Mu Huan looked at him and was compelled to ask, "Since you like me so much, why didn't you trust me?"
Would a person like someone so much and yet not trust her?
If one can't even trust a person one likes, is that real affection?
"I…" Gu Chenyi was stumped for words.
"Gu Chenyi, maybe you don't like me as much as you imagine yourself to. Perhaps it's only because you had lost before you had even gained, and you find that hard to reconcile. If you truly like someone, you wouldn't behave like this — it wouldn't be that no matter how hard I try to explain, you wouldn't believe me; it wouldn't be that you'd believe only what others say and hurt me. Since you believe them so much and think that I'm the sort of person they make me out to be, why would you still like me and can't let it go even now? What do you like about me? What is it that you can't let go of?"
