Chapter 38: 038. Whoever takes it seriously first loses

Chapter 38: 038. Whoever takes it seriously first loses

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She lowered her eyes sadly, the coldness that had kept him away faded from her face, replaced by a touch of melancholy and sorrow. With a soft sigh, she spoke.

“Lu Moqing, please let go. It was my mistake before, and from this moment on, let’s pretend we never knew each other, okay?”

Her pleading eyes looked at Lu Moqing, but they were even more hurtful than her previous sharpness, more accurately and brutally stabbing into his heart like a knife.

She… she was begging him to let go!

This realization brought back the familiar yet incomprehensible pain in Lu Moqing’s heart, like a flood. It hurt so much he didn’t dare move, afraid his heart would ache even more.

Pretend they never knew each other?

He couldn’t deceive himself like that. Even with hatred, it was easier than letting her go.

“There’s a saying, in love, the one who takes it seriously first loses. Lu Moqing, I’ve been serious, and I’ve lost horribly. So, this time, I’m genuinely admitting defeat. I’m not playing hard to get. I genuinely want to divorce you.”

Her words were sincere, the wrongs and sadness in her eyes turning into indifference at this moment.

It seemed as if her once persistent feelings for him had been scattered by the wind after this conversation, never to be found again.

Lu Moqing’s heart ached so much it made him shudder, and Qiao Xu had already walked away from him.

“Let’s sign the agreement soon. In four years, many things have changed, many feelings have faded. After the divorce, we’ll both live happily. I think this outcome is the best for both of us.”

She walked to the stairwell, opened the door, and turned back one more time before leaving—

“Lu Xintong’s heart can’t take any more stress. If she doesn’t undergo a heart transplant surgery soon, she won’t be able to live much longer.”

She returned to her professional, competent doctor demeanor, as if the person who had just been confiding her grievances in front of him was not her at all.

Qiao Xu left, leaving Lu Moqing standing in place without a word, his brows tightly knitted and his eyes obscured.

‘Lu Moqing, I was serious and lost terribly. So this time, I’m genuinely admitting defeat, …’

Qiao Xu’s words just now began to play over and over in his mind, each word as clear as when she had spoken it.

His fist tightened because of the suffocating pain in his heart.

What he had once thought were Qiao Xu’s deep feelings for him now seemed laughably false, even nauseating. But this moment, his heart was in turmoil and couldn’t find a place to rest as her words kept replaying in his mind.

After she explained everything to Lu Moqing, Qiao Xu felt relieved and energetic the entire morning. She didn’t feel tired even after performing two major surgeries.

When she came out of the operating room, it was lunchtime. As Qiao Xu changed out of her surgical gown and walked out of the surgery building, she unexpectedly ran into someone she didn’t want to see at all—Su Rou.

“Sister?!”

Surprise showed on Su Rou’s face, and then happiness spread across her face as if she had seen a close friend. She quickly walked over to Qiao Xu.

Seeing the look in Qiao Xu’s eyes, Su Rou felt instinctively nervous and afraid. Qiao Xu’s aggression towards her at Nanyuan Restaurant the first time they met still haunted her.

Compared to Qiao Xu, her status seemed even more unsuitable for public display.