âJi Mujing, have you ever thought about it? Maybe what I want is not for you to bear alone it, but for us to share the burden together.â
âDo you want children? How will you deal with your parents? These things are not for you alone, and this choice shouldnât be done by you alone.â
These sentences made him stiff.
After coming back to his senses, Ji Mujing wanted to explain himself, but Xue Xue shook her head at him.
âI know you will say that this is to protect me, and I also believe that you really want to protect me, but this is not what I want.â
âYou know Ji Mujing, in my eyes, love should be a relationship in which both the involved party can share their happiness, pain, and have a shoulder-to-shoulder relationship.â Xue Xue paused. âInstead of one person in front and one behind.â
Xue Xueâs words were shocking to Ji Mujing.
He never seemed to think about that.
âTake Zhang Fangâs matter for an example. If you had chosen to ask me first that day, or expressed your dissatisfaction with me in a more rational way, perhaps Wang Yuqi would not have had the opportunity to take advantage of it.â
âTake the matter of Ji Xuan again. If I didnât put forward the two choices and you just took the initiative to fight for the custody of Ji Xuan, think about it, Ji Mujing, would you use Ji Xuan as a way to solve the problem between me and your parents?â
âFirst, fulfilling filial piety, and second, fulfilling marriage, isnât it the best of both worlds?â
Ji Mujing wanted to say no, but the terrible thing was that when he looked into Xue Xueâs eyes, this word couldnât be uttered.
Because he knew himself, if he didnât find out how deep his feelings for Xue Xue were in the first place, and then realized that he couldnât lose Xue Xue, he would have put Xue Xueâs wishes first. After thinking about it, Ji Mujing would definitely make the decision Xue Xue said.
He didnât even have to think about it.
Because this was the optimal solution in Ji Mujingâs heart.
âYou canât deny it, can you?â
âBut have you ever thought about what it would mean if I didnât do a good job in my psychological well being and didnât ask you to find someone to investigate Wang Yuqiâs life abroad because I sensed something was wronged and keep Ji Xuan in this home? It means you will allow Wang Yuqi to step into this home.â
âBecause she is your sonâs mother, because she is your parentsâ grandsonâs mother, you have no right to stop her from visiting.â
âEven if you can stop her, your parents wouldnât allow it, and once Ji Xuan cries and wants to look for his mother, can you really be indifferent?â
Ji Mujing did not give an answer, because Xue Xue gave the answer for him.
âYou canât do it, Ji Mujing.â
âIf Wang Yuqiâs dark history hadnât been made public, if I was indifferent because I couldnât accept Ji Xuan, if I was a student who only cared about giving without asking for anything in return, and was willing to put myself out there like Xue You, who was in the most humble position, you wonât think that I canât lose it, so I wonât be cruel to Wang Yuqi.â
Xue Xue showed a smile that was uglier than crying.
âYou donât have to deny it, and I donât want to hear your repentance.â
âJi Mujing, I just want to say everything in my heart.
âLet go.â
âIt can be regarded asâŚsaying goodbye to the girl who only has you in her heart.â
Xue Xueâs words made Ji Mujing feel like he had fallen into an ice cellar.
He found that things were not what he thought.
How confident he was before, and how ashamed and uneasy he was after hearing what Xue Xue said.
Especially when looking at the clear apricot eyes and the ink pupils that reflected his pale face, Ji Mujing desperately found that he really couldnât find a trace of infatuations.
In the past, she was either angry or coquettish, sad or shy, despite the ups and downs of emotions, Xue Xue always had feelings for him in her eyes.
But now, he couldnât find it.
Vaguely, the man had a hunch that what was lost would no longer be in his possession, and what was missed would never come back.
But even so, he still didnât want to give up.
Never give up.
System: âJi Mujingâs favorability has risen to 100%, and the clientâs grievance has dropped to 10%.â
The depressed mood lingering in her chest disappeared.
Along with her farewell.
Xue Xue expected this. She expressed Xue Youâs mood and expressed Xue Youâs heart.
And one of the things Xue You regretted most was not telling Ji Mujing these things in person.
Communication is very important, but people often tend to interpret problems from their own perspective and take it for granted.
Ji Mujing made this mistake.
Otherwise, even if there was a child like Ji Xuan between them in the previous life, they would not have gone to the point of life and death because of Wang Yuqiâs intervention.
For Wang Yuqiâs evil deeds, Xue Xue will make her get her retribution. But even without Wang Yuqi, there were still problems between Ji Mujing and Xue You, especially Xue Youâs compromise on love and Ji Mujingâs hindsight about love was inevitable.
It just depended on when and how it erupted.
In her last life, Wang Yuqi was a fuse.
In this life, this fuse was successfully removed by Xue Xue, but before that, even if there was no deliberate calculation, what should have happened still happened.
Because of oneâs character, the fuse will always still exists.
However, just like the butterfly effect, there are still many things that have changed invisibly because of Xue Xueâs arrival, and these changes have led everyoneâs destiny to a different direction.