Chapter 347 Proposing to Jiang Ning
Jiang Ning stopped, turned her head, and stared intently at Lu Junyan with her bright eyes.
Lu Junyan felt a stinging sensation in his eyes.
"Did I force you, or did you force me?"
"Jiangning..."
"When I loved you, you loved Chu Qingxue. Now that I don't love you anymore, you're still doing everything you can to disturb my life."
"I……"
"Lu Junyan, I don't know if you have ever truly protected me, but you have certainly done a lot of things to hurt me."
After coldly uttering those words, Jiang Ning left the club without looking back.
Inside the private room, Lu Junyan irritably ruffled his hair.
He messed up again.
He had finally managed to spend some time alone with Jiang Ning, and he didn't want to upset her.
Jiang Ning's criticism of him still lingers in my ears, refusing to dissipate for a long time.
Lu Junyan slumped onto the sofa, remaining silent for a long time before softly saying to the air:
"I never loved Chu Qingxue..."
From beginning to end, he loved only one person.
It is Achu, and it is also Jiangning.
In his eyes, he had never betrayed Jiang Ning or his vow to A Chu.
However, Jiang Ning did not think so.
Lu Junyan was extremely agitated.
Facing reality is indeed more painful than a false dream.
But Lu Junyan didn't want to remain unconscious any longer.
Running away won't help.
As night fell, Bai Yichen finished work and planned to ask Jiang Ning to have dinner together.
Although Jiang Ning rejected his mother's proposal for a fake marriage, he did not reject him as a person.
He doesn't believe he has absolutely no chance.
I had just taken out my phone when a call came in.
The caller ID displays a string of numbers.
Bai Yichen's expression changed instantly.
Even though the name wasn't displayed, Bai Yichen knew who the other person was.
He had been called by this number before, and he remembered it after seeing it once.
"Hello?"
Bai Yichen hesitated for a moment before answering the phone.
"Dr. Bai, would you do me the honor of having dinner with me?"
The voice coming through the receiver was Lu Junyan's deep voice.
Bai Yichen chuckled softly.
"No, I have an appointment with Aning."
There was a clear silence on the other end of the phone, and Bai Yichen's lips curled up even higher.
Just as he was about to hang up, he heard Lu Junyan speak again:
"Where are you meeting? Count me in."
"Mr. Lu, don't you think you're being a bit too shameless?"
"I just wanted to confirm if you really made plans with Jiang Ning."
"..."
"But it doesn't matter if you don't tell me. It's not difficult for me to find out where you ate."
As soon as Lu Junyan finished speaking, Bai Yichen hung up the phone.
His phone rang again; it was Lu Junyan adding him on WeChat.
Bai Yichen hesitated for a moment, but still accepted Lu Junyan's friend request.
After adding Lu Junyan, he received Lu Junyan's location.
It's a bar.
Knowing that he couldn't refuse Lu Junyan's invitation tonight, Bai Yichen sighed helplessly.
He really didn't want to see Lu Junyan.
It wasn't because Lu Junyan was his rival in love.
It was because he always felt defeated in front of Lu Junyan.
This is something he has never wanted to admit.
Although Jiang Ning told him that she neither agreed to a fake marriage with him nor to a fake remarriage with Lu Junyan.
On the surface, in Jiang Ning's mind, he and Lu Junyan held the same status.
However, Bai Yichen felt uncomfortable.
Jiang Ning did not agree to remarry Lu Junyan, but she did awaken Lu Junyan's spirit.
Jiang Ning would be deeply concerned if Lu Junyan made even the slightest move.
Bai Yichen knew perfectly well that Jiang Ning paid far less attention to him than she did to Lu Junyan.
Lu Junyan had clearly hurt Jiang Ning so badly.
He believed Jiang Ning when she said she no longer loved Lu Junyan.
But Jiang Ning didn't love him either.
Bai Yichen always had a gut feeling that if he and Lu Junyan were placed on opposite ends of a scale, Jiang Ning's heart would always lean towards Lu Junyan.
He sighed, turned on the location tracking, and drove there according to the navigation.
Lu Junyan was already waiting at the Green Ghost Bar.
He sat at the bar and waited for a while before Bai Yichen appeared.
"You said you wanted to have dinner with me, but you ended up meeting me at a bar?"
Bai Yichen sat next to Lu Junyan.
At that moment, the waiter placed a platter of ham, cheese, and fruit in front of him.
"Now you won't complain anymore, right?"
Lu Junyan finished speaking casually and took a sip of iced tequila.
Bai Yichen could tell that Lu Junyan was very agitated, as if he had a lot of questions he wanted to ask him.
However, he was hungry, so he ate first.
After he finished the cold dishes, the bartender handed him a glass of tequila on the ice.
Lu Junyan's voice came from the side:
"I don't know what you like to drink..."
"I'm not picky about alcohol; I'll drink anything."
After saying that, Bai Yichen started drinking by himself.
"You proposed to Jiang Ning, didn't you?"
Bai Yichen paused in his drinking, glancing sideways at Lu Junyan.
Lu Junyan remained expressionless; in fact, his face was always so cold that it was impossible to discern any change in his expression.
Judging from Lu Junyan's reaction, Bai Yichen guessed that Lu Junyan probably only knew one side of the story and not the other.
He curled the corners of his lips into a gentle smile.
"yes!"
Lu Junyan tightened his grip on the wine glass.
"Did Jiang Ning... agree?"
Lu Junyan's voice seemed to tremble slightly as he spoke the last few words.
Bai Yichen suddenly realized that he felt frustrated in front of Lu Junyan, and perhaps Lu Junyan felt the same way.
In Lu Junyan's view, Jiang Ning had already chosen him.
"A-Ning is still considering it."
Bai Yichen gave Lu Junyan a resolute answer.
“Ah Ning said that marriage is a major life event, and she has already experienced a failed marriage, so she needs to consider this one carefully.”
"A failed marriage..."
Lu Junyan chewed on those words softly, his fingers gripping the wine glass tightly, as if any more force would shatter it.
Knowing that his words had dealt a heavy blow to Lu Junyan, Bai Yichen felt a sense of schadenfreude.
Of course, he was lying.
But he didn't care.
"You asked me out just to ask this question?"
Lu Jun remained silent.
Bai Yichen took this reaction as a tacit agreement.
“Lu Junyan, regardless of whether A Ning agrees to marry me or not, she will never remarry you. I don’t want you to keep bothering A Ning; it will only cause her trouble.”
"If you truly love Aning, you should understand... loving someone means fulfilling her, not fulfilling yourself; otherwise... you don't truly love Aning."
"That's called loving yourself."
After saying that, Bai Yichen downed his glass of tequila in one gulp and stood up.
"Thank you for the wine."
The last note disappeared along with Bai Yichen's retreating figure.
Lu Junyan was the only one left at the bar.
At the same time.
Jiang Ning and Gu Lanlan were playing games together at the party venue.
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