Zhang Wei, “I used to be about to ask… may you clarify the way you ended up right here, all gloomy, consuming and drowning your sorrows as if there have been no tomorrow?”

“!”

Cai Wenxi’s eyes flew open in shock. “Did I look that dangerous?”

The thought flitted by her thoughts—was he exaggerating?

No manner she regarded that horrible!

Nonetheless, as she gazed out on the downpour and visualized herself within the scene, doubt crept in.

Maybe to an outsider, she may certainly have appeared so distressed.

Slap!

The belief struck her sharply, prompting her to smack her brow along with her hand earlier than sighing deeply, “See… I did not imply to come back throughout like that,” she clarified.

Zhang Wei nodded understandingly. “You definitely did not, till you appeared such as you had been inviting me to console you. I imply, I am fairly adept at providing consolation… need a demo?” Regardless of sustaining a teasing face, he could not resist standing and inching nearer to her.

“!”

Cai Wenxi’s eyes widened in alarm as she shortly positioned her arms on his head, firmly pushing him again into his seat.

“I’d somewhat not obtain any comfort!” she declared, her chuckle tinged with a bitter notice, baffled by his obliviousness.

How had he even thought that strategy can be efficient?

But, in Zhang Wei’s eyes, a sly smile was already enjoying, as he had lengthy imagined her unwittingly falling into the rigorously laid lure.

“Nicely, if no comfort is desired, then humor me, or I would simply stroll out,” he added, shrugging helplessly as if resigned to his destiny.

“…”

In the meantime, Zhang Ming wielded the approaching marriage as each a jest and a veiled menace throughout their interactions.

Regardless of Zhang Ming’s efforts to be accommodating and even caring—evident in his checking up on her just some hours earlier—Cai Wenxi’s notion of him had been tainted negatively.

As soon as forged in such a lightweight, all his actions had been considered by a lens of skepticism and mistrust, rendering them ineffective in altering her preliminary judgment.

In distinction, if Cai Wenxi ever perceived somebody favorably, that constructive picture was prone to persist, coloring all subsequent interactions with a permanent glow of approval.

Zhang Wei, who had solely heard Cai Wenxi’s aspect of the story, could not assist however nod thoughtfully. “Then why not simply refuse the wedding?”

Although the state of affairs appeared ripped straight from a melodramatic cleaning soap opera, he believed the answer was simple.

“!”

Cai Wenxi’s eyes flashed with shock at his suggestion, and he or she furrowed her forehead in focus. “I can not! My father has already given his phrase. Do you suppose it is that straightforward to only break his promise?”

Zhang Wei shrugged, leaning again comfortably towards the seat and putting his hand casually behind his head, “Nicely, it is perhaps simpler for you than you suppose—typically, you should study to disappoint others to be true to your self.”

Cai Wenxi’s expression grew somber, and he or she muttered grimly, “They’d disown me…”

Zhang Wei countered softly, “It is your selection, however for those who’re so afraid of disappointing your father, you may by no means really dwell for your self.”

“…”

Cai Wenxi’s face darkened additional, shadows enjoying throughout her options. Whereas his recommendation appeared wise on the floor, she doubted its practicality.

Would not rejecting the organized marriage set off the collapse of her household’s rigorously constructed social standing?

Would she bear the load of that collapse?

Might she endure the guilt related to such a drastic determination?

Deep down, Cai Wenxi already knew the reply.

She bit again her phrases, tempted to level out that it was straightforward for him to talk so freely—he did not have dad and mom to disappoint.

Her lips parted in hesitation, however the phrases stubbornly refused to floor.