"If I told you, would you still let me do it?" Qing Huan pulled away from her memories and tried to say quietly.

Chen Yidong pursed his lips and sat down, with a helpless emotion between his eyebrows, "Qinghuan, I said that I would protect you and not let you be hurt again, you don't have to use such a method......"

"How do you protect me? to convince your mother to stop hating me, or do you choose to be on the same side as me?" Qing Huan smiled as she said, "If you had chosen to be on the same side as me, we wouldn't have sat here for this conversation, so do you think there is a better way? It won't hurt your family or me?"

"Qinghuan, we can leave together, leave the city, or even go abroad, to live our own lives, and don't have to pay attention to these things. Chen Yidong stretched out his hand and attached it to the back of her hand, it was the temperature she was familiar with, he looked at her earnestly, the pain in his eyes could not be faked, and his voice was low and slow, "Qinghuan, I love you, the previous thing was that I was sorry for you, I was too weak and didn't protect you, but now I can, I just want to give you happiness, come with me, okay?"

Qing Huan was confused for a while, then her hand trembled, and she immediately took it back, she bit her lip and looked up at him, "Leave? This is what you want? Let me leave with you?"

Chen Yidong stopped talking, and looked at her slightly, his dark eyes suppressed pain and confusion.

"Do you know how difficult it has been for me to get to where I am today? Do you know what I have experienced during my years in the United States? Why do you want me to leave with you if you want me to leave? What did I do wrong and give up everything I worked so hard for? Just because your mother doesn't like me and thinks I am not worthy of you, should I bear the things she did to me, or give up my relatives, friends, and career just to avoid her?" Qing Huan looked at him, and even smiled gently, "Chen Yidong, this is not fair. ”

"Even if it's for me, can't it?" Chen Yidong looked up at her, with a deep sense of loss and powerlessness in his eyes.

The tears in Qing Huan's eyes seeped out all of a sudden, and she lowered her eyes to force back the tears in her eyes, but the tears came too turbulently and flowed down in strings. "Chen Yidong, I am no longer the original Gu Qinghuan, that's right, you used to be my dream, it's not that you are no longer important now, but there are many roads, the road of life, I am used to walking alone. ”

Chen Yidong's face was pale and terrifying, and he spoke with some difficulty, "Go alone?" Qinghuan, what do you mean? Are you going to give up on me and give up our relationship?"

"Yi Dong, I have already said it, I am no longer the original me, the current Gu Qinghuan has ambitions and dreams, and he can do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, and he doesn't want to give up his career and future for a relationship, don't you understand? If it weren't for Lang Mu's shares, I might not want to start over with you at all, you see it clearly, this is me now." Qing Huan looked at him deeply, looked straight into his eyes, and saw a dry blank inside, she closed her eyes, "Our past has beauty, pain, and regret, I will not forget, but it is all in the past, and I will not be nostalgic." Because I have to live the days ahead, I still have the heights I want to reach, can you understand?"

Chen Yidong's body shook violently, he closed his eyes fiercely, his fists clenched and loosened, loosened and clenched, "This is how you feel, how do you feel about everything?"

Qing Huan was silent for a moment, raised his eyes and looked at him quietly, "Chen Yidong, admit it, we are not suitable to be together at all, five years can change a lot of people and things, and it can also allow us to see ourselves more clearly, you have what you can't let go, and I also have what I can't give up, entanglement will not benefit anyone." ”

Chen Yidong suddenly smiled softly, "Yes, Qinghuan, it is indeed different, it is already different, it is completely different from five years ago." In your heart, many people and many things are already more important than me Chen Yidong, dreams are more important than me, the future is more important than me, and everything is more important than me, do you really think that I don't know about Lang Mu's incident? But I still choose to believe you, because in my heart, you are still more important than anything else...... But Gu Qinghuan, what am I in your heart? What am I? Do you still love me? Do you still love me?"

Qing Huan only felt that his words were like knives, all inserted into her heart. She was so uncomfortable that she had a thousand words to say, to justify, but she couldn't. She felt that her heartbeat was getting faster and faster, louder and louder, and gradually turned into a huge roar, she couldn't see anything clearly, and she couldn't feel anything, but she still gritted her teeth and said, and told him to herself: "I don't love anymore, Chen Yidong, I don't want to love anymore, because I'm tired." I thought I still had the strength to love, and I tried to love against all odds, but I couldn't, Yi Dong. ”

After saying that, Qing Huan only felt that he had spent all his strength. She had tears in her eyes, but a sad smile on her face. Chen Yidong didn't speak, just looked at her quietly, and his eyes were two deep and silent pools of water.

