Chapter 212: Trapped by Love
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"Actually...... You don't need to be so grateful to me at all......" Finally, after seeing Lu Yifan's shock, a bitter smile sprouted at the corner of Tang Ruoxi's mouth, his eyes looked intently at the flickering candle flame on the table, and said in a deep tone, "Because I don't deserve such a big favor from you at all......"
"You and the Tang Sect have helped a few of us again and again, so that a few of us freshmen who have just arrived in the academy can have a foothold, how can this not be regarded as a great kindness?" Lu Yifan shook his head and smiled, "If it weren't for your Tang Ruoxi's help, we would ......"
"No!" Before Lu Yifan finished speaking, Tang Ruoxi suddenly snorted, and suddenly interrupted Lu Yifan's words, and Tang Ruoxi's sudden mood swing also made Lu Yifan secretly taken aback, at this moment, I saw Tang Ruoxi's fists clenched, and the strength of the hatred could not have already firmly clasped her nails into her white palm, and Tang Ruoxi frowned and stared straight at the candle flame in front of her, and her eyes were flickering quickly and incomprehensibly, and although she interrupted Lu Yifan's words, what she said next seemed to be talking to herself, "It's not as simple as you think...... If I later helped you because I had regarded you as a true friend, then at the beginning, when I did not know you, all my help to you was not as simple as you think, not out of justice and generosity, but only ...... It's just for one person......"
"Hiss!" As soon as Tang Ruoxi's words came out, Lu Yifan couldn't help but take a deep breath, obviously the meaning of Tang Ruoxi's words just now was completely unexpected by Lu Yifan, and he never expected that Tang Ruoxi would reveal this secret that should have been hidden tonight, "Ruoxi, what do you mean...... What you've done for me before isn't because of me, it's because of another person?"
"Not bad!" Tang Ruoxi's eyes were filled with tears at some point, the tears at this moment were different from the touching just now, but a touch of tears mixed with extremely complex love and hate, similar tears Lu Yifan had seen in the eyes of Han Linger and Mu Dan, so he knew in his heart that these two lines of clear tears were the true feelings of a woman when she was trapped in love, because only an extremely sensitive thing like feelings could trigger such teardrops as a woman, and Lu Yifan also faintly felt in his heart that the topic of their conversation tonight was about to go deep into his heart。
"And this person ......" Lu Yifan couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva lightly halfway through his words, and at the same time he was also speculating in his heart whether it was good for him to ask so directly into people's hearts, but his sincere curiosity finally overcame his hesitation, and after hesitating for a moment, he still asked the sentence he wanted to ask the most, "Is it the person who makes you trapped in love so that you are depressed now?"
As soon as Lu Yifan's words came out, Tang Ruoxi's originally confused eyes suddenly froze, and then she turned her head sharply as if she had just woken up from a big dream, and at the same time, two rays of light also shot out from her eyes, staring at Lu Yifan's dark eyes, there seemed to be a look of scrutiny in her eyes, but there was also a sense of doubt.
"Ruoxi, no matter what reason you helped me, the fact is that you and Tang Men have really sacrificed a lot for us!" Facing Tang Ruoxi's scrutiny, Lu Yifan was neither humble nor arrogant, and still said sincerely with a smile, "So my gratitude to you has not diminished in the slightest." As for my question just now, if you don't want to answer it, you don't have to answer me, I understand. ”
"Yifan, do you think I'm stupid, naïve, ridiculous?" Tang Ruoxi asked with a sneer.
"No!" Lu Yifan shook his head and said softly, "It's not you who is childish and ridiculous, but it should be me, I used to be self-righteous and thought that the person you liked in your heart would be me, but now I think that I am really naïve, haha......" In order to ease the embarrassing atmosphere, Lu Yifan had to throw the topic of ridicule to himself, and laughed to himself.
Hearing Lu Yifan's words, Tang Ruoxi laughed along, and when the smile gradually put away, Tang Ruoxi whispered softly with tenderness in his eyes: "If it weren't for him, I might really like you......"
"Huh!" Regarding Tang Ruoxi's banter, Lu Yifan didn't know how to answer, so he could only reply with an ugly smile awkwardly.
"Actually, you had that illusion before, it's not that you are self-righteous!" Tang Ruoxi changed his words, and then said, "Not only should you not thank me, but on the contrary, I should say sorry to you!"
"Ruoxi, what do you mean by this?" Lu Yifan's heart seemed to suddenly understand something, but he never figured it out.
"Because before, I did deliberately show you that I admired you......" Tang Ruoxi seemed to be completely open tonight, and he was blunt about Lu Yifan, "And the reason why I want to pretend to be admiring you is actually just to help you more reasonably, or to say it's you!"
"What?" Lu Yifan was completely shocked at this moment, at this moment, in his heart, he had gradually evolved from the simplest gratitude, and gradually evolved into a huge trap as if he had always been calculated by someone, this feeling of being kept in the dark made him feel very uncomfortable, "How can this be? But why do you do this?"
