Shocking! The school heartthrob who was adopted by a wealthy family is actually a heiress!

Chapter 288 Sorry

Qin Zhao: "It can be opened with a password."

Shen Yanci curled his fingers slightly, paused for half a second, and then looked at her: "Qin Zhao, who am I?"

Qin Zhao felt as if a balloon was inflating inside him: "Shen Yanci."

Shen Yanci's expression softened slightly, and he raised his hand to touch the panel: "Do I know the password?"

Qin Zhao tilted her head slightly, looked at him, and moved her lips: "I'm sorry."

Shen Yanci lowered his hand from the panel and looked at her face.

Qin Zhao lowered his eyelids, his voice slightly breathless: "I'm sorry."

Her eyes were bright and clear, and when she met his eyes, she couldn't help but tremble a few times.

One apartment per floor, and the entrance is eerily quiet.

He could hardly hear the voice in his heart.

He closed his eyes briefly, his voice low: "What are you apologizing for?"

Qin Zhao noticed his expression and pursed her lips, then lowered her head: "The password is 'I'm sorry'."

The silence felt like the air was being slowly simmered over a fire.

Just when the torment was about to become unbearable, Shen Yanci tapped the panel, his voice indifferent, with barely perceptible restraint: "What's next? It's okay, I'll forgive you."

"I'm sorry," Qin Zhao said hoarsely, "I'll say sorry again later."

Her hair brushed against his neck, stinging and messing him up.

Shen Yanci's lips were straight. He entered the password, and the door clicked open.

He remained silent, exuding a sense of detachment.

The gardenia in the living room has only green leaves left.

He asked, "Why?"

He asked, "Do you regret it?"

"I didn't like it three years ago, and now I find I don't like it that much."

Qin Zhao took his hand: "It's not that I don't like you."

"I didn't dislike you even three years ago."

The huge room was completely silent, and my heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment.

Shen Yanci: "What did you say?"

Under his penetrating gaze, Qin Zhao's fingers twitched slightly, a hint of hesitation appearing.

Shen Yanci pursed her lips: "I don't dislike it, so why do we have to break up?"

"I thought I wasn't Qin Zhao." Qin Zhao's voice was a little soft.

Shen Yanci seemed surprised by the answer and paused for a moment.

"Do you still remember Lin Wanhua?" Qin Zhao looked at him. "She said that what Mom and Dad lost was their son. I secretly did a paternity test, and the test results said that they were not related."

“I thought I had made a mistake, that I was still Jiang Ye.” She lowered her eyelashes. “The best outcome for Jiang Ye is to get into a university in China.”

Shen Yanci felt an indescribable tightness in her chest: "So, you broke up to get what you thought was the best outcome. You thought I wouldn't be on your side."

"Jiang Ye and Shen Yanci's lives should never have intersected." Her voice wasn't loud, but it was like an invisible net that had captured them.

"So, you've made the decision for me?" Shen Yanci looked at her with his dark eyes. "Do I love your status?"

Qin Zhao lowered his head: "Can Jiang Ye, who lives by scavenging garbage, really be with Shen Yanci, who can casually give people tens of thousands of yuan and has been a favored child since childhood?"

"You're not even willing to try, you won't even give me a chance to tell you." Shen Yanci lifted his eyelids, his voice carrying a cold, dull pain. "You don't like me that much, and you think my love is nothing special."

Qin Zhao's fingers curled slightly.

"How do I try? Do you want me to depend on you for a living?" How can she explain that love can give self-esteem to an insecure person, "or make you deviate from the normal path of life because of me?"

Shen Yanci felt as if someone was blowing air into his chest. His three years felt like a joke: "Should I thank you for bearing it all alone?" His eyes were filled with suppressed sadness and anger.

"No need." Qin Zhao lowered his eyelashes. "I'm doing this for myself. You don't need to feel guilty."

Shen Yanci looked at her like she'd punched a pillow: "How did you know the truth?"

“My mother told me,” Qin Zhao said, fidgeting with his fingers. “I only found out later that there was a problem with that report.”

It was Lin Shi who told her.

She both believed it and had some doubts at the time.

I'm looking at the report.

Lin Shi came over and asked her what she was looking at. She said it was a college entrance exam question: "They are clearly mother and daughter, so why does the report show that they are not related?"

Lin Shi glanced at it: "If a paternity test reveals that the child is not biologically related, the judicial authorities will automatically initiate a review process. A single test is clearly insufficient."

Furthermore, even if they are not biologically related, the probability of three consecutive STR matches in an unrelated individual is less than 0.1%. Even if they are not mother and daughter, the probability in a stranger is very low. This report is clearly problematic.

Lin Shih even mocked her at the time: "Why are you even taking the college entrance exam? You don't even know as much as I do."

She had taken medication at the time, and her mind was a little sluggish.

Lin Shi glanced at her and patted her head: "Stop studying. What's the point of doing test papers every day? Our family isn't bad off. It's much better to be a lazy, rich kid."

"When I become famous, you'll be my second son."

"..."

Shen Yanci: "When did you find out the truth?"

Qin Zhao: "I'm completely sure it happened after you left."

"The year I went to England?"

Qin Zhao hummed in agreement.

"You confirmed it back then, so why didn't you contact me?" Shen Yanci pursed his lips, his voice almost squeezed out from his throat, "Or do you have some other reason?"

The veins in his arms were bulging, as if they were about to burst through his skin.

Qin Zhao looked at him, unable to continue speaking: "No."

Shen Yanci didn't know whether to feel fortunate or ironic, and a little water welled up in her eyes.

He chuckled softly: "So you still don't like it."

"I like it." Qin Zhao lowered her head, but she later realized that liking someone can hurt.

"Is it that you like me to say those things, to continue hurting me even when I say it will hurt me, or to not contact me for two years?" Shen Yanci looked at her. "Is this what you mean by 'liking'?"

"I'm sorry." Qin Zhao's eyes stung, and he lowered his eyelashes. "It was my own arrogance."

She was silent for a moment, then said in a very soft voice, "I really don't know what to do."

Shen Yanci felt incredibly choked up. He exhaled a breath of stale air and stood up.

"Shen Yanci," Qin Zhao said, fidgeting with his cuff, "can we still become who we are?"

Shen Yanci's pupils were dark: "Qin Zhao, what we mean is you and me, not that you get to decide everything. Liking someone doesn't mean I'm stupidly waiting for you to tell me whether you want to continue. I'm not easy to coax, and I won't let you dump me a second time."

The door is closed.

She was left alone in the room.

Shen Yanci went outside for a while to get some fresh air, and subconsciously reached for a cigarette, but couldn't find one.

He slammed his fist on the steering wheel in frustration.

She says she likes him, but she won't even pull him along.

Qin Zhao's exam week is coming up, and the school requires academic transcripts for her application, so she needs to make up for her credits as soon as possible.

After finishing her exam, she went to Lin Shi's apartment.

　They'll definitely be together within two chapters! Great card!
　　(End of this chapter)