Shen Qingyou dragged her infinitely exhausted body back to the building where Qin Guohua lived. Looking up at the brightly lit fourth floor, an overwhelming sense of hurt surged within her. However, she steeled herself and walked up! She had to know about her own origins, no matter what!
Standing at the door, Shen Qingyou raised and lowered her hand repeatedly, caught in a conflict. Just then, the door suddenly swung open! Wang Meili, holding a garbage bag, awkwardly stood at the entrance, blocking Shen Qingyou from entering while not letting her leave either. The two stood there until Qin Guohua emerged from the bathroom, allowing Shen Qingyou to finally step inside.
“Uncle, Auntie, I…”
Now, Haizi not only failed to accompany her to the police station to clarify things but also left with his group of friends. After this, there was no telling if she would ever hear from him again.
“Serene, we just received a call from the police station; Haizi turned himself in!”
“Ah?”
Shen Qingyou suddenly looked up in surprise at Qin Guohua, as if he were some kind of Fang Yetan. Haizi actually took the initiative to go to the police station and turn himself in?
“Right now, he is in custody. The police will investigate everything he said one by one. If he was truly framed, he will be fine!”
At this point, Qin Guohua paused, took off his glasses, and wiped away a glimmer at the corner of his eye before continuing, “Serene, thank you!”
What is there to thank family for?
Shen Qingyou smiled faintly but remained silent. The person they should be thanking is Qing Cang, not her!
“Uncle, we are family; there’s no need for formalities. We all hope that Haizi can get back on the right path!”
With that, she turned her gaze toward Wang Meili: “Auntie, am I really not my parents' biological daughter? Did you find me?”
Wang Meili let out a long sigh and sat down on the other side of the sofa, gazing deeply at Shen Qingyou. Memories were once again pulled back to that winter twenty-nine years ago!
At that time, she worked as a female worker in a Textile Factory. One night after work, she passed by a trash can and heard a rustling sound coming from inside. She was frightened and almost ran away, but then she heard the sound of a baby crying from the trash can. When she approached, she saw a bloodied baby who seemed to have just been born. The baby's lips were already turning purple from the cold, and its body was trembling uncontrollably. Without thinking, she took the baby home. However, once at home, her family had a huge argument over it. Later, Shen Xiu stepped forward to adopt the child, and then she and her husband moved away, never having more children. Twenty-nine years later, that abandoned baby had grown up to be Shen Qingyou.
“Aunt, where did you find me back then?” Shen Qingyou asked eagerly.
“It’s been twenty-nine years; that place no longer exists!”
The location where Wang Meili found Shen Qingyou had long since been replaced by tall buildings; even the Textile Factory had been demolished. The names of the roads had been completely re-planned, so if Wang Meili were to look for it now, she wouldn’t be able to find it, especially not for Shen Qingyou who had never lived in this city.
“Aunt, think carefully!”
If they didn’t even know the location, it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack, leaving no hope.
“Serene, I advise you not to search anymore. Your parents have treated you like their own daughter all along. After adopting you, they never had any more children; they truly regard you as their own!”
It was an event from many years ago; bringing it up today would only add to the troubles and sadness!
However, people are inherently strange. Even knowing that her biological parents had cruelly abandoned her, she still wanted to know about them—what they looked like and how they were living now. The one thing she wanted most was to ask them why they had abandoned her so heartlessly.
“Wait! I remember now!”
“Back then, next to the Textile Factory was the Old Beiyuan City People's Hospital. You could start there and look for the doctors or nurses from their Obstetrics and Gynecology department that year; maybe they would know something!”
Beiyuan City People's Hospital? Isn’t that the hospital where Qing Cang currently resides?
"Serene, I'm sorry, this is all I can think of!"
Wang Meili stood up, looking apologetically at Shen Qingyou. Shen Qingyou suddenly embraced her emotionally: "Aunt, thank you. If it weren't for you back then, I might have frozen to death in that trash can!"
All the complaints and resentments from before could not compare to the gratitude she felt for Wang Meili giving her a second chance at life. If she hadn't brought her home on that cold winter night, would she still exist in this world?
Wang Meili also quietly wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes. In this world, everything seems destined; she believed that when she saved Shen Qingyou back then, it was so that today she could save Haizi's life!
The darkness pulled back the loneliness of Midnight. Shen Qingyou lay half-reclined on the bed, gazing out at the crescent moon. Who hung the moon in the sky, decorating someone’s sorrow?
Where is the person who abandoned her now?
Tomorrow, will she have to embark on another long journey to find her family?
Suddenly, she missed Qing Cang, that towering man. Would he light a lamp in her dark life?
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