Chapter 154 Remarriage
Ji Yanxing's brows darkened for a moment, but it was fleeting.
His fingers carelessly twisted Yu Nian's long hair, and he smiled faintly: "I had something to do yesterday and didn't come. I rushed here after I finished my work today."
Lawrence Lu looked at them quietly.
Standing and sitting at the same time, Ji Yanxing intimately placed his chin on her head and played with her long hair with his fingers. His movements were so skillful that it didn't even seem like a show. It was obvious that they were this close in their daily lives.
It’s just that they rarely show their affection in front of outsiders.
Yu Nian felt a little uncomfortable being stared at, so he turned around and glared at Ji Yanxing, signaling him not to mess around.
Ji Yanxing licked his lips, straightened up, put one hand in his pocket, and asked Lawrence Lu in a normal tone, “Mr. Lu, do you want to stay at home for lunch? If you want, I’ll have someone prepare an extra set of bowls and chopsticks.”
Men always understand other men better. His lukewarm attitude demonstrates his sovereignty and status everywhere. He is the son-in-law of the Yu family and a member of our Yu family.
These words were meant to drive him away. Who could eat at someone else's house during the New Year's Day?
How could Lawrence Lu not hear it? Thinking carefully about how every time he met Yu Nian over the years, he was driven away by his tepid tone. Lawrence Lu pulled the corners of his mouth, stood up, smiled at Yu Nian and said, "I'm going back. We'll meet again next time when we have time."
Yu Nian said awkwardly, "Okay, bye."
"Bye-Bye."
Lawrence Lu walked towards the door, his figure getting farther and farther away, and he felt inexplicably lonely.
Yu Nian looked at Ji Yanxing dissatisfiedly and complained, "What are you doing? Why do you always chase him away?"
Ji Yanxing said in a cold tone: "That's because you always let me catch you alone with him."
"..." Yu Nian said speechlessly, "I'm not meeting him privately. He came to my house to give me something and I just chatted with him. Stop being so sarcastic."
Ji Yanxing: “…”
He just didn’t like seeing Yu Nian alone with other men, especially this Lawrence Lu.
Ji Yanxing lowered his eyes to look at her and said sullenly, "I'll try to be more patient next time."
"But I may not be able to help it."
"Don't be mad at me if you can't help it."
Yu Nian: "..."
Lawrence Lu walked to the door and looked back at the living room, and saw the two of them bickering, like a pair of noisy young lovers.
He hadn't seen this side of her in a long time.
In a sense, it was not wrong for Ji Yanxing to regard Lu Yuchen as his love rival. On the summer vacation of his senior year in high school that Lu Yuchen just mentioned, he had originally planned to confess his love to Yu Nian on that day.
The two grew up together and had similar personalities, both were gentle and good-tempered. They had been together for so long that their feelings had become very diluted, and even he himself was slow to notice it after a long time.
The first time I realized that his feelings for Yu Nian might not be so simple was on a snowy day when he and a few of his friends came to play snowballs with Yu Nian. Originally, this activity should have been her favorite, but she sat on the swing on the balcony with a book on her lap and a pair of black-framed glasses hanging on her nose. She looked up at the snow, frowned, and a bit of entanglement flashed between her eyebrows. Finally, she shook her head firmly: "Forget it, you guys go play."
She should have wanted to go out and play, but in the end she chose to memorize the lessons obediently. Her fair and tender face was unusually determined. When she looked at the snow scene outside the house, a trace of longing and loss flashed across her eyes, which made Lu Yuchen's heart palpitate unexpectedly.
He didn't think about it carefully at that time, but he paid more attention to her than before - she no longer went out to play with them, and used all her after-school time to study, like a student lured by her family with a game console that rewarded her with high scores. She gradually became quiet, silent, and excellent, but not as willful as before.
At the party after the college entrance examination, he wanted to confess to her under the influence of alcohol, but she said that she had someone she liked. She drank that day, her cheeks were red, and there was a faint smile at the corners of her lips.
At that moment, Lawrence Lu sobered up completely, and he almost immediately understood Yu Nian’s stubbornness and persistence over the past two years.
He didn't ask her who the person she liked was, nor did he tell her what he hadn't said yet. After the time had passed, even the most sincere words became inappropriate.
If she knew what he was thinking, perhaps they wouldn't even be able to be friends.
Later, when he learned that she was married to Ji Yanxing, Lawrence Lu had doubts, but he also felt that something was wrong, because Ji Yanxing and Yu Nian had no connection before marriage, and on the surface, they looked like an ordinary business marriage.
That night when they met at the mall, he kept thinking and pondering, if he had told her when he first realized his feelings for her, would the outcome be different?
After thinking for a long time, she finally came to the conclusion that it was negative. The fact that she was able to reshape herself for Ji Yanxing and "turn over a new leaf" was enough to prove her determination and stubbornness.
Unless he expressed his feelings before she fell in love with Ji Yanxing, there might be some hope for a turnaround.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't change the fact that she was married. Lu Yuchen himself was rather indifferent to feelings, and he wouldn't be obsessed with one person for years like in the books. He had tried to find new relationships over the years, but hadn't met anyone he liked.
Later, she and Ji Yanxing had an argument and their relationship became very bad. He could see that she was unhappy, under a lot of pressure, and had a lot of things weighing on her heart. This relationship was very heavy for her at that time.
He asked her, but she didn't want to trouble him, so she just answered casually.
He had no position or qualifications to intervene and could only watch the two of them entangle.
Until they divorced, he called her several times, visited her several times under the pretext of business trips, and used his status as a friend to ask about her future plans for the relationship. She smiled and said that she would follow Ms. Fang's arrangements, but in fact she didn't care at all.
He thought about waiting for a while, until she got over the shadow of divorce, and then he would find a suitable time to tell her, but Ji Yanxing came back and quickly won her heart back.
Compared with everyone else, it was too easy for Ji Yanxing to gain her love, so easy that he couldn't help but sigh at the unfairness of love.
Lawrence Lu looked at the two people who were making a mess. In front of Ji Yanxing, she became a little more childish, just like when she was not an adult. She was no longer the textbook template of an intellectual, elegant, and wealthy lady.
After a moment, Lawrence Lu retracted his gaze and walked out.
Perhaps he could guarantee that if Yu Nian was with him, he would not hurt and disappoint her like Ji Yanxing did.
But sadly, he couldn't make her sad, nor could he give her love.
After fooling around on the sofa with Ji Yanxing for a while, Yu Nian finally thought about the serious business. Lawrence Lu had just asked about remarriage, but she hadn’t actually thought about it yet, but from what he said, she was very anxious?
"Are you going to remarry after the New Year?" Yu Nian asked him.
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