After Differentiation, I Marked My Arch-nemesis - Chapter 82

The moment Jiang Youli put on her shoes, ran to the entrance, and opened the door, she froze. Standing there was Lu Yaoyi, with red, tear-filled eyes, looking at her.

Lu Yaoyi seemed to be shrouded in an extremely low-pressure aura.

Her nose was red, clearly showing that she had been crying.

Their eyes met.

Jiang Youli was surprised to see Lu Yaoyi’s watery eyes. She hadn’t seen Lu Yaoyi cry since they were little. Seeing Lu Yaoyi cry again after so many years, Lu Yaoyi’s wronged look took her by surprise.

Lu Yaoyi… was actually crying…

She stared at Lu Yaoyi blankly and said softly, “Lu… Lu Yaoyi…”

All day long, Lu Yaoyi had tried desperately to forget what Jiang Youli said on the school broadcast today, but she couldn’t find any reason to deceive herself into forgetting. She looked at Jiang Youli in front of her and choked out, “Is what you said on the broadcast today true? Is it true that you said you like Pei Jingning?”

Jiang Youli was stunned.

“Is it true that you said you want Pei Jingning to be your Omega? Is it true that you said you want to be Pei Jingning’s Alpha?” Lu Yaoyi’s vision was blurred by the tears welling up. “Jiang Youli… tell me, is what you said today true?”

As she finished,

Two streams of hot tears slowly slid down her cheeks.

When Jiang Youli saw the tear stains on Lu Yaoyi’s face, her heart suddenly felt like it was being twisted, and she felt a sharp pang of pain. She looked at the crying Lu Yaoyi and felt sad along with her. She felt like her whole heart was clenched in a knot, and she couldn’t breathe.

Her eyes felt hot, and her once-dry eyes instantly became moist with tears.

She suddenly felt so sorry for Lu Yaoyi.

She felt so bad for her that she wanted to cry uncontrollably.

“You said that if Pei Jingning said yes, you would mark her,” Lu Yaoyi’s voice was filled with a faint sob from sadness. “Is it true that you… you said you would mark Pei Jingning?”

When Jiang Youli heard Lu Yaoyi’s cries, tears unconsciously streamed down her face.

Her heart ached terribly.

She felt so bad for the pitiful Lu Yaoyi. She wanted to hug Lu Yaoyi and wipe away her tears, but that unknown fear tightly wrapped around her, making it hard to break free. It was as if there was an invisible wall in front of her that prevented her from taking the first step. In the end, her heart ached so much that she went against her true feelings and said in a low voice,

“It’s none of your business.”

Lu Yaoyi froze.

Thump—

It was as if something hot and beating had shattered into pieces.

Jiang Youli’s words instantly shattered all of her defenses, leaving her completely broken.

She finally couldn’t hold back anymore and started to cry. “It’s none of my business…”

“Yeah…”

The tears couldn’t stop pouring out of her eyes.

All of her pride and strength were completely shattered in front of Jiang Youli. She cried while wiping away the endless tears. Her voice was filled with a heartbroken sob. “It’s none of my business… It really has nothing to do with me…”

Jiang Youli’s heart was in a panic as she watched Lu Yaoyi crying while covering her face.

She couldn’t stand to see Lu Yaoyi cry.

She suddenly wanted to go forward and pull Lu Yaoyi into her arms and hug her tightly.

But her limbs seemed to be stiff, and she didn’t act.

Lu Yaoyi’s uncontrollable cries kept entering her ears. She frowned deeply, and tears kept pouring out. The pain in her heart was so intense that it felt like it was being ripped apart and ground into dust.

Just then, she saw Lu Yaoyi slowly putting down the hand that was wiping away her tears.

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli in front of her with bloodshot, hopeless eyes.

This was the girl she had liked for so many years…

She held back her sobs and swallowed all of her sadness and grief, then spoke calmly.

“Jiang Youli… I wish you happiness.”

She pursed her lips and quietly said in her heart—

Goodbye.

Then she turned around and walked away quickly without looking back.

Jiang Youli stood at the door, watching Lu Yaoyi’s back slowly disappear into the hazy night. The breeze blew, and the tears at the corners of her eyes left a watery trail on her face. She slowly raised her hand and touched her face, only to realize that she was already crying uncontrollably.

She was so sad that she actually cried…

In an instant,

Her mind replayed the scene of Lu Yaoyi crying just now.

Why did she feel so sad because Lu Yaoyi was crying? Why did her heart ache so much when she saw Lu Yaoyi like that? Endless tears slid down her cheeks and dripped onto the ground. She suddenly realized that she cared more about Lu Yaoyi than she thought.

A strange yet intense emotion gradually magnified.

The true feelings that she had been selectively avoiding in her heart for a long time erupted like a tsunami.

The seed that had been buried deep in her heart finally broke free and sprouted from the soil.

It was finally able to see the light of day.

She thought she finally knew why now.

“Dingding.”

Li Henian’s gentle voice suddenly came from behind her.

Jiang Youli turned her head with teary eyes.

Li Henian saw Jiang Youli’s tear-stained face and stopped in surprise. He then walked over. “What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”

“Who was at the door just now?”

“Was it Yaoyao?”

As soon as he finished speaking,

Jiang Youli suddenly ran over and buried her head in Li Henian’s warm embrace.

She hugged Li Henian’s waist and sobbed softly, “Little Dad…”

Li Henian didn’t know what was wrong, so he could only hug Jiang Youli tightly. He knew very well that his precious daughter was not a child who cried easily. Something must have happened to make Jiang Youli cry like this. He didn’t ask any more questions and gently stroked Jiang Youli’s back. “Dad’s here. If you want to cry, just cry.”

