Chapter 2

The sharp pain in my heart suddenly hit me.

I bit my tongue lightly, using pain to counter pain. "Don't you owe me an explanation?"

The anger on Levi's face abruptly froze.

He stood at the doorway looking at me. Though only a few steps away, it felt like we were separated by an unbridgeable chasm.

"In your dreams, were you happy with your pure love?"

Levi paused for a moment, then after a while, gave me a cold glance.

"You went through my phone?"

"Don't worry about it. That's all in the past, just something I jotted down casually."

A clumsy excuse, delivered with a completely dismissive tone.

As if telling me:

He had already given me a reason, and I'd better take it and pretend I hadn't seen anything.

I opened my mouth, but tears fell before I could speak.

"Do you think I'm a three-year-old? You have portraits all over the room and you come up with this kind of excuse!"

"Then what do you want?"

Levi irritably tugged at his tie. "Do you want me to tell you that I love Celeste?!"

The string in my mind suddenly snapped.

I stood there, mouth agape in shock, my straight back crumpling under the weight.

The biting wind blew in from outside the window.

Levi lit a cigarette, the smoke obscuring his face.

Making it impossible to discern his emotions."I can't quite tell how he feels about me."

He suddenly lowered his head, radiating an aura of melancholy.

"We got together very early on, sharing each other's most innocent times. She worked two jobs a day for me, and I nearly cut ties with my family for her."

"But in the end, my mom still didn't accept her. She threatened to kill herself if I didn't break up with her. To avoid putting me in a difficult position, she had no choice but to leave the country..."

I stared at him woodenly, murmuring,

"Then why did you get together with me, and why did you marry me?"

Levi's voice was a bit hoarse,

"Because grandma's dying wish was to see me get married."

"How is that fair?!"

I asked, almost hysterically,

"Why does your filial piety have to be fulfilled at the cost of sacrificing me?!"

By the time I got to the last sentence, I was practically screaming.

What did I do wrong?

To be dragged into such an enormous deception.

In Levi's typically cold and impassive eyes, a flicker of guilt seemed to flash.

After a long moment, he finally spoke softly:

"Luna, can you calm down, please?"

My heart trembled slightly.

In the early days of dating Levi, he always liked to caress my brow and eyes.He said, "Our Cassandra's smile is like a crescent moon. How about we call you Luna from now on?"

"My one and only Luna."

After getting drunk once, he even held me and made me promise.

From then on, only he could call me Luna.

But in reality, the times he called me that could be counted on one hand.

I forcefully pulled my thoughts back from memory.

Looking at Levi's cold expression before me, my tears flowed even harder in an instant.

He stood motionless, his brows slightly furrowed.

As if he was forcing himself to make some kind of decision.

Finally, he sighed.

He walked up to me and leaned down to embrace me.

"I'm sorry, my tone wasn't good just now. I spoke too harshly. It's my fault, and I apologize to you."

His warm palm rested on my back.

Comforting me stroke by stroke,

"Luna, let's leave those things in the past. For our future life, let's—"

His words cut off abruptly.

On the other end of the phone, his friend's voice was urgent,

"Levi, Celeste is back."