The Whole Internet is Shipping Me with My Ex-Boyfriend-Chapter 262: For Her, I Was Born

She wasn’t the type to pry into people’s affairs. Noticing that Chi Yu was wearing slippers and his clothes were soft and casual, not the black outfit from last night, it seemed he had never left home at all.

Guess she was wrong.

So why did he ignore the landlady when she knocked?

It was quite a coincidence, though, that right after the landlady left, he came downstairs, making it seem like he was intentionally avoiding her. Yao Tao thought about this but didn’t delve deeper.

Yao Tao coughed lightly and tentatively asked him, "You haven’t gone out yet today, have you?"

He didn’t respond to her.

Yao Tao continued, "Did you sleep too deeply this morning and not hear the knocking? Our landlady knocked on your door earlier, but there was no response, so she thought you had gone out."

As she spoke, Yao Tao watched for his reaction.

But there was nothing. He was handsome indeed, but too aloof.

The landlady was already an ice beauty, so there wouldn’t be any sparks if these two icy people met. However, Yao Tao would rather introduce this man to the landlady than see the sparks between that capitalist and the landlady.

Since there wasn’t much to do at the moment, Yao Tao fed the two tabby cats some cat food, petted them, and then went to fetch the vegetables for lunch and dinner to prep them.

She pulled a small stool over to the lounge chair and sat down.

The sky dimmed a bit more.

It seemed the rain that the weather forecast had predicted was indeed coming, maybe not too late, probably by two or three at the latest. It might even start raining in the next hour or so.

Yao Tao was prepping cauliflower and, not caring whether he responded or not, casually asked, "What do you do for a living?"

"You look like a celebrity, but I searched online and couldn’t find anyone like you. Honestly, your looks are quite suited for being a star; God surely blessed you with this appearance."

"Your physique is great too; even if not a celebrity, you could be a model. People like you are truly blessed by heaven; you’d never starve in any line of work with looks like that."

"You seem quite young, around twenty-three, right?"

Not a single response, as if he had withdrawn into his own world, shutting out all external sounds.

For some reason, Yao Tao sensed he was very lonely.

If not seriously ill,

then abandoned. Coming to a desolate place to lick his wounds alone.

Besides loneliness, there was melancholy, sigh, it was heart-wrenching to see.

"Hey, young man, have you been in a relationship?" Knowing he wouldn’t respond, Yao Tao planned to play matchmaker right after asking this question.

But unexpectedly, Chi Yu responded to this one.

His clear, deep eyes looked over, as if carrying sadness and loneliness, and he said, "I have."

Yao Tao: "..."

Wow, the matchmaking was killed in the cradle before it even started.

Yao Tao wasn’t going to ask further; it would be pointless. She wasn’t someone who could break up a relationship just to forcefully match people, so she focused on her vegetable prep.

"I was going to propose to her." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Suddenly a sentence came out, and Yao Tao abruptly looked up at the speaker, who was gazing at the gently flowing water of the faux mountain landscape, his expression full of melancholy.

This time, Yao Tao saw it clearly, this young man really had a story.

She slowly prepped the vegetables in her hands and asked, "So did you propose?"

He shook his head, his voice soft, "Just a little bit more... and she would have been mine forever."

"Then the proposal failed, and situations vary: maybe you had compelling reasons you couldn’t help, or maybe it was infidelity on either side, something that can’t be easily forgiven. Anyway, many things are understandable; it just depends on the cause," Yao Tao said with a smile.

But then she heard a sentence she didn’t quite understand—

He said, "I was born for her."

His life was destined to defy fate; he was born for her but would eventually vanish. This world had never belonged to him, nor did she.

He had forcibly claimed a place in this world, forcibly stayed with her.

Anyway, Yao Tao was confused: "I’m not that educated; I don’t really get what you’re saying."

The only thing she could gather was that he really liked that girl.

Though matchmaking was now out of the question, she had already told the landlady to invite him to dinner tonight and casually mentioned, "Are you in a hurry to leave tonight? If not, stay for dinner at the farmstay. It’s New Year’s Day, and there’ll be plenty of food in the evening. No pressure, just based on your schedule."