Su Mu looked at Fu Shinian:
"Are you planning to send Zhou Yaxian abroad?"
Fu Shinian nodded, seated himself in his office chair, seeming to feel tired, and pinched the bridge of his nose: "Yes, her staying in the country is not good for any of us. Going abroad is more conducive to her recovery, so there really isn’t anything inappropriate about it."
When Fu Shinian finished speaking, Su Mu had no particular reaction. She didn’t speak, nor did she display any distinct emotion. Fu Shinian’s gaze slowly fell on her face, and after a few seconds, he chuckled, but it was a cold chuckle. He said:
"What? Can’t bear it? Think I’m doing sothing wrong?"
Su Mu slightly furrowed her brows but didn’t express her dissatisfaction. She shook her head:
"What do I have to bear? After all, Zhou Yaxian is nothing to ."
"Really?" Fu Shinian snorted coldly: "But this afternoon on the hospital rooftop, what I saw didn’t seem to match what you’re saying. You care about her a lot, even more than about . Frankly, I’m really curious about how you would have ended things if Wen Shaoyuan hadn’t arrived later."
Su Mu ca to reconcile, so even though Fu Shinian’s words were sharp, she always tried to think positively. She cald her emotions, walked over, and stood beside Fu Shinian. Noticing that his glass on the desk was empty, she picked it up and turned to fill it with water, but Fu Shinian stopped her with his voice:
"There’s no need to fuss about these things. I want to hear your answer."
Su Mu’s movent stiffened, and she put down the glass and looked at Fu Shinian:
"What do you want to hear say?"
"I want to hear the truth."
Su Mu was silent for a few seconds, then spoke:
"If Wen Shaoyuan hadn’t co today, I think I would have compromised to Zhou Yaxian’s demands to save her, even if it ant registering marriage with Wen Han."
Perhaps it was an illusion, but Su Mu felt the air around her cool because of her words. She looked into Fu Shinian’s eyes, which were brewing with frost, and tried to speak in her defense: "No matter how you look at it, Zhou Yaxian standing there was still a human life at risk. If I can, I will rescue her. I can’t just watch her jump to her death, I can’t..."
"You can’t watch her die, but you can kick to the curb, is that it?" Fu Shinian stood up, approaching Su Mu step by step.
Actually, since their reunion, Su Mu had never been afraid of Fu Shinian. On the contrary, she had been rather bold due to his spoilage, acting spoiled. She felt insecure about him, so much so that she had to use such laughable thods to prove herself. So, at this mont, when she felt afraid of the current Fu Shinian, she herself was surprised. She involuntarily took a step back, but Fu Shinian did not allow her retreat and seized her wrist, halting her movents.
"Su Mu, what am I to you? What exactly do I represent to you? I thought there were so things unsaid between us, but you understood. I thought I mattered to you as much as Qiqi does. But today I realized, despite everything I’ve done, I am still sothing you can dispose of easily."
"I didn’t..."
"You didn’t? But this afternoon, you indeed ignored my feelings and chose to marry Wen Han. Although in the end, thankfully, it didn’t go that far, the fact is, Su Mu, you had that thought, and I’ve been abandoned by you - that’s the truth," Fu Shinian said with a cold laugh:
"Since you ca back to , I have never brought up remarriage out of concern for your feelings, afraid that the previous failed marriage would be a pressure for you, so I never ntioned it. I wanted to make it up to you, to give you the feeling of love that you missed, to conform to your wishes. As long as you didn’t ntion marriage, I wouldn’t force you. I wanted to respect you. Whatever you wanted to do—contacting Wen Han, looking after Zhou Yaxian—I agreed to it all. But I never thought that there would co a day when I would no longer be your choice."
"If I had known this would happen, perhaps I shouldn’t have thought so much. I should have just disregarded your feelings and will and dragged you off to get married. If I really had done that, then the events of today wouldn’t have occurred, Zhou Yaxian would have given up on you and Wen Han, Wen Han wouldn’t be calling you for every little thing, and I wouldn’t have been unguardedly stabbed in the back."
Fu Shinian looked at Su Mu without reducing the pressure in his grip:
"Su Mu, do you really like ? Or did you co back to my side just to take revenge for how I abandoned you and your mother before? I used to think you liked , although not stated, but I could feel it. But today I have lost that confidence. I feel as though I am dispensable to you."
Su Mu’s wrist was in pain from his grip, a feeling that Fu Shinian would usually have noticed by now, but today, probably because he was so angry, he did not notice it at all. Instead, the pressure increased due to Su Mu’s struggles. It took Su Mu a long ti to calm her emotions before she could settle herself:
"I never thought of taking revenge, coming back to you ant just that. If you think it’s for revenge, then I have nothing to say. You can choose to drive out of Gui Ning Residence, before those so-called acts of revenge take place. But before that, I still want to say, I’m very sorry about today’s incident. I never thought of giving up on you, but neither did I think I had the ability to save soone and yet choose not to, just because of so temporarily put-aside matters. Fu Shinian, try to consider it from my perspective. If I hadn’t been there today, it would have been different, but I was, and I couldn’t act as if nothing happened."
Fu Shinian looked at Su Mu for a few seconds, then slowly smiled. He released her hand, and noticing the mark of red, his brows slightly furrowed. He hadn’t expected to unwittingly exert so much force. He wanted to step forward to offer comfort but couldn’t persuade himself to do so due to the anger churning inside. He averted his gaze:
"Su Mu, let’s remarry."
Su Mu slightly furrowed her brows, surprised by Fu Shinian’s sudden proposal under such circumstances.
She wasn’t opposed to remarrying, nor was she unable. In fact, their ti together rely lacked legal confirmation; they were no different from any normal married couple. Therefore, Su Mu had been prepared for Fu Shinian to propose remarriage at any mont, but it wasn’t supposed to be now.
Seeing that Su Mu did not respond, Fu Shinian also felt displeased and spoke:
"What? You can marry Wen Han but not remarry ? Could it really be as I guessed, that you actually don’t want this at all? That staying by my side has a hidden agenda?"
Thinking from Fu Shinian’s perspective, Su Mu understood that he was extrely upset, so she tried to keep herself as calm as possible:
"Shinian, let’s talk about this after we’ve both cald down, okay?"
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