Christmas. 

  This past day was Su Peizhen’s birthday. Today became SU Qingsang’s birthday. 

  Unlike previous years, Su Qingsang called Su Peizhen this year and invited her to dinner. 

  She refused. There were many people in the Huo family, and Huo Yifan was there. She didn’t want to join in the fun. 

  Su Qingsang probably knew her concerns. She repeatedly told her that it was only a very private party, and that it would be Huo Jinyao’s childhood friends and his childhood friends. There wouldn’t be anyone else. 

  Su Peizhen thought about it and didn’t refuse. She greeted Xiang caiping and went to attend Su Qingsang’s party. 

  Last time, Su Qingsang took her away from Ling Jing’s house. Although she was confident that she could escape in the end, she did owe su Qingsang a favor. She remembered it too. 

  Huo Jinyao and his friends had found girlfriends in the past two to three years. 

  Li Junsheng brought ye Zhen with him. Wan Xianyang had been pursuing Shi Mengwan, and now he had a new female companion. Xu Changlong and Cheng Xianyun were married. 

  The only single person present was Tang Mohan. 

  Because the seat next to him was empty, Su Qingsang’s seat was next to him. Su Peizhen didn’t think too much and looked at the empty seat. 

  She didn’t realize that something was wrong until she sat down. Su Qingsang blinked at her. 

  She was instantly embarrassed. Tang Mohan, on the other hand, didn’t look embarrassed at all. 

  He pushed a cup in front of her and asked, “Would you like a drink or a drink?” 

  “A drink.” 

  Tang Mohan was over thirty years old, and he was the only one who was still single. He watched as his childhood friends got married and had children. 

  It was as if Huo Jinyao had given birth to a pair of twins. Tang Mohan was not in a hurry at all. 

  “Drink this. Plum wine has a very low alcohol content. It’s almost like buying a drink.” 

  “Thank you.”Su Peizhen picked up the glass. It was indeed a very light wine, and almost did not taste like alcohol. 

  She had never attended any of Huo Jinyao’s childhood gatherings. She had been to quite a few of Huo Yifan’s social gatherings. 

  However, she took a serious look at the other people present. She was willing to admit that social gatherings were really interesting. 

  “Your company has been doing well with the project in the UK recently.” 

  The voice that suddenly rang out made her turn around. Only then did she realize that Tang Mohan was talking to her. 

  “Thank you.”He was talking about the project that was led by Su Chenghui and worked with Lin Feixing Company. 

  “I know President Lin too. He admires you very much.” 

  Tang Mohan was drinking with a glass in his hand and his posture was very elegant. 

  Su Peizhen smiled, “President Lin is exaggerating. I’m not as good as he said.” 

  Tang Mohan turned around to look at Su Peizhen and suddenly smiled, “Not bad, you know yourself well.” 

  Su Peizhen didn’t understand what he meant, tang mohan smiled, “Our company is preparing to start a similar project in Australia. The project is bigger, if your company is interested, we can discuss it at a certain time.” 

  “Sure.”It would be a fool not to earn money, Su Peizhen wouldn’t mind Tang Mohan’s attitude. 

  She wanted to maximize the benefits. As for Tang Mohan, she didn’t think that he would be interested in her. If it was just a collaboration, she could do it. 

  Tang Mohan raised his glass and clinked it with hers, “I look forward to working with you.” 

  “I look forward to working with you.” 

  After clinking their glasses and finishing the drink in the glass, there was nothing else to say. 

  Su Peizhen was a little bored as she sat there. She took the opportunity to leave the room and went to the bathroom outside. 

  The door of the private room opposite her opened at this moment. From the corner of her eye, she saw the person sitting inside. 

  Ling Jing. 

  He was sitting there drinking. He seemed to have drunk a lot. With just a glance, she withdrew her gaze and turned around to continue walking forward without looking back. 

  Her footsteps were very fast, but the person who was originally drinking inside was even faster. 

  Someone rushed out of the open door. As she walked, many of the wine bottles on the coffee table fell to the ground. 

  After the noise, there was a bang on the door. Before she could react, someone grabbed her wrist. 

