Chapter 1228: Coming Clean (Part Two) "No."
Jiang Che did not avert his gaze.
"My feelings for you were never a passing whim."
Dugu Linglong's brows knitted slightly.
"But since you already like Miss Liu..."
"Why did you have to pursue me?"
Her voice remained cool, but there was a trace of hurt in it that she could not quite conceal.
Jiang Che heard the change, and his voice remained calm and earnest.
"Liking someone isn't something you can plan out in advance."
"Before I met you, I had no idea I'd meet a little fairy with a head full of silver hair at Imperial Capital Airport."
"Before I went to Mount Zhongnan with you, I didn't know I'd truly want to find a place in your heart."
"By the time I realized it..."
"Some things had already happened."
Dugu Linglong listened quietly. She could not tell whether Jiang Che's words made enough sense.
Nor could she immediately accept the presence of another woman simply because he offered a few moving explanations.
She had spent years in secluded cultivation.
She could calmly face life and death in her cultivation, and she could remain alone on Mount Zhongnan through countless silent days and nights.
But no one had ever taught her how to handle romantic feelings.
The only thing she could be certain of was what she truly felt.
She liked Jiang Che, and she could not bear to let him go.
But Liu Ruyan's presence also filled her with a bitter ache.
Knowing she was not the only one brought a sense of hurt and resentment she had never experienced before.
These emotions did not accord with the Dao Heart she had once possessed, yet they were too real to erase with a simple recitation of the Clear Heart Art.