Xia Qiqi left Nie Ziming's home.
She frantically rushed out of the residential complex, disregarding everything, running straight towards the highway.
She could accept anyone persuading her to be with Xiao Nanchen.
The only one she couldn't accept was Nie Ziming.
She couldn't accept Nie Ziming pushing her away.
Her vision was blurred by her tears.
She didn't even notice the traffic light in front of her had turned red.
She was still on the highway, walking with teary blurred vision.
The urgent sound of a car horn rang out beside her.
Xia Qiqi turned her head to see a sedan racing towards her.
She thought,
was she going to die?
If so, everyone would stop pressuring her.
If she died, she wouldn't have to marry Xiao Nanchen.
She wouldn't have to feel so devastated.
If she died, everyone would know how much she detested Xiao Nanchen.
If she died...
only then would everyone regret what they had done to her.
Xia Qiqi watched blankly as the sedan sped towards her.
A shocking screech of the brakes, deafening.
The black sedan.
Stopped in front of Xia Qiqi.
Perhaps only one centimeter separated Xia Qiqi from being hit and sent flying.
Numbly, she stared at the sedan right before her eyes.
The angry driver rolled down his window, sticking his head out, yelling, "Are you trying to get yourself killed? Running a red light!"
Yes.
For a second, she really didn't care if she died.
But.
The moment the sedan came so close she instinctively stepped back.
That one step.
Probably saved her life.
In that instant, she suddenly remembered her mother, remembered her mother when she died, already wasted away to practically a skeleton. Her mother had gripped her hand tightly, saying, "Qiqi, promise your mother, you must live on well."
If she died just like that.
How could she face her mother in the afterlife?
So she took that one step back.
Preserving her own life.
After all.
Dying for a man like Xiao Nanchen wasn't worth it.
She gritted her teeth.
Then directly walked away.
The driver simply cursed angrily for a bit, then drove off.
Xia Qiqi took a taxi directly to the hospital.
She went to see Xiao Nanchen.
Since she didn't dare die, she would resolve this issue another way.
When she pushed open the door to Xiao Nanchen's hospital room, no one was inside.
Xiao Qiang must have been accompanying her father.
And a man like Xiao Nanchen who didn't like people fussing over him had likely sent the nursing staff away.
When she entered, Xiao Nanchen glanced up at her.
Seeing her, his expression did change slightly.
Xia Qiqi herself also had little emotion. She walked in coldly.
The two faced each other in silence.
"Qiqi," Xiao Nanchen took the initiative to speak.
"Does it have to be like this?" Xia Qiqi asked him.
Xiao Nanchen's eyes flickered, as if avoiding her gaze.
"Xiao Nanchen, I admit I really hated you before. I felt it was because of your mother that my family fell apart. I felt it was because of your mother that my own mother passed without even seeing my dad one last time!" Xia Qiqi said, breaking down crying as she spoke.
She really wasn't the sort to easily shed tears, but these last few days it was as if she had already cried herself dry.
"I hated your mother, so of course I hated you. I didn't dare do anything to your mother, so I could only take revenge on you. I really, really wanted to drive you and your mother out of my home." Xia Qiqi spoke calmly and matter-of-factly. "Now, I won't drive you away anymore. I won't force your mother to divorce my dad either. From now on I won't hate you anymore. I'll even leave the entire Xia family to you. I don't want a cent of it..."
Xiao Nanchen listened silently.
Listening as Xia Qiqi fell apart bit by bit.
"Please, just let me go, can you?" Xia Qiqi pleaded with him.
In all her years, Xia Qiqi had never lowered herself before anyone.
She had never begged and compromised with him like this.
But he.
Still rejected her.
He said, "Qiqi, I'm very selfish. I can't let you go."
"I really don't love you!" Xia Qiqi enunciated clearly, "I never loved you one bit, Xiao Nanchen. When I kissed you before, that was just in a rash moment. Afterwards when I recalled it, I even felt nauseous with regret. The only one I've ever loved is Nie Ziming. I only love him..."
"I don't need you to love me," Xiao Nanchen seemed cold and detached. "I only need you."
"Why must it be like this?!" Xia Qiqi was on the verge of collapse. "Xiao Nanchen, when did you become so awful?!"
"I was never good. It's just that because I loved you, I pretended otherwise. What you see now is my true self."
Xia Qiqi laughed.
Suddenly feeling that aside from laughing, there was nothing she could do.
Why in the world had her life become this way?
Although she had lost her mother and didn't have a complete family, for the most part she still felt her life had been fortunate.
She had accumulated a lifetime of good luck and met Nie Ziming. And now at the crucial moment, was she going to lose it all?!
No.
She really couldn't accept this.
She suddenly approached Xiao Nanchen.
Standing right at his side, facing him at close distance.
She asked, "Xiao Nanchen, do you like me?"
Xiao Nanchen didn't reply.
The answer didn't need saying.
"When a man likes a woman, it's so he can obtain her body right?" Xia Qiqi said painfully. "I'll give you my virginity in exchange. Alright?"
Xiao Nanchen, who had avoided directly facing Xia Qiqi all this time finally turned to look at her.
"That's how men all are, right?" Xia Qiqi said.
As she spoke, she started taking off her clothes.
Caught completely off guard by her sudden change, Xiao Nanchen was just about to speak.
Xia Qiqi suddenly leaned in and kissed him.
Xiao Nanchen's legs were severely injured. Even if his left leg was a little better, right now he still couldn't move them at all, much less his completely numb right leg.
Yet here he was, forced into an aggressive, coercive kiss by Xia Qiqi.
Their first kiss.
Although Xia Qiqi kept saying it was just a rash impulse of hers, a yearning for beautiful things, devoid of any feelings, still that time the two had shared an awkward yet sweet kiss. But now, covered in injuries...
Xiao Nanchen pushed Xia Qiqi away.
He said, "Don't do this."
Xia Qiqi buried her head in the crook of his neck, tears streaming down her cheeks, all sliding into Xiao Nanchen's body.
Scaldingly hot. As if they could burn his skin.
She said, "Xiao Nanchen, deep down you can't bear to hurt me either, right?"
Xiao Nanchen's throat moved slightly.
"You also feel we can't be together, don't you?" Xia Qiqi asked him.
Asked him yearningly, full of expectation.
Xiao Nanchen's throat bobbed up and down.
It was her who couldn't do it.
Not him.
How could she possibly be with a man she didn't love?!
