Ch. 219 - To Possess, One Must First Learn to Accept Loss
"What are you doing?"
Xia Yeshuang had been hesitating whether to get in or not.
But when she saw Lu Xing mercilessly press the button, she instantly bristled and directly blocked the closing elevator doors.
Lu Xing didn't speak. He glanced at Xia Yeshuang's sunglasses and then hid a little more in the corner.
"Didn't you see I still needed to take the elevator?"
Xia Yeshuang asked again. Lu Xing still didn't speak.
Ahhhhh!
Very good, exceptionally good.
As expected.
Even a Little Goldie can't stand the cold shoulder.
Lu Xing wanted to laugh, looking at the bared-teeth Xia Yeshuang.
Before, he knew best how to soothe Xia Yeshuang's fur. Now, he knew best how to make her fur stand on end.
Be angry, be annoyed with me.
Being a pure hate warrior is better than being a pure love warrior.
"Speak."
Xia Yeshuang was really angry now. Even if she had no relationship with Lu Xing anymore, he couldn't just ignore her, right?
Feeling that Little Goldie was truly angry, Lu Xing thought for a moment and looked at her outfit today.
Mm.
Very unique.
Lu Xing leaned against the elevator wall and said, flatly and casually.
"You should have dyed your hair green."
'It would match today's outfit.'
Today's Little Goldie was going for a rebellious-girl punk style.
She had a few studs on her lips and eyebrows, and was wearing a black, studded, sleeveless jacket. Her arms were covered in a large, incomprehensible tattoo.
Lu Xing thought to himself, isn't Little Goldie quite afraid of pain? She would tear up and ask him to rub it when she bumped into a table.
Now she’s suddenly tough enough to handle needles and piercings?
Seeing that Lu Xing was finally talking to her, Xia Yeshuang glanced at the golden ends of her hair and also said in a calm tone, imitating his.
"It's none of your business. It's called fashion."
Fine.
Lu Xing didn't say any more.
That day at the museum, the senior sister had consciously left him and Xia Yeshuang space to deal with their relationship.
At that time, he had been quite harsh.
...
[Flashback Start]
At that time, Xia Yeshuang's eyes were filled with tears, yet she stubbornly refused to let them fall. She just tugged on Lu Xing's sleeve and asked.
Why couldn't it be her?
Xia Yeshuang asked, trembling, "After all this time we've spent together, haven't you been moved at all?"
Lu Xing put his hands in his pockets, having no opponent, and answered very decisively.
"We are one hundred percent not suitable."
Xia Yeshuang's reply was also very quick. She said.
"If we are one hundred percent not suitable, then I can like you with two hundred percent effort."
Lu Xing let out a sarcastic laugh and said nonchalantly.
"But I don't want to make the effort."
The tears Xia Yeshuang had been stubbornly holding back finally rolled down.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Lu Xing sighed. He knew that he had to destroy his own persona. So he said in a flat tone.
"I'm here to fish for rich men. I've hooked a richer one. Why should I stay by your side?"
"Besides, if I'm with an older rich lady, I can still get a share of her money when she dies. Who doesn't want to make more money?"
Xia Yeshuang had never encountered this kind of rhetoric before. It was too direct, too impactful, and it gave her a huge shock.
Although the words were crude, the logic was not.
But the words were too crude...
"And..."
Lu Xing's tone changed, and he said with extreme coldness.
"You're too young. You can't accept loss, you can't accept failure, you can't accept setbacks."
"Are you dependent on me, so you love me, or are you in love with me, so you're dependent on me? Can you even tell the difference?"
"Xia Yeshuang, you haven't even seen your own heart clearly. How can you have the audacity to talk about love?"
"..."
Lu Xing said a lot, completely shattering all of Xia Yeshuang's pride.
That day, Xia Yeshuang had cried very sadly. He was actually a little happy in his heart, because Xia Yeshuang was not a person without pride.
She shouldn't be entangled anymore.
The prerequisite for Lu Xing to provide after-sales service was that the ex-client was not too difficult.
