Xia Xi clenched the clothes on his back with her fingers until her knuckles and eyes felt sore. She wanted to say the same thing to him: What did you do wrong?

He is obviously the most innocent person, and he is also the one who is hurt the most.

If their positions were reversed and she saw Xu Yanfeng lying in bed with a woman with her own eyes, she might not be able to let go of the past and get back together with him without any grudges, as he did.

Just thinking about it made her feel awful.

Xu Yanfeng supported her cheek with his palm and looked into her eyes with his eyelashes lowered: "You are not crying, are you?" He said this not to make her cry.

Xia Xi rested her forehead against his chest and buried her face. She hadn't wanted to cry, but when he asked her that, the soreness in her eyes and nose seemed to become even stronger. She sniffed and held it back.

"Are you really crying?" Xu Yanfeng seemed to hear sobbing. He held her face and lifted it up, lowering his head to look at her at eye level.

Xia Xi said in a muffled voice: "No."

Xu Yanfeng leaned forward and kissed her eyelids, touching them lightly before leaving. His lips trembled slightly, and a faint whisper filled his voice: "Don't ever say sorry to me again."

He would feel very ashamed. She had done nothing wrong to him and she shouldn't apologize.

"You're so annoying." Xia Xi's nasal tone was heavier than before. She pushed him away and covered her eyes with her palms. However, she couldn't hold it back. Warm liquid flowed out of her eye sockets and stained her fingers.

Xu Yanfeng was a little at a loss. He still made her cry. He wanted to take away her hands that were covering her eyes, but she held them tightly.

Before she was twenty, she didn't know what tears were and couldn't shed a tear even after being beaten with a stick. As she grew older, she became more fragile and would cry at the slightest provocation.

Xu Yanfeng watched her cry quietly, and his heart felt sore and uncomfortable. He wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know where to start.

"Xia Xi, your eyes will be swollen if you keep crying." Xu Yanfeng said, "We have to go pick up Ziheng. Our mom and sisters will see us. How can we explain that I didn't bully you?"

Xia Xi burst into laughter, her nose almost bubbling with snot. She finally took her hand away, but didn't want to be seen by Xu Yanfeng, so she turned her face away.

"I know you are shy, but there is no need to avoid me. We will be together for a lifetime, and we will face all kinds of embarrassments with each other in the future." Xu Yanfeng turned her face over and pulled a tissue to wipe her tears.

The beautiful makeup she had put on before going out was mostly ruined, and her face looked like a stray cat on the street. Xu Yanfeng said sincerely, "Besides, you don't look embarrassed like this."

Xia Xi retorted: "I'm not shy."

She just felt that her crying was pathetic and shameful.

After a long while, Xia Xi calmed down a little. She took out the makeup remover wipes from her bag and wiped off the remaining makeup on her face. Her voice was still a little muffled: "How did you know about this? And..." She didn't know whether to ask or not. After hesitating for a moment, she lowered her voice and asked, "What's wrong, Auntie?"

When Zhong Yinghong came out of the study, she looked very abnormal. Although she tried her best to hide it, her red eyes and broken look could not be concealed.

Xu Yanfeng's eyes darkened as he held Xia Xi's hand tightly. A thin layer of sweat quickly formed on Xia Xi's palm, making it wet and sticky. She didn't struggle.

"My brother recorded the conversation between you and my dad in the study," said Xu Yanfeng.

"Record...record it?"

Xia Xi was stunned for two seconds, and the scene of Xu Junmo suddenly entering the study to bring her juice flashed through her mind. She didn't think about it at the time and thought it was really Zhong Yinghong's order. Now she realized it was strange. Xu Junmo must have recorded it at that time.

She recalled the conversation between herself and Xu Guanshan, and suddenly it dawned on her that as long as she listened, she would be unable to hide anything.

While Xia Xi was lost in thought, Xu Yanfeng spoke again: "Do you know why my father arranged that for you?"

Xia Xi murmured, "Isn't it to separate us completely and prevent any possibility of any lingering connection?"

No man can stand witnessing betrayal, let alone when they are in love. The deeper the love, the stronger the hatred after being betrayed, and it is impossible to reconcile.

Xu Yanfeng pulled his lips together and smiled, a smile that was bitter and sarcastic: "In this world, the people who understand their children best are their parents. Only those who are closest to them know how to hurt the most."

Xia Xi was stunned. She could hear the hidden meaning in his words and her breathing unconsciously became lighter and slower.

Xu Yanfeng looked at her and told her for the first time about his childhood experience of accidentally catching Xu Guanshan cheating on his wife. Even after all these years, the scene was still etched in his mind. As he recounted it, each frame became clearer and clearer: Xu Guanshan's panicked look as he looked out the door, the woman's bare arms, the seductive voice... His stomach churned, and he felt sick.

"I mentioned it when I was arguing with my dad, and my mom happened to be outside and heard it."

Xu Yanfeng lowered his head. The air conditioner in the car was running, blowing out cool air slowly, but his forehead was still wet with sweat.

Xia Xi was silent for a long time, feeling a chill in her heart. She raised her hand to wipe the sweat off Xu Yanfeng's face. Her emotions, which had calmed down, were now in a mess. A flood of mixed memories suddenly flooded her mind.

The night they confirmed their relationship, he asked her, "Can you be faithful to me forever?" She answered without hesitation, "I can."

On the day their relationship broke down, the look in his eyes when he looked at her in the room was filled with despair that resembled the collapse of faith, and was far more intense than sadness.

The memories disappeared, and my mind was white, like a heavy snowfall.

She asked herself, Xia Xi, what have you done.

She was ignorant and didn't understand. She personally dragged the adult Xu Yanfeng back into the shadow of his childhood and shattered the trust in love that he had built up with great difficulty.

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