Chapter 22: Are They Kissing?

Upon hearing these words from Luo Xiaoya.

Shen Huai only felt a headache.

What does "because I love you, I installed a tracking app for you" mean? Is this love?

This is clearly a cage.

"Luo Xiaoya, I was merely stating a fact; is your heart made of glass? It's so easily shattered."

Shen Huai struck back, impartial and precise.

It has been so many years since the breakup.

He couldn't be bothered to indulge her anymore.

"Shen Huai, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person."

Luo Xiaoya's eyes were full of unwillingness.

She looked left and right, and taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, she grabbed Shen Huai and walked toward the outside of the main gate.

"What are you doing? Men and women should not touch when handing or receiving."

Outside the Xingyao headquarters, at the entrance of a coffee shop.

After Luo Xiaoya confirmed there was no one around, she finally let go of Shen Huai's hand indignantly.

"Shen Huai, since I ran into you today, you must give me an explanation."

"An explanation? What kind of explanation do you want?" Shen Huai rubbed his wrist, which had been pulled red, his brows slightly furrowed.

This Luo Xiaoya, she has the strength of an ox.

When did she get so strong? Could she have secretly learned some martial arts after we broke up?

Luo Xiaoya crossed her arms and glared at Shen Huai as if judging him: "After you broke up with Su Meng, I was the one who accompanied you through the most difficult times."

"You often went to drown your sorrows in alcohol, and I was the one who helped you back."

"During your most bored and existential moments, I was the one by your side."

"And how did you repay me? Not only did you unilaterally declare a breakup, but you also blocked all my contact information, and I couldn't even find you when I went to school."

"Shen Huai, today you must tell me, by what right did you just leave without a word?!"

Luo Xiaoya stepped closer, questioning him sternly.

Every word she spoke made Shen Huai's expression sink a little further.

"Xiaoya, I originally thought my departure would help you sober up; I didn't expect that after so many years, you haven't learned to reflect on yourself at all."

Shen Huai's tone was indifferent, and the distant look in his eyes fell upon Luo Xiaoya, making her freeze.

"Shen Huai, what do you mean? You were the one who treated me like trash, why should I be the one to reflect?"

Hearing this.

Shen Huai only felt as if a giant rock were pressing on his chest, making him feel suffocated and anxious.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and opened them again.

"Fine, you want an explanation, right? Then I'll give you one."

Shen Huai's eyes suddenly turned cold.

The resentment he had been suppressing at Xingyao also completely erupted.

"Installing tracking software on my phone, installing hidden cameras in my bedroom."

"Copying all the numbers in my address book and calling them one by one to ask what their relationship with me is."

"Secretly sewing a wiretap into my bag just to hear if I was chatting with any other woman."

"After I fell asleep, you would climb up in the middle of the night to unlock my phone and check every single app I had used that day before you could sleep."

The more Shen Huai spoke, the darker his tone became: "Luo Xiaoya, tell me, who wouldn't want to escape a life like that?"

"How did you know?..."

Luo Xiaoya was rendered speechless by Shen Huai's retort.

Her originally arrogant demeanor instantly became somewhat flustered.

She had thought that Shen Huai only knew about her secretly installing the tracking software on his phone.

"There is no wall that doesn't leak." Shen Huai looked down at Luo Xiaoya, "If you can install cameras in my room, why couldn't I?"

Hearing this sentence.

Luo Xiaoya felt as if the sky had collapsed.

She hadn't expected that everything she did had actually been seen by Shen Huai all along.

"But... but I did all that because I love you." Luo Xiaoya stammered, guiltily trying to justify herself.

"Love me? You do things that trample on others' dignity under the guise of love."

Shen Huai's tone was extremely cold: "If this is your way of loving, then if I didn't leave, wouldn't I be asking for abuse?"

Recalling the time he spent with Luo Xiaoya, Shen Huai could only describe it with two words—

Suffocating.

A suffocating feeling that left no room to breathe.

Luo Xiaoya was the most observant girl he had ever met.

Every time, before he could even speak, she could always guess what he was about to say. Once or twice was fine.

But she was always like this, as if she had some ability to foresee the future.

When they first got together, Shen Huai even thought Luo Xiaoya was truly his soulmate.

Because she could always guess what he was going to say and what he was thinking.

Even more coincidentally, she could always appear cleverly at the exact moment he needed her most.

Luo Xiaoya would always attribute these things to "coincidence."

Until later.

Shen Huai inadvertently discovered the location-tracking software on his phone.

At that moment, he completely doubted his entire life.

What soulmate, what heaven-sent match.

It was all complete bullshit.

It was all directed and acted by Luo Xiaoya herself.

Shen Huai instantly felt as if he were living in a giant Truman Show.

His mind was filled with only one word—escape.

Once the determination was made, there was no possibility of turning back.

Block, delete, move house.

This absurd and suffocating relationship was thus ruthlessly severed by him.

"Am I really that unbearable in your eyes?" Luo Xiaoya's eyes were full of sorrow, "Can you not feel my love at all?"

Hearing this, Shen Huai shook his head helplessly.

"Xiaoya, the biggest problem with you is that you are unwilling to admit your own mistakes."

"Whatever you have set your mind on, it is useless no matter what others say."

"Just like just now, it was clearly you who misinterpreted the meaning, yet you turned around and accused me of being a hooligan."

Shen Huai sighed, his sharp gaze softening slightly, "In our past relationship, you always had suspicions about me, so no matter what I said or did, you would always draw conclusions about me according to your own way of interpretation."

"This is the reason why I had to escape from you; it's very simple, we are not compatible."

After Shen Huai finished speaking, there was silence on Luo Xiaoya's end.

She lowered her head, her bright, sparkling eyes looking as if she had suffered a great grievance.

Shen Huai vaguely saw tears shimmering in the depths of her eyes.

"You go, I don't want to see you again."

Luo Xiaoya turned around, her voice hoarse, and said with her back to Shen Huai.

People were coming and going all around.

From time to time, curious onlookers cast glances in their direction.

Shen Huai frowned and quickly put his mask back on: "Then take care, I'm leaving."

The moment he turned around.

Shen Huai felt completely relaxed.

After walking quickly back to the supermarket to buy a charger, Shen Huai hurried back to the Public Relations Department.

He entered the office of Group 2.

Everyone instantly looked up at him, then immediately withdrew their gazes and lowered their heads.

Shen Huai snuck a glance toward Tong Yue.

He saw that Tong Yue was cold-faced as always.

She was looking at documents while typing rapidly on her keyboard.

Like a cold work machine.

Shen Huai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Because of Luo Xiaoya, he had actually been away from his workstation for quite a while.

But fortunately.

Tong Yue was tied up with official business and had no time to pay attention to him, letting him luckily escape an interrogation this time.

Shen Huai somewhat thankfully plugged the charger into his computer and continued typing the document he hadn't finished earlier.

However.

What Shen Huai did not know was.

Under Xingyao, there were countless small, leaderless gossip groups.

At this moment, they were absolutely exploding, extremely lively.

Snapshots from various angles were being crazily circulated in all the major gossip groups.

【This back, this profile, oh my god, are they kissing?】

(End of this chapter)