190 Ai's counter arguments
Liu Hai choked in his throat. Jian and Nian coughed hard.
Water…somebody please give us water…
Jinhai cocked his brow as he gazed at her sharply.
Liu Hai, Jinhai and the twins had first hand experience of how it felt with getting confronted by Ai. Her words were so sharp and lethal that it could make your heart bleed without any mercy.
The twins recalled how she looked when she had jammed the popsicles in their mouths that day outside the library.
Ai didn’t look angry. But she was angry, and now that sentiment had only been amplified by several folds.
Ai raised her head and faced Jin, and the animosity in her light brown pupils returned. “You should understand that I am pleased to meet everyone here except you.”
Jin narrowed his eyes.
“And I hope you also understand why I slapped you.”
Grandma Liu trembled. “You…How could you just barge in and slap my great grandson!?”
Ai glanced at her. “I will come to you later. First, I want to talk to your great-grandson.”
The twins shuddered.
Bro. Why does the ‘I will come to you later.’ part sounds like she is some assassin giving a death threat to her target?
She froze. “You…”
Nana came to her side and gently said, “Grandma, please calm down. Let her…” she looked at Ai with a complicated gaze, “Let her say what she has to.”
Ai looked back at Jin and asked, “Do you know why I slapped you?”
Jin said nothing.
“You have been uttering nonsense about your brother. You are asking him if I am the reason why he broke up with Han Shui. Then let me answer you. No, Jun did not break up because of me. I have nothing to do with their breakup. My job is letting you know my stand. I don’t care if you believe me or not. Then you asked how Jun could jump to another ship so soon? Which means that you are implying that he never loved Han Shui that much or that he didn’t care much about her that he could find another woman so soon, isn’t it?”
Jin said nothing.
“Then let me tell you. Firstly, if you could accuse Jun of not loving Han Shui with all his heart, then you don’t know Jun at all, and you are not fit to be his brother.”
His brow ever so slightly twitched, and his eyes faintly flickered with a tinge of peril.
“Secondly, I don’t understand why you are quantifying love like that. He loved Han Shui since his childhood, so does it mean that Jun should only fall in love with someone else after another twenty years or so have passed? Will it only then prove that he loved Han Shui enough? That is simply bizarre. Whether he falls in love within two months after breaking up or after twenty years, it doesn’t have any connection to the love he held for Han Shui, and it certainly doesn’t give you any right to question his feelings.”
She tilted her head. “Love cannot be restricted in a time frame like that. You or anybody here cannot define when a certain someone should fall in love or when he shouldn’t.”
Ai slightly leaned and narrowed her eyes. “How easily Jun could fall in love with someone is basically what you are asking. But have you stopped in your tracks and ever wondered what you define as ‘easily’ and how actually ‘easy’ it was for Jun could hold a difference as large as the sky and the earth? You really don’t understand what Jun went through all this time, do you? You are all just looking at the end result and judging him, but you didn’t stop to think how hard it would have been for Jun to open his heart for a second time and give love a second chance, right? That, for me, is incredibly selfish and demeaning.”
Her voice was calm and unhurried, but the weight of those words she spoke fell heavily on everybody.
“That’s…that’s preposterous!” Grandma Liu exclaimed. “Jun and Shui are perfect together. I don’t know why Jun would suddenly feel that they are not meant for each other. It’s definitely because of you,” she wiped her eyes, “Otherwise, we know Jun! He would never say things like this.”
Ai frowned. “Jun and Han Shui are not perfect together.”
Shui widened her eyes. That was the first time somebody expressed that notion about Jun and her relationship in all these years.
Grandma Liu was dumbfounded. “What do you mean? Who are you to say that!?”
“I mean, Jun is imperfect as a person. Han Shui is imperfect as a person too. I don’t see why two imperfect people will come together and make a perfect couple? Two imperfect people is a recipe of only bringing more imperfections in a relationship. The concept of perfection simply doesn’t exist.”
At that point, Jun had an urge to say, ‘But I am perfect’ though he thought it was better to keep his mouth shut and not voice his opinion. So, he remained quiet as Ai told him to.
“You can say that Jun and I are most compatible with each other. But we are not perfect as a couple. Perfection is a totally different notion.”
Once again Jun begged to differ, but he kept his mouth shut.
“On what basis are you defining them as a perfect couple? Because both are childhood friends? Because both are from rich families? Both their families are good friends? Because both look beautiful and so they look good together? These are all external factors, and they don’t have anything to do with their relationship. It needs compatibility and understanding, not the status of wealth and childhood friendship. Right, Liu Jin?”
Jin smiled. “It’s very easy for you to say these things because you have Bro Jun by your side, don’t you?”
Ai blinked and stood unfazed. “It is irrelevant if he is by my side or not. This is what I firmly believe in, and it won’t change even if Jun doesn’t hold the same opinions as me. Whether Jun loves me or not, whether he stands with me or not, what I feel is what I feel. You talked a lot until this point. Now, I would like to ask you some questions, Liu Jin.”