Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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It was already past 5 o’clock when Ling Qing got home, and Yu Chen hadn’t gotten off work yet.
The housekeeper took his luggage and said to him, “The young master seems to be in a bad mood these days.”
“Has it always been bad?” Ling Qing asked.
The housekeeper nodded, “I don’t know what happened, but on the first day you went to film the variety show, he came back at night and asked me about Guo Wenhao.”
Ling Qing knew it must be because of this, “I understand.”
He felt a little helpless, “I’ll take care of it. Don’t worry. It’s not a big deal, but it might be troublesome to explain.”
The housekeeper smiled, “Okay,” he said sincerely, “It’s important for couples to communicate. Let’s talk about it, what’s the big deal?”
“Yeah.” Ling Qing responded.
He went back to his bedroom, took a shower, and then went to Yu Chen’s bedroom to sit until Yu Chen came home.
It wasn’t until 12 o’clock that Yu Chen finally came back. He seemed to have drunk some wine and smelled of alcohol.
The moment the bedroom door was pushed open, Ling Qing raised his head and smiled, “You’re back?”
Yu Chen looked at his smile, then feeling dazed for a moment, he suddenly felt relieved.
He’s back, he thought in his heart, he’s finally back.
Yu Chen walked in.
Ling Qing poured him a cup of tea, “Drink some tea to relieve the hangover.”
Yu Chen took it, sat down on the small sofa, and drank slowly, “Thank you.”
“Why are you so polite.” Ling Qing smiled.
He looked at Yu Chen lowering his head, with beautiful and deep eyebrows on the side, and couldn’t help but wonder in his heart, how to explain this?
Did he really want to say that he was not the original Ling Qing?
It’s so exciting!
Would Yu Chen believe it?
Or should he talk this matter over tactfully first?
“Uncle Wang said that you have not been in a good mood these days.” Ling Qing probed.
Yu Chen said “hmm” and said, “The company’s affairs are a bit annoying.”
“Is it just the company?”
“Yeah.” Yu Chen finished drinking the tea and put the cup on the coffee table, “I’m going to take a shower first.”
Ling Qing looked at him standing up and walking towards the bathroom without looking back. He held his chin and sighed silently. It seemed that he was really in a bad mood, otherwise he wouldn’t have used business as an excuse.
He picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea, only to realize that things were more troublesome than he thought.
Yu Chen quickly came out of the shower and sat on the bed.
Ling Qing walked over, picked up the hair dryer and said, “I’ll help you dry your hair.”
Yu Chen tried to refuse, but failed, so he had to sit and let him blow.
“Guo Wenhao went to find you, right?” Ling Qing got straight to the point.
He lowered his head and glanced at Yu Chen, and while helping him blow dry his hair, he said gently, “He and I are things in the past, and there is no future anymore. You don’t need to mind.”
Yu Chen was silent for a moment, and then asked, “Do you still like him?”
“Of course not.” Ling Qing immediately denied, “There is nothing worthy of my liking in him.”
“But you liked him before,” Yu Chen said.
Ling Qing blew the ends of his hair and said vaguely, “You also said it was before.”
“You like him like this, don’t you?” Yu Chen suddenly turned to look at him.
Ling Qing was stunned for a moment. Yu Chen stared at him with stern eyes and asked, “Do you like Guo Wenhao’s character?”
“Who said that?” How could he like Guo Wenhao, a person who couldn’t figure it out? “I get annoyed just looking at him.”
Not to mention that he was not the original owner, even if he was the original owner, they once had a relationship, and that was already in the past.
Now that you have returned from your studies and see that your white moonlight is married to someone else, you still have to go find his other side and show him your past love. Are you not deliberately causing trouble for your white moonlight, for fear of him living too comfortably?
What man could stand this? It would be weird if he didn’t quarrel!
In the original book, Yu Chen quarreled with the original owner several times because of this, but the original owner still felt that Guo Wenhao was right and that Guo Wenhao just loved him.
He and Guo Wenhao were both innocent, but Yu Chen had a small belly!
At this time, he no longer felt that those admirers of Yu Chen who were mocking him just loved Yu Chen. They didn’t even let him hear his love for Yu Chen!
It could be said to be a double standard!
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Yu Chen say: “If you really get annoyed when you look at him, how could you have been so close to him and told him that you like him?”
Yu Chen’s eyes were dark and translucent, and as he stared at the person in front of him, he said intently, “At least, you once liked him.”
“That was just the past.”
Ling Qing put down the hair dryer, sat next to him, and said seriously, “Everyone has it. But the past is the past, and people look forward, right?”
“But he is the only person you have ever liked, isn’t he?”
Of course not!
Ling Qing looked at him, speechless.
Yu Chen opened his mouth, closed it again, and finally opened it again, saying dryly, “Ling Qing, do you like me?”
“Do you like me now?”
Ling Qing said nothing.