Having said this, she understood that she had to make a break today, so after a pause, she continued to speak in a hoarse voice: "We have been entangled for so many years, it is always hard, it is always too difficult, maybe we should really consider withdrawing from each other's lives and not bothering." ”

After finishing speaking, Qing Huan was about to get up and leave, but he heard his unusually cold voice ringing out: "It turns out that you think like this, it turns out that our feelings are such an existence in your heart." ”

She stood still, but her head tilted slightly to the side, holding back her tears. Grabbing the bag in his hand, he didn't look back, and walked straight to the door of the café.

After Qing Huan walked for a while, Chen Yidong's assistant hurriedly walked in from the outside and saw Chen Yidong sitting alone by the window, with an empty expression on his face and a deep helplessness and desolation in his eyes.

The assistant had never seen Chen Yidong like this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and muttered: "Mr. Chen......"

Chen Yidong raised his head and said in a low voice: "Say, how are things going." ”

"I have contacted several people according to the list you gave, and they all unanimously said that as long as your father and mother do not continue to act superfluously, this matter can be resolved, and one of the leaders said that if your father can take advantage of this opportunity to completely quit, it may be the best ending for the Chen family. The assistant sorted out the language and said.

Relay their words to Chen Yuan as they are, whether it is a blessing or a curse, it depends on their own choice. Chen Yidong spoke lightly, only feeling that he was exhausted.

"Your face doesn't look very good, do you want to go back and rest early?"

"It's okay, you go back first, I'll sit here for a while. Chen Yidong rubbed the corners of his forehead and closed his eyes.

The lights in the café were very dim, one of his elbows was propped up on the table, his palm was pressed against his forehead, his body was motionless, like a statue, the assistant was not an emotional person, but Chen Yidong at this moment clearly made people feel a loneliness deep in their flesh and bones.

The assistant sighed slightly, "Mr. Chen......"

"Go ahead, leave me alone for a while. Chen Yidong said lightly.

Although the assistant felt a little uncomfortable, he nodded and got up to leave.

The night sky was clear, and Qing Huan walked alone among the traffic and pedestrians. The street lights were red and green, neon and dim. She suddenly had a feeling that no matter whether it was five years ago or five years later, this city was so big, no matter how long she stayed, she was just like a passer-by after all, and she never had that real sense of belonging.

She looked at the highway and the tall building, but the scene that had just hurt Chen Yidong's lips and tongue came to her mind. She felt an empty space in her heart, and only his vague appearance flowed through it. But when she looks at the starry sky, she remembers the original thing. Then sorrow and unwillingness, like the water of the lake, instantly swallowed her heart.

She is powerless to get out of this predicament.

In the dead of night, Qing Huan returned to the company, there were still some people working overtime in the office area, after seeing her come in, she was unconsciously stunned, she pushed the door back to the office very quietly, turned on the light and leaned on the black seat, staring at the bright night scene outside the window, the missing place in her heart became empty again.

At this time, the video call on her mobile phone popped up, and she looked down to see that it was Andy Zhang calling from the United States.

"Wendy, you have done a good job this time, the test is very successful, and now you have determined the determination of the domestic financial opening, and the company will also make further moves," after the video was connected, Andy Zhang said in a good mood over there, "In the next step, we will register an investment company separately in China, and I will propose to the shareholders that you will be responsible for this sector." ”

The good news fell from the sky, but Qing Huan didn't feel a trace of joy and ecstasy, she had a professional smile on her face, "I know, thank you, Andy." ”

Seeing that she was so calm, Andy Zhang couldn't help but feel a little more satisfied, and after encouraging her a few words, he ended the video.

After hanging up the phone, Qing Huan sat quietly with her head up, and after a while, she raised her hand to wipe the wetness on both sides of her cheeks, and gradually her expression became stunned, and she was silent for a long time before she raised her head and sighed long.

In the apartment, Chen Yidong put the items into the box one by one, the night was already very dark, and the lights of the city seemed to have been extinguished many, many times. The rest is even brighter. I don't know how long it took, but when everything was finally packed, he looked around the house that looked like no one had ever lived in it, and took out the phone and made a call.

"Hey, Mr. Chen. The assistant's voice rang on the other end of the phone.

"I'm going to go out on a trip, and my phone will be turned off, and if you need to contact me about something important, you can send me an email to my personal mailbox. ”

The assistant was stunned: "Where are you going?

"Yes, alone. After Chen Yidong finished speaking calmly, he hung up the phone.