Novel Full 187 A strange enmity
Jun wasn’t sure how to explain, and he knew that he was completely at fault here. Since childhood, he was obsessed with Shui. He followed her everywhere, declaring her his wife at every chance he got. He molded the situation around himself and Shui to the point that it could never strike anyone that one day would come where they might fall apart.
It was the same in his past life. Shui’s rejection on her twenty-fifth birthday to his proposal had come as a huge shock. For a long time, nobody could believe that Jun and Shui would never marry now. Whether Shui broke up or Jun, the news was bound to rattle everybody hard because that’s how Jun had built that future over the years.
He now knew how his past life led to such a miserable end for everybody. But it was hard to explain his decision without any context, especially when they seemed happy in their relationship.
Nana worriedly asked, “Jun, have you and Shui fought perhaps? If it’s like that, then we can talk and sort it out.”
Xinyi agreed. “Yes. There is no argument that cannot be solved by a good conversation with each other.”
Jun stared at them and faintly smiled. He shook his head. “We have not fought Mom, Aunt Xinyi.”.
His gaze fell on Shui once and then Jin, who watched him with great intensity. “It’s just compatibility between us that…I have finally realized it. I know we are great friends. But that’s what we are just meant to be. Good friends. We don’t see a future as a husband and wife together.”
Grandma Liu was slightly trembling in the wheelchair. “Jun…how…how is it possible? Everything was going so well…” she looked at him with her misty eyes.
Jun hastily bent on his knees and held her hand. “Grandma, please. Please calm down. I really don’t want to give you or anybody else tension about this matter. I just came here to tell the truth because I cannot keep fooling both the families anymore. It’s…a hard thing to explain, but that’s just how Shui and I feel. That’s why we couldn’t say it immediately.”
Her hands slightly shook as she held his head between her palms. “H-How can we not stress about this? You have always loved Shui so much. You couldn’t wait to m-make her your wife…How can you be happy? How can she be happy…?”
Grandma Liu muttered to herself in a daze in a very low voice, “So…what Jin said was true…”
Jun furrowed his brows. “What did you say? Grandma?”
Grandma Liu snapped from her stupor and shook her head. “Jun, dear. It’s definitely a misunderstanding! I-I heard you and Shui had a few arguments in the past months. But that happens between every couple. There is no need to break up over this. I…just want to see you happy, Jun…”
Xinyi and Zhiyuan looked at Shui and so did Nana at Jun in bewilderment.
“Fights about what?”
They didn’t expect that they should know every single thing about their relationship but if there were frequent fights which possibly brought them to the point of a breakup, then they felt that as parents, they needed to know where things went so wrong.
Jun and Shui hesitated. To the world, they may seem as really small fights, but only Jun knew how these small incidents had cascaded into a tragic future in his past life.
Jinhai, who kept quiet until now, spoke up, “It’s a matter between them. Both are adults to understand what they want and what they do not want from their relationship.”
His words incited a shocked reaction from everybody. How could Jinhai accept it so easily?
Zhiyuan narrowed his eyes. “I do want to know. It’s bizarre. He never stopped chasing after Shui for all these years and now suddenly he says that it’s over? Did you forget that he even ordered a ring for Shui?”
Jun clarified. “I did. But then I cancelled it.”
Nana and Xinyi widened their eyes. “But…”
“You had misunderstood that day. I wasn’t there to collect the ring. I was there to cancel the order. That day, I came to admit that I broke up with Shui. But Great grandma fell sick, and everybody thought I was going to propose to Shui. I felt it wasn’t the right time.”
Siying walked upto Shui and gazed at her silently. “Shui, what do you think about this? Are you and Bro Jun really happy with this? Have you really thought this through?”
Shui recalled right from the very first moment when Jun broke up with her to the New Year’s Eve that had turned things ugly between them. It was the biggest confrontation that had made her realize many things to which she was unaware before.
She slowly nodded. “Yes, Bro.”
There was a deep silence. For years now, everybody assumed that Shui will be the daughter-in-law of the Liu family one day. But now that the most awaited marriage was never going to happen, it was difficult to digest such a huge setback.
Nana rubbed the corner of her eye and asked, “Jun…are you really sure? Tell me the truth. Are you really happy?”
Jun stared at her. He thought about Ai, and his gaze turned warm. “I am happy, Mom.”
He knew that it would be another bomb dropped upon them if he came out about his relationship with Ai at this moment. But now that things have reached this point, he wanted to be clear about everything, whether it was his broken relationship with Shui or his new relationship with Ai.
He wanted everybody to know that he was in love with Ai, and the only woman in his life was Ai.
Jun took a deep breath and said, “Mom, there is something-“
“I wonder if Bro has really thought things through.”
Jun’s next words were sharply cut off by Jin’s interruption. He blinked at Jin, who was gazing at him with a strange enmity in his eyes that he never saw before.
Jin smiled. “Have you really thought things through, Bro Jun? Or are your actions a result of getting enamored because of a certain woman?”