Chapter 355 I Never Doubt You Love Me
Meng Anran frowned, her mind full of doubts, not understanding why Qin Mu said that.
It was obvious that Lu Yi had caused all this trouble to stand up for her and take revenge on Chen Xiwen. What was wrong with her cleaning up the mess?
Could it be that Lu Yi vented her anger, and she would turn around and blame Lu Yi?
It would be fine if he targeted Du Congnan, but his target was Chen Xiwen, the one who had betrayed her and was now continuing to frame her.
She had long been resentful of Chen Xiwen. What could be wrong with someone doing something for her that she was inconvenient to do?
"An Xiaoran, don't forget how Lu Yi treated you in the past. He did stand up for you this time, but in the end, he didn't consider your situation and didn't respect your opinion, which caused you trouble."
Qin Mu raised his hand, gently rubbing the girl's frown with his thumb, and said gently, "If you don't warn her, it's tantamount to encouragement. If this happens again in the future and the situation becomes more serious, what will you do? Continue to protect him?"
"Shelter?" Meng Anran brushed Qin Mu's hand away and sneered sarcastically. "Then let me ask you, if you were targeted by a competitor and I stood up for you but it brought you trouble, would you put all the blame on me?"
"You are different from him." Qin Mu retorted quickly, his voice sounding a little anxious. He paused and looked at her with a little hurt: "I hope that in your heart, I am different from him."
"Okay." Meng Anran said coldly, taking a half step back calmly. "If it was Ming Jing who stood up for you, would you put all the blame on him? Or would you question and blame him after you've dealt with the mess?"
Qin Mu's lips twitched, but he couldn't speak.
The answer is - no.
No matter whether it was An Xiaoran, Ming Jing, Liu Zhi, Xiao Han, Kenai, or anyone else he knew, he would not turn around and blame the other party.
But he just couldn't help but care. He thought that in An Xiaoran's heart, Lu Yi should not be compared with his friends around him.
"Or do you think..." Meng Anran's expression was as cold as the wind outside the window, which was like a knife that hurt people when it passed by. "Am I the kind of person who can't distinguish right from wrong?"
Qin Mu's pupils trembled violently, "That's not what I meant."
"Then what do you mean?" Meng Anran asked back, so forcefully that she seemed to leave no room for Qin Mu.
Qin Mu's heart skipped a beat, and his eyes suddenly reddened and watery. He twitched the corners of his lips in self-mockery, his voice as soft and fragile as glass: "An Xiaoran, the way you're looking at me now makes me look more like your enemy."
Meng Anran was stunned for a moment, and the coldness in her eyes immediately dissipated. She took a step forward, hugged Qin Mu's waist, and whispered an apology: "I'm sorry, I was too persistent."
Being used to being decisive and swift in the business world, when arguments come, one forgets that the person standing in front of him is his lover, not his enemy.
Qin Mu didn't hug her back as usual, his hands hanging limply at his sides. His voice was a little hoarse, "You've changed a lot since Ming Liu's engagement party. While these changes aren't bad, I feel like you care less and less about me. An Xiaoran, I'm very insecure. I always feel like I'm someone you can give up on at any time."
She lives too transparently, so transparently that no matter who leaves, it cannot hinder her steps or affect her life.
She always finds it easy to give up things that "don't belong to her".
He had sometimes wished she wasn't so rational, that she'd become attached to certain people or things. Now, she had become more emotional and impulsive, but not because of him.
This change frightened him.
The wind from outside the window blew in through the gaps, making the bamboo curtains rustle.
Meng Anran's heart suddenly tightened. She looked up and saw Qin Mu's eyes were red, as if they were pricked by something.
"Qin Mu..." She called his name tentatively, wanting to coax her back like he had coaxed her countless times before.
But Qin Mu gently pushed her away and asked a pointed question: "An Xiaoran, can you tell what love is?"
She was in a trance for a moment, and there was a hint of strangeness and disbelief in her eyes when she looked at Qin Mu.
Outside the window, the snow on the eaves slid down silently, as if hitting Meng Anran's heart, and quickly formed a layer of frost.
"I admit that I'm more emotionally indifferent than others, and I really don't understand what love is." A tear rolled down Meng Anran's eye, and she choked up. "But I know I can't live without you, and I've never doubted that you love me."
Whenever he saw her crying, Qin Mu would panic. He wiped the tears from her cheeks helplessly, gently pulled her into his arms, and hugged her deeper and deeper.
This was the first time in the twenty-one years since they knew each other that he had made the girl he held in his hands and cared for cry.
His arms tightened unconsciously, as if he wanted to hold her in his arms.
"Baby..." His voice was hoarse, "I'm sorry, I said something too harsh."
Meng Anran leaned in his arms with her mouth pursed, feeling as aggrieved as a three-year-old child whose favorite candy was taken away.
She raised her head and said angrily, "Shouldn't the apology be a little sincere?"
Qin Mu stared at the sparkling light in her eyes, then leaned over and kissed her lips knowingly, "I was wrong."
Meng Anran seemed to have calmed down quickly. She stood on tiptoe and placed a light kiss on his lips. "Then tell me, what did I do wrong that made you feel insecure?"
She knew that Qin Mu had absolute trust in her since she was a child, just as she always believed that he would not betray her.
Even when Duan Jingyao had deliberately taken some photos with ambiguous angles and sent them to him, he had always believed her and never mentioned his lack of security.
Why now?
Because of Lu Yi?
Qin Mu pulled Meng Anran to sit at the tea table and gently wiped the tears from her face with a tissue. After hesitating for a long time, he whispered, "You've been too nice to Lu Yi lately. I don't like it."
Her tear-soaked eyelashes fluttered slowly, and Meng Anran seemed a little confused. "How have I been good to him?"
"You said he saved you once and you helped him. Do you still think so now?" Qin Mu knew An Xiaoran too well and could easily tell that she had feelings for Lu Yi.
Meng Anran lowered her eyes and fell silent. She was thinking carefully about whether her attitude towards Lu Yi was really as Qin Mu said, and she did not choose to redeem him simply to "repay a favor" or to avoid being hurt again.
Instead, she has some indescribable feelings towards Lu Yi.
Looking back on the time she had spent with Lu Yi, she seemed not to hate this man as much as before, and would occasionally recall the awkward care he had shown her when she was a child.
She doesn't understand love, and so do Lu Heng and Lu Yi.
Children who grow up in the Lu family do not know how to love and be loved, do not know how to express their emotions, and always inadvertently hurt the people they care about.
Generally speaking, they share the same suffering.
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