CHAPTER 252: CHAPTER 252: BREAKING UP LOVERS

But why?

Why should she, Miss Bian of the Bian Family, be scorned to such an extent?

Bian Shu made a decision, she was going to find Ji Anshen.

But this time, the rain was pouring down in Xiangjiang.

She walked through the worn down residential building, knocking on each door until she finally found Ji Anshen in a room at a corner.

The latter opened the door, looking haggard, his eyes flashing with surprise upon seeing her.

"Miss Bian...."

He had become even more distant, now addressing her as ’Miss Bian’.

Bian Shu let out a cold laugh and pushed Ji Anshen forcefully, causing him to stagger. In that moment, she entered his room.

The room was small, with a window so insignificant it could almost be ignored. Strips of light filtered through, filling the room which contained only a bed and a wardrobe, leaving hardly any spare space.

But Ji Anshen had kept the room very clean, with a faint aroma in the air, similar to the scent on him.

Bian Shu had a moment of dizziness, while Ji Anshen approached her nervously, his expression uneasy, "Miss Bian, this is my room, and after all, you are a girl, you shouldn’t just enter..."

"Ji Anshen, you’re no longer my teacher, what right do you have to tell me what to do?" Bian Shu interrupted him, tilting her face up to look at the man who appeared tense, and chuckled lightly, "Am I that frightening? Why do you look at me with such fear?"

"I’m not afraid..."

"Then what is it?" Bian Shu stared unwaveringly at Ji Anshen, "Why did you resign? Was it not because you didn’t want to see me? Ji Anshen, I know you really needed this job! Yet you resigned!"

"I resigned because I am about to graduate from university," Ji Anshen replied, "Miss Bian, I have a new life ahead of me, I won’t always be a private tutor."

"Of course, of course I don’t deserve you as my teacher, you have your ambitions, your aspirations, I surely don’t deserve it. In your eyes, I’m just an ignorant child!" Her voice trembled towards the end.

Ji Anshen looked at Bian Shu with profound helplessness in his eyes, thinking something, he just silently watched her for a long time, and then sighed softly, his voice hoarse, "Bian Shu, it is I who am not worthy. You’re still young, but I am not a child. You don’t know how ordinary I am, in your future life, you will meet many better than me, you’re naive, and I cannot feign ignorance."

Tears rolled down from Bian Shu’s eyes as she choked up looking at Ji Anshen, and in this moment, she understood his resolution.

It was absolutely impossible for him to fall in love with her.

He was so clear-headed.

For the first time, Bian Shu hated that she was Miss Bian of the Bian Family, this identity bound her, destroying all possibilities between her and Ji Anshen.

The tears in her eyes became more turbulent as she choked out, "Can’t we really... really be together?"

Ji Anshen still looked at her gently, as he did when they first met, but the words that came out were so cruel, he said, "It’s impossible, Bian Shu, we will not be together."

The story should have stopped right here.

It was merely an uneventful first love, after all, and Bian Shu, though stubborn, was not one to bash her own head until it bled.

Just a few days later, Bian Shu saw Ji Anshen again at a casual banquet.

He stood by the side of a wealthy young lady, accompanying her around the banquet hall, looking after her with great care.

Bian Shu hated deception and wouldn’t allow anyone to treat her like a fool.

From afar, she watched Ji Anshen enjoying a pleasant conversation with that young lady, and finally, a resolute idea began to brew into a storm in her mind.

Bian Shu kidnapped Ji Anshen.

It was a drizzly night several days later, in a warehouse in the suburbs, Bian Shu looked at Ji Anshen, who was curled up on the ground, with a complex expression.

His clothes were stained with mud and sand, his face filthy. He lay on the ground, looking at her with a face full of bewilderment.

Bian Shu stood inside the simple warehouse, looking at Ji Anshen’s expression, and after a long time, she seemed to let out a deep sigh.

She was filled with emotions as she said: "Teacher Ji, it’s one thing for you not to like me, but why be with someone else?"

"Bian Shu... let me go first, you don’t know what you’re doing..." Ji Anshen looked at Bian Shu nervously, trying to persuade her: "If you let me go now, I can pretend nothing happened..."

"How can nothing have happened! I’ve already kidnapped you! Do you want to leave to find someone to rescue you? That young lady?" Seeing a flash of panic on Ji Anshen’s face, Bian Shu’s heart ached even more, she slowly squatted down, and said softly: "She is nothing but an adopted daughter! The Jiang Family isn’t considered a major clan in Xiangjiang, why would you choose her over me!"

"Bian Shu, Jiang Yao knows nothing, when I was with her, I didn’t know she was the Miss of the Jiang Family..."

"So what you mean to say is, the two of you are truly in love? And I am the criminal who’s trying to break you apart?" Bian Shu looked at Ji Anshen with a face full of rage, her eyes reddening, "Ji Anshen, how dare you treat me with such contempt!"

Ji Anshen lay on the ground, his scholarly and handsome face exhausted.

He was silent, as his thoughts were unknown.

Bian Shu felt that this silence was driving her mad.

Her eyes red, she shook Ji Anshen’s shoulders fiercely, her voice shrill: "Why won’t you talk! Speak up! Do you love her? Being with her, aren’t you worried about the disparity in your social statuses!"

Ji Anshen finally opened his eyes to look at her, but in his eyes, there was a despairing calmness, he said: "Jiang Yao doesn’t have a good life in the Jiang Family, she isn’t valued, Bian Shu, she is different from you, you are of noble birth, but she has a hard life. I will take Jiang Yao away from Xiangjiang, to a place where no one knows us, and I will take care of her..."

This was the first time Bian Shu realized that she was the one not chosen.

All her life, she got everything she wanted.

But now, she couldn’t make Ji Anshen fall in love with her.

"So... you kidnapped him?" Bian Yue’s voice rang out, breaking the dead silence, she shook her head, her tone helpless: "Sister, you’re too foolish, how could you be so foolish?"

"I don’t need you to teach me! If it weren’t for the Li Family, I would have been with An Shen for life already! It’s your father, and Li Tingmo, they meddle too much, they are coming to look for me!" Bian Shu’s voice was broken, her face full of agony, she said: "My happiness, it’s all ruined by you!"

"Ji Anshen doesn’t love you, he doesn’t want to be with you at all..."

"You’re talking nonsense!" Bian Shu angrily interrupted Bian Yue, she laughed in a delusional manner, whispering softly: "How could he not love me? After all this time he has been with me, of course he loves me."

Her emotions were on the verge of breaking down, a doctor came in and administered a sedative to her.