  She turned around to look at Ling Jing. He dragged her into her private room. 

  Su Peizhen wanted to scream, but she saw Gu Xiu come out. He was used to knowing people’s eyes and eyes. He cleared the place of irrelevant people. 

  In a few seconds, the people inside came out, and she was brought into the private room by Ling Jing. 

  She looked at him coldly, but he let go at this moment and blocked the door. 

  In more than half a year, she had never thought of seeing Ling Jing. But these days, she met Ling Jing one after another. If it was a coincidence, she really didn’t believe it. 

  “Is it interesting?”Looking at Ling Jing who blocked the door with his body and didn’t let her out, Su Peizhen was speechless. 

  “.……”Ling Jing looked at Su Peizhen. He reached out his hand and held her in his arms. He lowered his head and was about to kiss her. 

  Su Peizhen’s body struggled for a while. As her hands were held behind her back by him, his lips finally touched hers. 

  The four lips touched each other, and their lips were filled with the smell of each other’s wine. 

  She was like this, and so was he. 

  However, the smell of wine in his mouth was much stronger. Su Peizhen did not react at all. She allowed him to plunder her, but she never let go. 

  He kept rubbing her lips, but he could not go any deeper. The eagerness in his heart made him hug her and turn around. His body was pressed against the door. 

  His breathing became heavy. His hands were propped on the door behind her, and he looked at her fixedly. 

  His blood-red eyes, Su Peizhen’s cold expression, and her unwavering eyes met his hot breath. 

  He caressed her cheek. This woman made him love and hate her at the same time. 

  “Can we forget everything that happened in the past? Qingling, let’s start over. Can’t we?” 

  His voice was very conflicted. He held her tightly and refused to let go. 

  “No.”What was colder than her expression was her voice. Ling Jing felt a slight sting in his heart. 

  “Tell me, what do you have to do to forgive me?” 

  Forgive? This was really a difficult question. 

  Su Peizhen was straightforward. “We don’t talk to each other anymore.” 

  “Impossible.”If he had not noticed her feelings, he could pretend that nothing had happened. 

  But he had already noticed her feelings, so how could he let her go? 

  The wine bottle in the private room was broken, and the smell of alcohol was very strong. Su Peizhen did not like places like this. If Su Qingsang had not kept talking, she would not have come today. 

  “Su Peizhen.”He leaned over and kissed her lips, his voice carrying a hint of begging. “Please Forgive Me, Okay?” 

  Seeing that she was unmoved, he suddenly became angry. He held her waist, almost as if he was squeezing her into his body. 

  “Do you still remember? You promised me a condition. You promised me.” 

  “.……”Su Peizhen frowned slightly. It seemed that she only remembered now that she had indeed promised him a condition. 

  Before she could recall it……, he had already stated his request. “I know that you have a good memory. You remember it, right? You said that you can promise me one thing. I’ll mention it now. My request is that you forgive me.” 

  Seeing that she ignored him, he pressed his forehead against hers and stubbornly asked for her answer. 

  “Say it. Say that you forgive me.” 

  Su Peizhen looked at this man. The Man’s eyes were bloodshot and his breathing was rapid. The two of them were very close to each other, so close that she could hear each other’s heartbeat. 

  She looked at her like this. When the man was about to have an attack, she spat out the words that he wanted to hear very much. 

  “I forgive you.” 

  The surprise came too suddenly. Ling Jing stared at her with his eyes wide open. He could hardly believe his ears. “What did you say? Say It Again?” 

  “I forgive you. Can you let go?” 

  “Peizhen, you –” 

  Placing one hand on his chest, Su Peizhen was much calmer than Ling Jing thought. “Don’t you understand? I said I forgive you. You can let go.” 

  “No, since you have forgiven me, then we –” 

  “Ling Jing.”Su Peizhen interrupted him rudely. “You only asked me to agree to one condition. You said you wanted me to forgive you, so I agreed. But to forgive you and to be with you, there are two conditions.” 

  “But, but –“the wine that Ling Jing had just drunk seemed to have started to rush to his mind. He looked at Su Peizhen with a headache. 