Jiang Youli buried her head in Li Henian’s arms and cried heartbrokenly.

“Little Dad… I…”

I think I’ve fallen for Lu Yaoyi.

The evening breeze blew gently.

Lu Yaoyi wiped away her uncontrollable tears while slowly dragging her heavy steps toward her home. Her thin and frail figure looked lonely and pitiful in the moonlight. She looked up at the bright moon hanging in the night sky with tear-filled eyes.

The pure white light of the silver moon reflected in her dark eyes, looking particularly beautiful.

Slowly,

A self-mocking and bitter smile gradually appeared on her lips.

She was wrong.

She thought that she had been wrong all along.

She shouldn’t have proposed the partnership to Jiang Youli in the first place. She originally thought that as long as she got close to Jiang Youli, Jiang Youli might slowly fall for her after a long time. It wasn’t until today that she realized that she was not only wrong but had also completely lost.

A partnership without love, no matter how intimate the contact was, was just an empty shell with nothing inside. The so-called relationship she thought they had was actually nothing at all.

She was never Jiang Youli’s Omega.

And Jiang Youli…

Never belonged to her.

Jiang Youli tore up the pheromone detection report in front of everyone and said that she would never like her or mark her, and she would not admit that they were a perfect match. But today, Jiang Youli confessed to Pei Jingning in front of the whole school.

And she even said she would mark Pei Jingning.

She clearly remembered that on the night she was comforting Jiang Youli during her heat, she told Jiang Youli that she could mark her if she was in too much pain. Not only did Jiang Youli hold back from marking her, but she also said that the person she marked would be the person she liked.

The fact that Pei Jingning could make Jiang Youli say she would mark her showed how much Jiang Youli must like her… So this was the difference in treatment between liking and not liking someone?

Tears fell.

When she thought of this, she covered her face and cried uncontrollably.

It seemed like…

Jiang Youli really liked Pei Jingning…

Lu Yaoyi walked to her doorstep with a broken heart under the moonlight.

The door opened.

Lucky wagged its tail and ran toward Lu Yaoyi.

As soon as Lu Yaoyi saw Lucky, she remembered the first time Lucky came to her house, and all the little things between her and Jiang Youli. Her emotions instantly collapsed, and tears streamed down her face. She crouched down and hugged Lucky, unable to control her sadness.

“Lucky… she likes someone else…”

“She likes someone else…”

Every sob she let out was heartbreaking and hoarse.

It was as if she was venting all the accumulated bitterness and unwillingness.

She thought that Jiang Youli would probably never know how much those five words hurt her. She was just a clown in a one-sided show from beginning to end.

This ridiculous and sad one-woman show.

It was time for it to end.

It was late at night.

The evening breeze blew in from the window, ruffling Lu Yaoyi’s dark hair on her shoulders.

Lu Yaoyi slowly raised the hand holding her phone. With swollen, red eyes, she stared at the screen and hesitated for a long time. Finally, she called Lu Meishan.

“Mom…”

Her voice was hoarse from crying.

“Sweetheart? Why are you calling me so late tonight?”

Lu Meishan’s gentle voice came from the phone.

When Lu Yaoyi heard Lu Meishan’s voice, she almost couldn’t hold back her tears.

She swallowed and controlled her emotions, making her voice sound normal, no different from usual. “Mom, I miss you.”

Lu Meishan’s voice was filled with a smile. “Sweetheart, I miss you too.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mom, there’s something I want to tell you.”

Lu Meishan: “What is it?”

Lu Yaoyi: “I… I want to go to the capital.”

Lu Meishan: “You want to come to the capital?”

Lu Yaoyi looked down slightly. “Mhm, I want to transfer to Capital High School.”

“Didn’t you say you couldn’t bear to leave Dingding?” Lu Meishan asked Lu Yaoyi softly. “Why did you suddenly change your mind and want to transfer to the capital?”

Tears fell from Lu Yaoyi’s eyes like pearls.

She frowned deeply, suppressing her emotions, and said calmly, “Because Mom is too lonely in the capital by herself, and I want to be with you.”

She was as if she was saying that she was too lonely in Jiangcheng by herself.

Lu Meishan: “Are you sure?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm.”

Lu Meishan: “Okay, then we’ll do the paperwork for you to transfer to Capital High School next Monday.”

Lu Yaoyi: “I’ll leave for the capital tomorrow.”

Lu Meishan: “You’re coming to the capital tomorrow?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Mhm, tomorrow.”

Lu Meishan: “Then Mom will pick you up at the airport.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Okay.”

The two of them hung up.

Lu Yaoyi wiped away the tears on her face and looked up at the bright moon outside the window.

She thought she could watch Jiang Youli be happy from a distance.

But, when it really came down to it,

She realized that she couldn’t stand by and watch Jiang Youli with someone else. She couldn’t calmly face the fact that the person she had liked for so many years had someone they liked. But she sincerely wished Jiang Youli and the person she liked happiness.

She and Jiang Youli had grown up together and had known each other for sixteen years.

It could be said that they had never been apart in these sixteen years.

This time, she would make the choice.

Instead of being sad and heartbroken alone, she would leave Jiangcheng and leave Jiang Youli.

Maybe if she left, she could figure out what her heart truly wanted.

Maybe…

She would forget about Jiang Youli when she went to the capital?

She didn’t know what would happen in the future.

Since that was the case,

She would let time tell her the final answer.