“Yedao…
are you crying?”
Behind him, Firefly carefully tugged at the corner of his shirt, keeping her voice low.
“Huh?
Seriously?”
Elysia froze at those words too.
She hurriedly leaned toward Li Yedao, tilting her head in an attempt to see his eyes.
“No.”
Li Yedao turned his face away, giving her no chance to see him properly.
Then he walked straight into the courtyard.
His pace wasn’t fast.
But he never stopped once.
Elysia remained standing where she was, watching his back.
The smile she had finally managed to put on slowly collapsed.
“He still hasn’t forgiven us…”
Firefly stood behind her.
After hesitating for a moment, she quietly asked, “What happened to Yedao before?”
“I’ve never seen him like this.”
Elysia stared at his figure growing smaller in the distance.
There was an uncertain, almost lost quality to her voice.
“He used to be really cheerful…”
Elysia opened her mouth as though she wanted to explain.
But when the words reached her lips, she swallowed them again.
She lowered her gaze to her shoes and remained silent for several seconds.
In the end, all she could do was sigh.
“It’s…
complicated.”
“Come inside with me first.”
“…Okay.”
Firefly nodded and followed Elysia inside.
The living room was enormous.
The sofas were wide too.
Yet Li Yedao had taken up an entire sofa by himself.
Two people sat opposite him.
The atmosphere felt as though all the air had been drained from the room, leaving a heavy pressure resting on everyone’s shoulders.
The instant Elysia and Firefly crossed the threshold, they felt it too.
It was like accidentally walking into the middle of a tense confrontation.
“Eden, Yedao finally came home after all this time.”
“Don’t make everything so gloomy.”
Elysia quickly walked over and sat beside the wine-red-haired woman.
She pressed close, linked her arm through Eden’s, and cheerfully tried to smooth things over.
Firefly swept her gaze around the room before quietly sitting beside Li Yedao.
She leaned close to his ear and whispered,
“Yedao…
are you not on good terms with your family?”
Li Yedao turned toward her and gave her a helpless look.
He lowered his voice too.
“Isn’t that obvious?”
“Just follow my cues later.”
“Heh!
‘Follow my cues,’ he says.”
A sarcastic voice drifted over from the opposite sofa.
Mebius leaned against the armrest with one hand supporting her chin.
Her gaze moved between Li Yedao and Firefly twice.
An unfriendly curve hung at the corner of her lips.
Especially when she looked at Firefly.
Several possibilities flashed through Mebius’s mind.
She disliked every single one of them.
Li Yedao glanced at her.
His voice was flat.
“I’m talking to my girlfriend.”
“I don’t think that has anything to do with you, Mebius.”
Girlfriend?
Elysia froze.
Eden’s hand stopped halfway to lifting her wineglass.
Mebius’s hand slipped slightly from beneath her chin.
Three pairs of eyes landed on Firefly at once, each carrying a different degree of disbelief.
“That’s fake…
right?”
Elysia instinctively covered her mouth.
Her voice slipped out between her fingers, accompanied by a smile that looked somewhat forced.
“Yedao, you definitely hired someone to pretend to be your girlfriend just to trick us, right?”
“That’s how it always happens in novels…”
Her words cut off halfway.
Because Li Yedao turned toward Firefly.
He wrapped an arm around her waist.
Then lowered his head and kissed her.
Firefly was obviously embarrassed.
Her ears turned scarlet.
But she still tried hard to respond, her fingers clutching tightly at the fabric over Li Yedao’s shoulder.
“…”
Elysia’s mouth remained open.
Not a single word came out.
Mebius’s expression darkened.
Eden placed her wineglass on the table.
The sound of glass touching the tabletop was quiet.
But in that deathly silent living room, it sounded extraordinarily clear.
Several seconds later, Li Yedao and Firefly separated.
Firefly sat beside him with her face burning red, too embarrassed to look up.
Her hands were folded together over her knees.
Li Yedao, meanwhile, turned toward Elysia.
A smile rested on his lips.
It was difficult to tell whether it was smugness or outright provocation.
“Believe me now?”
“…Mm.”
Elysia’s answer came half a beat late.
The smile was still on her face.
But it had lost all of its earlier brightness.
Underneath the cheerfulness she was deliberately maintaining, something seemed to be cracking apart little by little.
“How did you two meet?”
Eden finally spoke.
Her voice was calm.
But it wasn’t gentle calmness.
It was restraint closer to an interrogation.
Eden looked directly at Firefly.
There was no menace in her gaze.
No visible anger.
She simply watched her quietly.
Yet Firefly unconsciously shifted a little closer to Li Yedao.
Li Yedao turned sideways, placing himself slightly in front of her.
“A few years ago.”
“Not long after I left home.”
The moment he said that, Eden fell silent.
But her brows visibly drew tighter.
So in other words…
I’m the one who indirectly brought you two together?
Eden took a deep breath.
She lifted her wineglass and took a sip before setting it down again.
Her voice dropped another fraction.
“So why did you come back this time?”
“I…”
Before she could finish, Elysia suddenly lunged over and covered Eden’s mouth.
She was practically hanging off her.
While restraining Eden, Elysia turned toward Li Yedao and Firefly with an excessively bright smile.
“Welcome home!”
“Yedao, are you planning to move back in?”
“I’ve always kept your room clean, you know.”
“I tidy it every week.”
“I even changed the bedding recently…”
Then she quickly leaned toward Eden’s ear and whispered urgently, low enough that only the two of them could hear.
“Yedao finally came back!”
“Don’t make him angry enough to leave again!”
Eden remained silent for two seconds.
Then she gave a small nod.
Only then did Elysia release her and sit upright again with another smile.
Mebius looked away.
She couldn’t bear to watch.
Those little gestures had been far too obvious.
So obvious that the two people sitting opposite had seen everything clearly.
So obvious that Mebius wanted to pretend she didn’t know either of the two women beside her.
The corner of Li Yedao’s mouth curved upward slightly.
Unfortunately…
Elysia’s probably wouldn’t be doing the same again anytime soon.
“I’m not moving back.”
“Firefly and I are already living together outside.”
“And everything that could happen between us…
already has.”
Dead silence.
At that moment, the living room completely lost all sound.
If the words living together had only shocked Elysia—
Then that final sentence simultaneously disconnected all three women’s brains.
Elysia’s fingers trembled.
She pointed at the two of them.
Her lips moved for a long time, but she couldn’t assemble a complete sentence.
“You…
you two…”
“When?”
Eden spoke again.
Her voice remained calm.
But her chest was rising and falling heavily.
Her breathing rhythm had completely fallen apart.
The fingers gripping her wineglass had gone slightly white from the force.
And something dark seemed to be concealed within her eyes.
Li Yedao noticed none of those subtle changes.
When he saw the ugly expressions on all three women’s faces, a strange feeling actually surfaced inside him.
Satisfaction?
Was this revenge?
Even Li Yedao found it a little unbelievable.
It felt childish.
Like a kid acting out just to spite someone.
“A few days ago.”
“I only came back this time to pick up a few things.”
“Once I have them, I’ll leave.”
“I won’t bother you.”
After saying that, he stood and prepared to walk past them toward the room that had once belonged to him.
Then someone grabbed his hand.
Eden’s fingers closed tightly around Li Yedao’s wrist.
Her hand was trembling.
But her grip was firm.
Her voice came from behind him.
“Do you really have to be this heartless?”
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