ATLAS TRANSLATES

Fu Junyan left with the two little treasures. The film set was still the same, but every time I returned to the hotel and walked to the second floor, looking at that room at the end of the hallway, I had an indescribable feeling in my heart. Fortunately, I could also go home after finishing work. At that time, I must rest well, spend more time with Gu Xiao’an, and Fu Junyan. Oh, and add Xiao Qi too…

In the story, these days when Bai Yan was injured were the happiest days she had experienced in many years. Han Zaijun’s care, and his gaze without prejudice, disgust, or pity, made her feel, for the first time in many years, a faint warmth from the upper-class society that had been gradually drifting away from her.

However, her happiness didn’t seem to last long because the day of Han Zaijun and Bai Xiao’s engagement party arrived. Actually, Bai Yan knew why she was so distressed. Because once again, she had to watch helplessly as all her hopes and happiness were taken away. She was going to be abandoned again, and she would end up with nothing left, worthless.

At this moment, Amo stood up. She shook awake the confused and helpless Bai Yan, who was curled up in a corner hugging a doll. She shouted at this lonely and helpless pitiful child: “Go and fight for it! Take it back! Do you think it’s so easy for a prince to find his princess? If the princess falls into a bottomless dry well, how can the prince find her? First, the princess must not give up on herself. She must be willing to climb up, to climb towards the well opening, only then can the prince see her hand asking for help! What’s the use of silently being sad? Do you think your waiting, your silence will give you hope? Even if there might be a chance, but do you think it means anything for a person to get the doll they loved at 5 years old when they’re 15, or to finally be able to afford the dress they loved at 25 when they’re 65? Yanyan, go see the person you like, do the things you want to do, treat these as the last willfulness of your youth. Look, you’ve grown up now, you’re so tall. But even in the most ignorant and youthful times, you’ve never been willful once. Go… just be willful once… my princess in my heart…”

Bai Yan finally arrived at the hotel where Han Zaijun and Bai Xiao were getting engaged at the last moment. When she appeared, the host was asking the engaged couple to exchange engagement rings. Bai Yan’s eyes swept past everyone, only looking straight at that man in a neat suit, handsome and dashing, Han Zaijun.

At this time, he was holding a bright red velvet box in his hand, turning his face to look at her like this. Unlike the shock of everyone around him at her sudden intrusion, he just looked at her coldly, showing no emotion. Bai Yan’s heart trembled. She remembered when he came back before, at the moment of their reunion after a long separation, she had also intruded abruptly like this, just to see him once.

But she ran towards him without hesitation like this. Bai Yan used all her strength, lifting her head persistently and seriously. She met Han Zaijun’s deep eyes and slowly stretched out her hand. She said, her voice slightly trembling: “Please come with me, please take me away, please take me home…”

Han Zaijun’s face initially showed no expression. He just looked down at her inscrutably. Just when Bai Yan was beginning to despair, she heard him say clearly and steadily: “Alright!” Then something fell on the cold tile floor with a crisp sound, her hand was grasped, and that person’s breath was cold, but she felt warm.

Bai Yan’s lowered eyes saw the red velvet box rolling at her feet, the ring inside also falling out. She looked up to see Han Zaijun holding her hand, giving her a smile. Then, she heard him sigh with some disbelief and hesitation: “Yanyan, you finally came…”

This scene stunned everyone. The first to react was Bai Zimo. He held the tearful Bai Xiao, accusing from behind: “Zaijun, you’ve gone mad. Your fiancée is right here, how can you hold that ill-fated star’s hand! Come to your senses, what are you doing? Hurry and pick up the engagement ring! Have you lost your mind?”

