Rebirth from the Ashes

Fu Qingxuan did not know what got to Shen Xi and watched as she turned around several times frantically as if she was looking for something. When he heard her mutter “Brother”, Fu Qingxuan egoistically replied, “Your brother’s right here!”

Shen Xi did not seem to hear him. She just felt her heart aching and suffocating. With tears in her eyes, she pushed through the crowd to look for the man, but she could not see him anywhere and only saw strangers.

‘It was not him.’

‘He was not here.

It was like that glimpse was just her illusion.

‘But…’

Shen Xi covered her heart.

‘It hurts here.’

In that instance, it hurt so much that she stopped breathing.

Fu Qingxuan pulled her back, “What are you looking for?”

Shen Xi broke away from him, ran a few steps, and stopped, then let out a panicked and anxious scream. “Brother!”

‘I don’t know.’

She did not know what she was looking for either.

Before going on stage, Shen Xi had sent Brother a message, but he said he was busy.

However, she just saw it clearly. She could not be mistaken. It was him! She could feel that he was swallowed by despair and darkness, which made her heart tremble.

Fu Qingxuan watched as Shen Xi kneeled on the floor with tears streaming down her face. She cried like an abandoned, hopeless child. At that moment, he felt like he was stabbed in the heart and knelt next to her to wipe away her tears.

‘What was going on?’

‘What did she see?’

‘And who was she looking for?’

Shen Xi was still on her knees as she sent a text message with her trembling hands. After a while, she finally managed to send the message. “Brother, my show just ended.”

Fu Qingxuan inadvertently swept a glance only to see who she was sending the message to.

‘Brother?’

‘Brother who?’

‘Which brother?’

‘Was it Second Brother?’

Shen Xi held her phone and waited anxiously for his reply.

A few moments later, her phone vibrated.

His reply, “Great.”

Shen Xi’s hands were still shaking as she typed, “Where are you?”

He replied, “Busy.”

Shen Xi’s heart ached whenever she thought about how he looked just now. She replied, “Alright then.”

‘I was mistaken!’

There was no way he would be here.

‘I just missed him so much that I was hallucinating.’

Fu Qingxuan pulled her up and wanted to ask her what was wrong, but it was clear that she would not tell him even if he asked, so he simply shut up. His heart was still aching when he asked her, “Are you leaving?”

Shen Xi nodded, “Let’s go.”

The square.

The audience had dispersed.

Shen Xi still did not find him anywhere.

Not far away in an RV.

Kun Lun looked at the man in the wheelchair. “Boss, do you want me to call Ms. Shen?”

Li Yuan looked at her departing with loneliness and desolation deep in his eyes. After a long while, he finally said, “No need.”

Fu Qingxuan was closer to her in age.

When she was with Fu Qingxuan, she finally acted like a seventeen-year-old girl.

‘It’s time for me to let go.’

‘I should let go now.’

However, there was a voice in his heart that frantically took over every inch of him. It destroyed his sanity and told him, “No! She’s yours and she can only be yours in this lifetime!”

In the end, Li Yuan still could not resist and took out his phone to send her a message. “What are your plans after the show?”

Kun Lun stood aside. His body was tensed and he dared not speak. He did not even dare to breathe.

His boss was emitting such a chill and was shrouded in extreme darkness that the air around him seemed frozen.

The man’s eyes were lowered and his body was tensed as his long, slender fingers clutched the phone nervously and expectantly.

Shen Xi saw his message. Only then did she come out of her despair. She typed, “Having dinner with Ms. Shu and Guan Yue.”

After sending the message, Shen Xi glanced at Fu Qingxuan and added, “Fu Qingxuan too. He came over to watch my performance.”

Li Yuan looked at the name “Fu Qingxuan” with dagger eyes. He still had a dangerous and icy aura about him as his long fingers typed three words. “You like him?”

He looked at this sentence with his dark eyes for a long time, then deleted it. He retyped, “Are you that happy?”

His sickly pale finger, which was almost translucent, hit the send button.

Shen Xi thought about it for a while. “Nah, he’s an idiot. He said he wasn’t coming, but he showed up anyway.”

After sending the message, Shen Xi still felt that Brother’s message was a little off. His words seemed a little harsh. Fearing that he would misunderstand her, she quickly replied, “Brother, you don’t know how childish he is! I just treat him like a younger brother. No, he’s not qualified to be my younger brother. He’s just a little brat!”

Li Yuan saw her long series of replies. The loneliness and chill in his eyes finally dissolved little by little. He read them over and over again until his tightly pursed lips slowly relaxed and the corners of his lips hooked up into a pleasant arc.

Kun Lun did not know what his boss was looking at, but he could feel that a warm light was shining on that man’s body, leading him out from the abyss of despair and desolation from the darkest depths of hell.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief and could finally breathe normally again.

In this world, only Ms. Shen had this powerful energy to change the Boss with a single word.

Li Yuan looked at the message for a long time. He was satisfied with the words, “younger brother”, so much so that his pale fingers seemed to be a little pinkish along with his change in mood. “When are you going home?”

Shen Xi smiled and typed, “I’m heading home tomorrow. Brother, are you at home now?”

Could she still see him again before the New Year so that she could wish him a Happy New Year?

This would be her first New Year with him. For the many years to come until the rest of her days, she wanted to wish him a Happy New Year every year.

Li Yuan looked out the window, at the girl’s back. His narrow eyes that were filled with warmth had some bitterness, avoidance, and struggle before he finally replied to her. “No.”

He also wanted to see her and wished her a happy New Year in person on New Year’s Day.

However, his physical condition hindered him from appearing in front of her. “Wait till I get better.”

Shen Xi felt disappointed, “Okay.”

Old Shen was waiting for her at home. She would have to go back to their hometown with Old Shen on the morning of New Year’s Eve, so she would not be able to see him.

Fu Qingxuan did not know who she was talking to, but when she finally returned to her usual self, he breathed a sigh of relief and his heart did not ache so much.

“Shen Xi.”

Su Yi’s voice suddenly came from behind them.

Shen Xi just said goodbye to Li Yuan and was about to call Guan Yue to ask where they were. When she heard her name, she turned around and saw the man she did not want to see. Her eyes turned cold and pretended not to have heard him. She asked Fu Qingxuan, “Where’s your car?”

Fu Qingxuan pulled her forward.

Su Yi thought she did not hear him and ran towards her as he shouted, “Xixi, wait! Xixi! Wait up!”

He took his family backstage to look for Xixi but did not see her. Shu Baiyu said that Xixi had left a long time ago. He initially thought that Shu Baiyu was lying to him and did not expect to find Xixi outside.