And between an entangled ex-client and a peaceful life...
He would of course choose the latter.
But Lu Xing felt that his approach was quite good. At least since then, Xia Yeshuang had never come to find him again.
[Flashback End]
...
The elevator number had already reached the fourth floor. The elevator was silent.
But Lu Xing felt very relaxed.
He didn't have to deliberately make Xia Yeshuang laugh, nor did he have to deliberately provoke her.
It's good for the two of them to be like this, to become the most familiar strangers.
Almost there, almost there.
Just a few more seconds, just a few more seconds and they'd be there!
Thump—
Smack—
After a shake, the light overhead suddenly went out without any warning. The elevator was instantly plunged into darkness.
F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!
Lu Xing had never wanted to curse so much before.
So it's this trick, is it?
He knew it. The former principal and his contractor brother-in-law had been rotting in prison for four years now, and they deserved every bit of it.
With shoddy engineering like this, they had certainly earned their 'permanent' stay.
Thump—
At this moment, the elevator car began to shake. Lu Xing held onto the elevator wall tightly.
Suddenly.
A warm body rushed into his embrace. Lu Xing immediately supported her.
Thankfully, after shaking a few times, the elevator stopped moving. Only at this time did Lu Xing realize that there was something on his hand.
"What the hell is this?"
By the light of his phone...
Lu Xing glanced at the studs in his hand, then at Xia Yeshuang's pale face from fear.
As expected.
The two studs on Xia Yeshuang's eyebrow were all gone.
Great.
Lu Xing rolled his eyes. A person will really laugh when they are at the extreme of speechlessness.
"They are just stuck on?"
He had really thought that after her heartbreak, Xia Yeshuang would go for that kind of painful youth literature, start getting lip studs and tattoos, and go for a rebellious style.
So they were fake.
Truly crazy!
The phone light turned on. Xia Yeshuang quickly bounced out of Lu Xing's embrace.
And when she saw Lu Xing staring at the two studs in his hand in a daze, Xia Yeshuang's face turned red. She immediately snatched the things back.
"Give them back!"
She was so embarrassed. She simply pulled off all the studs on her face and said, feigning composure.
"Who would want to really poke a hole in their face? What if water leaks when you drink?"
Lu Xing listened, and it made sense.
He glanced at the tattoo on Xia Yeshuang's arm.
No need to ask.
It's also a temporary tattoo.
Actually, if you analyze Little Goldie's behavior carefully, it's also quite easy to understand.
It's like when you were a child and got angry with your parents. You would secretly swear and make up your mind.
'I'll only eat rice and no other dishes in the future. I'll make my parents regret it.'
'I'll become a cold learning machine that only studies and doesn't smile. I'll make my parents regret it.'
'I'll do this and that in the future. I'll make my parents regret it.'
In short, you'll forget about it in a couple of days.
With Little Goldie's brain capacity, this tantrum would pass and she would return to normal.
Time will smooth everything out.
The current Little Goldie is more unwilling than in love.
Lu Xing had not spent much time with Little Goldie. It wasn't to the point of being so life-and-death.
Thus, Little Goldie's plan to pretend to be a rebellious girl had completely failed.
In the time that followed...
Lu Xing and Xia Yeshuang respectively experienced situations like having no signal on their phones, no response when pressing the emergency button, and so on.
In short, one sentence.
After all the fuss, there was no way to call for help, but the oxygen in the elevator had been consumed quite a bit.
Lu Xing squatted and leaned against the elevator wall, completely giving up.
In order to save the phone's battery, the two of them didn't even turn on the phone's flashlight.
"Are you scared?"
In the darkness, Lu Xing suddenly asked.
Xia Yeshuang tried hard to stabilize her trembling voice.
"What's there to be afraid of? It's nothing to be afraid of. If you're scared, you can hold on to me."
Alright.
An expected answer.
If she wasn't trembling and clutching the corner of Lu Xing's shirt, then this sentence would have been much more credible.
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