The smile at the corner of Han Zaijun’s mouth slightly raised, but this time it was cold. He comfortingly looked at Bai Yan, whose eyes flashed with a trace of sorrow, pulled her close, and didn’t let go of their clasped hands. He just said coldly: “Zimo, it’s you and uncle who have gone mad. The son of the Han family is to marry the daughter of the Bai family. Yanyan is the daughter of the Bai family. The one you’ve protected for over ten years is someone else’s sister. And the one you’ve bullied for over ten years is actually your own sister. Zimo, you should come to your senses.” Saying this, he looked towards the guests and said loudly: “Everyone, I returned this time to marry Bai Yan, the daughter of the Bai family. From now on, she is a member of my Han family, the wife of Han Zaijun.”

Bai Yan was stunned on the spot, but heard Han Zaijun slowly speak again: “All these years, I’ve been wondering, what has the youngest daughter of the Bai family become? With such a doting, obsessive brother, such loving parents, has she become a bit spoiled? Has she grown more beautiful and charming? Does she still like dolls? Or perhaps, has she become a bit braver? Or maybe she’s still like before, obediently and secretly sitting behind me to listen to me play the piano? I’ve imagined it thousands of times, but never thought that when I saw you again, it would be like that. The Bai Yan I saw again was closed off, timid, fearful and panicked, yet also strong and persistent. But she was also the one that made my heart ache the most. Bai Yan, I’ve known since I was little that I was to marry you as my wife. Yanyan, I’ve been waiting for you to break out of your shell and come find me. I’m glad you didn’t disappoint me, you came to keep me. Yanyan, fate is in your own hands. Look, I’m also in your hands.”

Bai Yan looked into Han Zaijun’s eyes, then somewhat dazedly lowered her head to look at their clasped hands. Her other hand, which had been holding her backpack, loosened due to her daze, and the backpack fell to the ground. For the first time, she didn’t care about the doll inside, but carefully and gently touched her and Han Zaijun’s clasped hands. Her eyes were light and pure, she just quietly repeated: “You… are in my hands…” As she said this, tears fell, but she smiled. That smile was as pure and sacred as a snow lotus in the extreme polar winter, indescribably beautiful.

Just at this moment, Bai Xiao suddenly went crazy, pushing away Bai Zimo who was holding her. She ran forward frantically, picked up Bai Yan’s backpack that had fallen to the ground, and ran crazily towards the back door of the hotel. Bai Xiao’s speed was too fast, her hand hit Bai Yan’s ankle. Bai Yan lowered her head in surprise, her gaze first looking at the suddenly empty space by her feet, then raising her face, regardless of everything, she shook off Han Zaijun’s hand and ran after Bai Xiao.

In the back garden of the hotel, there was a huge lake. The water was very deep, with thick mud at the bottom. Bai Xiao ran while opening the old backpack, finally throwing the backpack on the ground. She took out the half-old doll inside with one hand and smiled sarcastically. By this time, she was standing by the lake, boarding an unmanned small boat on the lake surface. Then she raised her hand holding the doll high, holding it over the lake surface. When she turned her face, it was full of challenge as she looked towards Bai Yan who was chasing her.

Bai Yan stopped not far from her, breathing heavily, her unmoving eyes fixed on the doll raised in Bai Xiao’s hand. That doll she had always protected since she was little, with golden long hair, bright long eyelashes, blue eyes, and a pink long dress that had been washed to almost white.

Looking at her doll in Bai Xiao’s hand, Bai Yan’s face was very cold. Her almost solemn expression turned faintly towards the arrogantly smiling Bai Xiao, and she shouted at her word by word: “Give it back to me!” Just three words, but clear to the bone.

“I can give it back to you, but you come on the boat too. Let’s talk alone,” Bai Xiao smiled, hatred flashing in her eyes.

Bai Yan’s palm trembled slightly, but she still walked towards the small boat. They looked at each other, both with incompatible expressions. Bai Xiao stood at the bow of the boat, Bai Yan at the stern. Bai Xiao smiled slightly, bent down to start the small boat, and soon, the boat stopped in the middle of the lake.

The crowd that followed behind was shocked again and again, seeing the two main characters of the incident suddenly standing on a small boat in the middle of the lake in the blink of an eye.

