Sheng Xuan and Yuan Heng exchanged a glance, then immediately opened the car's map and searched for the location of Joe City.
Soon, a large red dot appeared on the beach—not far from where they were!
A voice in English then rang out, explaining that the destination was about 25 kilometers away.
The two seemed to see a glimmer of hope and laughed heartily.
On the phone, Ming Haoyuan was still rambling on about how boring and miserable his holiday was, how he was either being bombarded and nagged by his elders or working overtime, and how he kept complaining.
Yuan Heng wasn't in the mood to listen and replied casually, "Sorry, I'm driving and can't say much. I'll contact you again when I get back to Rongcheng. Bye!"
So he hung up very quickly.
Sheng Xuan let out a long sigh and said in a deep voice, "We stayed up together on New Year's Eve when Jiang Lirong suddenly showed up, pestering her to come to N country with him. I can't believe he's so shameless, he actually came!"
Yuan Heng listened with great suspicion and couldn't help but ask, "Did A-Lang agree?"
Sheng Xuan said in a muffled voice, "She refused at first, but that guy kept pestering her. Perhaps she was fed up with him, because she seemed to agree in the end."
"Seems like?" Yuan Heng sneered, "A-Lang was being pestered right under your nose, and what were you doing? No wonder A-Lang slipped away from you so easily; you don't care about her at all!"
"I...I...didn't think that much about it," Sheng Xuan said stubbornly.
Yuan Heng is a typical sharp-tongued man who excels at poking at people's sore spots.
"Do you even know what you're thinking? Sheng Xuan, it's one thing if your IQ is average, but your EQ is practically negative. Are you pretending not to know A Lang's feelings for you, or do you really not know?"
Sheng Xuan exclaimed, "Huh?" in bewilderment.
Yuan Heng was furious when he saw him like this.
"Wow! You really didn't know? I bet you not only don't know how others feel about you, but you don't even understand your own feelings! I bet that's how it is, otherwise how could you have been so stupid as to let that disgusting white lotus 'Lin Daiyu' be your girlfriend!"
Sheng Xuan turned his handsome face away in annoyance and looked out the car window.
"Don't mention that disgusting woman. I have absolutely no feelings for her, never have. I know that very well."
Yuan Heng squinted and asked, "So you deliberately provoked her to annoy A Lang? Young Master Sheng, you have quite the leisure time!"
“No.” Sheng Xuan lowered his voice: “I was drunk and she deceived me… so I had to temporarily acknowledge her as my girlfriend. I originally wanted to give her some material compensation and then break up with her, but she changed her mind too quickly. Later, we broke up without even having to give her any material compensation.”
Yuan Heng frowned and asked, "Then what's going on with you and A Lang getting married one minute and divorced the next?"
Unexpectedly, he fell silent and couldn't answer for a long time.
Yuan Heng grew impatient and said gruffly, "Are you even a man? You dare to do it but not admit it? If you didn't care about A-Lang, what were you doing here? Picking up bird droppings? She's disappeared, but all her brothers and cousins are working normally in Rongcheng. You're just a distant ex-husband, yet you've gone to great lengths for her! You dare say you only have ordinary feelings for A-Lang? Nobody believes that!"
The car fell silent again.
After a long while, Sheng Xuan sighed softly, his voice low and deep: "I love her, I don't know when I started loving her... it's been deeply rooted in my bones for a long time... I'm too stubborn and proud to express it, and I've been missing out on her all along. Lately, I'm almost dying of regret!"
Yuan Heng, his handsome face cold and sullen, gripped the steering wheel tightly and pressed the accelerator even harder.
The RV slowly wound its way up the mountainside, speeding towards the southern coast.
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