Chapter 264: Divided
Jiang Yuan stood there, feeling like she was atoning for her sins to him.
After she said that, she didn't dare look at him, her eyes looking elsewhere without focus.
She didn't expect that she would easily admit that she approached him just to use him, and she didn't even have time to imagine what the consequences of the admission would be.
She even forgot his identity for a moment, and forgot the outside world's comments and rumors about the prince of Beicheng.
At this moment, he is just the him in her eyes.
Jiang Yuan didn't know whether the air was solidified or frozen, but even breathing became increasingly difficult.
An unknown amount of time passed, so long that cold sweat broke out on Jiang Yuan's entire back, before he finally spoke again: "What else did you want to use me for?"
Who knew he would hit the nail on the head the moment he opened his mouth? Jiang Yuan was caught off guard, a wave of emotion rising in her eyes, and then slowly calmed down. She replied casually, "Marrying into your family will ensure that my mother and I will have peace of mind for the rest of our lives."
As she spoke, his eyes scanned her like the highest-power searchlights, not missing any expression on her face.
Jiang Yuan's cheeks felt numb and hot, but she couldn't lift her eyelids to look at him.
The air was silent for a long time, so long that Jiang Yuan's legs seemed to have lost feeling, and she never looked at his face again.
In my peripheral vision, his legs were spread apart and motionless. The hand holding the cigarette was resting on his knee. It had long been extinguished, and the long ash fell silently to the ground. At a certain moment, he raised his hand, but then the hand holding the cigarette fell back, and the small piece of cigarette butt fell from between his fingers to the ground.
Jiang Yuan's chest felt increasingly stuffy, as if his chest cavity was blocked by a pile of cotton.
She struggled to open her throat and said, "I've made it clear. Someone is waiting for me outside. I'm leaving."
She choked for a moment, but still said the three words.
"sorry."
After saying that, she turned around and left, clutching her coat.
She closed the door and the room was silent for a long time, with only the primitive and rhythmic sound of the old clock in the corner. The food on the plate on the bedside table seemed to still emit the aroma of warm food. The sky outside the window seemed to be even darker, and the light in the room with the curtains still closed was dimmer than before.
He leaned over again, took out a cigarette from the box on the table and lit it. His knowing eyes were like the sea level still turbulent after a tsunami. He took a deep puff of the cigarette, and the nicotine finally suppressed the undercurrent.
The cell phone rang, he glanced at it and picked it up.
Liang Zhouheng's voice came from the other side, "You just let her go like that?"
He flicked the ash away from his cigarette with his fingertips. Liang Zhouheng couldn't hold back his anger and continued, "Haozi just went out and saw her get into the car of that man last night. No, what's going on between you two? Give me a clear answer. If we run into her again in the future, we'll know how to deal with her, right?"
"You let her drink last night, and she ended up with gastroenteritis. You're feeling bad now. Aren't you asking for trouble? If you really care about her, then stop being so polite and keep her here first."
Liang Zhouheng said a lot on the other end of the phone, but after a while, he only replied with two words, "We broke up."
Liang Zhouheng felt that his tone was not right. It was not the depressed tone he had imagined, but unusually calm, so calm that it was abnormal.
Last night, after Jiang Yuan fell to the ground, he saw Yin Dong stride over, pick her up from the ground and hold her in his arms. When he asked someone to call a doctor, he looked as anxious as if he wanted to eat someone. But now when he talked about breaking up, he used this nonchalant tone.
Liang Zhouheng suspected that Jiang Yuan might have made him sick.
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