Liu Rufeng looked at Lu Chengwen, sinking into deep conflict.
Lu Chengwen massaged her legs as he told her all sorts of things to amuse her, but Liu Rufeng could no longer take any of it in.
Lu Chengwen keenly noticed that she was distracted and had no reaction to his jokes.
Lu Chengwen stopped.
"Big Sister."
"Hm?" Liu Rufeng was pulled back from her thoughts. She gave an awkward dry cough and maintained her aloof persona. "Speak."
"I know you've always been lonely."
Liu Rufeng looked at Lu Chengwen without speaking.
"Actually, people are born alone."
Lu Chengwen massaged Liu Rufeng's feet. She tried to pull them back, but Lu Chengwen forcefully caught hold of them. Liu Rufeng put up a token struggle before letting him do as he pleased.
Because... she liked this ambiguous feeling.
Even if it was fake.
As Lu Chengwen massaged her feet, he said, "I'm lonely too."
"You? Doesn't CEO Lu live a lively life? You have family, so many girlfriends, and fellow disciples who are like brothers. You people have been charging through the martial world with great fanfare and doing all sorts of big things."
Lu Chengwen sighed. "My family all have lives of their own. I rarely get to see my girlfriends, and honestly, I never wanted that many girlfriends in the first place. As for my brothers... heh, my Senior Disciple Brother wanted to kill me from the very beginning, and Zhao Ritian was the same. I've been scraping by in the cracks too, all alone."
Liu Rufeng could not be bothered to listen to Lu Chengwen put on an emotional act. Annoyed, she said,
"Even you, Lu Chengwen, are being melodramatic? Then I'm afraid there isn't a single happy person in this world."
Lu Chengwen said, "Ever since I