Chapter 435 Victory
After listening to Mu Liansheng’s story, the air froze for a few seconds.
Jiang Zhiyue stared at the juice on the table. Her eyes under her long eyelashes looked like black grapes immersed in mist.
In the few seconds of silence, she met Chu Junyue's focused eyes, the hidden sharpness in his eyes seemed to pierce through her skin.
What is she thinking? What is going on in her heart?
Outside the window, lights scattered like stars, shining on the man's profile, outlining a dark shadow.
Jiang Zhiyue sat in the shadow of Chu Junyue, her whole body enveloped by his aura.
Her mind was like a movie, with various images flashing rapidly. Her heartbeat was accelerating, but it could not stop her from moving her lips.
"I've thought about my answer."
At this moment, the door of the box was suddenly knocked. After Chu Junyue's consent, the waiters came in one after another. They lowered their heads and began to serve the dishes respectfully, trying not to make any noise.
People with good eyes even noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere. They secretly raised their eyes and looked at Chu Junyue, whose figure was even more eye-catching, and were shocked by his aura.
His face looked normal, and he didn't look like the cold-blooded officer who tortured criminals in the video, but the atmosphere around him was filled with an indescribable oppression.
The waiters were eager to leave as soon as they had served. Jiang Zhiyue also noticed that something was wrong and told them to leave first. Everyone felt relieved and secretly glanced at Chu Junyue.
Seeing that he did not say anything to stop them, the door of the box was closed again, leaving the two of them sitting face to face.
Jiang Zhiyue's voice was always gentle, but at this moment, she said in a strong tone: "I can't accept your proposal."
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have chosen you as a shield at Grandpa's birthday party. I never told anyone that my dream was to leave here."
"In my original plan, I shouldn't have any entanglement with you. I will spend these four years in peace and quiet, save every scholarship, and wait for the opportunity to intern overseas. Once I have established a foothold overseas, I plan to take my mother to settle down abroad."
"You may laugh at my naive plan in your heart. After all, I am the child raised by Mrs. Gu, so how can I escape the control of the Gu family? But before I was eighteen, I always regarded leaving here as a dream. Every step I took was a step closer to it."
“No matter what the result is, I should try, so I study hard and become the best person, striving to be valued and to make the other party inseparable from me. This is the only role I can play abroad to demonstrate my value.”
"But the final outcome was the opposite of what we wanted."
Jiang Zhiyue has been struggling with whether or not she should tell him this. This desire has sustained her for the past eighteen years. Since she first came to this country, she has come up with this most urgent idea in order to escape the established plot trajectory.
Just run away.
"I really want to draw a line between us, because the difference in status will lead to many irreversible things, but I don't know when things started to get out of hand."
"Before I returned to the Sheng family, I was Gu Zhaoye's tutor. You were right. What I said to you on the train was that I didn't want you to marry into the Lin family. I hate being looked down upon by fate. I hate worrying about being sold at a low price because of a word from someone in a higher position."
"I hate the threats from the Lin brothers and sisters even more. When Lin Xian'er hit me with the chandelier in the auditorium for the first time, I had a certain thought. She cares about you so much. If I snatch you away from her, she will definitely be sad. It will be such an interesting thing to let the arrogant young lady taste the pain."
"For the past eighteen years, I only had my mother. I had no power to rely on. If I wanted to change anything, I would have to pay a price. I have a pretty good face. The first time you kissed me, it might have been out of teasing, but no matter your motive, if I were a chaste woman, I would have resisted right there."
"I can slap you or scold you, but if I were really that pure and innocent, I shouldn't have accepted your kiss."
The moonlight outside the window was bright and clear, shining on Chu Junyue's cold face and his slender fingers with distinct joints.
The tapping sound of my fingertips on the table had stopped at some point.
If he could glimpse a corner of the girl's heart, he wondered what shape he would see. Would he dissect that peaceful heart, or would he peel off the calm and indifferent mask she had worn since they first met?
In this world, true and false, everyone wears a mask.
The most honest thing is to face yourself bravely.
"No matter how this story originated, I gave you hope that you shouldn't have, because I didn't want to get involved in the engagement between the Qin and Bai families, and because I felt that you were strong enough to stop the intrusion of others. I tell you, I will choose you."
"In fact, our deal should have ended when I told you Chu Xiao's identity. It was me who failed to control my selfishness and prompted you to think of proposing to me."
“…”
Indecision will be the biggest bitter fruit that may result from this journey.
She shouldn't use someone who is sincere to her as a shield.
Jiang Zhiyue's long eyelashes were like small black brushes, gently covering her eyelids, hiding the faint light that flashed across her eyes. She placed her hands on her knees, tightly grasping the hem of her clothes.
She stared deeply at a scratch on the back of her hand.
The scene of the day flashed through my mind again like lightning.
Old Madam Sheng had many doubts about her background and kept looking for opportunities to take action, but she did everything she could to avoid them. Was it because she didn't want Old Madam Sheng to get what she wanted, or was there some fact that she didn't want to face?
When she decided to tell Chu Junyue about all this, she decided to face Mrs. Sheng's plan head-on.
She turned back halfway to confirm...her own guess.
Even though her heart was filled with all kinds of emotions, Jiang Zhiyue raised her eyes again and looked into the man's eyes, her expression normal.
"You've heard my answer. You said you would respect my choice."
Chu Junyue raised his thin lips slightly, without making any comment.
Jiang Zhiyue was about to leave when his voice rang out, "Have you told them these words?"
"?"
Chu Junyue narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice that was indistinguishable from his emotions, "You want to refuse, but you can't be partial to one and not the other."
What's the point of just rejecting him?
Besides, what Chu Junyue wanted from the very beginning was just for her to face her own heart.
Her heart is unwilling to open, and no one has a chance.
How could it not be considered a victory that she could tell the truth about her childhood dream?
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