“Come over and have something to eat.” ze ced a te of sunny-side-up egg in front of her,manding her to eat, “We’ll be staying outte tonight, so eat up and replenish your energy.”
Staying outte? Did he n to y for a long time? Harper took a deep breath and said, “ze, why don’t you juste straight to the point? Finish early and go back early, okay?” She didn’t dare to enjoy his excessive care; it only made her feel disoriented. It would be better if he were straightforward, just show his bad side with her. That way, her feelings towards him wouldn’t be tooplicated.
“How can we finish early with something like this? It’s not like I can control it.”
“You can’t control it?” Harper was astonished. It waste at night, just the two of them on the mountain top. Who else could control it if not him?
“Obviously, how would I know when the meteor shower is going to happen?” ze said, elegantly cutting the egg.
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Harper was confused. What meteor shower?
At that moment, her phone, lying on the table, lit up, and a news alert caught her eye —
?The Orionid Meteor Shower is expected to peak around 12 a. m. tonight. ording to analysis, HLS Mountain’s summit is the optimal geographical location for viewing the meteor shower. However, it has been reported that the summit of HLS Mountain has been booked by a mysterious individual, and ess to the summit has been closed since yesterday.
Meteor shower?
HLS Mountain, wasn’t this HLS Mountain’s summit?
So, the mysterious person mentioned in the news… was ze?
Harper slowly began to understand. She asked nkly, “ze, I choose the wilderness, does it mean to watch meteor shower in the wilderness?”
“Then what else?” ze retorted, picking up a piece of fried egg with his fork and offering it to her lips.
“So, we’re here today to watch the meteor shower?”
Just to watch a meteor shower? So innocent? This didn’t fit ze’s style at all. Harper sighed.
“Yes. What did you think we were here for?”
“Uh.. nothing.” Harper didn’t dare to tell the truth, “Then why did you make me wear this school uniform?”
At her words, ze’s hand holding the fork and knife paused, his eyes bing deep.
Harper looked at him, puzzled.
“When I was 17, someone asked me to watch the meteor shower. But that person stood me up. I ended up spending the whole night alone in the wilderness. That day, I rushed over that I didn’t even have time to change out of my school uniform.”
Harper was taken aback. So he had been stood up before, but what did that have to do with her wearing the uniform now?
“I can’t stand being stood up. So, even though it’s been over ten years, I still want someone in uniform to stand in front of me for the appointment. Today, you’re ying that role.”
Harper realized that despite being by ze’s side for so long, she only little about him, his messy private life, being the richest man in the world, his bad temper, and stubbornness… But she didn’t know much about deeper matters.
ze continued to feed her silently. His face was expressionless.
The night was quiet, not a sound to be heard.
Harper watched him, “Why didn’t you mention this before?”
“What’s there to mention?”
“Being stood up by someone important must have left an impression.”
As she spoke, ze coldly inserted the fork into a piece of fried egg and said, “Not important! Someone who stands me up will never be important to me!”
‘If the person is not important, then why bothering to watch a meteor shower again… and making me wear a school uniform for remembrance. That person must be important. Is it his girlfriend when he was young?’ Harper understood. She was just a substitute today, recing the person who stood him up…
“Why aren’t you wearing a school uniform today then?” Harper asked.
“I’m not 17 anymore, wearing a uniform is just stupid.”
Harper was speechless. So she was the only one being stupid, huh?
After a while, she couldn’t help but look at ze’s cold face and say, “If you really care so much, why not try to make another date with that person again?”
ze red at her fiercely, his tone suddenly turning extremely hostile, “Shut up!”
Suddenly, a sh appeared in the sky.
A shooting star.
Harper quickly stood up from the table and tapped ze, “ze, the shooting stars are here.”
The summit was the closest ce to the sky.
Streaks of light crossed the night sky, drawing the most beautiful arcs in the pitch-ck night.
So beautiful.
Harper stared in awe at the meteor shower falling from the sky. After a few seconds, she lowered her gaze to ze-
Only to see ze still sitting at the table, maintaining his posture, not looking up at the sky. His eyes were fixed on the tabletop, lost in thought.
The next moment, ze set down his knife and fork. He took hold of the wine bottle and walked step by step to the edge of the cliff’s railing, tilting the bottle of red wine, pouring it all out.
Like performing some kind of ritual.
Harper stood behind him, watching him puzzled.
After emptying the bottle, ze tossed it aside and sat down at the railing. He lifted his eyes to the shooting stars in the sky, his face pale.
“Come here!” ze called out to her.
Harper adjusted her ultra-short skirt and walked over slowly, sitting down beside him.
The two sat on the ground, Harper’s hands pressed against the railing, stealing nces at ze from time to time.
For some reason, she felt that ze today was different from usual. Not as sharp, not as domineering, as if he was hiding a lot of emotions.
“Do you know the most thorough way to stand someone up?” ze suddenly asked.
“What?”
“It’s death.” ze’s icy tone was quickly scattered by the wind.
Harper stared at ze, stunned. What did he mean by that?
“He’s dead.” ze sat on the ground, looking up at the shooting stars in the sky. “That year, he didn’te to watch the meteor shower. Because he died on his way here.”
Harper finally understood why ze had looked at her so fiercely when she suggested dating that person again. It turned out that person was someone he couldn’t ever meet again, no matter how domineering he was.
“Can I ask who this person is?” Harper asked cautiously.
“My brother.”
Another unexpected answer. So he had a brother, and his brother was already dead.
No wonder ze had hesitated when he first saw her in this school uniform. Actually, he wanted her to wear a boy’s uniform… But Dn, the ‘all-knowing’ butler, misunderstood and got her this provocative school uniform instead…
Under the night sky, shooting stars fell one by one, like a golden rain. So clear, so beautiful.
“That year, I was waiting there, waited the whole night.” ze’s voice was low, “There was no signal in the wilderness. It wasn’t until the next day that I found out he had died in a car ident on his way here. He and the car fell off the mountain, smashed to pieces.”
He described it in a t tone, but Harper could imagine the shocking scene of the ident at that time, and the madness of waiting alone in the wilderness all night, waiting for the devastating news.
“Haha.” ze suddenly chuckled coldly, His coldughter sounded particrly deste on this night.
Harper sat quietly next to ze, listening attentively. After a while, she spoke, “He didn’t want to stand you up, that’s why…” She didn’t finish her sentence. She thought ze understood better than anyone else that his brother had intended to keep their appointment. He was just ming himself for the meteor shower arrangement that ended tragically with his brother’s death in a car ident.
“The N. E system was originally his idea, but he didn’t follow through. A man who can’t finish anything.” ze said, his tone unable to hide the pain.
Harper sat beside him quietly, absorbing his words.
So, the groundbreaking N. E system that rocked the world was originally intended to be developed by ze’s brother… She had never heard this story anywhere in the news.
“So you developed the N. E system and even make it globally popr.” Harper tilted her head back, looking at the gradually thinning shooting stars, and said earnestly, “There is a saying, after people die, they be stars. They watch over the people on Earth. I believe your brother… He’s always been proud of you. Although it sounds cliche, I still believe it.”
‘And, if he could improve his temper a bit, then his brother would be even prouder.’ Harper silently added this in her mind.
“Harper,” he called her name in a low voice.
“Huh?”