"Because someone once told me that if a woman wants to do everything she can to help a man who has never lived in her life, and does not want to arouse any suspicion, the relationship between men and women is the best cover-up, it can greatly shorten the time for two people to get acquainted, can ignore the ignorance of two people, can eliminate all suspicions and doubts, and make everything reasonable!" Tang Ruoxi looked at Lu Yifan with a smile, and said word by word what the man had said to her in the Vermilion Bird Palace.
"Boom!" A violent roar in his mind made Lu Yifan so surprised that he could only open his mouth for a long time, but he couldn't even say a word.
"And this is the real reason why you mistakenly think that I like you, under my deliberate performance, don't say it's you, even if it makes the entire academy think that I am interested in you, it's not strange at all!" Tang Ruoxi said with a wry smile, "However, now, I have already changed from obeying orders at the beginning to being willing to help you and your friends." Yifan, I'm really sorry for this......"
"Wait a minute!" Obviously, at this moment, Lu Yifan's mind was not on Tang Ruoxi's apology, only to see Lu Yifan's eyes look at Tang Ruoxi's haggard face like a torch, and slowly stretched out his right hand and gently touched Tang Ruoxi's cheek, and the fingers just touched Tang Ruoxi's wisp of green silk hanging on the side of his face, and suddenly bounced away like a sting, and then asked suspiciously, "What about your current appearance...... Is it also disguised?"
"Like?" Tang Ruoxi seemed to be very hurt by Lu Yifan's question, his eyes couldn't help but turn red again, and he seemed to say to himself, "I should have guessed a long time ago that when I told you all this, you would never believe me again......"
"It's not like!" Lu Yifan's expression was unusually solemn, "Your emaciation, your spirit, your pity doesn't look like it's pretending at all, ......it's all true! Who is the man who ordered you to deliberately approach me and help me? And is he the one you really love?"
Lu Yifan's words were direct, but Tang Ruoxi's answer was even more direct, after the two of them stared at each other for a moment, Tang Ruoxi only gave a one-word answer.
"Yes!"
"Who is it?"
"Yifan, no matter who I tell you about this person, you can't be suspicious of him, let alone resent him! Because he has never hurt you from beginning to end, he has always helped you, even protecting you!" Tang Ruoxi frowned and explained, her face looking a little anxious.
"I just want to know who this person is!" Lu Yifan's face sank like water, making people unable to see joy and anger, even Tang Ruoxi, who was sitting next to him, couldn't feel whether Lu Yifan's emotions were happy or sad at the moment.
"Whew!" Finally, after taking a few deep breaths, Tang Ruoxi made up his mind, facing Lu Yifan squarely and saying the person's name word by word, "He is your and my mentor, Yan Shuang, Mr. Yan!"
As soon as Tang Ruoxi said this, Lu Yifan's face had a strange expression of crying and laughing, in fact, before Tang Ruoxi opened his mouth, he had already guessed that this person might be Yan Shuang, but he refused to believe it in his heart, Tang Ruoxi, the first beauty of the dignified Vermilion Bird Academy, actually fell in love with her mentor Yan Shuang, who looked nearly twenty years older than her.
"Mr. Yan's extraordinary is extraordinary, I have learned it as early as last year, and what I didn't expect tonight is that the man you really love in your heart is actually Mr. Yan!" Lu Yifan said faintly, "Mr. Yan is also kind to me, if it were not for him, maybe there would not be today's Lu Yifan! Don't worry, I firmly believe in the sentence you just said that Mr. Yan absolutely has no intention of harming me, and I will never have a bad deal with him because of this matter!" He has always been the master I recognized, and you are indeed the senior sister who is in the same class as me!"
"That's fine......" Hearing that Lu Yifan didn't blame Yan Shuang, Tang Ruoxi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"But I'm curious, you obey Mr. Yan's words, and do your best to do your best for his orders, even if you want to sell your feelings and reputation, do you know everything you have done for him?" Lu Yifan couldn't hide the curiosity in his heart, "Or, your feelings for him...... Does he know?"
As soon as he mentioned this, Tang Ruoxi's face couldn't help but darken again, and his eyes became more and more hollow: "What does he know, what does he not know? The result is the same after all......
"Why do you say that?" Lu Yifan asked.
In Mr. Yan's eyes, I am his student and disciple after all, and I will never be his woman...... Tang Ruoxi's words were mixed with endless sadness and melancholy, and when he said this, tears were already uncontrollably flowing.
And Lu Yifan also clearly understood from Tang Ruoxi's words the reason why she was so depressed during this time, presumably it was Tang Ruoxi who had shown her heart to Yan Shuang before, but she was met with Yan Shuang's indifferent response.
"What about your family? Did they know about this?" Seeing the heartbroken Tang Ruoxi, Lu Yifan couldn't help but euphemistically change the topic away from Yan Shuang.
