Chapter 1431 - 1251: First Encounter
The boss turned around and saw that the person coming was Lin Junyi, whom she had just mentioned to Chu Jingyun.
She smiled awkwardly, nodded and greeted him, then turned and left.
Chu Jing leaned back on the sofa. When she saw him, she smiled brightly and said, "You’re here!"
Lin Junyi frowned as he looked at the wine glasses on the table and said, "Jingyun, you shouldn’t do this!"
Chu Jingyun was taken aback, then followed with a laugh: "Then what should I do? Oh right, there’s something you probably don’t know yet... they’ve gone public, Shi Nuan and A Yu’s matter is public. A Yu actually publicly defended Shi Nuan at such a grand occasion, and even admitted that he has registered his marriage with Shi Nuan... Isn’t that ridiculous? It’s so ridiculous!"
"Weren’t these things something you had anticipated long ago?"
Lin Junyi took the red wine in front of her away, then sat opposite her and said.
Chu Jingyun was taken aback.
Lin Junyi said, "Actually, you should know that Shi Nuan and Song Yansheng are already married. Whether public or not, their relationship is legal, a legally protected marriage. Moreover, Song Yansheng took such a big risk to make everything public, you should see that he truly has deep feelings for Shi Nuan..."
Chu Jingyun looked at him coldly: "So, what do you mean to say?"
"What I mean to say is, Jingyun, you’re not a three-year-old child, you’re twenty-seven. There are some things you should understand to give up!"
"Give up?" Chu Jingyun laughed self-deprecatingly: "Really? But I just don’t understand, don’t want to understand, what should I do? Really, Junyi, I never thought I would become like this, so obsessed to this extent for a man, but there’s really no way, just seeing him, I have no way..."
Lin Junyi’s thin lips moved, "Jingyun, do you remember how we first met?"
Chu Jingyun was taken aback for a moment, then said: "I remember, that day I went to the Language Department of T University to inform them about a lecture in the afternoon. As a result, I got the time wrong, and you happened to pass by and corrected me, otherwise I might have made a big mistake, and afterwards, I wanted to thank you, so I personally went to your department’s office to find you, and then you invited me to dinner, that’s how we got to know each other..."
Lin Junyi smiled and shook his head: "No, not then, much earlier than that..."
Chu Jingyun blinked, not quite understanding: "Much earlier? When?"
Lin Junyi said, "It was much earlier, the first time I saw you was the day you came to apply at T University, I just happened to have something to do and passed by the assessment office, heard a light and pleasant voice, my steps hesitated for a moment, and then I just stood outside the window listening to you give a lecture!"
Chu Jingyun was slightly dumbfounded: "How could it be?"
"Why not?" Lin Junyi said: "Jingyun, in this world, the encounters between people are driven by fate, some people have fate, and some don’t, and this fate is uncontrollable. It won’t change because you like or dislike it, and even with the same thing or person, a hundred people might have a hundred Hamlets!"
Chu Jingyun frowned and asked: "What exactly do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is actually very simple, Jingyun, you’ve always been living in your own dream, you know? Song Yansheng is your dream, and for so many years, it’s just been your own years, has that man, Song Yansheng, ever done anything for you? Invited you to a few meals? Have you held hands? Embraced? Confessed love to each other? If not, then how do you convince yourself to keep holding on to him? Jingyun, you shouldn’t be such a foolish woman..."
Chu Jingyun lowered her eyes, after a while she said: "I know I’m foolish, I’ve never thought I was smart, give up? Do you think I never thought about those two words? But after giving up, can life be comfortable? Can it be happier? No, instead it’s more painful, thus, what’s the difference whether I give up or not?"
Lin Junyi squinted and said: "Since there’s no difference whether you give up or not, why don’t you choose to give up? Jingyun, we’re friends, we’ve known each other for years, how I feel for you should be very clear to you, of course I don’t expect you to accept me, but you need to live a bright, healthy, normal life, understand?"
Chu Jingyun didn’t understand, for the past seven years, she had been calm and peaceful, never knowing how to fight for anything for herself.
So, she hadn’t been able to wait for Song Yansheng for seven years.
Now, she just wanted to fight for something she wanted, is that wrong? Is it really wrong?
Chu Jingyun said: "Junyi, I understand your point, but there are always exceptions, just like you have an obsession with me, I have an obsession with him as well. Didn’t you divorce your ex-wife because you wanted to live the life you wanted, love the person you wanted to love? Me too, really, what I yearn for is just such a simple thing, aside from him, I have no other desires, really no other desires!"
"But you are willing to harm others to get him, is this what you think is right too?"
Chu Jingyun was stunned, looked at him in surprise: "What do you mean by that? I’ve harmed others? Who did I harm?"
Lin Junyi frowned, a slight pain on his face, but he still decided to speak, he wanted to know if the woman in front of him was still the Chu Jingyun he had been fixated on for all these years, was she still the Chu Jingyun he knew.
After pursing his lips, he said: "That day... I heard everything, you were on the phone with someone, arranging for a drunk man to harm Shi Nuan, at the time I didn’t know what was going on, until later when police cars appeared outside the school, later I contacted He Meisui and others, that day Shi Nuan was indeed almost bullied by a drunk man, luckily Shen Zui and others arrived in time... Jingyun, do you know what you’re doing? You’re committing a crime, a crime, do you understand?"
Chu Jingyun’s eyes flickered, a complexity passed in her gaze that Lin Junyi couldn’t see.
After taking a breath, she asked Lin Junyi: "Then, will you tell Shi Nuan, tell A Yu about all this?"
Lin Junyi lowered his eyes, then said: "If... If you promise me, that you will definitely never do anything to harm anyone in the future, I can promise you, I won’t tell anyone..."
Chu Jingyun scoffed and said: "Junyi, am I already so despicable in your heart?"
Lin Junyi shook his head: "You have never been despicable in my heart, that’s why these days I’ve been trying to defend you, telling myself I must have misheard, or that you never meant to truly harm Shi Nuan, at most you just... just found someone to scare her, that’s why when you called, I still came. So Jingyun, now you tell me, can I... still trust you?"