Second Take On Romance - The A-List Actor Wants Me-Chapter 243 : Strive For A Better Path

Lang Yuxuan gritted his teeth.

He did not expect to be found out so quickly.

"He... He gave it to me," he lied on the spot.

"..."

Feng Jietang stared at him.

"It’s true!" Lang Yuxuan insisted. "He said that he didn’t like it, and he wanted to throw it away. So I... I took it here."

Feng Jietang let out a snort.

"Lang Yuxuan, carefully overthink your lie before you spout one. Shen Jingwei was the one who bought the couple’s rings in the first place. Why would he throw his away?"

"..."

Lang Yuxuan swallowed hard.

Alright, he didn’t expect it.

He thought that the ring was a gift from Yan Renzhong. It turned out that it was the other way around.

How embarrassing.

Feng Jietang pursed his lips and held out his hand.

"Before you make it any worse than it already is, just hand the ring to me. I will return it to its rightful owner."

Angrily, Lang Yuxuan threw the ring, complete with the silver chain, into Feng Jietang’s outstretched hand.

"I am leaving!" He began to stomp away, but Feng Jietang’s arm shot out, stopping him in his tracks.

"Wait."

"What else do you want?"

Feng Jietang stared at Lang Yuxuan for several seconds before he broke in a heavy sigh.

"Look, at the very least, we are co-stars who once worked toward the same goal. I would like you to move on from Yan Renzhong. Forget him. Find someone else that will love you the same way you love him."

Tears formed in Lang Yuxuan’s eyes, burning his sight.

"I am not like you," he snapped. "I don’t give up that easily."

Feng Jietang rolled with his eyes.

"Dude!" he glowered at Lang Yuxuan. "Do you take Yan Renzhong as some kind of Golden Globe Award? He is a normal human being, and he’s taken. What is the merit of chasing after his shadows? He never looked at you, not even once!"

By now, hot tears already traced down Lang Yuxuan’s cheeks.

"It’s not like they are married," he sobbed. "I still have my chances. You also do, if only you don’t stop pursuing Shen Jingwei. I know that Shen Jingwei feels something for you. I can see it from the way he looks at you..."

"Lang Yuxuan."

Feng Jietang grabbed the younger man’s shoulders and shook them once.

"You are delusional. Wake up. Now you say that they aren’t married. Later after they are married, you will say that they can still divorce. There is no end to your obsession until you let go."

"..."

Lang Yuxuan’s lips quivered from an overload of emotions. He began sobbing heartrendingly against Feng Jietang’s shoulder.

"Why?" He asked while hitting the other man’s chest with his fists. "Why did you give up?"

"..."

Feng Jietang discovered that he really did not like holding men other than Shen Jingwei, but he was not a heartless person. How could he kick a dog when it’s down?

He awkwardly patted Lang Yuxuan’s back.

"It’s time," he muttered.

Actually, he was also unwilling to let Shen Jingwei go. It didn’t even have to be Yan Renzhong. Shen Jingwei could have fallen in love with a saint, but Feng Jietang would still be equally reluctant.

That’s because he was a normal human being who had his own flesh and heart desire.

On the other hand, he did not live all these years to be a lovesick idiot who was unable to differentiate right from wrong.

He knew that heart matters could not be forced.

Shen Jingwei had expressed to him his willingness to stay with Yan Renzhong no matter what.

Although Feng Jietang still did not understand what was so good about Yan Renzhong for having the luck of ending up with someone as amazing as Shen Jingwei, he knew that it was not his place to ask.

That being said, after mulling this matter over for days, Feng Jietang decided to let go. He was going to watch over Shen Jingwei silently from afar, always supporting him but never interfering with his relationship.

"Maybe it’s a curse," he mused after a while.

Lang Yuxuan lifted his tear-streaked face and stared at him in confusion.

"What?"

"Well... How do I put this in words?"

Feng Jietang scratched at the side of his head.

"Jiang Muchen was so deeply in love with Xie Jianyu, but no matter what he did, he was unable to stir Xie Jianyu’s heart. I am not much different from Jiang Muchen, to be honest."

"..."

"So, in the spirit of staying in character, I decide to be gallant and let go of my one-sided love for Shen Jingwei. I am no longer going to enforce my love on Shen Jingwei. I know that Jiang Muchen would do exactly that*."

"But you."

Feng Jietang squinted at Lang Yuxuan.

"You should avoid the same fate as Liu Wenyuan."

"..."

"You are possibly as cunning and jealous as your character, but you are still Lang Yuxuan. You are not Liu Wenyuan. You can still go back to the right path. So go back."

Lang Yuxuan humphed.

"What are you, a monk? Why are you talking about weird things?"

Not wanting to hear more of Feng Jietang’s nonsense, Lang Yuxuan shoved Feng Jietang away and stomped off for real.

Feng Jietang pulled a mocking face at Lang Yuxuan’s retreating back.

"Pfft! Who cares about you! If you want to go down the path of doom, be my guest!" He cried out in indignation.

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Author’s note :

*Author : *coughs* "You are wrong. Jiang Muchen never lets go of his one-sided love for his Little Uncle. If ever Zhang Fengxi lays somewhere mortally wounded with no hope of survival, Jiang Muchen might prematurely scatter white flowers over his not-yet-cold body and ask for Xie Jianyu’s hand in marriage on the spot."

Feng Jietang : QAQ!!!!

Yan Renzhong : Lu Shui, are you really writing a happy ending between me and Jingbao? If yes, why are you fanning the flame under Feng Jietang’s butt?

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