Chapter 22: Count every step of loving me
A one-person engagement ceremony, no matter how luxurious and extravagant, seems to outsiders to be just a joke.
It's just that this joke is not made by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not allowed to laugh on their faces.
After the ceremony, everything seemed to rain without a trace, calm as water.
"Yes, are you still in the apartment?"
"Yes, Mommy."
"Chenchen still hasn't come back?"
"Hmm."
"Alas~ If you're scared alone, come home."
"Okay."
Hanging up the phone, Xu Anran leaned on the balcony, his eyes looking into the distance.
One day in heaven, one year on earth. She is a mortal who guards the world, but she counts the time of the immortals.
Half a month has passed between him and her, and there has been no news so far.
Living the same life every day, the protection given to her by the Yang family, she was not attacked by any words or public opinion, but her life could not escape the deterioration.
Walking on the familiar campus, but those former classmates and friends have become strangers overnight.
If it weren't for Tang Youmi and Lin Muyang, she might really feel that she was just a transparent person.
Power will seal people's mouths and make people avoid them, but it can never seal the devil in people's hearts, the eyes of contempt, and the bad roots of visitors.
In fact, she understood why everyone was avoiding her and avoiding her. Not to mention the pressure of the Yang family, I am afraid that she is engaged to her mentor, and it is difficult for people to understand in a traditional country like China.
So how can she expect others to understand her love, to understand a madman who was abandoned at the engagement scene but insisted on choosing engagement!
The weather is getting colder and colder, Xu Anran has already put on a sweater, with heavy dark circles and bags under his eyes hanging from the corners of his eyes, and the whole person looks very depressed.
Wrap your arms around yourself and walk through crowded streets, constantly avoiding pedestrians.
It wasn't until I walked to the door of a Starbucks that I let go of my arm, pushed the door and walked in.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a man sitting by the window inside, with a pair of blue eyes staring in the direction of the door.
Walking over quickly, Xu Anran sat down opposite the person.
"Yes, you look so haggard!"
"I've been having some insomnia lately."
"I don't recommend that you take a lot of sleeping pills."
"I know."
"What do you drink?"
"No need."
"A week ago, I dropped the complaint." After taking a sip of coffee, Ken put down the quilt, put it on the table with both hands crossed, and looked at Xu Anran with a serious face.
"The lawsuit was withdrawn in a week......" Xu Anran didn't answer, just raised his head and repeated Ken's words with a smile.
"Why would you appeal a case that has been closed for so long, and then choose to give up?" Looking at Xu Anran, who was smiling so distractedly, Ken looked puzzled.
"I just want to know, which is more important, the case or me. The result is obvious, isn't it? β
"However, since you told me about you and him, I have thought about it carefully, after all, the case is related to your father, maybe two years ago, he left you because of this."
"No, you don't know him too well, he was two years ago, a case, can't make up a reason for him to leave me." Finally stopped laughing, and the whole face returned to coldness.
"You suspect he had a deal with your father?"
"Who knows~"
"However, didn't you care about the reason why Yang Qichen left you two years ago? Why is it ...... now? And so persistent. β
"Huh, don't care? I couldn't have cared, but I did want to let go and live again. But Lin Zhenrong appeared next to him, do you know? I can't hold any sand, but I'm afraid he'll confess to me. It was as if I had walked into a labyrinth, and I was desperately trying to get out, only to find that I was just caught in another whirlpool. β
"Well, have you ever thought that maybe, you're just sick."
"What? Sick, hehehehe......" hooked his lips and looked at the person opposite, as if he had heard a joke, Xu Anran laughed low again~
"I was really sick, and I was very sick, so I had to take the time to open up all the mysteries in my mind on my own. Any idea why I did this all of a sudden? That's because at the engagement ceremony, when I saw the ring, I suddenly understood something. Yang Qichen, he actually loves me very much! Very loving, very loving, probably no less than my love for him, so we were all paralyzed by this love, blindfolded, I still thought he was the same him two years ago, he thought I was the original me, but we are not anymore, you say ridiculous, he does love me, but he counts every step of loving me. Ken, if it were you, wouldn't you be afraid? β
Ken was already surprised when she heard it, she was right, this kind of love, for any other person, would be afraid.
Although the words are extreme, I really don't know how to refute them.
It's just two people who love each other tormenting each other.
"Well, no matter what, I still want to tell you that even if you are not confident in him, I still hope that you can be confident in your feelings."
"I need you to do something for me."
"What?"
"This, help me hand it over to a more influential media, although my engagement with Yang Qichen was suppressed by the Yang family and there is no news media report, but the people who come to participate in the engagement are all people with heads and faces, I believe that if this is released, many people will be interested."
"What is this?" Ken looked at the USB drive that Xu Anran put in his hand, and his doubts gradually turned into uneasiness.
"I found it in Yang Qichen's study, and I pushed Lin Zhenrong into the water."
"What? No, yes, are you kidding me? Why are you pushing Lin Zhenrong? Even if you push it, isn't Yang Qichen hiding it just to protect you? You want me to expose this to the media now, it will hurt you, aren't you afraid of jail? β
"I'm not afraid."
"I think you need to calm down now, anyway, I'm not going to help you."
Looking at the indifferent person in front of him, it was incredible and his heart was even more angry. He really couldn't accept her crazy behavior.
"It's the same whether you help me or not, I have to do it anyway, although now that the Yang family has tied up the media so tightly, it may be a little troublesome if I want to report it with my strength."
"Why? But what are you doing this for?!! β
"I just think that the people around Yang Qichen are too dazzling."
"What if he can't protect you?"
"He will, I believe him. If he can solve it with the law, he will definitely not miss it. β
"Okay, I can promise to help you, but I have one request."
"What requirements?"
"I want Yang Qichen to become a full-time lawyer in my hotel and handle all the hotel cases for me."
After speaking, Xu Anran looked at him and was silent. After a long time, Xu Anran retracted his gaze and showed a very decent smile.
"Ken, I'm so grateful that you once saved me in the alley and helped me so much in the United States, but I think we probably don't need to be friends anymore." After saying that, he got up and walked in the direction of the door, and when he reached the door, he pushed the door open almost without the slightest hesitation and walked out of the cafΓ© directly.
"Well, what do you mean?" Ken, who came up, grabbed Xu Anran, who was walking forward.
"I'm not going to make him a tool that anyone can use. I'm sorry, but even if you saved my life, I can't. After saying it expressionlessly, Xu Anran directly brushed Ken's hand away.
βSorry.β
βit's nothing.β
"I, I'm willing to help you." Looking at Xu Anran's back, which had already turned around, Ken shouted with some annoyance.
Xu Anran didn't stop, let alone look back, he knew that she would not accept his help anymore.