After Breaking Up With the Scheming Bad Woman 99

Chapter 99: She Was Being Unconsciously Tortured by Huai Xing.

Huai Xing had once looked forward to her 22nd birthday with great anticipation. At least in terms of numbers, she would feel that she was a little closer to growing up.

She wanted to be the person Chu Wantang could confide in when she was wronged at work. She wanted to be the person Chu Wantang could rely on more. She wanted to spend every birthday in the future with Chu Wantang. She had even thought of her birthday wish and was just waiting for her birthday to arrive.

But why? Why was Chu Wantang’s plan to abandon her on her 22nd birthday?

Even though Chu Wantang had said that she had softened and would no longer follow the original plan, even though in the end it was she who had run away, and her birthday was no longer spent with Chu Wantang.

But just because it didn’t happen didn’t mean it wouldn’t hurt her. On the night she had heard Chu Wantang say those words through a door, she had been frozen into a specimen.

It turned out that in early summer, people could also freeze.

So much so that in the past five years, she had thought more than once that if it weren’t for Xu Congyun coming to her door that day and her protecting Chu Wantang, would everything have happened on July 17th, 2020?

When she had trusted and relied on Chu Wantang the most, she would have been abandoned by Chu Wantang.

The answer was yes.

The plan that had been lurking for many years had finally had a perfect ending. Chu Wantang, who took pleasure in tormenting her, must have enjoyed the taste of seeing her in tears and distraught, right?

She had even had related dreams. In her dreams, Chu Wantang’s attitude was resolute, and she had broken off their relationship with cold eyes, leaving her alone to look around, without even a friend she could trust.

When she woke up, she found that her pillow was wet. She stared into the endless darkness, gripped the jade comb tightly, and evened her breathing.

She didn’t know how long it would take for such a nightmare to end. She could only leave it to time.

And on the day she had settled the past with Chu Wantang in front of her mother’s grave, she had really thought that she could look forward.

But just the thought of a birthday that Chu Wantang might be a part of would make her stressed, and would remind her of what Chu Wantang had said and done in the past. She remembered the one-of-a-kind dress that Chu Wantang had personally designed for her, which had made her look forward to her birthday…

She couldn’t face Chu Wantang today, so she had set Chu Wantang to do not disturb, and she also didn’t want to see her at the company.

She thought that if Chu Wantang didn’t come to her today, then they could be at peace—

But Chu Wantang had waited for her to come back. At this moment, she was standing in front of her door, carrying a violin case, and staring at her in a daze, her eyes full of dejection and pain.

The empty elevator entrance was filled with warm yellow light spots.

It was clearly midsummer, but the air was so cold that it was chilling.

Huai Xing walked over slowly, trying to look calm and composed, and said lightly, “Go back.”

“I don’t want to hear your blessings, and I don’t want to receive your gift. Don’t make things difficult for me, Sister Wantang.”

Chu Wantang had also said to her, “Don’t make things difficult for me.” On the second day after they had had sex, and for a long time after that, this sentence had been deeply engraved in her heart.

She had sacrificed herself so as not to make things difficult for Chu Wantang. All of this had been seen by Chu Wantang. Chu Wantang knew everything, but she had still treated her like that.

When she had subconsciously said this just now, was she retaliating? Huai Xing herself didn’t know.

But, it didn’t matter anymore. She really wanted to get home quickly and escape from this suffocating atmosphere, lest she fall into a trap that Chu Wantang had set up that she couldn’t distinguish.

With that, Huai Xing walked around Chu Wantang, her eyelids lowered, and prepared to enter the password.

But her wrist was grabbed, and she didn’t turn her head. A nasal female voice sounded at her side. “Don’t I even have the right to wish you a happy birthday?”

“No,” Huai Xing’s answer was very firm.

Chu Wantang asked with great pain, “But aren’t we friends? Even if you rejected my request, we’re still… ordinary friends.”

Huai Xing stared at the password lock. “We can also not be.”

The five short words seemed to have turned into glass shards, all of which stabbed at Chu Wantang, making her breath carry a hint of a fishy sweetness. She felt Huai Xing’s beating pulse, and her throat felt as if it were blocked, and it was also bitter. She couldn’t say a word.

