Between knowing and not knowing, Yan Qingdu chose:
"I've heard people mention it."
Yan Qingdu's answer was both absurd and reasonable.
"Then how do you feel about it?"
Since they were already discussing it openly, they might as well talk it through.
Ye Yizhou had never been one to put himself through unnecessary suffering. If he could ask directly, why waste time guessing what Yan Qingdu was thinking?
"If I had feelings for him and still married you, wouldn't that make me a scumbag?"
Yan Qingdu's tone was calm yet firm, his reasoning convincing.
"If you know he likes you, but you don't like him, and you won't make things clear or turn him down, aren't you just stringing him along? Keeping him on the hook?"
Yan Qingdu looked puzzled and helpless. "For me to turn him down, wouldn't he first have to ask to take our relationship further?"
"Uh, I guess so." Ye Yizhou nodded, finding that somewhat reasonable.
"As for him liking me, that's only something I've heard secondhand. He hasn't said anything himself. If I just walked up and said, 'I don't like you, so don't get any ideas about me,' how would that make me any different from those painfully average men with way too much confidence?"
Yan Qingdu's logic and reasoning were perfectly clear as he explained that he had absolutely no intention of keeping anyone on the hook.
Yan Qingdu's words made Ye Yizhou laugh.
So straightforward, and so reassuring.
"I've never hidden the fact that I'm married."
Yan Qingdu raised his left hand. A ring sat on his long ring finger, attractive and conspicuous.
"Then how come he didn't see it?" Ye Yizhou asked the crucial question.
"I went abroad on business barely two days after getting married, didn't I? I've only been