Chapter 141 — Old Buffon's Origins
Years of Heartflutter · Page 155 of 214
"She knows about you. She's probably just as conflicted," Yang Cenbin could only guess, since the two of them had not yet laid everything on the table—but he was probably close to the mark.
"Staying with you without any proper status, and she doesn't mind." With that remark, Chen Shutang was quietly asserting her own position—and reminding Yang Ce that she was his legitimate girlfriend.
Last time the two of them had quarreled over Lan Ling, Yang Ce had told Chen Shutang about Lin Yanhe as well. Now that Chen Shutang could be with Yan, it meant she had to accept this fact.
No matter what, she could not let this matter spark another quarrel with Yan. Chen Shutang was somewhat reluctant, but there was nothing she could do. Yang Ce had made himself very clear back then: since she had set her heart on him, she had to accept Lin Yanhe along with him.
After all, there were circumstances behind it. Lin Yanhe was different from other women—she was a victim too.
"If she's really made up her mind, then she shouldn't care about any of that," Yang Yanzhou said. "She's known all along that I love you very much and that I won't break up with you."
"Love me?" Chen Shutang snorted. "If you love me, why do you keep everything from me?" Still, Yang Juehuan's words had made Chen Shutang very happy.
"Didn't I just tell you everything?" Yang Xunai said. "Mengyan, do you plan to forgive me?"
"What good would it do not to forgive you?" Chen Shutang said with a touch of resentment. "Yang Ce, I wonder if I've been too indulgent with you."
Yang Ce patted Chen Shutang's delicate shoulder and said, "Mengyan, rest assured, I, Yang Puqi, will love you and treat you well for the rest of my life. You know I'm not the kind of man who casts off the old for the new."
Yang Shuoxuan knew that it was already no small thing for Chen Shutang to make such a concession today. Love is selfish—who would want to share their beloved with someone else? Unless there was something wrong with them.
Yang Ce had read plenty of urban wish-fulfillment web novels online—especially the books by a fellow called "Mingyue Fumingyue," which were all about one man with many women, with the heroines even helping the hero find more wives. But that was all fiction.
Women like that were hardly easy to find in real life. So Yang Shuoxuan did not mind that Chen Shutang sometimes got jealous and threw little tantrums—she was a normal girl, after all. How could she want her boyfriend to have other women on the side?
Of course, women with special experiences like Xiao Qing were the exception.
"Lan Ling, Lin Yanhe, Zhou Yanning... ugh." Chen Shutang sighed faintly.
"Zhou Yanning?" Yang Puqi was startled. He and Zhou Yanning—weren't they still a bit of a stretch?
Seeing Yang Ce's somewhat stunned expression, Chen Shutang frowned, and a surge of inexplicable anger rose in her heart. Yes, anger—Chen Shutang herself did not know why she was so upset, but seeing Yang Juehuan's expression, she truly felt indignant on Zhou Yanning's behalf. "Yang Ce, what kind of face is that?"
"What did I do?" Yang Moyi was baffled by Chen Shutang's sudden outburst.
"Hmph, and here I thought you really were a responsible man," Chen Shutang sneered. "Now I see I was wrong about you. I get it now—the women you like, you swear up and down to take responsibility for them; and the ones you don't like, you don't even bother, is that it?"
"What? What do you mean, I take responsibility for the ones I like and not the ones I don't?" Yang Ce was thoroughly confused by Chen Shutang.
"You like Lan Ling and Lin Yanhe, so you have to take responsibility for them. You don't like Zhou Yanning, so you just ignore her?" Chen Shutang's tone grew heated. "Zhou Yanning took a bullet for you—do you even have a heart?"