Chapter 1170 - 782: He Says He Likes Me, But Makes Me So Sad

The two of them fell silent for a while. Yin Shuying didn’t say anything more, and Su Xiaomeng really had no way to open her mouth and ask...

But this curiosity was like a cat’s paw scratching and scratching at her heart... torturing her to death.

A minute, two minutes... Xiao Meng didn’t even know how long had passed before the quiet air was finally broken again by the person involved...

"He was a senior, I was a freshman. After he graduated he went straight into grad school at our university... He... is a total academic nutcase. Don’t be fooled by his wide range of hobbies and all his extracurriculars—if anything clashes with his research, what he chooses and what he drops is self‑evident."

"Basically I chased him, so I deserved to get hurt. Madam, there are really too few young people now who dare to boldly confess to the person they like... They’re too smart; they know the one who speaks first is the loser..."

Yin Shuying was plucking at the grass around her, talking like a sulky child...

The one who speaks first is the loser... huh? How can love have that kind of winner‑loser theory...

Little Mengxin thought to herself.

But this was also the first time Su Xiaomeng had heard anything about Chi Lun from someone else’s mouth, and the first time she really felt what it was like when joking carried an undertone of sadness...

"He’s really amazing. Other people rode bikes, he used skateboards, rollerblades... street dance, singing, instruments... I won’t say he’s a master of everything, but he’s good enough at every single one. Any girl would probably be half‑dead in love with someone like that..."

"Back then... I was just his little follower. He played basketball, I stood on the side watching, handing him water and shouting ’go, go!’ I sweated as much from cheering as he did from playing a whole game... hahaha..."

When Yin Shuying said this she must have remembered those scenes from back then; she suddenly started laughing for no reason.

"When he got sick, I could carry him on my back from his dorm building all the way to the campus clinic... whoever tried to help on the way I wouldn’t let them, just felt like he was mine... mine to protect... hahahaha..."

"..."

"Madam, twenty‑year‑old girls... are all stupid. But stupid to the extent I was... there probably aren’t any others... That was how my uncle talked about me back then..."

"But me... I just refused to admit defeat. The more he ignored me, the more I rushed forward to stick to him, burying my own self‑respect bit by bit in the dirt... By the time he was willing to actually look me in the eye, I’d already lost all trace of my dignity..."

"As long as he glanced at me, I’d feel happy already... Isn’t that stupid? Everyone lives for themselves... How did I end up, because of this man, living into the very version of myself I used to despise the most... haha..."

Yin Shuying laughed, and then she cried.

"Chi Lun... he didn’t like you?"

Su Xiaomeng felt her mouth going dry; after a long while she finally managed to murmur this question...

"He said he liked me... he said he liked me... Junior year... I got pregnant... He said it wasn’t the right time now, that if we had the baby both his and my studies would be delayed... I went to have an abortion, he said he would come... Right up until I went into the operating room I kept clutching my phone, waiting till my heart went cold, and finally I did wait for something... I waited for a photo from one of his female grad classmates... He was lying naked on her bed..."

Yin Shuying covered her face with both hands... that joking tone slowly turned into forced composure, and in the end she couldn’t hold it up anymore; the solid fortress in her heart collapsed.

Chi Lun...

The Chi Lun in Yin Shuying’s mouth and the Chi Lun she knew were basically two different people...

"The canna he planted... are for you..."

Su Xiaomeng couldn’t understand. If Chi Lun didn’t have love for Yin Shuying, why would he plant these cannas and keep them going year after year... As if he were waiting for her return.

Yin Shuying wiped the tears off her face... the curve at the corner of her lips made Su Xiaomeng’s own eyes go red...

She could hardly imagine what kind of pain a person would have to endure to show that kind of bleak, desperate expression...

"He planted cannas... promising me a solid future, telling me to wait, to endure, to understand, telling me... to get rid of our child, to get rid of the only child I might ever have in my life... haha..."

Let alone Yin Shuying, just listening to her, Su Xiaomeng’s heart clenched in pain along with her.

"A man, he says with his mouth that he likes you, but he makes you suffer that much... Madam, Chi Lun basically doesn’t have a heart..."

Yin Shuying’s gaze was fixed on those few cannas... After all these years, there was too little she could say... Maybe there had once been tender sweetness between them, but Yin Shuying couldn’t bring herself to say even a bit of it...

Su Xiaomeng pressed her lips tight; all she could do was get up and go back inside to fetch her some tissues...

If she told Yin Shuying that these few cannas were exactly the ones Chi Lun had originally planted for her... Su Xiaomeng really couldn’t imagine what kind of consequences there might be...

Yin Shuying stayed in Jun Garden for a long time. Su Xiaomeng called Mengqin Main Courtyard; Joe picked up, and she told him that Shuying would be sleeping with her that night, chatting and such, so Joe would sleep alone.

In reality Xiao Meng just arranged for Yin Shuying to rest in a guest room and went back to the master bedroom herself.

After Yin Shixiu came back from Zheng Garden he immediately sensed something was off... Then seeing Su Xiaomeng return to the bedroom with her eyes all red...

"Why did you bring Shuying to Jun Garden?"

"Yin Shixiu, I’ve found that whenever you do something you like to kill several birds with one stone, huh! You couldn’t even just send me flowers in a simple way, you had to tack on helping your niece get revenge and yank out Chi Lun’s cannas too?"

Su Xiaomeng came in with a whole string of accusations.

After listening, Yin Shixiu asked her, "May I ask, Madam... exactly what are you blaming me for? Not sending flowers in a simple way, helping my niece get revenge, or pulling out Chi Lun’s cannas?"

"You still dare to joke with me!"

Su Xiaomeng rushed up to Yin Shixiu, pushing him down to sit on the bed, then reached out and grabbed him by the neck...

"No wonder you and Chi Lun never saw eye to eye... every time I asked you, you liked playing coy. If it hadn’t been for these cannas today suddenly hooking up Shuying’s sad memories... I might never have known I work with a scumbag every single day!"

Su Xiaomeng had already let go of Yin Shixiu’s neck and sat down on the edge of the bed by herself, her face full of anger...

Yin Shixiu stared up at the ceiling...

It really was something from so long ago, from before he even met Su Xiaomeng...

"Chi Lun is a scumbag, and Shuying is a fool... Put those two together, of course it’s not going to end well."

"...Aren’t you supposed to be the smart one? Why didn’t you stop it back then?" Su Xiaomeng shot him a contemptuous look.

Yin Shixiu straightened up, sat beside her, and looked at her helplessly. "Back then Shuying’s parents were all for her being with Chi Lun. They thought Chi Lun was a rare talent. What do you think a mere uncle could say?"

He’s not someone who meddles.

"Besides, at the time I asked Shuying: if you suffer for it in the future, will you regret it? That little girl was so naive, shaking her head hard and saying she would absolutely never regret... Meng Meng, not every man is like your husband, responsible and willing to shoulder things..."

"..." Su Xiaomeng slowly turned her head... and glared at him!