Shen Huan had followed Zhou Jingxiu for twelve years, only to receive the news that he was to be engaged to her elder sister.
"Just a plain and boring little girl, how could I possibly li...
Looking at the message that popped up on the screen, Gong Yi frowned tightly. "Where are you? I'll come find you. We can talk in person."
Without waiting for her reply, Gong Yi simply drove directly to where she lived.
After pressing the doorbell for a long time, there was still no response. Gong Yi could only stand outside the door and shout to the inside.
"Sisi, you are inside, right? If you don't open the door, I will wait outside until you are willing to see me."
It's not a solution to keep wasting time like this. She can't just go without food, drink or go out. It will just make the neighbors laugh at her.
Since he wants to explain, why not just listen to what he says first and return the ring to him?
Looking at the diamond ring on her ring finger, Chen Sisi sniffed and tried to find an excuse in her heart. To be frank, she was still a little soft-hearted.
After wiping away all her tears, she calmed down and finally got up to open the door.
Meeting the girl's red eyes, Gong Yi's expression darkened. "I just wanted to make things clear with her. We want to end it all once and for all so we don't have to see each other again in the future."
"Don't you want to know what happened between her and me? Come inside first and I'll tell you everything slowly."
After a while, the two sat side by side on the sofa in the living room.
"Just say whatever you want to say." Chen Sisi spoke first to break the silence.
"Her name is Li Man, she was my high school classmate. Because of my family's business, I was a transfer student who went there in my senior year.
My parents were always busy with work and didn't spend much time with me. I've always been a bit of a loner since I was little, especially since I suddenly came to a new environment.
I basically study by myself every day and rarely participate in activities with other students. However, no one deliberately isolates me. At the beginning, they also invited me, but I did not accept.
After a while, they realized I wasn't sociable and stopped looking for me. Only she, despite repeated failures, still persevered in trying to draw me into the group and into her life.
At that time, Gong Yi was a typical high-class woman, very quiet and taciturn.
Li Man had put a lot of effort into pursuing him, but she was rejected countless times.
Apart from anything else, she just repeated her self-introduction to him many times.
"My name is Li Man, Li means dawn, and Man means romance."
"The romance of Paris, this way you'll always remember it, right?"
"Hey, have a lollipop, please."
Lollipops are something only little girls like. He was a little impatient and wanted to refuse it, but when he looked up, he was caught off guard by Li Man's smiling face that had approached him without him noticing.
That was the first time he was so close to a girl, so close that their breaths overlapped and entangled.
When their eyes met, he saw only his own reflection in her watery eyes, and he was suddenly distracted.
until……
"After the sweetness, you must remember me, the romance of Paris!" While he was lost in thought, Li Man forced the lollipop into his hand, said this, and turned away shyly.
It was that split second that made him fall in love.
I thought it would be the most beautiful journey of my youth, but unexpectedly, it turned into a fatal injury in the end.
The Gong family was framed by their rivals and nearly went bankrupt. Just when their family was in the most difficult time, she broke up with him.
I didn't even say it to his face. I just sent him a message and then suddenly disappeared from his world.
She deleted his contact information and blocked his number. He searched all the places where she might be, but he couldn't find her.
He was decadent and drunk every day until he walked into the middle of the road in a daze and got into a car accident.
She had a near-death experience and luckily survived. She stayed in the hospital for more than a year. When she woke up, she found out that she had married someone else, and a rich man.
Suddenly, as if he understood something, Gong Yi suddenly felt that he was a little ridiculous.
After experiencing life and death, he was reborn. After recovering and being discharged from the hospital, he embarked on the life of a playboy, surrounded by women all day long.
Walk through a field of flowers without getting a single leaf on you.
He thought this would be his future emotional state, but he didn't expect that sooner or later he would have to pay for what he had done.
"I admit that when I first saw you, I paid more attention to you because you looked a bit like her.
Our meeting was not accidental. I bumped into you on purpose and wanted to chat with you. But later, I really fell in love with you, otherwise I would not have proposed to you.
As for you asking me about Li Man, firstly, I really don't want to talk about that unbearable past again, and secondly, I..."
Turning his head to look at the girl, Gong Yi pursed his lips and paused before continuing, "I'm a little hesitant to tell you."
If she were just a bystander, she would definitely think that his experience was somewhat miserable.
But as someone who had just joined the game, Chen Sisi didn't know how to comment for a moment. She smiled faintly and took over the conversation, "The story of how you met and got to know each other does sound very beautiful."
Hearing her say this, Gong Yi anxiously grabbed her arm and said, "If you were the one who pursued me back then, I would have agreed too."
What attracted him to Li Man was her sunshine, liveliness, cheerfulness and innocence.
But later facts proved that the woman was never as simple as she seemed.
In terms of personality, Chen Sisi is closer to the kind of love he had in his original heart.
Gong Yi's eyes darkened as he stared at the person before him. He said solemnly, "Although hypothetical things cannot be expressed in words, love often does have a first come, first served principle."
What he said made sense. He wanted to be with her so seriously now, maybe he really cared about her.
But their beginning ultimately stemmed from him treating her as a substitute for someone else.
Feeling a little confused, Chen Sisi frowned and pushed the man away. "Let's postpone the marriage. Let's calm down first."
As she said this, she took off the ring on her ring finger and wanted to hand it back to him, but Gong Yi forced her to put it back on.
"I just finished my engagement party and took it off suddenly. If people ask me when I go out, it will be difficult to answer, so I'll keep it on for now."
After all, she still hadn't made a decision, and it was really troublesome to explain over and over again. Chen Si thought about it and nodded in agreement.