It had been over thirty-six hours since last night’s fight.
If Fu Jingting hadn’t rested during the day and had been busy, that meant that he hadn’t closed his eyes for almost thirty-six hours straight.
How could his body stand it if he went on like this.
It was just that there was nothing she could do even if she was worried, she couldn’t tell Fu Jingting to hurry up and stop working and go rest now, could she?
Rubbing her cheeks, Rong Shu sighed and when she saw the traffic flowing in front of her, she hurriedly collected her emotions and put the gears in gear to start the car.
After driving out of the congestion, the back side of the car was much smoother for Rong Shu, except for the traffic lights, she did not experience any stopping incidents.
However, when she reached a distance of almost ten kilometres from Repulse Bay, Rong Shu pulled over and walked towards an ancient-looking shop on the side of the road.
It was a shop specialising in Chinese pastries, handed down from the last dynasty, and had been around for over a hundred years, and was, so to speak, an attraction in the sea city.
Most importantly, the traditional Chinese pastries in this shop taste good and are patronised by many people every day.
Even now, at this hour, there were still quite a few people in the shop.
Rongshu pushed open the door and went straight to the order machine, saying to the shop a*sistant “Hello, do you still have mugwort cake?”
She asked with some uncertainty.
The mugwort cake was one of the shop’s specialties, but as many people were not used to eating mugwort, it tasted a bit bitter, so not many people bought it, so the shop had a fixed number of mugwort cakes every day, limited to a hundred, and when they were sold out, they would only be available the next day.
Rongshu is one of the few people who can accept the mugwort cakes.
And she didn’t just accept it, she loved it, and had loved it since she was a child.
For this reason her father even laughed at her as a child for having such strange tastes.
But as she grew up, she ate it less, not as often as she did as a child, but only once in a while.
“Miss is quite lucky to have the last one left.” After hearing Rong Shu’s question, the shop a*sistant immediately looked at the inventory and smiled back.
Rong Shu also smiled, “It’s actually the last portion, it seems I am indeed quite lucky, help me wrap it up.”
“Okay, one mugwort cake is it, please wait a moment.” The shop a*sistant smiled faintly at Rong Shu, then sent what Rong Shu wanted to the person packing it at the back.
The packing process was a little slow, after all, there were so many people in front of them.
Rongshu was in no hurry, so she simply sat on the empty seat next to her and waited.
There was free plain water on the small table next to the empty seat.
After receiving a gla*s of water, Rongshu took out her mobile phone while taking a small sip of it.
I thought Fu Jingting would not return the message for the time being, but to my surprise, just at the moment she was about to put her phone away, it lit up and Fu Jingting’s message came back in a little while, soon, you’re still awake?
The red lips hooked up, the mood obviously changed for the better, the speed of typing is faster no, I am outside and have not gone back yet.
Fu Jingting, who had just come out of the planning department and was walking towards his office, saw this, his steps immediately stopped and his brow furrowed.
Zhang’s a*sistant, who was following him, almost ran straight into him because of his sharp braking.
After stabilising himself, Zhang’s a*sistant hurriedly took a step back, pushed his eyes that had slipped a little, and hastily asked “Mr. Fu, what’s wrong?”
Fu Jingting ignored him and instead typed back to Rong Shu. Are you at Tiansheng? Or are you outside?
The three successive questions, know that the man is still not home now began to worry anxious, smiled and replied outside, I just went to the mausoleum to see Dad back, tomorrow is Rong Yuan’s court trial, this matter, should tell Dad, but I will soon be home, do not worry.
So it was a trip to the mausoleum.
Fu Jingting’s tightly furrowed brow eased a little.
He thought that she was out shopping and hadn’t gone back yet.
Fu Jingting, who was not worried in his heart, breathed a faint sigh of relief, then lifted his feet and continued to walk forward.
When a*sistant Zhang saw that he was back to being fine, although he didn’t know what exactly had just happened, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Mr. Fu was back to normal, and then hurriedly followed him.
While walking, Fu Jingting looked down and typed Good, go home early, it’s not safe outside.
Rongshu smiled and responded Well, I know, well, you’re busy, I won’t bother you, after you get off work later, don’t drive yourself, you haven’t rested all day and night, I’m not sure about you driving, let a*sistant Zhang send you back.
Looking at Rong Shu’s concern, Fu Jingting’s eyes were so gentle that they were about to turn into water, the knot of his throat slid slightly, and he returned the word good.
After that, Rong Shu put away her phone and stopped talking to him.
She wanted him to finish early, so she didn’t bother him anymore.
Looking out the window, Rong Shu took a sip of water, her face containing a gentle smile that made people look at it and their hearts follow it with peace.
At that moment, another door in the shop opened and a middle-aged man and woman walked in.
The man and woman had an extraordinary air and were well-dressed, and they were rich people at first glance.
The man’s face was pale and thin, his eyelids were dark, and one hand was still propped up on his waist and stomach, so he looked like a seriously ill person.
The woman next to him had been supporting him, and her eyes were still a little red, and she had cried at first glance, which further confirmed that the man, was a patient.
“Really, it’s so late, we don’t go home to rest, and come here to buy some mugwort cake.” The woman, Mrs. Gu, looked at Gu Yaotian beside her and angrily glared at him.
Gu Yaotian patted her hand that was holding his arm, and on his pale face, he squeezed out a smile that could be considered mild, “Don’t you love this?”
Mrs. Gu’s eyes widened slightly, “So you called me out as soon as you got off work because I love it, and specifically came to buy it with me?”
“Yes.” Gu Yaotian nodded weakly, “I don’t know how long I can live with this body, I was too busy in the past, I was so focused on the Sangsheng Group, now that I’m dying, it dawned on me that I’ve actually seldom accompanied you, it’s my fault.”
“No.” Gu Yaotian’s eyes were already red, but now they were even redder, tears kept rolling down her face, and she kept shaking her head, “You didn’t apologize to me, Yaotian, you didn’t apologize to me.”
Gu Yaotian only smiled lightly, “I know in my heart whether I am sorry or not.”
In the past, he had caused Mangyin to be taken away by Rong Hao, causing her, who had just given birth to a child, to lose her daughter and fall into madness.
Even afterwards, he adopted Mangyin, and although it brought her a little comfort in her heart, he knew that an adopted daughter was after all an adopted daughter, and could never fill the pain of losing her own daughter; the comfort was only a part of it, not the whole of it; there was always a part of her heart that was empty.
This, he had wronged her.
On top of that, these decades as husband and wife, although he loved her in his heart, he ultimately valued Sangsheng and the Gu family more than her, and seldom spent time with her. She had always loved to go out on trips, and he had promised to accompany her in the past, but it had never happened.
Now that he was old and dying, he began to reminisce about the past, and then once he did, he realised how sorry he was for her, for the wife who had never disliked him or left him.
The more sorry he was, the more he regretted all the promises he had made to her in the past that he had never fulfilled, and now, even though he wanted to, he could not fulfil many of them.