Free Web NovelChapter 776: Chapter 624: If You Don’t Mind, I Can Support You
The first ray of morning light at the mountain top illuminated their dream-like faces.
Shi Wangyue looked at Ning Youguang with gentle eyes and said, "I just feel a bit guilty. After all these years, I haven’t managed to give you a good life..."
Saying this, he seemed a little afraid to look at her face, slightly lowering his eyes, "Right now, we can’t even have an ordinary life."
But Ning Youguang looked at Shi Wangyue with certainty, the reflection of the sun deep in her clear eyes.
"Why do you say that?"
When Shi Wangyue lifted his eyes to look at her again, he found her eyes glowing softly.
He naturally voiced out the words he had kept buried for more than a month, "I’m about to lose everything."
"What does losing everything mean?" Ning Youguang’s expression was unexpectedly calm, her voice as gentle as the wind brushing past withered leaves and branches at the mountain top.
This made Shi Wangyue feel as if he had just told her about a very small matter.
But undeniably, her attitude relaxed his heart quite a bit, "Three months ago, I made a few decisions, these decisions led many investors to withdraw from the company two months ago, resulting in a significant loss, this loss was caused by my decisions, I must take the main responsibility."
—— "To bear this responsibility, almost all my savings since I started working are now gone, and moving forward... I still have to bear a lot of debt."
"Oh."
Ning Youguang hugged her knees and slowly moved closer to Shi Wangyue.
Then she rested her sharp yet rounded chin on Shi Wangyue’s leg, looking at him softly and asking, "Is losing everything enough to fill the gap?"
"Not really." Shi Wangyue replied softly.
"Then how much more is needed?" Ning Youguang asked again softly.
No confusion, no blame, not even urgency or panic.
Shi Wangyue looked into her calm and gentle eyes and pursed his lips, "A little over a billion."
He thought, now you should say something.
But instead, she simply said, "It’s not a big problem."
—— "I have a courtyard house near the Forbidden City, if I use it for collateral, given the current market price, mortgaging it for over a billion shouldn’t be a problem."
She said these words lightly, with no reprimand, showing her complete indulgence towards him, almost as if with a smile.
"Sister..." Shi Wangyue’s heart suddenly turned warm, he said hoarsely, "Don’t you want to ask me anything?"
"I trust you." Ning Youguang said with a smile in her eyes, casually.
"What if my choice is wrong?" Shi Wangyue suddenly wanted to see their limits in accepting this matter.
Unexpectedly, Ning Youguang’s acceptance range for this matter was wider than his, "Then it’s wrong."
She said, "Anyway, I’ll live no matter what."
Then she smiled and asked him back, "What about you? If you don’t mind, I can support you."
...
The courtyard house near the Forbidden City was one of the few properties Ning Youguang had accumulated since her rebirth.
To be honest, back then, when she came to Beijing, no matter what, she wanted to buy this courtyard house, for a few reasons.
Just two.
One was knowing it could make money.
The other was Ning Youguang’s love for large courtyards.
She liked old houses, liked deep courtyards.
Therefore, in her past life after returning to the country, she stayed alone in a deep courtyard in Jiangnan, living a secluded life.
In this life, the first thing she did after coming to Beijing was to buy a courtyard house.
Besides, she was also thinking that after graduating from university, she could live there once she started working.
Unexpectedly, she did manage to buy the courtyard house.
But it sat unused in her hands for over twenty years, nearly ten years since her graduation, and she never lived in it.
Not only did she never live in it, but now she also had to mortgage it to the bank.
"All actions are impermanent."
"All actions are impermanent."
"All actions are impermanent."
The day Ning Youguang took out the property deed of the courtyard house from the cabinet to hand it to Shi Wangyue, she silently recited in her heart.
...
The mortgage agreement was signed the day before Ning Youguang’s birthday.
She went with Shi Wangyue.
The morning they set out, it was an exceptionally good day.
The air was crisp and cold, the sun hanging high, even the sky was clearer than the previous days.
As the two left the apartment building, they found sparrows chirping on the bare branches in the neighborhood.
"After we finish up later, we should bring some millet to feed the sparrows." Despite heading to the bank for a mortgage loan, Ning Youguang seemed as cheerful as if she were going to claim a lottery prize.
She was bouncing as she walked, her joy indescribable.
Shi Wangyue’s feelings were a bit complicated, not knowing whether to smile, or to smile.
But indeed, throughout that morning, he kept smiling, and even heard himself speaking gently, "Aside from millet, sparrows also love sunflower seeds."
"Yes, and cracked corn." In the half-lit and half-shadowed courtyard, Shi Wangyue saw Ning Youguang’s face shining brighter than the sun above.
For their upcoming arrangements, both dressed up carefully before leaving home.
At the moment, they were wearing matching couple’s black coats in the same color, paired with cashmere sweaters and casual pants, leather shoes on their feet.
Both were tall and slim, making this outfit look chic and elegant.
Of course, what was more precious was their invaluable beauty.
"When we meet the creditors later, we have to act like we just went to the market." Ning Youguang looped her arm through Shi Wangyue’s, speaking both seriously and not seriously.
"Why do you say that?" Shi Wangyue asked, amused, as he reached to open the car door while holding Ning Youguang’s hand.
"Because we need to eliminate the perception of financial distress through our demeanor." Ning Youguang casually swept her long hair off her face, lifting her pointed chin proudly, "It’s not a big deal for us, it’s just a temporary strategic contraction."
"Alright." Shi Wangyue couldn’t help but laugh aloud.
And his good mood continued as they walked into the bank lobby.
The bank manager, who had been waiting for their arrival, stood at the entrance with a few subordinates. Seeing Shi Wangyue’s irrepressible smile, he cheerfully said, "It seems Mr. Shi’s new project after the mortgage is quite promising!"
Shi Wangyue smoothly replied, "Yes, it’s quite promising, worth holding on to in the long term."
Ning Youguang, standing beside him, caught the bank manager’s glowing gaze just in time, feeling a stir in her heart.
Sure enough, when they sat down to sign the mortgage agreement, the cooperation proposal the manager handed to Shi Wangyue offered 20% more funds than previously discussed over the phone.
And after the agreement was signed.
He discreetly asked Shi Wangyue, aside, "Mr. Shi, is there still room for investors in your upcoming project?"
Ning Youguang, sipping tea on the side, her eyes sparkled. 1314
