Chapter 1258: So far, we have never met again.

"Maybe I like you just because of your face. You are beautiful and attractive enough. Even though you had such a bad personality at the beginning, there were still many people who liked you. It's probably because of that face that seduces people, and I am one of them."

He knew that Gu Wanqiu had cared a lot about that face in the past, so he tried hard to praise her face, as if apart from that face, the rest was worthless.

Li Jinxing turned around, his eyes tracing Gu Wanqiu's facial features, from her willow-leaf eyebrows to her pale, cracked lips. He taunted her, "Even after you lost that face, I was still willing to treat you well. Perhaps it wasn't because I liked you, but because I couldn't accept the fact that I couldn't get you. Now I've come to my senses. Look at you carefully now. Not only are you ugly, but your health isn't good either, and your personality is terrible. I don't know why you're still so arrogant. You're like trash, worthless. You used to be a rare find, but now... the streets are full of people like you. I could find anyone better than you."

Li Jinxing belittled her while praising another person, "My current girlfriend is Jiang Yun. The week I spent with her made me completely understand that even you in the past were not unique. It would be easy for me to find someone as good-looking as you.

Jiang Yun looks a lot like you in the past, just as beautiful. She satisfies all my fantasies. She's much better than you. Not only is she beautiful, she's also gentle and considerate. More importantly, she understands respect and dedication. The better she is now, the more you look ugly and bad, and it makes me feel worthless."

He belittled her so much that if it were him, he would not have the face to listen any longer. Maybe Gu Wanqiu was too thick-skinned, he could not find a trace of embarrassment on her face, which was so unexpected.

If it was the Gu Wanqiu from before, her face would have turned red with anger, she would have stared at him fiercely, and cursed him with little trash.

Gu Wanqiu had no reaction now, and Li Jinxing was feeling angry, but fortunately, he had spent a month calming down, so that now when facing this situation, he could deal with it rationally without revealing his emotions.

"Li Jinxing." Gu Wanqiu finally spoke. She held a tissue in her hand and pressed it between her mouth and nose when she sneezed. She felt a warmth in her palm and her mouth was full of fishy and sticky taste. She held the tissue tightly, without letting go, still covering her mouth. In order to prevent Li Jinxing from noticing anything unusual, she called him and then lowered her head, only looking up at him.

"Do you love her very much?"

Li Jinxing said expressionlessly, "If I didn't love her, why would I be with her? Why would I go to such lengths to treat her well? You should know all this best."

Yes, Li Jinxing, who loves someone, wants to put all the things she likes in front of her, just like the champagne roses outside, which prove Li Jinxing's love for Jiang Yun.

Tsangyang Gyatso once wrote this sentence.

——When the treasure is in your hands, you don’t feel it’s rare, but once it belongs to someone else, you will be filled with anger.

This is a common human problem, and neither Li Jinxing nor Gu Wanqiu can escape it.

"Does she like you?"

"I like it, at least more than you like it."

That’s good…Gu Wanqiu said silently in his heart.

Li Jinxing can easily gain other people's likes. As long as he is willing, many people will line up to please him and say they love him. However, this love is mixed with too many interests and is not so precious.

The love that you get only through your own efforts and by putting yourself in others' shoes is the most precious.

The watch you love for a lifetime, the rings you keep as tokens of love, these should be left to those who love each other deeply. Is Gu Wanqiu worthy of them?

The watch he had kept for more than ten years and the ring he had worn for more than ten years no longer had any meaning to Li Jinxing.

He held the watch and the two rings on the chain in one hand. In mid-air, the two items swayed and collided with each other. In the light, the diamonds on them sparkled like stars in the night. Even after so many years, these two things were well kept by Li Jinxing and still looked as good as new.

"Do you remember these two things?"

The watch was a token of love that he had given to Gu Wanqiu, and the couple's rings were for engagement. Gu Wanqiu had worn both items and had also taken them off.

After she left, the things he had given away came back to him. He thought that he would not take back the things he had given away. Since Gu Wanqiu was gone, he would temporarily keep them with him. After finding Gu Wanqiu, he would put the watch and ring back on her hand.

As expected, he and Gu Wanqiu met again. He wanted to wait a little longer... wait a little longer...

