Jian Suiying's facial muscles twitched violently. He desperately wanted to slap Li Yu across the face twice. Did he really think the only thing he couldn't let go of was that money?
Jian Suiying suppressed his rage and slammed the elevator button open.
"Either you get in now and get the hell out, or I'll toss you out the window."
Jian Suiying snapped:
"I don't have a home. My mom's dead, my dad remarried. I don't have a damn home."
Li Yu's eyes filled with sorrow.
"Then let's make a home together. Brother Jian, I'm a mess right now, but I'll definitely
become a man you can rely on. You like me, right? Keep liking me. This time, I absolutely won't let you down."
and regretted why he'd ever been so sickeningly earnest about planning their future—when this person had
never cared about him at all.
He wasn't that kind of person to begin with, and it turned out he wasn't cut out for such deep affection either. Everything that had happened
was the consequence of his own overreach. So now, every glance he cast at Li Yu was pure torment.
Jian Suiying snapped, "Have you no shame? When did you, the second young master Li, become so shameless as to cling to a man like this?"
Li Yu's face turned pale. "Didn't you always say that one day I'd crave you so badly I'd be willing to die for you? You said
You were right. I do like you. There's no reason for me to let you go and be with someone else."
Li Yu sensed something and called out behind Jian Suiying: "What did my brother say to you?"
Li Yu opened his mouth, his voice heavy.
Jian Suiying trembled as he asked, "Are you out of your mind?!"
Even a debauched playboy like him hadn't come out to his father about loving men. Though his father knew, as long as the truth remained unspoken, he could keep up the pretense year after year.
In the end, it was all karma he had sown. Now, everything lay in shambles. Ever since learning of Li Yu's coming out to his family, his heart had been in turmoil.
Li Yu had done something even he had never considered doing. To say he felt nothing about it was impossible.
He only wished to never see her again, to live his own life without blame.
Li Yu shook his head. "I've thought this through calmly. I like you. I won't be with anyone else."
He paused, then looked at the door behind Xiang Jian and Sui Ying, his voice bitter:
"You can't be with anyone else either."
Xiao Zhu felt uneasy as he walked home from work, unexpectedly encountering two drunks.