“Actually, you also know,” Huai Xing said, still turning her head to look at the teetering teardrop in Chu Wantang’s eye, and asked very lightly, “You’re very smart. Why I didn’t reply to your message, why I didn’t show up at the company today, you’ve long known the answer… why did you have to come and find me?”

“I’m sorry…” Chu Wantang’s long lashes trembled, and a teardrop still fell. “I have something to say to you.”

She explained with difficulty, “If it weren’t for my aunt coming to my door, I wouldn’t have followed the original plan. I had long since been reluctant, Huai Xing.” She moved forward a little, and even though she was crying, she still looked very elegant. “In the moments when I couldn’t wait to see you, in the morning when you gave me the spring letter, when I felt unaccustomed to being separated from you for ten days on a business trip… it wasn’t that I was soft-hearted. It was that I was afraid of losing you.”

“It’s okay, Chu Wantang,” Huai Xing said, comforting her after hearing this. “You don’t have to be afraid of losing me now, because you won’t have me again.”

Chu Wantang’s tears were even more torrential, and they were even more rustling. It was clearly a very calm sentence, but it had smashed a deep pit in her heart.

The pain was like a surging tide that had passed over her heart, so painful that a grayish-purple mist appeared in front of her eyes. She cried very quietly and suppressedly, and her tears gradually gathered into a sea on the ground.

For the next few minutes, no one spoke again.

The elevator went up and down, and the slight sound it made as it passed the eighth floor became the only background sound.

Huai Xing did not struggle with her held wrist. She took out a handkerchief from her bag and, just like on the night Chu Wantang had been drunk, she gently wiped Chu Wantang’s tears.

But the more gentle Huai Xing was, the sadder Chu Wantang became.

Sad that this gentleness no longer belonged to her alone. Every touch from Huai Xing was like a cut on her face. She was being unconsciously tortured by Huai Xing.

Sad that Huai Xing’s emotions did not fluctuate much. She would have preferred it if Huai Xing had vented her anger from back then at her, and had shouted at her, which would have been much better than this pool of quiet, dead water. And all of this was caused by her. Huai Xing was not even willing to give her any extra emotions.

“The violin was a gift my mother wanted to give you,” Chu Wantang said, taking a deep breath and letting go of her hand, and taking the violin from her back and holding it.

Her vision was still hazy, and she couldn’t see anything clearly. She said with difficulty, “She had instructed me before she passed away not to sell it, but to give it to the person it should go to. This person can only be you. For the sake of our mothers, can you accept it?”

Huai Xing held the wet handkerchief and looked at the violin case.

Thinking of her mother’s eyes when she had watched her play the violin, she “mm”-ed. “Okay.” She then asked, “Was this the thing you had Sister Wan Yi bring?”

“It was.”

Chu Wantang solemnly handed the violin case forward. Only when the weight in her hand disappeared did she finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Her blessings could not be said, but her mother’s gift could be given. She asked, “Have you made a birthday wish this year?”

In the years she had lived with Chu Wantang, Chu Wantang had not missed her birthday.

She would take her to a restaurant for dinner, buy her a gift, sing her a happy birthday song, and also urge her to make a sincere wish.

“I have,” Huai Xing said, holding the violin case. “Go back. I’m going to rest.”

Chu Wantang stared at her, clenched her clothes, and then asked, “Are we still friends?”

“Of course.”

“Okay, then good night.”

“I’ll walk you out.”

Chu Wantang cherished even a second more of being with her and did not refuse.

The elevator came quickly. When the elevator doors closed, Huai Xing entered the password and returned home.

She did not immediately open the violin case, but first placed it gently on the table and then took a water glass to the water dispenser.

While waiting, she propped her arms on the counter and lowered her eyes.

A few seconds later, a strange water droplet rippled on the surface of the water. She raised her hand to wipe it away, then turned off the water dispenser and tilted her head back to drink the water mixed with tears.

She turned off the lights and was in the darkness. She leaned against the sofa and sat down powerlessly, hugging her knees and closing her eyes.

