Chapter 81
Yan Tingxuan's voice blew to You Mian's ears with the cold wind.
"He can, but I can't, right?"
Yan Tingxuan didn't understand why You Mian was willing to accept Pei Huaiji's help but not his own.
Is it because Pei Huaiji didn’t have any entanglements with him in the past?
You Mian did not stop and did not look back. He did not answer a single word to Yan Tingxuan's questioning.
Yan Tingxuan tightly grasped the USB flash drive in his hand, strode forward, grabbed You Mian's arm and turned him around.
"You sent all your love messages to him, right? Every time it was to him, right?"
Yan Tingxuan's eyes were red, and he seemed to be on the verge of a breakdown. "I can't see that you are just playing around. Maybe you are, but he is not."
You Mian, wrapped in a scarf, looked up at him. Her amber eyes were like a frozen lake in the cold night, reflecting Yan Tingxuan's hysteria and helplessness at the moment.
The boy's calm expression made Yan Tingxuan relax his grip on his arm.
Yan Tingxuan stared at You Mian's expression in a daze, and after a pause of a few seconds he was able to utter a sound smoothly.
"You like him?" Yan Tingxuan's expression was complicated and a little confused. "You like him."
His questioning tone faded and turned into a firm statement and confirmation.
You Mian squinted his eyes slightly in the cold wind, "Yan Tingxuan, are you angry and embarrassed?"
Yan Tingxuan is a very gentle man. He always appears to be refined and well-mannered in front of others, with a graceful demeanor and neat clothes.
A charming smile always hung on the corners of his mouth, and he was called Lawyer Yan wherever he went.
Apart from the way he looked when he was trying to curry favor with the You family, everyone who saw him would say that he was a carefree and playboy.
And at this moment, the man stood in front of him, his face blank and helpless, nervous and frightened, like a poor beggar who had lost everything.
"I no longer expect you to love me." Yan Tingxuan's voice was as broken as his expression. In the biting cold wind, You Mian heard his laughter with a hint of tears in it.
"I no longer expect you to love me."
Yan Tingxuan repeated it again in this humble manner.
The man was holding You Mian's hand and it was shaking. The words he couldn't say were, "Can you please not fall in love with someone else?"
Watching You Mian love someone else is simply the greatest torture in Yan Tingxuan's life.
The person he longed for, loved, and even hated now has someone he likes.
You Mian watched Yan Tingxuan collapse without a trace of emotion in his heart.
You Mian struggled but Yan Tingxuan grabbed his hand, which resulted in him stuffing the USB flash drive in his hand into his hand without giving him a chance to refuse.
"You can accept it." Yan Tingxuan lowered his eyes, with red at the corners of his eyes.
"Let go." You Mian pulled his hand away again in annoyance, and this time he broke free easily.
You Mian wanted to return the USB flash drive to Yan Tingxuan, but unexpectedly, Yan Tingxuan immediately took a few steps back to avoid him, as if he knew what You Mian's next move would be.
Yan Tingxuan stood in front of You Mian at an arm's length away, his nose red as if he had just cried.
You Mian held out the USB flash drive in her hand, her eyes were cold and calm, "Giving things to others is so coercive."
You Mian made a gesture to loosen his fingers, "If you don't take it back, I will throw it away."
Yan Tingxuan stood silently in the cold wind, and realized belatedly that he hadn't seen You Mian smile at him for a long time.
In his memory, You Mian gradually turned into the cold and distant person in front of him, and those gentle smiles from the past seemed like a lifetime ago.
Yan Tingxuan subconsciously tried to raise his glasses, but found that he had changed into a pair of invisible glasses.
Yan Tingxuan rubbed his fingers and put down his arms. He suppressed some of the collapse he had just felt.
The gentleman looked straight into You Mian's eyes and said, "If you don't take it, I will keep pestering you."
"I've already been beaten, so it won't waste my time to keep pestering you."
You Mian wanted to throw it away immediately, but before he could let go, Yan Tingxuan smiled and said, "It will always haunt you even if you throw it away."
