I Want A Lifetime With You

“Are you going to let me continue like this, Ms. Shu?”

Shu Qing eyed the taxi driver briefly and apologized. After getting down from the taxi, she turned to Fu Yi impatiently. “What else is there to talk about? What truth?”

“There’s a café across the street. If you don’t mind, we can go there and have some coffee while we talk.”

“Alright.”

Shu Qing put on her sunglasses and crossed the road first, followed by Fu Yi.

“Alright. Just say what you have to say. What else I didn’t know about?”

Shu Qing thought Fu Yi would only utter some nonsense about her being an ungrateful wretch. Indeed, Fu Yi intended to tell her that, but not in the way she thought.

After the waiter served their coffees, Fu Yi turned to Shu Qing with a stern look. “I bet Ms. Shu must be wondering what truth I have to tell you when everything is so clear cut back then. You still remember how Mr. Su was never by your side when you needed him the most, am I right?”

“But do you know how desperate he was when he tried to find you everywhere on that fateful night? You did not listen to him and continued staying in contact with Shen Feng, even joining him for dinner with the producers. By the time he heard about it, he tried looking for you, only to find you looking all traumatized and delirious after the incident. Do you know how he almost went crazy at the sight and struggled to bring you to the hospital?”

Shu Qing snapped her head up suddenly. “What did you say?”

“What did I say? Who did you think sent you to the hospital that day? It was Mr. Su who sent you there. He even said that the most regretful thing he has ever done in his life is to bring you to the capital and let you have your way with your life. Do you know that Mr. Su has already negotiated a good drama for you and was about to sign it back then? But what were you doing then? You only know how to blame him for his incompetence to shoot you to stardom. You attended the dinner at the hotel without telling him, right?”

Fu Yi continued with a cold smirk. “Mr. Su has told me repeatedly that there were three things he regretted most in his life. The first one is bringing you out of Jiang City to the capital, while the second thing he regretted most is to leave you at the hospital and went off to take revenge on the rapists himself. Otherwise, how else do you think those rapists vanished without a trace in the capital?”

Shu Qing stared at Fu Yi in disbelief, but Fu Yi was far from done. “Mr. Su went to meet those bastards and took revenge on them, all for the sake of avenging you. Do you know why his heart was injured? That’s the injury he sustained when he got ambushed by one of them, who drove a dagger straight into his chest. Lucky for him, the dagger did not stab right into his heart, but he has to bear with this constant defect in his heart for life.”

“No, I don’t believe this!” Shu Qing stood up suddenly, her fingers trembling violently. “You’re lying, aren’t you?”

“Hah! Do I need to lie? What good does it do to me for lying to you?” Fu Yi eyed her icily. “Do you know how long Mr. Su was hospitalized after that? He was in a coma for four months! It took him four months before he regained his consciousness! And the first thing he did after waking up is to look for you. But where were you then? You were in Shen Feng’s villa chatting to him happily. He was greeted with the sight of you talking animatedly to Shen Feng while being pregnant!”

“No… this can’t be it… He said he already has a new girlfriend back then, so he broke up with me! He-”

“Mr. Su told you that?”

Shu Qing’s face had never been paler as she muttered, “I-”

also pregnant with his child.

in me is a bastard child between me and another man! But in fact,

when she was raped by those producers, Shu Qing was in so much despair that she wanted to die right then. It was Shen Feng who saved her and took her in. He even employed a renowned psychologist

for Su Huaibei. For six months she had searched for him, yet she couldn’t find him at all. When she heard that Su Huaibei had returned, the first thing she did was rushed to see him, and the first word

and he didn’t want her anymore. Shu Qing was so devastated by his attitude that she finally left him. After giving birth to Shen Qianan, Shu

Afraid that

This cannot be… It

his injuries. When he recovered, he wanted to get back together with you regardless of your betrayal. He had decided to raise Shen Qianan with you despite

He said he wants to kill Qianan.

those rapists. But did anything happen to Shen Feng and Shen Qianan? Remember

“I…”

yourself; what have you ever done for him? You’ve aggravated him and lied to him again and again,

He imprisoned me and robbed me of my freedom!” Shu Qing

greatly, and she

only told me about his kindness towards me, but what about the torment that he put me through? You

your mind anymore. I just want you to know the truth since you’ve ended your relationship with Mr. Su.

“You!”

wise lady. I think Mr. Su’s choice is right. Since he’ll never have a happy end with you, he might as well spend more time

in his footsteps when he was passing by Shu Qing. “If Mr. Su really wants to imprison you, do

left promptly, leaving behind a dazed Shu Qing who stared across the road

lights had switched countless times, and repeated themselves in an unending cycle. Yet Shu Qing still stood rooted at the same spot as she observed the

Su Huaibei, all Shu Qing ever thought was leaving him. But now that Su Huaibei really let her

forty years of her life, she had never experienced such feelings of emptiness. She seemed to own everything she had

her father, her sister, her lover, her children, and

her past, Shu Qing suddenly realized she had failed in all aspects of her

and droplets of rain started to fall. It was not a heavy downpour, yet when the droplets landed on Shu Qing’s body, she could feel it

on coldly at the dazed Shu Qing. When a hoard of pedestrians blocked her sight from Shu Qing, she winded up the window and instructed the driver. “Let’s

like to go now, Mrs.

to see her husband. So

we really had everything in our hands, we suddenly realized it didn’t mean anything to us. The moment we lost it, however, we couldn’t accept the fact we were losing the thing we once had, and we would try to get everything back again, hoping that everything would go back to how it

there’s no way to gather it back into its bottle, just like how we could never turn back the time and make up for every mistake we’ve ever committed. Life only gives us one chance, and there’s no way