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Ye Wenyu had always believed that she and he were equals, and that they loved each other dearly. But the harsh reality shattered her illusions about love, one blow after another.
A chill ran through her, and a gray, heavy feeling settled in her chest, like lead. She said coldly, "If you consider me your mistress, you should keep me in this house. Why did you take me to the Lin family's old residence? It makes everyone unhappy."
She took a step back, keeping her distance from him, her body stiff and her expression cold—a way to protect herself from being hurt.
Lin Tingfeng was stunned. He turned around and looked helplessly at Ye Wenyu. The two were so far apart in age, and gradually he found that it was very difficult to communicate. She did not understand him, and sometimes he felt that he did not understand her either.
At this moment, there is a thick, transparent barrier between the two people, invisible yet insurmountable.
Lin Tingfeng opened his mouth, wanting to explain, wanting to reveal his inner thoughts, but seeing her frosty expression, he ultimately fell silent. He slowly stood up and said wearily, "Good night, please remember what I said." Then he turned and went into his bedroom, slowly closing the door behind him.
If she ultimately leaves him because she doesn't understand him, it doesn't seem like there's anything to be sad about.
Ye Wenyu turned off the living room light and sat alone in the dark for a long time, feeling sad, angry, confused, and resentful.
Previously, when Lin Tingxuan came to see her twice, she firmly did not believe his various claims about Lin Tingfeng. But now, she found that her heart was wavering, and she tried to think about everything Lin Tingxuan told her from a new perspective.
A boy, when he was young, was kicked out of his father's house because his mother had an affair. From childhood to adulthood, he lived a poor and difficult life without his father. He suffered a lot, endured a lot of hardship, and suffered a lot of scorn from the world. Finally, he endured until he grew up. Then one day, he suddenly returned to his father's house and faced his stepmother and two half-siblings.
Then, he miraculously gained his father's trust, successfully inherited the family business, his stepmother left home and went to a foreign land, and his two younger siblings, one hated him to the bone and the other fawned over him excessively.
A man like that must be extraordinary; Lin Tingfeng is such a man.
He was like an iceberg in the ocean; what she saw was only the small part of the iceberg above the surface. The rest, unseen, was truly terrifying.
Ye Wenyu smiled bitterly. In the darkness, at three in the morning, she realized that she didn't understand Lin Tingfeng at all. Perhaps she was transparent to him, and he knew her inside and out, but what about her? He was like a profound calculus book that she couldn't understand at all. Even now, she couldn't even tell whether he was a bad person or a good person, or whether his feelings for her were genuine or fake.
Being constantly in a passive and vulnerable position is a painful and frustrating experience.
It was very late at night. Ye Wenyu was exhausted. With a heart full of pain and despair, she slowly got up from the sofa in the living room and went back to her room to sleep.
The next day, she got up early and went to school feeling down.
Because she had argued with Lin Tingfeng the night before and discovered that he was very different from what she had imagined, Ye Wenyu was lost in thought during class and didn't pay attention. The knowledge the teacher imparted went in one ear and out the other. After two classes, she was called on by the teacher twice and answered questions incorrectly three times. By the third class, she knew she wouldn't be able to concentrate, so she left the classroom and went to the library with a heavy heart.
A light drizzle was falling from the sky, and the surroundings were desolate. Ye Wenyu felt the same way she had once felt as an orphan, with no one to care for her, no one to love her, no home, and no one to respect or care for her. She knew it was because she had discovered that Lin Tingfeng was not what she had imagined, and because they had had a disagreement the night before.
Since she couldn't concentrate in class, she might as well skip it. At least then no teachers or classmates would bother her while she was thinking.
She borrowed a novel and quietly read it in a secluded corner of the library. Because she was preoccupied with her thoughts, she couldn't concentrate on the novel. The printed words on the pages seemed to come alive, turning into little people who flew out from under her eyes.
Half an hour passed, and not a single page of the book had been turned. She simply rested her chin on her hand and stared blankly at the scenery outside the library's floor-to-ceiling windows.
Twenty meters high, entirely made of glass curtain walls, with thirty tall trees outside. She thought that if she could pick one of these tall trees from the library area to decorate as a Christmas tree this Christmas, it would probably be the biggest and most beautiful Christmas tree in the entire S City.
But at that time, could she and Lin Tingfeng still be together?
Because of her demands for self-respect and freedom, because of her pride and disobedience, he seemed very tired and disappointed last night. When he said goodnight, his voice was hoarse, as if his throat had suddenly developed a serious throat ailment.
Yesterday's argument over Lin Tingxuan gave her a new perspective on Lin Tingfeng. He wasn't as refined and gentle as he appeared to her; he had a domineering and cold-blooded side, which she had only just discovered.
The tyrannical Lin Tingfeng I discovered last night—authoritarian, domineering, selfish, and cold-blooded—was just like the Lin Tingfeng of the past, the one who schemed and plotted to get her, the one who could single-handedly turn the tide and obtain everything.
But after they got together, all those little details of their time together, like a montage in a movie, were so warm, so sweet, and all so real! He was like the most dutiful and learned parent, teaching her advanced math problems. He patiently organized her clothes in the dressing room, throwing away all the cheap clothes she had bought online because of her limited knowledge. When her mother called to borrow money, he told her to be generous, that forgiving others is forgiving yourself. He took the initiative to repair her relationship with her parents, allowing her to regain family affection. Seeing that she was too pale and thin, he took her to the gym. When the personal trainer enthusiastically promoted his personal training courses to her, he jealously came out to interrupt. He took her to the swimming pool at the Lin family's old house. Because he wanted to pamper her, he was like a great white whale, letting her squat on his back, carrying her back and swimming back and forth in the pool like lightning, making her laugh and scream with joy.
These past events, every single detail, are all true.
He decorated her room in pink, bought a series of white furniture to match, and put pink curtains and canopies on the bed. There were large white seashells and pearl hair clips on the table. He pampered her like a little princess.
These are all true.
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