When Gu Wanqiu gradually fell in love with him, he would give her the watch and ring. This time, he would let her wear them voluntarily and she would never be unable to take them off again.

But before he could send it out, Gu Wanqiu had already shattered his thoughts.

She would never fall in love with him, and she would never wear the token of love he gave her.

In Gu Wanqiu's eyes, these two things are just shackles, and she would never wear them.

Looking at these two objects now, what else can I see except witnessing his stupidity?

People cannot live in a muddle-headed way and deceive themselves all their lives.

Since he couldn't give it away, he might as well throw it away. He had worn it for more than ten years and was tired of it. To him, it had become a shackle.

…

Gu Wanqiu stared blankly at the watch in Li Jinxing's hand and the ring on the necklace.

She had noticed the two things Li Jinxing wore on his body a long time ago, but she didn't expect that Li Jinxing could keep them until now.

Li Jinxing saw the emotion in Gu Wanqiu's eyes and knew she had remembered. He smiled sarcastically, "I should have thrown these two things away when you took them off, but I couldn't bear to. I always hoped that one day you would wear them voluntarily and never take them off. For the ten years you disappeared, I kept them close to me, hoping to see you again. Now that I have seen you, you have wasted a year of my time and witnessed twelve years of my stupidity."

Li Jinxing clutched it tightly: "You don't want it, but some people do. But giving something you've worn to someone else is an insult to them, so it's better to treat it like trash." After saying that, he turned and walked towards the window, raised his hand...

Looking at Li Jinxing's actions, Gu Wanqiu subconsciously opened her mouth, but the word "no" was stuck in her throat.

She sat on the bed and watched two graceful parabolas emerge from Li Jinxing's hands and finally disappear out the window.

"Gu Wanqiu, I'm letting you go today. You'll disappear from my sight forever. We're even now, and we'll never see each other again!"

From then on, we never met again for the whole year.

Li Jinxing threw away the ring with a sarcastic expression: "Jiang Yun and I decided to go out on a date today and will not be back until tomorrow. You have today to get out. I don't want to see you here tomorrow!" After that, he strode away, as if he felt annoyed even if he looked at her for one more moment.

Time seemed to be forcibly paused for Gu Wanqiu. She put down her hand and looked at the blood-stained tissue in her hand, as if it was a rose growing in the palm of her hand.

The moment Li Jinxing threw away his watch and ring, she felt as if her heart had been thrown away as well. The two things she had thrown away with her own hands had now become what she wanted but could not get.

Li Jinxing has always been decisive in doing things. If he says he doesn't love someone, then he definitely doesn't love them.

From now on, there will be no place for her in his heart. She will gradually be replaced by another person. Her existence is like those two pieces of "garbage" thrown out from his hands.

He will love another person well, even more than when he loved her at the beginning.

Jiang Yun...she really envied her.

"Envy" Gu Wanqiu never thought that one day she would have this kind of feeling, so "envious" of another person, a woman loved by Li Jinxing.

The watch and the ring may be the only bond that can prove that she and Li Jinxing were together, but now they are all gone.

Li Jinxing stood up from the bed, holding his crutches with trembling hands, and limped to the window to look outside. There were roses everywhere outside, and there was no trace of the pocket watch and ring. She couldn't even tell the direction and force with which Li Jinxing threw it, or even which area it was.

But she didn't want the watch and ring to disappear like that. She wanted to find them, and an unprecedented obsession burst out from her heart.

Not long after Li Jinxing left, he took Jiang Yun away. Gu Wanqiu stood at the window and watched them.

Jiang Yun was dressed beautifully, wearing a light yellow dress, her skin was as white as milk in the sun. She held Li Jinxing's hand affectionately, and as if she sensed something, she looked up at the second floor, where she saw Gu Wanqiu's face. She smiled at her, then turned and spoke to Li Jinxing.

"We've been performing for a week, and today is the end?"

Li Jinxing took out a check from his pocket: "Thank you, I won't need you anymore."

Jiang Yun accepted it generously. "Don't be so absolute. If you ever need me, just come to me. I'm a professional actor. Unfortunately, this hard-to-get play has failed. Are you disappointed, Mr. Li?"

"Rather than being disappointed, I'd rather say that I've always had hope for this. I just..." He wanted to save face and didn't want to leave in embarrassment, so he wanted to act as if he didn't care.

