Just Want To Be With You

Just want to be with You – Chapter 1

Translator: Oinkoink

Chapter 1

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Drizzling rain and wind drifted along the west coast making these November days exceptionally cold.
Under the umbrella, Liang Yin didn’t feel the coldness as she looked at the lawn in front of her, bidding her final farewell.

There wasn’t any more of the initial sadness in her eyes, only a little calmness.

The lawn was dug up and covered with piles of stones burying her companion – a dog named Victor who had accompanied her for 13 years.

There was still no reply from yesterday’s last text message on her cellphone.

___ Victor is dead.

And the previous message was –

___ Mingzhen, Victor seems to be dying.

Mingzhen.
Zhong Mingzhen, head of Zhong’s Conglomerate.
Her husband and the man she had loved for 13 years.

The wind fluttered her hair over as Liang Yin’s eyes blurred up.

That year, she came to the Zhong family with her maternal grandma.
She was sitting on the sofa chatting with Old Madam Zhong when she heard the car outside.
Raising her head, she caught sight of Zhong Mingzhen getting out of the car.

That year, he was just 20 and has always been aloof.
The white shirt on his body glowed under the summer sun.

Old Madam Zhong said – this is my grandson.
As a courtesy, she stood up and smiled.
He glanced at her without any expression, merely nodded his head before he took leave to go upstairs.

He rushed back from school to get something that he forgot at home.

Innately alienation.

It was two months later when she met him again and it was the first day of summer vacation.
Originally, the one intended to pick her up was supposed to be people from the Shen family, nevertheless she saw Zhong Mingzhen instead.

Unaware of the situation, she got into the car when he turned his head and said – your great-aunt is in the intensive care unit and your maternal grandma had rushed over there.
I am here to bring you home.

There wasn’t any superfluous word.

Her maternal grandma had forgotten to notify her in a haste.

As her maternal grandma was in the Zhong family at that time, Old Madam Zhong had said – You go first.
I will let Mingzhen pick Yinyin up.

She lowered her head as she listened, unable to explain clearly what she was feeling when inadvertently she heard a whimper.
She turned to look back and caught sight of the cage on the backseat.
There was a puppy lying prone in it.

She didn’t know the breed of the dog.
He just said it was a border collie with no desire to continue the subject.

He brought her back to the Zhong family that day where she stayed for a while.
Great-aunt’s days were limited and as one of the only two remaining living relatives, her maternal grandma stayed to keep her company.
There was no one left in the Shen family.
Old Madam Zhong was concerned about leaving her alone, hence she simply let her stay in the Zhong family.
She actually wished to go back to Shen family as it didn’t matter to her staying home alone.
However, Old Madam Zhong insisted she stay as she didn’t feel at ease.

Maternal grandma and Old Madam Zhong were lifetime bosom friends.
Old Madam Zhong had long treated her as a junior member of the family since she moved to her maternal grandma’s home several months ago.

Once she resided in the Zhong family, she had also met Zhong Mingzhen but they seldom talked and rarely saw each other.
Zhong Mingzhen was someone quiet and very busy.
He had school work to complete with lots of friends around him and a large family business to inherit.
She didn’t take any notice as she was busy with her own stuff.
Revising her school work, taking dance lessons in the afternoon and accompanying Old Madam Zhong three meals a day.

From time to time, she would take care of the little puppy named Victor.

Old Madam Zhong had asked what the little puppy’s name was.
Zhong Mingzhen had said, Victor, without hesitation, as if he had long thought of that name.

She had looked up the meaning of the name.
Victor means the winner with the implied meaning of integrity, trustworthy and unchangeable.
Just like the person himself.

He had won this little border collie from a wager with his friends.
It was unclear if he liked it or not as she would occasionally see him play with it but most of the time it was handed over to others.
She, however, would often keep it company.
She would feed it, bathe it, take it for walks and foster its good habits.

At first, there wasn’t much fondness but was rather based on a kind of dependence as she was one who sojourned in such a huge Zhong family, but later she was reluctant to part with it since she had been raising it.

Zhong Mingzhen had to leave half a month earlier for school.
When Old Madam Zhong asked if he would take Victor along, he said he would.
At that moment, she felt a little distress but who would have thought on the day of departure just when she bid farewell to Victor with a biscuit, Zhong Mingzhen’s voice abruptly came from behind, “Do you like it? I will give it to you if you like it.”

She turned back and saw Zhong Mingzhen looking at her from above with an undulating calm gaze.

Since then, she had been taking care of Victor – from middle school to university, her first step into the filming industry, to getting conferred the Film Empress title in one fell swoop, then quitting the film industry and marrying Zhong Mingzhen…

All the way till now.

Soon, he completely carved the originally blurred traces in her heart.
She had liked him.
From the first glance which was somewhat an initial hesitation till unwavering now.
Seemingly seen in his eyes, he could discern her unwillingness to part with it thus he fulfilled her wishes.

After that, it was exa