Chapter 86: Did You Break Up? (1/2)

Lin Fan looked at Cheng Xi. She appeared to be calm, impassively analyzing everything with neither sadness nor disappointment.

He couldn’t help himself from asking, “Then, what about you? Did you really love me?”

Cheng Xi didn’t respond.

“You never liked me either, right?” He suddenly felt that this realization might be harder to bear than the fact that the Cheng Xi he truly loved was just his childhood memory. “When you said all those things, were you lying to me? About how you were only his shield. But actually, I’m your shield, aren’t I? You love him, but the difference in your social standings made you hesitant of accepting him. So, you used me……”

“Lin Fan!” Cheng Xi had to stop him there. She looked him squarely in the eye. “We’ve known each other for so many years. Don’t you know what kind of person I am?”

“Then why can’t you give me another chance?” He buried his face in his hands. “Why must you analyze everything so coldly and logically? Cheng Xi, we never even had a good start.”

Even before their relationship could properly start, a third party had already been thrown between them.

Lin Fan knew this, and the only reason Cheng Xi hadn’t mentioned it was because she wanted to preserve both their dignities. In the end, they were the ones who knew each other the best, so all he was hoping for was another chance from her. But rather than wait for a reply, Lin Fan had already gotten up and was preparing to leave.

Cheng Xi didn’t send him out.

After he left, she remained sitting there, frozen in the same posture for an indeterminable amount of time. Only when her sweat had evaporated and her body gone chilly did she bathe and sleep.

The next morning, Cheng Xi woke up and went to work as usual, running into Dr. Su at the hospital gates. She had on minimal makeup and was wearing a tan overcoat that fluttered in the breeze with her steps. Despite still being somewhat thin, she looked full of vitality.

Clearly, she had already moved on from her divorce.

Upon seeing Cheng Xi, Dr. Su said, “You don’t look too good.”

Cheng Xi rubbed her face tiredly as she replied, “I didn’t sleep well last night.”

“Breakup?”

Cheng Xi choked out of surprise.

Dr. Su smiled and patted her shoulder. “In return for last time, I’ll accompany you for a night.”

“Thanks, I might take you up on that.”

After she stepped into the elevator, Cheng Xi carefully inspected her reflection on the elevator walls. Besides her dark eyebags, she couldn’t identify any trace that she had gone through a breakup.

But it was true that she wasn’t feeling too good.

As Cheng Xi made her usual rounds, when she got to Chen Jiaman, she noticed that Chen Jiaman was speaking far less than usual. Perplexed, Cheng Xi turned off the recording device and sat there, looking at her dazedly. Then, Chen Jiaman raised her head to look at her.

Cheng Xi belatedly realized that something had changed.

That was the first time that Chen Jiaman had ever looked someone in the eye after her illness. Her gaze carried a very careful doubt within it; Cheng Xi maintained her posture without moving, not shifting her gaze or posture even a little.

It felt as if the air around them had congealed. Only after a while did Cheng Xi finally hear a somewhat low and hoarse voice pierce the silence. “Aren’t you going to talk?”

Cheng Xi lightly replied, “What do you want me to talk about?”

Chen Jiaman thought for a moment before replying in an equally light tone. “The little rabbit.”