Liang Shiyue walked out of the villa's hall with a sad expression and wandered aimlessly in the yard.

She glanced up unintentionally and was shocked to find Lu Yi looking at her with a worried expression through the floor-to-ceiling window in front of her.

Liang Shiyue had never seen that look in her eyes before.

It seems to contain all the pain and grief of the world, and amidst all the hardships, there is also a touch of tenderness and reluctance.

Liang Shiyue's eyelids drooped, and tears instantly streamed down her face.

She felt like she was holding Lu Yi back. If his girlfriend were Lin Xiaoya or Gu Keke, he wouldn't have to worry so much.

His abilities, character, appearance, and talent were among the best in the entire Jiangzhou, and every family would rush to curry favor with him.

But his own mother treated him like a plague.

"Without me, he can move forward without any burden... Lu Yi, maybe my mother is right, she really means well for you!"

"It's because I'm not good enough for someone as outstanding as you."

At this moment, Lu Yi walked over.

“I just called your aunt. She said if you don’t want to see her, she will go back to Jiangzhou first. Contact her again when you’ve thought it through.”

Seeing that Liang Shiyue's hair was messy, he reached out to tidy it up for her with heartache, but Liang Shiyue turned her head away nervously.

"Lu Yi, I think we should break up!"

After thinking about it for several days, I finally said it.

Liang Shiyue's eyelashes trembled slightly. She mustered her courage, turned her head, and stared into Lu Yi's eyes, solemnly repeating what she had said.

"Let's break up. It's better for you and for me!"

The wind seemed to have stopped blowing in my ears.

The two looked at each other, a thousand words unspoken.

"Xiaoyue, believe me, things won't come to this again until it comes to this."

“Lu Yi, it’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s that I don’t trust myself.”

"You are very good, it was my oversight."

"No, that's not it. I saw my own cowardice and hesitation in Lin Xiaoya..."

"I don't agree to break up, but I'm willing to give you enough time."

"Lu Yi, let's have a four-year term. If we still don't dislike each other after I graduate from university, then you can love me again, okay?"

"Okay! Don't make yourself suffer..."

"Lu Yi...you too."

Liang Shiyue covered her mouth, took a few steps back, and cried out with tears streaming down her face.

Lu Yi embraced her.

"Xiaoyue, I'll always be here. Just turn around and you'll see me!"

Liang Shiyue inhaled his pleasant scent, "Lu Yi, thank you!"

"good!"

Lu Yi still coaxed her with the same patience and gentleness as before.

On the way back to the hotel, the two remained silent.

As they reached Lu Yi's room, Liang Shiyue suddenly grabbed him, "Lu Yi, you wouldn't..."

He's already endured enough; what I'm doing must be a significant blow to him as well.

The more calm and collected he appears on the surface, the more turbulent his inner world may be. What if he gets stuck in a rut and can't see the light at the end of the tunnel?

In just two months, he experienced so much.

"Auntie probably hasn't come back yet. Why don't you come in and sit for a while and wait for her? I'm going out tomorrow, and I'll take you to school to register the day after tomorrow..."

Lu Yi swiped his card to open the door and went inside first.

He spoke naturally, as if he had forgotten about the "breakup" that Liang Shiyue had mentioned before.

"There are drinks in the cupboard and refrigerator, help yourself."

"By the way, let me call Sister Junjun and see where they are now?"

Liang Shiyue slowly walked in and nodded blankly.

She would glance at Lu Yi every now and then, trying to discern something unusual from his subtle expressions and movements.

"Yes, it's all taken care of, they're already at the hotel..."

Before Lu Yi could finish speaking, Liang's mother's voice came from the other end.

"Lu Yi, is that Lu Yi? Thank you for finding Xiao Yue. I'll be returning to Jiangzhou soon, so I'm entrusting her to you!"

Liang's mother was very excited.

The people in the car couldn't help but sigh.

The speed at which this person changes is truly indescribable.

Before finding Liang Shiyue, Liang's mother was dissatisfied with Lu Yi in many ways, but in the blink of an eye, she entrusted her daughter to him.

Standing to the side, Liang Shiyue heard her mother's voice on Lu Yi's phone and snatched the phone away with a dark expression.

"Mom, is it appropriate to entrust me to a stranger? I've already broken up with him."

Mrs. Liang was stunned for a moment.

Lu Yi hurriedly tried to explain, but Liang Shiyue hung up the phone before she could say anything.

"Lu Yi, you don't need to explain to her. The more you explain, the more she gets excited. Sometimes I really suspect that she's getting senile as she gets older!"

"No, it's because she's always lived in the shadow of my father's death. Seeing Lin Xiaoya find a rich father and seeing you doing so well makes her feel inferior."

"It's one thing for her to be insecure, but she expects me to be the same way..."

Liang Shiyue unscrewed the bottle and gulped down more than half of it.

Lu Yi stared at her eyes and brows, and suddenly thought of something.

"No matter what Auntie does to me, it's all for your sake, so let's not talk about that for now."

"Do you feel unwell anywhere? Also, what exactly happened after you broke up with Lin Xiaoya?"

Liang Shiyue bit her lip.

"I only remember that we were having coffee together, and she got burned by the barista. Then she asked me to have hot pot with her."

"That hot pot restaurant was near the school, so we went in for a look around, and then I don't remember anything else..."

Having said that, her thoughts became clearer.

Lu Yi sighed.

"Lin Xiaoya said she was robbed after breaking up with you, it seems she must be lying."

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