Han Jue was shocked and felt a chill down his spine.
Ai Zhiyin had guessed everything that had happened before...
"I, I..." Han Jue didn't know what to say. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Miss Luo and I are just friends. During the time Han Chen was away, she and I did have close contact... but we were not... not together."
"Just because you're not together doesn't mean you don't like her," Ai Zhiyin said with a smile, "Why are you so eager to deny it, so eager to explain it? Are you afraid that if others know you're interested in Luo Fu, they'll think you're secretly trying to steal Han Chen's love?"
Han Jue lowered his eyes again, his face flushed.
"Instead of speculating here about what Han Chen is thinking, why don't you just ask him?" Ai Zhiyin said, "He's completely focused on Miss Zhou right now. Luo Fu—at best, she's a thing of the past. He's not the type to have his cake and eat it too. Even if he knew you liked Luo Fu, he would probably be generous and give his blessing."
"But..." Han Jue hesitated, "He and Miss Luo had an affair abroad... Never mind, let's not talk about it, it's all in the past."
"It's because they were together that he clearly knows who he likes now," Ai Zhiyin said. "Women are people, not objects, and certainly not men's objects. Just because I'm in love with you today, does that mean I'm yours for life? Ridiculous. Luo Fu never thought that just because she and Han Chen had a relationship, she would be with him for the rest of her life, right? Or is Han Chen really that scumbag and petty that he's still holding a grudge against you for liking Luo Fu?"
Han Jue was terrified and quickly denied, "Neither of them. Second sister-in-law, what's wrong with you today? What you said is too... blunt."
"It's not that I'm being blunt, it's that you're overthinking it," Ai Zhiyin said. "If you really like her, you might as well go for it. Of course, if it were before, I would definitely support you, but now... you know that the Luo family's attitude is very cold, and they're no longer as close to us as before. Miss Luo has been sent abroad, and even you can't contact her, which shows the Luo family's determination. There will be an irreconcilable conflict between the Han and Luo families, and this conflict is not something you can resolve. I can't give you a definite answer, I can only say... everyone has their own destiny, everything depends on you."
Ai Zhiyin wanted to explain it more clearly, but Han Jue was a smart man, so there was no need to continue.
If she said more, she was afraid that exposing Han Jue's nature too clearly would hurt him.
Leaving the decision to him is the best decision.
The question Ai Zhiyin wanted to make clear was simple: Han Jue could either give up everything in the Han family, follow the feelings in his heart, choose to be with Luo Fu, and no longer care about the opinions of other people in the world; or... he could suppress his inner feelings, guard the Han family, guard his hard-earned job and status, and even one day in the future, become the Han family's sharpest weapon to deal with the Luo family.
Ai Zhiyin tried to consider Han Jue's dilemma from the perspective of the Han family's habits, and in the end, he undoubtedly chose the latter.
The Han family has never been a sentimental family, or rather, they never believe in so-called love.
In their eyes, how can something as illusory as love be compared with their own interests?
Even Ai Zhiyin herself could not confirm that there was true love in this world.
Even if there are any, they are rare.
The only people she had met were probably Han Chen and Miss Zhou.
But love, a rare thing, will never come to me.
After all, the marriage she had no choice of had eliminated the possibility of her having any connection with "love".
Let her bet her feelings on Han Ji?
That's even more impossible.
Talking about love with a person who marries for profit and decisively abandons his current lover is probably the biggest joke in the world.
Ai Zhiyin hates being a joke the most in her life.
So she strives to do her best in everything, trying her best to become the most perfect person in everyone's heart.
Her dignity and pride are above all else.
After chatting with Han Jue for a few more words and supervising him to disinfect the dishes and thoroughly deal with the kitchen matters, the two went upstairs together.
When I went up to the second floor, I met Han Ji coming out of the study.
When the three of them met each other, they were all stunned.
"Second brother," Han Jue greeted him and then returned to his room.
Only Ai Zhiyin and Han Ji were left on the empty second-floor platform.
"Are you done?" Han Ji was the first to break the silence.
"Yeah," Ai Zhiyin responded vaguely.
"Can we talk?"
"What?"
Han Ji was not sure what to say, as the person who originally took the initiative to negotiate should have been Ai Zhiyin.
"Just a few words," he didn't know what he wanted to say, maybe he just didn't want Ai Zhiyin to leave.
"Go to the study?" Ai Zhiyin asked.
"Okay," Han Ji turned and led the way.
The two entered the study.
Han Ji turned around and moved the chair.
"No, I can do it myself," Ai Zhiyin didn't want to accept Han Ji's advances.
Han Ji blocked her hand and carried the chair in front of the desk with one hand, "Sit down."
He turned around and sat down opposite.
Ai Zhiyin glanced at the chair in front of her, then turned around and sat on it.
"What do you want to talk about?" she asked impatiently.
"You should be the one asking this question," Han Ji said, "You seem a bit too calm about what happened today."
"What else?" Ai Zhiyin was puzzled.
"Even if you tell me what our future will be like, you still need to think about it. What about the things I've done? Aren't you curious at all? Don't you want to know?"
"In no mood."
“…”
Han Ji had never been so discouraged and helpless before.
"Zhiyin, you are my wife..." Han Ji didn't know what to say. He felt both angry and sad.
Sadness…a word that never appeared in his life, but now it appeared, bitter and incomprehensible.
"Can you... ask one more question, even just one."
Even if she had asked, he wouldn't have felt as uncomfortable as he did now, humble and distracted, his head empty and confused, and he even started to have wild thoughts.
Just now, when he was alone in the study, he was thinking about where she had gone. Was she downstairs? Should he go find her? What should he say after finding her?
But in the blink of an eye, she went upstairs with Han Jue again.
It's happened more than once.
They always walked side by side, talking and laughing.
That kind of smile, that kind of relaxed state, was something Ai Zhiyin had never experienced before when facing him.
However, his sins were so grave that he could not blame Ai Zhiyin at all. He could only watch her and Han Jue continue to get along like this.
"I don't want to ask, and please don't try to tell me," Ai Zhiyin said coldly.
Han Ji nodded sadly, "What if I want to ask?"
Ai Zhiyin's face was cold, her eyebrows knitted together, "What do you want to ask?"
"You and Han Jue..." Han Ji hesitated, "Forget it, let's not talk about it."
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