Chapter 965: Chapter 962: 1.5 Milk 10
He and she had actually known each other for many years, classmates, alumni, unrequited love, first love... Back then, he spent too much time focusing on her, and involuntarily, he always tried to take responsibility for her life.
Li Zhen was silent for a moment, but then he frankly spoke: "Honest advice is hard to hear. I know what I say is unpleasant. Yan Xixi, I’ve said all I needed to. I’m sorry, I too am just another hypocrite."
"Thank you for going out of your way to come see me. But I don’t need this advice. I’m a hypocrite myself; I just prefer to live in illusions."
"Yan Xixi..."
"Don’t say anything, I don’t want to hear it. Li Zhen, don’t make me look down on you. You’re clearly just trying to intimidate a rival.
"Are you saying I’m spouting nonsense?"
She retorted, "Isn’t that the case? Li Zhen, love is a matter between two people. Many things between Wan Donglin and me are known only to us. Outsiders have no say."
"Yan Xixi, I’m doing this for your own good..."
She snapped back, "These days, countless people claim ’I’m doing this for your own good,’ but who knows the truth? As an outsider, you’ve merely heard some gossip, read some tabloid news. What right do you have to make judgments about the relationship between Wan Donglin and me?"
"..."
"Thanks, Li Zhen, but I’m not a virtuous ruler, I’m just King Zhou of Shang, who loves only Su Daji. I hate loyal ministers! Although treacherous ministers are despicable, aren’t loyal ministers often just seeking fame and recognition? Even if someone like Bi Gan strongly advises, I might still dig out his heart..."
Li Zhen stared at her, in silence.
After a long time, he paid the bill, stood up, gathered the box, took his backpack, and said with a very calm demeanor: "Yan Xixi, I have no improper thoughts, and from now on, I will consider you just a normal friend. But, I must advise you, some men are suited only for love, not for marriage. A woman’s youth is limited, there’s no need to squander it endlessly in the long years of waiting, otherwise, one day, you’ll regret it deeply."
She replied firmly: "I will never regret it."
Li Zhen took his backpack and turned to leave.
They didn’t say goodbye.
At that moment, it was only three in the afternoon, but the sky was dark, cold, lonely.
Yan Xixi sat dejectedly by the window, watching the increasingly blurry world. Li Zhen, he was actually one of her few friends, and a person she could barely trust. But now, they couldn’t even remain friends.
After a long time, she slowly walked back home.
It was quite a long way, but she kept walking.
Soon, it started to snow, but not heavily, it fell coldly, bit by bit down her neck.
She pulled up the collar of her coat, there was a hat in the backpack she carried, but she didn’t bother to take it out.
There were few pedestrians on the road, on such a cold day, and such a grand holiday, people prefer to gather in various places for revelries or stay home to enjoy family warmth. Essentially, it was a New Year for foreigners.
After walking for a full two hours, she finally got home.
Her hands and feet were already nearly numb from the cold, but Ms. Liu wasn’t there, and there were no hot meals waiting, just cold emptiness.
Scalding hot water gushed from the showerhead, making her shiver, and only then did she gradually start to regain her senses.
Two large cups of hot coffee later, the heated room felt like spring again.
She sat barefoot on the sofa, picked up her phone again, but there was still not a single message.
But, she thought, it’s really nothing, tomorrow is a new day.
(That’s it for today, to be continued tomorrow, the story will soon reach its true climax)
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