With You For the Rest of My Life

Chapter 27 Memory

Those memories of childhood, like waking up scenes, passed through her mind. The melancholy face of the young man in black gradually overlapped the cold face of Burke.

Rose stopped wiping her hands and squatted down slowly. She curled up and cried out uncontrollably.

Perhaps, the ending had been decided at the moment they had met each other.

Burke was a catastrophe that she would never be able to get rid of in her life.

Twelve years ago, Ray, who had just taken over the family business, was busy with his work. It was normal for him to be away from home for a few days, so he decided to just stay in the company.

It was fall and autumn, the harvest season of a year. The old servant of Lin Family, Ken, had to go back home to help with the farm work.

"Ma'am, if you are bored, why don't you come with Amy and live a few days in our hometown?"

After Lillian quitted her job as a university teacher, she started to look after Rose. She was worried that she couldn't share her husband's trouble at work. Seeing that her husband was so busy, she felt so sorry for him. Ken's suggestion was not inappropriate to her.

"Amy, let's go to our village and live for a few days, okay?" Lillian said gently to the girl who was playing the piano.

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"Yes!"

The music stopped abruptly. At that time, Rose was discharged from school due to her health. She was bored to death. Hearing that she could go to the countryside, she agreed without hesitation.

She had a beautiful face, and with a pure and bright smile, her face looked like the rosy dawn in the spring.

After a simple packing, Lillian took the 14-year-old Rose to Ken's hometown in Qinshan Town. Ken's family was honest and kind to people in the countryside. The Lin Family had always treated them well. They were deeply grateful to Rose and Lillian and dared not to neglect their coming.

Knowing that Rose liked to play the piano when she was free, Ken's wife borrowed the only piano in the village from the principal of the primary school for Rose to kill her time.

The sound of the piano echoed in the afternoon of that autumn, from this manor, bearing some naive worries of a young girl with it.

And it was also this burst of notes tightly intertwined the fate of Rose and Burke.

From time to time, whenever Rose played her musical notes, she could always look out of the window and see a gloomy young man sitting under the sycamore tree in the next courtyard. There seemed to be something weighing on his mind. Although he was a little naive, there was always a touch of sadness on his young and handsome face. The golden yellow leaves fell one after another. The young man was sitting between the leaves, like a painting that was perfectly blended with the bleak autumn.

Following the guidance of destiny, Rose began to pay attention to this melancholy young man. She wanted to ask him how many worries he had and if he could share them.

At that time, in Rose's world, she didn't know what sorrow was like.

Rose had nice parents who had a good relationship, lived in a well-off family and had grown up with all kinds of people around her. Her only worry was how to yearn for a bigger world.

"Are you there?" The girl's sweet voice was clear and sweet through the thick and short wall.

That was the first words Rose said to Burke. Closely accompanied by the music for so many days, Rose finally summoned up the courage to come to the low wall and expressed her doubts to the boy.

An invisible attraction force was like a huge attraction force that rapidly drew the two closer. Gradually, they became close friends.

She encouraged, "Everything will be fine." Those seemingly ordinary comfort words were said by the young girl, but a wave of warmth arose in the young boy's heart, direct to the bottom of his heart.

"My name is Amy." Rose told the young boy her nickname, which was only what her parents usually called her.

The boy didn't tell Rose his name. She only knew that this seemingly weak young man was extraordinary wisdom and courage. His ideas were always so attractive that she liked to talk to him. In this way, they chatted with each other through a broken short wall.

In the afternoon, Rose came to the pond near the courtyard as usual, but accidentally saw the young man struggling in the pond. She was scared speechless and rushed into the pond without calling for help. Rose held the young man's body and struggled to move forward until she was exhausted and fainted.

When Rose woke up, she had already been in the ward of the city hospital. Next to her was her mother, Lillian.

"She's awake! She's awake! Amy woke up! " Lillian held Rose's delicate hand and shouted excitedly.

Ray, who was standing by the window, turned around when he heard the sound. He hurried to his daughter and put his rough hand on her forehead gently.

"How are you feeling? I'll call the doctor. " There was some relief in his worried tone.

"Why am I here? Where is the boy? " As soon as she finished her words, Rose realized that the young man in front of her was already unusual.

"You silly girl, how can you still have time to care about others? You were rescued by a nearby villagers when you fell into the water. That child had been taken away by his family. He should be all right. " Lillian said gently.

Thank god that the boy was okay.

Rose was gradually relieved, but unfortunately, she did not know the name and address of the young man. Judging from his temperament and dressing, he did not look like a local. He should be on holiday.

They might never see each other again.

After that, Rose felt a sense of loss. This memory had been hidden in the deep of Rose's heart and became a secret of her girlhood world. It was only a secret of her and that young man.

It was not until Burke showed up in front of her with an engagement paper that she recognized him at the first sight. He was the youth who sat under a phoenix tree and listened to her playing the piano twelve years ago. His handsome face was still wearing a touch of melancholy, but looked a bit more cold and unruly, which would make people feel chilly at a glance.

However, Rose did not expect that fate had played a cruel joke on both of them and eventually ended up like this. When they met again, he had already forgotten her and her childhood memories, which she had treasured as treasure. It turned out that they were only her love.

What made Rose even more surprised was that there was already a woman called "Amy" by his side. She didn't know if Burke would suddenly recall that he had also called a girl this tenderly even on an afternoon in the autumn twelve years ago.

She thought she would work hard to be Mrs. Gu as promised, and one day, Burke would accept her. However, it turned out that all was in vain. Between them, there had been resentments of last generation, their dead baby and Amanda Zhao. They could never end up together.

The past haunted her. Rose couldn't help but hold herself in her arms and sob.