My Best Friend Slept with My Boyfriend - Chapter 16

Early the next morning, Zhou Xuan drove me to the jewelry store.

The shop assistant brought out a huge diamond ring and handed it to me.

Zhou Xuan held my hand, looking at me intently: “Jiangjiang, let’s get married.”

The shop assistant smiled and said:

“Miss, your boyfriend is really thoughtful. This is the most expensive diamond ring in our store, and the design is one of a kind.”

One of a kind.

How ridiculous.

The lights were bright, and the weather was clear and pleasant.

Everything before me was just like what I had fantasized countless times in the past.

But when I looked at that ring, I couldn’t help thinking of that afternoon.

After Lin Xingyue left, he dragged me to the jewelry store with a cold face, mocking me with that icy sarcasm.

At that time, the curious and sympathetic gazes of the people around us.

Like countless sharp arrows, piercing my heart.

That familiar pain surged in my stomach again. I bent over, curling myself into a ball.

Zhou Xuan’s expression changed almost instantly. He leaned over to support me, but I viciously pushed him away.

My fingernails scratched across his cheek, leaving a long trail of blood.

My fingers pressed white against the glass countertop as I straightened up, my tone sharp:

“Get married? I think you just regret putting half the company’s shares in my name before. Now that you see I don’t have long to live, you want to take it back legally, don’t you!”

Zhou Xuan looked at me with heartbreak.

For a moment, I almost saw tears in his eyes.

His voice trembled as he said, “Jiangjiang, don’t think of me like this.”

I panted, my chest heaving, glaring at him.

“What makes you think, after you’ve lied to me so many times, that I would ever trust you again? Even when I was having surgery that day, you were in Lin Xingyue’s bed…”

My voice choked at that point.

I couldn’t go on.

Twenty-two years can’t be erased in an instant.

Even if I had made up my mind, when I thought of it, the pain still felt like my flesh and bones were being carved out.

Zhou Xuan closed his eyes: “…I’ll prove it to you.”

The nurse on rounds told me that Zhou Xuan didn’t sleep for a single night.

He sat in the smoking area at the corner of the corridor, finishing a whole pack of cigarettes.

The next day, he contacted a lawyer to draft an agreement.

It stated that if anything happened to him, all his assets would go to me.

Zhou Xuan showed me the agreement, pressing his face affectionately against mine: “Jiangjiang, I really regret it.”

“From the very beginning, I built this company for our future together.”

“I don’t even know how, as the company grew, I lost sight of my original intention…”

“But I really love you.”

His hot breath was both familiar and strange, brushing against my cheek like that.

I forced myself to swallow my disgust, my eyes scanning the clauses on the contract.

After confirming it was legal and valid, I finally felt a little relieved.

“Zhou Xuan.”

I called him softly, “Can we really go back to the way things were?”

His arm tightened suddenly around my waist: “We can.”

“I’ve already made things clear with Lin Xingyue. I won’t contact her again. She won’t appear at the company anymore, and she won’t show up in front of you again.”

It still wasn’t enough.

I closed my eyes and said nothing more.