-More like a little pet, comes when called, goes when shooed.

-We’re just bed partners with mutual consent.

-All in all, I’m very kind, and she’s not losing out.

…

Chu Wantang returned to the eleventh floor in a daze and sat down on the sofa.

The tear stains on her face were not dry, and her red eyes were very directly in Wan Yi’s sight. Wan Yi had no intention of joking and went to get her a glass of water and placed it on the coffee table, lest she get thirsty from crying.

After doing all this, Wan Yi went into the guest room on the first floor.

Everything was empty, and the floor-to-ceiling window reflected the woman’s lonely figure.

Chu Wantang looked at the Weibo post that Lu Zhenyue had posted and the Moments post that Lu Xianyue had posted, and she felt as if she had lost the strength to blink.

After a long while, she slid down onto the soft blanket, hugged her knees, and closed her eyes. She suddenly recalled the scene of celebrating Huai Xing’s 18th birthday that year.

Huai Xing had just finished her college entrance examination at that time and had gone on a trip, but she had not gotten a tan.

She had flown from Jingcheng to Yuncheng, and Huai Xing had very enthusiastically welcomed her to her home, telling her about the interesting things she had encountered on her trip, her two eyes exceptionally bright.

That night, after Huai Xing had made her wish, she had smiled at Huai Xing and said, “Xiao Xing, there’s something I need to tell you.”

“Go on, Jiejie,” Huai Xing said, sitting up straight.

“You’re an adult now, but you can’t fall in love, you can’t be ambiguous, and you can’t be in a relationship. Once you have this tendency towards someone, our relationship will end, understand?” She wanted Huai Xing to be 100% dependent on her, and not have a second choice when she needed it.

Huai Xing did not ask anything, but was stunned for a moment, and then replied with a grin, “I understand, Jiejie.”

Huai Xing said, “I won’t fall in love with anyone else, I won’t be ambiguous with anyone else, and I won’t be in a relationship with anyone else.”

But Chu Wantang was still not at ease. This was also the reason she had gone to Huai Xing’s university several times. But Huai Xing had kept a proper distance from everyone, and she didn’t even have the act of holding arms with her friends when they walked, which was common among girls. But at home, she would be very close to her, as if they were really the most intimate family in the world.

Only later did she realize what “anyone else” meant.

In Huai Xing’s world, apart from her, everyone else was “anyone else.”

In the years she had liked her, she couldn’t imagine how hard it had been for Huai Xing. And she had used Huai Xing’s feelings for her to stab her even deeper.

Before going to the company the next day, Chu Wantang put on some foundation, otherwise, she would look too haggard.

But she hadn’t rested well all night, and after the meeting, she went to the pantry to get coffee. When she was sitting on the high stool, Lu Xianyue also came over with a cup and greeted her.

Chu Wantang stirred the coffee in her cup and asked, “Little President Lu, why isn’t President Huai at the company today?”

“She went on a business trip. You can also find me if you have anything,” Lu Xianyue said, sitting opposite her and admiring the weather today.

“How long will she be gone?”

“About ten days. There are many meetings to attend and collaborations to discuss. She’s more hardworking and busier than me. It’s a good thing it wasn’t yesterday, otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to celebrate her birthday.” Lu Xianyue asked casually, “What? Do you miss her, Director Chu?”

Chu Wantang was stunned for a moment, nodded, and did not say much.

Only then did Lu Xianyue realize what she had just asked. The atmosphere froze for a moment, and then she heard Chu Wantang ask, “Has Little President Lu always celebrated President Huai’s birthday?”

“Apart from her 22nd birthday, I’ve been there for all the others.”

Lu Xianyue said slowly, “On her 22nd birthday, we weren’t very familiar with each other then. We were roommates in the silkworm and mulberry factory dormitory. I was playing on my phone until midnight and got up to go to the restroom, and I found that something was wrong with her. I touched her and found that she had a high fever, and her whole body was covered in sweat. She kept calling out for her mother and older sister…”

When she recalled this, she remembered that Chu Wantang was that older sister. Her face immediately fell, and she stood up and left.

Leaving Chu Wantang to feel the coldness of midsummer alone.