The Master's Mask Unveiled Again

Chapter 452: Chapter 451 I Simply Can’t Bear to Hurt Her Chapter 452: Chapter 451 I Simply Can’t Bear to Hurt Her After tutoring Shao Yunxuan, Shen Yixin went to the Zitan Pavilion.

She didn’t go straight in to find Ye Jinwen but called him in advance.

Ye Jinwen was pacing back and forth in his own room, very agitated.

He always had a hard time facing Shen Yixin.

It just so happened that Lu Mian was coming out from inside and saw Shen Yixin at the door.

Facing this unfamiliar girl, she first raised an eyebrow and paused.

Shen Yixin also waited for a while and when she saw her come out, she was slightly startled and then put on a warm and proper smile, saying to Lu Mian, “Hello, did you just come out?

Can you go in and call Ye Jinwen for me?”

“My name is Shen Yixin, just mention this name and he will know.”

Murmuring these three words, a member of the Shen Family, she recalled what Mo Nie had mentioned on the plane.

Taking another look at Shen Yixin, she almost guessed it.

As she nodded, she casually sent a text message to Ya Ling, “I saw Ye Jinwen’s fiancée.”

Actually, she wasn’t very good at meddling in others’ romantic affairs.

But she didn’t want Ya Ling to carry that scar forever.

Ya Ling’s reply was unexpectedly quick to Lu Mian.

“It’s Shen Yixin, isn’t it?”

She did not expect Ya Ling to know about this and responded with a question, “You know her?”

Ya Ling, looking at her phone, her red lips slightly curved up with a smile.

How could she not know her?

“She was my best friend.”

This was probably a melodramatic love story from a soap opera, where the best friend stole the man, successfully getting engaged to the lead male while the poor female lead went away and suffered a lifetime of hurt.

However, if you look closely at Ya Ling’s emotions, you’d notice there wasn’t any hatred in her eyes.

Only regret.

She felt both guilt and regret towards Shen Yixin.

As for Lu Mian, after seeing Ya Ling’s reply, there was no more communication.

She didn’t know what had happened between them.

Ya Ling had never mentioned it, and she had not asked.

But after learning about the relationship between Shen Yixin, Ye Jinwen, and Ya Ling, she naturally took a step back and kept her distance from Shen Yixin.

No matter whether the other party was good or bad, from her standpoint, she and Ya Ling were the closest.

Upstairs, Ye Jinwen moved about frantically, unsure how to go downstairs to face Shen Yixin.

“Qimo, Qimo, please help me think of a way.

How can I send her away?

She’s right downstairs now.”

Xiao Qimo had long warned him that indecision only leads to chaos.

“Qimo, their family is pressuring for marriage.

If this goes on, I might really have to marry her!

In that case, how can I still have any dignity to go look for her?” Ye Jinwen’s feelings were always clear; he felt only guilt and debt towards Shen Yixin.

But because of his past mistakes, he had caused irreversible harm to Shen Yixin and could never get over it.

He had no right to refuse to marry her.

Shen Yixin’s life was ruined by him.

He especially remembered, standing at the operating table to perform surgery on Shen Yixin, how his hands trembled holding the scalpel, unable to make a cut.

But at that time, Shen Yixin was still urging him to leave, saying Xi Xi was in trouble, and he should go find her.

Ye Lingxi, the only lady of his heart from childhood, the girl he grew up with, had already left the deepest marks in his heart.

How could he choose?

On one side was the most beloved person in trouble, and on the other was Shen Yixin, who was hurt because of him.

He couldn’t even cry standing there at the operating table.

Perhaps Heaven was punishing his hesitation, punishing the mistakes he had once made.

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After the surgery, he received news that Xi Xi had died in a car accident, and Shen Yixin’s left hand also lost any chance of recovery.

The turn of fate was so cruel that under the matchmaking of the Ye Family and the Shen Family, he ultimately got engaged to Shen Yixin.

He thought that perhaps he would spend his lifetime atoning for his sins.

However, about half a year ago, he had by chance encountered a girl whose figure was nearly identical to Xi Xi’s.

It was then that he finally understood, no matter how much he lied to himself, he had never forgotten her for a moment.

He didn’t believe that she had truly died.

Maybe she was just punishing his hesitation, or perhaps she was angry that he had agreed to his mother’s wish to court Shen Yixin.

He just hoped that if she ever stopped being angry, she would return to his side.

It was also at that time that he gave up everything with the Ye Family and pursued the clues all the way to Wucheng, which led to Xiao Qimo’s matters in Wucheng afterward.

Ye Jinwen walked faster and faster, pulling out several strands of his own hair in agitation.

Xiao Qimo, looking at his disheveled state, was even more determined to reject arranged marriages, whether it came from his mother or his senior brother.

“Qimo, come downstairs with me.

Let’s have dinner together with Shen Yixin.

If you’re there, Shen Yixin definitely won’t talk as much.”

Xiao Qimo looked at him with disdain, “How much longer do you plan to drag this out?”

Ye Jinwen suddenly slumped onto the sofa, holding his head in agony, “Do you think I don’t want to refuse her?

But every time I see her left hand, I just can’t bear to hurt her.”

They were discussing this when Lu Mian knocked on the door from outside.

Ye Jinwen jumped, thinking that Shen Yixin had come looking for him and darted toward the bedroom in fright.

Xiao Qimo went over to open the door.

Hearing their conversation from the direction of the bedroom, Ye Jinwen finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked out leisurely.

Lu Mian glanced at Ye Jinwen with a somewhat indifferent expression, “Your fiancée is waiting for you downstairs, telling you to go down.”

She deliberately emphasized the words “your fiancée.”

For some reason, Ye Jinwen detected a hint of complexity in her words.

He nodded with difficulty, “Qimo, please, just go with me.”

“And Little Mianmian, you come with us too.

Please, I’m begging you.”

Xiao Qimo turned to look at Lu Mian, asking her, “Do you want to go?”

Lu Mian obviously didn’t want to go and decisively shook her head.

Xiao Qimo also shook his head, refusing Ye Jinwen’s request with an air of cold detachment.

Ye Jinwen was so anxious he was almost ready to kneel down to Xiao Qimo and Lu Mian.

In the end, feeling that Xiao Qimo was of no help, he turned his full attention to persuading Lu Mian.

However, Lu Mian did remember the good Ye Jinwen had done, as he had saved Ya Ling’s life before, and after all, she nodded in agreement.

So when Ye Jinwen came down the stairs with Lu Mian and Xiao Qimo, Shen Yixin was taken aback for a moment.

She greeted, “Mr.

Mo, and this lady is…?”

She hadn’t gotten the chance to ask about Lu Mian’s identity earlier and greeted her politely upon seeing her again.

Ye Jinwen took the initiative to introduce, “This is our friend, Lu Mian.”

Shen Yixin greeted them warmly, and the group of four went straight to a private room in the main building.