Shin exclaimed. “Huian, wait!”
But he suddenly stopped in his steps.
Wait…why was I going after her?
He knitted his brows his silence.
Why did I feel the need to explain it to Huian? Strange…
Mu Shuchun quickly held his arm. “Shin, where are you going?”
She panicked a bit when he wanted to follow Huian. She knew she was no match her, and she felt Shin slipping past like how sand slides away from between the fingers.
Shin shook his arm off. “What is it to you! Mu Shuchun. We are already over. If you think I would forget the past and get back with you, then you are just wasting your time. Get out!”
Mu Shuchun’s shoulders trembled with his harsh voice.
There was a time when he looked at her so lovingly when they had talked about their future together, but now there was not even an ounce of warmth in his gaze.
“Shin, trust me…I didn’t hate our baby. I just wasn’t ready for it.”
Shin sneered. “So you mean that now you are ready to take that step? But unfortunately, I am not ready this time. I don’t even want to look at your face. It is useless talking to you-“
Shin and Mu Shuchun were surprised when Huian returned.
Huian slowly walked up to him and wrapped her hands around his neck.
*Badump*
Shin felt his heart skip a beat with that closeness.
Mu Shuchun froze. Their intimate position pricked her heart like sharp thorns.
Huian lowered her face as if she looked guilty. “I am sorry, dear. I…I know you told me about your past, but it just took me by surprise to see this woman again here. Don’t misunderstand me, okay? I am not mad at you.”
Huian squinted her gaze at Mu Shuchun. She stiffened under her gaze. “I think your ambassador shoot wasn’t enough to make you understand who you are dealing with here.”
Mu Shuchun clenched her dress, recalling that worst day of her life when she felt disappointed by herself.
Shin blinked his eyes.
Which shoot? When did they meet again?
“Look, woman. You are just an ex-girlfriend of my Shin. You might have been pregnant once with his child, but that means nothing now. You two have broken up, so I am warning you not to bother my boyfriend again. Now, don’t try to gain sympathy and give your reasons. It’s too late for that. You were his past, and that is over now.”
Mu Shuchun was a bit afraid of Huian because she was Xiang Huian, and she had the power to crush her personally and professionally. Nevertheless, she tried to fight.
“Are you insecure that Shin might choose me again?”
Shin glared at her.
What nonsense!
Huian laughed. “Choose you? Do you think I, Xiang Huian, have to feel insecure about you? You made the stupidest decision of your life when you were given a choice. And now you are living the consequences of it. I am not warning you because I feel insecure but because I want to live a peaceful life with Shin and also to save you from the hurt because Shin’s decision will not change.”
Mu Shuchun gritted her teeth. “I was pregnant with his child. Doesn’t that affect you at all? Had I given birth, do you think you had the chance to be with Shin now?”
Shin spat out in anger. “You are crossing your line Mu Shuchun.”
“It’s okay, dear.” Huian smiled at him, “I feel pitiful for her trying to fight me for you.”
She looked at Mu Shuchun. “What happened before I met Shin was not in my control. So I don’t feel jealous of your two days long pregnancy,” she chuckled. “And ‘had you given birth’ part, well…you already made that choice and with it, your future too. No point in thinking about if the child had been alive, and I wouldn’t be with Shin.”
She narrowed her eyes. “We should embrace the choices we make and the consequences born out of it. If you keep thinking about ‘What if I had done that…’ then Mu Shuchun, you are just a coward who is ashamed of the decision you made and want to escape from it, isn’t it? In fact…I can see in your eyes how guilty you feel for killing that child and how you realized that Shin was right.”
Every word harshly stabbed Mu Shuchun as Huian ruthlessly exposed her true feelings.
“But you just don’t want to admit it. Still. Not then and not even now.”
Shin forgot that Mu Shuchun was even standing in front of him. He was simply boring his gaze on Huian.
Every word that Huian said felt as if…she was talking about herself. And she was. She had gone through the path of making bad choices, and even it’s consequences.
Her gaze felt distant, with a strange sense of pain and sorrow in it.
As if in a trance, Shin raised his hand and touched the corner of her eye with his thumb. He felt wet.
I was right.
A small tear rubbed off on his thumb, and he realized she was holding back the urge to cry.
Huian was startled, and she looked at him in shock.
Mu Shuchun froze and was dumbstruck at his action.
Shin…
How he looked at Huian threatened her for real.
There were emotions in them. There were feelings rippling in his orbs for her. She could feel it.
Mu Shuchun thought they might be acting like a couple to fool her, but suddenly, she wasn’t so sure anymore.
“Leave Mu Shuchun.” Shin quietly but firmly said. His tone left no room to talk anymore.
“S-Shin listen-“
“Leave, or I will throw you out.”
Mu Shuchun trembled. His voice was cold and unfeeling that challenged her not to test his patience.
I…I am leaving, for now, Shin. But I won’t give up on you.
I have to do something before you really start to…
Her gaze shifted on Huian. She bit her lip hard and ran away.
Silence.
Huian quickly looked away. She didn’t want to cry in front of him. Somewhere, she saw her own reflection in Mu Shuchun and recalled the stupid decisions she took that made everything messed up, and everybody hate her.
Huian had promised herself not to cry about the past anymore, but now she felt as if she would burst out in tears.
“I-I just came back because I realized that I was supposed to act as your girlfriend or she could have got suspicious. I should leave now.”
Huian took a step back, but Shin suddenly pulled her back and caught in his embrace.
