The pain of separation is the best test of love. Sikong Jingyu could tell the difference. He did feel guilty towards her, but his love did come before his guilt.
Shi Wan composed herself, and when she looked at Sikong Jingyu again, her gaze was clear and bright, making her stance clear and her words gentle: "Mr. Sikong, as I just said, if love doesn't appear at the right time, in the right place, and with the right person, it's better to... let it go. We're both adults now; whether we love or not isn't that important. Let's both look forward!"
"Look ahead?"
Sikong Jingyu laughed, but his laughter was full of bitterness. Looking at the beautiful face in front of him, he felt his heart being torn apart. He took a deep breath, his smile somewhat mocking, but more so mocking himself.
"Shi Wan, how did you manage to extricate yourself from a marriage so quickly? You really are... heartless."
Shi Wan frowned slightly. She was never one to fight or compete, and today she wasn't fighting for anything else, but she had to fight for justice for herself.
"We've been married for four years, and you've ignored me and given me the cold shoulder. Every time we met after you returned to China, you either humiliated me or embarrassed me. Yet you never felt heartless towards me. Now that I'm moving on, you accuse me of being heartless. Mr. Sikong, no one is obligated to wait for you forever. I have my own life, my own passions. Don't waste any more time on me. Let's let go of each other, okay? Let's erase all traces from each other's lives. I sincerely wish you find someone better soon!"
After Shi Wan finished speaking, the two fell into a brief silence. After a long while, Sikong Jingyu sighed slowly and helplessly, "Fine, since you insist on this... I respect your decision. But—I still won't let go. What has already existed can't be erased."
Why doesn't Sikong Jingyu understand that Shi Wan will never look back? Compared to her troublesome marriage, Shi Wan prefers to spend her time and energy on her patients and her family.
"Why are you doing this?" Shi Wan felt powerless.
Sikong Jingyu approached Shi Wan, his eyes fixed on her, filled with suppressed resentment. He said in a low, hoarse voice, "You can choose to reject me. It's okay. I did wrong you before, and it's right for you to punish me."
"Mr. Sikong."
Shi Wan interrupted him, shaking her head. "Why don't you understand? I rejected you not to punish you, but to tell you that it's over between us."
Sikong Jingyu lowered his head, a desolate smile playing on his lips, as if mocking himself. His voice was soft and slightly hoarse: "I understand what you mean. You can refuse me, but please don't push me away. I'm not asking you to respond immediately, just don't reject my approach. As for the rest, I know my limits. Shi Wan, I promise I will never embarrass you again. I will protect you."
Shi Wan sighed, feeling utterly helpless. She closed her lips and stopped speaking. Since she couldn't persuade him, she would let Sikong Jingyu give up on his own. Time would heal all wounds, and time would prove everything.
Seeing that Shi Wan remained silent, Si Kong Jingyu assumed that Shi Wan had tacitly agreed. He breathed a sigh of relief and said in a gentle voice, "Weren't you going to take me around? Shall we continue now?"
Shi Wan raised her eyes and glanced at Sikong Jingyu indifferently. He actually started asking for other people's opinions now?
Shi Wan frowned. "Mr. Sikong, as the head of a large corporation, you really don't need to be so humble!"
“But I don’t feel humble at all,” Sikong Jingyu said sincerely.
Shi Wan: "..."
Shi Wan sighed again and nodded faintly: "Let's go."
In the evening, the farmhouse had prepared special dishes and food. Sun Honglin specially invited two village cadres with good drinking capacity to accompany them, and everyone sat around a table.
"Today is a happy day! With Mr. Sikong here, our lives will be better from now on. Our whole village will rely on Mr. Sikong from now on!" Sun Honglin stood up, raised his wine glass, and toasted Sikong Jingyu with a happy smile.
Sikong Jingyu nodded slightly, picked up the tea in front of him, and said with a smile, "I have a leg ailment and cannot drink alcohol, so I will use tea instead. Please feel free to drink as you wish, Village Chief Sun."
When a senior toasts a junior, the senior stands while the junior sits; this is really disrespectful.
"Okay." Sun Honglin drank it all in one gulp, not caring at all, as long as the investment was in place.
"Thank you, Mr. Sikong, for being willing to sign the project with us."
The two village officials also stood up and toasted each other, saying, "Mr. Sikong, we're counting on you from now on!"
At the table, apart from Shi Wan who was still sitting there blankly, the village chief and village officials all stood up to offer toasts. Sun Honglin poured a glass of wine with almost no alcohol content and handed it to Shi Wan, indicating that she should also toast Sikong Jingyu.
After hesitating for a moment, Shi Wan still reached out and took it.
Shi Wan raised her glass, stood up, and politely said, "Mr. Sikong, I'd like to toast you!"
After saying that, Shi Wan raised her wine glass, but just as it was about to touch her lips, it suddenly vanished.
Sikong Jingyu intercepted Shi Wan's wine glass halfway through the journey, casually picked up the glass, and drank it all in one gulp, looking at her indifferently: "If you don't want to drink, you don't have to force yourself."
Everyone is watching, what is Sikong Jingyu doing?
He had just said that his leg was inconvenient and he would drink tea instead of wine, but then he turned around and drank her wine for her!
Shi Wan frowned, her face darkening slightly. He had forced her to drink before, and now with so many people watching, his attempt to smooth things over would only make others think there was something going on between them, making her even more embarrassed.
To onlookers, this scene made their relationship seem unusual.
Sikong Jingyu waved his hand, gesturing for everyone to sit down, and said calmly, "Let's just treat this as a normal meal. There's no need for all the formalities. Please sit down and eat."
Sun Honglin smiled and served Shi Wan some food: "Wanwan, I'll be relying on you to show Mr. Sikong around these next few days. Eat more vegetables and drink less alcohol!"
"Okay." Shi Wan nodded.
Shi Wan didn't say anything more, just ate her food in silence.
Sikong Jingyu ate his meal quietly, occasionally helping to put food from a distance into his bowl.
Looking at the extra food in his bowl, Shi Wan paused for a moment. Did he even know what boundaries were?
In the end, Shi Wan held back and said nothing.
However, the village leaders present all noticed the difference in Sikong Jingyu's attitude towards Shiwan.
Fortunately, Sikong Jingyu went abroad before she could invite the villagers to a wedding banquet when she got married. As time went by, the matter was put aside, and almost no one in the village knew that she had been married and was now divorced.
But to those unaware of the situation, such actions appear to have an inexplicable ambiguity.
One of the village officials, Gu Wenchang, didn't say anything, but the smile on his face was meaningful. He went outside and brought back a jar of freshly squeezed pomegranate juice, poured it for everyone, and said, "Wanwan, this tastes good, try it."
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