Jingxia Rose

Chapter 194 [Yi Xu 044] Do you want to make up?

She called out several times and searched everywhere, including under the sofa, on the cat tree, and on the balcony, but couldn't find Princess anywhere.

She panicked and quickly checked the doors and windows, which were all closed.

Her thoughts instantly became jumbled. Remembering the home security camera, she quickly opened the app to check. Finally, around 3 PM, she heard the electronic lock on the front door click. A dozen seconds later, a familiar figure appeared in the entryway, and the princess rushed over excitedly.

Shi Wan kept watching with her nerves on edge, listening to Yi Xu squat down, hug and kiss the princess, and ask her if she missed her dad.

After a full five or six minutes, Yi Xu suddenly said, "Come on, Dad will take you away from home!"

Without taking anything with him, he picked up the princess and turned to leave.

Okay, the truth is out.

"..."

Shi Wan read it again, her lips twitching violently a few times.

He immediately exited the monitoring app, went back to his room to change his clothes, left his hair down, grabbed his car keys, and went out.

She had been to Yi Xu's place once, when Yi Xu said she was going back to pick up some clothes on her way. She went to visit it; it was a large, single-level apartment of over 400 square meters.

The interior design is predominantly rustic and classical, which doesn't quite match his personal style.

She arrived at Jingyuan at 10:30.

The building manager downstairs had her fill out a registration form before swiping her elevator card to go up.

One apartment per floor. Stepping out of the elevator, there's a short corridor with a place to change shoes and put umbrellas. The door has a combination lock, and she remembered that Yi Xu had told her the password last time.

But as time went on, she became a little forgetful of those six digits.

So I was too lazy to try, and just rang the doorbell.

After waiting for about half a minute, the door opened from the inside.

Yi Xu was wearing a white casual T-shirt and black pants, with a calm expression and a lazy posture.

The two hadn't seen each other for more than ten days, and Shi Wan couldn't contain her anger any longer, yelling, "Are you crazy? Why did you steal my cat?!"

Yi Xu simply stared at her silently without saying a word.

"Where's the cat?"

Shi Wan turned her face away and asked.

Yi Xu remained silent. Shi Wan, unable to bear the depth and intensity in his eyes, took the lead and went in, calling out "Princess" twice.

The princess, like a playful monkey, suddenly darted out, meowed twice at her, and began rubbing against her feet.

Shi Wan squatted down and poked its little head.

Actually, after learning that Yi Xu had taken it away, she was no longer worried, but instead felt angry.

Looking up, I saw several bags of the princess's usual cat food, along with a food bowl and a water bowl, placed in the corner of the wall directly in front of me, and two boxes of different flavored canned food next to them.

There were also many cat tree parts scattered on the ground next to it, as if they were being assembled.

"What do you mean by bringing the cat here?" She stood up and looked at Yi Xu behind her.

"If I hadn't taken it with me, you wouldn't have come looking for me at all, right?" Yi Xu said calmly, his hands in his pockets.

Shi Wan's heart skipped a beat. She turned away from him, not looking at him. "We've already broken up, why would I still look for you?"

Yi Xu chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Oh, so I've become one of your contacts on WeChat too."

Shi Wan frowned, "Will you die if you don't use sarcastic remarks?"

"Your work is more important than me, your cat is more important than me, your friends are more important than me, so what am I to you?" Yi Xu asked, grinding his back teeth. "For so many days, you haven't even thought of contacting me, not even sending me a message." Shi Wan frowned deeply, looking back at him. "We have different views. You want to get married, but I don't want to get married, and I'm not going to change my principles for you. There's no solution to this. How can I contact you, and what should I say in a message?"

"I can't pretend it never happened. This will become a time bomb that could explode between us at any moment. Why bother?"

Does this make sense?

"So, you've decided to break up, right?" Yi Xu's eyes reddened without her realizing it. "Marriage has never been a must-have for me. I just want to know how you view our relationship, and whether you've included me in your future plans. It's that simple!"

"I took the princess away because I wanted you to come to me. As long as you say the word or wave, we can make up."

"I don't need your compromises. I just need you to tell me that you care about me, that you're not just playing around with me, and that even if we don't get married, we can still be in love for a lifetime. That's enough."

Shi Wan was slightly taken aback; her heart, which had been as steady as Mount Tai, was now in turmoil.

Yi Xu's attitude was unexpected.

She originally thought that someone like him, a playboy, would at least be cool when breaking up.

After all, he used to give those women a large breakup fee when they broke up with him.

The thought of him probably spending every day glued to his phone waiting for her messages and calls is so incongruous with his playboy persona.

She couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Yi Xu's mood instantly vanished at her laughter, and she became somewhat exasperated, "You're still laughing? Damn it, Shi Wan, you're still..."

"Heartless," Shi Wan blurted out.

Yi Xu seemed to have thought of something, hesitated, and changed his words, "So what if she has no conscience? I don't like Shi Wan with a conscience. I like Shi Wan with no conscience."

"Are you confessing your feelings to me?" Shi Wan raised an eyebrow, her eyes gleaming with mockery. "Oh, you tricked me into coming here just to confess?"

"Are you trying to annoy me because I'm already frustrated enough?"

"So what do you want now?"

Do you want to make up?

Shi Wan was just thinking when Yi Xu gasped, "Hiss... You're still hesitating about this?"

"I think...we should talk things out first, so as not to cause problems later..."

"Break up again?" Yi Xu nodded. "Okay, let's talk!"

As he spoke, he walked to the sofa, sat down, patted the seat next to him, looked at her, and said, "Let's talk while we sit down."

"..."

Shi Wan frowned and glared at him. She walked over and sat on a single sofa two meters away from him, making Yi Xu laugh. "What? Sitting so far away, are you afraid I'll eat you up?!"

The last sentence was practically squeezed out through gritted teeth.

Shi Wan said, "This is the optimal distance for negotiation."

Yi Xu's slightly narrowed eyes held a hint of danger, but he remained silent.

"I still stand by my principle: I'm against marriage. I won't get married or have children." Shi Wan went straight to the point. "This is actually the main problem between us. Can you accept... or rather, can your family accept that you won't get married and won't have children?"

In a family like the Yi family, where the old man had even arranged a marriage for him, having children was inevitable.

Yi Xu chuckled lightly, "You probably still don't know me very well."

"Before I was with you, I never thought about these two things, let alone that one day I would want to start a family with someone."

His eyes were deep, and his tone was serious. "It's because that person is you. Shi Wan, what I mean is... whether we get married or not, I want to continue this relationship, and the person I'm with all the time is you. Only in this way can my idea stand."

I'm in the hospital (crying). There's one more chapter, my darlings, wait until daytime!