Chapter 216: What Sin Did I Commit?
Jiang Li’s attitude towards Ying Xi was purely compensatory, usually accompanied by a sense of guilt, which made it even harder to involve emotions.
Especially since between Jiang Li and Ying Heng there was a divide of life and death, the affection severed by death was fragile, yet, if said to be resilient, it was incomparably so.
Indeed, because of Ying Heng, Jiang Li’s attitude towards Ying Xi was purely compensatory, so much so that he would fulfill any request without a hint of displeasure. Ying Xi didn’t know about the relationship between Ying Heng and Jiang Li, nor the true cause of Ying Heng’s death, which the Jiang Family had covered up well with money.
When they first met, Ying Xi actually didn’t have much fondness for someone as overtly familiar as Jiang Li, and even found him somewhat annoying.
Yet Ying Xi had never encountered someone so unconditionally temperate. No matter what he said, how weighty, impatient, or unpleasant his words, Jiang Li never got angry. He always smiled, even when harsh words saddened him, he never showed anger.
After all, Ying Xi was not the kind of villain who bullied the weak, so the more he saw Jiang Li like this, the less he could bring himself to be harsh. He rarely spoke harshly, at most displaying a bit of impatience.
Later, even unknowingly, he began to accommodate Jiang Li. And later still, he even shielded him from sulfuric acid.
Something had unconsciously changed its flavor long ago. Even if a bit slow, Ying Xi had started noticing the feelings.
Only Jiang Li remained oblivious, like a clueless fool. Perhaps he wasn’t slow-witted, but rather, it seemed as if, after Ying Heng’s death, his emotional capacity had been extracted.
It wasn’t that no one knew about Second Young Master Jiang’s sexual orientation, nor that there weren’t people expressing their affection towards him.
After all, Jiang Li was young, wealthy, and attractive, with a good personality, and he was openly gay, which honestly reduced a lot of complications, earning him the title of an ideal heartthrob.