  “It’s not like this. It shouldn’t be like this. You promised me. You promised yourself, didn’t you?” 

  “Let go.” 

  “You promised me.” 

  “Ling Jing, I’ve already done what I promised you.” 

  “It’s not like this.”It wasn’t like this. What he wanted her to do wasn’t like this. 

  Even though she said she forgave him, he knew that she didn’t forgive him at all in her heart. 

  “If you’re really willing to forgive you, you should agree to give me a chance to start over with me.” 

  “Ling Jing, don’t you understand? I can forgive you, but I won’t be with you anymore.” 

  “Why?”Since she could forgive him, why couldn’t she accept him again? 

  “Because your credibility is zero with me,”Su Peizhen said bluntly. “I don’t know which of your words are true and which are false. I don’t know what is waiting for me after you pretend to be affectionate. And I don’t know who you are. One day, Young Master Ling will bring up the past again on a whim.” 

  “I won’t. I promise, I really won’t.” 

  “Really? Unfortunately, I don’t believe you.” 

  “I really won’t. I can swear that in the future –“Ling Jing wanted to prove it urgently, but Su Peizhen didn’t want to hear it. 

  She pushed him away, she looked at him firmly. “Ling Jing, my identity, my past, and my experience are all facts that can not be changed. I am a prisoner of labor. I Am a woman who has had other men.” 

  “I –” 

  “Why should I believe your oath and your promise?”He interrupted the explanation and promise that he might have to say. For Su Peizhen, trust was hard to accumulate, but it was easy to destroy. 

  Ling Jing was speechless. Su Peizhen took a step to the side and put her hand on the door handle. 

  Seeing that she was about to leave, Ling Jing became anxious again. He went to grab her hand. “Even if the beginning between us wasn’t very beautiful, but…… but did you forget the happiness in the middle?”


  Chapter 876: Chapter 061: Without Desire, one is strong; without love, one is strong

  Ling Jing stubbornly refused to let Su Peizhen leave. If she could really forgive him, why didn’t she put all that down? 

  He and she had a good time together, didn’t they? 

  He didn’t forget. He didn’t believe that she had forgotten. The two of them were so compatible. Whether it was on or under the bed, they actually had a tacit understanding, didn’t they? 

  They really loved each other, didn’t they? 

  “Is it so important how it started? Isn’t the process and the result more important?” 

  Su Peizhen turned her head to look at his eyes. The lights in the room weren’t very bright. But she could see Ling Jing’s eyes clearly. 

  “To me, yes. The process and the result are important, but the beginning is also important.” ……

  Su Peizhen sat in the designated driver’s car. When she passed by the Jiangxin Park in Rongcheng, she found that someone was setting off fireworks there. 

  It was Christmas today. There were many people celebrating outside. She asked the driver to slow down slightly. Her gaze was a little blurry as she looked at the fireworks outside. 

  When she left the private room where Ling Jing was, she heard Ling Jing suddenly say five words when she closed the door. 

  “Peizhen, I love you.” 

  His unusually low and hoarse voice was full of pain and confusion. 

  At that moment, Su Peizhen’s footsteps stopped there. In the end, she still left without looking back. 

  In the past, she would not care about some external matters, and she would not care about the gazes of others. 

  But this entanglement with Ling Jing allowed her to see through many things. 

  In fact, if it was just that misunderstanding the other day, she really wouldn’t take it to heart. She could understand a person’s impulsive decision. 

  She could more or less see Ling Jing’s personality after spending so much time with him. 

  But she really couldn’t forgive Ling Jing’s motive in the beginning and those hurtful words he said. 

  She didn’t like to dig up old debts. But similarly, she did not like others to dig up old scores. 

  She was able to maintain this connection with Su Qingsang because Su Qingsang could let it go. If she could, she naturally could. 

  Many people liked to say that the past was the past when they talked about things that had nothing to do with them. 

  But they did not know that sometimes the hurt could not be let go. 

  Closing her eyes, Su Peizhen emptied her thoughts and threw Ling Jing to the back of her mind. She did not think about anything. ……

  Kyoto, Japan. 

