Chapter 21 Chapter 21 "Didn't I love you before?"...

Jiang Yiyun hadn't originally wanted to look at photos of boys she didn't know, but Cheng Shuze's composure in her tone made her unhappy. She put down her chopsticks and frowned, "Why did you delete it? Who are you to me?"

"What's wrong with your taste lately?" Cheng Shuze sneered. "I won't say anything about Ling Jingzhi, but how come you're even interested in something like this now?"

"My taste is not good, otherwise why would I have fallen for you in the first place." Jiang Yiyu replied bluntly.

"Your problem with taste clearly only started after your divorce. You used to be quite discerning before." Cheng Shuze sighed in compromise, seemingly helpless. "If you're truly interested in abs photos, I'll reluctantly let you study them."

Cheng Shuze lowered his hand and pretended to roll up his shirt to fulfill Jiang Yiyun's wish. Jiang Yiyun choked and quickly lowered her head, playing with her phone and eating breakfast, trying to do two things at once.

"Even if I want to see it, Ling Jingzhi is no worse than you." Jiang Yiyu was not convinced and muttered softly.

Cheng Shuze, with his sharp ears, instantly caught the rather loud complaint and sneered, "Go find Ling Jingzhi. I'm afraid he doesn't have time for you lately."

Jiang Yiyun raised her eyebrows and looked over at him. "What did you do?"

"It has nothing to do with me." Cheng Shuze curled his lips, a subtle hint of sarcasm and coldness flashing across his eyes. "It's just that he still had time to send out a press release yesterday expressing his concern about our divorce. I guess he's quite happy to interact with the media."

He didn't hold back on officially announcing his divorce last night, but that doesn't mean he's completely unconcerned with online comments. After the announcement, everything seemed normal at first, but then some malicious comments quickly surfaced, targeting him personally. A quick investigation revealed someone behind the scenes.

Since Ling Jingzhi has been bored lately, he doesn't mind finding him something to do.

Jiang Yiyun recalled the message she received from Ling Jingzhi last night and frowned, "He was just trying to suppress the divorce news out of kindness, and you still have to interfere?"

"...Jiang Yiyu, are you stupid?" Cheng Shuze was speechless.

Ling Jingzhi didn't mean to help suppress the news. He just wanted the whole world to know about his and Jiang Yiyu's divorce, and he would enjoy making up gossip about him.

"But you really don't have to worry about the news. I'll handle it."

"Yesterday it was you who told the media that we were divorced, and you also tacitly allowed the news to be released. How do you want to deal with it now?" Jiang Yiyu said in a light tone.

"Of course I'll suppress it." Cheng Shuze didn't care. "I've already asked someone to deal with it. It'll take half a day at most..."

"Can it be suppressed after fermenting overnight?"

Cheng Shuze was interrupted, and then continued nonchalantly: "As long as you want to suppress it, you can, the impact won't be that big."

"What then?" Jiang Yiyu picked up the fresh shrimps in the porridge bit by bit with a small spoon.

The shrimps were not frozen, but freshly killed, with the heads and threads removed, making the porridge even sweeter and crispier. For someone like her who doesn't like shrimp, the shrimp porridge was barely acceptable.

"And then you're just going to act as if nothing was said, nothing happened, and everything is just the same as before?"

"Forget it, you don't have to deal with it. I'll just issue a statement."

Cheng Shuze stared at Jiang Yiyun's expressionless face again: "What statement?"

"I've thought about it. If you don't think the term 'breakup' is right, then I'll just say 'incompatibility of personalities'. Is that official enough?"

Cheng Shuze felt that if he continued to have heart attacks every day, he would die young sooner or later, or at the very least, he would become ill from anger. He had just thought that Jiang Yiyu was going to issue a statement saying that last night was all a misunderstanding.

"Incompatible personalities? It's been ten years since we started dating, and you're saying it's incompatible now?" The word was a joke. Cheng Shuze controlled his temper and asked, "What's incompatible?"

"It's not appropriate anywhere. I'm just issuing this statement. As for the business cooperation you mentioned earlier, if you want to cancel it, then cancel it."

"You were fine last night, but now you're saying something like that. Jiang Yiyun, you're really quick to change your attitude."

Very good, we are back to the state where we would disagree after just a few words.

"Since you mentioned last night, I drank too much last night and had sex with someone else." Jiang Yiyu put down the spoon and said, "Anyway, you didn't suffer any loss, so I won't make a fuss with you."

"I didn't suffer any loss? Jiang Yiyun, please be reasonable. Last night, when you were crying and saying you didn't want to break up, who coaxed you the whole night? I was exhausted all night, and my voice was hoarse when I woke up this morning. Now that you're in a good mood, you treat me like a disposable tool and throw me away? Like a breakup bomb?"

"Cheng! Shu! Ze!" Jiang Yiyu gritted her teeth and slammed the table. "I just can't remember clearly, not because I've lost my memory! Didn't you take advantage of me last night? Why are you pretending to be an innocent victim? Also, what's wrong with your throat?"

