After work, Xu Yisen had dinner with Liang Ziyuan, then went to a bar for a few drinks. By the time he got home, it was already midnight.
He unexpectedly saw a curled-up figure at the door.
Upon hearing footsteps, Xia Yuge slowly raised her head, her expression dazed as she looked at Xu Yisen who was striding over.
"Yisen." She softly called Xu Yisen’s name, attempting to stand up, but having squatted for too long, her legs were numb. Losing her balance, she suddenly fell towards Xu Yisen.
Xu Yisen had to admit, at that moment, he thought about stepping aside, but considering that if Xia Yuge truly fell and got hurt, it would be more troublesome, he reached out to support the falling Xia Yuge.
After stabilizing her, Xu Yisen immediately withdrew his hand, instinctively stepping back to maintain a distance from her.
His aloofness made Xia Yuge smile bitterly, "Yisen, why do you keep your distance and ignore my feelings?"
"Yu Ge, we are just friends. If you continue to overstep, I think we won’t even need to be friends."
His words of rejection were direct and crisp, offering no face or lingering sentiments to Xia Yuge.
Xu Yisen’s unwavering refusal, after letting her wait for several hours and exhausting all her patience, nearly drove Xia Yuge to collapse. She lost control and questioned, "Yisen, what is so good about Qin Muni that makes you reject me for her?"
"Munni... everything about her is good, the only bad thing is her unwillingness to accept me."
To Xia Yuge, his display of affection was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire, causing the pent-up anger in her heart to erupt directly because of his words.
"She has loved you for eleven years, so what? I have also silently loved you for ten years! Ten years, Yisen!
You clearly liked me, not Munni, back then. If it weren’t for Auntie’s opposition, we would have long been together!
What’s happening now, why are you treating me ?"
Her hysterical cry made Xu Yisen frown. Recently, her frequent loss of control in front of Xu Yisen made him increasingly disgusted.
The image of that innocent and simple girl in his memory seemed to be getting more and more blurred.
Time is a terrible thing, easily making a person change.
Standing before him, Xia Yuge made Xu Yisen feel more and more unfamiliar.
"Yu Ge, this is the first and last warning I’m giving you. Gather yourself before facing me, don’t let me hear such foolish words again, and don’t let me see you so out of control. Take care of yourself."
His clear voice carried obvious displeasure and impatience. After finishing his words, he didn’t even bother to glance at Xia Yuge, bypassing her, entering the house after inputting a series of codes on the lock.
Standing in place, Xia Yuge’s smile was bitter and embarrassed.
The tears she had held back for so long finally got released, continuously streaming down her face.
Xia Yuge regretted... She shouldn’t have blessed Xu Yisen and Qin Muni’s marriage just for fame and fortune back then.
She should have held onto this man tightly; otherwise, she wouldn’t have ended up in such an embarrassing situation today.
Qin Muni curled up in bed, reading for a while. Just as she was about to turn off the light to sleep, her phone buzzed on the bedside table.
She picked up the phone, seeing an unread message flashing on the screen, but the sender’s number couldn’t be displayed.
Staring at the phone screen, she felt an inexplicable sense of foreboding.
After struggling for two seconds, she slid the screen open and read the message.