"This is the gap between people. When you and Cheng Ying were showing off your love under the spotlight, I was being trampled in the mire. From that day on, I swore that even if it meant pulling out my tendons and scraping off my bones, I would completely forget about you."
After four years, that memory still haunted Lin Yixun like a nightmare that she always wanted to escape from. Now, she suddenly found that saying all this out loud wasn’t as difficult as she had imagined, although it was still very painful.
Leng Yixiu stared at her intently, his thin lips moved slightly, "Lin Yixun, back then I did that only to make you leave A City, I didn’t know it would result in this. If..."
"Ha... You just wanted to force me to leave A City? Living in the same city as me was that unbearable for you? Does my existence make you that uncomfortable? Or did you think that if I stayed in A City, I would ruin you and Cheng Ying? Leng Yixiu, you overestimate me!"
Leng Yixiu was momentarily speechless. Back then, he indeed wanted to force Lin Yixun to leave A City, but it wasn’t because he was afraid she would ruin him and Cheng Ying. It was because of... a reason he couldn’t even face himself.
At that time, he thought that as long as he didn’t see Lin Yixun again, everything would fade away. Time and space would eventually erase some traces, no matter how deep those traces were.
Lin Yixun no longer had the heart to revisit the past with Leng Yixiu or to untangle the causes and effects of things. Right now, she had another issue to deal with.
She collected her emotions and spoke lightly, "Mr. Leng, if you really have a conscience and feel some guilt, then revoke the ’blacklist order’ against me and let me find a job on my own merits."
The man gave her a deep look, then nodded, "Alright!"
Lin Yixun had expected her request to be rejected by the man, but she did not expect Leng Yixiu to agree so readily, which left her somewhat "overwhelmed by an unexpected favor." After all, she had never experienced such treatment before.
Having achieved her goal, Lin Yixun got up from her seat and walked towards the exit of the restaurant.
Reaching the restaurant’s entrance, she suddenly stopped and looked back at Leng Yixiu, who was still seated, and asked, "You’re not going to play any tricks, are you?"
The man’s eyes flashed with hurt, "In your heart, I am this kind of person?"
Lin Yixun replied coolly, "In my heart, you have always been this kind of person."
To achieve goals by any means, like to stab others in the back, and never moved by others’ pleas, she naturally had to guard against such a person.
Lin Yixun walked upstairs in her slippers, went to the bathroom and then went straight to bed. The conversation with Leng Yixiu had not been pleasant, and she thought that tonight Leng Yixiu would not come into the master bedroom. After all, no man would enjoy making a fool of himself.
However, there are some people in this world who never act according to common sense, like Leng Yixiu.
Suddenly, the mattress beside her sank, causing Lin Yixun’s heart to tighten. She kept her eyes tightly shut, pretending to sleep, but Leng Yixiu, being who he was, saw through her act at a glance but did not expose her.
Lin Yixun suddenly felt the quilt lift, a gust of cold wind rushed in, followed by the familiar yet strange smell of a man. Her body instinctively stiffened and she turned over, trying to move away from him, but then his long arm suddenly wrapped around her waist tightly, pulling her body into his embrace.