The next morning, while Ruotong was still sleeping, she received a call from Su Muyu. Fortunately, Mr. Ao had already left for work. She answered the call generously.
"Ruotong, come back, I have something to tell you." Su Muyu made a request on the phone. Ever since her meeting with Guo Zheming last night, she had been unable to calm down.
"Okay, I'll go back now." After Ruotong finished speaking, she hung up the phone in a daze, then got up and washed up. She didn't go out until she finished putting on makeup.
When Ruotong returned to his apartment, he found Su Muyu already waiting at the door.
"Sorry, I'm late." Ruotong expressed his apology to his friend.
Su Muyu didn't speak, but just stared motionlessly at Ruotong, who was standing in front of her with heavy makeup. She felt extremely strange, as if she had met a new stranger.
"Does my makeup look good?" Ruotong laughed at herself as she picked up the key and opened the door. She knew that Su Muyu didn't like women with heavy makeup. But her attitude was still calm.
"It doesn't look good." Su Muyu objected.
"Go in." After opening the door, Ruotong invited Su Muyu as if nothing had happened.
Su Muyu still looked at Ruotong motionless, with strangeness, helplessness and pain in her eyes.
Ruotong had no choice but to go in first. Su Muyu was stunned for a moment, then followed Ruotong in.
"Ruotong, the heavy makeup you put on has completely covered up your natural beauty. Does wearing foundation every day make you feel fresh?" Su Muyu asked Ruotong's back.
"Mu Yu, I said, this is a last resort." Ruotong said helplessly while rolling up the curtains by the window.
"Then have you ever thought about Zhe Ming's feelings?" Su Muyu continued to ask. She didn't want to see her two good friends become like this.
"Has he looked for you?" After Ruotong rolled up the curtains, he turned around to face Su Muyu and asked calmly.
"Last night he asked me about your motives for approaching Ao Rui." Su Muyu said truthfully.
"You didn't tell him?" Ruotong asked with a smile. Of course she knew that Su Muyu would not tell Guo Zheming her motives. Only the two of them knew the secret between them.
"When did I betray you?"
"Mu Yu, we can't be fair to everyone." Ruotong put away his smile and said gloomily.
"But you know, this is a huge blow to Zheming..." Su Muyu felt heartbroken for Guo Zheming, but at the same time she couldn't blame Ruotong, because Ruotong had legitimate and sufficient reasons for becoming his mistress.
"I have said that I am engaged, and I have no right to choose happiness. Not to mention that I don't love Zheming. Even if I can force myself to accept his feelings, my father will have to give up marrying me.
It was my decision to enter Ao's house. Only in this way can I be completely freed." Ruotong explained.
She is a person who can't help herself. If she can, she would also like to take care of everyone's mood. But she is not God, and she can't do anything. If she hurts others, she feels more pain than anyone else.
"In that case, why don't you tell Zhe Ming your reasons? At least this way, he won't live in such pain, right?"
"What's the use of telling him? Zhe Ming is a very traditional person. Even if I can get complete relief in two months, do you think he will still accept me? Even if he reluctantly accepts it, his strong self-esteem will make him
, make us feel better? If there is a thorn in his heart, how will we spend our long life?" Ruotong's expression was quiet, and there was no wave of excitement. She had already seen through everything, so she would not deceive herself or others.
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Su Muyu was speechless.
"Mu Yu, do you think that telling Zhe Ming my motives will make Zhe Ming feel better? No, he will actually be even sadder, because he can't let go of his feelings for me and is caught up in crazy fantasies. The intense conflict will make him feel sad.
His pain is even worse. Rather than doing this, it would be better for him to misunderstand me and give up his feelings for me."
"Ruotong..." Su Muyu finally understood Ruotong's hard conscience.
"Mu Yu, I never expected to be forgiven and tolerated by Zhe Ming. Because I must be responsible for my own choices and actions."
Ruotong is not a greedy woman, nor will she evade the responsibilities she bears. She is not afraid of being alone, she just wants to do her best to find someone in this poor world who can reach out to her and call her when she is desperate.
, the other half who gives her a warm embrace. After all, it is better to find someone who loves you than to be alone.
If it weren't for finding this rare true love, she wouldn't have to take the risk and lurk next to Ao Rui.
But Ruotong thought that perhaps on the night she and Ao Rui first met, the thread of fate had already tied them together, and the choice she made was just a matter of smooth sailing.
"Ruotong, now I finally understand why you insist on having your own way." Su Muyu said with relief. She would no longer misunderstand or blame Ruotong.
Ruotong changed the subject. "Mu Yu, today is the weekend, let's go shopping together, and I'll treat you to a big dinner." She walked up to Su Mu Yu, and the long-lost smile bloomed like a flower on her face, which was particularly charming.
"Okay." Su Muyu was infected by Ruotong's happiness.
"After the big meal, we went shopping together. I often told Mr. Ao that I went shopping with my sisters, but we didn't buy anything. If this continues, I'm really afraid that my lies will come out sooner or later."
"Then I will go shopping with you." Su Muyu promised with a smile.
"Mu Yu, I knew you were the best." Ruotong was very happy, and the melancholy just now had long since disappeared.
After saying that, Ruotong took Su Muyu's hand and went out happily.
As a result, Ruotong and Su Muyu came to a roadside snack bar and ordered a table full of delicious snacks. This was a place they used to come to. Ruotong missed this simple life and this simple happiness.
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After eating, Ruotong took Su Muyu to the mall again. She picked out a few sexy dresses. Their fabrics were very thin, shorter than the knees, and the necklines were very low.
"This kind of clothes is too sexy?" Su Muyu has a conservative mind and cannot accept such clothes.
"I don't like this kind of clothes either, but if I dress too conservatively, wouldn't it be equivalent to revealing my identity?" Ruotong explained, "If you want to be confirmed, you must make sacrifices. I want love and a happy life.
Marriage, this is the price."
Su Muyu sighed. She suddenly felt that she was much happier than Ruotong. Although Yu You's mother didn't like her, at least she didn't have to wear a mask every day and live a life she didn't like.
After checking out, Ruotong and Su Muyu left the mall and went their separate ways.
After Ruotong returned to the villa in Pudong, it was still dark and Mr. Ao had not come back yet. She deliberately placed the shopping bag on the sofa so that Mr. Ao could see it as soon as he entered the door to confirm that she had indeed gone shopping. Then, she
I went back to the bathroom to take a shower. When I came down from the shower, I happened to see Mr. Ao come in.
So, she ran towards him excitedly and said to him with a smile on her face: "General Manager Ao, I didn't ask you to wait today."
Ao Rui smiled slightly: "This is your job as a mistress."
"Don't you know your mistakes now and can correct them?" Ruotong agreed with a smile.
Ao Rui couldn't help seeing a few shopping bags randomly placed on the sofa. Then, he asked casually: "Can you enjoy shopping?"
Ruotong immediately left his arms, walked to the sofa, took out one of the dresses from the shopping bag, and tried it on in front of him coquettishly. "Does it look good? This is the most satisfying result of all my shopping today.
"She laughed so hard that her branches were trembling.
Ao Rui looked at the dancing Ruotong expressionlessly.
Before Ruotong could take out the second piece for show, he interrupted her: "I'll go up and take a shower first." He was not interested in this kind of thing at all. After saying that, he turned around and went up to the second floor without stopping.
Ruotong covered her mouth and snickered. She vividly demonstrated the vanity of a woman who loves beauty and cares about men's opinions even in her clothes. She knew that Mr. Ao must have dispelled her doubts about going out frequently recently.