"Lin'an, are you feeling sorry for me for becoming a victim of my family?" Ma Siluo said self-deprecatingly, "It's not like that, actually. I also wanted to resist, but when I was about to graduate and was ready to tell him how I felt, I found out that he had been hiding someone in his heart for many years."

When Ma Siluo said this, Xia Lin'an's heart skipped a beat. She raised her eyes and met Ma Siluo's, and got affirmation from his eyes.

"He likes you, right?" Ma Siluo said lightly.

Her voice was vague, sometimes far away and sometimes near. There was no emotion in her words, which were as bland as plain water.

"Because senior... even when faced with many talented and beautiful girls confessing to him, he coldly rejected them. I guessed the reason a long time ago, but I never saw that person appear, so I deceived myself and told myself that that person did not exist."

"It was not until I met you at your family dinner and saw the way he looked at you that I realized that I had met that person a long time ago." Ma Siluo looked into Xia Linan's eyes and said firmly.

Xia Lin'an moved her lips, wanting to explain to Ma Siluo the relationship between her and Xia Yansi, but was interrupted by Ma Siluo: "Just listen to me first, Lin'an."

When Xia Linan saw the pleading look in Ma Siluo's eyes, her heart ached inexplicably and she nodded for some unknown reason.

Ma Siluo took a deep breath, as if he had gathered all his courage, and told her what happened that night: "I was very happy after meeting my senior again, even though he couldn't recognize me anymore, and even after learning some heartbreaking truths, I was very content."

"That night I saw him drunk outside, and his lonely look made me feel bad. But later someone put drugs in his drink, and when I found him, he was already unconscious."

Xia Linan opened his eyes wide in shock, his eyes full of disbelief and disbelief, and a little... exploration?

Ma Siluo admitted under Xia Linan's probing gaze: "Yes, we had sex."

"But..." Ma Siluo paused, her eyes misty. She took a deep breath and said, "What broke my heart was not knowing that he liked you, but that he told me clearly after we had sex that he could compensate me with anything except marriage."

Ma Siluo's words shocked Xia Lin'an greatly. The amount of information was too much for her to process and she completely forgot how to react.

Ma Siluo raised his hand to wipe the moisture from the corners of his eyes and continued, "I didn't intend to let him be responsible, but after hearing what he said, I... I felt very sad in my heart, and I couldn't help but want to cry..."

Ma Siluo bit her lower lip hard, and the good complexion that was originally disguised by makeup suddenly turned pale, and she looked very bad.

Xia Linan asked worriedly, "Si Luo, are you okay now?" She reached out to grab Ma Si Luo's wrist, but Ma Si Luo dodged her.

"I'm fine." Ma Siluo subconsciously covered his wrist, trying to hide his mistake, which made it even more obvious.

However, at that moment, Xia Lin'an saw the white gauze on Ma Siluo's wrist that was covered by his clothes.

Xia Linan was shocked, and she vaguely guessed what it was. Ma Siluo's emotions, Ma Siluo's face, Ma Siluo's wounds, as long as they were connected together, it would not be difficult for her to guess the cause and effect of the matter.

However, Xia Lin'an still didn't want to know the truth of the matter.

Ma Siluo seemed to want to avoid Xia Linan's discovery, so he deliberately changed the subject and asked, "Do you know what happened later?"

"What?" Xia Lin'an's attention was indeed diverted by Ma Siluo, because what happened later was what Xia Lin'an urgently wanted to know.

Ma Siluo glanced at the square outside the window. The musical fountain had stopped. Her heart twitched and she felt pain. She took a deep breath and said, "Then my parents came to see me."

To Xia Linan's surprise, Ma Siluo continued to recount the scene that she would never forget that night: "There were many people outside the room at the time. I only remember that when my dad came in, he was very angry and wanted to hit me, but was stopped by the senior. Then the parents of both sides negotiated."

Xia Linan could vaguely guess what would happen next. Xia Shixun wanted to force Xia Yansi to take responsibility for Ma Siluo, but Xia Yansi refused. This is what Xia Linan heard after returning to the Xia family.

Ma Siluo said in a sad voice: "I know that the senior said he would be responsible for me because he was forced to do so by Uncle Xia. My parents can see that he is actually heartless and heartless towards me."

Ma Siluo paused, as if recalling something, and then continued, "So, my parents put me under house arrest in my room when they got home that night, and immediately arranged a marriage for me."

Xia Lin'an was completely confused. She didn't expect that Ma Siluo would go through so much after returning.

Ma Siluo saw that Xia Linan was looking at him with a hint of pity, so he shook his head and laughed, "Linan, don't look at me like that. I don't need anyone's pity."

Then, Ma Siluo continued: "Maybe I would have accepted my parents' arrangement to start a family with a stranger before, but now, I suddenly changed my mind. Even if I can't be with the person I like, I don't mind being alone for the rest of my life, and I don't want to live with others."

As long as the person she loves is happy, she doesn't care even if she has to endure loneliness for a lifetime.

Xia Linan seemed to have heard what Ma Siluo did to rebel against his parents, so he asked tentatively: "So you went to find my brother, right?"

Ma Siluo was stunned for a moment, her eyes gradually turned red, as if she was recalling that morning. It was only a few days ago, but she felt that time was so long that it seemed like several years had passed.

Ma Silu nodded slightly and said in a very soft voice: "Yes, I found him. I was very impulsive and stupid."

Ma Siluo did not feel any regret about having such a relationship with Xia Yansi, but she impulsively ran out of the hospital to find Xia Yansi, an action that made her extremely upset and frustrated.

Because she had implicated him and tied his life's happiness to her own, she shouldn't have done that.

Ma Siluo's emotions were on the verge of a critical point. She clenched her hands together, trying hard to control her emotions.

Xia Lin'an reached out his hand with concern and stroked the pale back of Ma Siluo's hand, which was faintly veined, to comfort her silently.

Ma Siluo murmured, "I'm sorry for him, I didn't mean it like that..."