His finger slid across the screen to answer the call, "Hello, Munni."
"Senior, I’m sorry, my phone died and shut off automatically just now. What did you say about someone earlier?"
Yuan Chengmo paused slightly, having thought earlier that maybe Qin Muni’s phone had run out of battery, but he didn’t expect he’d be so unlucky. He finally gathered the courage to confess only to encounter such a coincidence.
However, what he wasn’t sure about was how much of what he had said earlier she actually heard.
Therefore, he didn’t directly answer Qin Muni, instead asking cautiously, "What did you hear me say just now?" Follow current novels on N0velFire.ɴet
"I only heard you say ’there was someone just now’, and then there was no sound. I checked my phone to find it had automatically shut off. So, what happened with that person earlier?"
Her answer made Yuan Chengmo silently breathe a sigh of relief. He felt inexplicably grateful that she hadn’t heard his confession, yet also somewhat disappointed.
He realized that in just a few minutes, all the courage he had mustered vanished. A voice inside him told him to keep quietly admiring Qin Muni and not to disturb her.
This time, he still didn’t answer Qin Muni’s question but instead changed the topic, "Were you busy just now?"
"No." Qin Muni shook her head. She sat cross-legged on the bed, head lowered, and after a moment, she spoke again, "Yisen came to see me."
"I seem to still like Yisen a lot."
Whether she still liked Xu Yisen, she had asked herself countless times over the past three days, also giving herself countless reasons not to like him.
However, each reason was ultimately denied by a voice emerging from the depth of her heart.
She still liked Xu Yisen, the bad man she had been chasing for over ten years.
Upon hearing her reveal her heartfelt words, Yuan Chengmo clenched his left hand into a fist on his leg, using it to control his emotions.
He actually noticed that Qin Muni still liked Xu Yisen long ago when he had just returned.
He just kept reminding himself that Munni was already married to Xu Yisen. She might still have some feelings for him, but those feelings would soon fade away with time.
But he didn’t expect... reality to give him such a harsh blow.
The bright lights in the parking lot shone through the windshield, illuminating the pain on Yuan Chengmo’s face as he sat in the driver’s seat.
After a while, he asked in a hoarse voice, "Can’t forget him?"
"It’s like I can’t forget him."
"Do you still want to be with him?"
"Yu Chen advised me that if I still like him, I should give him another chance. I think I’ll give him another chance."
Yuan Chengmo fell into silence, a sense of powerlessness flowing from his heart then spreading to every cell of his body.
He leaned back tiredly on his seat, his empty gaze staring at some point in front of him, then replied faintly, "Is that so? That’s good."
"Senior, are you okay?"
"Oh, I’m okay, I’m just a bit tired."
"Then, Senior, rest up early. I won’t disturb you anymore."
"Hmm, goodnight Munni."
After the call ended, Yuan Chengmo held the phone tightly in his hand, his eyelids drooping tiredly.
Someone once said on Zhihu...
The confusion and distress brought by unrequited love cannot be resolved through words.
I thought that by reaching out, there would definitely be another hand to hold mine.
Yet, in reality, you rush toward the beloved figure with all your might on the main highway, only to crash headlong into a glass door built by him.