Chapter 475 - 456: Sitting Beside You-III
Reasons for people to cry are different to each of them individually and those reasons often appear every once a year. It was Li Lian’s very first time hear someone had not cried for years, and it surprised her. She recalled her earlier image of the man which she illustrates in her mind and somewhere she had thought of him to appear as a person who attracts people but doesn’t get acquainted with them and for once, she wondered if her guess might have been right on the mark.
"Honestly yes," Li Lian answered his question.
"What about you?" The man then asked as if he knew she still hadn’t been able to find her reply to his earlier remark. "Do you often feel lonely?"
"No... I was locked here," she explained.
"I know, but also at the same time, I feel like you don’t seem to mind the darkness. I thought maybe you also find the company of being alone as enjoyable?"
Li Lian hadn’t thought about it and now that she put her mind into it maybe his words were true. She was locked inside the dark emergency staircase and supposed to be in a panic now and yet she was fine with it. Maybe like what this man had said, she actually wanted to find a place where she could be alone?
"Was I too intrusive?" came his next question and Li Lian quickly shake her head but the room was dark therefore she spoke,
"No, of course not. I was thinking that maybe your words were indeed true. Maybe I was actually trying to find a silent place. I don’t like the darkness, but I find the silence pleasant."
"Maybe it would be better if I am not here?" asked the man who twisted his lips to a grin but Li Lian couldn’t see how he found himself full of smile which was strange as he was someone who doesn’t often laugh or smile.