pertwk Chapter 41: It really was him! Regret and anguish spread like wildfire.
Chapter 41: It really was him! Regret and anguish spread like wildfire.
Just that one glance,
Shen Wenjing's petite body suddenly trembled, as if struck by lightning, and she froze on the spot.
Her eyes widened instantly, her eyelashes trembling violently as she stared intently at the boy's figure outside the door.
The faded blue and white school uniform, the half-eaten ice cream in her hand, the profile of her face—it was all too familiar.
It's southern Jiangsu, it's actually southern Jiangsu.
This discovery was like a red-hot branding iron, searing her heart.
Her throat was terribly dry.
It felt like countless blades were scraping against it.
Every breath was excruciatingly painful, even to my heart.
It was as if they were being held tightly by an invisible hand.
She was in so much pain she couldn't breathe.
Is it just my imagination?
It must be an illusion; I don't believe it.
She blinked sharply and bit her tongue.
When she opened her eyes again, the figure standing outside the door was still the one she knew all too well.
It wasn't a hallucination after all.
It really is southern Jiangsu.
The boy from a poor family, whom she despised from the bottom of her heart.
That boy she looked down on, treated coldly, and barely spoke a word to—
The boy at the dinner table tonight who explicitly refused to fulfill the arranged marriage, preferring to shorten his lifespan by twenty years rather than accept Shen Yuqi or Shen Jianping.
So that's how it is.
She longed to rise in status and become a phoenix.
Want a chance to defy fate?
It has never been anywhere else.
Right in front of her,
It was once in the palm of her hand.
But she was blinded by greed.
He personally handed over this incredible opportunity.
this moment,
Her heart was breaking.
Overwhelming regret
Like a rising tide, she was instantly engulfed.
It filled her head, it filled her chest.
She thought about her own coldness and indifference towards Su Nan.
She remembered telling her grandfather and mother that she would never marry Su Nan.
I remembered how she tried to please and expect things from Shen Yuqi and Shen Jianping.
Thinking of all this,
He immediately regretted it.
"vomit"
Shen Wenjing felt a sharp pain in her heart, and a sweet taste rose in her throat, a metallic sweetness.
"Wenjing, what's wrong?"
Zhao Meiting was the first to notice something was wrong. Seeing the bright red blood flowing from the corner of Shen Wenjing's mouth and dripping down her chin, she was so frightened that her voice changed, and she quickly reached out to support her.
"Why are you bleeding? Are you still suffering from an infectious disease?"
Meanwhile, Zhu Xiaohua panicked and quickly took out a tissue from her pocket to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth.
But Shen Wenjing seemed not to hear her.
He remained pressed tightly against the crack in the door, his eyes fixed on Su Nan outside.
Large tears streamed down her face, mingling with the blood in her mouth, leaving two messy streaks.
They didn't know,
Shen Wenjing's mouthful of blood was not due to any kind of contagion.
She was so angry and frustrated by her own stupidity that she vomited blood.
Panting, Shen Wenjing leaned against the wall and swayed as she straightened up.
After the deepest regret, a glimmer of desperate hope emerged in her heart.
It's not too late now, is it? If she humbles herself and begs Su Nan, perhaps Su Nan will remember their past relationship.
This thought,
In the hearts of the desperate, it grows like wild grass, taking root and sprouting at the slightest thought.
She turned around abruptly and frantically reached out to push away the wardrobe and desk blocking the door.
The solid wood wardrobe was originally very heavy; she couldn't move it by herself at all.
But at this moment, I don't know where the strength came from.
He gritted his teeth and forced the wardrobe to move half a meter away.
She also overturned the desk to the side, making a jarring sound.
"Wenjing, what are you doing?"
Zhao Meiting and Zhu Xiaohua were both startled by her crazed appearance and quickly pulled her away.
"I want to go out."
Shen Wenjing flung their hands away, reached out and pulled the lock on the door, yanking open the tightly closed door with a clatter.
She stood at the doorway, quickly smoothing her disheveled hair, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth and the tear stains on her face.
She forced out a sweet, slightly shy smile.
She called out weakly to the figure in the corridor.
"Brother Su Nan"
The shout silenced the previously noisy corridor instantly.
Zhao Meiting stood there, stunned, her eyes wide open.
She took a deep breath, thinking that she had to seize this opportunity.
He rushed over and grabbed Su Nan's leg without hesitation.
She begged him to give her a chance, but upon hearing her best friend's words...
He stood frozen in place, staring incredulously at Shen Wenjing's retreating figure.
"Wenjing, you...you know a deity?"
Zhao Meiting stammered, "If you know me, why did you say you should believe in science before?"
"This...this..."
Luo Shaofeng, Lin Luoxue, and the others all turned their heads to look at Shen Wenjing at the door, their eyes filled with doubt and curiosity.
They turned to look at Su Nan, and instantly began to make plans in their minds.
This girl knows Senior Su Nan and even calls him brother. Could she be Senior Su Nan's sister?
If that's true, then we'd better try to curry favor and get closer to them.
After all, they would naturally dote on and protect Su Nan's family, sparing no effort to build an even closer relationship.
"Senior Su Nan, is this... your sister?"
Luo Shaofeng quickly took half a step forward and asked Su Nan in a respectful tone.
"She's not my sister. I'm not close to her; she's just someone from the same village."
Su Nan took a bite of the remaining popsicle stick in her hand and casually threw it into the trash can next to her.
He glanced at Shen Wenjing indifferently, his tone flat, revealing no emotion whatsoever.
"Oh, just someone from the same village."
The respect and desire to curry favor in Luo Shaofeng's eyes vanished instantly.
Judging from Su Nan's indifferent expression, their relationship must be extremely ordinary, or even somewhat unpleasant.
So he glanced at Shen Wenjing, then looked away, no longer harboring the strange thoughts he had just had.
"What...what did you say?"
The smile on Shen Wenjing's face disappeared after hearing those words.
She froze instantly, her eyes reddening in an instant, tears streaming down her face like broken beads, her voice trembling with sobs.
"No, no, Brother Su Nan, it's me, Wenjing! It's me, Wenjing, the one you're betrothed to as a child!"
Shen Wenjing called out in a choked voice, while smoothing her hair, wondering if she looked so disheveled that Su Nan wouldn't recognize her.
"I have no fiancée, and there's no arranged marriage between us."
Su Nan only glanced at it before shifting his gaze from Shen Wenjing's face to the strange, malevolent spirit with a large belly not far away.
"Da da"
These words struck Shen Wenjing like a hammer blow, shattering her last hope and causing her to involuntarily take a few steps back.
"I...you..."
Her expression was changing drastically.
She couldn't hold it in anymore.
Overwhelming regret, grievances, and despair instantly crushed her, along with her feigned sweetness.
She stood there, looking at Su Nan's cold, expressionless face.
She burst into tears with a "waaaah".
She cried uncontrollably, her whole body shaking so much she could barely stand, and could only stand by holding onto the door frame.
Tears streamed down her face as she watched Su Nan's retreating figure, with only one thought in her mind.
If there were a pill to undo regrets, she would take it no matter the cost.
She wanted to go back to the time before tonight's dinner party.
Going back to before she said those heartless words,
She wanted to seize that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that she had personally discarded and treated like trash.
"No, I can still talk to my parents. After all, marriage is arranged by parents and matchmakers. Su Nan is angry with me, but he listens to his parents. Should I call my parents and ask them to come and arrange the marriage again?" Shen Wenjing thought frantically to herself.