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Lin Tingfeng smiled slightly and slowly greeted her, "Ye Wenyu, do you... still remember me?" As he spoke, he pointed to himself. Drinking made him sluggish, and he felt the world around him slowing down. His movements also became very slow. He spoke slowly, and his hand gestures were also slow. The beautiful girl in front of him seemed to be shrouded in moonlight, with an unreal beauty.
Since leaving last time, he has never taken the initiative to contact her again, because he was very disappointed and knew that he meant nothing to her. He was a proud man, and no one had ever been so indifferent to him before. Therefore, he forced himself not to look for her because he was extremely concerned about his image and self-esteem.
However, his emotions were beyond his control, and the longing was a constant companion, causing him great pain. He was so tormented that he often resorted to drinking. Now, he was either at the company, in a restaurant, or in a bar.
He hated himself for this, but he didn't want to change, nor could he. His heart was filled with helplessness. Today, when he reunited with her, he realized how happy he was. His heart was once again deeply moved, and joy and sorrow, like two giant dragons, kept colliding and clashing within him.
So this is what it's like to like someone – a mix of pain and joy.
From then on, he was no longer free. His emotions seemed to have become her slave, enslaved by her every word and action. He didn't know when he would regain his freedom. Perhaps he would only know the answer when he did.
But she was so terrified and disgusted by him that this feeling was utterly despairing.
Lost in his own thoughts, Lin Tingfeng, reeking of alcohol, stared at Ye Wenyu standing outside the car window from a very close distance. She was still wearing that light blue medical mask, but her snow-white forehead was like a marble sculpture, her thick, black hair, and her beautiful eyes, like autumn water, made his heart tremble. He knew that there was an ugly birthmark under the mask, and that her face wasn't stunning, but he was still moved.
Faced with Lin Tingfeng's question, Ye Wenyu nodded impatiently. She was worried that her mask would fall off, so she touched it nervously. But a minute later, she remembered that she had always wanted to keep him away by being ugly, so she gritted her teeth and took off her mask.
Seeing the change in her expression and her series of small gestures, Lin Tingfeng smiled softly. He stared at himself, and in his drunken state, he pointed to himself, then to Ye Wenyu, and slowly said to her, "Do you know why I haven't come to see you for so long?"
I'm reminded of a wine called "Drunken Life, Dreamlike Death," uh, drunken death and dreamlike death, all because of her.
Ye Wenyu froze, then suddenly looked up at Lin Tingfeng. His eyes were large and his pupils were bright. Because of the close distance, she could see her own small reflection in his pupils. She looked shocked and curious.
Lin Tingfeng chuckled softly again, looked at her, and said slowly, "Do you think I was scared by your ugliness and stopped contacting you because I thought you were ugly? If it weren't for this chance encounter, we would never have met again in this lifetime."
Ye Wenyu raised her chin, her face frosty, and thought to herself, isn't that so?
Wasn't it because he fell for her trick, thinking she was a genuine ugly woman, and therefore stopped paying attention to her? She used her ugliness to scare him away.
“No—” Lin Tingfeng shook his finger, grinned self-deprecatingly, and said slowly to her, “I’m the kind of person who only cares about inner feelings; I don’t value appearances that much—”
Upon hearing this, Ye Wenyu smiled slightly, expressing her doubt and disdain. In her previous life, if she had been an ugly woman, would he have chosen her as his lover?
Lin Tingfeng is a very cultured and insightful person. He graduated from a prestigious university and has extremely high aesthetic taste. He likes people who are both beautiful and outstanding because he is one of them. He only seeks out his own kind as friends and lovers, which is why he chose her in his previous life.
For this reason, in this life, she chose to make herself ugly so that he would stay away.
Lin Tingfeng stared at Ye Wenyu and slowly said, "Judging from your expression, you don't seem to believe me, but whether you believe me or not is irrelevant to me. The reason I haven't contacted you is because I've discovered that you don't care about me at all. In your heart, I don't exist at all, and as for me—"
What? The sound of rolling thunder startled Ye Wenyu, and the mockery on her face vanished. She stared blankly at Lin Tingfeng. What had he just said? He said it was because he realized that she didn't have him in her heart, and that she didn't care about him at all.
What a clever man! He saw right through her heart after just one meeting. It's terrifying!
At this moment, a crescent moon hung in the sky, like a white fishbone. A large black truck, its headlights on and engine roaring, crouched in place like a lurking beast.
And so they talked and communicated, one inside the car and the other outside.
Lin Tingfeng thought for a moment, then slowly and deliberately explained with a hint of drunkenness: "In short, because my enthusiasm was not equal to yours, I felt utterly disappointed. I am a proud person and will not humiliate myself, so I stopped taking the initiative to find you."
Looking at Lin Tingfeng like this and listening to his soft words, Ye Wenyu felt as if an eighteen-wheeled truck had overturned and was making a loud bang. What did he just say? The enthusiasm was unequal. He was utterly disappointed in her. He wouldn't humiliate himself. If her comprehension hadn't declined, what he meant was that he loved her, but she didn't love him at all, so he wouldn't come looking for her anymore.
Yeah?
Could it be that she misunderstood Lin Tingfeng? Whether in the past life or this life, to him, her hair was always white as new. She clearly remembered that in the past life, he had once said, "Do you think what attracts me is your appearance?" She had once playfully replied, "Isn't that right? Or is it my interesting soul?"
She always thought he was someone who valued appearances, but she never expected that he wasn't. People speak the truth when they're drunk, and what a person says when they're drunk is always the truth.
He loves her? As if by fate, in his previous life he loved her madly, and in this life, he has fallen in love with her again, unable to control himself.
Lin Tingfeng saw Ye Wenyu standing there in a daze. Shock, suspicion, surprise, sadness, and joy appeared on her face one after another like fast-forwarded scenes in a movie, and then all of them disappeared, leaving her with a calm expression again.
Lin Tingfeng then knew that she understood what he meant. She had discovered his feelings for her, but she didn't accept them, so she pretended that nothing had happened and that she didn't love him.
He was deeply hurt, but he couldn't help looking at her and asking with concern, "How have you been lately?" She had just come out of the restaurant, looking exhausted. He glanced at the restaurant still lit up in the distance and slowly asked her, "Do you work at this restaurant?"
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