Chapter 393 - 392 Let’s Get Divorced (24)
"I also once thought that we were in mutual love."
Shi Che’s hands slowly stripped away Shen Qian’s grasp, and he stumbled backward uncontrollably, taking two steps before finally leaning against the wall to steady himself.
"But all along, it was just me deluding myself."
Hearing Shi Che’s words, Shen Qian was even more puzzled. He stared at Shi Che, his handsome face extremely serious, "Che, speak clearly—what exactly happened between you and Xiaxia?"
What exactly happened...it was all because he opened Pandora’s box.
Shi Che’s body slid down the wall weakly until he was sitting on the floor, his dark pupils unfocused, gazing emptily at a spot as he spoke with a dry voice, word by word.
He didn’t say much, just a few sparse sentences, but it was enough to make Shen Qian fall utterly silent, unable to utter another word.
He had always thought the pair, who seemed sweetly in love, were actually distant and disunited. He never imagined that the proud Shi Che would endure his deeply loved woman, staying by his side with an ulterior motive for three years.
"Che..." Shen Qian felt as if something was stuck in his throat, unable to speak.
"In fact, I have resigned myself to it, I really have. Even if Ling Chuxia never loves me for her whole life, I don’t care anymore. But why did she give me hope? Why did she cry for me? Why did she take me back to school? Why was she so anxious about the necklace I gave her? Why...did she smile at me? Why...give me hope, then drive me to despair?"
Shi Che’s hands couldn’t help but cover his face, yet tears still seeped through the gaps in his fingers, drop by drop.
A man’s tears are precious, better to bleed than to weep—the saying goes, especially in the case of Shi Che, who, since childhood, no matter how serious the situation, had always been calm and composed. A man like that was now in tears.
Shen Qian stood frozen, unable to move.