Looking at the ceiling, Sheng Jiaoyang slowly spoke her true words.
"I should like you, but I can't deceive myself, and I don't want to lie to you again. I only like you enough that I don't dislike being close to you, no matter how deep I am. I can't always treat you like my first love. Missing you, or even being too close to me will make me feel like a burden."
Shen Zhi'an listened quietly and said nothing.
"I no longer have the courage to love anyone again. I may never fall in love with you."
When a person once loved someone passionately, it is difficult to love another person as before.
this is the truth.
There was silence in the room. Sheng Jiaoyang didn't speak anymore, just waiting for his reply.
It took a long time, until she thought she was about to fall asleep, before she heard Shen Zhining's plain voice with no discernible tone.
"Go to sleep." He only said these two words.
Sheng Jiaoyang trembled in her heart, and then she curled her lower lip in a self-deprecating manner. It would also be difficult for her to accept such words, let alone Shen Zhining!
She should be very sleepy, but Sheng Jiaoyang was no longer sleepy. Even with her eyes closed, she just couldn't fall asleep.
She suddenly felt that she was being hypocritical, getting close to Shen Zhining while rejecting him at the same time. Her character shouldn't be like this, but emotional matters were the hardest to control.
It was approaching dawn before Sheng Jiaoyang fell asleep completely. When she woke up, there was no one beside her.
She stared blankly at the smooth quilt next to her, as if no one had ever slept on it, and she didn't know if she felt relieved or disappointed.
She should be happy. After all, since she won't fall in love with someone else, it would be better to make it clear and break up early, lest she regret it when the time comes to get married, which would be very harmful to everyone.
But now she couldn't be happy, and her mind was very confused.
After a long time, she sat up and reached for her phone on the bedside table. She wanted to check the time, but she touched a box. Her hand paused for a moment, then turned around and saw a beautifully packaged box on the bedside table. gift box.
The look in her eyes changed. Her fingers had already touched the edge of the gift box, but she paused.
It’s self-evident who this gift box belongs to.
The glasses she had lost somewhere were placed neatly next to the gift box. Her hand that went to pick up the gift box turned to pick up the glasses and put them on.
Taking a long breath, she got up and got out of bed, not looking at or caring about the gift box again.
"Oh, our birthday boy is here!" When she went downstairs, she heard Liang Dahui's artificial voice.
Sheng Jiaoyang walked down without changing her expression. She glanced at everyone in the living room, and sure enough... she didn't see that person.
She no longer wanted to know when he left.
"Jiaojiao, have you had enough sleep? Are you hungry? I have left porridge and breakfast for you in the kitchen. Do you want to eat some now?" Xu Qing asked with concern.
"No, it's time for lunch soon."
After Sheng Jiaoyang replied, in order to be polite, he first went to say hello to Mrs. Xu who was sitting on the sofa holding a glass of water.
Not seeing Xu Ping and Xiao An Xiaohu, Sheng Jiaoyang asked Aunt Zhang who was adding fruits to the coffee table. Knowing that they were playing in the children's playroom, Sheng Jiaoyang didn't ask any more questions.
Suddenly the phone rang, it was the video phone installed on the wall next to the entrance.
"Who's coming now?"
Aunt Zhang muttered and walked over. She first looked to see who it was. She saw the person standing outside the gate, dressed in a smart suit, with something in both hands. When she saw that it was the person who came to visit, she answered the phone. . The man standing outside the gate spoke softly and was very polite. Aunt Zhang asked about his background and purpose, and then asked him to wait.
Mr. Yang and An Jing were talking in the study, and Aunt Zhang went to ask the young master.
"Surnamed Sheng?" Sheng Jiaoyang narrowed his eyes.
She glanced in the direction of the door, "Then bring him in."
There is no other middle-aged man named Sheng except Sheng Xun. But what is he doing here at this time
After a while, I saw Aunt Zhang leading someone in.
This man's hair was half white, he was wearing a dark gray coat, and he had a look of vicissitudes of life. It is indeed Shengxun! He was carrying something in both hands, and he was holding a cake in one hand.
"Eh? Brother-in-law, why are you here?" Liang Dahui's surprised voice sounded.
Sheng Xun just looked at Liang Dahui expressionlessly. He handed the various things in one hand to Aunt Zhang, then walked up to Sheng Jiaoyang with a cake in his hand, looked at her deeply, twitched the corner of his mouth and said : "I know you have a birthday today, so I bought you a cake."
"I can't accept this cake if we are not relatives." Sheng Jiaoyang did not go to pick up the cake.
Shengxun's expression didn't change and he said directly: "This is your favorite mousse cake."
Sheng Jiaoyang's expression changed after hearing this. She stared at Sheng Xun closely, not missing any expression on his face, but she couldn't see anything on his face.
Mousse cake is what she likes to eat, not what Xu Jiaojiao likes to eat.