Han Zaijun frowned slightly, looking at Bai Yan’s tense back, knowing she was hiding her panic. Then looking at the doll half-suspended in the air in Bai Xiao’s hand, he frowned even more, turning his head to look at the Bai family father and son behind him. Then, he busily pressed a string of phone numbers in his hand, turning his head again to watch Bai Yan standing at the stern of the boat without moving.

Before the crowd could react, in the next moment, they saw Bai Yan recklessly pounce forward, trying to snatch the doll from Bai Xiao’s hand. In a flash, both of them fell into the lake together. Following this, Bai Xiao screamed, her hand loosened and the doll fell onto the lake surface. But the doll just gently rocked in the water, still with an innocent expression unaware of the changes. Bai Xiao coughed violently, slapping the water fiercely out of fear, bobbing up and down. Seeing this, Bai Zimo had already run forward quickly and jumped into the lake, swimming rapidly towards Bai Xiao. When he passed by Bai Yan, who was closer to him, to save Bai Xiao, Bai Zimo subconsciously paused, but after hearing Bai Xiao’s cry for help, he no longer hesitated and swam past Bai Yan towards Bai Xiao.

At the moment Bai Yan fell into the water, her whole body began to tremble violently. Since she was six years old, what she feared most was water. They all said water was gentle, but she never thought so. She only felt that no matter how gentle its appearance, in just an instant, it could turn into huge waves and floods that would drown her, drown all of her… When she surfaced again after sinking several times, she saw that doll floating on the water surface again. It was just a bit more worn in its clothes, but everything else was the same as before. The doll seemed to be forever unaware of changes, forever calm and composed, forever with that happy expression. But she, the trajectory of her life, had all changed beyond recognition…

Then, Bai Zimo didn’t look at her struggle, directly swimming past her towards the distance. Bai Yan saw from afar what seemed to be her father stopping Han Zaijun who wanted to jump in to save her. They were entangled, one blocking, one resisting. She couldn’t hear what they were arguing about, and she didn’t want to know anymore. She really had no more expectations. What kind of sin was it that would make her closest family want her to disappear? Countless times, she always hoped that her father and brother would calm down, always felt that one day they would forgive her and love her as before. But now she finally truly knew, she really, really was the abandoned child of the Bai family.

Bai Yan suddenly felt tired like this. She gave up struggling. Her beautiful eyes were open, with sadness and sorrow of being abandoned in her eyes, and also the happiness of being loved by someone. Such complex and profound eyes, appearing so frankly in this light girl’s eyes, looked especially clear and transparent in the lake water. But in the last moment, all her emotions were submerged in her eyes, leaving only the deathly stillness of a deep lake, and the despair and disappointment that could not be erased finally flowed into emptiness.

Bai Yan used her last strength to grab the doll floating on the water surface. With a faint smile, Bai Yan finally let her body slowly sink like this. Her long hair spread out in the water like magnificent black seaweed. Her slender and graceful body appeared and disappeared in the water. She sank slowly, slowly like this, like an elf with open eyes at midnight, about to sleep forever at the bottom of the lake in such a beautifully tragic posture.

Bai Zimo panicked. When he hugged Bai Xiao onto the boat and looked back into the lake, he saw Bai Yan giving up on survival and slowly sinking like that. In all these years, he had never really looked at her properly. In his heart, she was no longer a sister, but the culprit who destroyed his happiness and made him lose his mother. She was really an unlucky child. When he and his father woke up at that time, what they saw was her being fine and their mother already dead. They didn’t understand at all the pain of almost losing her, only knowing that she was responsible for their mother’s death.

