When I arrived in Yang City, Wenbei Su asked me to stay at his villa, but I refused. I offered to live in the South Residence that was an old mansion in downtown.
Finally Wenbei Su didn’t invite me to stay at his villa again and agreed with a sigh.
Although South Residence was unoccupied, it was still very tidy, as Wenbei had arranged for someone to clean it. It was the same as I left it, only I had changed a lot.
Wenbei said he wanted to celebrate my regaining my freedom and invited me to go out to dinner with him. I declined his invitation. I just came out of prison and needed some time to adapt to society. I didn’t want to go to a crowded place.
So Wenbei invited me to his house for dinner again. He said he had asked his man to prepare the meal and wanted to drink with me.
I still didn’t really want to go, but I couldn’t say no to him. After all, it was Wenbei who rescued me, otherwise I’d still be in prison. I didn’t know how many people he had to beg and how many connections he had to use to get me out. I asked him about that, but he didn’t tell me. I knew getting me out of jail wasn’t going to be an easy task. So I did not refuse his kindness.
It had indeed been a long time since I had such a delicious meal. It was also true that it had been a long time since I drank. I just drank a little red wine and then felt a little lightheaded. And my spirits rose.
“What are your plans?” Suddenly, Wenbei asked me during the dinner.
I was stunned. I hadn’t really thought about it. I thought I was going to be in jail for a long time, but I didn’t expect to be out so soon. I really didn’t have time to think about the future.
“You’re afraid I’ll spend all your money here for nothing? Or you are afraid I’m going to stay here forever?” I joked
Wenbei also laughed, “You have underestimated my wealth. I’m just worried that you’re bored. So I’ve got a job for you. You manage a tour company for me. The salary is high. There’s also equity incentive. What do you think?”
“Fine, but I’m afraid I can’t manage it well.” I said.
“I believe you. You’ve managed companies before and you have the talent for it. You can’t waste your talent. Now that you haven’t a job now, you don’t turn me down. You can go to work tomorrow.” Wenbei said.
“You’re really afraid that I’ll rely on you for living a life. You are so eager to let me go to work?” I joked. And then I said to him seriously “I really need time to adapt to a new life.”
He thought about my words for a while and said.” Yes, you do need to get used to the outside world. I’ll order one of my company’s tour groups for you. You travel as a tourist and experience our company’s travel services. You can find the problems, and when you’re on board, you can also rectify them.
“But I don’t know anything about tourism management. I’m afraid I can’t really do a good job of managing the company. You’d better hire someone else.” I said.
“I know you don’t understand, but you can take your time to learn it. Now you experience our company’s service as a tourist, you can find the service that dissatisfies you and improve it when you are on board. Isn’t that simple?”
“Well, I’m free anyway. I’ll just experience it. I’ll give my feedback to you if there are any problems then, and you can figure out how to solve them.” I accepted his suggestions and continued to explain again, “I’m out of jail, I can’t manage a company. I need to get in shape first.”
Finally, Wenbei said, “Ok, you can experience it first.”
Back at South Residence, I was not been able to sleep. I was completely unaccustomed to lying on a wide and comfortable bed suddenly. By midnight, I still couldn’t sleep.
I just got up. Then I went to the wine rack for a bottle of wine, opened it and carried it out into the yard.
The city was still dazzling with neon lights everywhere. I felt very quiet around me, but listening closely, it was actually very noisy.
In a trance I saw a man that was tall and finely developed in figure standing in the courtyard. After he turned his head, I realized he was Leon. He smiled evilly at me and disappeared again in a flash.
It was just an illusion. Just because he once said that he was blind when he lived in the South Residence. He used to stand alone in this courtyard and listen to the sound of bells in the distance.
I couldn’t help but scold myself, “When You’re in prison, he forced you to divorce and never visited you once after the divorce, which means he’s been heartless to you for a long time, why do you still miss him?
I tilted my head up and took a few more gulps of the bottle to make myself feel a little dizzy before returning to sleep. Luckily, I managed to fall into sleep.
The following afternoon, Wenbei dropped me off at the airport to join his company’s tour group for a five-day travel experience.
At the entrance to the airport, I found the tour guide with a small flag and then saw the members of the tour group with me. They turned out to be older ladies in their fifties, and they were talking loud about their names and working background.
I lost interest in the tour for a moment. My first trip out of prison, however, was scheduled to be with a group of older ladies who were very strong. Why didn’t Wenbei arrange a tour for me to travel with young people so that I could travel with some handsome guys?
But since I was here, I could only accept this. When the guide called my name, I replied “here” loudly. After all, I had been in prison. When I was in jail, I was always on call and I had to answer “here” at any moment.
A group of ladies looked at me and immediately someone complimented me on my beauty and said I looked like a movie star. And they also said they saw me on TV.
I was a little worried that I would be recognized by them. I quickly lowered my head. If they recognized me as the vicious woman who paid a murderer to attack her father-in-law and went to jail, the ladies wouldn’t say I was pretty but instead unanimously wanted to withdraw from the tour.
Luckily, no one recognized me. After all, we were in Yang City not in Hai City. While the attack on Yaohui Hua was influential in Hai City, it was not remembered by many people in Yang City.
After the guide gave a general overview of the boarding procedure, we were left to check in on our own. As I passed the business class locker, my heart pounded at the sight of a man’s slender back.
I didn’t see his face, but I was sure who he was. I quickly hid behind a pillar in the hall.
The man who had checked in at the business class counter turned around and I saw his delicate face from the side and it was him.
His appearance did not change. He was still handsome and still carried himself with an air that told everyone to stay away from him. I thought when I saw him, I’d go towards him in a rage and ask him why he was so cruel to divorce me after I went to jail and why he never came to prison to see me.
But the truth was that all I wanted to do was to run and cry when I saw him.