Chapter 413 Brother, You Should Have Your Own Happiness
Li Jing was discharged from the hospital three days later, and Tian Xin was also going to report to the County Planning Bureau on the same day.
Before leaving, she came to the hospital to see Li Jing.
When she arrived at the door of the ward, she saw Li Jing hanging her arms around Zhang Shuai's neck and insisting that Zhang Shuai kiss her.
Tian Xin was a little surprised, but immediately retreated to the corridor and waited there for them to come out.
About ten minutes later, Li Jing came out with her arm around Zhang Shuai, half leaning on him and smiling.
"I just said...ah——"
Li Jing was startled and subconsciously took a step back and hid behind Zhang Shuai.
Zhang Shuai was also frightened when he saw Tian Xin leaning on the corridor and smiling at him.
But his fear was different from Li Jing's.
Li Jing came out as soon as he saw that the person was Tian Xin. He immediately shook off Li Jing's arm and took two steps forward to stand in front of Tian Xin.
"Boss, why are you here?"
Before he could finish his sentence, he felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, and severe discomfort.
The feeling was a mixture of tension and fear, and I was completely at a loss.
Tian Xin didn't say anything. She looked up at the tall man in front of her, who was about 1.8 meters tall. His face turned red in the blink of an eye. She smiled at him naturally and said, "You're making rapid progress. Congratulations."
Her original intention was to give a blessing, but in Zhang Shuai's eyes it became a lesson, as if she was scolding him.
He became even more frightened and immediately started to explain: "No, no, Boss, listen to me..."
Li Jing got furious when she saw his expression and walked over to interrupt him before he could finish.
"Xin, Zhang Shuai and I are together. You won't object, right?" Li Jing naturally put her arm around Zhang Shuai and asked her with a smile.
"Li Jing..."
Zhang Shuai pushed her away again and immediately explained to Tian Xin: "No, no, Boss, listen to me, it's not what you think. Don't listen to her nonsense, we didn't..."
He looked as panicked as if he had been caught cheating. In the eyes of outsiders, Tian Xin became the wronged original wife, and Li Jing became the shameless mistress.
Both girls were immediately unhappy. However, due to the sudden change in their relationship, Li Jing and Tian Xin looked at each other and refrained from scolding him.
"Jing—awesome!" Tian Xin smiled and gave Li Jing a thumbs up, trying to ease the awkward atmosphere.
"I knew you wouldn't mind. Xin, you're so nice." Li Jing picked up her words, stepped forward again, took Zhang Shuai's arm and said to him: "Look, I told you, Tian Xin won't mind. Why are you so scared?"
"Yeah, I don't mind at all..."
Before Tian Xin could finish her words, Zhang Shuai suddenly threw Li Jing away like a madman with red eyes, and angrily left the two girls behind and strode away.
When Li Jing said that, his eyes were fixed on Tian Xin. After Tian Xin replied, the fire in his eyes instantly extinguished, and then he was filled with unexpressed anger.
As soon as he left, Li Jing immediately quit, standing there and shouting, "Zhang Shuai, you bastard. Coward."
Zhang Shuai went downstairs without even turning his head.
Li Jing couldn't hold back any longer, so she left Tian Xin behind and ran after him, not stopping no matter how Tian Xin called out to her. The three of them went downstairs one after the other.
When Tian Xin left, Zhang Shuai was squatting in the parking space smoking. Like last time, he smoked quickly, leaving a cigarette butt on the ground.
Li Jing stood in front of him and looked at him without blinking, saying nothing. Although she said nothing, Tian Xin could see her grievance at a glance.
She walked over and pulled Li Jing first: "Come with me."
Li Jing didn't move, shook her hand off and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Nothing, let's go and leave him alone."
As soon as she said this, Zhang Shuai immediately threw away his cigarette and stood up to stop her: "Don't go, I...I have something to tell you. Don't go."
I was still so flustered, still so at a loss. I didn't know where to put my hands, sometimes on my hips, sometimes behind my back, and finally rubbed my head in frustration and squatted down again.
Tian Xin was immediately furious, feeling soft-hearted but also wanting to scold him.
"Speak." She got angry.
Before Zhang Shuai could finish, Li Jing was already unhappy: "Xin, you can't be so mean to him now."
Tian Xin was stunned and turned to look at her: "What?"
"I said, you can't be mean to him anymore, he's mine now."
Li Jing put her hands on her hips and began to assert her sovereignty: "Xin, I know you two have a good relationship, but you only have Lin Zhou in your heart and not him. Now that we are together, you can no longer control him."
"Hahahahahaha..." Tian Xin started laughing before she even finished her words and immediately waved her hand in agreement: "Okay, okay, I don't care, I don't care, and I really can't care anymore." After saying that, she turned around: "Well, then I won't bother you anymore. I'll go first, you two can chat slowly."
Just as she took a step forward, Zhang Shuai stood up and stopped her again: "Boss, I have something to tell you..."
"Then go ahead and talk!" Tian Xin got angry again, but as soon as she finished shouting, she thought of Li Jing's words and immediately lowered her voice and added, "Go ahead and talk. I'm listening."
"Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong between us."
"I didn't misunderstand."
"No, listen to me, I..."
The words came to his lips but he suddenly couldn't say them.
Li Jing was right in front of him, but he couldn't say that they had kissed countless times in the past three days; he couldn't say that he didn't refuse when Li Jing forced him to do so; he couldn't say even more that during these three days, he had a little bit of feeling for Li Jing that he himself couldn't understand.
