Episode 143 After that night, Ye Xiu's attitude towards Yu Luo became much gentler. When she was uncomfortable, he would hold her to sleep and comfort her repeatedly in her ear.

  Sometimes when the company had something going on and he came back late, he was afraid of waking her up, so he would lie down beside her bed for a night. Rain didn't know about these things, they were all heard from Zhang Ma's mouth.

  What's wrong?

  Such a night, Xuan Chen is unfamiliar to her. Once, she yearned for her brother to take another look at her, but after all, he was the one who killed her mother and Uncle Li.

  The more gentle he is, the more uneasy she feels in her heart. She'd rather he be a bit colder to her, so she can tell herself to hate him a bit more.

  But she seemed unable to do so, facing his gentleness, she wanted to refuse but was too weak.

  What's wrong with her... She doesn't know what's happening to herself.

  Ye Xiu returned the phone to her, Yu Luo opened it and hundreds of unconnected calls poured out, most of which were from Nie Zhaotang. She trembled as she deleted them one by one, just thinking of calling Xiao Xue when she had already called in.

  As soon as the phone was connected, Xiaoxue's angry voice came through the loudspeaker.

  "Yu Xiao Luo! Are you missing or what?! Come on! That's so unrighteous!"

  Although it was a very fierce tone, Yu Luo felt inexplicably warm in his heart.

  "Xiao Xue, I miss you."

  On the other end of the phone, there was a brief silence, followed by an even louder and more furious voice.

  "Can't you just get out of here?!"

  Yu Luo hurriedly arrived at the agreed-upon coffee shop, and Xiao Xue was already there. As soon as she walked in, she waved at her.

  A familiar face appeared before her eyes, and Yu Luo felt good, but as she walked in, she found that Xiao Xue was not alone, with a man sitting beside her.

  "Little Rain Los..."

  Yu Luo subconsciously looked at Xiao Xue, the latter's eyes flickered, and she stuck out her tongue and spread her hands to indicate that she was also helpless.

  "Sorry, I'm not feeling well, I'll leave first."

  She turned around and was about to leave, Nie Shao Tang hurriedly stood up and blocked her way.

  "Yu Luo, I have something to say to you."

  Yu Luo plucked up her courage and looked at the man in front of her.

  "I thought we had made it very clear."

  Nie Shaotang's face turned somewhat pale, and he suddenly let out a bitter laugh.

  "Xiaoyu Luo, even if we break up, you should give me a proper reason, shouldn't you?"

  Facing his bitterness, Yu Luo's guilt surged up again, the one who owed him was still her.

  "Good."

  Nie Shaotang let out a sigh of relief as Xiao Xue tactfully left, and the two people sat down facing each other.

  Yu Luo lowered his head, staring at the coffee in front of him, with a confused mind.

  "Last time was my fault, I was too impulsive and shouldn't have said that to you."

  Yu Luo picked up the ceramic spoon on the table and gently stirred the coffee in the cup.

  "It doesn't matter, I've already forgotten."

  "Is that so?" Nie Shao Tang refused to give up, "I've thought about it for a long time, everything must have been forced by Ye Xiuchen, right? We can start over, I can pretend nothing ever happened."

  Yu Lu's hand stirring paused, recalling what he said outside the conference room that day.

  "Nie Shao Tang, you can pretend nothing ever happened, but I, cannot."

  Why?

  "Some things have happened and that's it, no matter how much you deceive yourself, you can't change the fact that they exist."

  Nie Shao's body swayed slightly, and his hands suddenly reached across the table, grasping hers tightly.

  "Yǔ Luò, are you worried that I'll be disgusted with you? I won't, I swear. I will treat you just like before, no, I will treat you even better!"

  "Sorry, Nete Shao Tang."

  She once tried to accept him and even live with him, but after all that happened, she had no reason to be with him anymore.

  She is no match for him.

  Nie Shao Tang's body swayed: "But, Xiao Yu Luo, you clearly promised me that you would marry me."

  Yu Luo looked at him and suddenly asked: "Shao Tang, on the night of the graduation party, was it really you who saved me?"

  As if he hadn't expected her to suddenly ask this question, Nie Shao Tang's face changed color and his eyes flickered.

  "Shao Tang, did you know? What I dislike the most is deception."

  The large palm holding her wrist loosened, and Nie Shao Tang revealed a hint of bitter smile.

  "Yu Luo, that night, it wasn't me who saved you. But I love you, and that's true. Does all the love I have for you get erased just because of that one thing?"

  Yu Lu's lips were tightly pursed, she didn't say a word, but her heart felt pain. She had never thought that Nie Shao Tang would deceive her. In the past, she thought he was the best person in this world to her, aside from Li Shu. She wanted to cherish him, but he deceived her instead.

  She subconsciously covered her chest, where it was stuffy and oppressed, making it hard for her to breathe.

  "Xiao Yu Luo, you never actually liked me, did you?" Nie Shao Tang looked at her dejectedly. "Because I saved you, that's why you felt grateful and didn't push me away or reject me, right?"

  Yu Lu shook her head in dismay, Nie Shao Tang's words had led her back into the dead end once again.

  Suddenly, his shoulders tightened and he grasped her shoulders.

  "Yueluo, I'm asking you, if from the start I hadn't deceived you, would you have liked me?"

  Yu Luo's least favorite question was finally asked by Nie Shao Tang, who turned her body around, making her look into his eyes with no way to avoid it, quietly waiting for her answer.

  "Yǔ Luò, answer me, will you?"

  Nie Shao Tang's palms were sweating profusely, and he had never been so flustered before. With each passing second, his heart sank further into despair.

  "I——"?

  Yu Luo's heart was throbbing with pain, she didn't know how to respond to him.

  "Yu Luo, answer me, answer me!"

  Nie Shao Tang suddenly went mad, standing up and grasping her shoulders across the table, shaking her violently, his eyes bloodshot, begging her for an answer.

  "I don't know, I really don't know..."

  "Sorry, I have to go back."

  Yu Luo pushed open the door of Nie Shao's study with force and ran out of the coffee shop in a hurry.

  "Goodbye!"

  Nie Shao Tang hastily chased out, Yu Luo feared he would catch up, quickened her pace, and he kept calling out her name from behind.

  Her nose turned sour and the tears she had been suppressing for so long flowed out, blurring her vision to the point where she couldn't see the road ahead.

  "Yu Luo, be careful!"

  A gunshot rang out, and his body was knocked to the ground. A sharp pain shot through his calf.

  The man who fired the shot, seeing that he had missed his aim, hastily retreated. Nie Shaotang clenched his fist and chased after him, pursuing him all the way to the corner of the alley. The man suddenly turned around, his face covered with a mask, and pointed his gun at Nie Shaotang.

  "If you don't want to die, get out of here quickly!"

  Nie Shaotang narrowed his eyes: "Who sent you?"

  "That person smiled eerily: 'Who sent me is unimportant. I'll spare your life, go back and tell Ye Xiuchen that his woman is definitely going to die.'"

  Returning to Yu Luo's side, Nie Shao Tang was shocked to discover that she had been shot in the calf and had fainted, her face pale from blood loss. He was startled and quickly picked her up and rushed to the hospital.