novelcity
Chapter 707 - 707 708 Goodbye (10)_1
Chapter 707 - 707 708 Goodbye (10)_1
?Chapter 707: Chapter 708: Goodbye (10)_1 Chapter 707: Chapter 708: Goodbye (10)_1 Liang Chen sat in Qian Hua’s car, watching the taxi that Jing Haohao had boarded drive away. Only then did he slowly sit upright, his previously blurry, drunken gaze transforming into a clear and penetrating one.
Qian Hua, sitting beside him in the driver’s seat, was slightly taken aback.
Tonight, Liang Chen had simply asked her to help him act out a part, but he had never instructed her to actually drive him home. Now, this mess they were in, wouldn’t it lead Jing Haohao to misconstrue their relationship as something ambiguous?
Qian Hua pursed her lips, unable to hold in her curiosity. She asked, “Liang Chen, don’t you think you need to clarify this with Miss Jing?”
Liang Chen raised his hand, lightly shielding his eyes from the light. His eyes were stinging a bit. After a long while, he finally spoke, saying, “There’s no need.”
His voice had a touch of coldness, leaving Qian Hua at a loss for words.
Liang Chen’s hand continued to cover his eyes. After a while, he said: “The truth is, she just doesn’t care about me, she doesn’t like me, right?”
“Otherwise, why would she stand still for so long when you told her, ‘You’re no longer needed here, you can go now. I’ll have her take care of me’?”
“If I hadn’t nearly fallen off the couch in pretense, perhaps she would have just walked away and said, ‘I’ll just leave you in their hands’.”
Liang Chen paused here, a faintly bitter smile pulling at the corner of his mouth: “I asked you to drive her home, but she didn’t react at all. If she had shown any reaction, any discomfort, envy, jealousy, or anger, I would have immediately yielded everything to her.”
“Qian Hua, I’m not asking for much. If there’s a hundred steps between us, all I need is for her to take one step and I’ll cover the remaining ninety-nine, sprinting towards her. No…she doesn’t even need to take a step, she just needs to shift her feet, and I’d unhesitatingly sprint those hundred steps.”
“But, Qian Hua, she didn’t… even when you said those words, she refused to pick up the thread, to simply say, ‘I’ll take you home, Liang Chen’.”
Liang Chen felt a hot, damp sensation at the bottom of his eyes.
He didn’t want their relationship to end this way.
But he didn’t know how to continue.
He had done all he possibly could, yet… his presence still wasn’t in her heart.
He knew that he was only making things difficult for himself. He was enduring these difficulties right now, in order to be with her, but what about the future? Did he have a lifetime with her? In the future, could he still bear with it?
Liang Chen was clearly in distress, but he kept up a semblance of composure: “Qian Hua, I knew that this would be the outcome, but I still wanted to try…”
In the end, the one who got hurt was him.
Liang Chen closed his eyes, remained silent for a while, then wiped his face with his hand. Looking as usual, he turned to Qian Hua and said, “Thank you for tonight, I’ll be going now.”
When Liang Chen finished speaking, he pushed open the car door and got out.
He walked a distance in the biting cold wind. Eventually, he stopped, took out his phone, scrolled down for a while and typed a few lines of text on the keypad, sending them to Jing Haohao:
“Haohao, I asked you to chose between me and Shen Liangnian, giving you the car keys and the bank card. I pretended to be drunk tonight to get you over here, only to say I was leaving with Qian Hua. Actually, I was just trying to test you.”
PS: Does this count as breaking the deadlock? See you tomorrow~~End of today~~~PS: Preview of tomorrow’s plot: Jing Haohao steps forward by two paces, seeing that the door of No.367 is open, she walks in. But the scene inside gives her pause. (Could this be the magic of 8:30 PM forever?)