Chapter 135 The First Encounter (Part Two)


    He stood at the door of the apartment with the key on his hand, regardless of his difort. He had


    hoped that when he opened the door, Mary would be on the other side waiting for him!


    "You''re back? Where have you been?"


    Perhaps, she would be waiting for him on the sofa as usual.


    Maybe she was watching TV again.


    Maybe she was eating snacks...


    Crack!


    The door was opened and William took a step inside.


    The TV wasn''t on, there were no snacks, no Mary...


    "Mary!" William shouted hysterically as tears fell down his cheeks.


    He took two steps forward and swept his eyes across the empty room. His heart felt colder than the


    temperature.


    "Ring... " The phone rang again, and William picked it up almost instantaneously. "Hello? Mary, is


    that you?"


    "Boss..." Kevin was stunned. He stared at the letter he just received and said, "I just received Mary''s


    resignation..."


    "Bang!"


    The phone slipped down from his ear and fell to the ground with a loud thud.


    He rushed to Mary''s bedroom.


    The bed was neat and the floor was spotless. It seemed that she had just left for work and would


    come back in the evening.


    Mary, you had cut off all contact with me.


    William staggered to the bed and saw a box on it.


    He opened the box with his trembling hands.


    A red dress, a photo album, and a wedding ring.


    "This ring...Who bought it?"


    He remembered that when he gave her the ring, Mary asked expectantly.


    "Kevin did. Why do you ask?" he answered.


    "Oh. Nothing, it''s just...I think it''s pretty." Mary lowered her head. A hint of disappointment shed


    through her eyes.


    It turned out that he had already noticed the disappointment in her eyes, but why did he choose to


    be so indifferent?


    The ring was held tightly in his hand, as if it was going to be embedded in his palm.


    Seeing the photo album in the box, William took it out.


    It was their wedding photos.


    He opened it. Mary looked so majestic in her phoenix cor and robes of rank. She looked like an


    empress in a beautiful painting.


    In the photo, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. It was so obvious that he didn''t notice it


    at that time.


    He turned over page by page, like looking into the memories in his heart.


    He remembered the first time he had met her. It all seemed like it just happened yesterday.


    On a night in midsummer three years ago, the top floor of AJ Group.


    The top floor had always been a ce for William to rx after work. He could go up to have a


    cigarette, and watch the cityscape at night.


    The same thing happened that day. But when he reached thest step, he suddenly found a girl


    sitting on the bench on the top floor. He could only see the side of her face, and her long hair


    dancing with the wind.


    In the dim light, William looked at his watch. It was already eleven o''clock. Was she not afraid of


    being all by herself here at this time of the night?


    A gust of hot wind blew, and a faint smell of instant noodles suddenly lingered in the air, which


    made him displeased.


    He stared at the girl who was gobbling up the noodles like she was eating something really


    delicious.


    "Is it that delicious?"


    He was never one for small talk before, but he initiated the conversation anyway.


    Maybe it was because that girl was the first person to go to the top floor except him. Maybe it was


    because there were only two of them in thepany. Or maybe it was because of some unknown


    reason...


    "Ah!" The girl was obviously startled. She stood in attention and looked at him like a frightened deer.


    "You... Who are you?"


    "I... I''m also a member of thispany." With his hands in his pockets, William slowly walked


    towards the railing. "You, don''t get too close to the railing," said the girl. "This is the thirty-second


    floor. It''s very dangerous."


    "Why are you here?" William didn''t answer her and asked a question instead.


    "I stumbled upon it by ident," the girl said in a somewhat timid voice. "It''s too suffocating in the


    company, so I came out here to eat. Am I bothering you?"


    William paused for a second. "No." Somehow, he changed the word "yes" into a "no".


    "Okay," the girl nodded. "I''ll go downstairs after eating."


    "Why are you working sote?" William raised an eyebrow. Why didn''t he know that there was such


    a hardworking employee in thepany before?


    "I..." The girl wanted to say something but stopped on a second thought. "No reason."


    "Mary..."


    "How... How do you know my name?" Startled, Mary raised her head and looked at him.


