"You really make me sick."
Su Xiaomeng glared at him, spitting out these six words from the bottom of her heart.
And these six words were like a sharp blade, stabbing straight into Bai Shunyuan’s heart...
So this is what heartache feels like...
After calmly spitting out these words, Su Xiaomeng turned around and walked two steps, but as if she couldn’t get over it, she angrily turned back, ran up to him, gave him a hard shove, and shouted, "You arrogant, narcissistic, brain-problematic annoying person! A freak with a beautiful facade but rotten inside! Do I need to get close to you?! My husband is rich and has status, looks, character, everything! Why would I want to cozy up to you?!"
After shouting these words, Su Xiaomeng finally turned and walked away, no, ran! Her figure got smaller and smaller.
Bai Shunyuan stood there, stunned and shocked.
Not sure if he saw it wrong, when she shouted at him, when she turned around...
Her eyes were red...
He... made her cry.
Bai Shunyuan leaned powerlessly against the tree trunk, then slid down sitting on the ground, face buried in his arms...
It felt like ants were crawling and biting in his heart.
He didn’t know how long he sat there when suddenly he thought of those thousand paper cranes and stood up again.
Dragging his dejected and exhausted body, he walked in another direction.
Finally, he stood under a particularly stout sycamore tree, squatted down, and looked at the area of soil in front of his toes that was clearly disturbed.
He chuckled bitterly and then sighed deeply as his long and beautiful hands began to dig up the earth.
Originally, he wanted to bring Su Xiaomeng here and let her search like a little fool.
With her intelligence, Bai Shunyuan thought she definitely wouldn’t find it.
Then he could gleefully say it was buried.
She would probably feel ashamed and annoyed, and speechless, maybe even saying he’s really boring, but eventually... she would probably start digging with that tiny bit of anticipation she wouldn’t show.
Then... he would probably feel reluctant too, and squat next to her to help her dig.
He could mock her for being useless while making her guess what was buried beneath the tree.
He might even lead her to think there was a treasure chest buried there, but who knows... maybe she’d really believe it a little bit.
With fingernails full of dirt, Bai Shunyuan pulled out an exquisitely carved big box and sighed lightly, opening the box...
It was filled with paper cranes.
There weren’t really a thousand here, maybe just over seven hundred...
But he could lie and say there were a thousand, and he thought Su Xiaomeng would believe him.
Craziness, spending so much time, losing sleep for over a week... just to do such a foolish thing.
He picked up a paper crane, pulled out a lighter from his pants pocket, and without a hint of hesitation, lit the paper crane in his hand and tossed it into the box...
Soon, very soon... the paper cranes were all ablaze.
He was a dominator, and what he set his sights on, he wouldn’t easily let go or forget.
But with Su Xiaomeng, he really has no way.
Having a blood relationship... this is indeed a bolt from the blue.
Luckily, luckily... he wasn’t that fond of her, she wasn’t indispensable, and he hadn’t fallen too deep...
The paper cranes in the box, once lifelike and seemingly ready to fly up in the next second, turned into ashes.
Bai Shunyuan saw all the paper cranes had burned, lifted his foot to stomp out the embers, the box was made of heavy wood, in case the wooden box caught fire too.
He closed the box.
Bai Shunyuan sat on it, taking a cigarette from his pocket, placing it at the corner of his mouth but not lighting it, his sharp gaze falling on the woman walking towards him...
"Shun Yuan..."
Shanshan pursed her lips, looking pitiful...
"What are you doing here?"
Bai Shunyuan asked.
Shanshan sniffed, "Today is Christmas Eve..."
"So what?"
"I don’t want to spend Christmas Eve alone."
Bai Shunyuan tugged at the corner of his mouth, looking disdainfully at the woman in front of him.
Shanshan walked slowly up to Bai Shunyuan, looking at the box beneath him, looking at that very exquisite box.
Around the box lay scattered black ashes...
Her heart mixed with various emotions, the words Bai Shunyuan and Su Xiaomeng said, she heard them clearly...
"Shun Yuan, I know what you said before was out of anger... I know I was out of line, bothering you, I promise it will never happen again."
Bai Shunyuan looked coldly at Jiang Shanshan, only seeing her lips move slightly, her face that seemed pretty and lovable, now in his eyes...