The Mysterious CEO and His Feisty Bride
Chapter 242 - 247: Modern Version of Cinderella (7)

Chapter 242: Chapter 247: Modern Version of Cinderella (7)

Li Qingshen’s lips had turned somewhat pale. He heard the clear sound of high heels gradually fading away. He turned his head, staring at the girl’s slender and soft silhouette, and slightly tugged at the corner of his lips with a bitter smile. The once deep and dark eyes now seemed a bit faint, filled with an intense melancholy.

He knew she harbored resentment and dislike for him in her heart!

She despised the words he said to her that day, too harsh and cruel!

But... she didn’t know, at that moment, he was genuinely struck by her probing the very core of his thoughts. The words he blurted out were in the heat of the moment.

He was not without regret, not without sorrow, but what could he do?

Li Qingshen watched as Ling Momo’s figure gradually disappeared from his line of sight, his smile growing even more faint, like a disappearing mist.

Yes... what could he do?

He loved her, yet he couldn’t reveal his feelings to her with his true identity in the light of day. He could only expose his most sincere emotions to her under the guise of an identity—Enson—that could never meet her face to face.

He feared her, feared that once she knew Li Qingshen loved Ling Momo, she would refute his love and gradually move away from him.

Just like now, she respectfully said "I’m going to be busy with other things" and left without any hesitation or delay, not even glancing back at him as if he were a ferocious beast that she desperately wanted to flee from.

She left so resolutely, so calmly, without the slightest hint of a desire to look back.

So, who could tell him, what exactly could he do?

Despite the heat of the summer, the AC in ES was set just right, and moreover, he was running a high fever, but he felt a bone-chilling cold.

The elevator made a beeping sound, and Li Qingshen stiffly turned his head and stepped into the elevator.

There was no one inside.

Only he was there.

He struggled to lift his hand and pressed for the first floor; the elevator started descending, just like his heart was also descending all the way into an endless, dark abyss.

Some loves are already over before they even begin.

He tried telling himself that perhaps she was never meant to be his, tried to give up. But he found he simply couldn’t let go.

He knew that unrequited love, secret love, is the most bitter, a road of giving without expecting anything in return. Yet, he was unable to stop.

He thought about snatching her away and possessing her, but then the thought that it might destroy her sweetest smile made him unwilling in his heart.

So, to this day, the only thing he could do... the only thing he could do was to stay by her side even if she disliked it, even if she loathed it, just so he could see her.

He knew that this kind of relationship was only temporary, that one day when she truly stood at the pinnacle of the music scene, Li Qingshen would also have to leave her side.

At that time, what could he do?

He knew... by then, the deeper he fell, no matter how much he loved her, he would respect her, let her go...

Because Li Qingshen’s love was the most tolerant, the most free.

Li Qingshen leaned weakly against the elevator wall, his pale lips curling into a shallow smile that grew ever more indifferent.

In the end, it was as if it had never existed; he felt powerless, a vast pain sweeping over him, and then, the tall and once unassailably proud man just suddenly collapsed bit by bit in the elevator.