Stealing Your Heart

Qin Ya slowly turned around, realizing that her legs were terribly stiff, from her hours of standing vigil. She leaned down to rub her aching kneecaps. Noting the action, Su Zhan hurried over to her side and glanced at her legs. “Are your legs bothering you?”

She ignored him.

He reached out to help her rub her legs, only for her to swat his hand away.

“I don’t need your help.”

Straightening up, he tried to explain himself, “I have to talk to you. Last night, I-”

“Was with Liu Feifei.” She had uttered it as though it had been statement, rather than a question.

The man’s eyes widened as he gasped out, “How did you know?”

She smiled grimly. “How did your reunion with your old lover go? Must have been intense, right?”

Unease welled in Su Zhan and he hastened to clarify, “Don’t misunderstand. Nothing went on between us. She had only wanted me to keep her company for the night…”

“I know.” She pointed at the lipstick mark on his neck. She’s merely your ex-girlfriend, isn’t she? It’s just one night, right? I don’t care about that, was what she had wanted to say proudly.

However, she was not as magnanimous as she had thought. She absolutely could not accept him cheating on her like this!

“I can clearly see the evidence of what you have done. Did you ever think of my feelings at all? Are you deliberately doing this to spite me?”

Confused, Su Zhan raised a hand to his neck and felt his fingers touch something sticky. Now that he had thought back on it, Liu Feifei had clung to him before he left, refusing to let him go. I thought I felt her brush her lips against my neck. She must have left her mark then!

“Please listen to me; I can explain myself. There’s nothing between me and her anymore. She just kept pestering me! I’ve already made things clear with her…”

“Su Zhan!” Qin Ya cut off his rambling. She bowed her head, unwilling to let the tears gathering in her eyes fall down. “Let’s just part ways peacefully. Thankfully, we did not actually get a marriage certificate yet. Let’s just forget about that farce in Baicheng, okay? I’ve already packed up all of my things.”

She took out the card that Grandma Su had given her a while back, and set it down on the bed, admitting, “I shouldn’t have even accepted this back then. Now that I’m leaving, it doesn’t make sense for me to bring it with me. You can keep it or give it back to Grandma. It’s all up to you. I don’t want to kick up a huge fuss about our breakup.”

It probably ended up looking more like a grimace. “I’ve said all that

door. Su Zhan was quick to snatch

not letting you go! Who gave you the right to end this just like that? Who gave you the right to say that this is all a farce? You put on a wedding dress and we got married right before my closest relatives and friends! Now you’re

the tears sparkling at the corners of her eyes. “Su Zhan, you’re a grown man now. Stop

what way am I being childish?” he retorted, while

a step back. While she could admit that she still liked him, she simply could not accept his disloyalty. Instead of enduring this silently,

immature. If you won’t talk about this like an adult, we

gulped. W-what did she just say? She wants to

do you mean by

her fists, she struggled to maintain her resolve. “We don’t have a marriage certificate, which means that we’re not actually married in the eyes of the law. You’ve cheated on me so I

“I’ve already told you this. Nothing has

night and there’s a lipstick stain on your neck. Tell me, does that seem like nothing has happened? Do you seriously think that

to keep her company for the night and she’d promised me

Her hand darted up to swipe

“Of course.”

you think of me as

We share the same bed, don’t we?

are you hiding anything from

he

Liu Feifei! It’s about my parents.

that they

appear that you’re closer to her than you are to me? You share your secrets with her but I don’t even

with this argument, she decided that it was a waste of her time and energy to continue like such. Sucking in a deep breath, she tried to calm herself.

the time to place

she had decided to leave him, there was no point in fighting

her more heartache. It was better to make this a

“No,” Su Zhan refused.

important in there.” Giving up on her suitcase was not

room door, intent on