Chapter 461: Chapter 461 She Once Liked Him (10)
Dong Xin Yan expressed her apologies, her guilt, speaking sentence by sentence, but he could no longer hear what she was saying. The only thing lingering in his ears was that sentence, "I’m sorry, I can’t marry you today."
Can’t marry...
Can’t marry today...
But Xinxin, is it really just today? When you truly recover your memory, you probably won’t marry me ever again, will you?
Dong Xin Yan looked at Cheng Ziyang standing there, his black eyes filled with sorrow and despair. He stared at her, as if he had a thousand words to say, each one pleading with her to stay. Yet his thin lips trembled, moving but never uttering a word.
He was still the same, treating her as well as ever, never willing to force her to do anything, even now when she was being so unreasonable, not showing a single angry look, nor uttering a word of blame.
The bitterness in her heart surged violently, and Dong Xin Yan’s eyes suddenly turned red.
She lowered her eyes to avoid looking at him, then hardened her heart, forcing herself to turn away, forcing herself to leave.
Because if she didn’t go, she might not be able to leave at all.
At the moment she turned, from behind her seemed to come Cheng Ziyang’s very soft call, "Xinxin..."
For a second, Dong Xin Yan’s action stalled, but she closed her eyes and continued walking, taking large strides, and after a few steps, she started to run. Even though her feet were so weak, she still ran hard, faster and faster, gradually getting farther away.
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Dong Xin Yan didn’t know how long she had run, she only knew she ran desperately, not daring to stop for even a second until there was not a bit of strength left in her body, then she was gasping for air, stopping finally.
Though exhausted, as her brain lacked oxygen, her mind went blank, it seemed she could forget Ziyang’s hurt expression just then, forget her own heart-wrenching pain and guilt.
But still, tears disobeyed, trickling down from the corners of her eyes.
After a while, her emotions gradually stabilized, and her breathing became even. She reached up to wipe the tears from her eyes, glanced around her.
Where did she end up after running haphazardly like this?
She looked at the gate in front of her, feeling deeply surprised, how did she end up here? This was the luxurious neighborhood where she once went to work as a tutor.
It was here she met Ziyang...and later, it was also here that Ziyang saved her.
So...those two months she took care of Gu Ningyi, wasn’t it here too? Even if not here, it should be...nearby?
Because in her dreams, there was only a beautiful villa, she wasn’t clear on the exact location, so she couldn’t be sure.
But now, she had a strong feeling, calling for her to go inside.
Her feet involuntarily lifted, she stepped in one step at a time.
It had been many years since she came, this neighborhood, just as in her memory, was still as splendid, without much change. Walking, it seemed she passed through the villa cluster, coming to stand in front of a detached villa.
This villa seemed isolated from others, standing alone here, quiet and noble.
She clearly hadn’t come here before, yet oddly, she wasn’t unfamiliar with this villa at all, even felt...very familiar.
Extremely familiar...familiar to the point where it seemed she had once lived here.
With the familiarity, inexplicably, her heart was touched by a tint of sorrow, a tint of fear, causing her to subconsciously hesitate.