Chu Xuanzhen was someone who could easily keep his emotions under control.
But only when Shen Yangge was not involved.
At that moment, Chu Xuanzhen felt a faint, stabbing pain in his chest. He had always looked at and listened to certain things with a calm, unhurried attitude.
With that disposition, cultivated since childhood, his first response to a problem he could not solve or something he could not obtain was always to search for a way.
But when something proved impossible, he instinctively stopped himself from thinking about it or engaging with it.
Thus, after witnessing the changes in Shen Yangge, much of the composure in his expression and state of mind was false. The side he showed was merely a facade.
Chu Xuanzhen kept telling himself, over and over, that no matter what his beloved became, he would accept it calmly and love him all the more.
Yet after everything they had endured, Chu Xuanzhen's normally steady disposition had changed, even becoming increasingly irrational. He could not calmly face his beloved turning into something that did not reflect who he truly was inside, nor could he calmly watch his beloved endure suffering that should never have been his.
In the past, he had been able to filter out those terrible things and shut them away. But now, Chu Xuanzhen found he could no longer do it. Especially when he saw his beloved grow old-one glimpse of that frail, aged appearance was enough to leave his heart unable to settle. He did not want to see his Little Liar grow old.
He did not want to see his Little Liar have to stop and catch his breath after taking just a few steps.
He did not want to see his Little Liar hurt, bleeding, or sick, yet still pretending