Chapter 722: Chapter 96: Yurong, the day after tomorrow, next year_2
Seeing that he didn’t answer, Yurong knew he remembered, but seemed reluctant to go back, which made her a bit displeased. But after thinking about how he had always been accommodating for her parents’ peace of mind for ten months, she had no words to say. Now that they were arguing and separated, it was natural for him not to cooperate.
Actually, her displeasure came from forgetting their contractual marriage for a moment and treating him as her husband, which made it not a matter of helping or cooperating, but fulfilling his duty to be filial. Naturally, she would be displeased if he didn’t want to go. After reflecting on their situation, Yurong had to lower her posture a bit.
"I know. I don’t have the right to demand that you accompany me back. You might already have plans for tonight, but I still hope you can cooperate a little. Just help me out, it won’t take too much of your time. After dinner, we can leave early, and you can continue with your plans. There’s plenty of time tomorrow..."
Hearing her say this, Li Yan felt even more complicated, let out a bitter smile: "Yurong, you misunderstood my intentions."
"Then what do you mean by not speaking?" Yurong said grumpily. I’m asking you properly, yet you don’t talk, making me guess and then saying it wrong. Am I a worm in your stomach? Do I have to completely understand you? Have you given me a chance to understand you? Have you ever understood me?
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, her breathing grew rapid. It wasn’t because of anger but a need to suppress a pain and distress from somewhere in her heart with deep breaths.
"I want to say..." Li Yan wanted to share his concerns, ’Since we’re on the verge of getting divorced, is there still a need for this? Why not let them notice something’s off now so they can be more natural about it when the time comes, which might lessen their shock and sadness? Isn’t that better?’
But he didn’t want to say this because deep down, he didn’t want to divorce Yurong—although if she initiated it, he still might agree. But what he truly wanted was to salvage their relationship. However, lacking experience and because this also involves Yu Xiaodi, he didn’t have a good strategy.
No matter what... let her have a good birthday first! After being with her for so long, he hadn’t properly treated her, let her have at least a non-awkward, non-depressing birthday.
"Speak up!" Seeing him hesitate again, Yurong vented her grievance through anger, her tone sharp.
"What I mean is... even though usually we go back every Friday evening if there’s nothing going on, isn’t it possible to have a little novelty? It doesn’t need to be at a fixed time every time, does it? Tomorrow’s Christmas, how about we go home to accompany them tomorrow?" Li Yan sighed internally again, realizing that the antique auction tomorrow night still needed to be attended, thus not possible tomorrow night, but he could handle it during the day.
"Tomorrow?" Zhang Yurong snorted coldly: "Do you have time tomorrow? Don’t you need to accompany your little... hum! Dad isn’t available tomorrow."
Even though it’s been over two weeks, she still found it hard to forgive Li Yan’s unchanging desires and promised commitments with Yu Xiaodi. Initially wanting to sarcastically say ’Don’t you need to accompany your little lover?’, she ultimately held back.
Li Yan could certainly detect her anger and sarcasm, but what could he do? He indeed did that, and it wasn’t convenient to explain; should he tell her Yu Xiaodi was taken away by her mother? Wouldn’t that make her feel it was because Yu Xiaodi wasn’t around that he came to her, making her even angrier?
Feeling a bit helpless, he said, "Not available tomorrow, then let’s go the day after tomorrow! It’s a Sunday; I don’t have any plans and can spend more time with you at home."
The day after tomorrow is her birthday, and he definitely planned to spend it with her. But now, unsure of her attitude, he didn’t mention it, to avoid her deliberately avoiding him then.
Hearing him say this, Zhang Yurong was very disappointed. He found various excuses, not because he didn’t want to go back, but because he didn’t want to go back tonight! Clearly, it was because he had already arranged to meet someone tonight. On such a romantic night, who else could he have planned to be with? Surely, they would be romantically together tonight into tomorrow?
Yurong felt a twinge of bitterness in her heart, and her mouth tasted slightly bitter... probably due to the stomach acid from eating little at noon and the coffee not having enough sugar—she comforted herself like this.
"Forget it, it’s nothing, you go have fun!" After saying this, she proactively hung up, and after the call ended, she bit her pink lips, her beautiful eyes a little blurred... Yurong mocked herself silently, was this me seeking discomfort, humiliating myself?
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After she hung up, Li Yan also felt somewhat bewildered, a sense of loss in his heart. He could feel Yurong’s disappointment, but he couldn’t explain because while she misunderstood him, fundamentally she didn’t. Whether tonight was with Hai Fu, Huang Ying, or Wen Qianyi, could he honestly say he had no feelings for them?
Therefore, he couldn’t explain; regardless of whether it involved Xiaodi, what he did would still hurt her.
Looking at his phone, Li Yan let out a bitter smile; indeed, he accomplished the initial decision, declined the invitation, and yet felt no sense of achievement.
Speaking to the phone, he muttered to himself, "Who’s next? Come on! Li Jie, will you be looking for me? Or Qiao Huanxuan, are you coming over on a business trip again?"
