Chapter 218 - 222: Fiancée (5)
The reason he had always kept his feelings for Jian Anning separate from love was that he had once experienced the sensation of his heart skipping a beat.
The girl in the Golden Hall who could play the piano, that fleeting glance that took his breath away. The girl whose gentle melody had pulled him from his father’s coercion and led him onto the path of music.
Yu Xingxing was someone with a strong sense of cleanliness, and that included cleanliness of the spirit.
He had always believed that platonic love was noble, pure, and worth fluttering one’s heart over for a lifetime. And his feelings for Jian Anning? They were nothing but a man’s instinctive attraction to a woman, a physiological need, a release akin to eating and sleeping, "food-se-xual" in nature.
Did he feel jealous over Jian Anning? Of course, he did. Whether it was Lu Jiayuan or any other man, if they showed an inclination to get close to Jian Anning, he would be irked and displeased. If Jian Anning was overly intimate with other men, he would be unhappy. But that wasn’t the same as love, right? It was like the possessiveness of a male lion king over his territory and mate, not the kind of mutual understanding and soul-to-soul connection of soulmates.
There was no such mutual understanding or telepathy between them; she didn’t even understand music or know how to play the piano. She just managed him all day long, forbidding him from doing this, from slacking off, and sometimes they would even have a big fight. Was this kind of relationship considered love?
Yu Zexiao shot Leng Yunlin a sideways glance, "Aren’t you the same? You clearly know what love is supposed to be like, yet you’ve been with so many women. Don’t tell me you’ve actually developed feelings for one of them!"