Chapter 192 You Deserve to Be Alone
Si Yuan nodded: "I saw him."
Song Yan tightened his grip on the steering wheel, glanced back slowly, and tentatively asked, "So you saw his daughter too?"
Si Yuan raised her eyes, "You knew too?"
How did Song Yan know that Jiang Wang had a child?
Song Yan withdrew his gaze, started the car, and slowly merged into the traffic. His tone revealed little emotion: "I saw him once before at the hotel. He was with that child, and he seemed to care about him a lot."
Before today, he wasn't sure about the specific relationship between the child and Jiang Wang.
In recent years, he has been keeping an eye on Si Yuan and deliberately avoiding all news about Jiang Wang.
I was just going along with Si Yuan's reaction, but I didn't expect that she would actually guess right.
Si Yuan slowly lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes casting a small shadow under her eyelids.
Remembering Jiang Wang's reddened eyes and his words, he said he hadn't slept well for a single night...
She almost took it seriously, almost softened her heart, and almost forgot the estrangement and sadness from five years ago.
He clearly had children and a seemingly perfect life.
When he tearfully recounted his suffering, did he ever think of his wife?
It was just another impulsive attempt.
Absurd, and laughable.
Seeing that she hadn't spoken for a while, Song Yan assumed that she had been reminded of painful memories, so he softened his tone and gently reminded her, "The day you had your accident, he hung up on you. You haven't forgotten those things, have you?"
Si Yuan didn't say anything.
But how could I forget?
That phone call shattered all her trust and reliance on Jiang Wang.
Once again, she was abandoned without hesitation when she was most desperate and needed someone the most.
Si Yuan's gaze was fixed blankly on the view outside the window, as the street scene rushed past.
She didn't want to see Jiang Wang again.
But fate seems to be playing tricks on us.
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The next trip to the aquarium was for work.
Si Xingzhou is currently working the afternoon shift, so Si Yuan doesn't need to worry about her during the day, allowing her to focus on her work.
They plan to set up a huge physical model of the underwater world around the aquarium for visitors to take photos.
At midday, under the blazing sun, Si Yuan, covered in sweat after finishing her work, sat down to rest in the shade.
Behind it was a warehouse, where Si Yuan was bent over, searching for water.
Without noticing when someone was standing in the doorway behind her, he pulled her inside while she wasn't paying attention.
Si Yuan cried out in surprise, but was quickly swallowed by darkness.
The warehouse was poorly lit, but Si Yuan instinctively guessed that it was Jiang Wang.
really.
"It's me."
Jiang Wang pinned her against the wall, his hands on either side of her, and smiled, clearly having waited there for a long time.
Si Yuan pushed him, then looked outside, afraid of being discovered.
The two of them hadn't been this close in five years.
"What are you doing? Let me go!"
Jiang Wang didn't ask her why she ran so fast that day, but his gaze fell on her neck, and he frowned: "Why are you sweating so much?"
It was almost an unconscious act of concern.
Si Yuan lowered her eyes and casually said, "Work, how can it not be tiring?"
Jiang Wang's heart sank.
Now, when Si Yuan talks to him, she's so distant and polite, as if she's afraid that if their eyes meet, he'll become attached to her.
He gave a self-deprecating laugh before saying, "Yesterday, I had something left unsaid..."
Si Yuan turned her face away, her hand still pushing him away: "No need to say anything, I don't want to hear it."
Si Yuan didn't want to hurt another woman; that feeling was unbearable.
A proper ex should be like they're dead; both she and Jiang Wang should be like that.
They have been separated for two years, and their marriage has long been null and void.
Jiang Wang was speechless at her words, his body stiffening slightly.
It wasn't like this yesterday.
He could sense that she didn't mind his closeness, such as the touch of his shoulders.
Jiang Wang felt a pang of heartache.
Looking up, she saw through the dim light that his slender, fair neck was covered in sweat, and she couldn't help but reach out to wipe it away for him.
But as soon as he touched her skin, Si Yuan recoiled as if avoiding a snake.
Jiang Wang frowned with heartache: "Why do you suddenly hate me so much? Five years ago, and now, it's always the same, without even giving me a reason?"
Si Yuan felt there was something unfamiliar in his eyes, like an uncontrolled obsession.
She frowned and backed away.
Fortunately, it was broad daylight, and his colleagues were still in the distance.
Jiang Wang, not hearing her response, lowered his eyes abruptly: "Because of Song Yan, right?"
Si Yuan looked at him, so even now, he still believed that he left five years ago because he had changed his mind.
Jiang Wang smiled, his eyes red, without looking at her, and slowly said, "Then why did you come to me in the first place?"
"To spite him?"
"I'm just a tool for you to force him to realize his own feelings, right?"
"Just like when you need me, you can suddenly appear in front of me and kiss me."
"When they didn't need me, I wasn't even the first to know when they had a child."
Si Yuan remained silent.
There is no need for further explanation.
But Jiang Wang interpreted this silence as tacit agreement.
He suddenly asked, "For the past five years, you and Song Yan have been together in Nancheng, right?"
His throat was a little sore, and he could only ask her questions one word at a time. He was trying very hard to remain calm.
Si Yuan didn't understand what he meant by "together".
"What exactly are you trying to say?"
So you two are really together?
Jiang Wang, his eyes red-rimmed, pressed, "Really? Together for five years!"
He and she were together for less than five years!
Jiang Wang felt like Si Yuan was tearing his chest apart. How could she be so cruel? How could she do this... treating him like a human being, loving him as if it were real when she needed him, and kicking him aside when she didn't, without caring at all whether he was sad or heartbroken.
Five years.
Five years...
In addition to the previous ten years or so.
Indeed, I will never be able to compare to Song Yan.
"I'm so stupid."
Jiang Wang took a step back, raised his head in mid-air, and no longer wanted to touch Si Yuan even a little bit.
"I was stupid." He looked at her and said, word by word, "I was foolish to think that you needed my salvation, to take you home, to give you family, to be good to you with all my heart... Yes, you didn't care. You only liked Song Yan's goodness, even though he hurt you so much, you still liked him so much!"
Si Yuan was somewhat frightened when she first saw Song Yan like this.
"Jiang Wang..."
"I will never be a fool again."
"I might not need your love that much."
"I've been waiting for an answer, and now that I have, I can let it go."
"Si Yuan, don't worry, I will never like you again."
He stepped back, perhaps thinking that he had been making a fool of himself all these past five years, and gave a cold smile.
"Si Yuan, if Song Yan abandons you again one day, you deserve it."
Someone loved you.
"It's because you don't want it; perhaps you were meant to be alone all along."
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