"Know what? Why would I know that?"

"How would I know if you don't say anything?"

Ling Yisheng raised his head and looked at her and chuckled, but his smile was mixed with a bit of sarcasm and sadness.

His smile didn't reach his eyes, and he seemed to murmur, "Or maybe you just didn't think of telling me."

Xiao Jinglan looked at his depressed and dejected appearance, his throat choked for a moment and he was unable to utter anything.

a long time.

She responded without confidence, "I...I know, I'll tell you later."

Ling Yisheng did not give up after hearing this.

He looked at her with burning eyes, and said in a barely audible voice, "What on earth are you thinking now?"

"Huh?" Xiao Jinglan was stunned.

"Why did you go abroad in the first place?"

Before she could react and answer, he continued to ask about the long-forgotten topic.

“……”Xiao Jinglan lowered his head and said nothing.

"You left the country without saying a word, and all contact information was cut off. You disappeared completely. Why?"

"Weren't we still in love at the time?"

Ling Yisheng asked questions one after another, and stood up from the sofa.

"Although you got a little mad at that time, you won't leave just because of that, right?"

"When I went to see you the next day, I learned that you had dropped out of school. I contacted the Xiao family, the Yu family and all the people you might have contacted, but they all said that they had no news about you." Ling Yisheng said as he slowly approached her, his eyes fixed on the expression on her face.

"If the two elders of the Xiao family hadn't lied to me about your whereabouts, and if my father hadn't used his power to stop me from looking for you, I would have flown abroad to look for you long ago!"

Seeing that she remained silent and indifferent, he leaned over the armrests on both sides of her sofa and forced her to answer.

"Lanlan, speak!"

A strong sense of oppression came over me instantly.

Xiao Jinglan had to raise his lowered head.

She looked at the grievance, confusion and resentment on the man's face and suddenly sneered.

The way he looked made people think she was bullying him.

But, it was clearly him who said those hurtful words and did those things, how could he have the nerve to question here like a victim.

Obviously, he was the first person to let her down, but he made everyone in the circle think that she was heartless and ungrateful, and he just walked away like a heartless man.

The funny thing is that everyone around him thinks he is deeply affectionate.

"What are you laughing at?" Ling Yisheng was angered by her unreasonable sneer and the sarcasm hinted in her eyes. His attitude became bad and he raised his hand to pinch her chin and questioned her coldly.

Xiao Jinglan looked at him coldly, a hint of sarcasm flashed across his lips, and he said with annoyance, "Are you going to control even my laughter now?"

"What do you mean?"

The man felt a chill in his heart when he saw the sneer and vague disgust in her eyes.

Because of her extremely unpleasant, cold and distant attitude, the cold pressure around him spread uncontrollably.

The atmosphere between the two of them instantly became extremely cold.

"Have you forgotten who left me alone on the street in the middle of the night? Who suddenly pulled me away from a friend's dinner party without even an explanation? Who took me home and locked me up against my will? Who left me in the basement even though he knew I was afraid of the dark?"

As Xiao Jinglan uttered a long string of accusations, her voice was choked with sobs and tears gradually welled up in her eyes.

"And..." Thinking of what the woman had said to her a few years ago, she couldn't even utter the accusatory words.

When she talked about that sad past, her heart still ached.

After she came back, she deliberately forgot all of this, maintained superficial calm with the man, and always faced it with a nonchalant attitude.

This time, his sudden questioning made her recall those past events that she didn't want to mention.

Ling Yisheng felt sad when he heard the woman's tearful words.

He looked at the woman who was trying stubbornly to hold back the tears in her eyes. Her usually cold face now showed a hint of grief and anger and a bitter smile. He felt a sudden surge of pity in his heart.

The hand that was pinching the woman's chin suddenly lost its strength, and he raised his other hand to touch the top of her head soothingly.

When he was about to touch her, the woman dodged away.

There was a hint of wariness and hostility in her eyes.

Ling Yisheng's throat was hoarse, and he opened his mouth to explain to her, "I..."

"It's okay. You don't have to say anything. The past is the past. I don't want to know what happened to you back then." Xiao Jinglan looked up at the man coldly, interrupted him in a bad tone, and continued to speak out his inner thoughts, "I just want to say that you don't have to keep acting so wronged. In comparison, I am the one who should be more wronged."

After she finished speaking, she looked away as if she didn't want to look at him anymore.

Ling Yisheng was furious when he saw Xiao Jinglan evading him, and he was eager to explain, "Lanlan, it's not like that..."

"That time on the roadside, I regretted it as soon as I put you down. I went back to find you, but you had already been picked up by someone else. And about the dinner party, I was jealous because I saw you chatting passionately with the man next to you..."

Ling Yisheng half-knelt beside her as he spoke, staring straight at the woman's face as she turned away in order to avoid him, and continued in a hurried tone, "As for your business, it was you who said you wanted to break up with me... and that time in the basement..."

Xiao Jinglan couldn't stand his burning gaze, so he turned his head and interrupted him impatiently, "Yes, you are jealous and unwilling, so you do whatever you want to me for no reason. You are always like this. When you encounter something that makes you unhappy, you do not care about it and do your own thing. You never think about me..."

"I know you are overbearing, possessive, a little paranoid, and a little extreme in your behavior, so I have always been quite tolerant of you, but sometimes you really go too far!"

Xiao Jinglan looked at the person in front of him with a cold face and finished his last accusation, "Ling Yisheng, when you did these things, you didn't consider my feelings!"

Ling Yisheng looked at Xiao Jinglan, whose face turned red due to anger, and lowered his head in silence as if reflecting on himself.

After a while, his voice was heard again, hoarse and a little difficult.

He just bowed his head and admitted his mistake, "...Yes, Lanlan, I was wrong, I'm sorry..."

"Lanlan, it was all my fault for what happened before. I will change in the future, okay? Can we still be together like before?"

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Jinglan's gaze slowly fell on his face, his eyes were extremely indifferent.

"Together?"

"Yes!" Ling Yisheng said affirmatively without thinking.

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