"Jiang Yuan, are you trying to steal my girlfriend?"
"Even poaching someone's partner has an order of precedence; those at the back should get in line!"
Gu Jin started shouting.
Qin Zheng put his arm around Ye Yun's waist and pulled her into his arms. He looked up and stared at Jiang Yuan with a hint of wariness in his eyes.
Jiang Yuan: "..."
He glanced at Qin Zheng and Gu Jin with pursed lips, but didn't say anything. His questioning gaze eventually fell on Ye Yun.
"Let's go outside and talk."
The building reeked of blood. Ye Yun told Qin Zheng to wait quietly for a while, then turned and walked out, clutching her stomach.
Jiang Yuan followed closely behind her.
The night was as dark as ink.
The candlelight inside the small building shone outside, and Ye Yun followed the light to walk outside, but did not go very far so that Qin Zheng could always see her.
What are you trying to say?
She walked to a tree, crossed her arms, turned around, and glanced indifferently at Jiang Yuan following behind her.
Jiang Yuan stared intently at her, his slightly upturned phoenix eyes behind his glasses swirling with emotions she couldn't decipher. His voice sounded heavy and almost trembling: "Ye Yun, I... I want to say sorry to you on her behalf..."
"What are you sorry for?"
"About your injury and hospitalization."
"Because of Lin Jiao?"
"Huh?" Jiang Yuan was taken aback, staring at her blankly with his mouth slightly open.
Ye Yun waved her hand dismissively, "There's no need. She already apologized to me personally at the health center. You don't need to apologize for her again."
Jiang Yuan fell silent.
With his head slightly lowered, a thin fringe fell down, just enough to cover his glasses and the emotions churning in his eyes behind the lenses, but one could not ignore the gloomy aura surrounding him, which made people feel deeply depressed.
Of the group, he was the most cunning.
Unlike Qin Zheng's imposing composure and Gu Jin's flamboyant and unrestrained nature, Jiang Yuan was taciturn and almost like a gloomy, brooding gourd.
Ye Yun didn't want him to feel guilty, so she waved her hand again, pretending to be nonchalant, and said, "I told you, you don't need to think about it so much. Of course, it's impossible for me to say that I'm not angry at all. At least I won't let this cause you and Qin Zheng to drift apart. If you came here because of this, you don't need to."
"No, it's not because of Qin Zheng. I just think you deserve an apology."
"Thank you so much."
"Ye Yun, your tone is off." Jiang Yuan could hear the sarcasm in her voice, and he lowered his eyes dejectedly. "I just didn't expect her to be so malicious, to actually..."
As he spoke, his voice grew softer and softer.
Ye Yun stared at his lowered eyes and asked in a low voice, "What did you mean?"
Jiang Yuan hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.
He glanced at her, as if trying to hide something, and didn't continue.
Ye Yun scoffed, a cold glint in her eyes. "You're not apologizing for Lin Jiao, are you? There's someone else, isn't there?"
Jiang Yuan suddenly looked at him, a fleeting hint of panic in his eyes, "Ye Yun, don't overthink it, I..."
"Stop smearing Lin Jiao. In some ways, she's quite pitiful."
"Pitiful?" Upon hearing her words, Jiang Yuan's eyes suddenly reddened, and he laughed miserably as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world. His hoarse voice was filled with despair, like a cello with a broken string: "How can she be pitiful? Despite me repeatedly telling her that I had no feelings for her, she forced my family to fulfill a ridiculous marriage contract, binding me and trapping her! She brought this upon herself, how can she be pitiful?"
He poked his chest, his voice hoarse with suppressed pain as he questioned, "Am I not the pitiful one? What did I do wrong that God is punishing me like this?"
"Ye Yun, I also want to be as loving as you and Qin Zheng with my lover, but I don't even have the right to pursue it. Tell me, what did I do wrong?"
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