Weren't you asking about the future?
Weren't you wondering what I'd been hiding from you lately?
Fine. I'll tell you everything now.
Lin Tian steadied his emotions and said, word by word,
"There was no other reason. It was because of 'Salut d'Amour.'"
"I don't think I need to explain it to you. You should know that 'Salut d'Amour' is a piece that can only be completed when both of us hold the deepest feelings in our hearts."
"At first, I thought something was wrong with your feelings, Teacher Gan, so I was upset for a while. But later, I realized it was only because our relationship had always been different from everyone else's. All this time, we'd been rational dream-chasers. Matters of the heart had never been our first priority."
Lin Tian spoke those words calmly.
Across from him, Gan Yan Yu's pupils trembled incessantly as she stared blankly at the boy before her, who now seemed somewhat unfamiliar.
"..."
Lin Tian knew very well.
He knew how hurtful and cruel those words would be to Gan Yan Yu.
Because they almost completely denied Gan Yan Yu's "confession" to him.
Just as He Zhichen had warned him, if their positions were reversed, words like that would drive Lin Tian crazy too.
That was why Lin Tian had kept them buried in his heart and refused to say them before.
But at this moment, he no longer cared.
It wasn't because he had gone numb. It was simply because Lin Tian now realized something.
"This isn't your problem, Yan Yu."
Lin Tian said,
"It's mine."
Gan Yan Yu was simple and pure.
But Lin Tian had never been simple and pure.
He raised his head and smiled.
"I was the one who failed to adjust my mindset."
Just this once,