  Su Peizhen stood in front of the simple wooden door in front of her. She turned around and glanced at Xiang caiping. 

  “We are about half a month late. The maple leaves here are almost all gone.” 

  The glazed courtyard was a relatively small scenic spot in Kyoto, Japan. It opened twice a year. Cherry blossoms were appreciated once in spring and maple leaves once in autumn. 

  Su Peizhen and the others arrived late. It was already past the opening hours, but they could still vaguely see the red leaves all over the mountains and the shadow of autumn. 

  The weather was good today. She had been in Japan with Xiang caiping for three days. 

  Two days ago, she had brought Xiang caiping to Tianlong Temple and Qingshui Temple. Xiang caiping had already been to Japan once before, but that time, Su Qingsang had brought her to Tokyo. There was also the hot spring in Nara. 

  Su Peizhen had brought her to Kyoto this time, but she had never been there. She had been very excited along the way. 

  Of course, she was excited not because she could come to play, but because she could come with her daughter. This made her happier than the last time she went to Europe alone with a ginseng group. 

  “Mom, it’s already past the open season here. I don’t know if they will let us in. Wait a moment, I’ll go and ask.” 

  “She, it’s fine. It’s fine even if she can’t. Anyway, since she’s here, just treat it as a workout and walk around.” 

  “Okay.” 

  Su Peizhen went up and knocked on the door. After communicating with the people inside very seriously, she pointed in the direction of Xiang caiping. 

  After about five minutes, the people in the temple finally relented and agreed to let them in for a visit. 

  The low-key and simple wooden door had a picturesque early winter scene inside. Although the maple leaves were already ruined, they could still be seen as a fiery red. 

  Xiang caiping looked at the beautiful scene in front of her, and her mood brightened up. 

  “This place is really beautiful.” 

  “Yes, it’s very beautiful.”Su Peizhen handed a bag to Xiang caiping. “There are places here where tourists can copy scriptures. Do you want to copy?” 

  This temple was the most unique. Not only was the scenery beautiful. Another unique feature was that this place would provide the guests with scriptures to copy. The tourists would write down their wishes and offer them to Buddha, asking Buddha to bless their wishes to come true. 

  “Okay.” 

  Xiang caiping was not religious in the past. However, ever since she recognized her daughter, a series of things had happened. She began to believe it. 

  They went up the stairs and Su Peizhen brought Xiang caiping up to the second floor. 

  Besides the beautiful scenery, there was also a table for tourists to copy scriptures. Xiang caiping was very pious, and Su Peizhen only used it as an accompaniment. Seeing her like that, she sat down. 

  She did not believe in Buddhism, nor did she understand Buddhist scriptures. Looking at the words on it, there was a strange but familiar feeling. 

  She knew the words, but when they were combined, she did not know what it meant. She glanced at Xiang caiping, then picked up a pen and started to copy. 

  One stroke, one stroke, one sentence. Slowly, she became focused. She didn’t even know that there was an extra person in the room. 

  After she finished copying, the last blank space was to write her name and wish. 

  After writing her name, Su Peizhen was stunned for a long time. Her wish? 

  Thinking about her current life, she really didn’t have any wishes. Her relationship with Su Chenghui and Li Qianxue had eased up, and her relationship with Xiang caiping could be considered close. 

  Even Su Qingsang, whom she had never liked before, was now reconnected. 

  There was no need to worry too much about the company, as long as she didn’t seek death. She believed that before she retired, her life would only be better, not worse. 

  Then she really could not think of what she wished for. 

  She looked out of the window and saw the red and green mountain scenery. Life was too short. The four seasons changed a few more years, and a lifetime passed. 

  She closed her eyes and wrote eight words. 

  —— if you have no desire, you are strong. If you have no love, you are strong. 

  After she finished writing, she found that Xiang caiping was still copying. She quietly got up and wanted to stretch her muscles. 

  But she saw the figure sitting on the other side. For a moment, she thought there was something wrong with her eyes. 

  Ling Jing? Why was he here? 

  Ling Jing was sitting diagonally opposite her. He lowered his head and was very focused on copying the scriptures. 

