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Chapter 699 - 699 700 Goodbye (2)_1
Chapter 699 - 699 700 Goodbye (2)_1
?Chapter 699: Chapter 700: Goodbye (2)_1 Chapter 699: Chapter 700: Goodbye (2)_1 Jing Haohao’s eyes were wide open. After a couple of seconds, she heard her own voice sound out evenly, “Goodbye.”
Liang Chen did not respond. He bent down to pick up the cardboard box from the ground, didn’t even spare a glance at Jing Haohao, and then turned around to leave.
His steps were gracefully composed, his back straight and stalwart, gradually disappearing behind the elevator doors.
It wasn’t until the elevator let out a little “ding” and the red numbers started to descend that Jing Haohao came back to her senses. The corners of her eyes were gradually flooding with mist, and inside her left chest, something was throbbing slowly and hesitantly, pulsating with a raw, painful sensation.
Turns out, the breakup scene that she’s been too afraid to face these past few days was so simple, so calm.
Just like that, Liang Chen walked out of her life.
Jing Haohao felt a numbing sensation in her entire chest.
…
Liang Chen walked out of the apartment complex with the box, the howling northern wind tousling his hair. The chilly wind infiltrated his collar, and burrowed into his chest, turning his once burning heart into a block of ice.
Despite the slow pace of his steps, she didn’t show any signs of trying to stop him from leaving.
Even looking at her reflection in the elevator’s mirrored walls, he thought that if her face revealed even the slightest bit of reluctance to part ways, he would immediately turn around, pull her into his arms, and apologize.
But she remained indifferent and calm all along.
Liang Chen swallowed hard. As he was passing a trash bin, he thought for a while and then tossed the box inside, walked back to his car, opened the door, and sat in.
“Haohao, it’s not that I wanted to leave, you just didn’t try to stop me.”
After a pause of two minutes, Liang Chen stepped on the gas and skillfully drove away.
…
Sometimes the world is indeed very strange. There are various ways for people to meet without love. After breaking up, one may miss another, and yet, bizarrely, there is no chance of running into each other.
Jing Haohao and Liang Chen didn’t see each other for the next two weeks after their goodbyes.
It was then, nearing the Spring Festival and just two days before Jing Haohao’s last day at work.
In fact, Jing Haohao was hoping she could work overtime. In the past, she had Shen Liangnian to celebrate the Spring Festival with. Last year, she was at Liang Chen’s villa with Nanny Lin and the others. This Spring Festival, she truly was alone.
Jing Haohao saw that the shops on both sides of the street had already put up red couplets and hung red lanterns, spreading the festive atmosphere of Spring Festival all around. However, she felt even less willing to go home and aimlessly wandered around the streets alone.
…
Liang Chen’s Jiangshan Group also started their holidays on that day.
The gardener responsible for the “Forever 8:30” garden went home for the New Year and couldn’t find a temporary replacement. So, after leaving work at noon, Liang Chen drove to “Forever 8:30” to water the flowers and plants.
Even though it only kept him busy for half an hour, Liang Chen felt incredibly suffocated. This gift he had painstakingly prepared for Jing Haohao was perhaps something he would never be able to present to her, yet he still cared for it with all his heart.
Liang Chen laid on the hammock for a while, then walked to the glass wall and looked at the luminous pen by his side. He picked it up and then devotedly traced over the phrase “Will you marry me when the scenery is nice and the time is right, with this nation as a dowry?” twice more on the glass.