Chapter 15

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Habit was really a terrible thing. In the past three years, she blocked Gu Liangchen’s number because she was afraid that she couldn’t help calling him when she was helpless.

She didn’t cry when Director Huang attacked her, nor did she cry when she was rescued by Cheng Zhi. However, at this moment, her eyes suddenly became sore, and she felt aggrieved.

Cheng Zhi was still kneeling on the ground, confessing his mistakes and asking for another chance, but she didn’t say a word. Passersby looked over. She was aware that the man inside the Bentley was also watching.

Lu Anran took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed her emotions. When she spoke, her voice was calm. “Cheng Zhi, I just want to ask… If you see me with another man, will you forgive me?” 

Cheng Zhi was taken aback when he heard her words, and then he shook his head. “Anran, I know you have no other men, so why are you saying this?”

“What if I really have one?”

“Then you let him show up now. I will immediately turn around and leave without further ado.”

Lu Anran slowly turned her head to look at the Bentley across the road.

She stared silently for more than a minute, but there was no movement from the car.

She suddenly smiled, then turned to look at Cheng Zhi, as if she was really touched by him. With red eyes, she pulled him up, and the two of them entered the dormitory together.

Knowing that Lu Anran hadn’t eaten for a day, Cheng Zhi immediately ordered a bunch of takeouts and a bottle of red wine.

But Lu Anran had something in her mind, so she stared out down the window and ate absentmindedly.

Cheng Zhi had low alcoholic tolerance, so he got drunk after two glasses of red wine. He spilled his deepest secrets he had been keeping in his heart.

“Anran, in fact, I was with those old women because of you…because I always feel inferior in front of you. You are pampered and cherished by Professor Lu. I was afraid that I was too poor to give you the life you deserve and that I wasn’t worthy of you.

“Actually, I had a crush on you when I was in college, but, at that time, there was someone else beside you… Then you two separated, and I chased after you for two years. When you agreed to be my girlfriend that day, you don’t know how happy I was… Then again, I can’t help but compare myself with him…”

Anran really couldn’t bear to listen any further, so she interrupted him and took out the bracelet he gave her the day they confirmed their relationship and put it on the table. “You take this back. Today’s meal is a breakup meal. Let’s go our separate ways.”

Cheng Zhi was flushed from the alcohol. Staring straight at the jade bracelet, he suddenly became a little angry and asked, “I knelt down for you, but you still won’t forgive me?”

This statement was very immature. Which law stipulated that one must be forgiven if they knelt down?

But Lu Anran was too lazy to give a drunk the time of day. She tried to calmly reason with him, “Perhaps we weren’t right for each other at the beginning, and I wasn’t as good as you thought I was. Since we weren’t right from the beginning, why continue to be wrong? And I also have my own problems… Let’s just be friends, okay?”

Feeling touched wasn’t the same as being in love. This kind of feeling was unfair to Cheng Zhi in the first place. In the past few years, there had been many men chasing after her, and there were many with superior circumstances, but she just couldn’t get through that hurdle. She wanted to force herself to try it several times, but she couldn’t be at peace with the idea of getting intimate with a man in the future.

She felt that she was stubborn in this regard. Gu Liangchen had been married for three years, had a wife to sleep next to every night, but she had never thought about accepting other men.

She thought that it might take a long time, but it wasn’t until Gu Liangchen came into her life again that she realized that this matter had nothing to do with time.