Chapter 267

Li Yiquan pointed to the surveillance camera in the corner that few people would notice, "I have been…" He closed his phoenix eyes, his brows twitching slightly in pain, "Watching you."

"……" He Le, who had played with several types of clairvoyance software, naturally understood what Li Yiquan meant, but she never expected him to— "L!"

"I'm sorry."

"So, Diao Dage didn't come today because of you?"

Her cold tone made him feel freezing cold, and the words of explanation blurted out, already carrying a few pleas, "I, his wife is really having surgery today! I admit, I got to know Diao Xingyuan hoping that one day I could use him to… to buffer your resistance to me, but this time it was really him who took the initiative to call me, asking me—to seize the opportunity."

Hearing that L wasn't selfishly manipulating other people's lives as she had guessed, He Le's heart, which had just hardened a bit, softened quietly. How could she forget what kind of person L was in his bones.

Possessing the world's top hacking technology, if he wanted to, he could easily acquire astonishing wealth and could casually turn this modern society, which relied on computers and the internet, upside down. It sounded exaggerated, but L in the computer world truly possessed the "Hand of God" that made people awe-struck.

Yet L, who possessed such abilities, had never been lost in his own power, had never stirred up trouble on purpose to show off his technology like some hackers, and had never relied on the Hand of God to play with other people's lives.

She was precisely because of this that she worshipped and admired him.

Calming her mood, He Le's gaze couldn't help but look at L's fingers, each wrapped in a Band-Aid. "……Your hands?"

"Uh…" Li Yiquan quickly curled his left hand, "It's nothing, I haven't touched the strings for several years, just a bit rusty."

Don't look! Can't look! Don't look!

Her heart was frantically dissuading her, but her little hand couldn't stop trembling slightly as it reached toward his clenched hand.

"It's really nothing." Seeing this, Li Yiquan directly shoved his left hand into his pants pocket.

"I want to see."

"Lele…"

"I want to see." Looking up at his gentle eyes, she insisted on pulling out his palm, and after hesitating for a moment, she gritted her teeth and tore off the tape wrapped around his fingertips.

The pink, tender flesh exposed after the blisters were broken, the streaks of blood left after sliding over the strings for who knew how many consecutive hours. One by one, she unwrapped them, one by one, they were exposed. The man's originally slender and white left hand was ruined of its jade-like beauty by those festering fingertips.

She knew it… couldn't look, shouldn't look!

Having seen it, how could she forget it?

"It's really nothing, this is very normal—"

Normal? Can grinding fingertips that have been typing on a keyboard for years like this be called normal? Did he really think she didn't know anything about musical instruments?

"Don't, don't cry! It really doesn't hurt, look!" Seeing her start to cry silently again, Li Yiquan also panicked. To prove it was nothing, he flexibly tapped his four fingers on the chair surface, making a rhythmic sound of horse hooves.

He Le quickly grabbed his hand, closed her pink lips tightly, and re-wrapped the Band-Aids for him without a word.

Looking up at the man she had admired for three years, those passages of text that had warmed her, those tutorials and little games tailored for her, slowly flowed through her mind. Once, she had fantasized countless times about what L looked like behind the name. Now that she saw his face clearly, she could almost see how he had smiled and typed out character after character in front of the computer for these three years.

His smile, his singing, his embrace, his kiss, his gentle possession…

She… loved him…

Love… why? Why did she have to discover that she had always loved someone after she had accepted so many men and was trying to love them too?

"L… I beg you, don't do anything for me anymore! I… am not worth it." Wiping away her tears, He Le stood up and walked toward the lake.

She had already made her choice, no matter what, she couldn't regret it!

Mu Wei, Qin Zhixiu, Ruan Lin, Jiji, she already had enough. She was already learning how to love them. She was very good now, very happy. She even had the confidence that even if she lost all love, she could still live a calm and contented life based on her current happiness!

Nothing should be changed.

L should be loved by a better woman, put on a holy white veil to become his bride, the mother of his children, and enjoy his smile and his embrace!

Yes, that's it! He Le, don't defile L's life!

Looking at the lake, He Le turned around and looked at Li Yiquan as calmly as possible, "L, I hope this is the last time I say these words to you. I, He Le, am really very happy now, having many people who love me. Maybe one day, they will all leave me, but I will never regret my current choice. As for you, I swear, I will never be with you in this life—"

A heart-wrenching kiss blocked the last word from her lips. A deep embrace, as if to rub her into his chest.

Leaving her lips, he covered her mouth, "Then what if I don't ask you to make a choice? What if I… join them?"

Author's Note:

Almost 300 chapters…

Don't know why, I have a feeling of missing the girls very much~~

☆, (9 Fresh Coins) Chapter 298: A Bowl of Cold Noodles

"You can still be with them, you don't have to leave anyone, you still retain all the happiness you have now, just in addition to that, accept one more love, a love that will never leave you, and will never let you be alone again."

The magnetic voice, full of sadness and love, was like an angel's whisper soothing her panicked soul, but it made her heart tremble even more in terror!