But what if she wasn’t fine at that time, if she was also sick, also at death’s door. What would everything have become? When Bai Zimo finally looked at her, when he clearly saw her despairing face, he was shocked to realize how similar their eyebrows and eyes were. And she just gave up struggling like that, letting herself slowly sink. He witnessed with his own eyes her sinking into the water, her bright eyes open, a crystal clear tear sliding down her cheek, quickly merging with the lake water. Even though Bai Yan was already in the water, he still saw that burning tear so clearly. At this moment, he realized that all the blood in his body seemed to freeze. He looked down at Bai Xiao in his arms in some panic, but saw her raise a strange and vicious smile, completely unlike the sister he had doted on in the past. Bai Zimo was stunned, looking again at the lake surface where Bai Yan’s figure could no longer be found, he suddenly felt heart-wrenching pain.

Han Zaijun finally let go of his hand, leaving a sentence: “I’ll go save her.” Then he turned and plunged into the lake. On this side, Bai father’s aged face was already full of tears. When he saw Bai Yan fall into the water, after so many years, he finally felt that familiar pain. He even remembered his late wife’s face, looking at him silently crying so resentfully. That was his daughter, that was really his daughter… A voice was screaming crazily in his mind. When he was stopped by Han Zaijun and couldn’t go save her, when he heard Han Zaijun asking him again and again: “Do you still remember she is your daughter? Do you remember?” He felt pain and guilt as if he had gone mad.

When Han Zaijun hugged Bai Yan ashore, she was lying quietly in his arms like a sleeping elf in the dark night, without sound, without words, as if she never wanted to wake up again.

When Han Zaijun passed by Bai father, he cast a contemptuous glance at him. Then he looked towards the small boat that had already reached the shore. Bai Zimo, unprecedentedly, didn’t take care of Bai Xiao, but sat alone at the bow of the boat, his expression bewildered.

At this time, the cold aura around Han Zaijun intensified. When he saved Bai Yan in the water, he almost went crazy, because no matter how much he calculated, he didn’t expect Bai Yan would be disappointed to the point of giving up struggling. Therefore, only after he repeatedly confirmed that she had just fainted did he finally breathe a sigh of relief. But the anger in his heart finally no longer wanted to be restrained. He opened his mouth and angrily rebuked: “How desperate must one be to make a person who fears water stop struggling like that? Well, after so many years, Yanyan has finally given up on you.

Saying this, he looked down at the doll that Bai Yan was still tightly grasping in her hand even at the last moment. He reached out to take the doll, saying coldly: “I later discovered that Yanyan had a habit of hugging the doll and talking to it. To know what she was thinking, I secretly installed a voice recorder inside when she wasn’t paying attention. Now it’s been soaked in water, whether you can hear it or not depends on your luck.”

Then he sarcastically curved his lips, carelessly throwing the doll on the ground. After hitting the ground, the doll suddenly made a sound. Listening carefully, it was actually Bai Yan’s voice. Because of this, Han Zaijun’s eyes showed a trace of fluctuation, but he still unhesitatingly carried the unconscious Bai Yan and quickly left.

The voice from the doll was intermittent. The soft female voice was beautiful and gentle, but carried a faint, indelible sorrow. The people present only heard the girl say: “Mom, when will dad and brother stop being angry at Yanyan?”

“Mom, brother helped Bai Xiao again this time…”

“Mom, I miss you very much…”

“Mom, I did something bad, so my hand is broken. Only brother Zaijun is taking care of me. It’s good that brother Zaijun is taking care of me… Brother Zaijun is back, will he also think I’m a jinx? Mom, will dad and brother secretly come to see me, secretly care about me? Is it that Yanyan just doesn’t know, but dad and brother actually want me…”

“Mom, brother Zaijun is also going to be taken away by Bai Xiao. Yanyan seems to have nothing left…”

“Mom, they don’t want me anymore, do they…”

“Mom, can I go and take brother Zaijun back? But if I do that, I really can’t be the daughter of the Bai family anymore, can I? They will be angry, they will hate me again… But for so many years, only brother Zaijun has called me Yanyan… I want to be Yanyan so much…”

“Mom, Amo asked me, when I’m old, which period of my life was the happiest? I said, it was all the days before I was six years old. At that time, life was carefree, and the most painful things were only piano tests and exams. At that time, brother doted on me, liked to surround me. Dad would hug and kiss me every day when he came home. And mom, mom would hold me and cool off under the big tree. When brother Zaijun played the piano, I could also sit on the chair beside him. At that time, I only wanted to grow up because mom wouldn’t let me eat more candy, and thought that was painful. But now thinking back, that pain was so small. Before I was six years old, I was the daughter of the Bai family, the little princess Yanyan loved by everyone in the Bai family…” After that, sobbing sounds came from the doll.

