"Jiang Chao didn't betray you. He was drunk, and Liu Yan picked him up."
Mo Yuqing didn't finish her sentence; she knew Chen Lu could guess the rest.
This is a tacit understanding they developed from childhood.
Chen Lu had indeed guessed the rest.
"So, you've been trying to come up with a reason to ask me out?" Chen Lu asked expressionlessly, but his tone was still somewhat doubtful. "And then Liu Yan, who knew about it, just happened to find an opportunity and played along with this charade?"
Mo Yuqing proudly raised her chin, "We still have such great chemistry."
Chen Lu did not speak.
If it were before, and Mo Yuqing had said something like that to him, he would have laughed in his dreams.
However, times have changed, and we cannot expect the ashes of the dead to reignite.
It is precisely because it has burned itself out that it turns to ashes.
When Mo Yuqing saw Chen Lu's incredibly cold and unfamiliar demeanor, she first felt that reality had become very unreal, and then her heart tightened.
He was polite yet distant, as if he were facing a stranger.
The past ten days or so since she lost contact with Chen Lu felt incredibly long, leaving her feeling restless and distracted.
She felt as if she had been thrown into a prison cell, forced to constantly reflect and repent.
Until she fully realized how passionately Chen Lu had loved her, until she discovered that Chen Lu was no longer by her side.
So she chose to admit her mistake publicly at the party, and now she's come to Chen Lu.
Even Mo Yuqing herself never imagined that she, who couldn't even remember the names of many boys, would bow down to a boy.
Now, after seeing Chen Lu, she began to feel afraid.
The calmer Chen Lu appeared, the more flustered she became.
Finally, she mustered her courage and tentatively asked in a low voice, "Are you still... angry with me?"
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