"But I just like you like this."
Ning Anmiao blurted out her most genuine thought. Suddenly realizing that what she said was too ambiguous, she couldn't help but cough twice. "It was in the past that I liked you."
Lu Yan slightly raised his head. His cold and hard expression softened a bit compared to before, and his eyes stared straight at her.
Ning Anmiao noticed that his eye sockets were red.
"Are you... crying?" She was a bit incredulous.
"Say it again."
Lu Yan took a deep breath. The gloom between his eyebrows completely dissipated. "Miaomiao, say you like me again."
Ning Anmiao blushed.
"I don't want to."
She deeply regretted her impulse just now and quickly made a far - fetched explanation. "I just wanted to express my feelings for you at that time, not my current feelings."
Hearing this, the brief glint of light on Lu Yan's face instantly faded.
"So you liked me before, but you don't like me now?"
Ning Anmiao: …
She knew that Lu Yan today was determined to get to the bottom of this "like" thing.
"Aren't you being childish?" Ning Anmiao murmured in a low voice. She didn't want to waste time discussing whether she liked him or not.
It felt like they were in an eight - o'clock love drama, constantly asking each other if they loved each other.
Lu Yan didn't mind the ridicule in her words at all. He lifted his eyelids and said very seriously, "I'm childish, so I want to hear it."
He felt very insecure now.
Especially Ning Anmiao's nonchalant attitude and those words just now almost killed him.
His heart was trembling.
He knew very well how outstanding his Miaomiao was; that was exactly why he also understood how popular she was.
It wasn't just Lin Chuluo. In the future, there would be thousands of Lin Chuluos, all having the chance to spend their lives with Miaomiao.
Except him.
Ning Anmiao nestled on the living - room sofa, thinking for a long time. She always felt that Lu Yan was extremely abnormal today.
It seemed that something had happened.
"Did you meet Lin Chuluo today?" She guessed based on Lu Yan's reactions before and after and tentatively asked.
Lu Yan didn't say a word.
Selfishly, he didn't want Ning Anmiao to hear anything about Lin Chuluo.
But unfortunately, she had guessed right.
He didn't like to lie.
Seeing that he didn't refute, Ning Anmiao was even more certain of her guess and said in surprise, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Lu Yan's eyes were deep. "If another man asks you out on a date, will you report it to me?"
Ning Anmiao: "…"
She seemed to understand something and couldn't help but laugh awkwardly. "Mr. Lu really has a good sense of romance."
"I'm not so idle as to go on a date with a man."
She especially emphasized the word "man". "Is Mr. Lu so addicted to playing the role of a woman?"
Sure enough, the saying was right. The older a man gets, the weirder he becomes.
Lu Yan seemed to be getting weirder.
Lu Yan didn't care about her ridicule and continued, "He confessed his love to me."
Ning Anmiao immediately bit her tongue to control herself from laughing out loud.
"Okay, he confessed his love to you."
Lu Yan was speechless for a moment and didn't bother arguing with her about this. "He hopes that we can get a divorce and give him a chance."
Ning Anmiao didn't understand this sentence. "What do you mean?"
Lu Yan didn't know if Ning Anmiao was pretending to be stupid or really stupid. He looked at her speechlessly. After a few seconds, he said with difficulty, "It means that you should divorce me and then marry him and become Mrs. Lin."
Hearing this, Ning Anmiao was stunned. "Marry Lin Chuluo? Did you agree on my behalf?"
Lu Yan: "No."
Seeing that he hadn't done anything absurd, the heart that Ning Anmiao had lifted finally settled down. "That's good."
Seeing her relieved look, Lu Yan twitched the corner of his mouth. "Why, didn't you just say that he was quite suitable?"
"Why, is it that since I didn't agree on your behalf today, you're a little disappointed now?"
Lu Yan didn't know what was wrong with himself today. Usually a man of few words, he was like a machine gun today, constantly spitting out words.
"I didn't mean that." Ning Anmiao shook her head. "I don't like him at all. How could I possibly want to marry him?"
"In my heart, Lin Chuluo has always just been a friend."
Ning Anmiao said this sentence especially firmly.
Lu Yan pursed his lower lip. He was quite satisfied with this answer.
"I got to know Lin Chuluo earlier, but it doesn't mean that I have to develop feelings for him." Ning Anmiao was extremely clear - headed in this regard. "In matters of the heart, there's no such thing as first come, first served."
"If we judge based on this, then I've known Brother Jiang Zhou even earlier."
The corners of Lu Yan's lips, which had been slightly upturned, drooped again when Ning Anmiao mentioned "Brother Jiang Zhou".
"Anyway, I have no feelings for Lin Chuluo. If I was the one who was confessed to today, I might directly reject him on the spot."
This was Ning Anmiao's most genuine thought.
Love boldly, reject clearly. Don't be indecisive or give the other person false hope. That was Ning Anmiao's attitude.
The corner of Lu Yan's lips curled up imperceptibly.
Watching Ning Anmiao dragging her slippers and preparing to go back to the bedroom to rest, Lu Yan quickly followed. Before she closed the bedroom door, he entered the room.
Ning Anmiao frowned. She was just about to tell him to go back to the guest room and sleep obediently, but at the moment she looked up, she met Lu Yan's anxious pupils.
His eye sockets were still red, and his emotions were very suppressed.
"… Forget it, come in."
Ning Anmiao compromised. She made way for him, left him at the door, turned around and walked towards the big bed, lifted the quilt and lay down.
"If there's nothing else, turn off the light and go to sleep early. I've been drawing blueprints all day today, and I'm a bit sleepy."
For some reason, for the first time, Ning Anmiao read a special emotion in Lu Yan's eyes.
It was a feeling of being afraid of losing something.
Anyway, they couldn't do anything now. Let him sleep in the same bed with her reluctantly.
Seeing that she wasn't so resistant to him anymore, Lu Yan twitched the corner of his mouth in satisfaction.
After turning off the light, because what had happened during the day was so sudden, Lu Yan closed his eyes and recalled everything that had happened today and what Miaomiao had said. He seemed to understand a lot.
Miaomiao's attitude towards rejecting people was very obvious. If she liked someone, she would love passionately; if she didn't like someone, she would reject directly instead of being vague and hard to figure out.
He had never straightforwardly and passionately told Miaomiao about his feelings for her before. No wonder she would feel insecure and anxious.
Thinking of this, he slightly turned over on his side, but all he saw was Miaomiao's back.
He didn't know if she was asleep or not.
Lu Yan closed his eyes. His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, but it was very clear in the room. "I only like you too, Miaomiao."
"It's my fault that I've never said I like you."
"I'll change in the future."