Then, she looked towards Situ Xuan, with eyes filled with apologies, with regret, but decidedly absent of the affection he desired. She simply looked down and said softly to Situ Xuan, "I’m sorry."
This was the second time Situ Xuan had heard her say "I’m sorry" today, and although the situations were different, the meaning was the same—
She was rejecting him, despite feeling "guilty," despite being able to sense his feelings, she still refused him!
At that moment, Situ Xuan suddenly experienced an extremely painful sensation! Even though he knew it wasn’t over yet, that he hadn’t lost, but seeing Jian Anning so resolute in rejecting him and choosing Yu Zexiao, he admitted he was indeed hurt!
After all, no matter how it had started, Jian Anning was truly the first woman he had taken to heart, even one he wished to be with forever.
Unfortunately, her heart, which he had almost won, was still eventually lost!
Situ Xuan let out a bitter laugh. Compared to the deep affection he had feigned earlier, at this moment, one could truly feel the tremors in his heart, "What do you have to be sorry to me about? It’s I who likes you..."
Hearing what he said and seeing the flicker of light in his normally composed gray-blue eyes, Jian Anning still felt extremely apologetic.
"I’m sorry." At this moment, all she could do was lower her head and repeat those words.
"Enough, what do you have to be sorry to him for?" Yu Zexiao was a mix of concern for his wife and disdain for Situ Xuan. Watching this scene unfold, it was as if he was the third party intruding, and Jian Anning and Situ Xuan seemed like lovers! With one apologizing and the other not accepting, where did that leave him, the legitimate boyfriend?
Although he had just boasted to Ling Yichuan with joy, saying, "She was mine from the start." However, both he and Jian Anning knew that the so-called "from the start" was nothing more than the two of them messing around drunk, which really didn’t count for much. If one were to say when the two truly got together, it started when he took advantage of her in the hot springs. And that too, happened after Situ Xuan had left and he "moved in at the opportune time."
But now, he refused to acknowledge any of this. Who made Situ Xuan arrive later than him? Who made it so that he now had Jian Anning’s heart? That time at the hot springs, it wasn’t him who tied up Situ Xuan’s legs and made him leave Shangcheng. Who asked him to run off to Yancheng? Now he comes back, playing the role of the sentimental and pitiful—pah, he wasn’t buying that act!
"Anning, our love is free, and you have nothing to be sorry for." Yu Zexiao dropped the calm demeanor from before and looked at Situ Xuan like an enemy. He spoke deliberately venomous words, "We have been together for a long time. To put it plainly, it’s a Mr. Si—Si Weilian who later intruded, insisting on courting you. If you apologize to him, should he then apologize to me?"
Jian Anning was somewhat speechless and looked up at him, "That’s not the same..."
She wanted to say that actually, at that time, we weren’t really together yet, but Yu Zexiao frowned and pinched the hand that was encircling her waist.
Instantly, the pain made Jian Anning grimace.
"What’s not the same? Aren’t we two long since in a relationship~ Yes, in Yancheng?" He deliberately emphasized the word "Yes," and after Jian Anning heard it, she was momentarily stunned before her cheeks burst into red!