Zhu Xiyou looked at Xu Weimeng. These words came out of his mouth word by word. They were so coherent and flawless, but they made her feel that he was a stranger.
He said that his kindness to her was just sympathy for the weak, but she mistook this sympathy for love and foolishly fell deeper and deeper into it.
She has been giving him all kinds of reasons for not accepting her - maybe he doesn't have confidence in his future, maybe he doesn't dare to make a promise to her, maybe he's afraid that she won't want to endure hardships with him...
The basis of all the reasons is that he likes her, but some practical factors make him choose to escape.
That's why she had so much courage, confessed her love eight times, and pursued her from Beijing to City S twice.
Although Qian Qian had told her countless times that Su Ruining had no affection for her at all and everything was just her illusion, she didn't want to believe it.
After all, that year, he gave her too many reasons to be moved.
But she didn't expect that what she thought was Su Ruining's affection for her was actually "sympathy for the weak."
When she first joined the travel company, she had just graduated and was assigned to Su Ruining's group. He was the group leader and led her into the industry. She respectfully called him master like an apprentice.
People in this field often work overtime, and they didn't get off work until almost ten o'clock on the first night of work. It wasn't until they left the office building that they realized it was raining, so she generously lent her umbrella to someone who was farther away.
Colleague Su Ruining said to her: "I'll give it to you."
She said no, but Su Ruining insisted on saying "just drop by".
So she and he squeezed under the same umbrella, chatting about each other's universities nonchalantly all the way. When they reached the downstairs of the community, Su Ruining asked her considerately: "Do I want to send you up?"
Such a gentleman's behavior turned out to be sympathy for her.
Later, after getting familiar with each other, she realized that she was the only one in the group who called him master, while everyone else called him boss, and he did not correct her.
She was secretly happy for this unique title for a long time. It was obviously an insignificant thing, but she regarded it as a tacit understanding that belonged to the two of them. She foolishly thought that in his heart, she was also special.
Three months after joining the company, she became a regular employee as scheduled.
The day she became a full-time employee happened to be her birthday, so when Su Ruining asked her what gift she wanted, she said she wanted a cake.
She just said it casually, because it was already ten o'clock in the evening and few cake shops were still open.
But when she was about to go to bed, she received a call from Su Ruining, who said he was downstairs from her.
She poked her head out of the window and saw him waving to her with a cake in his hand.
She ran downstairs quickly, and he handed the cake to her, breathed into his hand, and said seriously: "You must finish it. I spent a lot of effort to buy this cake."
He actually watched her with his own eyes and swallowed the whole piece of strawberry cake in one bite.
Zhu Xiyou still remembers that there were 22 strawberries on the cake, which was exactly how old she was that year.
It turns out that this kind of love is just sympathy.