She is brighter than the stars

Cheng Nianxiang never thought that he would get such an answer.

Li Shubai didn't misunderstand her, nor did he hate her because of what happened before.

He just knew that, while still liking her, he chose not to be with her anymore.

Suddenly Cheng Nian felt something stabbing and scratching in her heart.

An indescribable sense of powerlessness pressed towards her like a toppled mountain, making her a little out of breath.

If there is a misunderstanding, she can explain it.She can do her best to make up for the mistakes she made before.She can change bad and bad habits.

She had 3000 roads to walk towards him, but the other party's understatement made more than [-] roads disappear in ashes.

Even if there is only one step between them.

Li Shubai looked at Cheng Nian who was stunned like a piece of wood.

"Are you satisfied with this answer?"

Cheng Nian looked at Li Shubai, whose eyes were bloodshot and saddened, and suddenly couldn't open his mouth to defend himself.

She lowered her head in a daze, and said something in a low voice.

"I see."

Li Shubai took a deep look at Cheng Nian, then slowly let go of her arm and walked away without looking back.

Seeing Li Shubai leave, Mi Le hurriedly went to the stairwell to find Cheng Nian.

"How? What did you say?"

Cheng Nian came back to his senses and looked at Mi Le with a slightly confused look, as if it took him a while to realize who the person in front of him was.

Her eyes were terribly red, and her voice was hoarse like another person, "Li Shubai doesn't want me anymore."

Mi Le was filled with self-blame for a moment.

She took Cheng Nian's hand and put it on her shoulder, then hugged her gently, "How could this be, he obviously still loves you."

Cheng Nian wanted to cry, but there were too many emotions accumulated in his chest, so he couldn't shed a single tear.

Mi Le was so distressed that he kept saying sorry, even crying himself.

Cheng Nian didn't blame Mi Le, after all, it was her own decision.

Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, and hurriedly said to Mi Le.

"I'm going to a place, you help me take care of Yuan Chang."

Mi Le didn't even ask where she was going, and she disappeared at the stairs.

After more than three hours, Cheng Nian looked at the 900-step stone staircase in front of him, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Today's temple looks more depressed than the previous two times, and there is not even a ticket office.

Seeing that Cheng Nian was about to go up the mountain, the little novice who was guarding the gate at the foot of the mountain took out a red rope from his pocket and gave it to her.

Cheng Nian wrapped it around his wrist, and started to walk up step by step.

At the end of July, it was unbearably hot.

It was just past twelve o'clock at this time, and the transparent sunlight seemed to have substance, stabbing people like dense silver needles.

There is not even a water vendor on the road, let alone any other things.

Cheng Nian climbed more than 500 levels without stopping, and suddenly felt very sad.

In the past, there were always people carrying her on this road, but now that she walks alone, she knows how uncomfortable it is.

After walking another two steps, Cheng Nian squatted on the stone steps, all the previous emotions burst out at once.

In the deserted mountains and fields, only her cries could be heard for a while.

After crying for a while, Cheng Nian finally felt better.

She wiped away her tears and continued to climb.

At the end of the stone ladder, the century-old ancient locust tree is still standing there quietly.

Under the leadership of the little novice, Cheng Nian took incense and knelt in front of the Buddha statue, with mixed feelings in his heart, and felt empty when he thought about it carefully.

In the faint sandalwood, the conversation with Li Shubai once surfaced in Cheng Nian's mind.

"What did you wish for?"

"I hope you are safe and happy, with the person you really like."

"Even if this person is not you?"

"Yes, even if it's not me."

Thinking of this, Cheng Nian's nose got sour, and his chaotic mood finally calmed down a bit.

She raised the incense over her head and was about to bow down, silently thinking about her wish.

Before falling to the ground, an old man's voice sounded.

"If you can't let go, it's useless to worship any Buddha."

Cheng Nian followed the prestige and saw an old monk coming out from behind the Buddha statue.

Looking at the abbot now, Cheng Nian has completely lost the tension he felt before.

She kept her kneeling posture, and responded with a heavy nasal voice: "If you can put it down, you won't come to worship Buddha."

The abbot walked up to Cheng Nian and stood still, pursed his lips and said with a smile, "Since it makes sense, why bother to come?"

After Cheng Nian finished his salute, he got up and put the incense into the incense burner in front of the Buddha, "I have an attachment in my heart, but I can't get what I want."

"What if your obsession is just to make others suffer?"

The abbot's voice was as thick as a bell, and it was deafening in the empty hall.

Cheng Nian froze for a moment, as if struck by lightning.

The abbot stopped talking, put his palms together, turned around and left.

Cheng Nian stood in front of the Buddha for a long time, and it was the little novice who reminded her that if she didn't go down the mountain, it would be dark, so she left the temple.

On the way down the mountain, the abbot's words rolled back and forth in Cheng Nian's mind.

For a moment, she felt that she understood, and then she became confused again. Repeatedly, she was more troubled than before going up the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, a black car has been waiting for a long time.

Seeing Cheng Nian's figure, the car slowly drove to her side.

The car window fell, revealing Chu Tianyu's shrewd face that was no different from what he remembered, and what he said was the same as when the two met for the first time.

"Miss Cheng, I want to talk to you."

Cheng Nian was very tired after walking a lot, so he opened the car door and got in.

Chu Tianyu didn't expect Cheng Nian to cooperate so much, he signaled the driver to drive,
Cheng Nian leaned against the back of the chair and said angrily, "How did you find this place?"

Chu Tianyu adjusted his glasses, "This time period is more sensitive, I don't want the Chu family to know that they have looked for you."

Cheng Nian was taken aback for a moment, without carefully thinking about the deep meaning of this sentence, he said bluntly, "Didn't you come to persuade me to leave Li Shubai at the behest of Chu Xingzhi?"

Chu Tianyu glanced at Cheng Nian and replied truthfully.

"I don't think it's necessary. What Li Shubai told my father was that you will get divorced in three months. The Chu family will give you a sum of compensation at that time, and you can also understand it as a hush money."

Cheng Nian felt another stabbing pain in his heart.

That's right.

It was Li Shubai who tried his best to fight against the Chu family, so they couldn't accept her.Now that even he has given up on himself, the Chu family still cares what she does.

She smiled self-deprecatingly, "So you all have plans?"

Chu Tianyu said without hesitation: "Yes. After you divorce, you will no longer be included in Li Shubai's life history. When he appeared in front of everyone, he was my father's long-lost son. He graduated from a prestigious foreign school. unmarried."

"It's as if I've never appeared before?" Cheng Nian asked softly.

"Yes."

Cheng Nian really wanted to cry.

If she had a choice, she really hoped that she had never appeared in Li Shubai's life, instead of being erased at will like this.

Holding her last hope, she asked, "Does Li Shubai allow you to do this?"

Chu Tianyu glanced at Cheng Nian, as if hesitating for something, before speaking in a low voice after a while.

"That's what he proposed."