Chapter 1490: Breaking the Cocoon Without Becoming a Butterfly

"Mom, don't worry, it won't happen. All these years, your upbringing won't have been in vain," Zichen comforted his mother.

Shi Youxuan looked at her son, who was a head taller than her, and suddenly realized that Zichen had grown up. He was no longer that little boy who only knew how to run to the kitchen; he had become responsible, calm when facing issues, and could even serve as his mother's pillar of support.

With her son's comfort, her mood relaxed just a little, because Zichen was the person who understood Litian best. If he said there would be no trouble, then there should be no trouble.

……

Short-term rental Apartment.

Lu Feifei walked in carrying two large bags of food and daily necessities, and she froze.

If Litian hadn't been sitting upright on the bed, she would definitely have suspected she had walked into the wrong room.

The room was bright and clean, spotless, with the glass wiped so clear it was as if there were no glass at all.

The bedsheets were ironed perfectly flat, the quilt was folded into a tofu-block shape, and the floor was wiped until it shone, with not a trace of stubborn stains to be seen.

Before Lu Feifei came over, she had assumed the room would be as messy as a pigsty, so she had specifically brought cleaning supplies and rags, prepared to help Litian tidy up.

Now, seeing it, it was completely unnecessary; even if she cleaned it, she couldn't have made it this clean.

Litian had grown up in such an affluent environment with swarms of servants and nannies at home, yet he was this self-disciplined, which once again refreshed her perception of him.

"Thank you. Why did you buy so much? It must be heavy." Seeing Lu Feifei arrive, Litian walked over in a few steps and took the items from her hands.

He opened the refrigerator and put the ingredients in one by one.

"My god!" Lu Feifei exclaimed: "Wow, is this the same refrigerator I saw before?"

The refrigerator was as clean as if it were new. Litian placed the ingredients Lu Feifei had bought into the refrigerator one by one, arranging them so neatly that it made Lu Feifei, who had mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, feel very comfortable.

She teased: "Litian, you really have talent. It's a waste in the military. You should go work as a waiter at a restaurant. Let me tell you, with your standards, if others earn 3,000 a month, paying you 6,000 wouldn't be too much."

She had originally intended to liven up the atmosphere, but it had once again touched upon Litian's painful memories.

He said in a muffled voice: "I don't want to be a waiter. No matter how much money they give me, I don't want to do it. I just want to return to the military, but perhaps I can never go back."

Lu Feifei asked cautiously: "Did you leave the military because you made a mistake? Was it because you violated military regulations when you saved me?"

Her childhood family environment had made her personality very sensitive.

Litian hurriedly denied it: "It's not that. It has nothing to do with you. Don't let your imagination run wild. It has nothing to do with you; it's my own reason..."

He just denied it in every way, but he wouldn't say what the reason was.

Lu Feifei pressed him: "Since it has nothing to do with me, why won't you tell me what happened? It must be related to me. It's all my fault, it must be my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been disciplined."

Her tears couldn't be stopped, falling down in a rush.

"Don't cry, hey, don't cry. It really has nothing to do with you. I'm not lying or deceiving you; it really has nothing to do with you..." Litian was naturally clumsy with words, and now, with his clumsiness compounded by his anxiety, the more he tried to explain, the less clear he became.

So he decided to tell the truth.

"Feifei, I'll tell you the truth, don't laugh at me."

Lu Feifei raised her right hand solemnly to swear: "I swear, I guarantee I won't laugh at you. If I laugh at you, let me get hit by a car when I go out and die a horrible death."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

He reached out to cover Lu Feifei's mouth, but quickly realized it wasn't quite right, so he took his hand away.

Litian said: "I'm not my mom and dad's biological son, you know that, right?"

"Ah, you're not your mom and dad's biological son? Oh, no wonder you don't look alike, but you can't tell at all. Your parents are very good to you, and your relationship with Zichen is also very good. You actually have no blood relation?"

Lu Feifei wouldn't laugh at him; on the contrary, she felt a bit envious.

Litian was the adopted son of the Sheng Family, yet the bond between the brothers was better than many biological brothers. Was such a family environment something one had to do many good deeds in a past life to deserve?

"That's right, the bond between us brothers is very good, and my parents are very good to me, but I am not their biological son... My biological father was a Pirate leader, and the Pirate leader who kidnapped you that day was a former subordinate of my biological father..."

Lu Feifei was stunned and didn't speak for a long time; she was too shocked.

Was this a true story?

It was like writing a novel.

Litian's biological father was actually a Pirate.

His father had forced his mother to have him, and his father had also died at his mother's hands, and the reason was still because of saving Zichen's father?

The love, hate, and grudges between the older generation were much more complicated than what was played out in TV dramas.

Lu Feifei suddenly felt that the things that had happened to her didn't seem so hard to talk about anymore.

She told Litian everything that had happened in her own family as a story. She had never told those things to anyone else, not even her best friend.

The two young people leaned closer and closer, sympathizing with each other.

Lu Feifei ordered takeout and a case of beer. As the two drank, their minds gradually became clear.

Lu Feifei realized that she had fallen for Litian. It was true liking, it was appreciation after understanding, it was love, not some naive infatuation.

But her life had a stain, and she wasn't sure if Litian would mind.

She didn't want to hide it. Although it wasn't easy to say, she mustered her courage with the help of the alcohol and said it!

"Feifei, you are a good girl. That incident was not your fault. This kind of thing is not a big deal, you shouldn't feel inferior."

"If, I'm saying if, it were your girlfriend who had experienced this kind of thing, would you mind?"

"Feifei, I'm not worthy of you." Litian wasn't stupid; he heard the implication in Lu Feifei's words, but he didn't dare. His background made him deeply inferior.

However, Litian's refusal due to inferiority was misunderstood by Lu Feifei.

She smiled faintly: "Heh! You think I'm not worthy of you, right? It doesn't matter. Someone like me doesn't deserve to have love..."

"No, I didn't mean that."

"It's me who isn't worthy of you. You are very good. Before, I was blind, and from now on, I am not worthy..."

"Feifei, I like you, especially like you. I've liked you since the first time I saw you in high school. From then on, I could never forget, never let go..."

"Really?"

"Really."

"Then let me be your girlfriend? Is that okay?"

"I am not worthy."

Lu Feifei:...

"You still despise me."

"No, it is I who am not worthy of you."

"If you don't like me, just say you don't like me; there's no need to find excuses to brush me off. I'm not some proud little princess, and it doesn't matter if I'm damaged goods. If you despise me, then you despise me. You don't need to care about me; a person like me doesn't need any face."

"That is not what I meant."

"You don't need to explain. An explanation is just a cover-up, and a cover-up is the truth."