AWB Chapter 128 Lin Xi, Goodbye
Chapter 128 Lin Xi, Goodbye
Lin Xi tucked her loose hair behind her ear, her movements as graceful and elegant as willow catkins, her eyes like a clear spring, and her cherry lips slightly parted.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
"Why did you suddenly disappear? Why are you avoiding me?"
Jiang Yang's eyes held an unspoken affection, his lips were slightly pursed, and he appeared somewhat indifferent.
"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now." Lin Xi smiled slightly, deftly avoiding the question.
"I didn't tell you to leave, how can you leave?"
Jiang Yang stubbornly refused to look away, his dark eyes seeming to see right through her.
Their eyes met. Three years was enough time to forget many things, but when someone appeared, it was all in vain.
Jiang Yang has clean and sharp facial features, a mole on his high nose bridge, and eyes that seem to hold a thousand stars beneath his thick eyelashes. He is always refined and elegant.
"Come with me." Jiang Yang pulled Lin Xi along without asking her opinion and led her to the parking lot.
Lin Xi's hand, which she tried to break free from, was firmly held by Jiang Yang, whose calm demeanor turned to anger.
"Jiang Yang, what do you mean? Let me go."
"Don't let it go."
Jiang Yang gripped the handle tighter and quickened his pace. The sound of high heels behind him made him slow down, but he stubbornly refused to let go.
Lin Xi was pulled against the wall of the emergency exit by Jiang Yang. Jiang Yang frowned, his gaze fixed on her face, his hands gripping her shoulders. Her exquisite makeup and red lips were particularly captivating, adding a touch of allure to the pure and refined person he remembered.
"That's enough! What exactly do you want?"
Lin Xi pushed away his restraints with all her might, her almond-shaped eyes wide with anger.
Jiang Yang realized he had lost his composure. He tried to grab her hand but froze, instinctively leaning against the wall, head down, his voice filled with apology, "Are you... doing well?"
Lin Xi rubbed her reddened wrist, her lips tightly pressed together. She didn't answer his question, but just stared at him coldly. But when she stopped rubbing her wrist, she turned her head away and stopped looking at Jiang Yang.
"What's the point of asking this question now?"
Lin Xi calmed herself down and imagined meeting him again countless times. They would probably just pass each other by. She even secretly went to his wedding. The bride was beautiful and they were a perfect match.
Jiang Yang lowered his head, his eyes filled with endless sorrow. He had just done something. "I'm sorry, Lin Xi."
If they meet again, he only wants to apologize properly. He was the most despicable person for not protecting her when she was most helpless.
"It's my fault for not protecting you. I hurt you time and time again. When I came home that day, I saw an empty room. I thought you would be back soon."
Jiang Yang casually brushed a tear from the corner of his eye with his hair, his breathing becoming heavy. "Am I ridiculous?"
Lin Xi met Jiang Yang's eyes, her own eyes red, revealing deep disappointment and guilt.
"Lin Xi, if I hadn't let go back then, would things be different...?"
"Jiang Yang, we are now in the past."
Lin Xi's lips drooped, clearly Jiang Yang's words had stirred up a deep feeling within her.
"I wish all of this was just a dream, but Jiang Yang, in the darkest corner, you told me you didn't care, but you couldn't convince yourself at all. More than once I hoped you could hug me, but you pushed me into the abyss again."
"I…I'm sorry."
Jiang Yang wanted to slap herself when she thought back to that time. Everyone told her that she needed companionship and support, but she ran away from it.
I'm doing well now.
I want to make it up to you.
Jiang Yang's voice grew softer and softer. Lin Xi was a wound in his heart, leaving a scar even after it healed, one he could never forget.
"You can't accept everything about me, yet you can't let go. Aren't you conflicted?"
Lin Xi didn't look back at him. She brushed past him, leaving behind a soft sentence: "We are all looking forward, so don't dwell on the past either."
Jiang Yang didn't look away, but he was no longer able to reach out and stop her. His eyes were empty, as if her departure had taken away all color from him.
Before leaving, Lin Xi said, "Goodbye, Lin Xi."
Jiang Yang remembered asking Chi Ruiche what he would do if it were him. His answer, "As long as it's her," gave him the answer.
He loves Lin Xi, but he loves himself even more. He cannot accept that his fairy has been tainted by the mortal world. His current feigned infatuation is nothing more than his own indecisiveness.
Lin Xi stopped in her tracks, the sound of her high heels gradually fading into the distance.
Lin Xi never told him that on the day she left him, she jumped into the icy river, and the rolling waves swallowed her up.
When she was on the verge of death, it was her parents who held her up and gave her a second chance at life.
"Stars, stars, please live on."
Her parents, their hair streaked with gray, held her tremblingly, calling her by her nickname. After she fell asleep, her mother held her hand tightly, while her father sat outside the door watching over her.
Finally, Lin Xi went abroad with her parents to study medicine, embarking on a bright and promising life of her own.