As the sun set, Xu Yizhong stood in front of the window, looking at the receding figure with his dark eyes, and took a deep drag on his cigarette in despair.
There were footsteps approaching from behind, and the servant who was cleaning here walked in, "Mr. Xu, I have let Miss Lu leave as you ordered."
"Um."
He responded calmly, with intense sadness in his dark eyes.
The servant looked at his back strangely, feeling that the idea of a rich man was really strange. In the morning, he told her to watch out for Miss Lu and not let her escape, but in the afternoon he asked her to let her go, without saying that it was his permission.
Yes, it made it seem like she let Miss Lu go quietly.
Although I felt strange, I didn't ask any more questions, turned around and went downstairs to do my duty.
Xu Yizhong averted his eyes and walked to the bedroom. Looking at everything here, his heart felt extremely empty.
Even though the furnishings were complete, he felt so empty without her...
The emptiness made his heart throb in waves. The setting sun shrouded his body. Although the temperature around him was very warm, his heart felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, freezing to the bone.
Sitting on the bed, my big hands gently rubbed the sheets. It was warm here last night.
But now, it's still so cold.
There were black mandalas placed on the balcony. As he looked, the broken light of the setting sun shrouded those mandalas, faintly exuding a helpless sadness.
The black mandala represents desperate love.
In this life, he has no chance to choose the simple way of loving her, and can only go one way to the end, even if she never believes in his feelings.
He wanted to keep her by his side, thinking it was only a matter of time, but she resisted by going on a hunger strike.
She didn't move an inch when the food was brought in.
He had no choice but to carry the food in himself, sit next to her, patiently coaxed and persuaded, "Eat some?"
"I remember you used to love this. The servants at home are very good at it. Would you like to try it?"
She looked at him with an expressionless face, without saying a word or showing any emotion on her face.
When Xu Yizhong saw that she insisted on not eating, he felt helpless, but his tone was very firm, "Don't think that if you don't eat, you can scare me, and I will let you leave."
I felt depressed and particularly unhappy.
He put the bowl on the table and said angrily, "It's up to you whether you want to eat or not."
He stood up and walked to the door angrily.
But I heard her long and feeble voice, "Xu Yizhong, do you still want the dead?"
Her voice was weak but resolute, making his heart clench into a ball, with a faint pain, which made him feel scared at that moment.
Would she rather die than stay by his side?
Xu Yizhong suddenly felt frustrated and didn't know what to do. He couldn't let her go by himself, which seemed to show that he couldn't be cruel to her...
This time, if you let her go, will she come back?
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Lu Haiyao returned to Gu's house and unexpectedly bumped into him at the door.
He seemed to be about to go out, but when she was about to open the door, he pushed the door open, and in an instant, they were face to face.
They were obviously so close, but Hai Yao felt like she couldn't tell what he was thinking.
In his hand, he was holding an insulated lunch box, which should be given to Li Yuner.
Their eyes met and she looked at him. There was no concern or anxiety in his eyes as she imagined.
Glancing at the lunch box in his hand, she raised the corners of her mouth bitterly, "Go to the hospital?"
"Where to come back?"
He didn't answer the question and looked at her with a gloomy expression, which made Lu Haiyao think that he cared about her and where she went.
However, the next moment, she heard him say, "I really couldn't leave last night... I can't leave the hospital without anyone taking care of me. Uncle Li can't do anything by himself."
Only then did Hai Yao notice that his face looked haggard...
She painfully realized that this man had no idea that she had not been home all night.
So, that night, when she almost couldn't come back and when she was tortured at the police station, he stayed with Li Yuner without thinking about where she was or what she had experienced...
Holding back the tears that filled her eyes, she raised the corners of her mouth and asked, "Is she that important to you?"
With tears in her eyes, Haiyao looked at him expectantly, but did not wait for his answer. Instead, she frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Did you already know that Yuner was back?"
That tone sounded so much like a question.
Ask her if she already knew that Lee Yoon Ah was back, so she held a grudge?
Her heart grew colder little by little, "So? Do you suspect that I was the one who did it?"
"I didn't say that."
"But you think so!"
She bit her lip tightly, her heart was ups and downs, and the pain and sadness came over her fiercely like a tide.
Gu Tingchuan frowned, looking at the tears in her eyes, his heart felt astringent. He moved his lips and wanted to say something, but his cell phone came to mind.
He glanced at the screen, it was an important call, "We'll talk about it when I get back."
After finishing speaking, he hurriedly left.
Without any pause, she mocked herself bitterly, expecting him to believe her.
But as Xu Yizhong said, if he cared, why would she stay at the police station for 10 hours?
She turned around and wanted to walk into the house, but everything in front of her eyes gradually became blurry and spinning. Then her legs went weak, and when she heard Aunt Zhang's scream, she lost consciousness again.