coffee shop
"Yan Shu, do you know that someone is looking for you?" Xie Huanyu asked cautiously.
“I know,” Xu Yanshu nodded calmly, knowing full well that the person the other person was referring to was Zhou Shengyu. “I just saw Chairman Zhou at the Huang residence.”
So calm?! Xie Huanyu never expected the other party to be so calm, and she wanted to ask something.
But thinking that Xu Yanshu had never told her about her background before, she unconsciously swallowed her words. Perhaps he didn't want her to be involved at all.
"Thank you. I owe you so much for calling me that day. Otherwise, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly this time."
Regardless of whether he wanted to accept this favor, Xie Huanyu had stepped in to help him out of a predicament, and he should express his gratitude to her both morally and logically.
Xie Huanyu waved her hand somewhat awkwardly, "It's nothing, just a small favor. That's all I can do for you right now."
At the time, she thought that given Zhou Zehao's treacherous personality, it was impossible for Yan Shu to get things done so smoothly, so she called him on a whim, and unexpectedly, he actually saved the day.
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere between the two became somewhat strange.
Looking at the woman sitting opposite him at this moment, Xu Yanshu no longer felt that indescribable attraction, but he also didn't feel particularly disgusted.
Although he hasn't completely let go of the past, he knows full well that many things actually have little to do with her.
Have you visited Xie Junyang?
“No, I absolutely will not go to see him until things are settled,” Xie Huanyu shook her head, her whole demeanor becoming noticeably somber. Halfway through her sentence, she looked up at Xu Yanshu, “Yanshu, do you think I’m heartless?”
"I won't……"
"I don't know how you discovered the existence of the basement, but I'm sure you've never actually been inside. It's a really, really scary place."
Suddenly overwhelmed by a strong urge to confide, Xie Huanyu began to speak to herself. Although she tried to remain calm, her body involuntarily stiffened.
"To avoid suspicion, he wouldn't actually do anything; instead, he used virtual imaging to torture me,"
“The first time was when I said I liked dancing and didn’t want to take over the company, he threw me in there for a full two weeks. During that time, I was threatened almost all the time. After I came out, I developed severe depression.”
this……
Xu Yanshu's pupils contracted slightly, and his expression gradually became serious. Although he had noticed some clues before, it now seemed that he had greatly underestimated Xie Junyang's level of perversion.
"Then, when we got married, because I refused to give in, he threw me in again. The scene I saw was even more terrifying than the first time I went in, so I couldn't help but beg him for mercy."
As she spoke, Xie Huanyu unconsciously tightened her grip on the coffee in her hand, her face gradually turning pale, and her eyes unexpectedly turning bloodshot.
She thought she would never mention these things to outsiders again in her life, but now, facing this man who once had her in his heart, she suddenly felt like saying it.
At first, she thought her father was just being cruel because he felt she wasn't obedient enough, so she had lived as he expected all these years. But now she realized that he just wanted a puppet that he could control at will.
So that's how it is...
Xu Yanshu was immediately stunned. He thought that Xie Huanyu had come to him on her own initiative because she was angry with Lu Huai, but he did not expect that there was such a thing behind it.
No wonder Xie Huanyu's eyes had been filled with such deep hatred when she looked at him before. Only now did he realize that this was the crux of the matter.
"I'm sorry, it's all because of me that Uncle Xu... I shouldn't have humiliated you like that." Xie Huanyu finally couldn't hold back her emotions and said with a sob in her voice.
She never expected that a complete stranger would be willing to protect her at such a critical moment. Shocked, she could only watch helplessly as the other person died in front of her. At that time, she was only twenty-two years old.
When she got home, her father showed no intention of comforting her. He immediately brought up the fact that Lu Huai had chosen to give up on her, and then demanded that she marry Xu Yanshu to repay the Xu family for saving her life.
Xu Yanshu subconsciously shook his head. He couldn't help but feel a little sad. He thought that he had taken great care of Xie Huanyu before, but she had never been able to discover the deep despair Xie Huanyu was in.
After regaining his senses, he couldn't help but feel secretly glad that he hadn't mentioned the truth about the car accident to Xie Huanyu, otherwise she might have been even more devastated than she is now.
After calming herself down a bit, Xu Yanshu pulled out a tissue from the side and handed it to the other person, "It's okay, Huanyu, it's all over now."
Xie Huanyu was startled to realize that her face was wet with tears. Feeling inexplicably uncomfortable, she quickly wiped the tears off her face with a tissue.
"If none of this had happened, we might have been able to stay together properly!"
“But there’s no such thing as ‘what if’ in this world,” Xu Yanshu shrugged dismissively, speaking noncommittally. “And since it’s all in the past, shouldn’t we all look forward?”
He often made such assumptions before, but no matter how many times he made those assumptions, he could not change the situation he was facing; instead, he only felt more helpless.
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