Chapter 19 Staying Behind
I didn’t promise Sheng Yan.
I said right now I wanted to focus on teaching. Everything else could wait.
Sheng Yan didn’t push.
But he stayed at my place.
While I taught, he sat in the office holding a laptop for remote meetings.
I had warned him,
“Life here is hard. It’s not something a young master like you can adapt to.”
He didn’t listen.
Sure enough, he struggled from the start.
He couldn’t eat or sleep well.
The pig next door chased him around the village, splattering his suit with mud.
Yet he refused to leave.
After the New Year came spring.
Sheng Yan became more and more… local.
He took off his expensive suit, put on loose clothes, and sat with me on the dirty ground anytime.
He also went to talk cooperation with the local government.
Soon large batches of textbooks and new books arrived in the village.
Oh, Sheng Yan had also brought a letter.
It was from Sheng Yichuan before he left.
He hadn’t wanted to do this favor, but after thinking it over he still brought it.
When I opened the letter, Sheng Yan pretended not to care.
Yet he kept circling nearby.
He asked, “What does it say?”
“You’d better not know.” I deliberately closed the paper.
“Whatever it says, don’t believe it. He was the one who wanted to call off the Marriage Agreement first. He let go first, otherwise I wouldn’t have had the chance…”
It seemed Sheng Yan was afraid I would be coaxed away by Sheng Yichuan.
Seeing his tense expression, my mood improved.
The letter only contained three words.
“I’m sorry.”