You Mian didn’t understand why Yan Tingxuan did these things, nor did she want to know the reason for his current frustrated expression.
The stars are numerous and bright tonight, and the moonlight is cold and lonely shining on the snow. When the cold wind blows, people will unconsciously exhale a breath of mist.
Yan Tingxuan looked at You Mian with his red eyes and said softly, "If you don't want me to bother you, just take it away."
He collected this information by pushing several big cases of the law firm and worked all night for nearly half a month. He lost tens of millions in legal fees and was beaten up.
Before, Yan Tingxuan would have pretended to casually tell You Mian about his "hard work", but now he was afraid that if he revealed even a little bit, You Mian would refuse to accept it.
The information records in detail the funds raised by Xiuming from the beginning of the garment factory to its current scale, and also includes names such as Sheng Jiangang, Ba Quan, and You Jiyuan.
The deeper the investigation went, the more Yan Tingxuan collapsed.
The bruises from You Mian's kidnapping all those years almost became his nightmare.
Bai Lin, who was suddenly brought back, and the kidnapper who never appeared again were connected together, and Yan Tingxuan easily thought of the word "prevent disaster".
If his guess was correct, he was the knife that was wielded towards You Mian by the You family in collusion.
You Mian coldly put the USB drive into his coat pocket, proving with his actions that he really didn't want to be bothered by Yan Tingxuan, nor did he want to have any more entanglement with Yan Tingxuan.
"Is it okay?" You Mian asked coldly.
Yan Tingxuan suddenly relaxed his shoulders as if he had accomplished the most important thing in his life, revealing a romantic and passionate smile.
"Um."
You Mian turned and left, his cool back looking particularly elegant in the moonlight.
Yan Tingxuan had long been prepared that he would never be loved by You Mian, but he didn't expect that when the time came, he would still be so jealous when he found out that You Mian fell in love with Pei Huaiji, jealous to the point of losing control and jealous to the point of collapse.
Yan Tingxuan walked back to the cabin in the cold wind. He slowly wiped away the complete collapse he had just experienced. When he looked up again, his usual gentlemanly smile was on his face.
Pei Huaiji had burned the firewood behind the ice house, and when he stood up he happened to run into You Mian, whose curly hair was covered with frost.
When Pei Huaiji saw You Mian running back to the cabin quickly, his own pace also quickened.
As soon as You Mian entered the room, he squinted his eyes because of the heat in the room. "It's still warm here."
Yun Guanqing heard the voice and poked his head out of the bathroom, and saw Pei Huaiji following in from behind You Mian.
"What have you been talking about for so long?" Yun Guanqing came out of the bathroom, wiping his hair, and asked with a sour tone.
You Mian took off her scarf and glanced at the kang in the small room, and responded casually: "Nothing."
Pei Huaiji handed the hot water he had poured to You Mian and said calmly, "Don't catch a cold."
You Mian held up the water cup and asked, "Have you decided where to sleep?"
Yun Guanqing's long hair was dripping with water, which made her eyes look even more beautiful. The man stared straight at You Mian and said with a smile, "You choose first."
Although Yun Guanqing said this, he had already guessed in his heart that You Mian might sleep outside the kang, with Pei Huaiji in the middle, so it would be best for him to sleep near the wall.
As expected, You Mian walked to the corner of the kang and sat down, patting his back with his hands, "I'll sleep here."
Yun Guanqing tactfully walked to the wall and said, "Then I'll sleep here."
Pei Huaiji skillfully picked up his coat to cover the camera that the production team had placed in the cabin, "Go to bed early."
The group was playing flying chess until this point and should have gone to bed a long time ago.
As soon as You Mian entered the warm room, the sleepiness that had disappeared instantly came back.
He put Yan Tingxuan's USB drive into his pocket, but the words he said and the expression on his face when he spoke did not leave any trace in You Mian's heart, nor did it cause any waves.
Sleepiness completely destroyed You Mian's thoughts, so much so that the kang that seemed awkward in the morning now seemed so warm to him.
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