Song Qingchun's Test (5)

Su Zhinian felt like someone had sucker-punched him in the guts. He stood beside Song Qingchun, just staring at her quietly.

"…Or are you too busy to come get me?" Her words sounded natural and easy, and there was even a trace of smile in her voice, but her tears kept on coming. "Then, it's okay…"

She took a pause as if worried that she might lose her composure. She bit on her lower lip and after a while, forced her lips into a smile. With her eyes shining with tears, she added with a barely discernible tremble in her voice, "…It's okay, I can wait for you. Please come fetch me when you're no longer busy, okay?"

After she asked that question, the curve on her lips suddenly disappeared. Like her soul had been pulled out of her, she gripped the phone in her hand and stared at the street ahead of her dumbly. After a long while, she said softly to herself, "How could I have forgotten? You already told me not to wait for you anymore…"