Chapter 24

But the truth was that everything she had personally done was, in itself, a tremendous harm to Lin Dang. At this moment, even she could not help wanting to curse herself for being hypocritical.

Yes. You are clearly a very selfish person, yet you still insist on pretending that all of this was because you were forced by love. Who are you putting on this act for?

Listen to what Lin Dang said.

She said that from today onward, she and you are no longer friends. She told you to get lost. Are you happy now?

Isn’t this exactly the goal you have always wanted to achieve?

She was happy.

So happy she was about to cry.

Facing Lin Dang’s falling tears, Huo Wan raised a smile that seemed casual and lazy. The smile did not reach her eyes, concealing very well the bitterness deep within them.

“Fine. You don’t have to look at me like that… In any case, I stopped wanting to be friends with you a long time ago.”

Indeed, it had been a long time. A very long time.

But now that her long-cherished wish had finally been fulfilled today, there was not the slightest trace of joy.

…..

Huo Wan watched Lin Dang’s figure move farther and farther away, and her own heart sank little by little along with that retreating back.

The man beside her wanted to take her away from this irritating place, but unexpectedly, the moment he reached out and touched Huo Wan, he was flung off by her.

“Get lost.”

Song Yu looked completely at a loss. In just a short dozen minutes, two women had thrown cold faces at him one after another. No matter who it was, that would not feel good, right?

What exactly was wrong with them?

How could Huo Wan have the time to care whether he felt good or not? In any bailiantales.comcase, she herself felt terrible right now.

“I won’t be with you, and I never said anything like liking you. Go find someone else. Don’t bother me.”

….

The matter very quickly became known to the adults of both families.

Grandpa, who usually loved his granddaughter the most, lifted his cane and said he wanted to beat this unfilial granddaughter Huo Wan to death, saying she had corrupted morals and had disgraced herself in public.

Huo Wan stood there without moving, letting the sturdy cane strike her back with dull, heavy sounds.

That blow landed solidly. She was almost beaten to the floor, although… it really did hurt.

But in her heart, she actually felt a lot more comfortable.

Mm. She had done wrong. It was only right that she be beaten.

Because of the two children, [unauthorized copy]the relationship between the two families began to become very delicate.

She muddled through two days at home in a daze, until she received a call from the professor at school who was supervising her graduate studies.

Logically speaking, she was supposed to graduate this summer.

There really was not much time left.

The professor meant that he hoped she would continue on to a doctorate and not rush to go out and work. She should learn more, because he felt she truly had talent in this field.

Besides, her family completely had the means for it.

Huo Wan had already been considering this suggestion before. Originally, she had wanted to ask Dangdang for her opinion… but before she could open her mouth, they had already fallen out completely.

She really wanted to see her…

They had not seen each other for a week already.

She opened her email on the computer. Inside, a few read offers lay quietly.

Some were from Washington and New York, and there was also one from London, England.

They were all quite famous medical schools. Her professor had helped send over her personal résumé and had strongly recommended her before leaving her email address.

Her résumé was indeed very impressive.

That university in London was also one she had always wanted to go to. She loved her major very much and was also very proud of the elders in her family.

The only reason she had always hesitated was merely because she could not bear to part with Lin Dang.

If she left unclearly and without explanation like this, she was very worried that the next time she came back, it would be to drink the wedding wine of Lin Dang and Song Yu.

In that case, wouldn’t her nightmare come true?

But now it would not.

Now… even if there really was wedding wine, Lin Dang might not invite her to drink it.

Huo Wan reached out and wiped her face, rubbing her sore, stinging eyes. In her heart, she secretly mocked herself: What is there left to think about? You’re the one who made things turn out like this.

Since there was no longer any possibility of development on the road of feelings…

Huo Wan stood up from the chair, opened the door, and walked out. She leaned against the wooden railing on the second floor, looking down at Grandpa, the person in the family with the most authority, who was sitting on the sofa in the hall below.

“Grandpa.”

The young woman’s voice sounded especially abrupt inside the house.

“I want to go to P University in London to continue studying.”

Seeing that the day she would go abroad was getting closer and closer, Huo Wan handled her own matters while also thinking about one thing.

That was, before going abroad, she wanted to say out loud all the feelings she had carried over these years. It could also be considered fulfilling her own regret and giving this secret crush an explanation.

In any case, things had already reached this point. The worst result could not get much worse. Saying it now instead left her with nothing to worry about. No matter how bad it became, it would ​read the original at bailiantales.com​only be that they would no longer have anything to do with each other in the future.

She did not call Lin Dang. Instead, she went directly to the Lin Group to wait for her.

Monday morning was the Lin Group’s weekly executive meeting. The girl at the front desk had long since become so familiar with Huo Wan that she could not be more familiar. So when she saw Huo Wan arrive, she said nothing unnecessary and directly let her into the lounge.

Only after Huo Wan sat down did she take out her phone and send Lin Dang a text, telling her that she was waiting for her at the company. Why had she not told the other girl in advance? Because she was afraid the other girl would refuse to meet her.

After all, she had done such an excessive thing.

Time passed second by second, minute by minute, yet there was still no movement from the lounge door.

Every time someone pushed the door open and entered, Huo Wan could not help straightening up and nervously looking toward the entrance. Yet every time, it was only the front desk lady coming over to replace the tea that had already gone cold.

“You don’t have to change it next time. I don’t want to drink tea.”

Huo Wan politely said this to the front desk lady, but in truth, she really had not drunk much tea at all.

The electronic clock on the wall slowly jumped to exactly eleven o’clock. ​read the original at bailiantales.com​Just when Huo Wan began growing restless and uneasy, suspecting whether her message had failed to send, or whether Lin Dang had already blacklisted her number,

the lounge door suddenly opened.

A familiar figure appeared in the doorway. Huo Wan stood up from the sofa with some excitement, but in a moment of carelessness, her knee knocked over the freshly brewed tea on the edge of the coffee table. It was scalding hot, and a large patch of her pants was soaked.

She could not help sucking in a cold breath.

Lin Dang’s expression instantly changed.

The two of them clumsily pulled out tissues to wipe the water stains on her pants. At this moment, Lin Dang could not help muttering,

“Why are you still so clumsy?” It was a familiar complaint.

Huo Wan had originally already prepared herself to be treated with cold words.

The hand she used to pinch the tissue paused. For an instant, the expression on her face went blank. Then some kind of moist liquid filled her eyes and unconsciously spilled down.

In a short while, tears had streamed all over her face. She pressed [bailiantales.com]her lips tightly together without making the slightest sound, lowering her eyes to look at the person bending over and busying herself around her thigh.

“I’ll go find some burn ointment.”

Lin Dang straightened up and prepared to walk outside, but what she saw was Huo Wan, already crying like a person made of tears. She opened her mouth, yet not a single word of comfort could come out.

The steps beneath her feet could no longer move either.

Things were different now. The two of them now… what kind of relationship could they even be considered to have?

This time, cutting ties was definitely not like when they were children and had only said it casually. If Huo Wan came here today and could not give her a reasonable explanation, one that could convince her, then perhaps they really would end like this.

The two people in the room were both silent. Lin Dang silently pulled a tissue from the table and handed it to Huo Wan. Her hand had already stretched into the air, but the other girl did not reach out to take it. Lin Dang frowned and was just about to speak, but unexpectedly, Huo Wan spoke one step before her.

“I like you.”