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He regretted it so much. He had thought that once he let go of her, he would no longer have a weakness others could exploit. But he had never expected that once a weakness existed, it would not disappear. Instead, it would keep growing in his heart in her peculiar way...

Would she reject him? She wouldn't dare, would she? After all, she was still somewhat afraid of him... He understood better than anyone that she treated him differently from Little Jing. She could simply regard Little Jing as a man, yet she had never looked at him that way.

That was the real reason he regretted it, wasn't it? He had thought that missing some time would not matter. As long as he won in the end, he would possess all under heaven, and winning a woman's heart would be effortless. He had forgotten that once a person took up residence in someone's heart, making them leave was terribly, terribly difficult.

"Ha, I forgot. Pig Kid already has someone she likes." His tone sounded lonely enough, didn't it? "Little Jing after losing his memory." He deliberately added that unstable prefix, as if emphasizing something. Exactly—she only liked an illusion. A hundred peach blossoms could not make spring, and a crane might live a thousand years without becoming divine. The moon reflected in water was ultimately not the moon in the sky. Little Jing would wake up sooner or later, and her heart would eventually be reset to zero. So...

"Would Pig Kid like Zhen?" With a subtle difference of one word, he tactfully took a step back. "At the very least, I can wait, can't I?" It was rare for him not to refer to himself as "Zhen."

It turned out that sometimes he did not want to be