She was crying last night, and she really didn't want to break up, but it was because he was too harsh on her, which made her uncomfortable. She said whatever he wanted to her, and he didn't even slow down his actions no matter how he tried to coax her. He was just taking advantage of her and acting like a spoiled child.

Cheng Shuze's expression was indifferent: "You remember all this, then why don't you remember that I said last night that we would stop making trouble and remarry?"

Silence spread throughout the world, and the little remaining heat gradually dissipated. Jiang Yiyun lowered her eyes: "Don't think about remarrying, Cheng Shuze, calm down."

"You don't want to leave, and I don't want to leave either. What else do you need? Tell me."

It had never been like this before. They were sitting at the familiar dining table just like before, so close that they could touch their lover's warm fingertips with just a raise of their hand. Cheng Shuze stared at Jiang Yiyu's eyes, but he felt as if there was always a layer of mist-like gauze covering them, isolating the two of them into different worlds.

"It takes a lot." Jiang Yiyun said softly, "Do you think there's still love between us?"

"You'd rather not have a business partnership just to say there's no love left between us?"

"It's not us, it's you."

"Didn't I love you before?"

"You call that love?"

"What I can't feel isn't love. Endurance based on a business marriage isn't love. If you think we deserve to be tied together for life and never think we'll ever break up, that's not love either."

There was a heart-wrenching silence.

"Of course, it could also be my fault." Jiang Yiyu lowered her head to hide the tears that were about to burst out. "Tang Ya told me that there aren't many couples in the entertainment industry who are as lucky as us, with our families agreeing, getting along well with each other, and having a foundation of love. I just sometimes wonder..."

Tears still fell from Jiang Yiyu's eyes. Cheng Shuze sighed and took a tissue to wipe them for her.

His grip was too strong, and Jiang Yiyun was caught off guard and was smeared all over her face. Her voice was choked with anger: "Can you be gentler? My makeup is all ruined."

"Your makeup is long gone. I was the one who wiped it off last night when you cried like that. What haven't you seen?"

Cheng Shuze stood up, and after a moment he put a hot, wet towel in his hand over Jiang Yiyu's face.

The warm water vapor relieved the dryness around her eyes. When the temperature of the towel in her hand gradually dropped, Jiang Yiyun took it off and threw it to Cheng Shuze: "The water is cold, change to a new one."

Cheng Shuze twitched his lips: "Do you think I don't love you and still order me to do this and that?"

"Forget it," Jiang Yiyun reached out to grab the towel, but Cheng Shuze stood up and pushed her hand away. "It's rare to see you cry."

Jiang Yiyun rarely cried, especially when she cried from the bottom of her heart. He had never seen her cry so much before. Miss Jiang should be the center of attention wherever she went.

After wiping her face and hands with a hot towel, Jiang Yiyun finally found the topic: "So, maybe, after a few years, I might think it's fine for us to just make do with each other like this, and I won't be picky anymore. But, at least for now, I still don't accept it. It might be better if we separate and calm down for a while."

Cheng Shuze frowned and listened to her quietly for a long time before asking, "Anything else?"

Jiang Yiyun shook her head: "Not for now, that's all."

"Then it's my turn to ask, Jiang Yiyun, what about you?" Cheng Shuze's eyes were like a moon frozen on an iceberg. "You've said so much, do you love me?"

"If I say no, do you think I'll still be here talking nonsense with you?" Jiang Yiyun took the small mirror that Cheng Shuze had brought her from the bathroom and looked left and right. "Believe me, I really want to say no on this issue, so that I can slap you in the face when we break up to vent my anger. Maybe it's because I've been with you for too long and I'm used to it. After we've been apart for a while and met other handsome guys, I might really change my mind."

"I've never seen you show mercy." The icy snow melted slightly, and Cheng Shuze's tone turned nonchalant again: "It might be difficult for you to find someone as handsome as me again. You'd better not dream on. Tell me, how long do you want to calm down?"

"Half a year." Jiang Yiyun hesitated for a moment, then finally told the truth, "I just started a new filming project, and it will take about half a year to shoot abroad."

"...I thought you said a month at most."

"Then you'd better stop dreaming."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Cheng Shuze shrugged. "When are we going?"

"I...I haven't decided yet. It will probably be a while."

"Will you be back after the shoot?"

Jiang Yiyun's eyes wandered for a moment: "Probably."

"Half a year," Cheng Shuze repeated. "Come back later, and you know what will happen to those clothes and jewelry on the 26th floor."

"Cheng Shuze, don't use those things to threaten me! Aren't clothes bought with money? Can you please not waste money?"

"Why didn't you get so excited when I burned the 320 million? That money is enough for you to replace your entire layer of clothes." Cheng Shuze raised his finger coldly, "It's only half a year, otherwise..."

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The author has something to say: Feelings are really too complicated ORZ. Regarding their love affair, I only want to say eight words.

If you can, give me the money.