Chapter 60

Chapter 60

"So," Lu Lingchen looked at her and asked, "how did you know?"

He really wanted to know the truth.

After saying so much, Shen Nian's throat was a bit dry. She took another sip of milk before answering.

"Yesterday, Li Nan was out running projects all day and didn't even attend the afternoon meeting. How would she know what Jiang Lingling and I were wearing?"

Moreover, Shen Nian arrived late at the company yesterday and didn't run into Li Nan at all.

And as a newly graduated employee, Jiang Lingling's biggest trait was her punctuality habit. She clocked in every day at 8:58 or 8:59 for the 9 o'clock start. But Li Nan always arrived at the office half an hour early. Even if she clocked in and then went out for a project, she still wouldn't have run into Jiang Lingling.Fịndd new updates at novelhall.com

Did Li Nan purposely wait half an hour after clocking in just to see what Jiang Lingling was wearing that day?

This was the biggest loophole, and the key that made Shen Nian realize something was amiss.

Li Nan didn't see them at all yesterday, so how did she know what they were wearing?

Unless someone explicitly told her that the two at the hot pot restaurant were Shen Nian and Jiang Lingling.

"I guess Lingling had no ulterior motive and just believed Li Nan's words. Anyone else would have been suspicious," Shen Nian concluded.

Lu Lingchen nodded, so that's how it was.

He wasn't at the company yesterday either, so of course he didn't know that Li Nan was out running business all day and didn't even see Shen Nian.

Since Shen Nian had already guessed everything clearly, Lu Lingchen didn't try to hide anything and told her all he knew.

"Yesterday I got a call from my brother. He asked me to have someone call Jiang Lingling to find out your whereabouts. At the time, I was perplexed but still helped my brother ask. But he didn't say a word and just hung up, so I knew you two had a conflict again."

Lu Lingchen shrugged, showing a hint of helplessness.

After Ling Rui passed away, his brother's temperament changed greatly, capricious and unpredictable. These past five years, he and Shen Nian had been in a love-hate relationship, mutually torturing and tormenting each other.

"You're still young, you don't understand feelings."

"I've never been in a relationship, but I understand," Lu Lingchen looked at her seriously. "My brother is love, Xiao Mubai is bread. Love and bread often can only choose one, rarely can one have both."

The former is a dream, the latter is reality. Reality and dreams are often hard to reconcile.

Just like in this world, there are many people moved by youthful infatuation at first sight, but in the end still marry someone suitable but they don't love.

"..." Shen Nian lowered her eyes, her lashes trembling. After a long time, she said, "Temporary salvation can't save someone originally in darkness."

"..." Lu Lingchen moved his lips but ultimately didn't say anything.

After a long while, Lu Lingchen finally said, "The next court hearing is in five days. Will you go?"

"Yes." For Ling Rui's sake, how could she not go?

"Okay." Lu Lingchen nodded, knowing he couldn't dissuade Shen Nian anymore. As he stood up to leave, he couldn't help but add, "Nian-jie, Sister-in-law, Ling Rui once told my parents and my brother that you were an exceptionally good person and she wanted to be lifelong friends with you. She knew your parents had passed away in an accident, so she told my parents to treat you like their own daughter. She even warned my brother that he could only marry you in this lifetime, and that you were the only sister-in-law she would recognize."

"..." Shen Nian froze.

"Be good to yourself. If Ling Rui were alive, she certainly wouldn't want you to suffer so much."

"..."

"Also, you know my brother's temper and taboos. Don't hurt him, and don't hurt yourself either."

Both of you are pitiful, ruined souls.

Leaving those words behind, Lu Lingchen departed.

"..." Shen Nian sat alone in the booth, staring blankly at the spot where Lu Lingchen had just been sitting. When she came to, tears were already streaming down her face.

She reached up to touch the sunflower necklace around her neck, leaned over the table, her shoulders gently shaking.

Weeping silently.