Chapter 299: Look Clearly at Who I Am (9)
Translator: Paperplane Editor: DarkGem
That night, he walked mindlessly around in the rain for a very long ti. The next day, he had a fever and locked himself in a hotel room. He spent seven days and seven nights in bewildernt before completely waking up.
His phone had many missed calls, mostly from the dia. One of the ssages he received was from Qiao Anhao, congratulating him in receiving the best supporting male award at the Golden Film Festival.
As he saw her ssage, he instinctively wanted to reply, but just as he typed the two words, "Thank you", the mory of what happened on the night of her birthday ca over him like a rushing tide. His fingers stopped typing for quite a long ti, then he ended up slowly deleting the letters, one-by-one. He put his phone done, stood up, and walked over to the hotel’s floor-to-ceiling window. There, he stared at the bustling city under the sun’s rays with a pitch-black heart.
Actually, he was even more hurt by the fresh flowers and cake that Qiao Anhao threw out than Han Ruchu’s words.
All along, he only worked hard to better himself so he could love her. He never thought about whether she loved him or not.
After that, Qiao Anhao went to Hangzhou about three tis. She even invited him to eat with her. Before, her ssages would be like a surprise from the skies, but for him back then, they were torture.
Crushes in your youth mostly end in failure. He told himself to leave it at that, but who knows if it was his heart playing tricks on him, but the less he saw her, the more he missed her. There was even one ti when he went back to the hotel to get so rest after filming and he saw a woman who wore the sa clothes as Qiao Anhao. In spite of everything, he stupidly stood on the spot and stared for a long ti. It was only after his assistant had called him a few tis that he snapped back to reality. Later, his mood beca extrely low for no reason.
Later, two months after graduation, he went to Beijing for an event, where he unexpectedly bumped into Xu Jiamu.
During their free ti, he and Xu Jiamu stood on the balcony smoking. He thought about what Han Ruchu had said to him and pretended to casually ask, "I hear the Xu family and Qiao family have an arranged marriage?"
When he heard arranged marriage, Xu Jiamu furrowed his brows. Then he took a deep drag of his cigarette. He gently made a "mmm" sound.
The hand with which he held his cigarette trembled gently. Then he took a longer drag than Xu Jiamu. After a while, he asked, "Da Qiao or Xiao Qiao?"
For Xu Jiamu, when he found out that his own engagent had nothing to do with love but to bring the Xu family so benefits, it didn’t matter who he married... At that ti, when Xu Jiamu knew about the arranged marriage, but still didn’t know who he was going to marry, he didn’t know that Lu Jinnian had fallen for Qiao Anhao. If he knew, he would have definitely not have answered like he did He only assud that Lu Jinnian was asking who he preferred out of the two, and so he answered, "Of course, it’s Qiao Qiao."
With such a very simple, very casual answer, he forcibly transford Lu Jinnian’s deep love into a forbidden love.
Actually, when he heard the answer, his expression was stiff. Perhaps it was because the light was dim, but Xu Jiamu didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. He even patted his shoulder and said that he’d be treating the night after. He was going to treat him and friends that he hadn’t seen for a long ti to play.
Lu Jinnian didn’t hear what Xu Jiamu said, but he nodded awkwardly.
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