Chapter 75
"The reason this happened, I think, is mainly because your insistence on aborting the child hurt my self-esteem, so I wanted to prove something to you... Anyway, I broke up with that woman last week, so this stupid mistake that all men make is now a thing of the past, which is why I'm discussing this with you so frankly."
For the next half minute, the only sound in the room was the constant noise from the television playing background music.
"Why did you do this?" Huang Ruoyu finally asked.
Cheng Shi shook his head, his eyes still fixed on the view out the window: "Little Fish, I don't know why either. I've already explained it to you, but I'm still asking myself the same question. That's why I said it's a crazy thing, completely irrational, I..."
“No,” Huang Ruoyu shook her head, “I’m not talking about why you went to that woman, but why you told me this. What’s the point of doing this? Are you trying to make me jealous, or do you have some other purpose? Do you want me to fall in love with you again, to sleep with you again, or what? What do you think I should say now?”
Cheng Shi looked at Huang Ruoyu, feeling his face flush red. He felt that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't transform the awkward and foolish wry smile on his face into the professional smile of a psychologist. But he still managed to string together some psychologist's words and said to Huang Ruoyu, "You could actually tell me how you feel right now..."
Huang Ruoyu remained silent for a while, seemingly deep in thought, but then she coldly said, "I've already said it, I don't feel anything."
"You mean you don't care what I do or which woman I sleep with, right?!" Chengshi suddenly roared angrily as if she had been greatly hurt.
"Yes, like you said, I don't care."
“But I want you to care!” Cheng Shi was practically channeling Huang Xiaoming, the words just slipping out of her mouth.
“I think if I still loved you, and you messed things up, I would be sad. So it seems I don’t love you anymore. And to put it another way, I not only don’t love you now, but I never loved you in the past. It’s just that I’ve only just realized this. That’s why I don’t want to talk to you. Do you understand now?”
Huang Ruoyu left those words behind, then picked up the rag from the coffee table and walked into DK, like an exhausted but dutiful and never-ending nanny.
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Chengshi stood blankly in the living room, looking down at the phone in his hand—the sound wasn't coming from his phone. His mind was still a jumbled mess. But in a flash, he suddenly remembered what kind of Sunday it was, and he understood why the children had been sent to the Sun family's house at No. 8 Palm Beach again. Chengshi also knew that he and Huang Ruoyu didn't have much time left to talk alone.
"Huang Ruoyu!" Cheng Shi strode confidently, following Huang Ruoyu into DK. "You better throw that tattered rag away right now, and listen to me carefully. First of all, you fucking know perfectly well in your heart that you love me!"
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