"I know, but no one in the Tang family agrees that I am with Mr. Yan, in their opinion, the disciple falls in love with his mentor, which is a great rebellion against the code of ethics!" Tang Ruoxi sneered indignantly in his eyes, "But so what? My feelings for Mr. Yan will never stop because of the family's opposition! Therefore, I decided to leave the academy early and go to him!"
Although Tang Ruoxi is just a woman, once a woman is twisted up in such a thing as feelings, she is much more resolute than many men with extraordinary perseverance.
And the person Tang Ruoxi said was going to find him, naturally Yan Shuang, who had always seen the head and the end of the dragon. Not long after Lu Yifan left the academy last year, Yan Shuang disappeared from the Holy Soul Academy again, and no one knew where he went and what he did.
To this day, Yan Shuang still has no trace. Qiu Ming and Yan Shuang have a lot of relationship, so for Yan Shuang, a strange mentor who does whatever he wants and treats the rules of the academy as nothing, even Zhao Yun, the dean of the Vermilion Bird Academy, will not ask too much.
"Are you really in such a hurry? Do you know where Mr. Yan is now?" Lu Yifan said softly.
"If I don't leave now, when the family people come here to pick me up and go back to Tangmen at the end of the year, then I really won't be able to leave!" Tang Ruoxi said resolutely, "I've been thinking about this matter for a long time, and now I've made up my mind, even if I find the ends of the earth, I must find him, even if I can't get his recognition now." I will always be there for him, and I believe that sooner or later he will have a place in his heart!"
"I really didn't expect that your feelings for Mr. Yan would be so deep!" Tang Ruoxi's words made Lu Yifan feel embarrassed.
"Mr. Yan is the most unusual man I have ever seen in my life, and since I was sensible, he has been deeply rooted in the softest place in my heart, I think I Tang Ruoxi will not have the opportunity to abandon him in my life......" Tang Ruoxi's words were mixed with a little helplessness, but more of them were unusually firm.
At this moment, Lu Yifan had long been distracted from Tang Ruoxi's pretending to love him, on the contrary, for such a bold and infatuated Tang Ruoxi, Lu Yifan's heart suddenly bred a trace of admiration. Violating his parents' words, ignoring family ethics, just for a man who doesn't like him at all now, this kind of determination, this kind of choice, don't say that he Tang Ruoxi is a woman, even if it is a man like Lu Yifan, can he have such courage and courage?
"Ruoxi, these should be your biggest secrets, I don't understand why you told me this secret without reservation tonight?" Lu Yifan knew that he might not be able to help Tang Ruoxi in this matter, so he couldn't help but soften a little when he spoke.
"Because after tonight, you and I may really be on opposite sides of the world, and even whether we can see each other again has become an unknown ...... of heaven's will" Tang Ruoxi was crying and laughing at the moment, and telling Lu Yifan tonight about the depression in her heart also eased her mood a lot, "And you are my closest friend in this academy except for Mr. Yan...... As we are about to part, I don't want any concealment or deception between me and you......"
Somehow, hearing Tang Ruoxi's words, Lu Yifan's heart was inexplicably sad, but he didn't know whether he was sad about parting or sad about Tang Ruoxi's loneliness. After all, Tang Ruoxi's choice today is destined for her to give up everything she has for Yan Shuang, and after today, Tang Ruoxi will really become a lonely person, and no one knows whether she will have company in the future.
The candle flame lingered, and I was full of emotion. Both of them didn't open their mouths again for a long time, and it wasn't until it was late in the night that Lu Yifan slowly stood up. And Tang Ruoxi also changed his cold color in the past, stood up with a smile in his haggardness, and then slowly walked to Lu Yifan's side, and the two hugged each other gently, but the hug at this moment was simpler and purer than the charming meaning of the last parting.
"Yifan, cherish it in the future!"
"Ruoxi, I'...... Bless you ......"
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After coming out of the Tang Gate, Lu Yifan had searched all over the territory of Qinglong Academy, but he had never found any trace of Han Linger, for Han Linger, a girl with a lot of ghost ideas, Lu Yifan felt even more helpless at the moment, although he regretted that he could not say goodbye to Han Linger in person, but under the repeated urging of the ancient, Lu Yifan could only take one last look back at Han Linger's residence, and then went lonely.
At dawn, there was silence in the Holy Soul Academy. Luo Xiu, Wu Mei and other mortal disciples stood quietly outside the courtyard gate, reluctantly watching the carriage in front of them quickly drive away from the Holy Soul Academy under the whip of Liu Sandao, and completely disappeared in the direction of Jinling City under the cover of night!
At the same time, Han Ling'er, who had not appeared all night, was sitting in a speeding carriage with a playful face, under the protection of the Han Mansion's guards, this carriage was now less than ten miles away from Jinling City, and the outline of the huge city wall had already emerged in the night.
"Lu Yifan, Lu Yifan, when you saw me in Jinling City, I didn't believe it couldn't scare you this time! haha......"
With Han Linger's smug laughter, the carriage quickly cut through the night and entered the city gate that had just opened.
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