During that time, he began to feel resentment, turning all his longing for her into a deep resentment. He resented her for leaving without saying goodbye, for disrupting his world, and even more so for letting her enter his heart so unguarded.

It felt like countless thorns were piercing his heart; only pain could remind him of the cruel reality.

It was amidst countless resentments that he realized he loved her so much that he felt suffocated and would die if he left her.

For the next year, unable to find her, he focused all his attention on work to distract himself and numb his senses.

He was afraid to sleep, and whenever he fell asleep, he would have recurring dreams, often about her.

When he decided to return to China and completely sever ties with the past, he unexpectedly ran into her.

He felt his heart, which had been almost still, suddenly start to beat again, and his gaze followed her uncontrollably.

Reason told him not to see her, not to look for her. Thinking about the resentment and disappointment he had felt towards her over the past year and a half, he should turn around and leave immediately.

But such a thought vanished from his mind in an instant, and almost instinctively, he made Ji Cong'an follow the taxi.

Get back to the point

Gu Jueye's voice carried a hint of coldness.

"Miss Ye, everyone knows what's going on in the adult world. Many people like to pretend they don't understand in order to enjoy this kind of liminal pleasure. Unfortunately, I don't like to waste my time on people I don't like."

She should understand that statement clearly enough.

Ye Qianning's breath hitched, and she felt a sharp pain in her chest: "Just for Bai Qianmo?"

Gu Jueye remained silent, which was tantamount to acquiescing.

Ye Qianning was filled with bitterness and resentment.

“If it were any other good woman with you, I would sincerely wish you both well. But Bai Qianmo, she is not as wonderful as you see her. I heard today that she was having an early romance with a classmate at school, and it even escalated to the point of calling her parents. Aye, she doesn’t deserve your kindness.”

Gu Jueye's handsome face darkened slightly, and he scoffed coldly before hanging up the phone.

No one understands that he doesn't need her to be perfect, he just needs her to love him!

Ye Qianning wanted to say something more, but the other party hung up the phone directly.

When I called back, the line was busy. I tried calling several times in a row, and each time it rang once before being temporarily busy. It was obvious that I had been blacklisted.

Ye Qianning angrily slammed her phone to the ground, followed by a loud crash in the room.

Ye Qianning's mother, Fang Yuan, rushed over after hearing the sound of things being smashed coming from her daughter's room.

Pushing open the door, Fang Yuan saw her beloved daughter sitting on the ground, clutching her head and crying. She ran over with a look of heartache.

"Ningning, my dear daughter, what's wrong? Who made you angry?"

Ye Qianning threw herself into Fang Yuan's arms, her face full of resentment: "Mom, I've waited for him for so many years, I've given him my youth, why... why would he choose a cheap woman instead of me? Mom, tell me, what's wrong with me, what's wrong with me, sob sob..."

Upon hearing Ye Qianning's words, Fang Yuan's expression immediately changed: "It's that brat from the Gu family again? This is outrageous! I'm going to find your grandfather right now. Our Ye family has wasted so many years of our lives. It's bad enough that the Gu family hasn't given us any definite answer yet, but now they dare to use a lowly country bumpkin to disgust us. Do they really think our Ye family is easy to bully?"

She and her husband went on a trip to another province for Gu Jueye's birthday banquet. It was only after they returned that she heard about what happened at the banquet from Ye Yuzhen.

She wanted to go to the Gu family to demand an explanation, but the old man persuaded her to stay.

Seeing her daughter being tortured like this, Fang Yuan could no longer bear it and angrily ran to the old man to complain.

“Dad, Gu Jueye is really too much. What is it about Ningning that makes her unworthy of him? If he didn’t like Ningning back then, he could have just rejected her. What kind of nonsense is this? Ningning has waited for him for so many years, and now he’s hooking up with a high school student. I never would have guessed that this kid is this kind of person.”

Seeing his precious daughter so badly hurt, Ye Kewen's face darkened: "I used to think that Gu family boy was calm and reserved, but I never expected him to be such a frivolous person. He doesn't even like such a good girl as Ningning. Does he think we can't find anyone better than him?"

Ye Songjin's powerful and insightful gaze fell indifferently on Ye Kewen's face: "In the capital, can you find anyone better than this kid?"

"Dad, you're siding with outsiders."

"I'm telling the truth. Have you all forgotten what I said back then? That the Gu family brat had no feelings for Ningning. I told you to keep your mouths shut after you left home. Now look what's happened. All these years, everyone knows that my granddaughter, Ye Songjin's granddaughter, has been waiting for him for so long, but it turns out that the Gu family brat had no feelings for Ningning at all. How am I supposed to go to the Gu family with this old face and demand an explanation?"

Fang Yuan said with dissatisfaction, "Dad, you can't say that. If Gu Jueye had no feelings for Ningning back then, why didn't he explain it to everyone before he went abroad?"

"Don't you understand?" Ye Songjin looked at Fang Yuan and shook his head in disappointment.

Fang Yuan was taken aback and looked at her husband, Ye Kewen, who also had a puzzled expression.

Ye Songjin sighed inwardly, his eyes half-closed in weariness: "Back then, the Gu family boy didn't say it was out of consideration for the relationship between the Gu and Ye families. At the same time, he felt that as a boy, it would be hurtful to the girl if he took the initiative to say that he didn't like Ningning. So he gave the right to explain to our Ningning. But Ningning just didn't understand what he meant."

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