Chapter 413

As Lu Jinnian said this, he suddenly covered his face with his hand, and quietly knelt there in front of the gravestone . His shoulders started to tremble ever so slightly .

After two hundred and fifty-one days of being reunited, they had to split up again . The anguish was far more intense than imagined .

Every moment of these two hundred and fifty-one days gradually replayed in his mind in slow motion, one frame at a time .

They were cold as strangers when they were pretending to be husband and wife . To draw himself closer to her, he removed all but one beds in the mansion . Finally, he got what he wished for . With her lying beside him in bed, it actually felt like torture . Night after night, he was unable to sleep .

He still clearly remembered the first night . Whilst she was asleep, she unknowingly stuck to his arm . It was like a bolt of lightning had shocked his entire body, and he pushed her off the bed . . .

In his mansion in Mount Yi, she looked after him when he was sick . . . Shooting scenes with her on “Alluring Times”, singing that song “There was You in My Youth” with her at the Royal Palace, going to watch a movie together, the streets they’ve walked together, the restaurants they’d eaten in, the words they said . . .

And the secrets that she didn’t know . The “paper, scissors, rock” confession for her, the gift brand “Shmily” that he personally created for her, the note hidden in the porcelain doll he gave her, the song “What a Pity” he sang for her . . .

The memories that accompanied him . . . They were like a hand that ruthlessly grasped tightly onto his heart . The pain made his entire body shiver, causing uncontrollable tears to fall through the crack between his fingers . Tear-by-tear, they crashed onto the gravestone in front of him .

Lu Jinnian stayed by the grave for most of the night . Besides his eyes that were slightly red, his expression looked as calm and cold as usual . He sat in the car for quite some time after, then casually turned some the music in the car . A mellow song came on .

“Miss you, not only because of loneliness . In the end, I didn’t lie to you, there’s really love .

“I dare make the whole world my enemy . For you, I have suffered the utmost . These sufferings, I would even accept . . . . “

Lu Jinnian’s throat rumbled up and down a few times . He slowly stepped on the accelerator, as he turned the steering wheel down the mountain .

“What a pity, to have lost you in the end . Sorry, I tried my best .

“I never gave up, I just stopped seeing you . I thought this would mean I won’t be hurt . . . “

In the dead of the night, there wasn’t a single person on the suburban streets, just Lu Jinnian’s speeding car .

“What a pity, we can’t go back . The sad tears grow more intense .

“I have always gracefully declined other people’s love, all because of your uncertainty . . . “

He stared straight at the road ahead, tears flowing down his face once again . His lips moved, but no sound came out . He slowly mouthed the lyrics along to the music,

“I have always gracefully declined other people’s love, all because of your uncertainty .

“Actually, in my heart, I want to beg you not to leave . . . “

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The day after Qiao Anhao left Mian Xiu Garden and flew to Milan with Zhao Meng, she shot the cosmetics commercial that Lu Jinnian had previously helped her get .

The commercial was just over ten seconds long, but the shoot was quite demanding . It needed to be shot in five locations; Milan, Paris, Rome, Athens, and the Vatican city .

Qiao Anhao stayed in Europe for almost half a month until she finished the shoot . Her ticket was booked for a next day return from Paris to Beijing .