Chapter 1061: Chapter 1085: Qingmu’s Last Letters 3

Seeing the timing was right, Nianyang grinned cheekily. "Then can you handle it?"

Afraid Nianyang might press on her belly, Li Tingyan simply scooped her up and sat her on the bed, then curled his lips in a low laugh. "Who the hell could handle that!"

Nianyang cupped her cheeks, smiling all charming and coy. "So does that mean I can..."

"Aren’t you already pretty? Keep on daydreaming pretty, then!" Li Tingyan gave an even more seductive smile, and Nianyang’s face instantly went green.

"Li Tingyan, you’re messing with me!"

"Keep it down, don’t scare the baby."

"You’re really rebelling against me now!" Nianyang bared her teeth and claws, pouncing toward him.

Just then, Li Tingyan’s phone rang. He picked up, and after a few words from the other side, his face gradually sank. He lowered his eyes to Nianyang. "It’s Assistant Wen Qingmu. He said he couldn’t get through to your phone, so he asked me to tell you Elder Wen has something he wants you to see."

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Nianyang dropped the idea of horsing around with Li Tingyan. The two of them packed up and quickly headed to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Family. Assistant Wen Qingmu was holding a stone-and-wood box, which he handed to Nianyang. "Miss Chu, Elder Wen asked me to give this to you. He originally said to hand it over after he was cremated, but I went back to my hometown for a bit and only came by today to clear out his things."

Nianyang took the box. "When did my Beauty Master give it to you?"

The assistant answered honestly, "A month ago."

Nianyang’s voice trembled lightly. "A month ago..."

Which meant her Beauty Master had already, more than a month ago, maybe even before they’d started preparing any of the plans, made up his mind to die.

Li Tingyan wrapped an arm around Nianyang’s shoulders. "Nini, you can’t break down right now. Hold it in for a bit, okay?"

Nianyang nodded, walked off to the side, and opened the box. Inside there was only a single letter, with the words written on it:

— Last Will.

How utterly resolute must he have been, to write those two words.

The sting of tears surged up, but Nianyang forced it back down.

She slowly unfolded the letter:

Nianyang, I hope this finds you well.

By the time you’re reading this letter, I’m already up in the sky with your grandaunt Alan, watching over you.

Promise me, don’t be sad. Be happy for me.

Because your Beauty Master has waited far, far too long for this day.

You know, Wen Qingmu actually followed after Alan eighteen years ago already. What stayed behind was nothing but a walking corpse.

If it weren’t that I had to wait for you to come back, if it weren’t that I had to protect you and clear the dangers out of your way, I’d have died long ago and never made it to now.

Alan’s been urging me. For the past eighteen years, I never once dreamed of her, but lately she’s started appearing in my dreams over and over.

She says she’s waited for me too long, and if I still don’t come, she won’t be able to find me anymore.

So I have to go. I can’t keep her waiting.

This time when I go, I can finally say it to her with my head held high: Alan, I didn’t manage to protect you, but I did protect your most beloved grandniece.

Nianyang, I’m leaving the Traditional Chinese Medicine Family to you. I’m sorry I never gave you anything, yet I’m asking you to shoulder such a heavy responsibility.

But Nianyang, I know you can do it. You’re smart and capable. You’re the most gifted person in medicine I’ve ever seen in this world.

You’ll carry Traditional Chinese Medicine forward and make it flourish. I believe in you.

I just can’t stay by your side until that day comes, but I’ll be watching you forever.

Nianyang, my leaving is something I’ve planned for a long time. Don’t blame yourself. You’ve done more than enough. It’s me who doesn’t want to live anymore. I need to fulfill my own wish.

My one and only disciple, I hope you’ll be happy. Life is too fragile. You never know when the ones you love most will suddenly leave you. So, Nianyang, live a good life with Li Tingyan. Cherish the person in front of you.

Don’t be like me—only realizing it after losing them, then suffering for a lifetime when nothing can ever be taken back.

Wen Qingmu.

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