She felt as if she was taken to a room. After the man loosened the shackles, Shen You heard the sound of the door closing and locking.

The room was pitch black, and the closed doors and windows blocked out most of the noise from outside.

After a brief panic, Shen You calmed down, his unfocused eyes fell on the source of the voice, and asked, "Song Yingshi, what do you want to do?"

Seeing that she guessed it was him, the young man stiffened reflexively, and then joy surged in his heart, "Youyou, you knew it was me."

Shen You fumbled calmly in the darkness, trying to find one or two items that he could pick up to defend himself, and repeated, "What do you want to do?"

[Could it be that he wanted to take this opportunity to kill me and take revenge on the Shen family? ]

The voice that echoed in his mind was like cold water poured on his head, instantly extinguishing the joy in his heart.

"Don't be afraid. I never meant to hurt you," the young man said in a hoarse voice. "It's just that you've been avoiding me, so I haven't had a chance to have a good talk with you."

Shen You thought that your way of talking to someone was really a lot of trouble, and said calmly: "I thought there was nothing more to talk about between us."

However, in the darkness, she could not observe Song Yingshi's expression. To prevent him from being stimulated and suddenly going berserk, Shen You paused and said, "Just make it short. I'm listening."

Sensing her vigilance, Song Yingshi took a breath and said, "I like you."

Shen You: “…”

Silence is Cambridge tonight.

Song Yingshi's heart was beating fast. The moment he said these four words, he had already made plans for the worst.

Perhaps Shen You would be like Shen Yan, dismissive, sarcastic, or even furious, but he did not expect that they would end up looking at each other in silence.

Her voice was not heard.

Before he got the answer from her own mouth, he was worried, as if a heavy stone was hanging over his head. However, once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. His Adam's apple moved slightly, and he continued, "I admit that the Song family has let you down, and I have let you down too. Before I met you as a child, I knew you would be my future wife, and I was warned by my elders that I was only using you and could not be sincere to you. So over the years, I have always been indifferent to you. I always tell myself that in my eyes, you are just a chess piece."

Song Yingshi smiled self-deprecatingly: "I treated you as a fool. You knew I didn't like you but you still tried to please me. But in the end, I was the fool who deceived myself."

The young man's voice was low as he lost his thoughts in memories. "I pretended to be indifferent in front of you and left you in the crowd to be laughed at by the onlookers. I could have just walked away, but I had to find an excuse to shake off the people around me and look back for you. I secretly watched you feel lost and sad. I felt bad in my heart, but at that time I just thought it was guilt."

After a pause, he sighed and said, "Looking back now, perhaps I had fallen in love with you a long time ago, but I was unwilling and afraid to admit this feeling. It was not until I lost you that I finally realized how stupid I was in the past."

At this point, he finally stated the purpose of this trip: "Since the engagement that was not pure from the beginning has been cancelled, and the Shen family has caused a heavy blow to the Song family, and the two families are clear, can we face our feelings calmly and give each other another chance?"

When he revealed his feelings, Shen You was quiet. Her originally active brain seemed to shut down temporarily. She didn't make any sound to interrupt him. Until now, when she should have given an answer, she still didn't speak.

"Youyou?"

Song Yingshi wondered if she could have fallen asleep in such a situation?

The next second, he heard the girl's clear voice: "Well, I'm listening, are you done?"

The young man was silent for a moment, then he responded softly, "I like you."

Song Yingshi was a little confused.

Wasn't it just for this sentence that she had been chasing him for so many years? Wasn't it because of the grudge between the two elders that she thought she was a "licker" and was eager to cancel the engagement that she thought he was just using her and had no feelings for her? Was it because she was too excited and didn't know what to do? While he was secretly guessing, Shen You slowly said, "I know."

???

Song Yingshi was puzzled: "What do you know?"

"I know you like me," Shen You explained, "Before you said those words, no, before we broke off the engagement, I knew you liked me."

To be more precise, before she awakened, Shen You had discovered Song Yingshi's feelings for her from some details, but at that time she didn't know that the Song family had ill intentions. She just thought that Song Yingshi must have his own difficulties that he couldn't tell. Although she was disappointed, she felt sweet in her heart and was more motivated to be his "dog".

Song Yingshi was stunned. He didn't expect Shen You to react like this.

Since she knew his feelings for her before breaking off the engagement, why did she insist on breaking off the engagement? His thoughts were in a mess, "How did you know... No, if you knew, why did you still...?"

Shen You chuckled, "So what if I know you like me?"

Song Yingshi felt that he was probably a little short of oxygen and his brain was not very clear. Otherwise, how could he hear disdain and contempt in Shen You's tone?

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Shen You has liked him for so many years and she loves him deeply, so how could she speak to him in this tone?

In the darkness, in the enclosed space, the girl's gentle voice was loud enough for him to hear clearly.

"Song Yingshi, there are many people who like me. Do you think you are special?"

She seemed to be asking him questions simply out of confusion.

Song Yingshi: "I..."

Shen You frowned slightly and interrupted him: "You don't think that after you talked to me for such a long time, I would gratefully throw myself into your arms and tell you - I finally waited for you to come back?"

...Shouldn't it be so?

Song Yingshi pursed his lips tightly and heard the sarcasm in her smiling voice.

"Don't be ridiculous, I've never liked you."

[“I like you” is just a character setting imposed on me by the plot. Who would be so infatuated with a bad man who has bad intentions and doesn’t respect himself? ]

The truth is often cruel.

Song Yingshi felt as if struck by lightning. He subconsciously took a step back and bumped into the foot of the bed, but he had no time to care about the pain in his body.

He opened his mouth, "Give me one more chance, I promise..."

Shen You was puzzled: "There are so many men in the world, why should I give you a chance?"