But it was this very person who made everyone who loved her leave her one by one, while he lived well, indulging in the best things in the world. How is that fair? The man seemed to notice her gaze and slowly raised his eyes. Seeing that the steak in front of her was untouched, he frowned slightly but said nothing. His next move, however, left Lin Yixun with a look of disbelief in her eyes. He pulled her plate closer, cut the steak into small pieces, and then pushed the plate back in front of Lin Yixun. Finally, he said in a deep voice, "Eat it. Otherwise, it won’t taste good when it gets cold." Lin Yixun stared at him blankly, trying to see some clue from his face. She even doubted if the person dining with her was indeed Leng Yixiu or if he mistook her for someone else. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ NovelHub(.)net "Leng Yixiu, I am not Cheng Ying." The man raised an eyebrow, "So?" "So, you don’t need to treat me the way you treat her. I’m not used to it, and I don’t like it." The man’s gaze flickered but his expression remained unchanged. His voice, however, turned colder, "Then how do you want me to treat you? How do you like me to treat you?" "Just treat me the way you used to." "How did I treat you before?" "Do I need to say it? Cold indifference at best, outright disdain at worst." "What if I said I wanted to treat you well in the future?" Upon hearing this, Lin Yixun laughed as if she had heard a joke. It took a while for her to stop laughing, and she mocked, "Leng Yixiu, do you not find your words absurd?" The man’s face darkened, his thin lips pressed tightly together. He stared at her without a word, clearly unhappy with her response. If Lin Yixun had a self-preservation instinct, she should have stopped while she was ahead, avoiding provocation. But she stepped right onto the landmine. "Leng Yixiu, if someone really wanted to be good to another person, would they destroy their family? Would they press them step by step? Would they burden them with the label of a homewrecker? No, they wouldn’t! I don’t know what you meant by those words, but I will never believe it. Being good to someone isn’t . You can’t even give me the basic respect and freedom, so how dare you say such things to me?" Seeing Leng Yixiu’s complicated expression, Lin Yixun smiled, "Lin Yixun, since when did you learn to say such hypocritical things? Actually, you should save these words for Cheng Ying. I neither need nor want them!" The man gazed at Lin Yixun for a long time before his thin lips curled up slightly, and he coldly said, "I was just saying ’if.’ You’re overthinking it. If you take it too seriously, it won’t be fun anymore." "That’s good, that’s just fine." It turned out she was overthinking it, Lin Yixun mocked herself. Indeed, in this world, besides Cheng Ying, how could Leng Yixiu truly care for any other woman, let alone treat them wholeheartedly. As for her, Lin Yixun, it was even more impossible. She would never forget how much Leng Yixiu loathed her. The man cast a cold glance at the now cold steak, stood up, and said coldly, "If you don’t want to eat it, then don’t." Without waiting for Lin Yixun’s response, he strode out. As he reached the door, a waiter quickly approached and whispered, "Mr. Leng, the fireworks are ready." "Cancel it! Cancel everything!" With that, he stormed off, leaving the waiter dumbfounded, unable to make sense of it. "Why cancel all of a sudden? It took so long to prepare."