"Of course it's true. Why would I lie to you?" Mu Yijie stopped and coldly retorted.
Yong Shanling's eyes instantly welled up with tears. She desperately held them back, forcing herself not to cry. She mustn't cry in front of him!
"Is it because of those words I said in a fit of anger? But they were all false!
I got together with you back then because I liked you. And I only recently found out that your constitution can speed up my cultivation. I had no idea before. You can't break up with me so resolutely just because of a few angry words I said!" Yong Shanling desperately raised her head to keep her tears from falling. She stared intently at that figure, hoping to see a look of reluctance on the man's face.
However, there was nothing. It seemed as if Mu Yijie hadn't heard a single word she said. His expression remained unchanged, still as cold as ever.
Her heart felt like it was floating in mid - air, with no sense of security at all. She couldn't help but say in succession, "You can't deny me just because I borrowed some of your merits and cultivated a bit more easily. Were all our past experiences of life and death together and our solemn vows all fake?"
Through her blurry vision, she looked at the man opposite. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he actually smiled. "You even believe what a man says? When the feelings are strong, who hasn't said such things? Only you were silly enough to take them seriously. I really don't know whether to call you naive or stupid."
Mu Yijie's mocking words were like poisonous arrows shooting into Yong Shanling's heart, piercing it to pieces.
"But you weren't like this before. How could you have changed?" Yong Shanling couldn't help but blurt out, only to find that she was already choking with sobs and crying uncontrollably.
Seeing Yong Shanling's painful appearance, Mu Yijie's fingers in his pocket twitched. He used all his strength to control himself from rushing over to hold her in his arms and comfort her.
"Nothing is unchangeable." After Mu Yijie said that, he turned around and walked away.
"Mu Yijie, if you leave today, then it's really over between us!" Yong Shanling was taking a gamble. She was betting that Mu Yijie couldn't forget their feelings for each other.
Mu Yijie paused for a moment, then took another step and walked out.
He left Yong Shanling alone behind, crying.
In the following days, the two of them were like strangers, hardly communicating at all. Yong Shanling was like Mu Yijie's shadow, always following behind him as a dedicated bodyguard.
"Clatter." Mu Yijie put his chopsticks on the table, picked up his clothes, and turned to leave.
Yong Shanling quickly swallowed the food in her mouth, picked up her small bag, and was about to chase after him.
"You don't need to follow me today. I have something to do." Mu Yijie looked completely business - like, without a trace of tenderness.
"Okay..." Yong Shanling stood there absent - mindedly, watching Mu Yijie quickly walking out. He looked so anxious, as if there was something that had been haunting his dreams and was attracting him.
For some reason, she felt restless, as if something big was about to happen.
She didn't know that there was a flash of pain in Mu Yijie's eyes as he turned his back to her.
In a high - end coffee shop with a quiet environment, there was a woman in a light green long dress, exuding an air of classical elegance. She was sitting there quietly, looking out of the window.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Suddenly, a deep, slightly hoarse and magnetic male voice sounded beside her.
She looked up at the man and saw a man with deep - set features, full of charm. His brows were slightly furrowed, as if there was something that had been bothering him all the time. With his cold expression, it added a touch of melancholy, which made women even more crazy about him.
She was a bit surprised. She didn't expect the son of this prestigious family to be so handsome. "It's okay. I came early."
After Mu Yijie sat down, Han Jinyu smiled generously. "Hello, my name is Han Jinyu. Jin means the precious jade in 'precious jade'."
"Hello, I'm Mu Yijie. You can just call me Yijie." Mu Yijie smiled politely.
Seeing his lack of interest, Han Jinyu became even more interested. "It's all my father's fault for being so worried about me. It's troublesome for you to come here with me when I'm just here for fun. But I'm very obedient and won't cause you too much trouble."
"It's okay." Mu Yijie replied coldly, showing no interest in chatting further.
After that, Han Jinyu tried to find several topics, but every time Mu Yijie was a topic - ender, answering with one or two words at most. Even so, Han Jinyu stubbornly tried to keep the conversation going for several rounds.
Finally, Han Jinyu propped up her chin in a bit of annoyance and closed her mouth. She carefully observed the man opposite.
Mu Yijie's sword - shaped eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and there was an indelible sadness in his eyes. His nose was high - bridged, not flat like most Chinese people's. Finally, his thin lips carried a hint of sharpness and temptation.
"Are you heartbroken?" She suddenly said, pulling Mu Yijie's wandering thoughts back.
He looked at the girl opposite in surprise and for the first time really looked at her. "How did you know?"
Maybe he was really too depressed inside, so it was easy for a crack to be opened in front of this stranger.
"It's obvious. I'm such a beautiful girl sitting in front of you and chatting with you enthusiastically, but you're so cold. Either you're gay or you have a girlfriend." She smiled slyly. "But if you had a girlfriend, you wouldn't be sitting in front of me alone. So there's only one possibility, which is that you're heartbroken!"
She said briskly. The originally classical and elegant aura on her added a touch of liveliness, making Mu Yijie seem to see Yong Shanling.
He shook his head, thinking that he must be really obsessed. He could see Yong Shanling's shadow in just anyone.
He lowered his head and said a bit dejectedly, "There were many reasons for my breakup with my girlfriend. I originally thought that the two of us could always be together, but in the end, I found that we had never been on the same path."
Han Jinyu listened to his vague words and had a guess in her mind. It must be another case of a couple breaking up after finding that they were not compatible due to various internal and external factors.
This man was really excellent. It would be a bit of a pity to just let him go. She listened to him quietly while thinking this in her heart.
"Do you still love each other?" She directly asked the most essential question.
Love?
He recalled Yong Shanling's tears. "We do. But her future is too far - reaching. I can't keep up with her. I can't accept the fact that we'll gradually drift apart in the end, so I had to let her go."