When he came to find Chengze, he had just gotten off work. He didn’t expect Ding Manman to wait for him. His old face gradually started to smile, which made Ding Manman feel very distressed.
When Ding Manman and Chengze returned to Chengze’s apartment together, she realized that the old man had been living alone for so long. Because the road of studying medicine was very hard, no woman would be willing to suffer with him. Now that she had some savings and skills, she no longer had any feelings for women.
When she thought about this old man, she suddenly felt that she was very fated with him, so she pulled herself back from the edge of death. She was touched and stayed at the old man’s house to cook dinner for him.
It was just a simple noodle and fried eggs with tomatoes, but the old man was very happy. After the meal, the two of them washed and watered the flowers and plants on the balcony, the old man stopped smiling and said, “Thank you for accompanying me for such a short period of time, but I know you didn’t come here to accompany me. Tell me, what’s the matter?”
She didn’t expect the old man to be so detached. Ding Manman was a little embarrassed and said, “I want to leave for a while. I’m here to bid you farewell.”
The old man didn’t react as much as anyone else. He just said seriously, “ShaoTing is a good child, but there is still a little unsuitable between the two of you. I believe that after this time, you can become zither and song.”
He didn’t expect that before, Chengze had been saying that Zhong Shaoting was not good at that place. At the critical moment, he would instead praise him. However, Ding Manman had decided to leave, so of course, she wouldn’t stay because of these few words.
The two of them chatted until late. It wasn’t until now that Ding Manman knew why the old man had the feeling of having a goddaughter in his life when he saw her.
“At that time, you were so fragile, but if I say that you still have a strong sense of survival, I think that I also want such a stubborn child. Although I don’t have one, I can recognize one. Look at my decision. I’m really happy to be with you tonight.”
Actually, Ding Manman didn’t need the old man’s companionship. She had already booked a flight to leave early tomorrow morning. As long as she bid farewell to the old man, he would go to the airport. As for what happened after landing, Hanhan had arranged a car to pick her up.
As long as she got into this car, she could not find out if Ding Manman went to the ends of the earth.
When Cheng Ze showed a tired look on his face, Ding Manman instinctively stood up and prepared to leave, but the old man suddenly grabbed the corner of her shirt and said, “If there’s still time, let’s spend the night with me here.” Papa wants to talk to you.
After listening to these few words, Ding Manman could no longer control her emotions. She also had a father, but he didn’t know when he would smile at his younger brother. The rest of his knowledge taught her how to ask others to invest more.
After such a long time, it was the first time someone had left her in her father’s name.
He listened attentively to the cicada’s cries outside the window and said, “You’re my stepdaughter, and I like Zhong Shaoting quite a bit, so I’ll tell him you’ve been here before, but don’t worry, I’ll definitely comfort him.”
When she heard what Chengze said, Ding Manman’s heart started to ache again. She didn’t want to hear so many things because the more she listened, the more she didn’t want to leave, but she had to leave for many important things.
After crying for too long, Ding Manman couldn’t squeeze out a single tear, but the sadness didn’t decrease at all.
Initially, he thought it was an emotion that others couldn’t notice, but he realized that Chengze had long sensed her emotions in the room where the lights hadn’t turned on. He gently patted her back and used such clumsy methods to help her resolve it.
Without luggage, Ding Manman still had some savings. She just needed to buy another portion of her daily necessities and sleep with her clothes. She listened to the clock in Chengze’s house and felt the passage of time.
At four o’clock in the morning, Ding Manman sat up in the darkness and tried her best to control her movements to bow to Chengze, expressing her gratitude towards this elder.
However, when Ding Manman walked downstairs to look back at Chengze’s room, she found that there was suddenly a room lit up on the already quiet and dim building.
Needless to say, Ding Manman knew that this person was Chengze and her eyes were blurry.
As she left with tears in her eyes, Ding Manman opened her phone and found a text from Zhong Shaoting. It meant that she found out that she had returned home and went to Fang Hao. In the end, she stayed at Chengze for the night, telling her not to worry and that she would come back soon. However, she had to try her best not to deal with Chengze and tell him what she had suffered as soon as possible.
Looking at the text message, Ding Manman had mixed feelings in her heart. Zhong Shaoting had been sending people to secretly protect her yesterday, so she knew her whereabouts clearly. Although it was a kind of love, she didn’t like to force people so tightly without any free love.
It was like a bird who had lived in a cage for too long. No matter how good the feed was in the exquisite cage, it couldn’t arouse her attention. At this moment, freedom was what she yearned for the most.
Thankfully, Ding Manman chose to leave in the early hours of the morning, and she had no luggage in the light suit, so she could easily escape from other people’s stalking. Otherwise, if the plane was not allowed to take off, Ding Manman would be taken back to the previous cage.
On the way to the airport, everything was very calm. Ding Manman’s phone didn’t receive any news. It seemed that no one had noticed that she had escaped. However, Zhong Shaoting must have investigated their enemies thoroughly. After all, they might be on the charge of forcing her away.
Before the plane took off, Ding Manman was worried that the flight would be cancelled. Zhong Shaoting appeared on the plane like he had fallen from the sky and took her away regardless of what happened.
But after a few minutes, she watched the plane take off slowly and stepped on the city that was about to dawn. Ding Manman’s heart relaxed, but she started to worry about her life after she left.
She could not call the plane to leave, but she could only silently accept the fact that she had never imagined her life to be slowly brought to her and start a new journey..