Chapter 786 Creating Distance
After leaving, Xu Chen did not linger at Xiangshan Hospital, but drove straight to the First People's Hospital.
The last time he went to see Lu Nanchu, he was kicked out by her because he was emotional. He gave her plenty of time to calm down, and now he wants to see her again and ask her all the questions that are on his mind.
Forty-five minutes later, in the intensive care unit of the First People's Hospital.
Xu Chen parked his car and changed into a protective suit before heading to the intensive care unit, then stepped into Lu Nanchu's ward.
"What are you doing here?" Perhaps because of the unpleasant parting last time, Lu Nanchu said to him in a bad mood as soon as she saw him, "Don't you know that you are not welcome here?"
She already kicked us out last time, wasn't that enough? Do we still need to question her?
Upon hearing this, Xu Chen knew that she was still angry about the unpleasant parting last time: "I know, I've always known, but this time I sincerely and calmly want to talk to you."
"I was too impulsive last time and my attitude wasn't gentle enough. If you're still angry, then I want to say sorry to you here. Can you forgive me?"
He really only said that because he was angry last time; he didn't mean to hurt her.
After all, he knew perfectly well how difficult their relationship had been, from school uniforms to wedding gowns.
Not everyone can go from school uniform to wedding dress, and not everyone has this opportunity. He should cherish it and shouldn't have lost his temper with her.
"Forgive? You say those two words so easily..." After eating these past few days, Lu Nanchu's body had recovered considerably, and her voice was no longer weak and feeble: "Xu Chen, if you didn't like me, you should have said so earlier. Why did you make us end up like this?"
If he had just told her sooner, she would never have clung to him, she would have let go sooner, and she wouldn't have hindered him from finding his next love.
But it's as if he's doing it on purpose, deliberately dragging it out until now, still unwilling to say those two words.
Is he afraid to speak? Or does he simply not want to speak?
Xu Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Nan Chu, believe me, this situation is not what I wanted to see today. Moreover, I came here today to ask you something else, not just about our relationship."
"Just say what's on your mind," Lu Nanchu said calmly. "I'm all ears."
Since she had already said that, Xu Chen got straight to the point: "It's like this, when I went back to the Bulgari Hotel a while ago, the room manager came to me and asked if I wanted to extend my stay. It wasn't until then that I found out that you had been staying at the Bulgari Hotel for a full two weeks."
"Can you tell me why you've been staying at the Bulgari Hotel? And why do you stay in the room diagonally opposite mine? Is it really just so you can spy on me? Because I arranged Qingyi's room next to mine, you chose to stay in the room diagonally opposite mine, right?"
His last words were not a question, but a statement of fact.
His tone was indifferent, as if he were stating something trivial, but it was precisely these words that stirred up a tidal wave in Lu Nanchu's heart, causing her expression to change drastically: "You...you knew all along?"
Come to think of it, she disappeared for a full 26 days after the earthquake, she wouldn't answer the phone and we couldn't contact her, how could the hotel not try other methods?
She just didn't expect that the room manager would come directly to him. Could this mean that she had given herself away?
"It seems my guess was right." Xu Chen's gaze was more complex than ever before, and his tone was filled with shock and helplessness: "Nan Chu, why did you do this? You could have just asked me directly. Why go through all this trouble?"
He chose to stay at the Bulgari Hotel because he used to travel frequently for work and was used to staying in hotels; the hotel had become his second home.
But what about her? Why is she staying in a hotel?
Isn't it just because she saw him getting close to Wen Qingyi and wanted to monitor him anytime, anywhere?
He had always thought it was just his guess, and he didn't want to think of her that way, but when she admitted it, his heart still ached uncontrollably.
Now it was Lu Nanchu's turn to smile bitterly, her voice carrying a hint of bitterness: "Was it unnecessary? Given the distance between you and Wen Qingyi back then, if I didn't do this, how long do you think I could have held onto my position as her fiancée?"
"Xu Chen, you only see the side of me monitoring you, but have you never thought about how much pain I've been in since you fell in love with Wen Qingyi?"
She watched their every move, almost as if torturing herself, watching them grow closer and closer over and over again.
If it weren't for the earthquake and she hadn't been hospitalized, she and Xu Chen might have already reached a dead end.
There is no turning back.
Seeing that she had misunderstood, Xu Chen quickly explained, "No, I haven't fallen in love with Wen Qingyi, never..."
His tone was panicked and helpless, and he seemed completely at a loss.
“But your actions prove this point every moment!” But before he could finish speaking, Lu Nanchu interrupted him, saying, “If you don’t believe me, you can ask the guests who attended the welcome banquet that day. Who doesn’t think you and Wen Qingyi are having an affair?”
"Your biggest mistake was making the distance between you and Wen Qingyi disappear, making the intimacy between us disappear, and even erasing the feelings between us."
No, she's exaggerating. What do you mean by the disappearance of intimacy? What do you mean by erasing their feelings altogether?
It's not that serious.
Xu Chen's panic and helplessness intensified; he didn't even know where to put his hands, shaking his head repeatedly, "No, Nan Chu, it's not as serious as you say. I'm still me, I'm still the Xu Chen who loves you as much as ever. We went from school uniforms to wedding dresses, and we even got engaged..."
"Don't you believe in my feelings for you? If I had fallen in love with someone else, why would I have gotten engaged to you?"
Given his personality, if he fell in love with another woman, he would never get engaged to her!
Since they're engaged, they're practically husband and wife. Why can't she believe in his feelings for her?
Does he have to dig out his heart and show it to her before she'll know that his heart is actually broken?
"The engagement and your falling in love with Wen Qingyi are not contradictory." At least, that's what Lu Nanchu herself thought: "You returned to China after our engagement. You know how much you did for Wen Qingyi after you returned."
All the changes began after he returned to China from New York following their engagement.
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