng dreamed of the scene of Shuyan's death in his previous life.
In this life, even though everyone's memories have been reshuffled, why do the memories of the previous life still come back to a person in various forms?
Isn't this a major bug?
Yunzhi now feels that she wouldn't be surprised if Cheng Shuyan regained his memories from his previous life one day.
She lowered her eyes. The master was right in a way. In her previous life, it wasn't that she and Cheng Shuyan were incompatible because of their horoscopes, but because Cheng Shuyan died young.
If she hadn't reconnected with Cheng Shuyan in her previous life, Cheng Shuyan wouldn't have died so tragically.
She gently closed her eyes, the air seemingly filled with the smell of leaking gasoline. In her previous life, the image of Cheng Shuyan, his face covered in blood before his death, still showing concern for her, gradually washed away her emotions.
She thought she had finally let go of the past.
Having been given a second chance at life, she now felt she had been too naive.
She has never been able to shake off the guilt she felt for Cheng Shuyan dying to save her; she has only forced herself to forget it.
Grandpa Cheng's words were like the key to Pandora's box, completely releasing her deepest fears.
She said she wasn't afraid that the expert's words might come true and kill Cheng Shuyan again; that was impossible.
After being reborn, she kept telling herself to keep her distance from Cheng Shuyan. The tragedy of her previous life could not be repeated, and she had to learn from it. However, she couldn't control herself every time she met Cheng Shuyan.
Yunzhi would always think to herself that next time, she would keep her distance from Cheng Shuyan, but there was always a next time.
She always harbored a侥幸心理 (a sense of wishful thinking).
She was too greedy. She had already killed Cheng Shuyan once, did she really want to kill him a second time? If Cheng Shuyan died this time, she would never have another chance to bring him back to life.
“Okay, Grandpa, I promise you.” Yunzhi opened her eyes and said, word by word.
The old man didn't expect Yunzhi to agree so quickly.
He suddenly stood up straight, staring at Yunzhi in astonishment. Even he thought it sounded like a lie, yet she actually believed it.