If Qi Yue had heard these words and felt resentful or accused him, he would have been better off than now, watching her indifferent demeanor, his heart squeezed with discomfort.
If it hadn't been for seeing today how differently she treated Gu Huai and himself, he might never have spoken these words...
Yet, the hard-earned words he did manage to say failed to provoke any emotional response from her, as if her once fervent affection for him was, to her, not worth mentioning at all.
This fact was something he couldn't accept...
He couldn't accept that someone who once only saw him, who was once all about him, had suddenly turned into a stranger.
