Chapter 147 — The Long-Awaited...
Years of Heartflutter · Page 293 of 501
And the most absurd part was that he had once wanted to kill her to silence her! Yang Ce thought to himself what a close call it had been—if he had really listened to Fang Tian back then, today he would have nothing to do but weep.
Recalling what Shu Ya had said aboard the Alice, Yang Ce suddenly realized she might have been trying to tell him that she was Su Ya—and that ring was even easier to explain. It had been his gift to her in the first place, so of course it would turn up in her possession. The strange part was the coincidence of his buying it back. It seemed the thing was fated never to fall into anyone else's hands.
To be continued
813. A Promise Is a Promise
"Fusion is a fair way to put it. Otherwise there's no explaining why the glasses disappeared while Xiao Ya's ability did not." Su Haikuo nodded in agreement.
Yang Jiyan gave a meaningless "Mm" and sank into thought. All of this, every last piece of it, was such a coincidence. Yang Ce had assumed that in all the world there was only one pair of those miraculous glasses, his own. He had never imagined that Su Ya had another pair. "As for the reasons for the name change, there were several." Seeing that Yang Yongjin had spoken, Su Haikuo went on: "At first it was to hide from Liu Zhadan and his lot. Given the circumstances—even though we were far away in Hong Kong—I felt I had to be careful. Looking back, I was being overcautious. Later, when Xiao Ya entered show business, she was using this face of hers and did not want to use her real name, so we simply never changed it back. Xiao Ya said that one day, when she retired from the industry, she could resume her original identity without being pestered by fans."
Yang Yuting nodded. Su Haikuo's explanation was reasonable enough—though letting a single Liu Zhadan frighten him to such a degree seemed a bit much. Then again, on second thought, Su Haikuo was not Yang Ce; he could hardly have gone toe-to-toe with those thugs. And he had Su Ya's safety to consider.
"Later, when we reached Hong Kong, I secretly threw my support behind the Qingming Sect—again out of fear of repeating the past." Su Haikuo was remarkably candid; in a few sentences he had laid all his cards on the table.
In truth, Su Haikuo only appeared candid. On reflection, if he wanted the Hong Kong regional agency for Mingyang Heavy Industries, Mingyang would certainly send people to investigate his entire background. By then everything would come out whether he told them or not, and that would look far worse. Better to say it himself.
Yang Xutang was struck dumb by Su Haikuo's words. He had never expected that Su Haikuo had been dabbling in the underworld all these years—no wonder Su Ya had shown so little resistance to his own identity back then.
"All right, I've told you everything about me and Xiao Ya," Su Haikuo said. "But since Xiao Ya didn't tell you herself, she probably feels the time isn't right. You mustn't tell her that I was the one who told you all this."
Yang Ce was hardly going to march up to Shu Ya and blurt out something idiotic like, "Hey, you're Su Ya, right? Your dad told me everything." So when Su Haikuo asked him to keep it secret, he agreed readily enough.
As for Su Haikuo's request to be an agent—one shows respect for the monk even if not for his robe. Su Haikuo had been a bit of a snob to him before, but he was Su Ya's father, and that could not be changed. What was more, he had just confided a secret of earthshaking proportions, which put Yang Ce in excellent spirits. So he decided that if Su Haikuo truly had the wherewithal to be an agent, there was no harm in giving him the agency.
"Uncle Su, I'll be going now. Stay and enjoy your meal—" Before Yang Juehuan could finish, Su Haikuo grew anxious.
"Yang Ce, what's this about? Leaving just like that?" Su Haikuo thought it over. He hadn't said anything to offend Yang Juehuan, had he?