Back Then, I Adored You

It was Su Qing. She was still in the pink dress that she had been wearing when he had bumped into her at the hospital earlier in the morning; however, she had changed out of her stilettoes and into a pair of baby pink slippers.

She looked at him calmly and with a steady, emotionless voice asked, “Jiayan, are you getting married soon?”

When Qin Jiayan heard Su Qing’s voice again, he finally blinked his eyes and shifted his eyes away from her face. He then slowly straightened his body and nodded his head lightly at her without speaking.

“Are you going to marry that girl I saw at the hospital this morning?” Su Qing continued.

Qin Jiayan remained silent and didn’t even nod at her.

“She was quite pretty, and you two look quite compatible together. I also saw you accompany her to buy a ring. Is it a wedding ring or an engagement ring? When do you two intend to get engaged? When are you getting married?”

An unexplainable sense of rage burned in Qin Jiayan’s heart when he heard Su Qing’s queries.

I wanted to leave with you back then, but you refused and now that I’ve started afresh, you come over and began to grill me with questions. So, what exactly do you want?

“She is pretty…” Qin Jiayan shut his eyes and inhaled deeply. Without waiting for Su Qing to finish what she wanted to say, he directly cut her off, “At least she doesn’t want me to be just her lover. We can openly hold hands in public. No matter how I look at it, she is quite good.”

Su Qing had intended to keep asking questions, but instead she paused and looked at Qin Jiayan. While her expression remained as calm as before, Qin Jiayan strongly felt an inexplicable sense of sadness emanating from her.

A muted sense of pain pulsed in Qin Jiayan’s heart, and he could clearly feel his resolve fail and his heart soften for her.

Afraid that he would behave foolishly a third time, he didn’t dare to remain any longer, and he turned to walk out of the restroom.

“Jiayan!” Su Qing called out his name again.

Qin Jiayan slowed down, but he did not stop. Just when he was reaching the exit of the restroom, he heard Su Qing’s voice again. “Jiayan!”

He instinctively wanted to stop but, coincidentally, his phone began to buzz in his pocket. When he took it out to look, it was a call from Xia Yi. He answered the call without hesitation.

“Jiayan, where are you? The ring is wrapped up. I’ll come over to look for you…” As Qin Jiayan listened to Xia Yi’s soft, fluffy voice, he tried hard to suppress the rage that Su Qing had sparked, and he replied gently, “It’s okay. Stay in the shop and wait for me. I’ll be over in a jiffy.”

After Qin Jiayan said that, he ended the call and left the restroom without turning back to look at Su Qing.

After the sound of his footsteps could no longer be heard, Su Qing then lowered her head and stared at her hands as she mumbled softly, “Jiayan, I stopped you merely because I wanted to give you my well wishes personally.”

However, today, I finally realize how far apart we actually are now, and you don’t even want a basic blessing from me anymore.

Su Qing sighed softly as her hand secretly caressed her belly. She continued to space out briefly in front of the sink before she left.

After she returned to the mall, she coincidentally caught sight of Qin Jiayan, who was leading his fiancée to the elevator.