SAG -Chapter 126 Prince Haiman’s Past

Time returned to noon, at Shanghai Airport.

A private plane from London, England, landed at the airport. Prince Haiman walked down from the plane with his wife, Lin Mei, and his two youngest children.

Looking at the familiar sight of Shanghai Airport, Prince Haiman took a deep breath. But in the next moment, he began coughing dryly, irritated by the cold air.

“You really are something. Can’t you be a little more careful?” Lin Mei gently patted Prince Haiman’s back.

“Cough, cough. It’s fine. I just choked by accident.” Under his wife’s gentle pats, Prince Haiman quickly recovered.

“Your health hasn’t been very good recently. Why don’t we skip looking for that person this time?” Lin Mei suggested.

She knew that every year when her husband came here, he would search for someone in Shanghai. Or rather, the reason Prince Haiman came to China and spent New Year in Shanghai was precisely to look for someone.

Prince Haiman smiled and said, “My body is perfectly strong. Didn’t the doctor also say there was nothing wrong? Don’t worry.”

“If you want to find someone, why don’t you ask the government for help? I believe that with the Chinese government’s abilities, they would be able to find the person you’re looking for very quickly,” Lin Mei said.

She had always been puzzled by her husband’s behavior.

With Prince Haiman’s identity, logically speaking, finding someone should be extremely easy. Yet he insisted on not using any method at all and simply wandered around by himself.

If one said he cared deeply about this person, he had never asked the government to help find him. But if one said he did not care, he came every year to search for him.

Moreover, Lin Mei also knew that her husband had been deeply influenced by this person. When they got married, Prince Haiman had personally told her that it was because of this person’s influence that he had fallen in love with her.

So Lin Mei was also very curious about this person.

When Prince Haiman heard his wife say this, a heartfelt smile appeared on his face.

“You don’t understand. Don’t you Chinese people believe in the word ‘fate’? There’s also a saying: if there is fate, people separated by a thousand miles will meet; without fate, they may stand face-to-face and still not know each other.”

Prince Haiman even quoted a poetic saying, showing that he had indeed studied Chinese culture quite well.

Lin Mei did not know whether to laugh or cry as she said, “That’s used to describe men and women. If you hadn’t always said that person was a man, I would be a little suspicious.”

“Haha, you don’t need to doubt that. It is beyond question that I love you.” Prince Haiman was quite skilled at speaking sweet words, and his tone was deeply affectionate.

“Back then, he and I met by fate. I believe that if we truly have fate, we will meet again in the vast sea of people,” Prince Haiman said with certainty.

At this moment, he also thought of the scene when he had met that person, and a smile could not help appearing at the corners of his mouth.

When he first met that person, it had not been a pleasant encounter.

Prince Haiman remembered that he had been eighteen years old at the time, and it was also when he had experienced his first heartbreak. Back then, Prince Haiman had still been very sentimental. After falling out of love, he sat alone on a bench by the river and began crying.

Although, looking back now, Prince Haiman felt that he might not truly have been that heartbroken, at the time, he had felt as if the sky were about to collapse.

Most importantly, it was at that moment that the man walked over.

After learning about his situation, not only did the man fail to comfort him, he instead took out his own wallet, pulled out a photo of a woman from inside, and handed it to him.

With a strong sense of showing off in his tone, he said, “This is my girlfriend. She’s about to become my fiancée. What do you think? Envious, aren’t you?”

At the time, Prince Haiman was so furious that his lungs nearly exploded. He wished he could call over the bodyguards hiding in the distance and have them beat the man up fiercely.

What made Prince Haiman even angrier back then was that this fellow had not a shred of sympathy, nor the slightest ability to read the room. He actually began showing off about his love story with his girlfriend.

From how they met, to how they got acquainted, to how they came to understand each other, that man told the whole story in an extremely gentle tone.

Although Prince Haiman had been very angry at the time, he did not leave. He had not admitted it then, but he had truly been drawn in by that love story.

There were no earth-shaking twists, no schemes and deception, and no melodramatic incidents. Their love was like water flowing naturally into a channel, or as if they had been born to be together. It was so plain, yet so warm.

After that, the man also talked to him about Chinese views on love, and shared some of his own opinions about love.

Although his tone contained plenty of mocking remarks toward Prince Haiman, for some reason, Prince Haiman was furious inside, but he simply did not storm off.

Just like that, while heartbroken, Prince Haiman was forced to listen to that man tell love stories for an entire afternoon.

After returning home, Prince Haiman’s mind was filled entirely with that man’s words. When he carefully thought about them while lying in bed that night, he discovered that the man had not actually been showing off.

If analyzed carefully, it was completely possible to hear that the man had been telling him one thing all along: love is beautiful. Regardless of whether two people can continue walking together, one should still be full of expectation toward love. Even if they separate, one should remember the beautiful moments they shared and forget the unpleasant ones. That way, when looking back in the future, one will truly have beautiful memories.

And at that moment, Haiman also realized that the man had actually been worried that he might take things too hard and jump into the river.

Although that man had angered him badly, for some reason, Prince Haiman returned to that place again the next day—and he really found the man there.

For the next period of time, whenever Prince Haiman had nothing to do, he would go look for this man to chat and play. He discovered that talking with this person was extremely interesting.

Even later, when the man learned his identity, he was only slightly surprised and did not change his attitude toward him. When it was time to mock him, he still mocked him mercilessly, giving him, a prince, no face at all.

The longer Prince Haiman chatted with this person, the more he discovered that this person seemed not to care about many things. Or rather, he possessed an extremely strong confidence in himself.

Once, when Prince Haiman complained to him that he was short of money, but did not want to spend his family’s money and wanted to earn money himself, the man casually gave him an idea.

At first, the idea did not sound like much, but after thinking carefully, Prince Haiman discovered that what the man had said actually contained a complete development path, with very feasible operations.

What left the deepest impression on Prince Haiman was that the man had once told him that if he truly wanted to make money, he had to set his sights on the man’s homeland—that mysterious ancient country in the East.

At the time, Prince Haiman had been very puzzled. He thought the man only said this because it was his own country. But he remembered that the man’s face at the time had carried a powerful sense of pride.

“Do you believe that twenty years from now, our country will once again stand at the peak of the world? It will truly stand up. Only twenty years will be enough!”

Prince Haiman would never forget the expression on that man’s face when he said those words. It was so confident and so proud.

Although Prince Haiman had not believed it at the time, he had still subconsciously carried out a series of operations according to that man’s words.

Over the years, everything completely proved that the man had been correct.

That mysterious ancient country in the East had truly used only twenty years to once again stand at the peak of the world.

From then on, Prince Haiman became increasingly curious about this country’s culture. The more he studied it, the more shocked he became. He even became somewhat immersed in the history of this ancient nation.

Prince Haiman spent more than twenty days with this man—twenty-three days, to be precise.

When the man was preparing to leave, Prince Haiman asked for his address, saying that they were friends and that he would visit him when he had time.

However, the man only said something Prince Haiman could not understand at the time.

“Meeting is fate, but why must those who meet have known each other before? If fate allows it, we shall meet again in the jianghu!”

This was the reason Prince Haiman insisted on searching by himself.

So even now, Prince Haiman only knew that person’s name: Zhang Ran.

And from the chats they had while spending time together, he knew that in the future, the man and his future wife would settle in Shanghai.

That was why, over all these years, every time he came to China, he spent New Year in Shanghai.