Departure
Liu Jianchun washed her face with cold water and looked at herself in the mirror without makeup. She found that her original face was not so cold. If she was willing to relax her brows and face others with a gentle look and smile, she would seem to be easy to get along with.
Appearance is determined by the heart, and the same is true for her heart.
She has never been a heartless person. She just chooses to avoid her true feelings and pretends to be indifferent in order to make herself look stronger.
She looked into her own eyes and realized that Jian Zhaonan's eyes weren't the only ones that softened people's hearts when they were filled with tears. Hers was the same. She still had a gentle side like water, but her tenderness was given to Xie Yu in the past. She could forgive Xie Yu over and over again, but she couldn't give Jian Zhaonan another chance. In fact, this time, the one who made the mistake wasn't him, but herself who broke her promise...
She gritted her teeth and hesitated for a long time before making up her mind. She found Qin Tianyi in the contacts list and asked him about Jian Zhaonan's situation, risking being scolded by him.
The call was connected quickly.
"What a rare guest! Why did you think of giving it to me today?"
She bit her lip and spoke with difficulty: "Do you know where Jian Zhaonan is?"
Qin Tianyi was also a cunning person. Having been used as part of their play many times before, he refused to be kept in the dark again. He would not reveal a single word before Liu Jianchun explained the situation. She could not persuade him, so she had to tell him the truth about what had happened before.
As Liu Jianchun expected, Qin Tianyi was indeed full of complaints after hearing this: "My dear aunt, can you please stop being so annoying? What's so good about Xie Yu? Why can't you separate from him?"
What he said was actually what she wanted to ask herself. Xie Yu, a notorious jerk. She had won him, and she had lost him too. She should have no regrets about him, so why did she keep falling for him? The only possibility was that what she couldn't get would always be a source of turmoil. She had never once gained the upper hand in her game with Xie Yu.
But this ill-fated relationship between them should also come to an end!
And the end of the story should be now.
She took a deep breath and swallowed all her excuses. "You call me a bitch, call me stupid, I admit everything. I don't want to promise you anything. Even if I say I will never see Xie Yu again, you probably won't believe me. But I can tell you that I really want to start a new life with him. Give me another chance."
"I want to see him. You just need to tell me where he is now. I don't need your help with anything else."
"Of course you two shouldn't ask me for help. I'm just an innocent person. I'll get sick of eating your dog food all the time. Where does he live... It seems like he lives in the Bulgari closest to your stadium."
She was stunned.
No wonder he knew her whereabouts so well.
"Liu Jianchun, are you listening to me? Are you still listening?"
"I'm listening."
"Go find him and try to tell him what he wants to hear. Stop acting like a spoiled brat, okay? A woman's strongest weapon is gentleness, not force. No man wants to marry a woman who outdoes him in every way."
Qin Tianyi's words were extremely inappropriate, but she would rather bite her back teeth to pieces and "gladly" accepted it: "I understand..."
Qin Tianyi was slightly surprised to hear Liu Jianchun's admission. He had originally said some words to provoke her just to add fuel to the fire, but he didn't expect that she would accept it completely. It was really beyond his expectation.
Jian Zhaonan likes Liu Jianchun. He originally strongly opposed it, but after watching for a long time, he felt that it was the greatest kindness for someone to love Jian Zhaonan to such an extent that helping him is the greatest kindness.
He had said such harsh words, but she was not angry. It seemed that she had really changed her mind this time. In this case, there was no need for him to stop her.
"Senior sister, please go to the hotel first. I'll ask someone to contact the manager for you and have him take you upstairs."
When she heard Qin Tianyi's affirmative answer, she was so excited that she said "thank you" countless times, picked up her coat and ran downstairs.
Bulgari was less than 200 meters away from her gym, and it only took a few minutes' walk to get there. She walked into the lobby, but Qin Tianyi's call didn't come for a long time, so she was so anxious that she had to run to the front desk to ask.
She was still arguing with the receptionist when the elevator quietly stopped at the first floor. A tall man with a suitcase in hand walked out of the elevator. Even as he walked past her, he didn't even glance at her.
She didn't turn her head to look at the door until the man left. The man walked very fast, and in a blink of an eye, his figure almost disappeared at the door.
She rushed after him and grabbed his shoulders.
"Jian Zhaonan!" She didn't care whether it was appropriate to call his name in public. She blurted out these words in a fit of excitement.
