Chapter 76 - No Escape (2)
Su Xiaofei was humming a tune as she hooked her arm with Lu Qingfeng as they walked casually inside the shopping mall.
"Since you are the one who dragged me here, you are the one who's paying, right?" She said, while her eyes were busy scanning the display at the boutique they just passed.
"Didn't you bring your purse with you? If you can afford it, then you should pay for it. Why should I pay for you?" Lu Qingfeng said in defense. "You should be thanking me for saving you from that man."
"Say, Xiao Feng, you really disliked Mo Yuchen, huh? What did he do to you?" Su Xiaofei asked curiously. Ever since she met Mo Yuchen, Lu Qingfeng had always avoided talking about him and refused to be in the same room as him.
"I dislike him. He's the worst scum I've ever encountered in my whole life." He said without batting an eyelid.
"Is that so?" Su Xiaofei waited for his explanation, but as usual, nothing followed. It seemed like Lu Qingfeng would never give her a satisfactory answer this time.
"You truly don't want him anymore?" This time, he was the one asking her.
"En. I don't like him anymore. I will never get back together with him in the future."
In her past life, her thoughts and dreams were filled with him.
'What do I have to do to win his heart?'
'What should I do to be loved by him?'
Thoughts like these were the norm for the old Su Xiaofei, but in this lifetime, she only wanted to crush him with her own hands.
Lu Qingfeng nodded, pleased with her answer.
"What about other men? Do you like someone else?"
She shook her head, wondering why he was even asking her such weird questions.
"No. Boys are dumb. I don't think anyone would like someone like me anyway." She waved a hand, laughing at herself.
"Su Xiaofei, I really didn't know that you are this dumb and insensitive." Lu Qingfeng sighed before releasing his arm from Su Xiaofei's hold, walking ahead of her. "Poor me."
"What?" The young woman was obviously confused with his answer. "How would I understand, if you aren't telling me anything?" She complained.
Was Lu Qingfeng too smart for someone like her that she couldn't understand what he was even talking about? Just as she thought that she knew him well, reality slapped her back, reminding her of how oblivious she was to his feelings for her in her past life.
His feelings for her.... Then it finally dawned on Su Xiaofei what Lu Qingfeng meant.
She stopped in her tracks and fell silent. So it started way too early… and she was too blind for not noticing it ahead of time. Was it because at this time, she should still be head over heels for Mo Yuchen?
Lu Qingfeng, who noticed her sudden silence, turned around to see what she was up to, only to find her with a slight blush on her cheeks. But she also had a conflicted expression on her face, as if she was contemplating something important.
However, it couldn't be helped now. It was better for her to be aware of it, or else things would end up in the same cycle all over again.
'Su Xiaofei, do you know? I cannot allow myself to lose you for the third time.'
Being trapped inside his fifteen-year-old body was enough to frustrate Lu Qingfeng since his rebirth.
'How annoying.' He thought. 'It would have been better if I was allowed to possess my twenty-year-old self.'
In his first life, he was utterly defeated by Mo Yuchen and was killed by him. Su Xiaofei had become Mo Yuchen's wife, and she had learned to hate him. He was the villain in her eyes, a person not worthy of her time and attention.
In his second life, he had failed again because he was too focused on strengthening himself, building relations and resources that could help him destroy Mo Yuchen in the future, only for Su Xiaofei to marry the man earlier than the original timeline.
In the end, Su Xiaofei died in Mo Yuchen and Ye Mingyu's hands.
Su Xiaofei actually died, and everything he worked so hard for was for nothing!
He had wanted to kill himself to follow her in the afterlife, but once hearing that a person who forfeited his own life would be denied reincarnation, Lu Qingfeng was forced to wait for his own death to come.
For more than twenty years, he tried to find ways that could grant his wish, wanting to be with Su Xiaofei once again. He had been extremely foolish in the past and regretted leaving Su Xiaofei behind. Alas, he was also a coward because he feared that he would once again experience being rejected by her.
Lu Qingfeng sighed to himself and pulled her wrist, forcing her to step forward, reducing the distance between them. He heard her gasping as her eyes stared widely at him. Did she finally realize what he meant earlier?
"Hey, what are you doing there spacing out in the middle of the way? Did your brain just short circuit from trying to understand what I've said?" He said before flicking Su Xiaofei's forehead like he used to when they were younger.
"Ouch! What do you think you are doing, dummy?" That was enough to bring his Su Xiaofei back to reality. "That hurts, you idiot!" She said, rubbing the red spot on her forehead. She knew that he was only doing this, so she wouldn't be pressured to answer him.
"Come on, let's get going. We weren't able to have lunch at home because of Mo Yuchen. I'm starving." He dragged her to walk alongside him.
At least it was enough to pull her out of her trance.. It didn't matter if he was reborn in his fifteen-year-old body, because this time, he intended to win her heart until she couldn't deny him anymore.
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