At last, they had managed to grow a little closer.
Looking at Jiang Linyuan before her, Zhao Qiuluo felt a little more at ease.
"I've told you so much about myself. Why don't you tell me about you and Su Muzhi?"
she asked.
Jiang Linyuan's emotional baggage definitely had something to do with Su Muzhi.
Jiang Linyuan looked at Zhao Qiuluo and said:
"We met when we started college. It was midsummer, and she seemed to be wearing a long dress. Her face was full of joy..."
"We became a couple very quickly. She took such good care of me. Every morning, she'd wait for me outside my dorm. She'd sit beside me in class, and whenever I went out, she'd come along..."
"At first, I thought it was just the honeymoon phase. Then one day, I got a little close to a younger female student, and she started acting strange. She'd fly into a rage over the smallest things, but sometimes she'd cry and beg me not to leave her..."
"Then... she introduced me to her parents and started threatening me, saying I'd belong to her for the rest of my life."
"After that, all that was left between us was torment and control. She tried desperately to keep me tied to her, but I felt like the noose around my neck was getting tighter and tighter."
Jiang Linyuan felt that the story he'd made up was thirty percent false and seventy percent true.
Even Little Su wouldn't object if she heard it!
"Looking back now, those early days feel almost like a dream..."
He quietly lifted his head, looked at Zhao Qiuluo, and asked softly:
"Why couldn't things stay the way they were?"
The light reflected across Zhao Qiuluo's face, giving it a pale glow.
"Su Muzhi was