Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 389: Chapter 389 Brother

Sheng Tingyuan gently caressed her face with tenderness, not answering her question but instead asking, "What do you have in your hand?"

Ye Chuyi had already requested a plastic bag from the medical staff, which she used to neatly pack a few clothes. Seeing him ask, she lifted the plastic bag, swaying it in front of him, "These are some clothes I wore when I was a child, including three pieces my birth mother gave me. Look, they’re all nice clothes. She took good care of me even back then."

"And what else?"

"And there’s also a blue one from Hermès. It was the only brand I recognized as a child. A brother gave it to me on a rainy autumn day."

Sheng Tingyuan couldn’t resist, he pulled her in and embraced her, "What brother has you remembering him for so long?"

Ye Chuyi, thinking he was jealous, smiled and said, "It was a matter of the past. I only met him a few times anyhow, and then he disappeared, no idea where he went. But I had a tough childhood, and he helped me a few times, so I’ve always been grateful, even though he later did not meet me as promised, I’m still grateful."

Seeing that Sheng Tingyuan was silent, she thought he was unhappy and quickly stressed, "It’s just gratitude and appreciation, nothing more, Sheng Tingyuan, don’t overthink it."

Sheng Tingyuan’s voice carried a hint of nasality, "He didn’t not want to see you, he was injured, in the intensive care unit in a coma for forty days, and for a long time after waking up, he couldn’t take care of himself, so he couldn’t meet you."

Ye Chuyi stiffened, she had not felt this rigid even when Shi Youjin had a knife to her throat.

Incredulously, she lifted her head to look at Sheng Tingyuan, "What did you say?"

With one hand around her waist and the other holding the umbrella, the curtain of rain isolated everything around them, and his voice was low and clear, "Little Hehua, it’s me, I’m the brother who gave you the clothes. I’m sorry I couldn’t keep our appointment afterward."

Ye Chuyi was stunned, her brain nearly stopped functioning as she looked at Sheng Tingyuan, feeling as if she were dreaming.

But the pain on her neck reminded her this was not a dream, this was real.

"Little Hehua", a name only known to her and the brother who named her years ago—no third person knew it!

These three characters momentarily took her back to the past, to that autumn when she was eight years old, to that pavilion in the rain.

She murmured, "Brother..." noveldrama

Sheng Tingyuan’s heart softened into a puddle when she called him that, he softly said, "All these years, I’ve been searching for you, but you had changed your name, I couldn’t find you."

Ye Chuyi was stunned, "So the girl you’ve been searching for was me?"

"It was you."

As Sheng Tingyuan spoke, he let go of her and took a box out of his pocket, "Open it and see."

Ye Chuyi opened the box and then froze again, "How come this jade pendant is with you?"

"I just found it as well, it matches the jade bracelet my mother has; now, they’re both yours."

Sheng Tingyuan handed her the jade pendant, pushing it into her hands, "This time, don’t lose it."

Ye Chuyi didn’t know what came over her, tears suddenly gushed out, sobbing heavily, "Sheng Tingyuan, it really was you! The little boy I met in my childhood, it was you! Do you know how many rainy days I waited for you afterward?"

Sheng Tingyuan frantically wiped her tears, "I’m sorry, it’s all my fault, Little Hehua, I’m sorry, I won’t make you wait for me anymore, never again."

Ye Chuyi threw herself onto him, crying like a child, "Every rainy day, I would wait for you in that pavilion, I waited for a whole year until the pavilion was torn down, and you never showed up. I thought you didn’t want to be friends, that you didn’t want to see me anymore, I was sad for such a long time."

Sheng Tingyuan felt a pain in his heart so intense he could hardly breathe, "I’m sorry..."

"I lost the clothes you gave me, lost the jade pendant, I wanted to apologize to you, but you had disappeared, I thought for sure you knew I had lost your things, so you were angry, I blamed myself every day, feeling so useless!"