Ziyi was stunned for a moment, opened her eyes, and looked confused.
This sentence came so abruptly that Ziyi almost thought she misheard.
"Uncle Xiaobao, what did you say?" she asked.
"I said, I won't be with you." Pei Yuanchen closed his eyes and repeated once more.
However, saying this did not give him a sense of relief.
Ziyi looked at him with wide eyes, her body gently trembling.
This seemed to be the first time he explicitly said he wouldn't be with her.
Although she had asked him many times before, each time, this man either avoided the topic or changed the subject.
He never promised her, but he also never truly rejected her.
So Ziyi shamelessly clung to him. Because she always thought he didn't like her enough, she thought if she tried harder, he would like her more, until he couldn't bear to leave her.
But Ziyi didn't expect that what she would eventually hear would be such words.
Her nose tingled, and her eyes quickly filled with mist.
