novelraw Chapter 1348 - 381: To Love Only One Person in a Lifetime (2)
Chapter 1348 - 381: To Love Only One Person in a Lifetime (2)
Chapter 1348: Chapter 381: To Love Only One Person in a Lifetime (2)
An Nan reflexively argued back with her.
Qin Mu felt this meal was going to be hard to digest.
"But a man thinks, if you’re like this, then why be in a relationship?"
Mu Qingxin spread her hands, indicating her intense dissatisfaction.
"Then let’s not be in a relationship!"
An Nan also put down her chopsticks, clearly indicating that she didn’t feel she couldn’t live without a man.
However, at this moment, Mu Qingxin suddenly looked at something behind An Nan with a strange gaze.
Qin Mu also felt that there seemed to be someone familiar diagonally opposite, so she turned her head to look.
Instantly, silence fell!
Jiang Zhiyuan, Jing Feng, Mu Yichen, and Jiang Yan happened to come over together. They had heard that the three were there and came over to greet them, but ended up hearing this debate.
Jiang Yan felt a headache coming on; his wife’s straightforward nature hadn’t changed at all. Now, how were the couple supposed to face each other?
An Nan, seeing everyone looking at her from behind, suddenly lost her temper when she turned her head, staring in a daze at Jiang Zhiyuan’s bloodless face.
Mu Qingxin suddenly regretted her loose tongue, biting down hard on her lip, lowering her head, and not daring to make another sound.
Jiang Zhiyuan said nothing and turned around to leave!
An Nan felt inexplicably uncomfortable, her eyes misting up, and she grabbed her bag and stood up to chase after Jiang Zhiyuan.
The dining table was still silent, just the two pairs sitting there.
"Didn’t I tell you to watch what you say?"
Jiang Yan asked her softly.
"I couldn’t hold it in!"
Mu Qingxin’s voice was incredibly low.
"You! You troublemaker!"
Jiang Yan sighed helplessly, then looked up at Mu Yichen and Qin Mu: "Did we just walk into a huge mess?"
"Things will get better, Qingxin!"
Qin Mu thought for a moment, smiled slightly at Jiang Yan, seeing Mu Qingxin so guilty, she called out to Mu Qingxin.
Mu Qingxin looked up at her, a bit embarrassed, and Qin Mu said: "Don’t overthink it, this might be the push they need."
Mu Qingxin, hearing this, asked in disbelief: "Really?"
"Possibly!"
Qin Mu could only say that.
Mu Yichen turned to look at his wife, seemingly enlightened by Qin Mu’s words.
"An Nan loves Jiang Zhiyuan deeply, she’ll make concessions."
Qin Mu continued.
"Are you sure?"
Mu Qingxin and Jiang Yan were quite skeptical.
"Women understand women, don’t they?"
Qin Mu thought about her relationship with Mu Yichen before they married, how fierce he was—if she hadn’t compromised, how would they be where they are now?
——
An Nan didn’t catch up with Jiang Zhiyuan, but she immediately drove to Jiang Zhiyuan’s place.
Jiang Zhiyuan indeed returned to his apartment. She had a key and walked in to see Jiang Zhiyuan sitting on the sofa, irritably smoking.
An Nan walked over, put down her bag, then stood before him.
Jiang Zhiyuan didn’t lift his head, taking a harsh drag of his cigarette, his face filled with post-impact gloom.
"The breakup words weren’t serious!"
An Nan gently explained to him.
"What’s serious then? Not wanting to marry me is true? Not wanting to have kids with me is also true?"
Jiang Zhiyuan couldn’t help but question her, his gaze filled with anger and despair.
He never imagined An Nan didn’t want to marry him or have children, then what was her intention being with him? To date forever without even giving him a title?
"What about you? Being with me, is it only to marry me and continue your family line?"
An Nan was a bit angry too; Jiang Zhiyuan clearly wouldn’t let go of what she said in the restaurant.
"If I just wanted someone to continue my line, would I need to seek you out? Do you not know how hard I worked to pursue you? The patience I exert daily just to see you smile at me, yet you think it’s all for marriage and kids?"
Jiang Zhiyuan was furious, truly furious.
He’d stayed away for days, expecting her to know he was upset and come to appease him, and then?
To accidentally hear those words, enough for him to want to give her up.
"Is there something wrong between us?"
An Nan couldn’t help but chuckle bitterly, asking him quietly.
"Let’s break up!"
Jiang Zhiyuan no longer smoked; only his fingers continued to hold the cigarette, pressing against his knee, coldly saying those five words to her.
"Break up? Jiang Zhiyuan, are you serious?"
An Nan suddenly felt a stabbing pain in her chest, as if someone were pressing a knife into her heart, refusing to pull it out for a clean finish.
"Yes!"
Jiang Zhiyuan, through gritted teeth, said it, then stood up after extinguishing his cigarette in the ashtray, distancing himself as he headed upstairs to the bedroom.
An Nan just stood there, just stood there, struggling for breath.
Jiang Zhiyuan actually said he wanted to break up?
Did Jiang Zhiyuan genuinely want to break up with her?
An Nan couldn’t help but let out a low groan, an unfamiliar sensation; it felt like crying.
But why should she cry?
He was the one who gave up on her, pursued her only to abandon her, and An Nan suddenly found it laughable. She calculated for years, and is this the result?
Feeling unrestrained, yet tired.
Break up, then break up!
She bent over the couch, picking up the bag she had just set down.
Jiang Zhiyuan stood by the bedroom door after going upstairs, not going in.
An Nan stood at the staircase, looking up, thinking that since he gave up so easily, he didn’t believe she loved him; if she kept him forcefully, what good would it be?
An Nan considered for a moment, then left with her bag.
Except, when the door shut, it seemed they truly severed ties.
Jiang Zhiyuan upstairs heard the sound of the door closing, not just his apartment door, she expelled him from her heart, freed herself, and he...
Jiang Zhiyuan suddenly felt close to death, turning around and hitting the door hard.
He was filled with hate, hating An Nan for her ruthless, irresponsible words, hating that she tracked him home only to leave so easily.
——
"Brother Chen! I broke up! I don’t want that woman anymore!"
That night, Mu Yichen was at home troubled by Feng Fanghua and Mu Zihao’s construction of a relatively large playground for the kids, then received a call from Jiang Zhiyuan. Jiang Zhiyuan furiously reported, crying again over the phone.
Mu Yichen felt tangled; it was the first time Jiang Zhiyuan, since growing up, cried this painfully because of a woman.
Qin Mu walked out of the playground, accidentally kicking a few blue spheres out; Mu Yichen frustratedly pinched his brow as the three little ones inside were playing boisterously, their shouts louder each time.
"Who is it that decided to make this playground? Our house is littered with balls, what if Grandpa trips? What’s up with you?"
Qin Mu originally worried the elder might accidentally step on these balls, but then noticed Mu Yichen’s expression indicated worry over more than just this.
"Jiang Zhiyuan said he broke up!"