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He indeed fell silent and stopped calling her, merely staring at her without blinking, his burning gaze making her highly uncomfortable.

She wanted to turn her body away from him, but he wouldn’t let go, holding her tightly, forcing her to face him. They were so close that their noses were almost touching.

"Let go, how can I sleep with you like this?" Lin Xinlan glared at him dissatisfied.

Rong Shaoze cracked a slight smile, "You can sleep by closing your eyes."

"But I don’t want to sleep facing you!" her tone was cold, sparing him no courtesy.

Yet he answered as if it were only natural, "I want to sleep facing you. Go to sleep, I want to keep watching you."

Lin Xinlan listened with a shudder.

How can you sleep when someone is staring at you all night?

She endured her patience and said, "Facing you, I can’t fall asleep."

Rong Shaoze immediately became spirited, turned on the light, sat up, and pulled her to sit as well.

Lin Xinlan was wondering what on earth he was up to when he chuckled, "Since neither of us can sleep, let’s chat."

"..."

She really wanted to knock him unconscious with a punch.

Seeing her silent, he showed a pleading smile and said, "Xinlan, let’s go on a trip in a few days. Where do you want to go? No matter where it is, I’ll take you there. We can travel for months, walk around the whole world, have fun on the way, don’t you think that sounds good?"

He eagerly looked at her, waiting for her to nod. Lin Xinlan remained expressionless, her gaze very cold.

The man’s heart hung in suspense, growing increasingly anxious.

He didn’t know what was wrong with him; he just wanted to please her, even by childish means.

Indeed, his brain must be damaged. Every time he faced her, his IQ seemed to plunge.

"Xinlan, don’t you like traveling? Then what do you like?" he asked cautiously, his demeanor resembling that of a child worried about being hurt.

Lin Xinlan felt a wave of disgust inside, pushed his hand away, and said icily:

"Rong Shaoze, aren’t you disgusted with yourself? Stop playing the fool in front of me, don’t you know what I like the most? My favorite thing is for you to disappear from my sight, to never show up again!"

The man’s eyes darkened, his heart clogged with an unbearable heaviness he couldn’t relieve.

He grabbed her hand, interlocking their fingers tightly, "Xinlan, I’m sorry... What can I do to make you forgive me? Just say it, and I will do it... I truly realize I was wrong..."

It turns out admitting a mistake was truly difficult.

Not daring to speak up, not from a lack of remorse, but from the fear of rejection, of not being forgiven.

Lin Xinlan couldn’t help but burst into laughter, "Wrong? Rong Shaoze, can a simple ’I’m sorry,’ a ’I was wrong,’ bring back a life? Do you think your apology could make me forgive you? Impossible, I will never forgive you in my lifetime, not even in death!"

Rong Shaoze’s eyes ached with pain, as he said repressively, "The child is gone, but we can have another. Xinlan, how many children you want, I can give you. We will have our own children..."

"Enough!" Lin Xinlan sharply cut him off, her eyes cold, her tone even more bone-chillingly hurtful.

"I once had your child, but you killed him with your own hands. We will not have children again! I will not bear children for you again, not even in death! Rong Shaoze, stay away from me, the farther the better, I can’t stand even a second more of your presence!"