Everyone fell silent, but in the midst of the silence, suddenly came the suppressed crying of a man. Bai father collapsed to the ground, finally unable to hold back his tears. And Bai Zimo, looking at the doll on the grass, cried out loud, a grown man crying like a child at this moment.

Sighs kept coming from the crowd, and finally an elder spoke up: “That child has indeed been wronged…”

Later, Bai Yan was sent to the hospital by Han Zaijun. After falling into the water, Bai Yan had a high fever for several consecutive days. When she woke up, her eyes were clear and pure, no longer having that hint of sorrow from before. Strangely, Bai Yan remembered everything when she woke up, except for everything about her own background. She didn’t remember her father and brother at all. And she clearly said: “I am an abandoned child, I have no relatives.” Han Zaijun and Amo looked at each other speechlessly, but unanimously maintained silence. Whatever the truth or facts were didn’t matter, they only wanted Bai Yan to be happy.

And the doctor said, after experiencing extreme pain, some people would selectively forget…

A few months later, Bai Yan and Han Zaijun got married. That day, Bai father and Bai Zimo also came. However, Bai Yan no longer recognized them. She smiled cleanly, nodding to them just like she did to everyone else, and then never looked at them again. After the wedding, Bai Yan and Han Zaijun went to America. Soon after, Amo also went to America with Han Zaijun’s help. And these two men of the Bai family, when they finally understood their own debt, had nowhere to repay it, left only with a lifetime of remorse.

In the final scene, Bai Xiao, down and out, was waiting for Bai Zimo at a street corner. Finally seeing his figure, she chased after him calling: “Brother!” But Bai Zimo stopped his steps, only saying faintly: “I’m not your brother…”

Small Theater: One day, Gu Baobei had a sudden impulse and shouted: “I’ll cook today!”

Fu Junyan and Gu Xiao’an exchanged a glance, silently.

Seeing this, Gu Baobei puffed up her cheeks, put her hands on her hips and shouted: “I’ll cook today!”

Gu Xiao’an’s little body shook, twisting his little hands, grinning and nodding frantically, but that smile was as stiff as a bun. However, the excited Miss Gu Pufferfish didn’t notice at all. Instead, she turned her head full of expectation towards Fu Junyan. Fu Junyan looked at her and chuckled, reaching out to tuck her long hair that had fallen on her forehead, saying: “Be careful.”

So, Miss Gu Pufferfish rushed into the kitchen full of enthusiasm.

Hearing the banging sounds coming from the kitchen, Xiao Qi, who was curled up sleeping nearby, shook its body in fright and let out a pitiful bark. Gu Xiao’an immediately drooped his little face, pulling Fu Junyan’s sleeve and calling softly: “Brother-in-law… brother-in-law…”

Fu Junyan patted his little face, sighed, then lowered his head to take out his phone and sent a message.

Finally, the noise stopped, and Miss Gu Pufferfish excitedly brought out four dishes.

She smiled with her eyes narrowed, saying: “Eat! You eat!” As she spoke, she eagerly handed over bowls and chopsticks.

Fu Junyan took them, first moving An’an’s bowl and chopsticks away, placing half a bottle of milk in front of An’an. Meeting Gu Pufferfish’s confused gaze, he said: “You watch him drink the milk first.” Then he turned his head and secretly winked at An’an, saying seriously: “Don’t waste it, understand?”

