48 I don’t feel anything. (1/2)

Zhen Xiu was smiling after she heard Lu Jian's enthusiasm. He was behaving like a perfect, ideal romantic partner.

She knew that she should not enjoy too much of his little remarks but her disobedient heart was really at fault here. She wanted to teach him a lesson for his indifference, cold nature and outright non-caring attitude towards his original wife but was not able to do so.

”Lu Jian, can I ask you a question?” Zhen Xiu asked him suddenly.

Lu Jian was surprised at her sudden seriousness and for a chance, he wanted to avoid her question.

”Sure!”

”This is the same question again. Why are you different now? What changed?”

Zhen Xiu asked him again. This was becoming quite repetitive but she could not make sense of his behavior. She wanted to avoid it but somewhere in her heart she always got confused because of his changed behavior.

It was so sudden. Just after her awakening and within the first meeting with Lu Jian; his behavior towards her was drastic like earth and sky. This was something unbelievable.

”I don' know why….” Lu Jian stopped for a while and then continued after reminiscing his first meeting with her after she came back home from the hospital.

”Actually, when you were secretly crying while talking on your phone; it was like I was suddenly attracted to you. It was not because of your appearance or any lusty thoughts in my mind. The thing which attracted me to you was your sad smile and the pain hiding in your eyes. After that, you gave an innocent smile; totally different from your sad aura within a second. I was amazed to see all those emotions in your eyes.”

Zhen Xiu was listening silently as Lu Jian was explaining himself. She remembered that she was talking with Shen Ya after her first fight with Lu Jian. This was the time she felt some warmth from another person in her life. Although she didn't know what Lu Jian was saying about pain, sadness, and emotions in her eyes; she was sure of one thing that the smile he described must be amazing. After all, this was the happiness, which emerged from her heart after being accepted by somebody else.

How can it not be beautiful?

”I didn't know why I was attracted towards it. Jiang Wui also mentioned your change and a different attitude, this also attracted me. I was curious why you are being so different lately. It was like a different aura, a new you, who came back after a rebirth to throw me in the chaos of hell.”

Lu Jian explained his sudden interest in her. This was probably the longest time he talked to anyone aside from his business meetings.

”You say rebirth, does that mean you didn't like the previous me?”

Zhen Xiu wanted to know this as this means the previous girl died for nothing. All those humiliation and insults were suffered for nothing. She knew that she was not that great and kind to others but she had basic respect for others feelings and emotions.