Chapter 440: Chapter 440 I Don’t Want to Listen
Su Zixi shook her head, revealing a big smile, “Of course I’m fine, I can finally eat, I’m starving.”
“Okay, I’ll have them serve the dishes now.” Li Bo looked at the forced smile on Su Zixi’s face and sighed silently.
Su Zixi nodded her head and turned towards the dining table, only to find that Ning Yichen had entered at some point and was standing behind her.
He was already drenched from the rain, dripping wet, looking somewhat embarrassed; however, his handsome demeanor had not diminished at all.
Ning Yichen’s gaze was intensely dark, and Su Zixi immediately saw her own reflection in it.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but Ning Yichen had already walked over with a smile and sat down opposite her.
“I haven’t had dinner either, do you mind?” he said with a smile.
Su Zixi hesitated for a moment, then subconsciously nodded her head.
Ning Yichen laughed, picked up a napkin, and briefly wiped the rain off his face, his voice slightly hoarse, “Come to think of it, I’ve never had a meal alone with you.”
Su Zixi seemed a bit slow to respond, no matter what Ning Yichen said, she just looked dazed, taking a while to respond.
Li Bo, seeing Ning Yichen unconsciously sit across from Su Zixi, was very anxious inside and wanted to drive him out.
But since Su Zixi did not give the word, he couldn’t overstep.
Li Bo could only sigh.
Su Zixi, looking at Ning Yichen’s smiling face, finally realized that having a meal alone with this man was inappropriate.
“Ning Yichen, you…” she hesitated before saying, “shouldn’t have come.”
Ning Yichen gazed deeply at her, his voice very soft, “Zhixi, you always say that I refuse to give up because I can’t bear being deceived, but… that’s not the case.”
Su Zixi stared blankly at him.
“I can’t give up because I fell in love with you long ago, even before I knew all the truth,” Ning Yichen said with a hoarse laugh, “so I’m not trying to make up for anything, but… even when I initially thought you were a woman of bad character, I unintentionally fell in love with you, let alone now…”
Su Zixi clenched the cutlery on the table, suddenly feeling a sharp pain in her heart!
“Stop talking, Ning Yichen… I don’t want to listen!”
“Do you know? Just this evening, Su Lianxi threatened me that I must get her pregnant, or it would affect the careers of my father and sister…” Ning Yichen laughed self-deprecatingly, “I almost really submitted, but at the last moment, I thought of you. I knew if I really did that, there would truly be no possibility between us! So I eventually gave up… Zhixi, perhaps you don’t understand, but to me, you already mean more than anything!”
Even surpassing his family’s loyalty!
Su Zixi opened her mouth, suddenly feeling how absurd the current scene was.
The scene she had been anticipating was not supposed to be . She had thought the person sitting across from her would be He Jingyao, with whom she would share the hardships and emotions of the past few days, and he would be looking at her with eyes full of gentle indulgence, encouraging her…
Not sitting here, listening to Ning Yichen’s repeated confessions…
The words filled with tender affection fell on her ears, but she could not feel a shred of emotion.
All she kept thinking was why He Jingyao had not come, when he clearly… knew she was waiting for him.