Fog Returns to the Capital

Chapter 132 So what do you take me for? And what am I to you?
After getting closer.

The tall, jade-like man slowly knelt down in front of Li Wu and gently placed the Freud Rose that she had left on the back seat beside her.

His voice was low and quiet.

"So, I'm just a good fit, right?"

The words fell.

Li Wu's body stiffened.

She looked at the banquet pavilion in front of her, her lips moved, but in the end she couldn't utter a single word.

In fact, Li Wu's reaction already explained everything.

But Yan Xuting looked into her eyes with his deep black eyes, and said each word slowly and deliberately, with extra force and clarity, "So, you've never loved me, not even for a second, right?"

"Sorry……"

Li Wu spoke, her voice still trembling from a recent sob, "I'm sorry..."

"Sorry? Sorry for what?!"

For the first time, the usually gentle and refined Yan Xuting roared at Li Wu. The words practically spilled from the depths of his throat, "You just accepted my proposal this afternoon! Li Wu, you just accepted this afternoon!"

"Just a few hours ago, you said 'I do' to yourself. Don't you remember?"

Yan Xuting raised his hand and grabbed Li Wu's wrist. The thinner and more slender the hand was, the stronger Yan Xuting's grip became. "Do you want me to bring the video to you so you can see it with your own eyes?"

"I've tried, I've tried very hard..."

Li Wu looked up at Yan Xuting, her moist eyelashes not yet completely dry, and a thin layer of broken tears still glistening in her reddened eyes. Her voice trembled slightly, "But there's nothing I can do, I still can't accept it..."

It seems she can no longer fall in love with anyone.

Looking at Li Wu's red and swollen eyes.

Yan Xuting's eyes were deep and heavy. For the first time in his life, he felt a sharp pain in his heart. In places unseen by anyone, the wounds seemed to be bleeding profusely.

This is the first time he has ever liked someone.

I like someone who has someone else in their heart.

In the past seven years, he had never seen her cry once.

Even when she spent three whole months in the lab working on a set of data, while her colleagues were under so much pressure that they cried themselves to sleep every day, he never saw her shed a single tear.

but now.

That person could easily control her emotions.

wrong.

He had actually seen her cry once.

At the beginning.

When Yan Xuting saw Li Wu searching for the three characters "Zhou Jinghuai", he thought she was concerned about national affairs.

Then one day, Yan Xuting accidentally saw Li Wu sitting in front of the computer, lost in thought. Her eyes were red, as if she had just been crying.

The search bar on the screen in front of her clearly displayed the three characters "Zhou Jinghuai".

When I saw that scene.

It was only after a moment that Yan Xuting realized that she was missing someone.

Yan Xuting held Li Wu's hand tightly, not letting go. He stared intently into her eyes, almost trying to see every subtle change in her emotions.

I asked one last question, one that might make me incredibly embarrassed—

"Are you using me to forget him, or is it that for you, whether I'm the one you're with or not is completely unimportant, as long as that person is right for you?"

Li Wu's eyelashes trembled slightly, but she did not respond.

She never intended to use him.

Even so, she had nothing to say.

See this.

A desolate, emotionless smile curved Yan Xuting's lips, it was unclear whether he was mocking others or himself.

After a long silence.

"Li Li."

Yan Xuting still called her name, his voice barely audible, "Then what do you take me for? And what am I to you?"

Done.

There was a few seconds of silence.

Yan Xuting completely let go of her hand.

He stood up, looked down at the person still sitting on the ground, and said in a weak voice, as if he had lost all his strength, "The ground is cold, let's go back inside."

Before turning around.

Yan Xuting gave Li Wu a deep look, his eyes filled with a complex mix of emotions that were difficult to discern.

but.

It was a scene of utter disarray, unlike anything I had ever witnessed before.

……

After Yan Xuting left.

In the empty corridor, the cold wind of the night swept in, and the surrounding temperature seemed to drop several degrees.

Li Wu bent her knees, hugged herself tightly, and silently shed tears.

……

downstairs.

A light drizzle fell, and a black car sat quietly under the dim streetlights, almost blending into the night.

After seeing the person leave.

Zhou Jinghuai remained silent in the car, making no move for a long time.

Jiang Ting sat in the passenger seat, noticing that Zhou Jinghuai's usual rest time had passed. He paused slightly, then asked in a low voice, "Sir, shall we go back?"

The car lights were off, and Zhou Jinghuai was completely trapped in darkness, making it impossible to see the expression on his face.

In the deathly silence inside the car, a sound seemed to come from afar. In a daze, Zhou Jinghuai murmured, "I heard her crying."

(End of this chapter)