hooklinebooks Chapter 24 What do you have that's worth my waiting for?
Chapter 24 What do you have that's worth my waiting for?
It was Sheng Ting who made this up.
She was speechless. Her mother opened the door for her speechless arrival home.
"Are you sure you haven't gone to the wrong place?" Wen Shuyi still clung to the last shred of hope. "Shouldn't you be with Xu Chuyin? Which room is she in? I can switch with her."
"She's not in good health, and it's too much trouble to keep changing her." He put his luggage aside and prepared to sit on the bed.
Wen Shuyi felt awkward standing, sitting, or lying down.
She simply turned on her computer and continued pretending to work.
Sheng Tingwang leaned against the headboard, his arm behind his head, staring at her profile in a daze.
Wen Shuyi hasn't changed much.
A cool and clean face, with features that are exquisitely beautiful.
The way her eyelashes fluttered up and down, following my gaze, was mesmerizing.
Her neck is beautiful.
Her skin was so white it was almost transparent.
Looking at it this way, it's quite similar to how he first met her when they were children.
Her hair was shorter, and she had lost weight. She seemed more energetic, but also weaker.
He noticed several boxes of medicine lying on her bedside table.
"Last time I saw you go to the pharmacy to buy medicine, were you feeling unwell?"
Wen Shuyi glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and said, "This is a private matter, and I cannot disclose it to you."
"Why are you being so particular with me?" he chuckled.
Wen Shuyi also gave a speechless, cold laugh. "Are we that close?"
"Aren't we familiar with each other?"
Her voice was even colder, "Not familiar."
Sheng Tingwang was actually feeling very bad inside.
He never imagined that the word "let down" would be applied to him.
Actually, I haven't forgotten what I promised you.
Sheng Tingwang suddenly brought it up.
Wen Shuyi was still slightly taken aback.
Saying this three years later sounds like a lame joke—not funny, actually quite cold.
She turned her face away, a mocking smile playing on her lips. "Oh, Third Master, you have a good memory. What a pity. In these three years, I've learned a lesson: trusting other people's promises too much is just torturing yourself. Relying on others is never as good as relying on yourself."
"I'm sorry," he said in a low voice.
Wen Shuyi didn't want to hear such words.
Honestly, she'd rather be the one apologizing than the one being apologized to.
"No need, I don't have the energy to forgive."
Sheng Tingwang didn't say anything more.
Wen Shuyi finally completed the work that shouldn't have been done now.
I glanced at the time; only half an hour had passed.
It was quite agonizing.
But there was nothing she could do; she had nowhere else to go but here, so she had to endure it.
She got into bed, snuggled under the covers, turned on the air conditioner, and prepared to take a nap.
I just closed my eyes.
It felt like the space around me was sinking.
Turn back again.
Sheng Tingwang's body was already lying beside her.
"What are you doing?" She instinctively tried to get out of bed, but he grabbed her slender waist and pressed her back down. "Do you think I'd eat you? Why are you running away?"
"Sheng Tingwang, do you have any shame?" He may not have any shame, but she did. "You're a married man, sleeping with me? How can you face your wife?"
"Xu Chuyin is not my wife."
Wen Shuyi frowned.
Men who want to have an affair can really make up any kind of lie.
Unfortunately.
She's not so foolish as to believe everything he says.
"I don't care if she's your wife or not, please let me go." Wen Shuyi struggled, furious and annoyed, wishing she could kick him off the stage. "Sheng Tingwang, I'm not your plaything, to be squeezed when you feel like it and thrown away like trash when you're done. Who do you think you are?"
The more she struggled...
Sheng Tingwang held on even tighter.
He was infatuated with her scent; for three years, he had been longing for her intensely.
Once a man gets carried away, his thoughts...
His body reacted.
"Three years ago, I said I wanted to marry you, have you forgotten?" He gripped her chin, his thin lips almost touching hers. "You've forgotten, but I haven't."
Wen Shu also smiled bitterly.
He still has the nerve to bring this up.
Who broke their promise first?
What is he pretending for?
"Who wants to marry you? What do you have that makes someone want to wait for you?" Wen Shuyi was fierce, like a little wildcat ready to fight.
Sheng Tingwang felt apologetic, guilty, and even more heartbroken. "I'm sorry, there are some things..."
"You don't need to explain. Let me tell you, no matter how lowly I, Wen Shuyi, am, I will never get entangled with a married man. I was blind before, so please have some self-respect in the future, Third Master."
Even if Sheng Tingwang didn't get married.
She couldn't convince herself to forgive.
She sent him so many messages.
I've made so many phone calls.
As she lay on the cold operating table, listening to the doctor announce that one of her fallopian tubes had been removed, she wished so much that he could come back and hug her.
It's all just bubbles.
There was nothing there.
If she forgives him, how can she face the suffering she endured back then?
Wen Shu also broke free from Sheng Tingwang's embrace.
I walked to the window and looked out at the calm sea.
My eyes are wet.
She wiped her eyes; there were tears. How pathetic.
It's just that I feel wronged.
Sheng Tingwang hugged her from behind, his broad and strong body pressed tightly against her thin back.
His body was burning hot.
But it couldn't warm her heart.
"Can you forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye back then?"
Wen Shuyi remained silent.
She is not actually a vengeful person.
She is also someone who can easily appease herself.
What could hurt her was something she had given her heart to.
It's not a question of forgiveness or not.
She's just blind.
"Sheng Tingwang, actually, what I care about isn't whether you marry me or not. What I really care about is that you could have said goodbye to me with dignity, but instead you chose to hurt me in the cruelest way. Maybe it's because..."
Wen Shuyi took a deep breath, her eyes stinging and swollen. Some words, once spoken, would only hurt herself. "...Maybe, in your heart, I'm just that. Men, sex doesn't necessarily mean love. I can understand that you simply like my body, but you shouldn't have mixed in your feelings. You shouldn't have deceived me."
Sheng Tingwang moved his lips slightly.
At this moment, the words he wanted to explain seemed somewhat difficult to utter.
Besides "I'm sorry," what else could he say? "I'm sorry, and it's only right that you blame me, resent me, and hate me."
"Sheng Tingwang, as a man, you can be poor, you can be bad, but you can't be irresponsible." Just like how he's holding her now, that's a sign of being a scumbag. "If your wife knew you were holding another woman and saying these things, she would be very heartbroken."
"Xu Chuyin and I..." He wanted to explain the relationship between them, but Wen Shuyi just didn't want to listen. "...Don't tell me about what happened between you two. No matter how eloquently you describe it, I can't have anything else happen between us. Our shady relationship ended three years ago, and I don't want to be entangled with you again after three years."
She pried his large hands off.
The next second, he pulled her into his arms again, his breathing becoming deep, "Shuyi, I..."
"Tingwang, which room are you in?"
"Tingwang, where are you? I'm not feeling well, could you come out for a bit?"
"Tingwang..."
Xu Chuyin's voice could be heard calling from the corridor outside.
Wen Shuyi pushed Sheng Tingwang aside, walked quickly to the door, and opened it directly.
Xu Chuyin happened to be standing at the door.
Upon seeing the woman at the door and the man at the window, she was so stunned that she was speechless.
After a long while, she finally found her voice, "Tingwang, what are you doing here?"