Chapter 91 Hopeless Love (4)
"Why? Are these dishes not to your taste?"
Yin Yin asked, but Zhou Cheng did not answer. Instead, he put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hands.
"Then wait a moment, I'll go change a few more."
As she spoke, Yin Yin began to clean up the dishes in front of her. Just as she was about to take them away, her hand was grabbed...
"Tell me, why are you here?"
Zhou Cheng finally couldn't bear it anymore. He wanted to know why a person who hurt him so deeply would appear again. His appearance seemed like a luxury to him.
"Um."
Yin Yin nodded to indicate that she was willing to answer, let go of the tray, pulled her hand back from Zhou Cheng's hand, and took a few steps back. She didn't dare to look Zhou Cheng in the face, because she had just seen him, and she could no longer find that familiar look on Zhou Cheng's face, but she could still sense the longing in his eyes. That longing only made Yin Yin feel more guilty, so she couldn't look directly at him, couldn't look directly at those eyes that were still looking at her with such burning heat that she couldn't breathe after being deeply hurt by her.
"I'm here to see you."
Yin Yin spoke bluntly, which made Zhou Cheng a little stunned. He even thought he had heard it wrong.
"Dad's affairs have been settled, so I came here specially to ask for your resignation. After all, I am still a princess, so I should give you a notice before leaving. I will leave here with mother and leave the royal city."
Zhou Cheng listened to Yin Yin's words in a daze, as if there was no room for him to intervene at all.
"Also, I'm sorry that I didn't come to greet you when I came back."
Zhou Cheng could understand, but Yin Yin didn't know that on the day she came back, when she fell asleep due to excessive grief, Zhou Cheng went to see her and stayed by her side for a very long time before leaving.
Yinyin observed Zhou Cheng's expression as she spoke, but she could not see a trace of color on his cold face, as if he had no emotions at all. He was also noticeably thinner and looked extremely haggard. Was this really the Zhou Cheng she knew? From the moment she stepped into the Imperial Study, Yinyin repeatedly asked herself this question in her heart.
"... I heard that the queen...passed away?"
Yin Yin looked at Zhou Cheng's expressionless face carefully and asked, thinking that she could find a hint of fluctuation in Zhou Cheng's expression or eyes. Unfortunately, her expectations were completely dashed. Zhou Cheng still said nothing, and there was no change in his cold expression. Only his eyes were still looking at her. Even after saying this, Zhou Cheng was unmoved. Yin Yin had already believed Han Yu's words. It was as if Zhou Cheng had completely lost his emotions and was not moved by anything?
She should think that Han Yu's words were right, but why couldn't she look directly at the emotion in Zhou Cheng's eyes when she thought so? It was too passionate. Even though she hurt him so deeply, why did Yin Yin feel that there was no change at all? Was the loss of feelings just an illusion? Did she see wrongly that Zhou Cheng didn't have that passionate feeling for her?
Just when Yinyin was waiting for an answer and didn't know how to start, Zhou Cheng, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke...
"Is that all you came here to say?"
After hearing Zhou Cheng's words, Yin Yin did not answer. First, she didn't know how to answer, perhaps she felt a little guilty; second, Zhou Cheng's cold words made her heart tremble and she couldn't say anything.
Zhou Cheng saw everything Yin Yin said and did , her deliberate avoidance and trembling. Even Zhou Cheng himself didn't know why he saw it so clearly. If possible, he would rather not see anything, so that he would not continue to linger, and his heart would not hurt so much. Maybe he could really give up like this. But he still saw it, so clearly, so clearly that he thought it was just an illusion.
"Is it ridiculous? After being completely rejected by you, she died. Is this retribution from God?"
Yin Yin saw it. She saw the completely smile without any smile on Zhou Cheng's lips. His cold face made people feel that he was not talking about himself. He was obviously in so much pain that he couldn't suppress it, but he still suppressed it and talked about his pain in a self-deprecating way.
"You did nothing wrong, so God won't punish you."
Yin Yin looked away uncomfortably and looked down at her clenched hands. She knew the meaning of Zhou Cheng's words. Because she knew it, she could understand and think that Zhou Cheng was not wrong. And this was the fact. Zhou Cheng did nothing wrong.
"How do you know that God won't punish me? Didn't I hurt you deeply before? So this is retribution."
What Zhou Cheng said was the truth, but to Yin Yin it sounded like the cry of pain from deep in her soul. Love cannot be forced. No matter how much she loved Zhou Cheng in the past, and no matter how cruelly Zhou Cheng rejected her, that was all in the past. So even though Zhou Cheng fell in love with her now, Yin Yin knew that it was impossible. If missed, it was really missed. What's more, she had her own reasons for not accepting it, so where was the betrayal and punishment?
"So, do you still love me now?"
Yin Yin's sudden words stunned Zhou Cheng, and he finally saw a shaken look on his expressionless face. Yes, Zhou Cheng was shaken, and his cold face could not hide it. Yin Yin's words were too unexpected for him. He simply could not believe that the person in front of him was Yin Yin. However, for Zhou Cheng now, this question is the simplest and most difficult to answer. Since he was deeply hurt by Yin Yin, he has considered it, but before he found the answer, he deliberately closed this relationship until Yin Yin appeared again today, until Yin Yin personally lifted the seal!
