chapter 10

Unexpectedly, Shen Qingqie did not argue back.

It was as if some conviction within him was crumbling inch by inch. He slid down the wall, drained of strength, finally collapsing to the floor.

I looked down at him from above, feeling an inexplicable sense of satisfaction.

This feeling of watching your beloved rot away before your very eyes-I understand it all too well.

After all, when I pushed open the villa door back then, I felt exactly the same way.

Truly, what goes around comes around.

His disheveled hair fluttered before his brows and eyes. Shen Qingqie hung his head, his gaze indifferent, his expression numb, leaning motionless against the wall like a shattered piece of beautiful jade-lonely and desolate.

I carefully savored the look of despair on his face.

I almost wished I could take a picture, so I could laugh at it whenever I was in a bad mood.

Suddenly, the person before me let out a soft laugh.

As he laughed, tears streamed down his face.

Huh? Has he really gone mad?

I heard him murmur, almost voicelessly, “It was my fault… I shouldn’t have…”

In that instant, I suddenly understood.

Shen Qingqie is a smart man.

During this time, he must have sensed something off about Xu Anran.

But in the ten years of our previous lives, he had poured far too much emotion into that illusory bubble.

So, he kept deceiving himself.

Now, the rose-tinted glasses had been shattered in the cruelest way.

He couldn’t believe it, couldn’t admit that he had thrown away his own life for someone like that.

So, he shifted the blame onto innocent me.

Looking at Shen Qingqie, his eyes red with tears, I let out a cold laugh.

No matter in this life or the last,

He is still that coward.

I didn’t want to see him regretful and deranged any longer. Without hesitation, I turned and left.

Leaving him behind, crying and laughing all alone.