After saying this, Fu Junyan smiled warmly at Miss Gu Pufferfish, taking the lead to pick up a fried potato and chew it.

“Does it taste good?”

“Mm.”

“Then eat more!”

“Mm.”

“Gu Xiao’an, hurry up and drink your milk! The food sister made is so delicious! Last time you couldn’t beat him to it, you didn’t get to eat much! An’an! Hurry up!” Seeing Fu Junyan eating happily, Gu Pufferfish thought her cooking skills had improved again, so she waved her little fist in the air even more energetically, encouraging Gu Xiao’an to quickly finish his milk and eat the food.

Gu Xiao’an drooped his eyes, hugging the milk bottle and constantly sucking on the nipple, his little face puffing in and out, but actually drinking very slowly in small sips.

Ding ding ding! Just as Gu Baobei was about to start eating, her phone suddenly rang. So our Miss Gu Pufferfish sighed, put down her chopsticks, rummaged through her bag for a long time to find the phone, looking at the screen suspiciously and saying: “Huh, why is it Shu Shuang!” After answering the phone for a few minutes, a certain pufferfish held the phone, with a regretful face, sniffling and saying: “Shu Shuang wants me to have dinner with her, she has something to tell me. So you eat today! Eat more, okay? What a pity… my good cooking skills…”

“Mm.” Fu Junyan slightly raised his eyebrows, nodded, seemingly reluctantly picking up another piece of meat, saying softly: “Be careful, come back early.”

When Gu Baobei left and the door closed, Fu Junyan still picked up his chopsticks and took a bite of loofah without changing his expression.

But Gu Xiao’an finally spit out the nipple, looking at Fu Junyan with a bitter face, his face flattened like a little bitter gourd, looking at the dishes on the table as if they were poison, then glancing at Fu Junyan who was chewing the bitter gourd.

The little one worriedly called softly: “Brother-in-law!”

Fu Junyan smiled, but picked up the last dish of salt-baked shrimp meat. After putting it in his mouth, after a while, he turned his head to look at Gu Xiao’an and sighed: “We can’t let your sister cook anymore! It’s too sweet…”

Saying this, he put down his chopsticks, patted An’an’s little head and calmly stood up, taking a garbage bag from the cupboard and slowly pouring the four dishes on the table into it. Then, looking around at the kitchen that was in a mess as if swept by a storm, Fu Junyan barely found a good pot and made a bowl of meat noodles for An’an. As for himself, after calmly drinking two large glasses of water, he began to wash dishes, fix the gas stove, scrub pots, and had no appetite for the whole night.

After Gu Xiao’an finished his noodles, he lay on Xiao Qi, both little ones raising their heads to stare at Fu Junyan. Later when they got bored, Gu Xiao’an grabbed Fu Junyan’s phone to play with, accidentally opening the sent messages. The little one naturally couldn’t recognize it, but if Gu Pufferfish were there, she would see that the name flashing on the first sent message was, Shu Shuang!

A few days later, when Miss Gu Pufferfish was secretly browsing online again, she found a hot post in her usual forum about cooking and beauty care. After reading it, Gu Pufferfish clutched her chest and hurriedly went to put on a face mask.

A few more days later, Gu Pufferfish found a magazine on the sofa. Flipping through it boredly page by page, a certain article title suddenly appeared: “The harm of cooking fumes to the skin.”

After several days of worry and long consideration, a certain pufferfish said very melancholically and regretfully at the dinner table: “Fu Junyan ah! Heh! Your cooking is really delicious! I’ll never get tired of it! So I won’t cook anymore! An’an, don’t miss sister’s cooking, okay!” As she spoke, she secretly glanced at her handbag, thinking about sneaking out tomorrow to throw away the magazine, must not, must not let Fu Junyan see it…

Of course, a certain pufferfish was still very conscientious and stocked up on many face masks, pulling Fu Junyan to lie on her lap after eating to apply them for him…