But she fell in love with Ziyi at first sight.
"Xiaozi, give me another chance. Didn't you say that you can give me a 100% chance of error?"
Ziyi subconsciously glanced at Qin Yuhuan, a bystander, out of the corner of her eye.
At that time, Qin Yuhuan was slowly pouring water for himself, holding a white bone china cup in his hand and drinking the water slowly.
"But I'm already dead!" Ziyi pulled her hand away. "Bai Zhu, I didn't break my promise of a lifetime. I gave you a lifetime. I just... got a new chance. Why can't I start over?"
"In your world, I have become a thing of the past, and this cannot be changed. But in this world, I simply don't want to continue our unhappy life. I'm also a human being. Yes, I can process my emotions, but that doesn't mean I don't have any."
Ziyi thought she had let go of the past between her and Shu Baizhu. She received a lot of love from Qin Yuhuan, which was enough for her to grow again and be reborn from withering.
But Shu Baizhu's relentless pressure still made her feel the long-lost resentment.
Those... resentments from countless nights of being ignored, and those... resentments from never being chosen.
She didn't like being the one not chosen.
No one likes it.
"I know, I know, Xiaozi, it's all my fault." Shu Baizhu still wanted to make amends. She looked up at Ziyi with red eyes. There were surging emotions in Ziyi's eyes, including reluctance, complexity, resentment, and all kinds of emotions, but the only thing missing was the ardent love she had in the past.
Shu Baizhu's heart felt like it was being hit hard, crushed again and again. The tears she had been holding back for so long could no longer be controlled. "Xiaozi, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Please, please, give me another chance."
"I can't do it." Ziyi sighed softly, "I'm sorry, I can't do it. If you find this hard to accept, just think of it as a change of heart. I don't love you anymore, not at all."
"Bai Zhu, you said you loved me, but looking back over the years, I hardly felt your love from you. Even now, I don't know what your love is like."
Apart from telling her that "she loves her", Shu Baizhu could not see any so-called love in other places.
"I thought I understood you. I told myself that you were a bamboo that defied frost and rain. You wouldn't bend for anyone, and I wouldn't ask you to bend for anything. Actually, sometimes I'd like to be that exception."
Shu Baizhu knew that what Ziyi said, "I won't let you bend over backwards for anything," was true. Her life had been smooth sailing since she met Ziyi. But in fact...
She is not an actress with talented acting skills, but Ziyi still helped her get award-winning films. If one film doesn't work out, she'll try two, and if two films don't work out, she'll keep filming. As long as she wants to win an award, Ziyi will provide her with countless opportunities.
It is precisely because of how gentle and tolerant the love received in the past is that Ziyi's ruthless and decisive behavior at this moment is even more difficult to accept.
Qin Yuhuan noticed that Ziyi's endurance had almost reached its limit. Her hanging hand had already been clenched into a fist and was trembling slightly. She reached out and touched the back of Ziyi's hand.
Ziyi looked down at her. She picked up the unfinished cup of tea and said, "Want some? It's a little cold."
Ziyi laughed and muttered, "I'm not angry yet and you gave me the leftovers." But she took the teacup and drank the tea in the cup at the right temperature. She said "here" and returned the cup to Qin Yuhuan.
Qin Yuhuan's sudden intervention made Ziyi relax a little. To be honest, she still felt uncomfortable instinctively when she saw Shu Baizhu's face.
But she had already made up her mind to sort out the relationship, so she had to deal with it calmly to the end.
"Xiaozi, you are my exception, you always have been." Shu Baizhu's brain was dizzy, she didn't know what else to do to keep Ziyi. "What Qin Yuhuan can do for you, I can do too. I will give you everything, okay, Xiaozi, please don't... don't leave me."
Ziyi and Qin Yuhuan get along too well. Qin Yuhuan's intimacy with Ziyi reminds her of how she and Ziyi got along in her previous life.
She had known Ziyi for twenty years and had been married for ten. Even during their most innocent high school years, she had been the one who had quietly waited for Ziyi. Panic washed over her like a tidal wave. Shu Baizhu knew that if she couldn't catch Ziyi this time—
You can no longer catch Ziyi.
But she didn't know that when she pulled Qin Yuhuan closer for comparison, she really stepped on Ziyi's minefield. Ziyi suddenly waved her hand, and Shu Baizhu lost her balance and fell on the sofa.
"Shu Baizhu, how dare you compete with her?" The hatred could no longer be suppressed. "How have I ever wronged you? That night, you knew she was in trouble, but you still asked Shu Baizhen to stop me at the service area, right?"
Just because she chooses not to say something doesn't mean she doesn't know it. She's just used to maintaining dignity between each other and doesn't want to embarrass anyone.
"What are you thinking? If Qin Yuhuan hadn't been rescued, what would have been waiting for her, Shu Baizhu, do you dare to say you don't know? Qin Yuhuan is kind to you because you are also a woman, and she can empathize with your difficulties. What about you?"
If it was Shu Baizhu who had the accident that day, both Ziyi and Qin Yuhuan would have spared no effort to save her.
"I have no idea what you're trying to salvage. You said you loved me. Did you love me for adapting to your schedule, visiting you in the middle of the night and then leaving after two hours? Did you love me for giving your family so much money that you could be free from their anxieties and constraints and do whatever you wanted in the entertainment industry? Or did you love me for smiling at you time and time again when you were cold to me?"
"I don't understand what your love is like. I once loved you, so I was willing to fulfill your wishes without asking for anything in return. But now that you love me, you force me to go against my nature again and again, tearing our relationship apart and destroying the beautiful memories you once left me. Is this your love?"
Ziyi didn't hate Shu Baizhu for not loving her, but she hated her belated love. It was already late, and it was going to destroy the few beautiful things left in her memory.
He had to force two people into a situation where they couldn't take care of each other.
"Did you hear clearly?" Ziyi bent down to grab Shu Baizhu's hand, forcing her to look at her.
When their eyes met, those brilliant smiles seemed to flow before Shu Baizhu's eyes like a movie.
"Happy birthday, Shu Baizhu! I brought you a small cake, it's said to be delicious!"
"It's over, the cake seems to have melted."
At that time, Xiaozi was filled with regret, like a child who had done something wrong. But before she could say anything to comfort him, Ziyi had already cheered up and said, "I'll go order another one, and it will be delivered soon."
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