The Billionaire's Hidden Affection

This time, it was finally her turn to take the initiative.

But still, even if he had left many times, it was never intentional, and he would always send her news. As for her, she had just vanished entirely at once.

He missed her, missed her beyond reason.

Strangely enough, in the past two years, he didn’t miss her that much—perhaps because they kept in touch by phone, by text every day, you knew she’d always be there, doing well, so there was nothing to worry about.

But this time, it was truly a matter of life and death.

Three or four months without news, was she alive or dead?

It’s like a rib on your body, usually, when you punch it or accidentally bump against it, it hurts to varying degrees and then returns to normal.

But what if you pull that rib out completely?

Can this wound ever heal?

The sky gradually darkened.

He lay alone on the empty sofa, habitually reaching out, yet what he embraced was only thin air. Suddenly he jumped up and rushed downstairs.

The car sped away, very fast.

It was a vast expanse of ruins in the suburbs.

He stopped, his heart feeling as if it were being cut by a knife.

"Yan Xixi, Yan Xixi... Yan Xixi... where on earth are you?"

He shouted madly against the empty night sky.

Yet only echoes returned to him again and again.

After a long while, he was exhausted, collapsing to the ground, his hands tightly covering his eyes.

At the Wan Family, lights blazed throughout the night.

The door opened; Liu Daqing sat up, watching her son, drunk, staggering in, holding an almost empty wine bottle. These days, he got drunk a lot.

She frowned slightly, "Donglin, you should stop drinking."

He sat next to her, grinning: "What the ancients said is so true... a drunken state dispels a thousand worries... being drunk is better than being crowned... haha, Empress Dowager, you don’t understand, being drunk feels great, all troubles vanish..."

Liu Daqing gave him a look, about to rebuke him but still said gently: "Donglin, there’s something I’d like to discuss with you..."

"What is it?"

"The dead cannot be brought back to life, you can’t stay in this crazed state forever... I think you must completely pull yourself together..."

He smiled slightly: "I am already very pulled together... look, I’m working harder than ever, everyone praises my capability, isn’t that a good thing?"

Throwing himself into work with several times more energy than before, miraculously achieving growth in everything he did, even exploding in efficiency...

It’s unbelievable to most people, but he thought, what else should he do if not work himself to death?

His brain couldn’t relax, once empty, it hurt.

"Donglin, work isn’t the best way to forget the past..."

"Then what is?"

"Start a new relationship!"

"!!!"

Liu Daqing spoke bluntly: "What’s gone is gone, but the living must live well. I understand your feelings, but Donglin, you can’t go on like this, you’re not young anymore, you should consider marriage and having children. This weekend, I’m organizing a gathering, quite a few unmarried girls from respectable families will attend, among them are some with talent and beauty who understand the big picture, one even graduated from the University of Southern California. Try to reach out and see..."

Wan Donglin clutched the wine bottle, incredulous: "Empress Dowager, have you forgotten Yan Xixi so quickly?"

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