Shen Lin remained silent and aloof. Gu Shilin asked again before Shen Lin finally answered.
"It's nothing, my wound just reopened, and I called her since you weren't here."
"I see."
Gu Shilin let out a long "oh," then realized that something seemed amiss.
"That's not right. The doctor said your wound was much better, so how could it have reopened?"
Shen Lin glanced at him but didn't say anything.
Gu Shilin suddenly realized something, "I said no way, you didn't deliberately reopen your wound and then call her to come here, did you?"
Shen Lin lowered his head, his tone indifferent, "It has nothing to do with you."
Gu Shilin pointed at his wound, "I was right, you really did it on purpose?"
Shen Lin ignored him.
Gu Shilin couldn't help but laugh out loud, deliberately mimicking Shen Lin's tone from that day, "Playing the victim? Do I, Shen Lin, need to play the victim? Haha, you've already been proven wrong so soon. You truly are Shen Lin. I wonder if your face hurts now?"
Shen Lin, "..."
"I'm not trying to gain sympathy."
“If this isn’t playing the victim, what is it? To be honest, it’s only because of her that you got injured. Otherwise, do you think she would have softened because of your actions?”
"If you can't speak, you can just keep your mouth shut; no one will think you're mute."
Gu Shilin, “…”
"A person with a reopened wound cannot speak with such force and confidence."
Shen Lin parted his thin lips slightly and uttered only one word, "Get out."
Gu Shilin was already used to his unpredictable temper, but he didn't leave. He just stood there and continued, "I'm not saying this to be mean, but it seems like all your efforts to disregard your own health and resort to this self-inflicted injury are really useless."
"She won't leave if you don't come back at this time."
Gu Shilin clicked his tongue and said, "I said, what does this have to do with me? How can you drag me into this? Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
"Okay, get out, don't bother me."
Ye Xinning left, and Shen Lin really wasn't in the mood to chat idly with Gu Shilin.
"Fine, I'll leave then. If you don't want me to stay here any longer, I don't want to stay any longer either."
Seeing that Shen Lin looked unwell, Gu Shilin, though still sharp-tongued, left the bedroom, giving Shen Lin more time to rest.
...
On the other side, after Ye Xinning left Gu Shilin's villa, she received a call from Su Wan.
"Ningning, how are you?"
As soon as the call connected, Su Wan's worried and anxious voice came through.
"I'm fine," Ye Xinning replied.
"Why didn't you tell me that you were kidnapped in France? If Li Zeya hadn't called Shen Ting and heard that you and Shen Lin had gotten into trouble in France, I wouldn't have known that you had such a thing happen to you."
Ye Xinning, "..."
She sat in He Yu's car, listening to Su Wan launch into a long tirade, all asking her about the kidnapping.
"I'm fine, and I'm not injured."
"It's good that you're not injured, it's good that you're not injured."
Hearing that she was not injured, Su Wan breathed a sigh of relief. "By the way, what about Shen Lin? If you're not injured, then he must be alright too."
Ye Xinning turned her head to look out the car window, recalling the scene of Shen Lin taking a bullet for her, and unconsciously said, "Shen Lin took a bullet for me, it was quite serious."
"Ah, Shen Lin took the bullet for you?"
"Um."
"That bastard did what he was supposed to do, so he should be out of danger."
"No, it's just that I might have to endure some hardship for a while."
"He's tough and resilient, why are you so worried about him?"
Su Wan's words made Ye Xinning pause in her grip on the phone, and then she subconsciously denied it, saying, "I'm not worried, I'm just stating the facts to you."
"Forget it, is this how you state the facts? You're practically begging me to tell you how worried you were about Shen Lin's injury, and you think I can't tell?"
Ye Xinning, "..."
Really? She clearly tried her best to remain calm.
Su Wan sighed, "Ningning, you can fool others but you can't fool me. You still have feelings for Chen Lin, don't you?"
"No."
"Don't rush to deny it, I'm not an outsider. Ningning, I just want to tell you, as someone who's been through it, that many things in life are predetermined. Whether we meet or part ways, many times we want to escape fate, but we don't know when we will unexpectedly encounter it in the future. I hope you can be happy, you know?"
Bringing up these topics suddenly was a bit heavy, and Ye Xinning didn't want to keep talking about her and Shen Lin's past, so she smiled and changed the subject, "I will be happy. Are you worried that no one will want me after the divorce? How about I start going on blind dates after I go back to Nancheng?"
Su Wan chuckled softly on the other end of the phone, "I'm not worried that you won't find anyone, I'm just afraid that none of the people lining up to go on blind dates with you will be someone you like."
Whether I like it or not doesn't seem to be that important.
"Tell me from the bottom of your heart, can you really stand being with someone you don't love? Or can you accept spending every day with someone whose face you don't love?"
Ye Xinning gazed into the distance, suddenly feeling uncertain.
“I know you’re worried about Shen Lin. It’s understandable. You did everything you could to marry him, even though he had amnesia. You never thought you could forget him then, so it’s even more impossible for you to forget him now.”
Ye Xinning tightened her grip on the phone.
Undoubtedly, what Su Wan said reflected her truest feelings.
Indeed, as Su Wan said, she could deceive anyone else, but she could never deceive Su Wan.
Her feelings for Shen Lin began when they met five or six years ago. During that time, she experienced love, felt happiness, understood despair, and also deeply experienced what powerlessness meant.
But even after all this time, she still seems unable to completely let go of Shen Lin.
The decision to divorce wasn't because I didn't love him, but because I no longer wanted to love him.
At that time, she thought about divorcing Shen Lin and ending that abnormal marriage. Even if she never met someone she liked more than Shen Lin in her life, she would have no regrets about making such a decision.
When she got divorced, she genuinely believed that things would end between her and Shen Lin at that point.
She never imagined that Shen Lin would regain his memory after the divorce, let alone that he would continue to try to win her back in this way.
"Wanwan, do you think I'm being dramatic? He's saved me from danger time and time again, but I'm still so cold to him, giving him no hope whatsoever?"
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