Gu Wanqiu watched them get in the car and leave.

Not long after Li Jin left, the nanny came up and said, "Ms. Gu, Mr. Li asked me to help you pack your things."

It was unexpected that Li Jinxing suddenly let Gu Wanqiu leave, but when you think carefully about what happened this week, it seems reasonable and natural. After all, Li Jinxing already has a girlfriend, and he has been showing his affection for her this week. It can be seen that he really doesn't care about Gu Wanqiu anymore. Since he doesn't care about her anymore, why keep her around?

"I don't have anything to pack. Nothing here belongs to me. Please leave..."

"Miss Gu, Mr. Li has given us a holiday. No one is staying in the manor these days. I'm leaving this afternoon. When are you leaving? Do you want someone to take you there?"

"No need, I will contact He Tian."

He Tian is more capable than any of them. With He Tian's help, the nanny is naturally much better off than them as servants, so she feels relieved.

Now Gu Wanqiu can walk with the help of crutches and does not need her help to push the wheelchair. After seeing that Gu Wanqiu really does not need her help, the nanny untied the chain around Gu Wanqiu's neck.

Gu Wanqiu touched his neck and thought that they were all leaving, so what about Xiao Sui?

"Can I take one last look at Xiao Sui?"

The nanny was stunned: "Miss Gu, Xiao Sui was taken to North City by the confinement nanny yesterday."

Gu Wanqiu was stunned. She wanted to ask, why didn’t you tell her?

If you think about it carefully, she has always given people the impression that she is indifferent to the child, as if the child's life or death has nothing to do with her, so there is no need to tell her when the child is taken away.

Even if he told her, she would not be able to see Xiao Sui for the last time because of Li Jinxing.

The child changes a lot day by day. She is still thinking about the child's appearance shortly after birth, but I am afraid that now the child has become someone she doesn't recognize.

Seeing Gu Wanqiu in a state of dismay, the nanny said, "Miss Gu..."

"It's nothing. If I can't see her, then I can't see her. I don't really want to see her." As long as I know that she is doing well and has someone to take care of her, that's enough.

The nanny said nothing more, put down the chain in her hand, and left.

People started leaving the manor one after another. Li Jinxing not only gave them a long vacation but also gave them bonuses. These people were very happy. The weather forecast showed that it would rain in the afternoon, so before noon, more than half of the people had left. By two o'clock in the afternoon, there was no one left in the manor. It was empty and very lonely.

It was at this time that Gu Wanqiu slowly walked down the stairs with her crutches. This was the first time she walked out of the house alone in all the days since she came here. There was no one watching her, no nanny to accompany her, and no chain to restrain her. She touched her neck. Without the chain, her neck felt much lighter and her movements were more convenient and flexible.

He Tian went out last night. Before leaving, he came to see him and said he would be back tonight.

He Tian must have known that Li Jinxing would let her go today, so he arranged everything for her in advance, the first of which was to find a place to stay and wait for death.

Standing at the door, Gu Wanqiu looked up at the rainy sky. The weather forecast was correct. It said it would rain at 2:30 in the afternoon, and it sure enough, it rained.

Gu Wanqiu was more afraid of the cold than before. Her body was swaying in the cold wind, and her thin clothes were blown by the wind, as if they would be blown down in the next second.

She leaned hard on her crutches and walked out step by step with difficulty. When she was outside, the pollen of champagne roses seemed to blow on her body with the wind. She not only sneezed and coughed, but also began to feel itchy.

The drizzle soon wet her hair, and a layer of mist formed on her eyelashes, which flowed into her eyes, causing stinging pain. She raised her hand to wipe her eyes, and endured the discomfort, and came to the place where Li Jinxing threw away his watch and ring. There was a large field of roses. After arriving here, she could feel the beauty and fragrance of the roses more intuitively. She seemed to be jumping into a sea of flowers.

Under the rain, the petals became more delicate and bright. Gu Wanqiu didn't know how many roses were planted here. If she wanted to count them one by one, she would only be dazzled.

Li Jinxing was very strong, and she didn't know where he threw the watch and ring, but it was somewhere in the rose area under the window.

The champagne rose looks delicate, but the thorns on the branches are very sharp. If they scratch your skin without carefulness, they will leave a red mark.