Chapter 320 Cause
Riemann tried very hard to recall the time she spent with Chen Shi in the past.
She was young then and didn't understand love or romance. She only regarded Chen Shi as a partner and a friend.
She truly had no romantic feelings for Chen Shi.
Riemann said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I really didn't know. I've always considered you a friend, and I never thought you would like me."
If it weren't for what just happened, Chen Shi doesn't know when he would have had the courage to confess his feelings to Li Man.
Now that he had already said it, Chen Shi frankly said, "I've liked you for a long time, but I've never dared to tell you because I was afraid you would reject me and that we wouldn't even be able to be friends anymore."
Riemann didn't know how to describe her feelings at that moment. She felt no joy at being confessed to. Thinking of the woman's hysteria and her pained expression, Riemann couldn't help but frown. "Then what exactly happened between you and your ex-wife? If you didn't like her, why did you marry her?"
Chen Shi sighed heavily and said somewhat irritably, "I don't want to get married either, but my mother is threatening to kill herself. Can I not listen to her?"
"But since you married her, you should live a good life with her. What you're doing is so irresponsible!"
Although she felt she was being a bit too saintly, Li Man couldn't help but speak up. As a woman herself, she could understand Chen Shi's ex-wife's pain, and she could tell that Chen Shi's ex-wife liked Chen Shi, which was why she had such a strong reaction.
But Riemann also knew that matters of the heart could not be forced.
Chen Shi lowered his head, his eyes vacant, and said with a pained expression, "I tried to make a good life with her, but I found that I couldn't. I... I just can't forget you. Being with her fills me with guilt. I really don't want to hurt her. She deserves a better man. What she wants, I can't give her... I'm not talking about material conditions. When I divorced her, I left with nothing. I left the house to her. I know I'm sorry to her, but I really can't live with her anymore. Every day is torture for me."
Riemann never dreamed that she would hurt another person while doing nothing.
She is innocent, but Chen Shi's ex-wife is even more innocent.
Riemann didn't know what to say.
"I'm sorry," Chen Shi said. "I didn't expect her to hurt you."
Riemann shook her head, saying helplessly, "What's the use of apologizing to me? What's done is done."
The two of them sat there, neither of them speaking.
Li Man suddenly remembered that Chen Shi's ex-wife seemed to know her, so she asked, "Your ex-wife seems to know me?"
Chen Shi lowered his head even further and said, "She secretly read my letters, and there was a picture of you in them."
Li Man thought for a long time before she remembered that when she corresponded with Chen Shi in high school, she had sent him a photo.
That photo was taken during a school field trip.
When she replied to him, she told him about her spring outing and attached a photo of her trip.
It turned out that Chen Shi had kept those letters and locked them in his study, but he never expected that Li Ting would find them.
While Chen Shi was at work, Li Ting pried open the lock he had always kept closed, only to discover that the reason Chen Shi had refused to have her was because he had someone else in his heart.
If Liting hadn't had a one-time encounter with Chen Shi, she would have thought that Chen Shi was impotent, but he was clearly capable yet refused to have her.
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