159: Chapter 163 Recognition (7) 159: Chapter 163 Recognition (7) Only by not caring can one forget hatred.
I haven’t been doing well these past three years.” How could he?
Ever since he parted ways with her, his mother fell ill, his finances plunged into difficulty, and Cheng Tingting abruptly ended their relationship.
He struggled at the very bottom…
Although it had been three years of hard work, he was no longer the same anxious young man.
But the hardship of those three years couldn’t easily be shrugged off.
Jian Anning’s response was just a light and delicate smile.
Some things, when laid out in the open, actually leave less room for concern.
Just like her view of Lu Jiayuan now, she thinks of him as nothing more than a male classmate with whom she had a good relationship; it was hardly significant.
“Anning…” Lu Jiayuan looked at her, his eyes filled with complexity.
He probably hadn’t expected that when they met again after three years, her attitude towards him would be , right?
“If there’s nothing else, then I’ll be going.” Jian Anning felt she had fulfilled the role of a friend reunited.
She had many tasks ahead, and that annoying Yu Zexiao—if she returned late, who knew what trouble he would cause her.
As she spoke, she also politely bowed to him, “Moreover, Mr.
Lu, I am doing very well now.
We aren’t that close, so there’s no need for pleasantries if we meet again in the future.”
As soon as Jian Anning made to leave, Lu Jiayuan suddenly became agitated, “Anning, I, I really made mistakes!
I didn’t come to you these years, not because I forgot about you, but because I was too ashamed to stand before you again!
I know I was wrong; I’m sorry to you!
After I broke up with Cheng Tingting, I went to the United States and never had another girlfriend.
These three years, I’ve always been thinking about you!”
However, according to what Lu Jiayuan said, after he broke up with Cheng Tingting because he felt guilty towards her, he also did not contact Cheng Tingting anymore?
That’s right, if Lu Jiayuan had been in touch with the Cheng family, she wouldn’t have been standing here right now; she would have been captured by the Cheng family long ago.
She frowned and after a long pause, finally asked, “You haven’t contacted Cheng Tingting again?”
Seeing her respond, Lu Jiayuan immediately moved forward with ecstatic joy, “Yes, Anning, I haven’t been in contact with her…
after that, I first returned to Huaxia Country.
My mother was diagnosed with cancer and needed chemotherapy, which cost a significant sum of money.
I brought her back to the United States, and Cheng Tingting broke up with me.
Since then, I’ve been taking care of my mother and acting in the company’s productions, and I’ve had no contact with her.
I haven’t had another girlfriend in these three years; I’ve been waiting for you!”
He stepped forward, and Jian Anning immediately retreated with caution.
Only then did he stop awkwardly and, after a moment, heard Jian Anning ask again, “Then, have you been in contact with the Cheng family?”
“The Cheng family?” Lu Jiayuan found her question quite surprising.
Even back then, after he got together with Cheng Tingting, he had no contact with the Cheng family members.
Later, when Cheng Tingting lost interest and coupled with the debt he incurred for his mother’s treatment, she broke up with him without hesitation.
Lu Jiayuan, a person filled with sensitivity, inferiority, and pride, naturally would not keep in touch with Cheng Tingting, let alone the Cheng family.