Chapter 168: A Single Sentence, Must Be Acquired! (Part 2)

He loved her.

He had initially planned to stay in the provincial city to find a job, then get married and have children.

But after a while, he deeply felt that the development of the internet in the north was far slower than in the south, insufficient for realizing his dreams, so he considered returning to the south once more.

Seeing Marina’s earnest pleas, Cai Shuwen couldn’t bear it but had to speak the truth, “Nana, I don’t want to leave the provincial city either, but what can I do in such a small company? Do you want me to do technical maintenance? They’re probably just like other companies, dealing with hacks, right? That would cause my thinking to become rigid, hindering personal growth. I’m still young, full of energy, and have dreams! I’ve told you more than once, I yearn to realize my own value, I want to create products, world-famous products, do you really understand me?”

Marina didn’t understand.

She just wanted her beloved man to stay.

Even though Cai Shuwen offered to take her sick mother to the south with them, Marina still refused.

Because the elderly woman was already depressed due to illness, leaving her homeland for a strange environment would surely worsen her condition.

The situation was at a stalemate.

Both wanted the other to compromise.

After arguing for a while, they found no solution.

But both knew in their hearts.

Perhaps the best solution was to break up.

To end it all.

To become strangers henceforth.

“…”

Two minutes later, Marina calmed down first.

She looked up at the man she deeply loved, sighed, and said with reddened eyes, “Xiaowen, let’s do this, you go to the south first, and I’ll stay in the north. Let’s continue to keep in touch online like before. When you’re settled down, or when things here are stable for me, we can… we can talk again…”

She wanted to say let’s continue our relationship.

But those four words implied breaking up, making them hard to utter.

Cai Shuwen felt as if his heart was being torn apart.

Dreams and love were like fish and bear’s paws to him, impossible to have both.

He looked up, not daring to glance at Marina again, for fear that tears would escape from his moist eyes.

After a long while.

He finally lit a cigarette, took a deep inhale as if making a decision, and said while gripping Marina’s shoulders, “Nana, I… I… I’m sorry…”

After speaking.

He turned and left.

Tears escaped the corners of his eyes the moment he turned around.

Marina stood there dumbfounded, her head still lowered.

She couldn’t see, but she could hear the footsteps getting farther away, as if all the happiness was dissipating along with the echoing steps in the bright corridor.

Several employees watched the drama from the doorway.

While they felt sad, they were also surprised to find the eighteen-year-old boss smiling, seemingly inhumane.

Hey hey hey!

Boss!

They’re breaking up, and you’re still smiling here?

The employees didn’t understand what Zhao Qingfeng was smiling about, nor did Marina.

Seeing Zhao Qingfeng’s smiling face, she immediately wanted to resign.

But just as Cai Shuwen’s footsteps were about to enter the elevator, Zhao Qingfeng suddenly called out to him with a smile.

“Cai Shuwen!”

“Come back!”

“If you leave now, you will definitely regret it in the future!”

Ding.

The elevator doors opened, and Cai Shuwen turned back, angrily asking, “Regret what? You’re so young, what do you know about love?”

What love truly is, Zhao Qingfeng couldn’t say for sure.

Perhaps, as Zhang Yang said, simply being together is love?

But not understanding love didn’t prevent him from mastering technology.

He looked at Cai Shuwen’s angry face, smiled, and raised his eyebrows, uttering a sentence that made Cai Shuwen halt in his tracks.

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