"Young Master Zhan, did I do something wrong? You can tell me, I can change anything, but please don't send me away, okay?"
Geng Sitian pleaded, tears streaming down her face. She truly couldn't understand why things had turned out this way.
Everything had been so wonderful before. Zhan Yangyi cared for her so much, and she liked Zhan Yangyi too. Wasn't that a good thing?
According to her plans, she should have lived a happy life with Zhan Yangyi. She had already prepared herself mentally.
Zhan Yangyi looked at Geng Sitian, feeling a pang in his heart.
His first impression of Geng Sitian was nothing like this. Yet, everything had happened now.
"Don't you understand yet? I don't like you at all. I don't need you to do those things for me. Your persistence will only bring me trouble."
"No, I don't believe you!" Geng Sitian continued to reject Zhan Yangyi's words in this manner.
Zhan Yangyi looked at Geng Sitian. He had made up his mind; dragging this on would only make things worse. It was better to clarify everything now.
"I don't know when you started developing feelings for me, but I have never liked you, let alone loved you," Zhan Yangyi said calmly. "Perhaps my previous actions led you to misunderstand something. If so, I apologize. I hope you can calmly think this through."
"I won't listen!" Geng Sitian even covered her ears.
But Zhan Yangyi continued, "There are only the two of us here. I can tell you, even though I've divorced Yu Tong, I haven't forgotten her so easily. Yes, I was angry about her past actions and her way of doing things, but anger is anger, and I still can't lie to myself that I still love her. It is precisely because of this that I cannot like you or fall in love with you."
Geng Sitian weakly lowered her hands, tears flowing uncontrollably.
"No, it's not like that..."
"Stop deceiving yourself. I've told you more than once that I don't have that kind of feeling for you," Zhan Yangyi said, his tone softening slightly as he looked at Geng Sitian. "If you can accept this outcome, I can let you continue working here."
Geng Sitian's mind was a blank. She felt as if she had suddenly woken up from a dream.
So, everything had just been her wishful thinking. Zhan Yangyi truly only saw her as an ordinary employee, and he even loved another woman.
But she couldn't understand. The sum of all previous events shouldn't have led to this outcome.
Geng Sitian felt as if all her strength had been drained. She was soulless, didn't know where to go, or what to do next.
"You don't need to answer me now. The leave I gave you before is still valid. Go back and think about it carefully."
Geng Sitian didn't know how she walked out of the company. At first, she was unwilling to leave. Zhan Yangyi had to have his bodyguards escort her out.
Every scene she had experienced with Zhan Yangyi flashed through Geng Sitian's mind.
"Impossible... impossible..."
She mumbled, walking forward step by step.
After work, Zhan Yangyi still felt uneasy.
If he hadn't proposed divorce to Chen Yu Tong before, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out this way.
Both Geng Sitian's situation and Chen Yu Tong's actions stemmed from him.
In a bar, young men and women swayed their bodies on the dance floor, fully enjoying the carnival of the night.
But not everyone was immersed in such joy, like Zhan Yangyi, sitting at the bar and drowning his sorrows, accompanied by Zhan Mohan.
Zhan Yangyi appeared to be in a terrible mood, drinking glass after glass.
He was completely stuck, his mind in disarray, unsure of what the right course of action was.
"Mohan, I truly don't know why things have become like this. Geng Sitian was a good girl before, and it's because of me that she's become this way."
Saying that, Zhan Yangyi drank another glass. "If I had noticed her problem earlier, perhaps I could have prevented this from happening from the start. Mohan, if it were you, what would you do?"
Zhan Mohan took a small sip. "Geng Sitian's situation isn't entirely your fault. It's more that she can't accept reality, which causes her to remain trapped in her own ideal world. There's probably nothing we can do to help her. If she had met another man, the same thing might have happened."
However... Zhan Mohan glanced at Zhan Yangyi again. But perhaps Zhan Yangyi was Geng Sitian's ideal type, which made her so deeply infatuated, unable to extricate herself.
"There's never a right or wrong in matters of the heart," Zhan Mohan raised his hand, looking at the wine in his hand. "Rather, love is like this wine. The brewer is mostly sober and stays out of it, while the drinker is deeply immersed and can't pull themselves out."
"Is that so?" Zhan Yangyi also looked at the wine on the table and said softly.
He suddenly chuckled, then picked up the wine on the table and extended it towards Zhan Mohan.
Zhan Mohan understood his meaning and reached out to clink glasses with Zhan Yangyi.
Zhan Yangyi downed the wine in his glass in one go again, while Zhan Mohan still took a small sip.
At this, Zhan Yangyi laughed even louder. "Your analogy just now was indeed very interesting. Just like just now, you took a small sip, while I intended to get drunk."
Perhaps in his relationship with Geng Sitian, he was the one who knew when to stop.
"Instead of continuing to ponder this matter, why not focus on how to get sister-in-law back?" Zhan Mohan changed the subject.
After all, no matter how much they discussed Geng Sitian's situation, there would be no resolution.
"Get her back? It's not that easy," Zhan Yangyi sighed. "I was the one who proposed divorce, and I don't think I can truly let go of what she did before."
This was Zhan Yangyi's most conflicted point. He still loved Chen Yu Tong, but he couldn't forgive her actions anytime soon.
Moreover, he was also worried that even if they got back together, Chen Yu Tong wouldn't change her ways. What would he do then?
Being together wasn't just about love; it was more complicated than that.
"Why don't you talk to her?" Zhan Mohan suggested. "Although the previous matters have been resolved, you haven't gone to find Chen Yu Tong, have you? Perhaps you should give her an explanation."
Zhan Yangyi frowned. He thought for a long time and finally said, "Alright."
Zhan Mohan curved his lips. As long as the two of them could still meet, there was still hope for improvement.