"Anna, you okay?"
Leyan's voice appeared as she stood directly across from Anna, closing the door behind her.
"I'm fine, Mrs.Leyan. What are you here for?"
"I... I just want to apologize." Leyan apologized as he bowed down sincerely.
"You have nothing to apologize for. You didn't do anything to ."
Anna paused for a second, then continued.
"If you are here to talk about Xiaoyun, tell him that I'm moving out today."
"Anna... I just want to tell you sothing?"
"What is it?"
Anna's face started to look a little annoyed, but she just couldn't bring herself to express anger toward Leyan, who was always so kind to her.
"I want you to be with Xiaoyun. But I fully understand and respect your choice to leave him.
If I were you, I would leave him too. No girls should be disrespected like that without their consent."
Seeing Anna sitting in silence, Leyan spoke up again.
"Anna, can I tell you a secret?"
Although Anna didn't respond to her question, Leyan continued with it anyway.
"You know, I was just like you before when I learned my husband had a romantic relationship with another woman.
I'm not religious or anything. But I always thought, why should I be sharing my man with soone else?
Just because he has power and provides for , that doesn't an he's allowed to love soone else other than ."
Leyan suddenly chuckled as if her mind was thinking back to sothing funny in the past.
"I sound selfish, right? Berating the man who's willing to support shelter from this apocalypse."
Anna still didn't say anything, but she could feel a little bit related inside her heart.
"But when did love beco sharable? That's a question that I always wondered inside my head.
Why was I willing to share his love with soone else? Is it because they are my daughter or my friends?
Did I bow down to his power and beco afraid? Is it because my life had now beco dependent on him?"
Leyan paused for a second as she sat down across from Anna, looking down at the table as she put her hands together.
"No. I did it because I loved him. I know he loves all of us, and he will regret it forever if he hurts one of us.
That idiot never realized that being indecisive only hurts all of us at the sa ti.
He never understood what it truly ant to love soone. Yet, all of us were willing to put up with his bullshit.
Maybe it's just love, or maybe we're just blind. But we could feel he genuinely cared and was willing to die for us."
As Leyan nervously moved her thumb on top of each other, her voice was starting to crank a little.
"I just want to say I'm sorry——not as an apology for Xiaoyun, but as an apology for all of our actions that led up to this.
If you need to help you with anything, please just ask. I'll do my best to compensate."
Just as Leyan got up from her seat and was about to leave, Anna suddenly murmured sothing out.
"Dummkopf..."
"Hm?"
"Nothing... Tell that idiot to co to my office and apologize to if he wants to be forgiven."
"I will."
Anna was now once again inside the office, all alone, as she looked down at her hands.
"God... Please forgive ."
---
When Leyan arrived back ho, Xiaoyun was already sitting on the sofa, patiently waiting the whole ti.
"What did she say?" Xiaoyun asked as he urgently ran over to Leyan.
"You got one last chance to make it up... Don't blow your chances away this ti."
"Thank you!"
Xiaoyun imdiately ran out of the house, heading straight to Anna's workplace as Leyan watched by the doorway.
"He is really fond of the new and tired of the old..." Leyan murmured as she thought back to herself.
---
When Xiaoyun ran across the streets, so people were already outside going to their work.
But when he arrived at the factories, they were still empty, and besides a few guards, no one was in sight.
"Did Anna go inside her office?" Xiaoyun asked.
"Yes, Mr.Governor." One of them replied.
"Thank you."
As Xiaoyun ran inside the factory, he kept going until he arrived all the way to the door of Anna's office.
With a gentle knock, he waited.
"Co in."
Xiaoyun slowly opened the door, only to see Anna sitting in her seat with tear marks still on her face.
"What more do you want from ?" Anna asked, her voice displaying a subtle anger inside.
"I'm sorry."
Xiaoyun bowed down, not saying anything else as he waited for her to speak up.
However, after bending down for a while, she still didn't say anything. At the sa ti, Xiaoyun didn't get up either.
After a long standoff, Anna was the first one to speak again.
"Get up. I don't want to see you bowing down in front of ."
"Not until my apology is accepted."
After another long standoff, Anna backed down again.
"Get up. I accept your apology."
This ti, Xiaoyun finally got up and looked back at Anna's face with a small hint of relief.
"Do you really love ?" Anna suddenly asked.
"Of course I do——"
"Then what do you love about ?" Anna interrupted.
Xiaoyun fell into silence for a second as his brain didn't expect her to ask it seriously.
Deep inside, his heart couldn't co up with any reasons other than the fact that he didn't want to let go.
He never really developed romantic feelings for Anna, nor had he even spent that much ti with Anna, for that matter.
All of his wives had fell in love with him, and he only reciprocated back after his heart fell in love with them.
It had never been the other way around, with him always being reacting to other's initiatives until now.
"I... I don't know."
"You don't know?" Anna questioned, her face looked to be in disbelief.
"I just don't want to lose you. I want to make you mine. I know how bad it sounds, but I can't lie to myself."
Seeing Xiaoyun say it out loud, Anna's face cald, but her heart started to beat a little faster.
"So you just want my body?"
"No, I want every part of you. I like your personality and everything about you."
"What about my personality? Elaborate it."
Anna pressed her question as if she was trying to get so sort of answer.
"You... You always stay within a distance between us. I feel calm every ti I am alone with you.
It's like a completely different feeling from the others. I don't need to worry about work or anything."
"So, like an escape from responsibility?"
"I-I guess... But I genuinely do care about you——"
"Even willing to pick over your wives?"
Xiaoyun fell into silence again, as saying yes would just be him lying right in front of her.
"I never liked you, Xiaoyun. I never had any feelings for you. I don't know why my heart beats faster when I'm next to you."
Anna paused for a second as she got up from her seat, then continued.
"I thought maybe I should have just thrown myself to you like Kate. But I just couldn't bring myself to say yes."
As she walked closer and closer to Xiaoyun, she suddenly gently punched him in the chest.
"You ruined my chances with anyone else. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!"
After punching Xiaoyun's chest several tis, she stopped as she collapsed onto his chest.
Her tears were starting to co out, falling directly onto his shirt, which soon beca filled with wet marks.
"Why did you kiss ? Why are you so selfish? Why can't you just say no to ?"
Xiaoyun didn't say anything, but he gently patted her on the back as he continued to listen.
"I wish I could just get so courage and just leave you forever. But I can't. I hate myself because of you.
And you know what? I do love you. You're the only person I ever had any feelings for."
Hearing Anna's sudden confession, Xiaoyun was caught off guard a little.
"You made give up on the only thing that kept going. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!"
Once again, Xiaoyun chose to letting her punch him in the chest to let her frustration be put onto him.
"You know how hopeless I was when I heard Germany has collapsed? I hate you forever making translate for those people."
"I'm sorry."
Xiaoyun finally spoke up, apologizing as he didn't expect her to bring that up out of nowhere.
At the sa ti, he could feel her pain, learning about her ho being destroyed after years of hope that everything was still fine back ho.
"But I'm also thankful you killed my dream of ever going back... Without you, I would been long dead."
As the atmosphere started to calm down a little, Anna's sobbing slowly stopped.
"I have one selfish demand. I don't want to hear you say no."
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