This question was too heavy for him. The word “like” was a difficulty that he couldn’t cross even after trying for so long.
The embarrassment on his face was too obvious. Yu Chen looked at it and smiled bitterly, as if he had expected it, “I knew it.”
“That’s not the case.” Ling Qing tried to explain, “I want to like you. I’m just not sure yet.”
Yu Chen shook his head and said, “Ling Qing, you don’t need to work hard or force yourself to think about someone.”
“I like you, I just like you. There is no need to think about liking you first, and then work hard and persevere in order to like you.”
“Like is a kind of feeling. Feeling is generated by the heart. Feelings in themselves are ethereal things.”
“Love can be achieved without hard work.”
Ling Qing looked at him, as if he didn’t know what to say.
Yu Chen looked at him quietly, his eyes calm and gentle, like a lake full of moonlight.
He said, “I’ve been thinking a lot these days. I used to think you just wouldn’t love easily, but as long as we are together, as long as I always love you, you will always fall in love with me.”
“But Guo Wenhao’s appearance made me realize that this is not the case. It’s not that you won’t love easily, you just won’t love me easily.”
“No,” Ling Qing interrupted, “It has nothing to do with Guo Wenhao, and neither do I love him!”
“Of course you don’t love him now, but you have loved him before, haven’t you? You also gave all your friendship to him, but you were not destined to be together, so you have reached this point.”
Ling Qing shook his head, “Xiao Yu, things are not what you think at all!”
He said anxiously, “Guo Wenhao’s matter is a bit complicated, but I really have never liked him. I didn’t love him before and I don’t love him now.”
Yu Chen felt that he was really not easy. In order to make yourself happy, you are willing to deny your past love.
However, with the words in black and white and the photos as evidence, his former love was clearly there.
He didn’t need to restrain himself like this for him.
He looked at the person in front of him, seeming helpless and sighing, “Ling Qing, you don’t have to deny your past love because of me.”
“That was a part of your past. It’s not your fault, it’s just that we met too late, I won’t blame you for this.”
Ling Qing: …
What else could he say? Yu Chen had his own explanation for everything he said, and now he could only confess that he came through time?
Do you want it to be so exciting?
He was hesitating what to say when he heard Yu Chen say, “Ling Qing, I’ve been thinking a lot these days, if we weren’t married and were just ordinary lovers, would it be easier for you?”
Ling Qing didn’t quite understand, “What do you mean?”
“Emotional matters cannot be forced. Love is love, and if you don’t love, you don’t love. But once this relationship is changed to marriage, many things will inevitably change.”
“Besides the law, people also have morality. Morality requires us to respect marriage, respect our partners, understand, love and maintain the stability of the family. This is of course a good thing, but it is not a kind of bondage for you.”
“If we are just in love and I love you, you don’t need to force yourself to love me. You can just leave without accepting it. But now, just because I love you, you have to stay with me. Isn’t it unfair to you that you even force yourself to fall in love with me?”
Ling Qing felt that he no longer understood.
Yu Chen looked at him and said in a calm voice, “You really wanted to divorce me, right?”
Ling Qing suddenly felt something.
He stared at Yu Chen in disbelief, feeling that all the nerves in his body seemed to be tense.
“What do you want to say?” he heard himself ask.
Yu Chen looked at him deeply, tenderly and affectionately.
He said, “Stop abusing yourself. If I’m really not the type you like, if you really can’t like me, then I’m willing to divorce you.”
“Ling Qing, I agree with what you said before, I am willing to divorce you.”
At this moment, Ling Qing felt that everything had become blurry, and the previous quarrel seemed to be ringing in his ears.
The shattered, scratched and splashed fragments exploded in his ears again, making his ears buzz and he could hardly hear Yu Chen’s voice.
After walking for so long, he seemed to be back on a familiar path.
Returning to the path his parents took, returning to the corner where he once squatted.
He didn’t escape it when he was a boy, and he couldn’t escape it now as an adult.
It was just that he changed from a bystander to a personal experiencer.
Ling Qing trembled unconsciously. His right hand clenched into a fist, tightening it tighter and tighter, but he couldn’t stop the trembling of his shoulders.
He stood up quickly and walked out.
Yu Chen chased him confused and asked, “Where are you going?”
Ling Qing pushed him away and stared at him, eyes full of resentment and anger.
“Don’t you want a divorce? I’m going to pack my bags.”
He said through gritted teeth, and the hatred in his eyes was unconcealed and overflowing.
Yu Chen was startled by his reaction and instinctively stopped him, “Don’t be angry, I don’t want to divorce you, I just don’t want you to compromise and force yourself. I don’t want you to think back on your life in the future because you feel like this life is just about making ends meet.”
Ling Qing knocked his hand away and said angrily, “Did I say I was wronged?”
“Why should I force myself? It’s hard to find a three-legged toad in this world. But is it hard to find a two-legged man? Is it so hard for me to have no one else like you?”
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