Did he like it? He wasn't sure.
But that was completely different from how he felt about Tian Xin.
It’s hard to say which one he is more obsessed with, but these two are emotions that he cannot let go of at the moment.
As soon as Tian Xin saw his expression, she knew what he meant. She immediately sighed and cursed in her heart: "Idiot."
She smiled at Li Jing and said, "How about you go over there and wait for me. I'll borrow your Zhang Shuai for a few minutes and return it to you in a while."
Hearing her say that, Li Jing immediately became happy. After looking at her shyly, she smiled and said, "Okay, don't take too long."
"Well, no. Don't worry."
As soon as Li Jing left, Zhang Shuai immediately began to talk like a ragtag bunch of beans. Tian Xin could hardly hear him because of his fast speech: "Boss, listen to me. That day she acted like a scoundrel and insisted that I stay with her. I had no choice but to stay. In the end, she was... like that. Then my brain short-circuited and I also... did that. As a result, she became even more scoundrel. And then I didn't know you were coming today. If I had known you were coming, I would never have..."
"Zhang Shuai!"
Tian Xin interrupted him.
The voice was very harsh, like a parent scolding a child.
Zhang Shuai immediately shut up, lowered his head and waited for trial, not daring to even look at Tian Xin.
"Zhang Shuai, how old are you this year?"
Tian Xin asked him in a low voice.
Zhang Shuai didn't reply.
Tian Xin asked again: "Tell me, how old are you?"
"26." Zhang Shuai said.
"Is it a boy?"
"yes!"
"Is that my brother?"
"yes."
"Are you from Xiaowan Village?" She asked faster and faster, not giving Zhang Shuai any chance to respond.
"yes"
"Did they kiss?"
"yes……"
“…”
“Boss…Boss…”
Tian Xin laughed out loud immediately: "Admit it!"
"No, you cheated me." Zhang Shuai muttered with a frown.
Alas! This fool...
Tian Xin sighed and then began to formally educate him.
"Brother, how does it feel?" she asked.
"What...what does it feel like?"
"How did you feel when you kissed Li Jing?"
Zhang Shuai couldn't stand this question anymore and immediately growled at her in a low voice, "Why are you asking this? I told you my mind was in a mess at the time and I wasn't thinking about anything. Why do you keep asking this?"
"It's different, right?" Tian Xin asked again, ignoring his emotions.
"What's different?"
"When you liked me, did you ever think of kissing me?"
“…”
"Answer me, have you ever had such a thought?"
Zhang Shuai's mind was confused again.
To be honest, no.
In his heart, Tian Xin had always been holy, a god-like existence. He would not allow himself to have the slightest blasphemous intention towards her, not even the thought.
Even if two people are together all day long, they only do routine actions like holding hands or hugging each other, which are like family members.
He tried his best to keep a proper distance from her in all these matters.
He loved Tian Xin, loved her to death, and he knew very well that it was love.
But when she asked this question, Zhang Shuai immediately understood the difference between Tian Xin and Li Jing in his heart.
"Boss, I really love you..." He looked at her timidly and made a subtle excuse.
"Don't talk about that. Answer me. In all the years you've been with me, have you ever thought about kissing me? Even once?"
"No."
This time he was very straightforward: "Boss, in my heart, you are always the one I love the most..."
"What about Li Jing?"
Tian Xin was not affected by him and continued to ask questions.
"She...she's different."
"What's the difference?"
"I can't tell."
"So what were you thinking when you kissed her?"
"I can't think of anything. My mind is as messy as a paste. I can't think of anything."
"That's it."
Tian Xin put her hand on his shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, you are a man. Men can't control their instincts in front of the one they truly love. This is a normal physiological reaction."
"Stop talking, I didn't." Zhang Shuai pushed her hand away irritably, squatted on the ground and lit a cigarette.
There is no der.
The truth was that on the first night in the hospital, Li Jing impulsively tried to sacrifice herself to keep him, and he was so panicked that his heart almost jumped out of his chest. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he ran downstairs to get some fresh air for half the night, and only went back home after Li Jing fell asleep.
But he didn't dare tell Tian Xin about this.
He didn't know why he didn't dare, but he just didn't dare.
Tian Xin guessed most of what was going on from his expression and continued to teach him, "You don't have to be afraid, or shy, or distressed or embarrassed. I'm telling you, a man has truly grown up when he reaches this stage. This is a good thing."
Is this a good thing?
Zhang Shuai couldn't understand why and asked her, "Would Lin Zhou be like this when he was with you? You guys..."
"Of course." Tian Xin admitted.
"But I still... I still don't understand. I clearly don't like her, and I'm even annoyed to death. Why is it like this now? I clearly love you, but my mind is full of her... and those images. I... I don't know, what is going on?"
"It's simple. You love me as a family member. Being with your sister is of course different from being in love."
Tian Xin directly gave him the conclusion: "Brother, the person you really like in your heart has always been Li Jing.
It's just that over the years, you've gotten used to the feeling of being dependent on me, and mistakenly taken this love as love between a man and a woman.
You have been using me to numb yourself, to convince yourself, and not allowing yourself to like anyone other than me.
In your subconscious, you think this will make you feel safe and that you will no longer be abandoned.
Brother, stop lying to yourself, follow your heart, and be brave enough to like someone else. You deserve your own happiness."
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