Soaked in the warm hot spring water, I slowly closed my eyes, and the steaming of hot air made my pores open, and the fatigue I had seemed to have been relieved a lot in recent days.

The hot springs here are very distinctive. The open-air hot spring pools are not big and scattered everywhere. Each one is surrounded by either green bamboo or rocks, which separates a relatively private ce, making it rare to be quiet and elegant.

There was a rustling sound in the flowing water. I opened my eyes and Li Ya had already entered the water, just one arm away from me.

She didn't look at me, her eyes were far away, as if she was looking at a part of the black sky. Under the moonlight, her face was not very clear, and the rising heat made it a little more ethereal between us.

Li Ya didn't speak, and I didn't say anything. After a while, Li Ya said softly, "I'm sorry." Her gaze was still far away and she couldn't find the focus, and her voice was very subtle, but I could still hear it clearly.

Just when I was about to tell her there was no need to say sorry to me, she had already changed the subject lightly.

"I know you have always been avoiding Zhou Yelin because of what I told you that day. I understand the purpose of your doing so. You want to maintain our friendship well, but in the end it was because of him. We made a fuss to this point. Chuxia, you don't understand that feeling. When I heard your name from him, my brain was paralyzed instantly. Even though I clearly knew that you would not be like him, I still couldn't help guessing... I was really jealous of you. That was the only man I loved with all my heart. What he was hiding in his heart was my best friend..."

Li Ya said, shook her head, and there seemed to be a faint smile on her lips. Such an expression had never appeared on Li Ya's face. When she smiled, she was always open-minded and cheerful. Now her shallow smile is full of pain, which made me feel tighter and sad.

I wanted to comfort Li Ya for a few words, but opened my mouth but couldn't speak. Li Ya didn't seem to need my comfort, so she paused for a moment and continued to speak on her own.

"Actually, I also know that although Zhou Yelin is considerate of you, he will not do anything that is good. He regards his future as more important than anything, and will not do anything that can give him a handle. As long as it may damage his progress, he will never touch it. But as long as it can help his career, he will definitely do it."

"...Ha, I really hate him. If he didn't marry me, I might have cut off that thought. Even if I can't have a marriage now, I can still squander my life like before. Why is it better than now? There is nominal ties with marriage. What about the reality? The family is already cold, and I have to decorate my love outside."

"Divorce." I looked at the moonlight reflected on the water, and the ripples slightly arose, and I thought I had been rubbed hard. "What's the point of persisting in marriage like this? If you follow the alan..."

"No." Li Ya interrupted me quickly, "I don't have that kind of feelings for Alan. Although it is unfair to Alan, you may think that I will do it, but Alan is just a comfort for my marriage failure. Maybe I like him, but not like Zhou Yelin. Maybe, I will be with Alan, and I also want to take revenge on Zhou Yelin. If his heart is not on me, I will hand over my body to others."

"Divorce, Li Ya, why do you torture yourself like this?" Having reached this point, why do you bite the bullet and continue. Leaving Zhou Yelin, she can still find happiness that truly belongs to her.

Li Ya shook her head firmly, "No, I won't get a divorce, I know he won't, even if he tortures each other, I will go to the end. Early summer, you may think I am ridiculous, pretending to be happy to accept everyone's envy, but there are scars with pus and blood inside. I can no longer heal, I can only let it ulcerate."

Li Ya didn't give me a chance to speak this time. After she finished speaking, she got up and stepped onto the steps and put on a bathrobe. Before leaving, she said to me: "Even if I understand everything, I can't face you now. In the early summer, you are the first person who almost goes crazy to make me jealous for more than 20 years... Give me some more time, don't come to me before I take the initiative to meet you."

I suddenly felt a cold feeling on my shoulders. When did the autumn night wind become so cold, it makes me feel cold from the bottom of my heart. I shrank my shoulders and sank a little, letting the hot water over my neck and drown my nose. Finally, I closed my eyes and sank into the water. As soon as the tears came out of the corners of my eyes, they were already integrated with the hot spring water.

The underwater world was silent, and I could not see or hear anything, because I held my breath and my brain stopped working, but I felt relieved. I was greedy for the temperature of the water and even didn't want to get up. When I knew that I was on the verge of suffocation, I burst out of the water and inhaled in big breaths.

Because of the difference between spring water, air and temperature, I kept shaking, wrapped my bathrobe tightly and jogged all the way back to my residence. Ji Qiuchen stood at the door of my room.

His long body leaned against the wall by the door, lowered his head slightly, and his whole body looked indescribable. When he looked at me, he suddenly raised the corner of his mouth and smiled full of sunshine at me.

"After soaking in the hot spring for so long, you are not afraid of nosebleeds. Hum?" Ji Qiuchen naturally raised his hand and touched my wet hair, as if the distance I deliberately created before was not present.

Since Ji Qiuchen learned that I lived in Xu Binwei's house, he has become more and more likely to appear in Dingsheng. Every time he comes, he will bring me some things. Sometimes it is my favorite snacks, and sometimes it is some exquisite gadgets. Although it is insignificant, most of them carry our common memories. He said that he wanted to recover me was not just a verbal statement, he was serious.

"Do you have something to do with me?" I said indifferently, in an alienated tone.

Ji Qiuchen frowned slightly, but still greeted him with a smile, "If you have nothing to do, can't you find me?"

"Uh... it's getting late, I'm going to go to bed..."

Ji Qiuchen obviously didn't want to hear my bad excuses, so he simply took out the room card from my pocket and put it in the door lock sensing area. With a dripping sound, the door opened.

"I've been standing at the door for so long, at least let me go in and sit for a while."

Ji Qiuchen's smile on his face did not change. After saying that, he pushed the door and walked in without waiting for my reaction. Seeing that I was still standing stiffly at the door, he grabbed my wrist and pulled me in. His strength was very strong. I tripped under my feet in slippers and fell straight into his arms.

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Chapter completed!