So what did he want to express by saying this? Did he see her identity
"Thank you." Sheng Jiaoyang took the cake and handed it to Aunt Zhang.
"Brother-in-law, why are you here today? Are you here to see the old man?" Liang Dahui came up.
Sheng Xun's eyes darkened slightly and he said, "I have divorced Liang Xiaohui. Please don't call me brother-in-law again."
"What? Divorce?" Liang Dahui was shocked, "When did it happen?"
"It was last month. Didn't she contact you?" Sheng Xun looked at Liang Dahui with a half-smile.
Sheng Jiaoyang suddenly laughed, and when Liang Dahui glared at her, she said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I'm not gloating, but I just feel that your sister, aunt, doesn't care about you too much. I didn’t even tell you the big things.”
Liang Dahui's face was very ugly.
Sheng Jiaoyang did not look at her again, but turned to Sheng Xun and said, "Even if you divorced her because she stole something, you must have given her a lot of money during the divorce, right? Otherwise, with her character, Will you give up and give up?"
Sheng Xun remained silent, just looking at her with a complicated look.
When Liang Dahui heard the sentence "a lot of money was divided", her eyes lit up, and she quickly asked: "Then where is my sister now?"
"Then you have to ask your sister." Sheng Xun replied coldly.
The corners of Sheng Jiaoyang's lips curled up, and he turned around to walk away, but was stopped.
"I want to talk to you alone." Shengxun said.
Sheng Jiaoyang glanced at him, a flash of light flashed across her eyes, and she said, "Come with me."
"Hey, you-" Liang Dahui stretched out her hand to stop the two of them, but she was held back by her husband Xu Ze.
"Don't disturb others." Xu Ze said.
Liang Dahui was unhappy and said, "Why did I bother them? One is your niece and the other is my brother-in-law. They are not relatives and have nothing to talk about."
"Of course I have family matters. Since I want to talk alone, I don't want others to know."
"Young man and a widower, you said my sister got divorced because of her!" Liang Dahui's expression became a little ferocious.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Jiaojiao has a boyfriend. Okay, okay, stop guessing and go talk with mom." Xu Ze pushed Liang Dahui towards the sofa.
The two people who entered the studio sat on the sofa and looked at each other in silence.
"What do you want to say to me?" Sheng Jiaoyang asked first.
Shengxun looked at her and said slowly: "You are very familiar with Jiaoyang's room, but you have never been there before."
Sheng Jiaoyang said nothing.
"I have thought about it for a long time and made many conjectures, but no matter what the situation is, it is impossible for a person to enter a strange room and know it well. Unless-"
He paused and continued word by word, "This person is the owner of this room."
Sheng Jiaoyang's eyes flashed and she did not respond to his words.
"I know how much Dad cares about Jiaoyang, but now he is not sad at all for Jiaoyang's departure, and he is so kind to you, who is not a relative but not a friend. Tell me, why is this?"
"This only shows that my grandpa and I are destined."
Sheng Xun looked at her and suddenly smiled, with some relief and joy in his smile, "You haven't changed at all."
Sure enough, he recognized it.
The corner of Sheng Jiaoyang's mouth moved. She didn't expect that someone who had always ignored her would be able to discover her identity without anyone reminding her.
"I don't understand what you are talking about." She said calmly.
"Scorching sun." Shengxun shouted softly.
Sheng Jiaoyang just looked at him calmly, neither admitting nor denying.
"People always like to be mean, and they don't feel important until they lose it. Jiaoyang, I've been sorry to you all these years."
"My name is not Jiaoyang, I am Xu Jiaojiao."
"Jiaoyang, there is no one else here, you don't need to be like this. I'm sorry that I haven't cared about you in these years. But in my heart, the only child I have is you."
Sheng Jiaoyang sneered, "It's too late, Sheng Jiaoyang is dead. Don't forget, you buried her in person."
"When Jiaoyang was still alive, the only time Jiaoyang and Xu Jiaojiao crossed paths was in the car accident, and dad actually asked you to go to the room to look for something. Only Jiaoyang and I knew about the secret compartment in the closet. Jiaoyang's accident was so unexpected, how could he have time? Go tell someone that secret.”
"How did you know that the only intersection between her and me was a car accident? Before that, we had always been in contact online. We were close friends who talked about everything, but we didn't expect that we ended up meeting each other by accident." Sheng Jiaoyang said it as if it was true, it was true and false, and it was hard to tell the difference between the false and the false.
Sheng Xun smiled slowly and said, "Although I have never taken the initiative to care about you in these years, do you really think that I know nothing about you?"
Sheng Jiaoyang was startled and looked at his expression carefully and found that he showed no signs of lying.
"I will collect your information every once in a while to see what you are doing. Although I can't say you fully understand your movements, I have a general idea."
Sheng Jiaoyang opened his eyes wide.