Danger!
Being secretly liked by someone may be a happy thing, but when this secret love turns into a confession, the person being confessed to will inevitably feel some pressure.
Especially for Liu Jianchun.
She was taught by her parents to be kind to others since she was young, but in the end she developed a people-pleasing personality. Once she knows that the other person likes her and invests his feelings and time in her, she feels that she should also reciprocate. Otherwise, she should express her feelings early on and dissuade the other person from doing so.
You keep someone hanging around even though you don't like them, what's the difference between you and Xie Yu?
There is no difference at all.
He clearly has a little fangirl in Kawasaki Miko, and doesn't need her to save him at all, but she is still worrying that if she tells him directly that she doesn't like him, he will be sad for a long time.
That's ridiculous.
Before Liu Jianchun could figure out her philosophy of life, Meizi, who was sitting opposite her, was so full of admiration for Jian Zhaonan that her words of praise were like a river flowing out of a floodgate.
"Although the players on the Chinese team are all very strong, Sister Jianchun and Brother Jian are the two players I admire the most. Sister Jianchun's serve and first three shots are so strong that it's impossible to find any loopholes. Brother Jian always manages to use ordinary techniques to the extreme, accurately hitting the opponent in their strongest areas and making them lose with conviction."
It would have been fine if she just praised Jian Zhaonan, but Meizi also praised Liu Jianchun to the skies, which made her feel a little embarrassed for a moment.
She’s strong? What the hell… No matter how strong she is, she’s still a loser who got zero points in the three major competitions.
She explained with an awkward smile, "It's not that I'm good, it's that when I was on the team, your skills and tactics weren't mature yet. If it were you now, I really wouldn't be able to beat you."
Meizi turned to look at her, her sparkling eyes making Liu Jianchun feel uneasy. "Sister Jianchun is not only a great player, but also so humble. She's simply perfect. Before God created someone like you, did he ever consider our feelings? In front of you, other girls pale in comparison."
The corners of her mouth twitched unnaturally: "Miko, actually..."
"Actually, what Meizi said is right. Our contestant Chunchun is the best." Xie Yu, who had been keeping quiet, suddenly joined in the conversation and deliberately imitated Meizi's tone, calling her contestant so-and-so.
Meizi then remembered that there was a handsome guy next to her: "Mr. Xie, do you know him?"
"It's not that we know each other, but we are quite familiar with each other, so familiar that we have slept in the same bed."
"So Sister Jianchun is Mr. Xie's girlfriend!" Meizi thought thoughtfully, "Then... the rumor that Brother Jian likes Sister Jianchun is false."
Only then did Liu Jianchun realize that this guy knew all the gossip. He had been pretending to be stupid for a long time and continued to tell Jian Zhaonan's lies just to fool them.
Just as Liu Jianchun was about to explain, he saw Meizi grab Jian Zhaonan's hand without shying away from other people's gazes, and gently shook it like a spoiled child: "Are you actually single?"
Seeing the two of them being so sweet together, she felt like she shouldn't have said anything at all. Whatever, if being misunderstood could lead to a happy marriage, then it wouldn't matter if she had to bear some dirty rumors about Xie Yu.
Somehow, unlike the somewhat sad feeling she had when she first saw the two of them walk into the store side by side, she could now completely accept the fact that Jian Zhaonan liked someone else.
There was even a sense of relief in her heart - finally she didn't have to worry about whether she would regret letting go of a perfect man like Jian Zhaonan.
Because he wasn't hers in the first place.
…
Jian Zhaonan didn't understand Liu Jianchun's good intentions at all. He just thought she was crazy.
Xie Yu was so blatantly ruining her reputation, but she didn't even say a word of rebuttal. She didn't even need to explain whether they had slept together or not. It would be enough to just say that he was her ex, and the kind they would never have any contact with each other again.
In the end, she didn't say a word and just agreed!
Jian Zhaonan didn't bother to pay attention to Meizi. He shook off her hand reflexively, leaned over the back of his senior sister's chair and looked at her.
"Whether I'm single or not, you should ask her." He seemed to be talking to Meizi, but his eyes never left Liu Jianchun. "If she says it's me, then it's me. If she says it's not..."
Liu Jianchun didn't feel how ambiguous the atmosphere was at the moment. She just felt like she was being roasted on the fire by Jian Zhaonan's words.
He didn't wear any perfume, but the scent of ylang-ylang from his clothes was enough to make her dizzy. She felt her throat tighten and she couldn't speak a complete sentence.
"Xiao Nan, stop it. This is a public place. Don't let anyone take pictures of you."
Under normal circumstances, he might have remained calm, having endured years of secret love, and there was no need to rush. But he was already on the verge of a breakdown, and if Meiko hadn't come over for once and begged him for so long over the phone, he would never have come out to accompany her.
He looked expressionless, but his defenses had collapsed.
He couldn't understand what he had done wrong to make a woman who seemed about to accept him turn around and throw herself into the arms of her ex.
What was it about him that made him inferior to Xie Yu? Or was her concern for him just a passing fancy?
What a cruel heart.
It turns out that when women become ruthless, they are even more cruel than men.
