Pursuing Her Best Friend after Confession Failed

Chapter 422 174: Bai Weixi With a Broken Defense, PUA Master Li Yuan_5

As Li Yuan spoke, he couldn't help but laugh. His past self was truly a pathetic clown…

Bai Weixi continued to listen quietly, but her mind was now filled with even greater confusion.

"For three years in college, I relentlessly pursued you. Even though we were at different schools, I visited your campus every weekend. I willingly scrimped and saved for you, secretly eating mantou dipped in chili sauce just to get by. I made up every excuse I could think of to get money from my parents and even took on part-time jobs on the weekends, all to make you happy—to buy you gifts, take you shopping, and go to concerts with you.

"During that time, I confessed my feelings to you twice more, and you rejected me with different excuses each time. After seeing the splendor of Modu, my own sense of inferiority grew. I knew deep down how things between us would end, but I kept deceiving myself, telling myself I just wasn't good enough.

"So I tried even harder to be good to you. That lasted until one day during the first semester of my senior year, when I personally saw you get out of a BMW, hand in hand with another guy…

"I completely broke down right then and there. I rushed up to you in a rage and demanded to know why. You told me he was your boyfriend and that you were very sorry for having wasted so much of my time…"

Reaching this point in the story, Li Yuan looked at the dazed Bai Weixi. His own turbulent emotions had calmed, and he asked indifferently, "Bai Weixi, do you still want to hear the rest of this story?"

Hearing Li Yuan's icy tone, tears immediately welled up in Bai Weixi's eyes. She looked at him, aggrieved. "Li Yuan, what are you trying to say?"

Seeing her like this, Li Yuan suddenly lost all interest, a self-mocking, tearful laugh escaping him.

"Bai Weixi, do you think seven years of a boy's youth is important? Are seven years of devotion important?"

Bai Weixi seemed to understand something. Her tear-streaked face was filled with a sense of being wronged. "Li Yuan, that's just a story you made up! We're together now, aren't we?"

Li Yuan gave a hollow laugh. "Bai, do you know? I feel as if I've already lived a full life, one that followed the exact path of the story I just told you—the life of an unremarkable college student, an ordinary person who, apart from having a decent body and looks, had nothing else to his name.

"But you were that boy's entire world. He wasted seven years of his youth for you, and in the end, he completely gave up on himself, sinking into depravity and abandoning what could have been a beautiful life…

"Everything I've described feels like I lived through it myself. But perhaps even Heaven couldn't bear to watch any longer, so it let me return to that moment right after the college entrance exams, the moment I confessed to you for the third time…"

Tears blurring her vision, Bai Weixi stared at Li Yuan. "So that's why? That's why you wanted your gift back, why you treated me with indifference and scorn, why you acted like a completely different person?

"Then why do you keep getting involved with me? Why not just block and delete this 'terrible woman'? Are you just trying to get revenge on me?"

Li Yuan just watched her quietly. There was so much he had wanted to say to her in his past life, but back then, he had lost both the right and the courage.

Tears streamed down Bai Weixi's face as she continued her lament.

"Li Yuan, am I really that unforgivable in your eyes?

"This has to be a story you made up to trick me. If you don't want me anymore, just say so. Why do you have to keep lying?

"I just want us to be together properly. What did I do wrong? On my phone, aside from you, I've rejected every single guy who has tried to add me…"

Crying, Bai Weixi sank to the ground, hugging her head as she sobbed, her voice thick with anguish.

"Li Yuan, I really, really love you. Can you please go back to the way you were before?"

Seeing Bai Weixi's intense reaction, Li Yuan was momentarily stunned, a storm of complex emotions swirling within him.

He suddenly felt exhausted.

After his rebirth, he'd told himself repeatedly that he would become the patriarch of scoundrels, a true play boy. Yet, looking back at his words and actions, nothing he did resembled a play boy in the slightest. His emotions were still just as easily stirred. He was still the same person he'd always been, just with a bit more confidence now that he'd made some money.

Bai Weixi cried on the ground for a long time. After what felt like an eternity, she finally looked up, her voice hoarse as she asked sorrowfully, "Li Yuan, so… are you planning to abandon me?"

Li Yuan shook his head. He crouched down, pulled Bai Weixi to her feet, and looked calmly into her red, swollen eyes. He let out a sigh and answered softly, "Bai, do you still want to hear the story of what happened next? The story about Zhong Tingyue, Xia Zhijin, and Jiang Zhiyu?"