Su Wanwan closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her gaze had turned icy. She shook off Gong Lingyu's hand, took a step back, and smiled faintly, with a hint of chilliness in her smile. "It's not that anyone objects to me marrying you, it's just that I don't want to marry you myself. Because I couldn't force myself to spend my life with a man I don't love."

  Su Wan's voice was soft and gentle as always, but the words she spoke were like sharp arrows that pierced his heart.

  Jing Lingyu's face turned white in an instant, his tall figure swayed, and his feet unconsciously retreated two steps. "If that's the case, why did you still agree to my proposal?"

  "Because I wanted to save the Su family and marry you, your parents would invest a large sum of money in our company. With that money, the Su family could get through their crisis, so I agreed to your proposal. But these past few days, I've thought about it again and again, and realized I still can't accept you. Not loving is not loving, even if it's for the sake of the company, I just can't do it."

  "Ling Yu, I know you've been good to me, but I'm sorry."

  Su Wan's hands, hanging at her sides, were clenched tightly, with a hint of pallor on her fingertips. She maintained a smile and held her head high as she walked past Gong Lingyu towards the dining room door.

  Behind him, Gong Lingyu's low and hoarse voice slowly came, "I know you don't love me."

  Su Wan's footsteps came to an abrupt halt.

  Jing Lingyu turned around and looked at Su Wanwan's slender back, his voice becoming even lower. "I also know that you agreed to my proposal because of the Su family."

  Gong Lingyu curled his lips and smiled self-deprecatingly, "But I'm still foolishly holding onto a glimmer of hope, hoping that you can really love me. Even if it's not now, maybe in the future, I thought to myself, as long as I continue to treat you well, one day you'll be moved by me and fall in love with me. But you... aren't even willing to give me this chance..."

  Su Wanwan paused for over ten seconds on the spot and finally didn't say anything, stepping away.

  -

  Tonight, Pei Muniang had a dinner party. At the table, he drank a few more cups and his head felt a bit dizzy. He asked Assistant Wu to drive slowly around the block so that he could sober up.

  He leaned against the back seat, his eyes half-closed as if he was sleeping but not quite. The car window came down and the cool night breeze blew in, causing his tightly furrowed brow to relax slightly.

  Suddenly, the assistant in front exclaimed, "Director Pei, look at that person... isn't it Miss Su?"

  Miss Su?

  Pei Muniang reflexively opened her eyes, following the assistant's indication to look over, through the crowd, on the street that slender figure, he could see at a glance, it was Su Wanwan.

  She walked slowly, her footsteps somewhat floating and stumbling, looking like a lost soul.

  Pei Muniu's eyebrows slightly furrowed.

  "It's strange, so late at night, how is Miss Su walking alone on the street? It's so dangerous." Wu Assistant said, hesitating for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Pei Mu Nian through the rearview mirror, tentatively opening his mouth, "President Pei, I think Miss Su's condition isn't good, should we send someone to see her home?"

  After all, Su Wanwan is the fiancée of Gong Shao Ye, and Gong Shao Ye is also the cousin of Pei Zong. If something happens to Miss Su, it won't be good.

  Pei Muni did not speak.

  Wu's assistant observed his expression, he didn't say it was good, nor did he show any opposition, he knew that this was tacit consent, so he turned the steering wheel and drove towards the side of the road.