Su Ran was on the verge of colpse, but at this moment, she couldn't do anything. She could only wipe away her tears and send a message to He Ju, even calling him "brother He Ju" as she threatened. "He Ju, are you sure you want to part ways with me?"

  Su Ran waited for a long time, even until the car had returo the Su family's residence, but she still didn't receive a reply from He Ju.

  At this time, He Ju had fallen asleep the moment he finished replying to the message, without any burden on his mind.

  Su Ran's eyes were red as she stared at the s for a long time. Finally, she typed out a line slowly: "Brother He Ju, as long as you reply to me now, I won't pursue the days you've ignored me. we still get along like we used to?"

  Su Ran waited in pce for a long time, and the Su family's maidservants looked at each other. Why hadn't Miss Su e i? What was she waiting for out there?

  Feeling wronged, Su Ran seemed to have a natural tendency to burst into tears. Whenever she felt wronged, she couldn't help but cry.

  Su Ran put down her phone and was about to step into the house when she saw her mother's serious expression.

  Shen Yan was really strict with Su Ran: "e in!"

  Su Ran was startled. Usually, the party wouldn't end until the early hours of the m, so why had her mother e back so soon?

  Trembling with fear, Su Ran walked in. Shen Yan hadn't even ged out of her evening gown and was sitting there waiting for Su Ran to approach.

  Su Ran sat down cautiously beside Shen Yan, lowered her head, and called out softly, "Mom..."

  Shen Yan sighed. She had inteo lecture her daughter again, but she also khat Su Ran wouldn't listen to her. So she just asked, "If you like He Ju so much, are you willing to marry him?"

  In that instant, tless ses fshed through Su Ran's mind. There were images of He Ju dressing up as a to make her happy when they were young, ses of He Ju takio and from school in junih, and images of him showing up every time she had a nightmare, rain or shihere was also the memory of the time she mentioned wanting to eat crab buns from Wang Ji, and He Ju would get up early, ride his bike for several blocks, and buy them for her...

  These were all the memories that Su Ran had ignored for a long time. Now, as she recalled them, she still remembered clearly the time He Ju fell and injured his knee on the way to buy her crab buns.

  And she, although she didn't bme He Ju for nihe buns that m, only greeted him briefly. She didn't do anything else.

  She didn't even go to the hospital to see He Ju.

  Marry him? Would she be happy?

  But Su Raated and didn't speak.

  Shen Yan also breathed a sigh of relief. "Ran Ran, it seems that you don't need He Ju as much as you think."

  Su Ran instinctively tightened her grip on her phone. "No, Mom, I just haven't made up my mi..."

  Shen Yan said, "You're wrong."

  "What?" Su Ran looked up at Shen Yan.

  Shen Yan said, "If you really love someone, you 't help but want to marry them. If it's too te, you'll be afraid that this person will no longer belong to you, and you'll be eager to bel this person as your own. But Ran Ran..."

  "When I asked you just now, you hesitated, didn't you?"

  Su Ra ashamed and lowered her head.

  "You're afraid that being with He Ju will lower your quality of life, and you've been our little princess since you were young. No matter what, we've always given you the best. As the saying goes, it's easy to go frality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury tality. Ran Ran, I admit that pared to the vast majority of ordinary families, He Ju's family is not sidered difficult, but pared to our social css, he's just a poor boy."

  Su Ran suddenly felt despo. "But what if, in many years, He Ju make a name for himself?"

  Shen Yan shook her head. "It took three geions for the Su family to stand in the upper-middle css of City A. Ran Ran, what makes you think that He Ju alone surpass the efforts of three geions of your aors?"

  Su Ran couldn't argue.

  Shen Yan tinued, "Besides, He Ju hasn't replied to you in almost a month, right?"

  Su Ran's eyes welled up with tears again.

  "That means, you're not the girl he must marry. If that's the case, why do you o throw yourself at him?"

  Su Ra extremely heartbroken.

  She couldn't vince herself to marry He Ju, but she also couldn't bear to watch him fall in love with someone else.

  Seeing He Ju take Liu Jia home, she seemed calm on the surface, but her heart was truly in pain.

  She used to think that she would never lose He Ju, so she always felt fident. But now...

  Su Ran's panic had been amplified infinitely over the past month, and she couldn't calm down anymore. That's why she wao talk to Liu Jia about her feelings.

  Su Ran fell silent for a long time, and finally just covered her fad said, "I uand, Mom. Don't introduce me to any noble young men during this time. I want to be alone and quiet."

  After speaking, Su Ran picked up her bag and prepared to go upstairs.

  Shen Yan also stood up. "If you want to be alone and quiet, then don't go out during this time. Stay at home a month, go to the pany to learn how to mahe business with your father."

  Su Ran suddenly stopped iracks. She finally uood why Shen Yan had been waiting for her here so te.

  Su Ran turned ba disbelief. "Mom? Are y to fine me?"

  Shen Yan smiled. "This isn't fi, it's giving you a period of calm. Su Ran, there's been a lot of trouble outside retly, so you shouldn't get involved."

  Su Rahat this matter wasn't as simple as it seemed. "Mom, what do you mean by that?"Shen Yan finally darkened her expression: "The Qiu family, ihan a week's time, has seen a signifit drop in stock prices, shareholders are withdrawing their shares en masse, and the enterprises they partnered with are terminating tracts oer another. It's hard not to wonder if the Qiu family has offended some important figure?"

  Su Ran's heart skipped a beat. The Qiu family's power was on par with the Su family's. How could it be that ihan a week... "But... what does this have to do with He Ju? He's just a college student with no es. Even if he had a flict with Qiu Shaoze st time, He Ju definitely doesn't have the power to take a against him..."

  Su Ran was still worried that Qiu Shaoze might cause trouble for He Ju.

  Shen Yan frowned: "Of course He Ju wouldn't have that kind of power. Your dad is still looking into the specifics, but you, you 't go looking for He Ju anymore."

  Su Ran wao say more, but Shen Yan couldn't be bothered to tinue and simply turned a.

  Su Ran could only suppress the doubts in her heart, yet she couldn't help but wonder...

  Could it be reted to He Ju?

  Su Ran hoped it was reted to He Ju. That would prove that He Ju wasn't a worthless person, and she could reassess him. Maybe then she wouldn't be so resistant to being with him.

  With a heart full of doubts, Su Ran could only return to her room.

  In the past, it was always He Ju who suffered through sleepless nights. Now, as fate would have it, the person struggling to sleep was Su Ran.

  She wao find something to remember He Ju by, but she hadn't taken home a sihing from the many gifts He Ju had givehey had all been offered to the trash bins outside.

  As a result, she could only look at their past chat history for some fort.

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