This tactic worked perfectly; Su Jin's mind went blank, and she really refused to leave.
"ah?"
Gu Xingze stammered, "It's true, so you don't have to worry about me bothering you. Please don't avoid me, okay..."
He spoke while glancing at her expression.
Deep down, he still harbored a sliver of hope that she would express her dissatisfaction.
Su Jin didn't reply; she remained in a daze.
She hadn't really considered this possibility, but then she thought, since she had a boyfriend, it was normal for him to have a girlfriend.
"I really didn't know. Congratulations."
Gu Xingze was disappointed by her reaction; all she offered was congratulations?
His eyes betrayed his sadness. "What's there to congratulate me about?"
Su Jin raised her glass and drank plain water, but it tasted like red wine.
"Congratulations on your maturity. You've finally stopped dwelling on a past relationship and found your true love."
"Is that so..." Gu Xingze forced a smile.
Su Jin lowered her guard and picked up her chopsticks to continue eating.
"Sigh, I've really changed my opinion of you. This is good too. To be honest, I think we've been too confused before, and I haven't been good to you either. Ending this is better for both of us."
Gu Xingze didn't want to say a word.
Su Jin is too kind. It's clearly his own fault; he brought all this on himself.
Su Jin picked up a piece of squirrel-shaped mandarin fish with her chopsticks and frowned sharply at the sweetness.
"Who is your girlfriend? Do I know her? Why didn't Jiang Heng tell me? He even told me to break up with my boyfriend and be with you. What kind of matchmaker is he trying to play?
Gu Xingze said sullenly, "You don't know him."
Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Su Jin thought she had touched on his privacy and didn't ask any more questions.
"Um."
Unexpectedly, Gu Xingze asked her in return, "And who is he?"
"he……"
Su Jin stopped talking abruptly when she met Gu Xingze's gaze.
What kind of gaze was that?
It was a kind of calm madness, as if if she just mentioned who that person was, Gu Xingze would immediately rush to that person's house and hack him to death.
Su Jin shuddered at the thought.
"...He's in the industry, but I don't want to make it public yet."
It means he shouldn't tell anyone.
Gu Xingze's expression remained unchanged. "When did you two get together? Is he good to you?"
Su Jin sensed something was off, but considering that Gu Xingze already had a girlfriend, she figured he was probably just being concerned about his friend.
"Hmm... recently, he's been treating me badly, so why would I be with him?"
Gu Xingze suddenly let out a cold laugh.
"What's the big deal?"
Su Jin looked at him.
Gu Xingze's calm expression cracked. "What kind of good person is a guy who wants to live with you right after you start dating? Why would you want to be with someone like that?"
Su Jin was shocked. She had just thought this person had changed his personality, but how did he suddenly change back?
Gu Xingze burst into tears and covered his face with his hands. "I'm sorry, I lost control of my emotions."
Su Jin was still in shock, her voice becoming softer, "I don't live with him... he just came to my house today."
She believes she still has her bottom line: what to do when they're friends, what to do when they're lovers, and what to do when they're ex-husbands.
She believed she could distinguish between them very clearly.
But now she can't quite see what Gu Xingze is doing.
Gu Xingze seemed to be trembling less. "I'm sorry, I took things out of context. I shouldn't have lost my temper with you."
Su Jin gave an awkward laugh. "It's okay, everyone has a temper. I think I should go."
She hurriedly put on her coat.
"etc."
Gu Xingze's deep eyes met hers. "Is that person Shen Yanxiu?"
Su Jin suddenly had the illusion that her underwear had been ripped off.
"I...I didn't cheat on you, I didn't betray my marriage."
Gu Xingze's tears fell silently once again.
Su Jin felt mentally exhausted.
"Whether you believe it or not, Shen Yanxiu and I got together when I had completely forgotten you. During the time I was married to you, I had no feelings for him whatsoever."
Gu Xingze stood up and gave a self-deprecating laugh, "So you have feelings now?"
Su Jin extended her hand. "Whether I have feelings for him or not is none of your business, right? Have I ever questioned your feelings for him?"
"Why don't you ask? I'll let you ask!" Gu Xingze cried almost in despair.
Su Jin felt a throbbing sensation in her temples; talking to him would shorten her lifespan by a few years.
"Alright, let's stop with this boring talk. Goodbye."
She opened the door to the private room, and Gu Xingze called out from behind her, "Can you remove me from the blacklist?"
"Can you stop overthinking? I didn't blacklist you."
She had never done it before because she felt it was unnecessary, but now it might be necessary.
The door slammed shut in front of Gu Xingze.
Gu Xingze slowly bent down; he had messed up again.
I originally wanted to show her a different side of myself, but my mature act didn't last more than a few minutes before my true colors were revealed.
This mad dog of his couldn't stand seeing anyone else around Su Jin; his jealousy ignited in an instant.
"Chen Yanxiu..."
His eyes burned with rage. This shameless old man, not content with sowing discord, he went straight to bed with her.
...
Su Jin calmed down considerably when she got into the car. She clicked on Gu Xingze's profile picture and was surprised to find that she had actually blocked him.
When did this happen?
She opened her call log and found two phone calls that came in on the same day a few months earlier.
But as far as she could remember, she hadn't answered the phone.
Su Jin tossed her phone onto the passenger seat and drove home.
When I got downstairs, I found a person and a dog shivering in the cold.
"……What are you doing?"
Lin Shi stomped her feet in exasperation, "What else can we do but walk the dog?"
Su Jin looked down and saw that Bread was wearing a polka-dot outfit, and the dog was freezing.
"But it doesn't seem to want to be walked."
Lin Shi pointed upstairs, "Then what should we do? Being with your boyfriend is so awkward, we can't keep up any conversation."
She winked at Su Jin, "How did your talk with your ex-husband go? Did you rekindle your old flame?"
"Get out of here. Do you think I'm the kind of person who's fickle?"
Lin Shi grinned mischievously and bumped her with her butt. "So what? No matter what, I'll cover for you."
Su Jin felt powerless and helpless.
"No, he already has a girlfriend."
Lin Shi and she had the same reaction when they learned about this situation.
"ah?"
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