    Her eyes were bright and expressive, and it felt like his heart was hit by something.


    "Your name tag says that you are the assistant of the Public Rtions Department." William spoke


    in a monotone, trying his best to suppress the rapid beating of his heart.


    "Oh," Mary nodded and smiled. "I forgot about that!"


    For a moment, neither of them said anything.


    In the distance, there were many cars, and lights in the high-rise buildings. On the top floor, the two


    of them, one was eating noodles, and the other was looking at the ethereal scenery, without


    interfering with each other.


    "I''m done." Mary stood up and said to William, "The office will be closed soon. You have to


    remember to hurry down or you won''t be able to get out!"


    Of course, he knew that. But did the girl in front of him have no idea who he was?


    "I''ll be heading downstairs first," Mary added.


    William turned his head to look at her. "Okay," he replied.


    Then she walked away without saying anything else.


    As he looked at her back, a feeling that he had never had before surged into William''s heart. Like a


    feather gently touching his heart.


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    When he went downstairs and passed by the Public Rtions Department, he saw that Mary was


    still in the office. There was a dim yellow light on her desk, and she had fallen asleep.


    Later, he never saw her on the top floor again, but subconsciously paid attention to her.


    She often clocked in at thest second. She always workedte and smiled at everyone she


    interacted with.


    Soon, his father forced him to get married. He forgot how he got the idea of contractual marriage. At


    that time, someone''s image popped up in his mind, and that person was Mary...


    He had checked her information. He knew that her father abandoned her and her mother. He knew


    that she had to sleep in thepany for a period of time because she couldn''t afford the rent. He


    knew that she had several part-time jobs at a time...


    He suddenly made up his mind to sign a contract with her. He thought that in this way, her life


    wouldn''t be so difficult.


    He still remembered that when he proposed this agreement for the first time, she was frozen in


    shock.


    As he looked at her eyes, a little disappointment was written all over his face. How could she not


    remember him?


    Perhaps, the moonlight was so dim that night that she barely saw his face? But he remembered


    her... her long hair, her bright eyes, and every detail of her face.


    Coming out of the memory, William stretched out his hand to touch her face on the photo album, as


    if he had lost all of his strength.


    It turned out that he remembered every detail of their rtionship so clearly.


    Scenes of what he had ignored resurfaced.


    He looked around the apartment. The living room and sofa where she would always watch TV. The


    kitchen where she was cooking clumsily, and the bedroom where she rxed every time she felt


    stressed. She had left her shadow on every inch of this apartment.


    But now, she was gone.


    Three days had passed. She didn''t go to hospital, the apartment, thepany, and even her


    hometown...


    ''Where on earth have you gone, Mary?''


    A tear dropped from the corner of William''s eyes and fell on the photo album.


    He never realized how important Mary was to him. It wasn''t until the moment before boarding the


    ne that he panicked.


    It turned out that Mary had quietly walked into his heart long ago, but he stubbornly kept the


    contract, unwilling to forget the past, and took responsibility to indulge Frank... When Mary was still


    by his side, he didn''t feel anything, but once he realized that she was no longer by his side, he felt


    like his arm had been suddenly cut off.


    There would be no more of her here, no more of her pleasing, triumphantughter, no more of the


    warm eyes that lingered on him. It would never happen again.


    "I paid for it. I can do whatever I want!"


    How could he say such thoughtless and inconsiderate words!


    And when he pped Mary, he exerted all of his strength. He didn''t hold back at all! William stared


    at his right hand and thought, ''If I cripple my right hand, will Mary forgive me?''


    But she couldn''t see that anymore. She couldn''t see his regret, his chagrin, his tears...


    "Mary..." William held the photo album tightly in his arms as if she was holding Mary. "Please show


    up... I was wrong... Please don''t leave me..."


    His heart felt like a bottomless and empty void.


    William didn''t dare to think about the days without Mary for the rest of his life. He almost went crazy


    when he couldn''t find her in only three days. This kind of pain was a hundred times more painful


    than when he lost Sansa.


    "Ding Dong, Ding Dong... " Just then, the doorbell rang in the lonely apartment.


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