CHAPTER 1052: CHAPTER 1052: LIKE A JERK LIKE YOU (8)

For the past two years, chasing after Qiao Liang around the world, she never felt tired or complained.

The two of them grew up together since childhood. Qiao Liang had always cared deeply for her, taking her on adventures everywhere, from north to south. Knowing her stomach wasn’t good, he researched many stomach-friendly recipes and gave them to her family’s servants, instructing them to cook according to his ingredients and methods.

No matter what new dish he invented, she was always the first one he served, asking her to critique it.

For so many years, he never had a girlfriend.

When she asked him why, he only said, "None of them measure up to you, I just can’t look at them!"

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Chu Xinqing always believed that this guy cared about her, liked her... just as she liked and cared about him but hadn’t said it out loud.

Like all those childhood companions who naturally end up together.

Because thinking about him taking the initiative to confess to her, she never broke this unspoken bond.

Later, both families noticed their feelings and decided to make good on the old joke, planning an early wedding to produce an heir sooner...

At that time, she was almost happy enough to jump up, dressing beautifully to attend the engagement banquet, but all she got was news of him running away.

Her father was furious, but she still defended Qiao Liang, saying he just wasn’t ready for marriage, that’s why he did it, and she would bring him back.

Thus, she chased him from Asia to Europe, then to America...

For two years, she searched for him everywhere, from one country to another, he kept escaping, and she kept finding ways to track him down.

When there were no leads, she’d eat at restaurants one by one, using her familiarity with his tastes to discover his hiding place.

She did all these things, firmly believing that he cared about her too, liked her, but was just avoiding her feelings out of a playful nature...

Now Chu Xinqing couldn’t help but doubt, maybe it really was just her own wishful thinking.

To her, he was an irreplaceable existence in her life.

But to him, she was nothing special, just a childhood companion...

Thinking of this, she couldn’t help but feel overcome with sadness, crying even more heartbrokenly.

To love someone for twenty years, believing that person also loves you, only to suddenly realize at a certain moment that it was all just her fantasy, such a blow could almost shatter a person’s heart.

The heart ached with a spasming pain, surpassing the sadness, Chu Xinqing straightened her body, wiped her face with her hand, and saw the rehabilitation device not far away, gently shaking her head.

So, she was just a joke!

Thinking about her endless chasing and begging him to marry her...

She really was foolish, really stupid, he clearly already said the two of them were impossible, how could she still believe they would get married?

Taking a deep breath, she slowly stood up, grabbed the backpack on the ground, slung it over her shoulder, wiped her face with her hand, picked up the rehabilitation device from the bed, and walked out of the bedroom.

She picked up a piece of letter paper from the coffee table, quickly wrote a few lines, and tucked it under the rehabilitation device.

Since he agreed to participate in the food festival, he definitely wouldn’t go far, this guest room must have been booked by him, he would certainly call back to ask the hotel if she left.

By then, the hotel manager would hand this item over to him.

Putting the letter paper into an envelope, tucking it under the rehabilitation device, Chu Xinqing stood up, bit her lip, and strode towards the door.