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Why didn't Chen lie to her? It was enough that she didn't know. As long as she didn't know, her happiness wouldn't be shattered.
No! This won't do! She can't live without Chen! Chen is all she has!
"Xiangzi, Yili and I officially became a couple last Saturday. I really like her."
Chen tightened his grip on the hand that Yili had offered, and said in a trembling voice...
"She is the one I can never replace in my heart. I'm so sorry, Xiangzi..."
Seeing Chen's pained expression, Yili felt even more heartbroken.
She silently hugged Chen, giving him the courage to continue.
But in Xiangzi's eyes, this was tantamount to asserting his sovereignty over her.
She grew increasingly desperate; she wanted to turn back time to before this day began.
"No...no!"
She frantically threw herself into Chen's arms.
"Chen clearly said that he would share the rest of his life with me and promised to take responsibility for my life!"
"Could it be?! You want to just dump me like this?! You brought me here today just to sever all ties with me?!"
She screamed in agony, unwilling to accept this shocking truth.
"Xiangzi, I never intended to abandon you, and my promises have never been false."
Chen pulled the distraught blue-haired girl into his arms tightly.
"Xiangzi, I like you very much, so very much. With you by my side, I feel incredibly safe and secure."
"I love you, so I don't want to lie to you. I already have someone I've promised to spend my life with, but I've defied the norm and fallen in love with you at the same time."
"My greed makes me an absolute scumbag. I can't bear to part with anyone, but doing so will inevitably hurt everyone."
"So, I need to be honest with you about everything... I know this is unacceptable, so the choice is entirely yours."
"I never thought about leaving you, and I was also very scared, scared that you would leave me after I told you the truth."
"But I love you, so I don't want to hurt you completely afterwards."
After uttering his scumbag declaration, Chen released Xiangzi from his embrace and stood up to walk out the door.
Chen broke free from Xiangzi's attempt to stop him and continued...
"I can't interfere with your decision, Xiangzi. Let's talk to Yili."
The sliding door to the room was closed again.
Toyokawa Shoko's heart also jolted.
Ichiri knew it was time for her to step up.
She liked Chen, and she didn't want Chen to get hurt or be sad.
Therefore, she will accept this Ms. Toyokawa.
"Well, um... Ms. Toyokawa and Mr. Chen have already told me how they met..."
Seeing the bewildered and disoriented Miss Toyokawa, Ichiri initiated the conversation.
"Chen, Chen got injured because of Miss Toyokawa, and it breaks my heart... I don't want to see him in pain, because it hurts me too..."
“I can’t live without Chen, I love him. I don’t want to see him in trouble, to see him in pain… So, Miss Toyokawa, you love Chen… I have no objection.”
She knelt down in front of Xiangzi, who was lying face down on the floor, and took her hand.
"I...we can like Chen together! It's okay! I'm willing to share it with you!"
Ah, what an absurd day...
Xiangzi didn't know how to describe his feelings.
There was a mixture of relief at surviving the ordeal and anger at Chen's greed.
More than anything, it was resentment towards his irresponsible statement that "we can't interfere with her decision."
He knew perfectly well how dependent Xiangzi was on him, and he knew perfectly well that Xiangzi would never refuse any of his requests.
But Chen, at this moment, gave her the so-called freedom of choice, irresponsibly dumping all the choices on her.
Feeling Goto grab her hand
If he accepted, would he then have to share Chen with her? Xiangzi wondered.
Although she knew nothing about the details of Goto's relationship with Chen, Xiangzi knew from her words that Goto's love for Chen was no less than hers.
Ironically, this Miss Yili was actually willing to share Chen with her.
Ah, so Miss Liang also likes Chen. In that sense, she broke her promise and stole the heart of that blue-haired girl.
Xiangzi suddenly felt like laughing. She didn't know where the strength came from, but she abruptly stood up, pushed open the door, and saw Chen standing in the corridor, looking like he was awaiting judgment.
She grabbed Chen and pulled him back into the room.
Under a stunned gaze, she forcefully tackled Chen to the ground and kissed him passionately.
Ichiri is actually quite unrestrained in private, but she can't be so unrestrained when there are other people around.
Sensing Chen's excitement, she took a breath and, for the first time, snapped at him.
"You know perfectly well that I can't live without you anymore. You could have just been firm with me, but now you've dumped this problem on me!"
"You're the one who made the mistake, yet I'm suffering like this too!"
"You know how much I love you, how could I possibly bear to leave you?! I can't bear to see you hurt, and for me, just thinking about leaving you makes my heart ache so much I can't breathe."
"You're not allowed to leave me. Miss Ichiri has agreed, and now I'm your real girlfriend."
Xiangzi felt all her unease, all her bewilderment, all her relief, and all her resentment.
Everything melted away in the kiss with Chen.
She wanted to severely punish this irresponsible person.
