Chapter 47
“There’s a lot of dog’s out front, I’m not going.” Cheng Lydia spun around and wrenched herself out of his arms, backing away.
Shen Ron quirked his head to survey her, his handsome face flushed with disbelief.
Cheng Lydia thought he was upset and was busy adding, “I’m most afraid of dogs, so you guys go ahead and I’ll wait in the car.”
“How do you know there’s a lot of dogs up ahead? You’ve been here before?” Shen Ron asked out of the back of his mind.
It’s not a tourist destination and there’s nothing interesting to see, so the average person shouldn’t run here to have fun.
Cheng Lydia was stunned, instinctively shaking her head while questions rose in her mind.
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“So, you …?” Shen Ron looked at her with a bewildered look on his face and became even more suspicious.
“Maybe I was there before I lost my memory.” Cheng Lydia glanced around, then pointed her finger at the path ahead, “Is there a creek ahead? There’s a family across the creek that has a lot of dogs. I feel like it is, and if it’s right, I think I’ve been there before.”
“Secretary Cheng, there is indeed a creek in front, but the family that lives across the creek does not have a dog.” Assistant Peng said.
“Oh, maybe I’m misremembering.” Cheng Lydia leaned over, smiling, “Come on, let’s go over there together.”
After hearing what she said, Shen Ron’s suspicion in his heart increased rather than decreased, and he watched the back of Cheng Lydia and Assistant Peng walking side by side for a long time before he took a step to follow them.
That year, he and Yang June were driving through the area when Yang June saw children fishing in the creek and on a whim wanted to get out and walk around.
When she got off the bus, Yang June saw how happy the children were having fun and ran to borrow a bucket and net from the family across the street. When she approached the door of the person’s house, she was frightened by the five or six earth dogs that rushed out from inside and screamed.
When he returned to the city, he ordered the family to buy all their dogs and give them away, and funded the construction of a fence in front of the house and a burglar-proof system for him, on the condition that he wanted the family to stop keeping dogs.
At the time the family cheerfully agreed, and whether he ever got another dog afterwards or not, he did not know, nor did he ever pursue the matter.
As he approached, Shen Ron noticed that the family had indeed built a fence and that the dog was gone.
There were two young boys playing in the mud at the door of that house, and on seeing the trio approaching, they shrank back in fear and looked at the visitors with wary eyes in a corner.
Cheng Lydia saw that they were frightened by themselves and waved a smiling hand at them, “Don’t be afraid, kids, we’re not bad people.”
Who knows the children were so frightened instead that they turned around and ran inside, yelling as they ran, “Grandpa, there are bad people coming, come out and chase the bad people away …!”
Soon, an old man in his fifties came out of the house, froze when he saw the three at the front door, then surveyed them and asked, “Excuse me … who are you looking for?”
“Oh, Uncle, we were just passing by, not looking for anyone.” Cheng Lydia looked with amusement at the two little ones who were hiding behind their grandfather and dared to stick out only half their heads, it was so cute.
The older man nodded, then a look of wonder surfaced on his face as he surveyed Cheng Lydia and whispered, “Huh? Aren’t you the little girl who was scared and cried by my dog back in the day?”
“I …?” Cheng Lydia pointed to herself, also with a puzzled look on her face.
“Yeah, isn’t that you guys.” The older man looked at Shen Ron again, “How time flies, you’ve grown so much, remember when you were little girls and boys when you were scared by the dog.”
Cheng Lydia twisted her head to look at Shen Ron, finally understanding what was going on.
It turns out that the older man mistook her for Yang June, just like Kim, and it turns out that Shen Ron and Yang June had been here before.
She smiled uncomfortably at the older man and didn’t answer again.
Uncle added, “The day after you went back that year, someone came over and bought my six dogs, so I guess it was you who sent them?”
Cheng Lydia wasn’t sure about that, as she twisted her head to look at Shen Ron, who nodded a little, “Yes.”
“I appreciate the security system you put in for me, it’s much safer than having a dog, but I’ve also stayed true to my commitment not to have another dog.”
Shen Ron smiled grimly, “That’s okay, you can keep it later if you want.”
Anyway, his June will never come here to play again, never be chased by a dog again, it doesn’t matter how many he has.
“Uh, it’s better not to keep it for now, because the place is going to be redeveloped soon.” Assistant Peng said.
The older man was stunned, “What, this place is really being redeveloped?”
