Chapter 115: Tears

The plan for a nationwide tour had been made long ago. Now that they wanted to continue, they could leave immediately.

But Sun Xiaorui said she wanted to move into the Red Villa Bay villa before leaving, so Chen Feng had to oblige her.

That night, Chen Feng naturally slept in the same room and bed with Sun Xiaorui.

Wu Mengting and Lin Wan across the hall were of course aware, but neither said anything.

And Lin Wan was still relentlessly persuading Wu Mengting to take the initiative again and get back together with Chen Feng.

But Wu Mengting didn’t seem to be persuaded and remained silent.

This made Lin Wan both angry and helpless.

Now Chen Feng’s side had also cooled down, and Wu Mengting’s side seemed to have turned into a stone person, silent and unmoving.

Lin Wan, this well-intentioned matchmaker, tried to reconcile both sides, but it turned into a case of “the emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is,” which made her very frustrated.

Of course, she had her own selfish reasons for being so active.

First, there was a very realistic problem. If Wu Mengting and Chen Feng really broke up and their relationship became strained, then they obviously couldn’t live in this villa worth over twenty million for long. She still wanted to live and eat here for free, how could that be possible?

Secondly, there was the issue of the shop-minding job. In Lin Wan’s view, Chen Feng had closed the shop and fired her because of his relationship with Wu Mengting. Otherwise, even for Wu Mengting’s sake, he wouldn’t have been so embarrassed to fire her, and he would have had to fulfill his previous promise to her, giving her a raise and a bonus.

Both of these aspects were related to her personal interests.

Therefore, it was only natural for Lin Wan to be anxious and actively try to reconcile both sides.

Unfortunately, Lin Wan couldn’t reconcile either side now. On one side, Wu Mengting was silent, and on the other, her WeChat messages to Chen Feng were like stones sinking into the sea.

So tiring! It made her unable to sleep well that night.

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When she woke up the next morning, both her and Wu Mengting’s complexions were not good.

On the other hand, Sun Xiaorui and Chen Feng both looked radiant. When they got up, the two were sitting in the living room watching TV together, talking and laughing.

“You’re up. There are buns and char siu buns in the rice cooker, they’re warm. You can just heat up a cup of milk yourselves.”

Sun Xiaorui greeted them warmly, acting like the hostess of the house.

Lin Wan looked at Wu Mengting with a resentful expression.

Wu Mengting, on the other hand, looked at Chen Feng with a resentful expression, ignoring Sun Xiaorui’s words, and just asked Chen Feng, “Did you exercise this morning?”

Chen Feng didn’t deliberately ignore her. Instead, he nodded calmly and answered, “I went for a run.”

“Sorry. I didn’t sleep well last night. I only fell into a daze when it was almost dawn, so I got up late. I’ll definitely get up early tomorrow, and we can exercise together then.”

Wu Mengting apologized to Chen Feng in a weak tone.

Chen Feng shook his head and said, “No need. I’ll consciously exercise and lose weight myself. It’s okay if you get up a little later.”

Lin Wan, as if coordinating with Wu Mengting’s words, yawned and said with a tired face, “Tiantian didn’t sleep well, which made me have insomnia too. Brother Feng, you’re a big man, be more magnanimous and stop being awkward with her.”

Wu Mengting suddenly said to Chen Feng in their hometown dialect, “I didn’t really want to break up with you last night. I just wanted to test if you were sincere with me. I know I was wrong. What I did must have made you very disgusted. I’m really sorry. Can we make up?”

Lin Wan and Sun Xiaorui were bewildered. The Lu City dialect was difficult for outsiders to understand, so of course, they couldn’t understand either.

Chen Feng smiled bitterly and also replied in their hometown dialect, “I’ve also thought about it seriously. I still think we’re not suitable. One obvious reason is the generation gap, and the other is that it’s impossible for me to break up with Xiaorui. So, don’t wrong yourself, it’s really not necessary.”

Hearing this, Wu Mengting silently shed tears and continued in their hometown dialect with a choked voice, “It was my fault yesterday, I shouldn’t have said we should break up. But you should also know that I’ve really fallen for you. How could I be willing to share you with another woman? Love is selfish. Can’t you, a big man, tolerate me a little?”

Chen Feng frowned and smiled bitterly. He waved his hand at Lin Wan and Sun Xiaorui and said, “You two go avoid for a moment. I’ll talk to Mengting alone.”

Although Sun Xiaorui and Lin Wan couldn’t understand what they were saying, they could roughly guess the meaning.

With different expressions, the two agreed and went upstairs together.

Only then did Chen Feng stand up, pull out a tissue, and hand it to Wu Mengting. He said in a gentle tone, “As we’ve both said before, I’m very grateful that you like me, but we’re really not suitable. Not only because my life is uncertain now, but also because there’s a several-year age gap between us, and we have a generation gap in our thinking.

