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Chapter 301 - Once, she loved him!

Chapter 301: Chapter 301 - Once, she loved him!

Yan Shaoqiang suppressed the joy in his heart, trying his best to calm down. After all, he was already thirty-three years old, well past the age of wearing his emotions on his sleeve like a young boy.

Or perhaps, some may say, going to court for judgement is a bad thing, so what is there to be happy about?

But to Yan Shao, who was eager to turn over a new leaf but always lost his bearings, this signified that the judge would correct him based on his past actions.

This also meant that Judge Zhu Qianying was willing to open her heart to him and let him explore that dark journey of the heart that he knew nothing about.

Yan Shao’s heart fluttered with joy, but his face remained calm. He even casually tugged at her arm.

"Sit down, you just got out of the hospital!"

Zhu Qianying’s bedroom was not big, the things within kept practical and simple. The wardrobe was on the wall to the left of the entrance, the bed was near the floor-to-ceiling windows of the terrace, and between the bed and the wardrobe, stood a computer desk against the wall, with a swivel chair in front.

Zhu Qianying sat down on the edge of the bed as he suggested, and Yan Shao dragged the swivel chair in front of her and sat down as well.

After sitting down, Zhu Qianying didn’t immediately say anything but fell silent for a while. She was trying to organize her feelings after Yi Wei had been abducted once again, intending to recall her feelings at that time without bias.

"Yan Shao, five years ago, I actually wanted to ask you something in person, but you didn’t give me the chance. Since you feel wronged, let me ask you now - during the days when Yi Wei was kidnapped and you were staying in the hospital, have you ever thought about me?"

Yan Han thought she would question him about everything between him and Yi Wei. But it turned out that it wasn’t the case.

Her question seemed easy to answer, but the real answer was hard for him to express.

Because at that time, all that he could think about was Yi Wei’s horrific injuries and how to bring her abductors to justice. He barely spared a thought for anyone else, not even Zhu Qianying, or his parents.

Zhu Qianying looked at him with intense eyes, seriously, as though she were a judge. As for Yan Han’s silence, she didn’t interrupt or remind him, only quietly watching him, waiting patiently for his answer.

Under her sharp gaze, Yan Han felt like a naked man under scrutiny. He was feeling uncomfortable, but he also knew that if he didn’t even have the courage to face the truth of the past, then he wouldn’t have any chance at all!

"No..."

When he spoke this reply, Yan Han vaguely realized that these two simple words had vividly exposed his heartlessness back then.

For Zhu Qianying at that time, it was no different from a sharp sword, cruelly plunging straight into her heart.

The corners of Zhu Qianying’s lips curled up into a faint smile, as though she was both mocking and relieved.

Although this happened five years ago, Zhu Qianying still felt a sharp pain in her heart when she recalled it.

The man in front of her probably didn’t know that the happy days of their newly-wed life had led her to harbor unrealistic dreams for their future married life.

However, those beautiful illusions were brutally torn apart and ruthlessly destroyed by Yan Han!

"Yan Shao, you’ve been explaining to me all this while that there is nothing going on between you and Yi Wei. But do you know, from the beginning to the end, what I mind is not Yi Wei!"

Zhu Qianying believed that she was not a narrow-minded person. She could understand friends taking care of and helping each other. However, Yan Shao at that time...

"Actually, it doesn’t matter to me who the person on the hospital bed was, whether or not you had deep feelings for her, it doesn’t matter. What matters is, as your wife, I had no place in your heart. Because I didn’t have a place there, you never once thought of me."

At this moment, Yan Shao had no argument to refute her.

"Think about it. When you don’t come home for dinner, you would call Uncle Hai to let him know. But when you went to save Yi Wei and took care of her in the hospital for those few days, did you call me once, or send me a message to explain? No! Right?"

Yan Shao still had no chance to retort. Because at that time, he really hadn’t thought of explaining to her.

He simply thought that their relationship didn’t require any explanation. His actions needed no explanation to her, and she had no right to inquire about his whereabouts.

However, after she left, he realized that he was terribly wrong!

That’s why, faced with her questioning, he couldn’t deny it!

"You might say that you were only concerned about Yi Wei’s safety at the time, and were busy chasing after the real culprit, so you didn’t have time. But ultimately, that’s not the real reason. The real reason is that you didn’t care!"

Yan Han became a little anxious, "No, I cared..."

But back then, he hadn’t even realized that he actually cared about her more than he cared about anyone else.

Zhu Qianying got up, took a sip of water to moisten her dry throat, and ignored his objection. Because he hadn’t given her the slightest feeling of his care.

"In your subconscious, you’ve always thought that whether you tell me or not, I’ll always be there! Also, you don’t care whether I’m there or not! And you don’t care whether your newly-wed wife who was left alone in the house for many days was heartbroken or not! Is that right?"

She wasn’t insensitive. She knew when someone cared for her.

However, Zhu Qianying’s series of questions left Yan Shao with no chance to defend himself.

"Yan Shao, look at it from another perspective, if Xing Bailun was the one in trouble back then and I treated Xing Bailun the way you treated Yi Wei and treated you the way you treated me, what do you think you would do?"

Without thinking, Yan Han said, "I would kill you!"

Zhu Qianying gave a faint smile, "Exactly, I really wanted to kill you back then! But unfortunately, I didn’t have the ability to do that, so I could only kill my own heart! Do you understand?"

Due to her parents’ relationship, Zhu Qianying had always been skeptical about love since she was young. However, hearts were flesh and blood. After Yan Han had treated her kindly for a while, her adolescent heart that had never been stirred finally started to sprout tender shoots!

However, those tender shoots that hadn’t had a chance to grow were killed off by the frosty winter before they had even had the chance, and her heart could never develop feelings related to love for any other man again.

She was never weak in other parts of her life, but when it came to feelings, there were too many uncontrollable factors, so she was scared!

Just like she calmly faced Yan Bo and his wife when Yan Shao was taking care of Yi Wei, but she couldn’t control her heart being gradually torn apart, bit by bit, and hollowed out!

[The fourth and fifth releases will be later, you guys better wait till tomorrow to read them]