Fortunately, Bulgari's waiters were well-trained, and only a few people looked in the direction of the voice, while the vast majority of people continued to do their jobs and did not cause any commotion.
He had clearly seen who she was, but he still frowned and pushed her hand away: "Please respect yourself."
He turned around before she could finish, as if he didn't want to give her any chance. The car was parked at the door. He put his luggage in the car and walked to the driver's seat in a few steps. If she hadn't quickly sat in the passenger seat, he might have driven away.
He looked at her with a puzzled look: "What are you doing here?"
"Come to see you."
A glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, but it only lit up for a moment, and his eyes sank again in an instant: "I think you need Xie Yu, not me. You should go find him."
Hearing Xie Yu, she felt a surge of anger in her heart: "I've told you more than once that he and I are even. There's no way we can be together now or in the future. Why do you always mention him?"
He laughed self-deprecatingly. "If you think holding hands with a man and acting like a daughter-in-law in front of his parents can be considered as having no connection with him, then I have nothing to say."
She blushed until she could barely utter, "That's because he knelt down and begged me."
"He said his father really wanted to see us reconcile, so he asked me to pretend to be a couple with him to fulfill the old man's wish. He didn't lie to me. Uncle Xie's condition is really bad now. He might soon..."
"What does this have to do with you?" he said coldly.
She was stunned by the question and was speechless.
"Birth, aging, sickness, and death are all natural laws. Everyone has parents, and everyone's parents will die. Why would I use moral blackmail on you just because my mother is seriously ill?"
He looked at her in silence and smiled bitterly: "Compared to his father's last wish, you think that angering me is less important. In the final analysis, it's because my position in your heart is not as important as his."
"No, that's not the case. Let me explain..."
"Why should I listen to your explanation?" His eyes were calm, so calm that she suddenly felt that he didn't love her anymore.
He said calmly, "Get off the bus. Don't waste time here. It's pointless to waste any more time. Get off."
Before she left, she took one last, hard look at him. She realized that in all the over a decade she'd known him, she'd never put him first in her heart, never treated him with such devotion, as she did today. But she'd thrown herself into it too late, until he'd already calmed down and was ready to leave gracefully.
"I know you don't want to hear it, but I still want to tell you that everything I did at the hospital today wasn't for Xie Yu at all. The Xie family and my family are family friends, and my parents are not in the country. It would be difficult for them to see Uncle Xie. I hope my parents won't feel guilty about Uncle Xie's situation, so I chose to help him one last time today. I'm not saying this to quibble, or to make you forgive me after listening to me. I don't want you to think that I have no principles in my behavior and am completely driven by love."
She finished what she wanted to say, and without further entanglement, she got out of the car without waiting for him to send her away again. The car behind her drove away quickly. She heard the sound of the car disappear and dared to look back. However, no matter how hard she looked, she could not find the shadow of the Land Rover.
She was about to leave when her cell phone rang.
Qin Tianyi said hurriedly: "He seems to have checked out, but don't worry, I'll ask other people."
"No, I just saw him."
"Have you two met already?" Qin Tianyi asked in a high voice, almost in surprise, "How was your conversation?"
She pursed her lips awkwardly, hesitant to speak. She didn't know how to explain to Qin Tianyi that he had been so kind in bringing them together, but in the end she still didn't seize the opportunity to meet him.
"He didn't listen to my explanation at all. He must be extremely disappointed in me. The two of us... are completely over."
"Don't I understand him? He's just being stubborn. He even booked a private room with me yesterday, saying he wanted to treat the parents of Team Two to a meal. He's probably trying to win you over, right? Senior Sister, he really wants to do his best to help you. As long as you don't refuse and treat other people's sincerity as nothing, everything else will be easy to deal with."
yesterday……
Yesterday they could still hug each other, and of course he would consider her, but feelings are ever-changing, and the heart of yesterday and the heart of today are sometimes completely different.
Liu Jianchun was already very tired and didn't have the energy to explain her sad story to Qin Tianyi. She just said "hmm" and didn't say anything else.
She has experienced heartbreak more than once, and she is very familiar with how to adjust from it. As long as she finds something to keep herself busy, she can quickly divert her attention and make her heart feel less empty and less painful.
But she didn't.
She lay in the room where he had lived, reading the letters he had left behind, and recalling their past over and over again, making herself sink deeper and deeper into despair, the more she thought about it, the more painful it became.
She was deliberately punishing herself to make this lesson more profound, so that when she faced true love again in the future, she would not let the other person down and would not let down the sincerity.
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