Besides, I’m thirty years old and divorced. I’ve been hurt by love before. I really don’t have the mood, energy, or interest to have a passionate love affair with you. Love is worthless in my eyes now, and very fake. Science has also proven that love is just a chemical reaction in the brain, and it can’t last long.

So, you may feel that you like me very much now, but after a few years, you will find that your current self is very childish.”

Wu Mengting wiped her tears with the tissue, looked directly at Chen Feng, and said with a nasal voice, “I know what you’re saying. That love is a chemical reaction that lasts for two or three years at most. But that’s a misconception. As long as a person is alive, this chemical reaction can continue to be produced, so love can last forever. Of course, this requires the joint efforts of both parties.

And at least I know now that I like you and have identified you as my boyfriend. Even if I made you angry by saying we should break up yesterday, you shouldn’t just give up on our relationship like this. Besides, if you give up now, it makes me feel like a fool. Like I’ve just lost the love and boyfriend I just got.”

As she spoke, Wu Mengting started crying again.

Chen Feng sighed softly and stepped forward to gently hug her.

Just as Wu Mengting was secretly happy, she heard Chen Feng say, “You’re not a fool. You’re just a little too young, too naive. And I’m a little too worldly, and a little too old for you. I’m really not suitable to be your boyfriend. I can be your good friend, or your brother. We can interact like before, free and unrestrained, wouldn’t that be nice? I would be very willing to have a sister like you.”

“Sis-ter?!”

Wu Mengting uttered these two words with a trembling voice, and tears flowed out uncontrollably again.

“Yes. Sister. I always wanted a younger sister when I was a child. Unfortunately, I don’t even have a female cousin. You can be my sister, to fulfill this childhood wish of mine.”

“I don’t want to be your sister.”

Wu Mengting clearly expressed her opposition.

Chen Feng let go of her, held her by the shoulders, looked directly at her, and said in a solemn tone, “Mengting, just agree. Just think of it as fulfilling a last wish of mine before I die.”

“I don’t want to!”

Wu Mengting stubbornly shook her head hard.

“You’re really making me sad. What’s so bad about being my sister? I’ll still like you as before. Besides… being siblings is closer than being ordinary friends, right?”

“I don’t want to!”

Wu Mengting shook her head hard again, her attitude firm.

“Be good! I can only give you two choices now. Either be siblings, or just be friends.”

This was really instant karma. Yesterday, Wu Mengting had made him choose one of two, and now Chen Feng was making her choose in return.

However, to be fair, Chen Feng really had no intention of retaliating against her. It was just that the conversation had reached this point, and this request came out naturally.

“I choose neither. If I can’t be your girlfriend, I’d rather become a stranger to you.”

Wu Mengting seemed really stubborn.
In his heart, Chen Feng didn’t want to become a stranger to her. After all, deep down, he also liked her. She was beautiful, gentle, and could cook his hometown’s dishes. Chen Feng had no reason not to like her.

Chen Feng sighed softly, put on a helpless look, and then said persuasively, “I really don’t want to be in a relationship with you right now, but I admit that I still like you a little in my heart. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have agreed to date you before.

But yesterday you suddenly proposed to break up, and then I suddenly realized that we might really not be suitable. If we continue to develop a deeper relationship, it won’t matter to me, a grown man, but you, a delicate young girl, will suffer a great loss. So, I think we really shouldn’t continue to develop a deeper relationship for the time being. Getting back together is even more unnecessary. It’s good enough to just recognize you as a sister for now.

Of course, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future. If we get along for a long time in the future and really can’t control our feelings, it’s not impossible for sworn siblings to become lovers. But right now, I really just want to be sworn siblings with you. This is my good intention, and it’s also being responsible for you. You have to accept it, and you must accept it. Unless you don’t have me in your heart.”

After Chen Feng finished speaking, he let go of her, took two steps back, and said, “You think about it carefully. I really don’t want to become a stranger to you. I have something to do, so I’m leaving first.”

After saying that, Chen Feng turned and walked out the door.

Wu Mengting’s eyes were a little red and swollen as she watched Chen Feng leave. Her heart was filled with an indescribable sourness.

This time, she had been too clever for her own good. She had thought she could make Chen Feng be faithful to her, but the result was the opposite, a clumsy attempt that backfired.

It really was as the saying goes, “cleverness is defeated by cleverness.”

Now, lovers had become siblings. This instantly made her burst into tears again.

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Chen Feng drove out and went directly to the Red Villa Bay.

Xiao Ya happened to be off today and was at the villa.

When Chen Feng came over, she was sitting in the living room downstairs, watching TV and scrolling through her phone alone.

