No matter how bitter he feels inside, Lu Qilin remains gentlemanly and refined: "Yanxi, I hope you reconsider. We can talk about this later, let me take you home first."
Tang Yanqi’s gaze, clear as a diamond, looks at Lu Qilin. Since she doesn’t love him, she shouldn’t give him false hope. Losing this friend would be painful for Tang Yanqi, but hurting this friend would go against her principles.
"Senior, I’m married."
With a clang, the car key Lu Qilin picked up suddenly falls on the piano lacquered table, the harsh sound attracting some people’s attention, the elegant and gentle expression on Lu Qilin’s face completely dissipates, shattered as he looks at Tang Yanqi.
How could she be married?
Knowing how Tang Yanqi is treated by the Tang Family, anger burns instantly in Lu Qilin’s eyes. Ignoring his image, he grabs Tang Yanqi’s shoulders: "Yanxi, is it because of the Tang Family? Did they force you into a marriage to stabilize their position?"
Coming from a family of judges, Lu Qilin has a solid background. Although they don’t engage in business, he understands the business world very well. He doesn’t believe Tang Yanqi is someone who would marry casually; there can only be one reason she would marry—for the Tang Family.
Being abroad for a long time, Lu Qilin hasn’t paid much attention to domestic news, and by the time he returned, the news about the Shengshi Group and Tang Family marriage alliance had already faded, so he was even less aware. For original chapters go to novel·fiɾe·net
Tang Yanqi nods slightly. She doesn’t hide anything from Lu Qilin; there’s no need to conceal anything in front of a man who knows her true identity.
She married the man she likes, but the reason isn’t simple. If it were up to her, Tang Yanqi wouldn’t have married Sheng Jianan. She wants to see the man she loves happy and joyful, but Sheng Jianan doesn’t need someone who loves him; he needs someone he loves. So ultimately, it’s because of the Tang Family, so she married Sheng Jianan.
Lu Qilin falls back into his seat. The bitterness of his rejection is nothing compared to how he feels now. His heart aches for the girl in front of him—this girl he’s constantly thinking about.
After a long while, Lu Qilin swallows and speaks: "So, you say you don’t have the right to be with him because you’re married?"
Tang Yanqi neither nods nor shakes her head; it’s a difficult question for her to answer.
She doesn’t have the right to be with Sheng Jianan, yet she is indeed with Sheng Jianan now.
On the other side, separated by crystal curtains and a high-back chair, Sheng Jianan’s shock is no less than Lu Qilin’s.
He followed her as if driven by a ghost, from the restaurant to K University and from K University to here.
Upon hearing Lu Qilin’s confession, Sheng Jianan feels unprecedented anger. Where did this man come from? How dare he confess to his woman?
Tang Yanqi’s rejection cheers Sheng Jianan significantly; thankfully, that woman’s mind hasn’t gone haywire.
But upon learning that Tang Yanqi loves someone, Sheng Jianan’s mood, which had just improved, descends back into the depths.
He never thought that Tang Yanqi actually had someone in her heart. Sheng Jianan’s first instinct was whether this person was him. But then he heard her say she doesn’t have the right to be with him.
Sheng Jianan’s thin lips pressed tightly together in a line. In fact, he has known Tang Yanqi since childhood, but after many years of no contact, Sheng Jianan truly has no deep impression of her. Yet he vaguely remembers that when they were young, wasn’t she always around him?