Chapter 44
The man sat on the ground leaning against the tombstone, not caring about getting wet from the rainwater on the ground.
The rain had made his hair wet and was dripping from the tip of his hair. The harmonica near his mouth was producing a long and beautiful melody—”Street Where Wind Resides”.
The beautiful melody echoed with a touch of sorrow in the raining cemetery.
At the age of eleven, the news of the death of his parents in a car accident had caused a nationwide sensation. She, who was like a little beggar, had coveted the ice cream in his hand and followed him all the way, but had ended up witnessing the accident together with him.
“For you! I look at it whenever I think of my mom and dad, and I don’t feel so sad anymore.” It was a little star folded from a multicolored paper strip, which was already a little out of shape, and it was put firmly into the hand of the eleven-year-old boy.
After that, the dirty little girl followed him all the way to the hospital, and to his parents’ funeral… Every day, she had followed him around, but he was so sad that he had forgotten her existence.
How strong could an eleven-year-old boy who had suddenly lost his parents be? He just ate and slept all day like a soulless block of wood.
“Big Brother, my mom and dad are dead too. They disappeared when I was five years old, and my home was gone. A kind-hearted uncle sent me to an orphanage. At that time, I didn’t know what death meant. Later, when I grew up, I knew that Mom and Dad would never come back. Big Brother, you must be very sad, right? It’s all right, Little Star is with you!”
Later on, the seven-year-old girl named Little Star had been picked up by the orphanage, and she didn’t cry or make trouble. Before leaving, she said to him at his bed, “Big Brother, I’ve been out for too long, I have to go back now. Would you come and visit me? I’m at Candy Orphanage, you must come!”
After that, he had felt out of sorts because there was no more soft voice talking to herself in his ear every day. He had gone to the orphanage to look for her, but the director of the orphanage had said that she had been adopted. He had thought that that was it, but one day he suddenly saw a small figure curled up outside the door of the Li residence. The malnourished little girl had run into his arms with joy when she saw him, crying as she said, “Big Brother, will you adopt me? I don’t want anyone else, I just want to follow you.”
“I don’t have the right to adopt you, but I can sponsor you to let you stay here. You will still belong to the orphanage, but you can live in my house and live with me.”
“Can I really live with you?”
“Um, I have to inform the director.”
“Can we be together forever?”
“If you want to be with me forever, you can marry me when you grow up.”
“Then I want to grow up quickly, I want to marry you, I want to be with you forever!”
…
However, just one year later, the little girl who had always had a bright smile on her face disappeared. She had disappeared forever because of him. After suffering from the most cruel thing, she had left the world forever.
He really wanted to know, had she felt hatred when she had looked at the world for the last time?
The melody from the harmonica ended.
In the wind and in the rain, he seemed to hear the sweet voice that used to linger in his ears call out to him, “Brother Yun!”
“Little Star, I’m sorry, I didn’t protect you well.” The seemingly cold and emotionless man was now leaning on the tombstone, blaming himself vulnerably.
“Do you regret knowing me? I do! If I hadn’t agreed to sponsor you, you wouldn’t have encountered something so cruel.”
Suppressing the pain inside him, he leaned over in front of the tombstone and spoke of the regrets that had accumulated in his heart over the years.
At this moment, the mobile phone in the inner pocket of his suit buzzed. Li Yunshen wiped the raindrops on his face, took out the mobile phone and answered the call, “Speak.”