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After an unknown amount of time, Lin Tingxuan slowly lowered his hands from his head and softly said to Ye Wenyu, "I was originally a promising young man with a bright future. I had dreams, talent, energy, a career, good health, loved people, and respected people. But now, I've become trash, a useless piece of trash. I have to take medicine to maintain my health. I'm like a salted fish, having lost my soul and life, lost my dreams and value. Now, there's no difference between me being alive and dead. So, Ye Wenyu, you must leave him as soon as possible, otherwise, sooner or later, you will become like me!"
Ye Wenyu felt a chill run down her spine. She suddenly stood up, her eyes wide open, and stared at Lin Tingxuan.
The clever girl went straight to the heart of the matter, questioning Lin Tingxuan: "Why did your father suddenly stop believing you, your mother, and your sister? There must be a reason. Why don't you tell me?" Her big, clear eyes were like stars, clearly indicating that she was a girl who was not easily brainwashed.
Lin Tingxuan froze, and after a long while, he slowly said painfully, "I don't know. My mother divorced my father later, left with nothing, and took my sister to a foreign country. Later, my sister came back, but my mother didn't. Now I don't know where she is, whether she's alive or dead. No one has told me why. I asked my father, but he wouldn't say. I asked my sister, but she said she didn't know either. I asked Lin Tingfeng, and he told me to ask my mother, but I've lost contact with her." Lin Tingxuan clenched his fists and pounded his head in anguish.
He certainly seemed very neurotic.
Ye Wenyu thought to herself, Lin Tingxuan described Lin Tingfeng as a great villain who ruined his entire life, but is that really the case? Because Lin Tingxuan lost everything, and the two were not blood brothers, he hated him to the core, but was this one-sided account unfair?
Ye Wenyu pondered quietly, her heart churning with turbulent thoughts. Lin Tingxuan, because she had been hurt, had gone to Q University, claiming Lin Tingfeng was a terrible person and demanding she leave him.
Yes, from Lin Tingfeng's scheming when he pursued her, she knew he wasn't a simple man. But was he really a bad person? He might not have been very good to Lin Tingxuan, but what about her? Was he bad to her? He gave her two big houses, he came home to be with her every night, he decorated her room in pink and white, and put pearls and seashells on her desk. He pampered her like a little princess, he helped her improve her aesthetic sense and taste, and he taught her university-level homework. Was he bad?
He was exactly the best man in the world; he wasn't bad at all.
Or rather, even if he betrayed everyone in the world and was a universally recognized bad person, he was extremely good to her.
If a woman were to obediently leave a man she likes simply because someone says he's a bad man, she would be the most foolish woman in the world!
Therefore, Ye Wenyu raised her head, chin held high, and said to Lin Tingxuan, "No, I won't leave him!"
"You?!" Lin Tingxuan suddenly raised his head, a sharp pain shooting through his heart. A wave of helplessness washed over him, almost suffocating him. He looked at Ye Wenyu with a look of utter disappointment, his face turning ashen as he angrily said, "I came to you to prove myself, and you still don't believe me? Are you stupid? Did you really get into Q University on your own merit? How can you be so brainless?" He looked at her as if she were an idiot.
When Ye Wenyu saw Lin Tingxuan get angry and start insulting her again, she thought to herself, "Hmph, you say Lin Tingfeng is a bad person, but he has never used any vicious words to curse me. But what about you? We've only met twice, and you're already cursing and humiliating me all the time. Who's the bad person here?!"
She raised her head, her face frosty, and stared coldly at Lin Tingxuan. Her large eyes were like black and white chess pieces, and she said crisply and piercingly, "Lin Tingxuan, since the Lin family has caused you so much pain, why do you still want to stay in the Lin family?!"
Why not leave? It was like a bolt from the blue.
Lin Tingxuan was stunned for a moment, and after a long while, he stammered, "What...what do you mean?"
Ye Wenyu looked directly at him and said forcefully, word by word, "I'm not leaving because I have my own standards for judging right and wrong. I'm not swayed by others. As for you, it's obvious that you're very unhappy staying in the Lin family. So why don't you leave the Lin family? You have hands and feet, and you're already an adult. You can support yourself!"
Lin Tingxuan was stunned. He looked at Ye Wenyu with an incredulous expression, wondering what kind of woman this little girl was! He had kindly found her and come to Q University to persuade her to leave, fearing that she would fall into Lin Tingfeng's clutches and one day suffer a fate worse than death, like him. In the end, not only did he fail to persuade her to escape, but she also persuaded him to leave the Lin family.
This girl is indeed extraordinary. Of course, ordinary girls wouldn't catch Lin Tingfeng's eye either.
Seeing Lin Tingxuan remain silent, Ye Wenyu continued calmly, "You just said it yourself, you graduated from a prestigious university, you're still young, you don't like painting, you hate your current life, being controlled by your brother, living like a puppet. Since it's so painful, why don't you leave the Lin family? The world is so big, why don't you go out and see it? Lin Tingxuan, let me tell you, no one in this world can trap another person. The reason someone doesn't leave is entirely because they've drawn a prison around themselves! Do you understand?"
These words, "drawing a circle around oneself to imprison oneself" and "cocooning oneself in a cocoon," resounded like rolling thunder.
Lin Tingxuan was stunned. He stared at Ye Wenyu. The young girl not far away had said such shocking words. His heart felt like an eighteen-wheeled truck had overturned and was making a loud noise.
He left the Lin family? That way he could start over, regain his freedom, and end his current painful puppet life? A thought struck him, and his eyes lit up. A path he had never imagined appeared before him. Yes, there was no road in the world, but as more people walked on it, it became a road.
But--
Lin Tingfeng raised his head angrily and said through gritted teeth, "Why should I leave?! All of this, everything in the Lin family, originally belonged to me! Why should I give up and run away? No, it is he who should leave, not me!" He paced rapidly around the pavilion in anger, like a raging beast.
Ye Wenyu was a little scared, but she mustered up her courage and said, "Lin Tingxuan, I think it's unfair of you to look at your brother like that. Back then, your father gave your brother the inheritance rights of the Lin Group after careful consideration. Since it was your father's wish, it should be respected. You can't say that your older brother stole everything."
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