  Su Peizhen inexplicably felt a little uncomfortable. She wanted to say something, but she seemed to be unable to say anything. 

  The room was very quiet. Ling Jing seemed to be copying very seriously and didn’t notice that she had already finished copying. 

  There were no other tourists at this time. Su Peizhen got up and turned around. She walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside. 

  The mountain wind was very strong. It was a little cold in the capital in this season. She crossed her arms. Her feelings were complicated. 

  Xiang caiping finished copying very quickly. She got up and walked in front of her, asking her where to put the copied scriptures. 

  Su Peizhen took the scripture from her hand. “Put it in the temple downstairs and worship it in front of the Buddha.” 

  Xiang caiping wanted to say something, but she realized that there were other people present. She whispered, “Let’s go down.”. 

  Su Peizhen nodded and forced herself not to look in Ling Jing’s direction. Unexpectedly, Ling Jing had also finished copying. 

  He stood up and walked in front of them. He smiled at the two of them and nodded again. 

  Xiang caiping had always been a warm person, so she also returned a smile. 

  Ling Jing saw Xiang Caiping’s smile and wanted to speak immediately. When he met Su Peizhen’s gloomy expression, he had no choice but to keep quiet. 

  He went straight downstairs. 

  After leaving the harmony room and going downstairs, he passed through the hall and arrived at the Buddha hall of the glazed courtyard. At this time, there was a monk reciting scriptures inside. 

  Although he was using a language that Xiang caiping could not understand, it could not reduce the piety in her heart. 

  “I’m going to pay my respects to Buddha. Help me put this on the table.” 

  “Okay.”Su Peizhen nodded. She took the two copied scriptures and walked to the front of the Buddha table. At a glance, she saw the wishes written on Xiang caiping. 

  — I hope my daughter, Su Peizhen, will be happy. 

  This simple sentence made Su Peizhen’s heart tremble. She knew very well that Xiang caiping had always been a very traditional and simple woman. But she was still moved by this wish. 

  Compared to her, she seemed much more cold-hearted. When she placed the scripture on the Buddhist table, she saw the handwritten Buddhist scripture at the top. 

  She glanced at it and saw her name on it. 

  — I hope Su Peizhen can forgive me and be with me. 

  “.……” 

  Childish, laughable, and boring. 

  Did she think that she would be moved by what he did? That she would forgive him and agree to be with him? 

  Su Peizhen expressionlessly placed the copied Buddhist scripture on the table and took a step back. When she saw Xiang caiping worshipping Buddha with a devout expression, she clasped her hands together and closed her eyes sincerely. 

  She had no wish in her heart. She only hoped that Xiang caiping was healthy and that everyone she cared about would be safe and happy. 

  Feeling the slight movement around her, she looked to her side. 

  Ling Jing had not left yet. He also stood beside her devoutly with his hands together and his eyes closed. 

  Su Peizhen looked at his actions and thought of the wish he had written just now. Her hands that were hanging by her side tightened, and she quickly looked away as if nothing had happened. 

  It just so happened that Xiang caiping had recovered. She walked in front of Xiang caiping and motioned for her to leave with her. 

  The exit was on the other side. Following the corridor of the Japanese-style building, the two of them passed through another room and left the main building. 

  Coming out from the inside, the cold wind blew on Xiang caiping’s face. “The temperature here is okay. It’s not colder than Rong City.” 

  “Mm.”She had seen the weather forecast before, and it seemed that Rongcheng would have snow in the next few days. 

  “I don’t know if it will snow here. If it snows, it should be very beautiful.” 

  “If you like it, I’ll come with you when it snows here.” 

  “That’s not necessary.”Xiang caiping patted her hand and smiled gently. “You’re already busy with work, so you don’t have to accompany an old woman like me every day. Next time, if I want to come, I’ll just follow the group.” 

  Su Peizhen didn’t reply. Xiang caiping’s expectations of her were really too low. 

  As they spoke, the two of them had already walked up the steps. They heard very light footsteps behind them. 

  Su Peizhen was still thinking of speeding up her footsteps when Ling Jing, who was behind her, approached them and walked to their side.