"You really want to know?" Third Young Master Jun spoke.

"Yes, I want to know," she insisted, her eyes fixed on him.

After a moment of silence, Third Young Master Jun’s deep, charismatic voice filled with coldness. "It wasn’t all a show, I was actually attracted to you, too. I just wanted to use you to harden my own determination."

"Harden?" She looked at him, not understanding.

"Yes, I wanted to see if I could spoil and adore you, be gentle to you, and enjoy the sweet moments of bliss, only to cast you aside cruelly afterwards." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

It wasn’t hard to abandon her when it was painful, but to do so at a time of happiness was a true test of will.

The real challenge was to completely extricate her from his heart, to never let her shake his resolve, to never let her become his weakness again, to truly become heartless and powerful.

"And as you can see, I succeeded. Even after such a passionate entanglement, I still don’t want you!"

His words, sharp as a knife edge, pierced Ye Lu’s heart instantly. She looked at him in disbelief, her chest tightened, feeling not just pity, but profound sorrow.

She was treated like a game and was now being used as a tool for him to test his heartlessness.

"So treating me kindly was just a means to harden your will. I was a plaything before, and now I’m a tool. I’m so versatile... Congrats, you have no heart at all."

She let out a sorrowful laugh, her tears streaming down freely.

Love was so bitter. She couldn’t bear it anymore.

"Third Young Master Jun, you’re going to regret everything you’ve done tonight."

Third Young Master Jun looked at her, "I, Third Young Master Jun, have never regretted anything."

"Good, you’d better not ever regret it because once you do, you’ll fall into a painful hell, suffering a humiliation and grief that are a hundred times greater than mine tonight". She raised her head, tears flowing freely, yet her spirit remained unbowed.

"How ridiculous of you to think I’d regret anything."

Bai Sijia was pleased this time, seeing Ye Lu so devastated filled her with satisfaction.

"He doesn’t want you at all, and yet you still throw yourself at him, thinking that if he slept with you, you could be Mistress. Now your dream is shattered, and you’re resorting to threats. You embarrass yourself to such an extent that it even makes me feel embarrassed for you."

Ye Lu glared at her bitterly.

"Why are you glaring at me? Isn’t it about time you left, or you want to cry here? Or, are you thinking of begging Jun, like a desperate woman?" Bai Sijia looked at her with utter disdain.

Ye Lu’s fingernails dug into her palm, drawing drops of blood.

Yes, why should she stay? The most painful fall of her life had just happened, and her heart was already dead.

Stumbling, she picked up her handbag and left.

Feiyu was downstairs and when he saw Ye Lu unsteadily making her way down, her face stained with tears, and eyes hollow, he felt a jolt in his heart.

He had never seen such desperate and lost eyes, even if he had always found Ye Lu annoying, at this moment he felt a pang of pity.

He stepped forward to support her.

But annoyed, Ye Lu quickly turned around, "Don’t touch me!"

"With you in this state, I should take you home." he knew to some extent what had transpired in the study.

"No need for your kindness. Anything related to Third Young Master Jun, I don’t want to ever see again. Even if my feet were broken, I would still crawl on my own."

Ye Lu stumbled out of the villa, in the cold night, she started descending the hill step by step.

Bai Sijia came out of the study room, went to the second-floor balcony and watched Ye Lu’s lonely figure on the quiet mountain road, a smirk formed on her lips as she picked up her phone.

"Sister Jiayin, want to take revenge? That woman is all alone right now!"

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