The Male Protagonist's Daughter - Chapter 41.1

Years later, when Luo Shuyan turned ten years old, she and her father came to Xi City, a provincial capital, accompanied by Shen Qingruo and Shen Yan.

A lot has happened in the past few years.

Luo Shuyan still remembered that on a snowy night, she heard a knock on the door when she was already in bed. Her father was working overtime that day. She thought it was her father  who had forgot to bring his keys, so she put on her thick clothes and got out of bed.

When she looked through the peephole, she saw Song Wanqing standing outside the door. She was so surprised that she forgot how to open the door.

She knew that Song Wanqing was going to get married soon. In this day and age, ordinary people weren’t kept within the loop about the happenings of the high and mighty. So, how did she know about Song Wanqing’s marriage?

She knew because a few days ago, Song Wanqing asked her driver to deliver a wedding invitation and gifts to them.

She’d carefully observed her father’s expression after he’d received it.

He was not surprised or angry, he was very calm, as if the person getting married was not his ex-girlfriend.

Song Wanqing was dressed in thin clothes outside the door. Her eyes were red and she had long since given up her pride. She didn’t know why she came, but she just wanted to get an answer.

She was loosing feelings in her fingers because of how cold it was. However, she still knocked on the door relentlessly. Perhaps her emotions were about to reach the brink of collapse. She started to shout, “Tianyuan, are you at home? Why don’t you come out to see me? I know what my brother and aunt did was hurtful towards you, but I wasn’t aware of their doings. Tianyuan, I’m going to get married soon. As long as you say you like me, as long as you want me, I will go with you, okay?”

Luo Shuyan was about to open the door. When she heard this, she put her little hand on the door handle, but paused.

Dad wasn’t home. Would it be inappropriate for her to open the door now? Will it make Aunty Song feel more uncomfortable?

Aunty Song wouldn’t want her to hear what she’d said, would she?

Luo Shuyan and Song Wanqing were separated by a door. She was still young and didn’t understand the torment of unrequited love. She was only seven years old, but she could feel Song Wanqing’s pain. For some reason, she felt a little uncomfortable.

She was witnessing the other side of ‘love’ for the first time.

It turns out that it wasn’t like the shows on TV, where everyone had their happy endings and lovers got married in the end. It turns out that there was also a case where the female lead would love the man, but the man wouldn’t love her.

Finally Song Wanqing left. Luo Shuyan came to the window and watched her walk out of the building. Everything was covered in white snow. On such a late night, the moon made the world seem ever so lonely.

Luo Shuyan remembered how lively and cheerful she was when she first met Song Wanqing, but now, she was not sure if Song Wanqing could still laugh like she used to.

What Luo Shuyan didn’t know was that Shen Yan was also standing at the window, watching as Song Wanqing leave.

There was confusion in his eyes. He didn’t understand how a domineering woman like her, who tried to make Uncle Luo hers, could be so pitiful.

Luo Shuyan didn’t know that when Song Wanqing was walking out of their housing area, Luo Tianyuan came back. There was a distance between the two of them. He no longer had a gentle expression on his face as he quietly took off his coat. He then walked towards her and placed his coat on her.

It was obviously such a warm gesture, but what he said right after made Song Wanqing completely give up.

“Wanqing, I wish you happiness.”

Song Wanqing finally realized Luo Tianyuan’s ruthlessness.

He may have once fancied her, after all, he’d embraced her so tenderly, but now, it was clear that he didn’t like her anymore. It turns out that this is what a man looked like when he no longer liked a woman.

In his eyes, she couldn’t see any distress, but only peace. She wished that he was impatient and disgusted, she wished that he wasn’t so calm.

She suddenly understood. She took off his coat, apologized to him sincerely, straightened her back, and walked away without looking back. This time, she wanted him to watch her leave.

Later, not long after Song Wanqing got married, Qin Yutong also left Ning City and returned to the capital. Before she left, she gave Luo Shuyan a copy of “The Little Prince”. Luo Shuyan didn’t know what she meant, but she still treasured it carefully. She figured that she would understand when she was older.

Shen Qingruo, with Luo Tianyuan’s help, had completely paid off the remaining payment on her house. Knowing that Luo Tianyuan planned to go to Xi City, she began to work harder to make more money. When Luo Shuyan was ten years old, she managed to save enough for another down payment for a house, got a mortgage from the bank, and bought a house right next to the Luos.

Thanks to Luo Tianyuan’s introduction, she went to work as an employee in the international relations department of Luo Tianyuan’s Smile-yan Fashion branch in Xi City. In just one year, she was promoted from an ordinary employee to deputy supervisor. Now that she has a high salary, there was basically no pressure on her shoulders to pay off the mortgage.

She felt particularly at ease when she thought about her houses in Ning City and Xi City. Due to Luo Tianyuan’s influence, she also wanted to try her best to buy more properties for her son. No matter how busy she was at work, she was still happy. It seemed that she had finally found the lifestyle she enjoyed after living for so many years.

Luo Shuyan and Shen Yan were transferred to Xi City Primary School in their sixth grade. Their studies at Xi City Primary School was meant to be a transition period for them. Luo Tianyuan hoped that both of them would be admitted to the Elite Class in the Experiment Junior High by doing well in their junior high entrance exam.

Xi City High School is an Elite High School. According to published data, most of the students there graduated from the Experiment Junior High. There was a saying in Xi City that if you got into the Elite Class of Experiment Junior High, you will be admitted to Xi City High School.

It was easier for students of Xi City High School to get into a prestigious university.

Originally, Luo Tianyuan had planned for both children to be in the same class, but something went wrong. Luo Shuyan was assigned to Class 2, and Shen Yan to Class 1. The two still had no fate to be classmates.

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