CHAPTER 374: CHAPTER 229: HE "TORTURES" HER TO TELL THE TRUTH! _2

Bitter tears, aggrieved tears, sad tears, all the tears she bore alone.

"I know, it’s my fault I didn’t protect you..." Gu Qingchen spoke softly, "Bei Ran, but please, don’t go..."

Did she really want to leave?

She didn’t want to!

How could she bear to leave him?

How could she bear to leave the child?

But how could she bear to let the child be all alone without anyone by their side?

Gu Qingchen watched her cry, his heart aching in waves, each of her tears like sparkling, transparent pearls, invaluable in his eyes.

He didn’t want her to leave in tears.

"Darling, don’t go..." His voice was also heavy, his thin lips lingering on her eyelids.

Her tears were silent.

A silent sorrow already clutched at his heart.

How could he let her suffer even a little bit more damage?

As Bei Ran listened to his gentle whispers, for a moment, she genuinely did not want to leave. How she wished to share sunrises and sunsets with him, to see the flowers bloom and wither together, to watch their children grow up every moment of every day!

Except, she couldn’t!

"No..." She lightly shook her head.

Deep love, yet fate is shallow.

If this had been the outcome from the start, if her affection ended before it even began, she wouldn’t be so sorrowful.

Gu Qingchen feared hearing such words from her. He bowed his head, intending to kiss her again when...

Tang Baijin and Zhuo Yufeng had already reached the train station. They rushed over and from afar saw Bei Ran crying in Gu Qingchen’s arms!

Then, the two men approached from either side. Tang Baijin pulled Bei Ran away while Zhuo Yufeng threw a punch at Gu Qingchen’s chest.

Gu Qingchen did not retaliate, Zhuo Yufeng raised his fist again.

Bei Ran cried out anxiously, "Zhuo Yufeng, stop it!"

Zhuo Yufeng’s fist had already swept across Gu Qingchen’s cheek. He looked at the tearful Bei Ran: "He left you without a trace of news, yet you still speak for him!"

Bei Ran rebuked sternly, "That’s between him and me, don’t get involved!"

"You..." Zhuo Yufeng, unwilling, had always seen her as his closest sister. How could he stand seeing her hurt? How could he bear seeing her in tears?

Thus, Zhuo Yufeng intended to continue hitting Gu Qingchen.

Bei Ran, firmly held by Tang Baijin, observed her face covered in tears, he tenderly said, "Bei Ran, whatever happens, I’ll be by your side, but please, don’t scare me like this. Knowing you were out of touch again, I was nearly going mad..."

Even though she loved him, having her news was the best life for him.

Yet suddenly, she was out of touch and out of reach again, how could he not worry, how could not his heart hurt?

At that moment, Bei Ran wiped her tears, she looked determinedly at Tang Baijin, "Baijin, between you and me, I’ve said, it’s all in the past. I am not a woman who goes back on her word, I’m just following my heart to accept a relationship. There’s a saying, deep or shallow affection, the fate begins and ends, let be what may! Thus, let’s cherish each other separately!"

While she spoke, she reached out her hand to break free from his firm embrace.

Regardless of the misunderstandings and the forcible thoughts of departure she had with Gu Qingchen, she would no longer involve herself with Tang Baijin.

At that moment, she had regained her reason and calm.

Tang Baijin’s heart was desperate, even more desperate.

However, Bei Ran decisively pushed his hands away and then walked towards Zhuo Yufeng, "I won’t allow you to hit him, or else the years of friendship between us will end here!"

"You do this for him, does he even know?" Zhuo Yufeng spoke angrily, "I won’t say I understand you fully, we grew up like childhood friends, but you left without saying a word, do you realize how serious this is? Auntie is already gone, I am your family! Bei Ran, I’m always your older brother, I can’t accept him treating you poorly!"

Bei Ran looked steadily at Zhuo Yufeng, "I’m touched, do you know? Yufeng, in a woman’s life, there are three indispensable men. The first is the brother who grows up with her, he doesn’t need to appear in her life every day, yet he exists like a breath of spring; the second is the first love in her tender years, as beautiful as dandelions dancing under the blue sky, as pure as Heavenly Mountain’s snow lotus, but it may not always lead to anything; the third is the man she marries and has children with, this man, in her life, is the bed companion, the father of her children, linked by blood, and the lover she can never part with... I’m thankful for having you, as well as Baijin, and of course, Qingchen. Each of you have warmed my life, and this life will also stay in my memory..."