Liu Jianchun looked at Jian Zhaonan's departing back, completely confused. Why did he suddenly say that he had something to do and left angrily just when she reminded him to be careful with his words and actions?
Xie Yu, the instigator, snickered at the side: "I told you not to date someone younger than you. You're so ignorant."
"You can't take the older ones either. They might just be rotten cucumbers left over by others." Liu Jianchun didn't give him any face and called Meizi to leave together.
Xie Yu was both ashamed and angry. Being humiliated in front of him by a woman was simply trampling on his dignity as a man.
He was angry after thinking about it. She was just an ordinary woman. What else was good about her besides her good temper? Now, even the good thing about being able to tolerate her was gone. So why did he bother pursuing her?
The more Xie Yu thought about it, the angrier he became, and he kicked the chair where Liu Jianchun had been sitting.
What a fucking waste of time.
Not long after Jian Zhaonan left the house, he received a call from his younger brother. The little brat didn't have his own phone, so he used his mother's number. He looked at the word "Mom" on the caller ID and was stunned.
As soon as I picked up the phone, I heard a trembling cry from the other end: "Brother, what happened to Mom? I secretly went to the hospital to ask, and the nurse said Mom was not staying in that ward. I asked her where she moved to, but she didn't say anything. Mom doesn't know..."
"Brother, please say something. Can you please stop being like this? Why are you lying to me?"
Jian Zhaonan understood his pain very well, and precisely because of this understanding, he didn't know what to say. His mother's sudden death had caused him immense pain, not to mention his brother who had lived with her day and night.
The younger brother was still crying: "Brother, I am so scared living at home alone. There was a power outage at home tonight. It is pitch black everywhere. I am afraid that mom will turn into a ghost and come to find me."
"If she really turned into a ghost, she would definitely come to take my life first." Jian Zhaonan listened to his brother's childish words, feeling both amused and helpless. "You didn't call me to say you were afraid of the dark, did you? What exactly do you want to say?"
"My uncle said that the sister who came with you asked me to stay with her. Can I go..."
He couldn't help but frown when he heard this. Anyone with common sense would understand that this was just a polite remark, so why did he take it so seriously? "Why don't you just ask her directly? What's the point of asking me?"
"Can you...can you take me there?" My brother's voice became lower and lower.
Jian Zhaonan loosened his grip on the steering wheel and raised his hand to pinch his sore brows.
His senior sister truly made him both love and hate her. She helped him so much behind the scenes, yet refused to defend him in front of others. Was she helping him because she was his sister-in-law, or was she simply being kind?
When he thought of Liu Jianchun, the image that emerged in his mind wasn't her melancholy eyes, but the image of her sitting with that bastard Xie Yu. A nameless fire burned from within him, and the rage, wrapped in a strong emotion, rushed straight to his head, causing him to have a splitting headache and his vision to blacken.
After a moment's pause, he remembered that he hadn't hung up the phone yet: "Wait for me at home."
He personally delivered Xuanyunduo to Liu Jianchun's gym, but that was all he did.
He knew he'd been feeling a bit unstable lately, and seeing her would probably make it even harder to control himself. She preferred men slightly older than her, and she thought younger boys were ignorant, immature, and irresponsible... He understood all of this, so he decided it would be best if they didn't meet for now.
Liu Jianchun was standing by the window looking at the scenery when he suddenly saw a familiar Land Rover. The car was parked on the side of the road and a little boy named Xuanyuduo with a schoolbag on his back walked down.
As soon as Xuanyunduo entered the building, the Land Rover turned around, and the driver showed no intention of getting out, leaving Liu Jianchun confused. She could let Xuanyunduo stay for a while, but a parent would have to transfer custody. Otherwise, if Xuanyunduo called the police and falsely accused her of child trafficking, where would she go to seek justice?
She was so anxious that she went downstairs and called Jian Zhaonan, but he seemed to do it on purpose and didn't answer the three calls in a row.
Fortunately, she ran fast and just stopped the black SUV that was about to drive away.
She knocked on his car window and asked him, "Why did you deliver it? Where is his uncle?"
Jian Zhaonan lowered his head, looking like he didn't want to pay attention to her, but in fact, he was afraid that she would see his miserable state: "I don't have time."
"Even if you don't have time, you have to ask his uncle to come. His father is missing, and his uncle is his guardian. You sent the child to me without his permission. What if he sues me?"
He was a little impatient: "If you don't want to care, then don't be such a good guy in the first place."
She never asks for anything in return when doing good things, she just wants to have a clear conscience. Others may misunderstand her, but the person she helps with good intentions is him. What right does he have to say that about her?
"When did I say I didn't want to care? Jian Zhaonan, are you deliberately trying to piss me off? Ever since I met you in the coffee shop, I've felt like you were acting strange today. Are you annoyed that I disturbed your date with Meizi?"
Jian Zhaonan subconsciously wanted to explain, but when he looked up and met her gaze, and saw through her eyes the person she had been infatuated with for so many years, Xie Yu, he felt like someone poured a basin of cold water over his head, chilling him from head to toe.
"Yes, you are right."
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