Chapter 197
The tea bar wasn't crowded, and the silence between the two was only broken when the waiter brought over steaming Pu'er tea.
Duan Shen took off his glasses, revealing his extremely beautiful phoenix eyes.
"Ningning, you seem a bit strange lately." Duan Shen rubbed his fingertips against the slightly warm glass cup, and he seemed less cautious after taking off his glasses.
There was a hint of languid weariness.
But in the depths of his eyes, there was always an unyielding icy coldness that no one could touch.
"Duan Shen, that's the question I should be asking you."
"I?"
Duan Shen smiled, suppressing his irritation, and asked again, "What's wrong with me?"
"What's the meaning."
Duan Shen's gaze lingered on her slightly curled eyelashes, then fixed on her neck.
A flawless black pearl adorned her smooth, slender neck, and her beautiful bones exuded a cool and aloof air, making it hard to look away.
She has a bright and cheerful appearance, and her upturned eyes seem to never give up.
"You were the one who didn't reply to messages before, and you were the one who was always running away."
"Duan Shen, I don't know what happened that made you suddenly change your attitude." She paused, glancing lightly at the man in front of her whose expression seemed to turn cold.
Yingning took a sip of Pu'er tea. The tea was slightly smooth, but after her taste buds relaxed, she experienced a rich and mellow sensation.
"But I'm just doing as you wish, going along with your wishes."
"Why has it become so strange?"
With a few soft words, she seemed to have already pushed their relationship to an even more distant point.
As Ying Ning spoke each word, Duan Shen's expression gradually stiffened and turned cold, and his right hand, with its distinct knuckles, suddenly gripped the cup tightly.
After a while, Duan Shen returned to normal. Although there was a hint of languor in his eyes, his phoenix eyes revealed a seriousness that was hard to express.
This time he suddenly called her name:
"You Yingning".
What if I said there was a reason?
Upon hearing this, the girl in front of Duan Shen slightly raised her arm to prop up her chin and uttered a few words:
"I would like to hear the details."
But Duan Shen fell silent again.
A deathly silence fell between them once again.
Throughout the ordeal, Duan frowned countless times, his delicate and handsome features seemingly revealing his distress, but in the end, he only uttered one sentence:
"Feel sorry."
"I just can't bring myself to say it right now."
Duan Shen looked up and met a beautiful, intoxicating gaze, and his heart softened again:
"If I had the chance, I would..."
"Duan Shen."
"Actually, I've never been able to understand what you did before." Yingning shook her head, the disappointment in her eyes stinging Duan Shen, but her next words made him stop breathing:
"If you feel that as your girlfriend, you shouldn't even know the truth."
"I think we should reconsider our relationship."
The man in front of her finally showed doubt in his eyes, and a crack silently appeared in his eyes.
The little fox's lips twitched, while the pearl around her neck gleamed with a deathly, merciless light.
"Duan Shen."
Let's break up.
Upon hearing this, the man in front of him suddenly spoke with disbelief: "What did you say?"
"Duan Shen, let's break up," she said again.
Her words were like a fine awl forged from millennia-old ice, piercing directly into his chest, causing Duan Shen's voice to tremble almost as he spoke:
"You Yingning".
"Say that again?!"
Yili, a proud and arrogant man, had never been treated like this before.
Yingning stood up, picked up her canvas bag, and added as she turned around, "You've already heard it."
"Why make me say it again?"
Then, she lifted her foot and left her seat without a trace of regret.
Duan stared intently at her retreating figure, and only after she left the business school and disappeared from his sight did he seem to come to his senses and chuckle softly.
It was clearly her who pursued him.
How could you bring up breaking up?
His black pearl, you can't abandon him.
......
When the waiter at the tea bar felt a white shadow brush past him, he looked up and found that the customer had already left.
The waiter cleared the tea table but noticed something strange.
That cup of Pu'er tea was empty.
The other cup of oolong tea remained untouched.
*
After Duan Shen ran out of the business school's teaching building, his steps were quite hurried. He stepped directly into the world still shrouded in dark clouds, and large raindrops pelted him.
It blurred his vision.
Fortunately, the rain outside had subsided considerably, and most of the students had already left the teaching area.
Duan Shen spotted it immediately—the slender figure walking in the rain with an umbrella.
That direction is the direction that is gradually moving away from him.
He was unaware of how disheveled he looked, resembling a heartbroken man who had been abandoned; his former dignified and proper image was long gone.
"You Yingning!"
"I don't agree to break up!" Duan Shen grabbed the girl's fair wrist and suddenly rushed under her umbrella.
Just like when she barged into my world.
She was the one who provoked me first...
"You Yingning, I said I don't agree to break up." Duan Shen's thick, short, dark hair was almost completely soaked. He bent down slightly, showing a rare hint of compromise:
"Just wait for me a little longer."
"I will definitely tell you the reason."
Duan Shen gripped Ying Ning's wrist with considerable force, even causing her pain.
"Duan Shen, you're hurting me." Ying Ning pulled her hand away from his and straightened the umbrella slightly so that she wouldn't get wet in the rain.
The man in front of her, however, looked not sad, but astonished.
Duan Shen grew up in a privileged environment, and he was also exceptionally talented. He could achieve results in almost anything he was willing to do.
That's his arrogance.
So even though Yingning broke up with him, he didn't realize his real problem.
"Ningning, give me some time." Duan Shen lowered his voice and softly expressed his wish, only to hear the girl's sudden question:
"Duan Shen, do you really like me?"
Ying Ning's inexplicable words startled Duan Shen.
His clenched fist immediately loosened, and his eyes darted away.
"How could I..." Duan Shen suddenly stopped, as if he had just thought of something: "I do like you."
"You're hesitating."
She had spoken her mind again, and Duan Shen began to argue illogically:
"I like you."
"Then I'll try and see." Her voice was seductive, but she made a move that Duan Shen had never expected.
She tilted her head back and brought her face close to his.
Yingning tiptoed and cunningly touched her icy lips.
In that instant, Duan Shen's lips felt burning hot.
He didn't know what that feeling was like, only that the coldness in his chest was suddenly dispelled and left his body, and then he heard his heart pounding loudly.
The aroma of Pu'er tea tantalized his taste buds.
He was like a cautious young animal, licking the other's sensitivities.
It seems to be just a desire to obtain more of the aroma of tea.
Duan Shen's palm directly grasped her slender waist, tightening it forcefully, completely unaware that he was pulling her into his front, unwilling to let go.
The wonderful touch he had never experienced before made him bite into the softness.
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