Chapter 1910: The Height and Detachment of Gu Yuxin

She said: "You must trust a woman's sixth sense, and even more so, you must trust the analysis of a professional scholar."

He asked: "Don't you think it's a bit strange for the two of us to be discussing this issue?"

Gu Yuxin: "I don't think so. This is the subject I am researching; it's not strange at all. The reason you feel awkward isn't because you still have a place for me in your heart, but because you are obsessed with the vows we made when we were together."

"Zichen, I have already changed. In fact, you have also let go. What you haven't let go of is the original promise and your self-righteous sense of responsibility."

Zichen: "Is it wrong to have a sense of responsibility? I think for a man, this is the most basic quality. It's not wrong."

Yuxin: "Having a sense of responsibility is certainly not wrong, but like love, a sense of responsibility also has an expiration date. You have nothing to do with me now, so naturally, you have no responsibility toward me."

"I gave you one phone call, and you came over, just to be responsible for your outdated sense of responsibility, but you are temporarily unable to shoulder your responsibility toward Li Xueer."

"You are like an example our teacher gave when we were in school, about a housewife filling a thermos with boiling water, do you remember?"

He remembered.

When they were graduate students, they studied economic management.

One day, their mentor told a story on the podium about a very diligent housewife who had four thermoses at home; every time she boiled water, she would fill all the thermoses, and then let her family use the water from the thermos that was filled first.

In this way, the family members would never use the freshly boiled water. It seemed like a symbol of diligence, but in reality, it was a waste of resources.

However, using this story to compare with their current situation... it actually seemed to fit.

Although the situations were different, the principle was the same.

Some people, some things, do not need to be stored; since they are in the past, let them stay in the past.

Either let them go, or store them somewhere else.

People are the same; since the relationship has changed, the way of getting along must change.

For example, Gu Yuxin was very grateful that Zichen came to the United States this time, but she felt he could have brought his young wife along. Perhaps, who knows, she and his young wife could even become friends.

She was a good girl; she could tell just by looking at her.

After Zichen arrived here, although he took care of her meticulously, he was often lost in thought!

And he would deliberately avoid mentioning his wife in front of her, yet clearly, he was always thinking of her.

Zichen was awakened by Gu Yuxin's words and finally realized his own heart.

Yes, he had fallen in love with someone else.

But it was not immoral; rather, it was letting go of the previous relationship and accepting a new one!

"Thank you, Yuxin." Zichen thanked her sincerely.

"You're welcome. We will always be best friends. Zichen, you are a very excellent man; being your lover will be very happy."

"You too."

"I believe so."

Two former lovers were now calmly chatting about love, only they no longer had anything to do with each other.

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The plane landed, and Zichen was startled to see Li Xueer picking him up at the airport.

"What's going on with you? We haven't seen each other for only half a month, how did you lose so much weight?"

Li Xueer: "I'm on a diet."

A diet?

"You aren't even fat, what are you dieting for?"

Zichen was not so easily fooled; he looked her up and down, especially staring at her face.

His gaze made Li Xueer feel incredibly guilty.

"Don't look at me, let's hurry home."

"No, don't go yet. You aren't right. Your complexion is so poor, and you have dark circles under your eyes. It's obvious you haven't been sleeping well at night and are overthinking. Did something happen at home?"

The first half of what he said was correct.

But the last sentence was inaccurate; besides Li Xueer's biological parents showing up, another reason was that she missed him!

Because she was thinking about how he was with his first love during this time, Li Xueer had lost her appetite and lost weight rapidly.

Now that she was being asked, Li Xueer didn't want to answer at all; she just wanted to find some random excuse to brush it off.

But it didn't work. Zichen didn't believe at all that she had lost weight because of a diet, and he kept digging for the truth.

Li Xueer had that kind of temper: if there was something she didn't want to say, no matter how you asked, she wouldn't say it.

She said coldly: "You are my employer. You don't need to pretend to be kind or pretend to care about me. Rest assured, I won't leave before three years are up. I will strictly abide by the terms of the contract; I have contractual integrity."

Zichen:...

That wasn't what he meant.

Forget it, explaining now seemed quite far-fetched.

The two went home, and there was almost no conversation along the way.

When they were almost home, Zichen had to speak up.

He had to give Li Xueer a rough idea of his itinerary abroad; he couldn't just not speak when they got home, and if they didn't get their stories straight, it would be easy to slip up.

"While I was in the United States..."

He had just started when he was interrupted: "Whatever you want to do in the United States, you don't need to tell me. I don't want to hear it."

Zichen:...

She didn't want to have a proper conversation at all.

This woman was jealous, even though she didn't realize it herself.

But Zichen was no fool; if he couldn't even recognize jealousy, he would have lived in vain.

So he spent the whole way telling jokes, trying to make her happy, but her threshold for humor was unusually high today, and she wouldn't laugh at all, so he eventually shut up.

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When the two returned home, Yueyue immediately crowded around them, pestering Li Xueer with all sorts of questions.

"Sister-in-law, where did you both go to have fun? Did you bring me any gifts?"

Li Xueer:...

She regretted it then; she should have just let Sheng Zichen do the talking earlier.

Gifts?

She didn't have any.

As her mind raced, thinking of how to bluff her way through, Zichen had already spoken: "Of course there are gifts. They were carefully selected by your sister-in-law. To pick out gifts for you, she dragged me through three streets, nearly walking our legs off..."

If it weren't for the fact that the hall was full of people, Li Xueer would have really liked to roll her eyes at him and call him a liar.

She had never seen such a shameless person; he could make up lies without even blinking, just rattling them off.

She hadn't even gone, yet he spoke as if it were the absolute truth.

But she was still grateful that Sheng Zichen had been prepared and had saved her face.

Zichen opened the suitcase, which was filled to the brim with gifts.

He took out two exquisite boxes and handed them to his younger sister; after Yueyue thanked him, she happily went off to unwrap the gifts.

Everyone in the family had a gift, and the ones Zichen had helped Li Xue select all matched her aesthetic, leaving no room for anyone to spot any flaws.

Aside from Yueyue, almost no one in the family cared about the gifts; they were all concerned about why Li Xueer had lost weight.

This time, she answered right off the cuff: "I wasn't used to the local environment, and I couldn't get used to the food outside; the meals at home are still the best."

Shi Youxuan urged the young couple to go upstairs and rest, as they were tired from their journey after just getting off the plane, and said she would have them come down to eat once the meal was ready.