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Chapter 53 Sharing Heartfelt Feelings
The wait outside the door wasn't very long, but to Chen, it felt like an eternity.
He knew exactly how important he was to Xiangzi. The so-called "not interfering with her decisions" was invalid from the start.
If we're talking about not interfering, then from the very beginning, when Xiangzi was found unconscious in the alley, they completely ignored her and let her fend for herself.
To accept Xiangzi's mindset, we should thank two people.
First, Miss Yili, who is tolerant of Chen Huaxin.
Secondly, it was to make Chen have the idea of having two relationships at the same time.
However, it seems that she has been the one who got the benefits.
For Chen, his pressure and fear were no less than Xiangzi's.
But he knew he deserved it. Because he made that damn decision himself.
When Xiangzi pulled him into a room a mile away and kissed him, the huge weight in his heart finally lifted.
His tears also welled up in his eyes. As their cheeks touched, it became impossible to tell whose tears were whose.
He wrapped his arms tightly around Xiangzi, using all his senses to confirm the reality of what had happened.
Just as Xiangzi said, he irresponsibly used his understanding of her to lead her to make this decision.
Now, we shouldn't get bogged down in moral condemnation or self-criticism.
What he should have done most was to properly respond to Xiangzi's determination and his feelings.
He wanted Xiangzi to understand that he would never leave her.
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For Xiangzi, who had once lived a sheltered life as a young lady, she never imagined that one day she would share her lover with a stranger.
She's never even been in a relationship.
Was she disappointed in Chen?
If Chen Zhen were to cheat on her with two women, and she were to discover this much later, she would likely be incredibly disappointed.
However, after living together for so long, she will become increasingly inseparable from Chen.
Even if she eventually compromises and decides to share Chen with others, it will create a rift that can never be erased.
But this fool was so honest; on the very first day he accepted her feelings, he explained everything to her.
He must have gone through a lot of inner turmoil to make this decision.
Xiangzi knew it all, whether it was Chen's tight embrace last night, his silence on the road not long ago, or the difficult words he uttered when he confessed.
Although she criticized Chen for being irresponsible, she also understood that Chen had truly handed the initiative over to her.
If she is truly determined to leave Chen, there is no way for Chen to stop her.
When she made her decision and opened the door to see Chen so panicked, her resentment towards him dissipated considerably.
When she kissed Chen passionately, she understood all of his emotions and his fear.
What could she do with this fool? Now that Chen had been so open and honest, could she still be unreasonable with him? Could she still let the lover she could never leave continue to be heartbroken?
After they both calmed down a bit, she licked the tears that had already mixed together.
Feeling that bitterness, feeling that sweetness.
Feeling—from this moment on, their destinies truly intertwined.
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Today's main characters aren't just Chen and Xiangzi; without Yili's consent, Chen would absolutely not accept a second person.
After calming down, Xiangzi nestled beside Chen, occupying half of his body.
"Chen, please introduce this Miss Yili to me. After all, we'll be living together soon."
She mischievously twisted Chen's waist slightly, without using much force, but she saw Chen's exaggerated expression.
In her panic, she immediately loosened the negligible force in her hand and instead rubbed the spot where she had twisted her ankle.
Seeing Chen's teasing expression, she realized she'd been tricked and rolled her eyes at him in annoyance.
Even if given another chance, she would let go. It's because she likes Chen; she can't bear to see him suffer.
Xiangzi, completely under Chen's thumb, could only vent her resentment in her eyes, staring resentfully at her boyfriend.
Boqi, standing to the side, was incredibly envious; she hadn't been very close to Chen this week either.
Moreover, having just witnessed such a fierce battle, she had already been aroused, but she dared not be intimate with Chen in front of this unfamiliar Miss Xiangzi.
Pochettino is clearly the first wife, and this is her room, her territory. Yet she's behaving like a wronged concubine.
Although it sounds strange, Miss Ichiri played a crucial role in giving Xiangzi the opportunity to be with Chen and in enabling him to reaffirm his determination to be with Chen.
Moreover, Miss Liang was completely unaware of this matter.
To be able to defeat Chen with such a large lead and remain completely undetected by others is, in a sense, a terrifying feat for Pochi.
"Yili, come here quickly!"
Having neglected Miss Li for so long, Chen was already filled with guilt towards her.
Chen pulled Boqi, who was a little further away from him, closer and embraced him in the same way.
Like the Chu-Han Contention, Chen's territory is now divided in two, with Yili and Xiangzi each holding half.
Finally, after getting close to Chen, Yili loosened up a bit and, like Xiangzi, hugged Chen's arm tightly.
To revisit the topic of his relationship with Ichiri from the beginning, the inevitable question is his motivation for getting to know her.
Today, because she was facing a stranger named Xiangzi, Yili was dressed in her usual pink, socially awkward style.
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