The dishes were served, and ng Ke thoughtfully helped Bai Xiaoxiao with her food.
Bai Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and gently stopped him, "ng Ke, don’t busy yourself with serving food. I have sothing to tell you."
"Whatever it is, let’s talk after we’ve eaten our fill."
ng Ke always had a gentle smile on his face.
This made Bai Xiaoxiao a bit frustrated.
Moreover, he seed very busy, as he took two work-related phone calls during the al.
After finishing the calls, ng Ke apologized sowhat sheepishly to Bai Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, I’m sorry, I’ve been getting a lot of calls these past couple of days."
Bai Xiaoxiao smiled and put down her chopsticks.
"Right, you said earlier that you had sothing to tell ."
ng Ke noticed her putting down her chopsticks and hadn’t forgotten what she ntioned earlier.
Bai Xiaoxiao wiped her mouth, gathered herself, and looked at ng Ke seriously, saying calmly, "ng Ke, let’s break up."
"..."
The food that ng Ke had picked up fell back into the plate.
The hand holding the chopsticks froze in mid-air, and the smile on his face couldn’t be retracted in ti.
He was just frozen like that.
Completely unable to believe that what Bai Xiaoxiao said was true.
There was a mont of stifled air.
Looking at ng Ke’s frozen expression, a trace of sadness crossed Bai Xiaoxiao’s mind. She knew that ng Ke had always been good to her.
When she was abroad, ng Ke often visited her. Across the Pacific Ocean in a long-distance relationship, they could be called lovers, all because ng Ke was proactive.
"ng Ke."
A trace of apology flickered in Bai Xiaoxiao’s eyes, and she said softly, "Before, it was my montary impulse. I shouldn’t have wasted so much of your ti."
"No, it was my choice. You told back then, you didn’t like , but I thought that as long as I treated you well, there would co a day when you’d forget about that person and see the good in ."
ng Ke smiled wryly.
His world seed to suddenly lose its sunlight, leaving only a patch of gloom.
"ng Ke, I’m really sorry. I’ve tried, but I couldn’t make it."
Bai Xiaoxiao gently pursed her lips, genuinely feeling that she owed ng Ke.
A hint of jealousy crossed ng Ke’s eyes, the smile at the corner of his lips carrying so bitterness and sadness, "Xiaoxiao, is it because of him?"
Bai Xiaoxiao knew the "him" he was referring to was Luo Haofeng.
Her eyes flickered, unsure how to respond for a mont.
"Xiaoxiao, when you went to City B on a business trip this ti, did you et him? That night, your phone was turned off. It’s not because the battery died, but because you were with him, right?"
ng Ke wasn’t foolish.
That evening, when he couldn’t reach Bai Xiaoxiao’s phone, he had a hunch that sothing was wrong.
He felt that Bai Xiaoxiao was with Luo Haofeng.
Later, he called Wen Ran, who told him Bai Xiaoxiao was on the phone with her and the battery drained.
How could he believe Wen Ran’s words? She was Bai Xiaoxiao’s best friend, and they all wished for Bai Xiaoxiao to be with Luo Haofeng.
To them, ng Ke was just an outsider.
"That day, I was with him."
Bai Xiaoxiao hesitated for a few seconds and truthfully told him.
Seeing ng Ke’s mocking laughter, she added, "But it’s not what you think. It was his birthday, I was just celebrating it with him."
"Celebrating a birthday, Xiaoxiao, you were still my girlfriend at the ti, yet you were with Luo Haofeng behind my back, with your phone off the whole night."
A hint of anger flared in ng Ke’s eyes, startling Bai Xiaoxiao, who had never seen his calm deanor in public.
"You told back then, you might never fall for , but Xiaoxiao, even if you don’t like , you should know that as a girlfriend, you shouldn’t et up with your ex-boyfriend behind my back. Did you consider my feelings when you were with Luo Haofeng?"
"There’s nothing between him and ."
"Xiaoxiao, do you really think I’m a fool? You and Luo Haofeng can’t forget each other. When you were abroad, it wasn’t only visiting you, Luo Haofeng also ca to see you."
"..."
Each of ng Ke’s words was sharper than the last, making Bai Xiaoxiao’s face turn pale. She opened her mouth but couldn’t find words to refute him.
"The day you returned to China, you told Luo Haofeng but were unwilling to tell . He traveled all the way to G City, and even though it was just a chance encounter on the street, your expressions and emotions afterwards were influenced by brushing past each other."
"..."
Bai Xiaoxiao was caught off guard.
Although she knew that ng Ke, the man who successfully managed a travel agency, was undoubtedly a clever man.
She didn’t expect his heart to be so sensitive.
What surprised her the most was how he knew everything but never brought it up.
Such a person suddenly made her feel a little frightening.
For so reason, she suddenly felt the temperature in the hall drop several degrees, a chill sweeping over her.
"On the day of Wen Ran’s child’s birthday, when I went on a business trip, you had a chance to be with Luo Haofeng alone, and Mo Xiuchen and Wen Ran would certainly make it possible for you. Luo Haofeng seed to have stayed in G City for more than just a day..."
"..."
"Xiaoxiao, since you returned to China, Luo Haofeng has been visiting G City more and more frequently. In such a short ti, he’s already visited G City several tis, and every ti, there’s been so contact with you."
"That night in the private room on the third floor, he ca specifically to see you, didn’t he? Since your parents disapprove of you dating Luo Haofeng, though you were with him before, there wouldn’t be anything between you."
The further ng Ke went on, the colder Bai Xiaoxiao’s heart beca.
"ng Ke..."
"Don’t rush, let finish, and you can see whether my analysis is correct."
ng Ke’s lips curled with a mocking arc, and the usual gentle and tender look in his eyes towards Bai Xiaoxiao was replaced with indifference and sarcasm.
"In G City, nothing might happen between you two, but your trip to City B was a great opportunity. Because each previous eting, every appearance he made before you, only increased the turmoil within your heart."
"So, during this trip, you finally couldn’t withstand his temptation, and spent a night with him. Xiaoxiao, we’re all adults here; I can guess what you and Luo Haofeng did when alone together, two people who love each other."
At the end of his speech, a coldness flashed in ng Ke’s eyes and he slightly grit his teeth.
He must muster all his strength to control the raging jealousy in his heart, to avoid an imdiate outbreak.
Even though Bai Xiaoxiao had asked to break up with him, he still didn’t want to frighten her now; he wanted to salvage the relationship.
He was fully aware that Bai Xiaoxiao would feel guilty listening to those words.
"It’s not what you think."
After the shock, Bai Xiaoxiao quickly cald herself.
ng Ke squinted his eyes, suddenly stood up, and approached Bai Xiaoxiao.
Bai Xiaoxiao looked up, her gaze unintentionally carrying a hint of caution.
She hadn’t understood ng Ke well enough before; at this mont, Bai Xiaoxiao felt a surge of complex emotions toward ng Ke that couldn’t be expressed with words.
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