"You haven’t even competed with me, yet I’ve lost to myself, are you happy now?"
Lin Xinlan gently lowered her eyes, concealing the desolation within them.
Du Ruoxin’s appearance, she thought, was very pitiable.
Now that things had come to this, she didn’t know how to respond to her, maybe it didn’t matter what she said anymore.
"But there is still something in which you are inferior to me," Du Ruoxin said with a smile, her gaze sweeping over Rong Shaoze tenderly.
"You don’t love him like I do. You have no idea how much I love him. For him, I’m willing to be crazy, to demean myself. Can you do that?"
Rong Shaoze’s brow furrowed slightly, and Xinlan’s eyelids twitched.
"Cut the crap, Du Ruoxin, the police are right outside, are you going to turn yourself in, or shall I let them come in and arrest you?" the man demanded coldly.
She suddenly picked up the knife from the ground, held it to her own throat, and stepped back sharply, keeping her distance from them.
"Let me finish my words. After I’m done, I’ll take care of myself!"
Lin Xinlan’s eyes snapped up to meet Ruoxin’s, landing squarely in her eyes full of despair.
She froze, realizing Du Ruoxin was truly intent on suicide...
Du Ruoxin continued to address Xinlan: "Do you know, when I saw him at the age of five, I fell in love with him. I’ve loved him for twenty years, he is my everything. Without him, there is no meaning for me in this world."
She paused, then laughed mockingly, feeling that talking about this at such a time was meaningless.
"Lin Xinlan, do you understand Shaoze?"
Without waiting for her to answer, Ruoxin said with a smile, "Actually, he’s a very simple person. He seems heartless and cruel, but he always has his reasons for the things he does. He doesn’t live as unrestrainedly as he appears. In the silence of the night, he feels lonely too. Sometimes, you can see confusion and sorrow in his eyes. Shaoze is lonely... Therefore, I vowed to enter his heart, to accompany him, so he would no longer be lonely and sad. But now, I have no chance... I hope that you can enter his heart and accompany him forever."
As she said this, Du Ruoxin couldn’t help but shed tears.
She didn’t look at Rong Shaoze, knowing that he was angry, furious.
Because what she said to Lin Xinlan was bound to make Xinlan feel out of place.
"And..." She said tearfully, looking sadly at Rong Shaoze, "Shaoze has a stomach condition... In the future, you have to remind him to eat on time. Even if he can bear it, it will cause problems in the long run..."
Rong Shaoze’s eyes flickered, his gaze complex as he looked at her.
Nobody except himself knew about his stomach condition. How did she know about it?!
Lin Xinlan was also shocked.
All at once, she realized that in front of Du Ruoxin, her love for Shaoze seemed not worth mentioning...
Understanding Rong Shaoze’s perplexity, Ruoxin gave a wry smile, "Shaoze, if you knew that someone had devoted all their time in life to one thing, that person would undoubtedly know that thing the best. Just like me, I’ve spent all my life’s attention on you, blind to anything but you. Even if you hid your stomach condition well, it couldn’t escape my eyes..."
"Perhaps the person who understands you best isn’t you, but me. In fact, from the moment I woke up and saw you, I knew you no longer belonged to me. It’s just that I was too crazy, too obsessed, and I couldn’t let go of you, which is why things have gotten to this point..."