Shi Wan looked at Sikong Jingyu in shock, stammering, "You... what did you call me?"
"It's late." Sikong Jingyu's lips curled slightly, a bitter smile playing on his lips, his tone firm.
He only officially met her today.
But he had already missed her.
"..." Shi Wan frowned her delicate brows, momentarily speechless.
He knows everything, so what does he plan to do to her?
Thinking of this, Shi Wan subconsciously took a few steps back, widening the distance between the two.
Her feelings towards him were resistance, fear, and defensiveness.
Upon seeing this, a dark glint flashed in Sikong Jingyu's eyes, and his thin lips pressed tightly together.
To be honest, Sikong Jingyu was somewhat hurt by Shi Wan's reaction.
Shi Wan went on high alert, erecting a high wall around herself, and looked at Sikong Jingyu with a scrutinizing gaze: "Mr. Sikong, we are already divorced. What exactly do you want to do by appearing in the village at this time?"
He clearly already knew she was Shi Wan, and he was just acting along with her. What was he trying to do?
Sikong Jingyu hesitated for a moment before slowly speaking, "I came here with no ill intentions..."
Shi Wan paused, not quite understanding Sikong Jing's meaning. Like a rooster ready for battle, her feathers bristled, she said, "Since you already know my identity, I won't hide it anymore. Since we're divorced, let's part amicably. If you're still angry, take it out on me. Don't involve innocent people. If you have any grudges against me, I can apologize to you here. I'm sorry."
As Shi Wan spoke, she sincerely bowed at a 90-degree angle to apologize, and when she raised her head, her face was full of righteous indignation.
“Our village chief is unaware of our past relationship and is delusional to think that this 50 million yuan project will benefit the villagers. We are being wishful. I apologize to you on his behalf. We are sorry, we don’t want the project anymore. Please leave our village.”
That evening, he bowed again at a 90-degree angle to apologize.
Shi Wan's defensive offensive forced Sikong Jingyu to retreat repeatedly. Seeing her bent back, Sikong Jingyu felt extremely uncomfortable. He frowned and stared at Shi Wan with complicated emotions.
"You think I came here to take revenge on you?" Sikong Jingyu asked in a hoarse voice, his tone slightly choked with emotion.
Upon hearing Sikong Jingyu's voice, Shi Wan straightened up, met Sikong Jingyu's gaze head-on, and said seriously, "Isn't that right?"
Sikong Jingyu gave a bitter smile. Was he really that bad in her heart?
Or was it that the impression he left on her in the past was just that bad?
Sikong Jingyu looked back on their past since they met, and it seemed that every time they met, he was intentionally or unintentionally belittling, suppressing, and humiliating her...
Today, all her impressions of him seemed to be entirely his doing...
His eloquence, which had been so effective in the business world, suddenly left him speechless. Sikong Jingyu looked at Shi Wan with deep eyes and asked another question that had troubled him for a long time.
"Actually, you've been planning to divorce me for a long time, haven't you?"
When he asked that question, Sikong Jingyu felt inexplicably humbled.
Shi Wan paused for a moment, as if she had thought of something, and then denied it: "Of course not."
"You're lying."
Sikong Jingyu exposed Shi Wan: "In the past four years, you have never taken the initiative to contact me, nor have you ever tried to keep me. Even when it came to divorce, you never said no. You concealed your identity and withdrew from the marriage quickly and gracefully."
"I didn't lie," Shi Wan replied solemnly, looking into Sikong Jingyu's eyes.
“Right after we got our marriage certificate, you went abroad. Later, you had Assistant Sun tell me to recognize my true identity.”
"You say I never take the initiative to contact you, you keep me at arm's length, and you despise me to the extreme. What right do you think I have to contact you? What right do I have to contact you?"
“You said I never tried to keep you, but I actually did try. If I didn’t want to give each other another chance, I wouldn’t have listened to my grandmother and gone to find you the day you returned to China. I didn’t know my grandmother had drugged your drink. If I wanted to leave that night, I could have just left without caring about you being drugged. I stayed because we are husband and wife, and I wanted to give each other another chance, but you never gave me one.”
“You say I concealed my identity and didn’t object to the divorce, and I don’t deny that. But after a night of intimacy, not only did you not recognize me, but you also talked about divorce on the phone in front of me. How could I bear that? If I admitted on the spot that I was the Mrs. Sikong who had just gotten out of your bed and was about to be divorced by you, where would my dignity be? Based on my understanding of you, how would you humiliate me? In this marriage, I have never had the initiative.”
"If I had known you were so resistant to marrying me, if you had resisted even a little and let me know you didn't want to, I wouldn't have complied with this marriage and wasted four years of our time."
After finally uttering what she had kept bottled up for over four years, Shi Wan realized that she still harbored resentment towards Sikong Jingyu in this marriage.
He sighed.
Shi Wan looked at Sikong Jingyu with sincere eyes and earnest words: "Mr. Sikong, no matter what your purpose is in coming here, let's leave it at that between us."
Sikong Jingyu's Adam's apple bobbed. He didn't want to believe a word Shi Wan said, but he had to admit that what she said was true.
She really wants to end this marriage.
Now, he is the only one trapped in the besieged city.
"So... you never loved me at all, did you?" Sikong Jingyu's heart trembled.
Shi Wan looked at the man in front of her and couldn't understand him for a while. He was the one who pushed her away back then, and now he was the one who looked hurt!
Instead of directly answering Sikong Jingyu's question, Shi Wan chose to approach it indirectly, saying, "Mr. Sikong, you haven't loved me for the past four years, so why should you expect me to love you? Now that we're divorced, the past is past, so why are you still dwelling on the question of whether we love each other?"
"But I've fallen in love with you now," Sikong Jingyu said with difficulty.
"But you haven't loved me for the past four years." So Shi Wan doesn't need it anymore.
Shi Wan paused for a moment before continuing, "What you call love now may not be true love. Perhaps it's more about resentment or guilt towards me. If love doesn't come at the right time, in the right place, and with the right person, it's better to let it go. Mr. Sikong is a businessman; I don't need to teach you how to weigh the pros and cons, do I?"
Normally, Sikong Jingyu would have stormed off long ago, but this time, her eyes flickered with caution: "I'm 26 years old. I can distinguish between love and resentment. Shiwan, can't you really give us another chance?"
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