novelraw Chapter 371 - 349: Because She Has Someone in Her Heart
Chapter 371 - 349: Because She Has Someone in Her Heart
The car stopped under their marital home, and Qiao Luchen didn’t immediately open the car door. He sat quietly for a moment and said, "Have you thought it through?"Dudu looked at him and then turned her gaze away, pressing her lips together without a word.
"Are you still thinking about him?"
Dudu tilted her head and asked him, "Do you know who it is?"
"You went to find him on our wedding day."
Thinking about that day, Dudu couldn’t help but tear up, as if she was confiding in a friend: "Yes... I said I was willing to leave with him, but he didn’t want me..."
Qiao Luchen gritted his teeth. Maybe because he never told her he loved her, she could say such hurtful words to him without restraint.
He knew she had never had feelings for him. Still, he wanted to hold on to her, hoping she would embrace this marriage rather than choose divorce.
"If that’s the case, why not choose to forget him?"
Dudu smiled when she heard this, her eyes slightly red, and asked him with innocent eyes, "Have you ever loved someone?"
Qiao Luchen looked at her, silent for a moment before he answered, "I have."
Dudu’s eyes widened: "Really? Then why did you marry me?"
"Because she doesn’t like me."
Immediately, Dudu felt they were kindred spirits and gave a bitter smile: "Right, that feeling is pretty hopeless, isn’t it."
"Yes."
"You’re a good person, why doesn’t she like you?"
"Because she has someone else in her heart."
Dudu sighed softly and said, "But he doesn’t have anyone he likes, so why doesn’t he want to be with me? Am I really that bad?"
Qiao Luchen nodded: "Yes, very bad, and very foolish, not seeing the people around you."
Dudu frowned, looking at him in confusion, then took a deep breath and said, "Then what are you planning to do in the future?"
"It depends on your choice. If you give up, I’ll give up too. If you persist, I’ll stay with you, but not in this way. We’ll be a real couple."
Dudu didn’t answer immediately. After a moment of silence, she looked up and asked him, "But don’t you have someone you like? Won’t you be unhappy being with me?"
"When you know that there’s no chance with that person in your heart, you should choose to accept new feelings. Life isn’t as long as you imagine, why be so stubborn?"
"But I grew up with him..."
"What does that prove? He only sees you as a sister. Do you have to watch him get married and have children before you give up?!"
Qiao Luchen’s words hit Dudu’s sensitive spot, and the mist in her eyes grew thicker. "He used to be very good to me..."
"And now?"
Thinking back to the years with Su Bao, so many things happened. Her childhood, her youth, it was all him. She thought he was her whole life, but maybe he only saw her as a sister. So when she revealed her feelings to him, he resisted so much, cruelly rejecting her time and time again.
Maybe her love was a heavy burden for him. After dropping that burden, she still foolishly hoped he would come to her.
Qiao Luchen opened the car door. As he got out, he said, "Go upstairs. Whatever decision you make, I will respect it."
He walked around to open her door. After she got out, he sat back in the car. Dudu couldn’t help but ask, "Where are you going?"
Qiao Luchen simply said, "Go upstairs. I have some things to do."
Before Dudu could ask more, he drove away. She stood there watching. In truth, he was really a good person, just not at the right time for her.