dhibooks Chapter 435 Wen Qi's life trajectory was changed
Chapter 435 Wen Qi's life trajectory was changed
Wen Qi's heart felt heavy.
One million! This number weighed on her heart like a cold mountain.
Two or three years?
It sounds like a long story, but for a family that has lost all its fixed assets and is supported by the mother alone, every day means enormous pressure.
She couldn't help but press, her voice filled with worry: "Mom, I know. But a million!"
She managed to utter the number with difficulty: "Two or three years, time flies... How do you plan to... raise so much money?"
She couldn't imagine how her mother's frail shoulders could bear such a heavy burden.
Lu Bingxian stopped and turned around, gazing at her daughter's worried face.
She took a deep breath of the cool air, her eyes gleaming with a desperate light, and her voice was exceptionally clear: "Dance studio!"
She said firmly, "This is Mom's specialty, and it's our greatest asset!"
Under immense pressure, her thoughts became clearer: "It was a dead end before because Lin Qingyang only gave us three days! Three days isn't enough time for the dance studio to make money! But things are different now!"
A fighting spirit ignited in her eyes: "I have two or three years! Mom can give it her all!"
"I can fill my schedule with classes! I won't rest on weekends or evenings! I can run high-end private tutoring classes! I can take on commercial performance choreography! I can even teach part-time at other institutions!"
She listed them off one by one, as if encouraging herself and proving her determination to her daughter: "As long as you're willing to work hard, you can always save money!"
She paused, her voice lowering, tinged with bitterness: "If...if it's still not enough at the last minute, Mom will swallow her pride and borrow some from friends. There's always a way!"
At this point, overwhelming self-blame and regret welled up again, and her voice choked with emotion: "Qiqi, it's all my fault. I was bewitched."
She raised her hand, trembling, to stroke her daughter's cheek, tears streaming silently down her face: "You should have been living a carefree, enviable life, but I ruined everything, I swear!"
She grabbed her daughter's hand with astonishing force, her eyes filled with an unprecedented resolve: "From this day forward! If I, Lu Bingxian, ever touch gambling equipment again, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death!"
The oath sounded particularly mournful and heavy in the quiet alley.
"Mom! Don't say that!"
Wen Qi felt a pang of heartache and suddenly threw herself into her mother's arms, tightly embracing her trembling body. Tears streamed down her face. "I believe you! Of course I believe you! Don't make such a vow, I'm scared..."
She buried her face in her mother's shoulder, her voice muffled but incredibly firm: "Don't worry, I will study hard! I will work harder than anyone else! I will never let you down!"
The mother and daughter embraced tightly in the alley, their silent tears soaking each other's shoulders, a mixture of regret, lingering fear, and a tiny bit of courage that had rekindled from the ruins of despair, a courage to depend on each other for survival.
After an unknown amount of time, Wen Qi finally lifted her head from her mother's arms.
Through her teary eyes, she suddenly remembered the figure who had cast a ray of light in her desperate situation—Ye Fan.
That calm and serene face, those eyes that seemed to see through everything, and the warm and reassuring touch when he gently patted my head...
A strange, hopeful glimmer quietly appeared in her tear-filled eyes, like a star shining in the night sky.
Without him...
At this moment, she and her mother have probably already fallen into an abyss of no return, never to rise again.
It was he who single-handedly reversed the fate of that train hurtling towards the cliff!
This realization was like a warm current flowing into her cold heart, dispelling some of the heavy gloom.
The man's very presence seemed to give her an inexplicable sense of confidence.
She took a deep breath, wiped away her tears, and gave her mother a bright smile, though still tinged with tears: "Mom!"
Her voice carried an unprecedented strength: "Let's all keep going! We can do it!"
Looking at the renewed light in her daughter's eyes and feeling the determination in her words, Lu Bingxian felt a glimmer of life return to her heart, which had been gnawed by despair and self-blame.
She nodded vigorously, gripping her daughter's hand even tighter, as if holding onto the last and most important hope for the future: "Yes! Keep going!"
The mother and daughter supported each other as they walked towards home.
The Guitian compound behind them was still bustling, and although the road ahead was still full of thorns and the heavy shadow of debt followed them like a shadow, at least it was no longer a hopeless situation where they could not see their own hands in front of their faces.
Because of Ye Fan's crucial intervention, Wen Qi's life trajectory quietly deviated from the lamentable abyss of depravity of her previous life and headed towards an unknown but hopeful direction.
Tonight, the gears of fate were gently but firmly turned by an invisible hand.
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Ye Fan, Wu Shaojie, Lin Qingyang, and others toasted each other, and the atmosphere of the banquet continued to heat up amidst alcohol and singing and dancing. Before they knew it, it was already past ten o'clock at night.
The dishes and cups were scattered everywhere, and the noise gradually subsided.
Ye Fan put down his wine glass and glanced at his watch.
At this time, the dormitory building was already locked. He had originally planned to go back to school, but now he changed his mind.
A gentle figure came to mind—Liu Ruyan.
It seemed like it had been a while since he'd visited her. Thinking of this, a faint smile unconsciously crept onto his lips. He took out his phone and dialed that familiar number.
The call was answered almost immediately, and Liu Ruyan's clear voice, slightly surprised yet tinged with post-work fatigue, came through the receiver: "Hello, honey? What's up? I just left the office and am about to go home."
In the background, faint echoes of an empty office building corridor and the crisp sound of high heels clicking on the floor could be heard.
Managing the vast Hodo Group, working until 10 p.m. is the norm for her.
Hearing her voice, Ye Fan relaxed and smiled, "Yeah, it's nothing. I'll go home in a bit."
He deliberately used the word "go home".
When they bought that river-view penthouse, Liu Ruyan said emotionally that it was "their home." This phrase held special significance for them.
On the other end of the phone, Liu Ruyan's voice instantly lit up with immense joy, all her previous fatigue vanishing: "Really? That's wonderful!"
Her voice rose noticeably, filled with anticipation: "When will you arrive? Are you hungry on the way? What do you want to eat? I'll buy it on my way!"
At this moment, this decisive and efficient female CEO in the business world was as excited as a young girl experiencing her first love.
While dealing with the wine glass that Wu Shaojie handed him, Ye Fan said into his phone, "Let's get some braised dishes, like duck necks and duck wings. I'll have a couple of drinks with you later."