[130] If That’s How You See It, I Have Nothing More to Say

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Jiang Ning joined them as well. She glanced around, and Wen Shuang was indeed nowhere to be seen.

“Brother Shen, it looks like Miss Wen is angry. You should hurry after her and comfort her!”

She was being exceptionally considerate.

Ji Shen saw Qin You run out.

The chill in his heart grew heavier.

“I doubt I’m the only one who needs to go after her.”

“Brother Shen, stop saying things out of anger. Miss Wen is your girlfriend, after all. Surely you’re the only one in her heart,” Jiang Ning urged.

Grandmother Ji had never liked Jiang Ning’s pretentiously generous manner. “You brat! Of course our Shuangshuang has only you in her heart. Ji Shen, you’d better come to your senses. She’s the only granddaughter-in-law I’ve ever taken a liking to with such difficulty. Don’t you dare lose her!”

Only then did Ji Shen chase after Wen Shuang.

Grandmother Ji cast Jiang Ning a cool glance.

In all her life, what kind of storms had she not weathered? What kinds of people had she not met?

She understood tricks like Jiang Ning’s attempts to sow discord all too well.

“Miss Jiang, since you and A-Shen have already broken up, then cut things off cleanly. A-Shen has Shuangshuang now. It’s no longer appropriate for the two of you to remain so close.”

Earlier, Grandmother Ji had still addressed her as Jiang Ning. Now, she called her by name alone.

Jiang Ning smiled. “Grandmother Ji, you’ve misunderstood. Of course I know that Brother Shen and I are merely ordinary friends now. Please rest assured.”

Grandmother Ji said coldly, “You’d better know that.”

Madam Ning had also seen through her daughter’s feelings.

She had merely spared Jiang Ning’s dignity and refrained from confronting her in public.

It was only on the way home that she gently warned her to keep her distance from Ji Shen in the future.

Jiang Ning repeated the same thing as always, insisting that she knew her limits.

Madam Ning sighed. She knew her daughter better than anyone and could tell that, after returning, Jiang Ning was still unwilling to give up on Ji Shen.

“Darling, no matter how unwilling you are to let go, you and Officer Ji are already a thing of the past. The Miss Wen by his side is a very good girl. From what I can see, their relationship was quite strong before. Besides, you were the one who chose to let him go in the first place.”

A trace of displeasure quickly surfaced in Jiang Ning’s beautiful eyes.

But she suppressed it just as quickly.

“What kind of magic does this Miss Wen possess? Why do you and Grandmother Ji both like her so much, Mom?”

Madam Ning thought of Wen Shuang’s similar face and the same color of hair...

A faint sadness appeared in her eyes.

“Nothing in particular. I simply find Miss Jiang more pleasing to the eye.”

Jiang Ning slipped her arm around Madam Ning’s shoulder and coquettishly said, “I don’t care! I’m still the most important person in Mom’s heart, right?”

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Madam Ning smiled. “Of course! You’re Mom’s precious daughter!”

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Wen Shuang returned home, removed her makeup, and came out after taking a shower.

Only then did Ji Shen return.

She acted as though she had not heard him.

Ji Shen said in a low voice, “You didn’t even say anything when you came back?”

Wen Shuang raised her eyes indifferently. “You and Miss Jiang were having such a wonderful time dancing together. How could I have brought myself to disturb you?”

“Wen Shuang, there’s no point in saying things like that. Jiang Ning and I only danced a few casual dances. You left on your own. Do you realize how rude that behavior was?”

Ji Shen had been holding back his anger all evening, and his attitude was no better.

“Yes, I was rude. I shouldn’t have been so sensitive, and I shouldn’t have left without permission. I should have stayed there and watched you hold each other as you danced one song after another.”

A cold smile tugged involuntarily at the corners of Wen Shuang’s lips.

A dark expression gathered between Ji Shen’s brows. “There’s no point in saying things like that, Wen Shuang.”

“Isn’t that what happened?”

“I’ve explained it countless times. I don’t want to explain it anymore!” Lately, Ji Shen felt as though he had been coaxing Wen Shuang over and over again. Doing it once or twice might feel like a little game, even an endearing part of being with a woman, but when it happened too often, irritation was inevitable.

“That’s because you have no reason left to explain, Officer Ji!”

Wen Shuang could not understand how Ji Shen could possibly have the nerve to argue with her over this.

If she had been the one dancing with Qin You at the ball that evening, Ji Shen would probably have shown up in uniform and arrested them both long ago.

“Forget it. If that’s what you want to think, there’s nothing I can do. Your temper is getting worse and worse. You’re not the woman you used to be.”

After throwing out those words, Ji Shen went straight back to his room.

Wen Shuang’s heart turned ice-cold.

In the past, he had told her that whenever she felt wronged, she could tell him everything without holding anything back, and he would stand up for her.

Even when she refused to speak, Ji Shen would force her to tell him what had happened.

But now, even though he was the one who had hurt her, he was telling her not to push her luck.

Wen Shuang was utterly disappointed.

In the days that followed, Ji Shen became busier with each passing day. He was often on duty or working overtime, and even when Wen Shuang spent the entire day at home, she could barely see him.

Sometimes the man was so busy that he did not even come home at night.

Wen Shuang often saw him on the news instead. The reports praised Officer Ji for his remarkable abilities—how he had apprehended another suspect, how he had cracked yet another major case.

He stood on the honors podium in his smart, sharply tailored ceremonial police uniform, looking mature and solemn.

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Yet Wen Shuang found him utterly unfamiliar.

He looked so close, and yet somehow impossibly far away.

She could hardly imagine that this man, his chest covered in medals, had once held her so closely, had once whispered into her ear, “I like you, Shuangshuang.”

Now, all that remained was an empty apartment.

And a heart full of disappointment.

There was no point in hurting and despairing over a man.

After feeling miserable for a week, Wen Shuang began practicing dance again. At last, after a full month had passed, she drew a deep breath and stepped back into the dance company.

“Shuangshuang, you’re finally back!”

Yao Qianqian was the first to come forward to welcome her.

“Honestly, I never thought I’d be able to come back again.”

Wen Shuang could feel her voice trembling.

“It’s good that you’re back!”

Wen Shuang soon noticed that Yao Qianqian was the only one who had come to greet her. Everyone else acted as though they had not seen her.

But this was hardly surprising. That was simply the nature of a dance company. Everyone wanted to be the most outstanding one there. When Wen Shuang was gone, they had more opportunities. Now that she had returned, their chances had only diminished.

Besides, Wen Shuang had always been aloof within the company. She had never cared for forming little cliques and spent all day focused solely on dance. Other than Yao Qianqian, she had no close colleagues or friends.

She performed a dance before the director and the company’s leadership.

Whether it was her fundamentals, technical skill, or sense of rhythm and expression, she remained at the highest level.

What was more, when Wen Shuang returned this time, the director and the others saw something new in her dancing.

It carried the feeling of a phoenix reborn from its ashes, along with a fierce, unstoppable vitality.

“Wen Shuang, you truly haven’t let us down! Not only have you failed to regress, but your artistic level has risen another step!”

The director was delighted.

Wen Shuang smiled faintly. “Dance is my dream. During those days in the hospital, I told myself that as long as there was even the slightest hope, I would never give up.”

“Very well said!” Director Su exclaimed.

Wen Shuang’s return caused quite a stir within the company.

The director assigned her two major dance productions.

However, The Lady Zhaojun’s Journey Beyond the Frontier, the production that had made Wen Shuang famous, was not returned to her.

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