Chapter 316: Haven’t Changed a Bit

Chapter 316

"Chen Shi:..."

Innocently blinking his eyes, he wondered if he had done something wrong. Why was Li Man glaring at him?

But he couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips; Li Man was still the same as before, unchanged.

Like a little chili pepper, she would get angry with him if she was unhappy.

After throwing a tantrum, she would come to him to play.

Her temper came and went inexplicably, and it would improve without anyone coaxing her.

Chen Shi found this aspect of her to be quite magical.

Li Man couldn't be bothered with them and turned back into her room.

Chen Shi followed behind her, standing at the doorway of her room without going in. "After we finish eating, shall we go out for a walk?"

"Where do you want to go?" Li Man sat in front of her desk and asked absentmindedly.

"How about going to the movies? My colleague gave me two movie tickets." Chen Shi said nervously.

The first time he saw Li Man when they were kids, he thought she was beautiful and adorable. She was wearing a snow-white princess dress and looked as pretty as a princess.

He had always liked Li Man. From the moment he first laid eyes on her, he liked her. But he had always kept his feelings hidden deep inside, never mentioning them to Li Man. He was afraid that if he said it, she would reject him or ignore him.

But he never expected that because of his cowardice, Li Man would drift further and further away from him.

How many nights had he stayed awake because he missed her? How many nights had he gotten drunk because he missed her?

On the day he found out that Li Man had registered her marriage behind her parents' and boyfriend's back, he went to the bar alone and got drunk.

Since that day, he felt that life had lost its meaning.

He had intended to grow old in solitude, but his parents pressured him to get married, even resorting to threats of death. In the end, he reluctantly accepted their arrangement and married a woman he didn't like.

Being married to someone he didn't love was torture, to say the least. He couldn't even bring himself to be interested in intimacy with her.

Three years into their marriage, he had only been intimate with her once.

Afterwards, he lost all interest, no matter how much his wife tried to seduce him. He even moved to the spare bedroom, sleeping alone.

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