As soon as Chen Feng opened the door and came in, she immediately stood up from the sofa and looked at him with a complicated expression.

Chen Feng had already contacted her on WeChat before coming over and had also told her that his girlfriend knew he had bought a villa here and was moving in.

So, the implication was clear: she had to move out of here.

She had only lived here for less than a month, and now she had to move out of this dream villa. She was very reluctant and unwilling.

But this was not her house. She wasn’t even a tenant here.

Chen Feng, the owner and her financial backer, was now asking her to move out. What could she do?
“I’ve already told you. I’m sorry, you’d better move out today. After all, you’re off today. You have to go to work tomorrow, so you won’t have time.”

Chen Feng didn’t bother with too many pleasantries with Xiao Ya and directly stated his purpose.

“I’ve already decided to resign. I don’t want to go to work anymore. I’ve already figured out everything about the milk tea shop, including the specific operations, and some of the unwritten rules, tricks, and routines. I’ve already figured it all out. I was going to tell you, but you haven’t been here for the past two days. Now you suddenly want me to move out, I don’t even know where to move to for a while.”

Xiao Ya wasn’t angry. After all, Chen Feng had already hinted at it before, but the feeling of grievance and unwillingness in her heart was also real.

Chen Feng had already made plans. He said directly, “You can stay in a hotel for now. I’ll pay for it. You can just find a house in these few days. You used to be a real estate agent, you can’t possibly not be able to find a place to rent, right?”

“Then what about my luggage? Should I put it all in the hotel?”

“I have a place for you to put it. You can start packing now. When you’re almost done, I’ll call a moving company.”

“No need for a moving company. I don’t have many things. If you help me, the two of us can pack it up together.”

“Okay. Then I’ll help you pack.”

Chen Feng’s eagerness to have her move out hurt and angered Xiao Ya, but she could only endure it.

After all, Chen Feng was her financial backer, the person who was going to invest in her milk tea shop.

Xiao Ya didn’t have many things. Some things that should be thrown away were thrown away. The slightly larger items were just a mattress, bedding, and pillows.

The two of them both had cars. They worked together, and after a few trips back and forth, everything was loaded into the cars. It took less than an hour.

“Alright, let’s go put your luggage away first.”

Chen Feng took Xiao Ya and moved her luggage to the art shop.

Xiao Ya asked curiously, “Whose shop is this?”

“Mine, but it’s closed now,” Chen Feng didn’t hide it.

Xiao Ya said “oh” and didn’t ask any more questions.

After putting away the luggage, Chen Feng took her to the hotel where he had stayed with Sun Xiaorui yesterday. He booked the same deluxe suite for her and paid for five days in advance.

In this regard, Chen Feng was quite generous.

However, the way the front desk lady at the hotel looked at Chen Feng was a bit strange, which made Chen Feng a little uncomfortable. She probably recognized Chen Feng, after all, he had just been here yesterday.

After entering the hotel suite, Xiao Ya didn’t seem very happy. Instead, her expression was a little downcast.

“Brother Feng, are you planning to… get rid of me?”

Xiao Ya asked in a somewhat dejected tone.

Chen Feng looked at her beautiful face and figure, feeling a little reluctant, but in the end, he hardened his heart and nodded, “My girlfriend has actually already discovered our relationship, so I can only break up with you. I’m sorry, I’ll give you one hundred thousand yuan as compensation. Also, about the investment in the milk tea shop, don’t worry. As long as you prepare the business plan and I approve it, I will definitely invest in you. At that time, we can negotiate the specific share distribution. I will definitely not let you suffer a loss.”

Although she had expected it, when the answer was confirmed, Xiao Ya’s heart still ached slightly. She managed to stabilize her emotions and prevent her tears from falling.

Seeing her unhappy expression, Chen Feng of course had no intention of staying.

“Since you’re planning to resign, then you should finish the business plan as soon as possible in these few days, preferably tomorrow. Because I might have to go on a long trip the day after tomorrow, and I don’t know when I’ll be back.”

Xiao Ya forced herself to remain calm and nodded, “Yes. I’ve actually been writing the business plan. I should be able to finish it tomorrow.”

“Then there’s no problem. You rest well. If you need anything, contact me. I’m leaving first.”

Xiao Ya nodded and stood up.

Chen Feng said, “You don’t have to see me out,” and then hurried out the door.

When the door closed with a bang, Xiao Ya could no longer hold it in. She covered her mouth and started crying.

She had thought that Chen Feng could be her support in this city, and had even thought that Chen Feng could be her boyfriend or even her husband. In the future, they would have children and live happily together in that villa in Red Villa Bay.

Now everything had come to nothing. Everything before was like a dream.

Although she had always told herself: be strong, rely on yourself. But she still couldn’t help but cry.