As Zhang Qiren listened, he could not help smiling faintly, seemingly yearning a little for the scene Chu Ge described.
But in the end, he sighed. "Maybe that's the biggest difference between you and me."
"Yes," Chu Ge said. "You can't bear a quiet life."
Zhang Qiren laughed. "So what does that make us... those who can't bear solitude are doomed to be lonely, while those who want an ordinary life end up extraordinary?"
Chu Ge said, "Enough with the poetic angst. Think more about what you're going to do."
"What else can I do?" Zhang Qiren said. "I'm already on a road with no return. Of course I can only keep going. Japan's underworld isn't just the newly established Black Dragon Society. I still have plenty of mountains to climb, and no energy to think about anything else. As for Moon Shadow..."
He paused, then sighed a little. "I really screwed up this time. We might not even be able to stay friends. Completely struck out in love. Game Over. So be it. I'll channel my heartbreak into my career and go conquer Japan."
Actually, Chu Ge did not think his romantic prospects were necessarily dead.
Although Moon Shadow's feelings were complicated right now, and no one knew what she was thinking, a man had, after all, ended up drenched in blood for her time and again. That still had a powerful psychological impact. And earlier, when Gu Ruoyan had used Mind Reading, what she had read from Zhang Qiren's heart had been quite the spectacle. He had truly "laid his heart bare." How would a woman feel, hearing that?
Chu Ge thought that if he were a woman, he would probably be stunned for a long time too. This was what it meant to have one's heart in