Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 50 Part 2

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.



Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 50 Part 2

Ye Qiao hadn’t seen Zhou Tingsheng since that day in court. Zheng Xishuo had requested to visit her several times, but she had turned them all down. The only one person she agreed to meet was a young man named Shen Yi.
The young man had a weathered face and kept apologizing when he saw Ye Qiao.

“Zhao Mo is too hard headed, that’s why others could take advantage of her. I know you’re innocent. She was dragged into the scandal and believed you had done it to her. We all know now that it was Xu Yinsan. They were both having an affair with the same big shot and always disagreed with each other. After Xu Yinsan’s affairs were exposed, she dragged Zhao Mo into it. By that point she’d already lost her mind and wouldn’t listen to reason. She firmly believed that it was you. Everytime she had her episodes, she kept saying she’d get her revenge on you.”
“She even hired a private detective to follow you and take pictures of you secretly……”
Ye Qiao said: “It’s alright. That’s all in the past.”

Shen Yi was surprised. “How can that be? How about your family, your boyfriend……”
“They’re all fine.” Ye Qiao interrupted him. “You don’t have to feel guilty. You can’t accept Zhao Mo and left her. You have your own reasons. You don’t have to blame yourself for other people’s mistakes.”
Shen Yi was taken aback. “Then why do you……”
“Because the two men I love the most all owe a debt.”
She continued. “I’m paying back for them.”

Heavy snow fell on Yang City several times during the first month of the Chinese New Year. The New Year holidays went by rather depressingly.
New shoots were sprouting on the willow trees and ducks were swimming in the ponds. Spring came and went, then summer came with lotus flowers waving in the wind.

During the half a year when Ye Qiao was in prison, there were constant legal issues stemming from contract cancellations with business partnerships, commercial endorsements, and movie productions since her public image was tarnished. Zhou Tingsheng took care of all of them for her. Ruan Feiyan, after treatment in the hospital, had recovered from her head wound but she had lost her eyesight. The sudden blindness had sent her into self imposed isolation. She refused to speak. The Zhou family had taken responsibility for her daily life. Xu Zang’s health had made a turn to the worse since Ye Qiao went to jail. Zhou Tingsheng visited him from time to time. At first, both of them couldn’t get over the past. But gradually, after surviving several life and death struggles, Xu Zang could finally let go of the past and make peace with himself and Zhou Tingsheng.

The last day of Ye Qiao’s imprisonment soon arrived.
It was a day he had long been waiting for, but when the day actually arrived, Zhou Tingsheng acted as if it was any normal day.

Liang Zirao walked into Zhou Tingsheng’s office and pulled away the papers in his hand: “Did you forget what day it is today?”
Zhou Tingsheng grabbed one piece of the papers back and signed his name at the bottom of the page, put the official stamp on it, then locked everything on the desk into his drawer before he got up and said: “I’ll go get her. I’m taking the afternoon off.”
Liang Zirao watched him from behind and found it rather humorous.  Since when did Zhou Tingsheng bother following company procedures!

Zhou Tingsheng calmly walked into the elevator, reached the garage, but subconsciously hastened his footsteps towards his parked car.
The navy blue Porsche Cayenne moved on the highway at full speed, the rumbling of the car as he drove drowned out the rest of the world.
The car only slowed down once neared the jail gates, as if Zhou Tingsheng was timid of getting too close.

Ye Qiao walked out from the gate with a plain face. Her long and beautiful hair now only went down to her ears. She was wearing a simple cotton sweater. The media waiting outside swarmed towards her. An ocean of lights accompanied the high-pitched voices of the reporters. Ye Qiao kept her silence. Zhou Tingsheng stepped on the accelerator, forcing his way through the crowd and stopped the car right in front of Ye Qiao.
The panicked crowd finally quieted down, with some of the photographers snapping shots of the scary scene.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.