in2ebook Chapter 288 "Who are you showing your stern face to?
Chapter 288 "Who are you showing your stern face to?
Xia Qian watched him fall silent, then continued:
"In fact, you long to be understood, affirmed, and needed, but you are afraid that these will become your weaknesses, so you have to become indifferent and pretend not to care about anything that has nothing to do with you."
She didn't seem like a friend I had just met for a few months, but rather like a close friend I had known for many years.
She was a few years younger than him, but she was able to open up his inner world like an elder and smooth out all his entanglements.
The childish indifference said:
"The truth is I can't do anything right. I'm just a piece of crap."
This was the second time she heard him deny himself. How painful it must be for a person to say that he is "waste".
He must have been through something, either a quarrel or regret.
In the moonlight, she looked at his profile. It was a little blurry, but she could clearly see that it was covered with scars.
In the daytime sunshine, he is confident and full of energy.
But at night, he was lonely and gloomy.
“No one is born successful, and no one is born useless. Maybe you have experienced a lot of unbearable things in the past, but in our eyes, you are really excellent.”
Very good?
This word is too far-fetched for him.
He is a person who has been abandoned, and he should not exist in this world.
He is an outlier, so he is destined not to be understood.
"I used to be a bastard, do you believe it?"
He never mentioned the past, today was the first time, Xia Qian responded calmly:
"Yes, letter."
His good side is hidden from others and is all under his jerk side, so everyone thinks he is a jerk because that is the armor he uses to hide his vulnerability.
Xia Qian believed it, but he sneered:
"Why, you think I'm an asshole too?"
He laughed at himself, which was how he often concealed his sadness.
"Yes, I think so too."
Xia Qian did not comfort him, just like him, never comforting anyone.
Tong Xin looked at her calmly:
"Then why do you want to cooperate with me?"
He is a jerk and everyone should stay away from him.
But why didn't she leave? Why did she tell him all this?
"I'm working with you entirely because of your ability. I think you're a jerk, but at least you're not a bad guy."
All bastards are bad, and he is bad too.
"How can I not be bad? Everyone around me has been hurt because of me, so I advise you to stay away from me, otherwise you will also be hurt."
He was warning her, but she didn't believe him:
"We are just a simple cooperative relationship, helping each other. If there is no mutual benefit one day, there will naturally be no involvement. You don't have to be afraid. I am not a good person."
He was keeping his distance from her. Although it was just a simple joke, in Xia Qian's mind it was his inner thoughts.
His subconscious told her not to get close to him.
As she said, he locked himself in a room and wouldn't let anyone get close to him, including her.
Well, she didn't go in and had no intention of going in. She was just telling him as a bystander.
Xia Qian went home without even turning her head back and then closed the door.
Is this what she is?
Tong Xin didn't understand what was wrong with her, but he didn't care.
Xia Qian returned to the room and threw her bag on the bed angrily:
"Who wants to take care of you? You're sick."
She really has nothing better to do. People like him should just fend for themselves.
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The next day, Tong Xin brought the breakfast he made, which was his usual habit.
He would cook for his grandmother in the morning, so he would always make extra and bring it to her.
She has gotten used to it after so long and doesn't take it seriously.
But today she surprisingly cooked for herself and was eating when he came.
Xia Qian knew he was coming, but she didn't even raise her head. She looked unhappy, but she didn't know why.
She rarely made breakfast by herself, and Tongxin was surprised, but he didn't say anything. He put breakfast on the table and went to work in another room.
Xia Qian cleared out a large room downstairs as a studio, where they usually draw and do designs.
Tong Xin started by drawing sketches, and then gradually moved on to drawing on the computer. He is now learning professional knowledge while doing the design work, and is preparing to take an exam to become a jewelry designer.
After watching him go in, Xia Qian raised her head to look at his back, then rolled her eyes. This man was really disgusting, beyond words.
She was sulking now, so his breakfast was affected as well.
She got up and put the breakfast he brought into the kitchen, out of sight, out of mind.
Didn't he say he was a jerk? Then don't try to be a good guy.
He kept his distance, and of course she also had to have a sense of boundaries. After all, she understood that men and women should not be too close to each other.
They were busy with their own things the whole morning and no one said a word.
In fact, they are usually like this, but now there is something more.
It seems to be emotion.
When a woman is angry, she doesn't talk, and Xia Qian is no exception.
Tong Xin occasionally went out to pour some water, and then went out to get some ingredients.
Xia Qian pretended not to see it, but the other party was unaware of it.
Men's thinking is simple and their nerves are not that sharp.
When Tong Xin prepared dinner and called her to eat at noon, he realized that something was wrong with her.
"Let's go eat first."
This is normal because this is how they got along in the past.
But today he called her twice and she didn't respond, so he realized that she seemed angry.
"Let's go eat first."
Xia Qian ignored him and looked very unhappy. Tong Xin felt strange:
"what happened?"
He didn't know what she was angry about, as if it had nothing to do with him?
Xia Qian still ignored him, and his brows twitched:
"what happened to you?"
What happened? What happened? He really didn't know what happened to her?
Xia Qian didn't want to pay attention to him, let alone have dinner with him.
Tong Xin went back outside and sat down to eat by herself. Let her go crazy if she wanted to, it was none of his business anyway.
Tong Xin thought that it was none of his business, but he had lost his appetite and could not eat after two bites.
What happened to her?
He returned to the room and saw her still sulking there. He suddenly became furious:
"What's wrong with you? Can you say something?"
His tone was bad because his mood was also affected by her at the moment.
He said he was a jerk and didn't care about any feelings, but now he cared so much because of her unhappiness.
"It has nothing to do with you."
It has nothing to do with him, but her face clearly shows that it has something to do with him.
"Who are you showing your stern face to?"
He also knows that it's uncomfortable to see other people's faces, so doesn't he always do this?
"What about you? Aren't you keeping a straight face just for me?"
When did he have a stern face?
Tong Xin quickly recalled what happened last night. It seemed that she became like this after he said those words.
But he was just joking, what about her?
"Is it because of what I said last night? I just said it casually."