“Yes.” Assistant Peng grinned.
Cheng Lydia couldn’t look straight at the worried look on the old man’s face and turned around to head to the other side of the creek. Only when she turned around did she find Shen Ron standing at the edge of the creek staring into the water, his handsome face vaguely somber.
She knew he was thinking about his June again, and not wanting to disturb him, she stepped onto the small bridge that spanned the creek back across it.
On the way back, Shen Ron didn’t say a word, and Cheng Lydia and Assistant Peng knew he was in a bad mood and didn’t speak again.
It wasn’t until the car pulled onto The Shen Family private road that Shen Ron suddenly spoke, “Wait a minute.”
Assistant Peng pulled the car to the side of the road with a kick of the brakes, looked at Shen Ron in the rearview mirror and asked, “Is CEO Shen going anywhere else?”
“No, I’ll get out here and walk back, you can go back.” Shen Ron said, pushing open the car door and stepping down.
Through the car window, Cheng Lydia saw him step onto a side trail that led to nowhere, and thought to herself that it was almost dark, where was he going?
After a slight hesitation, he pushed open the door after Assistant Peng as he intended to start the car, “I’ll get off here too.”
“You’re down here too?” Assistant Peng stared at her with a puzzled expression.
Not knowing Cheng Lydia and Shen Ron’s real relationship, he had always felt that the two of them had a somewhat warm relationship, but it was too straightforward to even follow CEO Shen when he got off the bus near his house.
Cheng Lydia didn’t explain to him, just smiled at him and flung the car door shut in the direction Shen Ron had left to catch up.
Having married into The Shen Family for over a month, Cheng Lydia only discovered today that there was such a small scenic area hidden near The Shen Family. After following the path for about two hundred meters, a lake surrounded by sycamore trees appeared in front of her. The lake wasn’t too big, and the water was sparkling with yellow leaves of sycamore trees, uninhabited and deserted.
Shen Ron took a step towards the lake and Cheng Lydia was busy calling out, “Shen Ron what do you want? Drowning in water is the ugliest look in the world!”
Shen Ron didn’t really jump into the lake, nor did he intend to kill himself, but stood on a square rock at the edge of the lake.
Cheng Lydia was relieved and thought he was going to jump in the lake if he wanted to.
And yes, he’s a big man, how could he be weak enough to kill himself over a woman, besides he’s so rich and has so many women to love.
“Have you always wondered about my past with June?” Shen Ron asked, suddenly turning his head to look at her.
Cheng Lydia was baffled, not understanding for a moment why he was asking that, and really, she did have that much curiosity. She was curious about what kind of woman he had in mind for Yang June, and how she could be loved by him so deeply and so cutely.
But she had never thought to ask him, nor did she need to, did she?
“That year, my father brought a strange woman home and forced my mother to sign divorce papers, and in a fit of anger, my mother signed the divorce over and left The Shen Family the next day while I was still awake. three days later it was my birthday, and my father and the woman threw my birthday party together and made a high-profile announcement about the impending marriage during the party, and I I couldn’t take the blow, so I sneaked in halfway through the party and slit my wrists with the razor blade I had with me. Later, June, who was with my parents at the party, somehow came here and saved me from the ghost. While waiting for the ambulance, she, like you, scared me that people who die by slitting their wrists are the ugliest in the world and cannot be reincarnated. Later she was the one who followed the ambulance and took me to the hospital and stayed with me inside for three days, and took me in at a friend’s house, making me happy every day and helping me get out of the shadow of my parents’ divorce. It was not until my grandmother found me that she decided to send me abroad to study for fear that I would do something stupid again, and June kept urging me to go abroad to enrich myself and make myself strong. I finally agreed and promised her before I left that I would marry her as soon as I returned home. In fact, we were both young at that time and didn’t know what love was yet, but there was always that wish in my heart to love each other with her for the rest of my life.”
His voice was bottomless, revealing a strong sense of sadness.
Cheng Lydia recalls what Ho Gina told her, that Shen Ron went up to the Yang family to propose marriage the day after he returned home, and married Yang June in a high profile ceremony in less than a month.
It seems that he really loves Yang June and really wants to be in love with her for the rest of his life.
She recalls the old lady’s words again, who says that Yang June saved Shen Ron’s life and that the two have been close since they were children.
It turns out that the scar on Shen Ron’s wrist was from when he slit his wrist.