Chapter 96: The Ninety-Sixth Day of Slacking Off
“Xiao Ying, about Junior Sister… she has told me the whole truth.” Lin Yu lowered his eyes slightly. “Xiao Ying, I’m sorry. Before… I wronged you.”
Wen Ying didn’t answer him. Instead, she just leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed, looking at Lin Yu.
And? He ran over here in the middle of the night just to say such a useless piece of nonsense?
How did that old saying go…
“If apologies were useful, why would we need the police?”
He didn’t actually think a flimsy apology could make up for all his previous actions, did he?
If Wen Ying remembered correctly… that palm strike from Lin Yu back then, while it might not have killed her, would have at least left her half-dead.
Yes, Wen Ying truly didn’t care. But not caring didn’t mean she would forgive him.
Seeing Wen Ying’s bored and indifferent demeanor, Lin Yu felt his heart go cold.
Sure enough… Xiao Ying wouldn’t forgive him easily…
In his memories, he could still vaguely see the figure of Xiao Ying clinging to him.
But the Xiao Ying before him now seemed so far, far away… so far that… it was as if he could no longer touch her…
It was him. He was the one who had pushed Xiao Ying away with his own hands, pushed her to a distance he could no longer reach…
The hand inside Lin Yu’s sleeve clenched slightly.
“Xiao Ying, if you are willing…” Lin Yu spoke with difficulty, “The gates of my courtyard will always be open for you.”
Wen Ying immediately revealed an expression of extreme disgust.
That dilapidated courtyard of his? Remote and empty, the kitchen didn’t even have a range hood, so the whole place filled with smoke whenever someone cooked. And he actually wanted her to go back?
“As I thought…” Lin Yu lowered his eyes, his gaze filled with self-reproach and hatred for himself.
He had hurt Xiao Ying too deeply.
To the point that… Xiao Ying wasn’t even willing to turn her head to look at him again…
It was all his fault…
The fist in Lin Yu’s sleeve tightened a few degrees more.
Listening to Lin Yu’s noisy inner thoughts, Wen Ying felt like she was reliving the pain of watching those melodramatic family ethics dramas with her grandma.
Compared to Lin Yu’s nauseating inner monologue, the melodramatic storybooks written by Master Ziwei seemed insignificant.
Wen Ying’s frown deepened.
The last time she felt this combination of disgust and annoyance was when she was swatting flies at home.
“Get lost.” Wen Ying finally couldn’t take it anymore and interrupted Lin Yu’s internal monologue. She pointed out the door and said to Lin Yu very calmly, “I hate listening to nonsense, especially your long-winded, foul drivel that goes on like an old woman’s foot-binding cloth. Please, roll away smoothly.”
Wen Ying’s tone was calm, but the disgust in her eyes was undisguised.
Lin Yu was stunned.
Did… did he say a lot?
Undoubtedly, Xiao Ying was just speaking out of anger.
Indeed, he had broken Xiao Ying’s heart.
He knew his previous behavior was unforgivable, but, but…
He still held onto a desperate hope, clinging to the last shred of expectation…
“Ying… Ying…”
From behind the screen in the room, a man’s murmuring could be faintly heard.
That was—!
Lin Yu’s pupils constricted abruptly.
Originally, he thought the so-called “male concubine” rumors circulating among the disciples were just that—rumors. At most, Xiao Ying was just slightly close to him. But now…
Through the screen, he could vaguely see a man lying on Xiao Ying’s bed. It was that “male concubine”!
Xiao Ying and that “male concubine” had already become intimate to this extent…
Wen Ying turned her head to glance at Shen Linfeng lying on the bed.
He hadn’t woken up. That sentence just now was indeed just sleep-talking.
Although she didn’t know why Shen Linfeng would call her name in his dream, it was obvious that Lin Yu had misunderstood.
However, Wen Ying had absolutely no intention of explaining.
First, it was a hassle. Second—
was it necessary to explain anything to him?
“Xiao Ying…” After a long silence, Lin Yu finally spoke again. His eyes were filled with pained pity. “Xiao Ying… you don’t need to degrade yourself like this just to spite me…”
Wen Ying: “…”
These nauseating words and thoughts had truly reached the limit of her tolerance for disgust.
“Get lost!!” Wen Ying punched the man in the doorway right in the face, sending Lin Yu flying more than a hundred feet away.
Author’s Note: The reason today is so short: I received a notification last night that I could leave today, so after finishing work, I packed my luggage. I didn’t dare take out my keyboard and kept waiting, but… they still haven’t let me go yet QAQ. I’m really not used to typing on my phone, but it’s too late to go back, so today is relatively short… I’ll go home after tomorrow, and everything will be back to normal. I’ll update more tomorrow!
I really like this kind of plot where the scum guy ends up in the “crematorium” (begging for forgiveness) and then gets kicked away, hahaha! But this book isn’t a pure “crematorium” genre after all, so it’s not quite that satisfying.
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