Chapter 1: Encounter at the Bar

  After the directors left, an eerie silence filled the public office!

  Files scattered all over the floor, two people standing back-to-back motionless, the air conditioner was turned up high, making the spacious room devoid of any warmth.

  Ou Mu Xuan stood quietly, admitting that he was concerned about her past, concerned that there had been a man who had been so intimate with her, and cared that she was willing to lower her self-esteem, throw away her pride, and even have children for that man!

  If what Lin Xue said was true, if she had really used her own body to gain such glory, if...

  These things, all happened when he cared about her. Logically speaking, he should have thoroughly abandoned Ye Xuan and completely let go of her, thoroughly erasing her from his heart. But now, seeing these slanders, seeing her trapped in trouble, he still wants to help her.

  Although he couldn't forgive her past, why was he reluctant to let go?

  Ye Xuanmo stood with her back to him, she knew he was aware of her past, and she also knew that no man could accept these stains.

  But he is Ou Mu Xuan, the one who would always protect her no matter what happens, yet he would also distance himself from her because of past events.

  Heart, painful almost shattered, but this is also good, so she can thoroughly die of heart, thorough no entanglements!

  "Does the current me make it hard for you to face?" Ye Xiangyu smiled quietly, although she was already heartbroken and couldn't breathe, but on her face, she pretended to be nonchalant.

  "I won't force you to accept me like this," Ye Xuan continued, "Of course, you don't have to either. No matter how unbearable it is, that's still my life. I won't regret any of the choices I made back then!"

  If she were given the chance to choose again, she would still skip school with Xiaozhe, still stand guard outside the principal's residence for two days and two nights, still fold her designs into paper airplanes and throw them into the home of the design department head, and still choose to work as a dancer at Lawrence Bar when Xiaozhe fell ill!

  "Are you kidding me?" Oumu Xuan suppressed her anger and smiled coldly, "Just to have a place to live, even without love, I would marry another man?"

  "......" Ye Xuan's smile was weak, "Did Lin Xue tell you?"

  "How long do you want to deceive me?" Ou Mu Xuan clenched her fists, "And that little kid, he's not even your brother, is he? She's your..."

  "He is my son!" Ye Xuan's words were snatched away by her, spoken with neither humility nor arrogance!

  She actually... actually admitted it so easily, and still with such pride. As an unmarried mother, what is she proud of?

  His name is Ye Yize, five and a half years old. Since she said it, Ye Xuanmo simply said clearly, "Giving birth to him was the most correct thing I did in this life."

  "What's the most correct thing?" Ou Mu Xuan sneered, "Then what's the most incorrect thing you've done?"

  "Nice to meet you!" Ye Xuan replied without hesitation. The most foolish thing she had done in her life was meeting him six years ago, and now, six years later, not only did they meet again, but he actually liked her?

  If she had a choice, she would never come back here again and never meet him again!

  Was meeting him the biggest mistake of her life? Anger instantly replaced all rationality, Ou Mu Xuan suddenly turned around, grasped her body, and pinned down her shoulders.

  "So who did you meet that was the most correct, Lin Xue? Si Tu Luo Tian?! " Ou Mu Xuan said fiercely, her amber eyes filled with uncontrollable anger. "You didn't regret stripping yourself bare in front of Si Tu Luo Tian, didn't regret giving birth to his child, yet meeting me is a mistake?!"

  Is this the kind of person Si Tu Luo is? A sense of shame that makes Ye Xiangyu furious, yet on her face, there is still a disdainful cold smile.

  "Yes, everything I've done for him, I've never regretted, because he once lived in my heart for many years. But you, I've never liked, never loved, and that's the biggest mistake!"

  "Y...". Ou Mu Xuan grasped her shoulders tightly, as if he wanted to tear her apart!

  Has she never liked him? Has she never loved him? Then what has he been in her heart all along?

  His hand grasped her shoulder, making it ache as if the bones were about to be crushed. But what hurt the most was her heart. She had sworn not to fall in love with anyone again, vowed not to let herself get hurt again, but now she was once more a bloody mess.

  Ye Xuan didn't refuse, didn't struggle, and quietly let him hold her, letting the pain spread throughout her body.

  "Ye Xuanmo, what am I to you in your heart?!" Ou MuXuan asked word by word, each word carrying all his anger!

  And Ye Qianmo gazed into his eyes, telling him word by word, "In my heart, you are nothing."

  Anger surged up in his heart. Was everything just an illusion? Had he been overthinking all along, had he been the only one with feelings?

  "Ah...cough, cough, cough..." The sudden onset of a coughing fit caused Oumu Xun to release her, turn around, and tightly cover her mouth, trying to suppress the sudden cough, but it was all in vain.

  His chest felt like it was going to explode, and with each cough, his internal organs were in sharp pain, even making his brain go blank, and he couldn't see anything in front of him.

  However, no matter how much physical pain he was in, it was nothing compared to her words, which cut him sharper and made him harder to bear.

  She asked him again and again if he liked her, if it was the kind of like that would last a lifetime. At that time, her eyes were full of longing, making him mistakenly think that she liked him, but...

  Now he likes her so much, it's the kind of liking that lasts a lifetime, the kind that never leaves or abandons. But she comes to tell him that she has never liked him!

  "Cough...cough...cough..." The violent coughing seemed endless, and the tall, straight body bent over in agony.

  The violent coughing sound made Ye Xuanmo unbearable, he had taken good care of her and protected her well, but he never knew how to take care of himself. This Ou MuXuan made Ye Xuanmo's heart ache.

  "You... you're fine..." Ye Xuan's words were not yet finished, when he saw fresh blood slowly flowing out from between his fingers, along his arm, and slipping into the black lining of his clothes...

  "Ou... Ou Mu Xuan?!" Ye Xuan Mo rushed over, grabbing his hand, "What's wrong with you? How could..."

  "Mind your own business!" Ou Mu Xuan shook off her hand, suppressing the surging blood and subsiding pain in his body, and endured the overwhelming urge to cough.

  "But you..."

  "If you've never liked me, if even meeting me is a regrettable thing for you, then," Oumu Xuan steeled herself, "disappear from my sight immediately, don't let me see you again!"

  Ye Xuan's eyes widened in shock and she froze.

  She thought her heart had already hurt to the limit, but his words exceeded all her pain limits.