Chapter 141 — Old Buffon's Origins
Years of Heartflutter · Page 212 of 214
"The one who took my first time—that was Yang Ce." Lin Yanhe spoke vaguely. She was not good at lying, and she could not explain the twists and turns in detail, so she could only skim over it in a single sentence.
"I understand." Li Dadong lowered his head, the expression on his face indescribably pained. After a long while he said: "But that doesn't mean anything. I can understand how you felt back then. You—you don't owe him anything anymore. You can leave him. And—and I won't despise you for this."
Li Dadong had spoken from the heart. Indeed, Lin Yanhe had only done such a thing because life forced her to it, and Li Dadong could completely accept that.
"Ha." Lin Yanhe smiled and said: "Thank you, Brother Dadong. I've said it before—between the two of us, it can only ever be a brother-and-sister relationship."
"I—I was just making an analogy," Li Dadong said, embarrassed. "I meant to say that in this day and age, whether a girl is that or not doesn't matter anymore."
"Yan and I are together because I—I can't bear to leave him." When Lin Yanhe said this, she was startled herself. This feeling, hidden at the bottom of her heart, had finally been released in an instant. "I—I like him."
"But if you do this, isn't it just—ah, what am I supposed to say to you?" Li Dadong looked at Lin Yanhe with a sigh. "So you plan to go on like this forever?"
"Take one step, see how it goes," Lin Yanhe said with a shake of her head.
"Do Uncle Lin and Auntie Shen know about all this?" Li Dadong asked after a moment's silence.
"No. I don't want them to know," Lin Yanhe said, shaking her head again. "They only know that Yang Ce is my boyfriend, that we've been together since high school."
"You won't regret it?" Li Dadong raised his head and made one last attempt.
"No." Lin Yanhe said firmly. Ever since she had forgiven Yang Juehuan for what he had done, she had never regretted it again.
To be continued
706. Can You Do Me a Favor?
Seeing how resolute Lin Yanhe was, Li Dadong had nothing more to say. A woman in love will always throw caution to the wind. The moth drawn to the flame is no empty saying.
Knowing that nothing more could be said, Li Dadong sighed helplessly.
"Dadong, can you keep this between us? Don't tell my parents, and don't mention it to anyone." Lin Yanhe looked at Li Dadong pleadingly.
"I—fine, have it your way," Li Dadong said, unable to bear it.
"Thank you, Dadong." Lin Yanhe smiled sweetly. "And don't tell He Yan either, all right?"
"I understand." Li Dadong nodded.
"Will you come help out at the company?" Lin Yanhe changed the subject.
"All right," Li Dadong said. "I'm here to back you up. If Yang Ce dares to treat you badly, I won't let him off."
"Heh, let's leave it at that for now. I'll head back first." Though a smile hung on Lin Yanhe's face, her heart was in agony. What she had just said was only for Li Dadong's ears; the truth was far more complicated than that.
Lin Yanhe did not know how long the relationship between herself and He Yan could last. Should she tell Yang Ce about that matter? The thought had barely surfaced before she rejected it.
Lin Yanhe would never do such a thing as to threaten someone. She walked quickly back to Zhao Sisi's office, where Yang Shuoxuan had just finished speaking with Zhao Sisi and was about to go look for Lin Yanhe.
"Zhiyun, are you two done talking?" Yang Ce looked at Lin Yanhe as she came in and asked with a smile.
"Yes. Dadong has agreed to come to the company." Lin Yanhe said nothing of what had happened before, only that Li Dadong was coming to help out.
"So he's come around. That's wonderful. When does he plan to start?" Yang Yanchuan asked.
"In the next couple of days, I think. Li Dadong wasn't in the best of moods today and went back first, but it's settled—he'll come report in within a couple of days."