Chapter 2

Gu Xiaoyan, sitting beside him, tearfully tried to hold his hand, but he avoided her. His brows furrowed tightly, his expression filled with restrained impatience, and he spoke to Gu Xiaoyan in a very cold tone: “Stay away from me.”

Gu Xiaoyan was stunned for a moment, then sat there as tears fell in big drops.

Of course, even with her tear-stained face, she didn’t forget to glare at me fiercely, as if I were the instigator of all this.

Watching this scene, I actually felt a bit like laughing, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Besides, Nie Feng and I truly had nothing left to say to each other.

I stood far from his hospital bed, my face expressionless and cold as I said, “The divorce agreement was drafted by your legal team at your instruction. Your chief lawyer weighed every word before finally presenting it to you.” I sighed. “After you’re discharged, you can ask those around you if I ever lied to you.”

He looked up and stared at me, as if wounded by my cold attitude, his expression showing rare confusion and hesitation, with a hint of puzzlement and pleading.

He’s had smooth sailing all these years, always certain of everything-such an expression I hadn’t seen in a long time.

But my heart had long since turned to dead water; no matter how lost or hesitant he was, he could no longer move me. I paused, then turned and walked away.