"I...I didn't..."
Song Xiwei felt a dense, throbbing pain begin to emanate from her heart.
She longed to go forward and embrace Aoqian to comfort him.
But somehow, it just stayed in place.
“Go on, aren’t you going back to your sect? Go on, I won’t be a stumbling block anymore…” Aoqian lowered his head, tears falling drop by drop onto the floor.
He sniffed, his voice hoarse, "I've already told you to leave, why aren't you leaving? Do you want me to give you a send-off?"
Song Xi gritted her teeth, turned around, and pushed open the door to leave.
The door closed, and Aoqian looked up in astonishment at it, tears welling in his bloodshot eyes.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open.
Song Xiwei strode forward, stood in front of Ao Qian, looked up, and met Ao Qian's moist eyes. "You really want me to leave?"
Aoqian's lips moved, but he swallowed back the words that were about to come out.
"I'll ask you one more time, are you serious about letting me go?"
Song Xi stared at Ao Qian, whose eyelashes trembled violently.
"Okay, I understand. Take care of yourself." Before Song Xiwei could turn around and leave, Aoqian pulled her into his arms.
Aoqian's tears fell onto her neck, burning hot, making her heart ache with a stinging pain.
"It's fake, how could I really let you go? It's fake..."
Aoqian repeated.
Song Xiwei snorted, "I thought you were just being stubborn!" She felt that Aoqian was really getting more and more pretentious.
"I'm selfish and don't consider you. It's my fault for being mean to you..." Aoqian, who was acting very aggressively and speaking very harshly just a moment ago, was now completely obedient.
Song Xiwei lifted her head from his embrace and looked at Aoqian, whose face no longer had the sharp and intimidating look it had before.
“It was wrong of me to be mean to you, but you have to admit that you started it and that’s why I got angry. You’re also at fault.”
"Yes, I admit I was wrong." Aoqian nodded obediently.
"So, can we communicate properly now?" Song Xi asked him gently.
Aoqian nodded, looking at her cautiously, as if he was still afraid that she would try to communicate her reasons for leaving him.
"Could you tell me more about that thing you mentioned before? You said that my master bullied you, that he almost took liberties with you..." Song Xiwei found it difficult to speak and stammered through her words.
Aoqian looked at her in surprise.
His expression was very unnatural, and his eyes were somewhat unfocused as he spoke: "Why, why suddenly, ask, this?"
"It's not that it's sudden, but I feel like you're not willing to come back to the sect with me. Is that what's on your mind?" Song Xi stared at Ao Qian, as if trying to discern his true thoughts through his eyes.
Ao Qian's eyes flickered, "I..."
"You changed your tune before, but then stopped mentioning it. Were you afraid I would think you disrespected my grandmaster, or that I wouldn't believe such an absurd thing, so you gave up on it?"
Aoqian looked at Song Xiwei in surprise, not expecting that after so much time had passed, Song Xiwei would think so much.
He was eager for Song Xiwei to misunderstand that expert and thus stay away from him.
However, lies always have loopholes, and he didn't want to lie to Song Xiwei.
It was already very difficult and painful for him to keep his feelings for her a secret.
Aoqian's reaction, neither directly admitting nor denying, seemed to Song Xiwei even more certain of something.
"I... I won't go back to my sect for now. Don't worry, I won't do anything to embarrass you. I promised to stay with you, and I won't break my promise. I... I shouldn't have made you recall those bad things. Please don't overthink it, okay?"
Song Xiwei gently comforted Aoqian.
Aoqian was stung by her gentle comfort.
Song Xiwei is always so considerate of others.
But he and that expert had such feelings for her...
Aoqian wanted to slap himself, hating himself for not being as pure towards her as he used to be.
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