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Chapter 470 - 464. Stubborn Yang Xi (Third Update)_1

Chapter 470: 464. Stubborn Yang Xi (Third Update)_1

At that time, in Luo City, China, Yang Xi got up in the morning and first tidied up Ren He’s room again. She went out to find a cloth to wipe the entire room, and then she swept and mopped the floor, even cleaning the windows.

She was getting to know the place inch by inch in her own way: the place where that young man had lived for 16 years.

Every time she saw an item related to Ren He, her heart would sour, and then a warmth would emanate from deep within her, as if she had seen that young man once again.

As if the sunshine was still dazzling, and he was still laughing brightly.

But when Yang Xi came back to her senses, she understood that everything was different now. It seemed like she was the only one left in this world. Yang Xi felt that she probably understood the loneliness that Ren He had once experienced.

During this time, Ren and Mrs. Ren were also immersed in their grief. However, Ren He’s situation was not suitable for publicizing, so they asked friends in the United States to keep on gathering information, and gradually discovered that the information their friends gathered was not much different from what Yang Xi had described. However, the friends also didn’t know that the person caught in a heavy encirclement was their son, nor that he was the Knight.

Even now, countless people are still waiting for new challenge videos from the Knight, utterly unaware of what exactly had happened to him, only feeling that the interval between his videos this time was a bit long. They had already changed the thumbnail to one of eager anticipation early on, but so far, no new videos have been released.

However, one thing that was unclear is that the National Security Agency neither announced his death nor his arrest, and it seems like they are trying to let the issue fade away.

But those who had experienced the incident all believed that Ren He’s situation at that time was undoubtedly fatal. After returning to the country, Yang Xi would call Wang every day, asking him to help confirm the situation, even if it was just to locate Ren He’s body.

But Wang and his colleagues were also unable to successfully obtain information from the National Security Agency.

During this period, Mrs. Ren didn’t even go to her company; her eyes were nearly cried blind. But separated by vast oceans, they had no better recourse, and money was always insignificant in the face of state machinery.

Mrs. Ren’s feelings towards Yang Xi were very complicated. She knew that it was this girl who had caused her son to die in a foreign land, yet she couldn’t quite bring herself to hate her. Yang Xi would get up early every day to make breakfast for her, regardless of the quality of the cooking.

No matter how harshly Mrs. Ren spoke, Yang Xi always listened with a smile, never talking back, and she no longer addressed Mrs. Ren as auntie but as mom.

Every call of "mom" from Yang Xi shattered Mrs. Ren’s heart. One night, Mrs. Ren got up and found that the light was still on in Ren He’s room. She walked in and discovered Yang Xi sobbing under the covers.

Human hearts are made of flesh, and finally, Mrs. Ren understood something: this girl loved her son deeply, no wonder her son was willing to give his life for her.

Latter, Mrs. Ren found Yang Xi and had a heart-to-heart talk with her, "I really want to blame you, but for some reason, I can’t bring myself to do it anymore. You should leave and start a new life for yourself."

But Yang Xi stubbornly refused to leave: "Ren He gave me the chance to live on. From now on, I will live for him. My life is no longer my own. I will do everything he wanted to do."

Ren He had once told her about many things he wanted to do, such as wingsuit flying, high-altitude parachuting, base jumping, surfing, longboard downhill, and cliff diving.

And also to take care of his parents.

Yang Xi even began to set up a training plan for herself, hoping that one day after Mrs. Ren and Ren have lived a long life, she would have the opportunity to help him complete those remaining extreme sports. It didn’t matter if she died in the process; by then, she would probably be in her forties or fifties. Attempting extreme sports at that age was akin to courting death. But she truly wanted to die soon, to accompany Ren He, so he would no longer be alone.

Mrs. Ren had no way to deal with the stubborn Yang Xi and could only let her take charge in the house.

During this period, Su Ruqin specially came to Luo City to meet Yang Xi, and then intended to take her back to the Capital to start a new life. Even Su Ruqin had not expected that Ren He would meet with an accident so soon. Moreover, the accident was not due to extreme sports but because he was trying to rescue Yang En and Yang Xi, this father and daughter duo.

Therefore, Su Ruqin’s feelings were complicated, and she even didn’t know how to open up to Yang Xi.

Ultimately, Yang Xi did not meet her. She made her decision clear over the phone and then hung up. No one could change Yang Xi’s mind.

When Yang Xi had nothing to do, she would go to Thirteenth Middle School, the place where she first met Ren He. Standing in the schoolyard, she yearned for time to start all over again.

If time could be rewound, she would not leave Luo City, would not go to America; she wouldn’t go anywhere and would just spend a lifetime with Ren He right here.

While Ren He was alive, he always told her that what he liked best was Luo City, a small and peaceful city.

Yang Xi felt it would be nice to spend the second half of her life in the city her partner loved, to walk the paths he had walked, eat the food he had eaten.

Singing and such were no longer important.

At this time, users on Weibo suddenly noticed that Yang Xi, as always, interacted with Knight every day—sometimes sharing the little things that happened that day, sometimes playfully acting coquettish.

But Knight no longer responded, day after day.

Knight seemed to have vanished from the whole world. Some speculated that maybe Knight was off undertaking new challenges and that’s why he couldn’t reply. Everyone was awaiting Knight’s return, wondering what kind of interactions he would have with Yang Xi.

Previously, a group of fans had entertained themselves daily by following their interactions.

"Today I cleaned your room and discovered how dirty it was—it wore me out. Quick, praise me."

"I found two pairs of old dirty socks stuffed in your bedside drawer; I’ve washed them. Quick, praise me."

Those two pairs of socks were swaying in the wind that blew in through the window, drying on the clothes rack, while Yang Xi sat on the balcony of Ren He’s home hugging her phone, lost in thought. How she wished that Ren He would come out and praise her at this moment.

As she thought about it, her nose felt sore, her eyes turned red. Why haven’t you come out to praise me yet?

When Yang Xi was cleaning under Ren He’s bed, she suddenly found the sketch she made hidden in a crevice underneath. She remembered Ren He joking with her, saying, "I’ve got a brat at home; I was worried he’d wreck the sketch, so I hid it under the bed."

Seeing the sketch, Yang Xi felt as if Ren He were right there beside her. Sometimes she wondered, could Ren He’s soul have crossed the ocean and returned to her side? Maybe it was even in this room right now?

But... if you’re here, why haven’t you come out to praise me yet?

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