Chapter 70: The Laughing Stock of Jingcheng
At this moment, Li Lixue's face was as pale as a sheet, hugging her knees rather pitifully, sitting on the carpet, her eyes filled with tears as she stared at Nie Zhenbang.
A beautiful woman, an extraordinarily beautiful woman, presented herself only to be rejected. For a moment, Li Lixue seemed to have spiraled into self-recrimination.
Nie Zhenbang also had his own bitter understanding of the situation. Born as an illegitimate child, the thing he detested most in life related precisely to this. He himself was an illegitimate child. Moreover, in the previous life, Nie Zhenbang had lived through a tragic period.
In his heart, he was utterly repulsed by this aspect. This was the fundamental reason why Nie Zhenbang had always been quite indifferent to romantic affairs.
