Chapter 1741: Not in Love

“Do you want to spit it out first before crying?”

Xu Tingting closed her mouth again, chewed it up, swallowed, and then, with a “wah,” burst into wailing.

Xu Shu in the living room looked up immediately.

“Where is the cat crying?”

A servant passing by whispered and, seeing Xu Shu, looked up along his line of sight, “Young master, is the young lady crying?”

Xu Shu stopped her, “Don’t go up.”

“Okay…”

What happened, to cry so terribly, the young lady has been protected by two brothers since she was young, no one ever dared to wrong her, and she never cried like this before. Usually, just a sniffle, not even actual tears, would make her two brothers hurt for her, pampered and spoiled as she grew up smoothly, never having experienced any setbacks.

What happened?

Nan Jiaojiao sat down next to her, gently patting her back to soothe her.

Xu Tingting grabbed Nan Jiaojiao’s sleeve, trying to wipe her tears and snot on it. It was almost there when she realized and grabbed a few tissues to rub on her face.

“Jiaojiao, last night… I saw the surveillance footage.”

Nan Jiaojiao paused her hand, “Did you go get it yourself?”

“No, Brother Mo came to find me, and I begged him to get it for me. In the private room… I saw everything.”

Nan Jiaojiao sat down.

Xu Tingting cried almost to the point of losing her breath. She clutched her chest, slowly calming down, and spoke out sentence by sentence: “I really never thought he was like that. When I was with him, it was so pure. We would often go catch dolls, go to the zoo, the amusement park, and he would be afraid I’d fall off the carousel, he wouldn’t sit, he’d just stand next to me holding my hand. I was so shy even about hugging him, kissing…”

She covered her face, “We never actually kissed. I didn’t really resist it, but he never brought it up, so our relationship was always pure. Previously when we traveled abroad with friends, I shared a room with another girl, and he stayed in the next room with other guys. He wouldn’t play out too late, even if the guys had gatherings, he’d send me back to the hotel first, saying only then he could feel at ease. Such a person…”

“Such a good person, how could he be like that…”

“Jiaojiao, you don’t know…” Xu Tingting held Nan Jiaojiao’s hand, “So many people envied me, saying he was very gentlemanly. Only now do I realize, the reason he didn’t touch me, was that he simply didn’t love me. Or maybe, he couldn’t let go of the campus romance, so he kept dragging it out with me. I’ve seen that girl, she’s the daughter of Zhongsheng’s head, where he interned, and recently, she got a full-time position…”

Xu Tingting isn’t completely naive in love. She has been well-protected since childhood, but with her dad and second brother working from home, they never avoided her. Anything she was interested in, they would teach her, always grooming her as the successor of the Xu Family’s enterprise. The Xu Family business is large, and after Xu Shu went into medicine, Xu Qingbo couldn’t manage it alone. He has invested a lot in Xu Tingting since she was young, without reservation, and no underhanded schemes for power within the family bloodline. Every school holiday, if she wanted, he would take her along. Over the years, Xu Tingting was never just a pampered and materialistic heiress.

Song Jin’s promotion was too sudden. She had heard about Zhongsheng Group’s tendency to exploit interns, finding excuses to force them to resign before their term, leaving them with no responsibilities.

And during his internship, Song Jin had no outstanding achievements, and even several times his ideas in group projects were rejected, reducing him to a coffee-running errand boy.