After Breaking Up, I Shared an Apartment With My Best Friend and Her Boyfriend (H) - 67
Chapter 67: He Had Fallen for Someone Else
When he was about to say something more, Xu Yanqi reminded him, “Li Zhen, Zhou Xian is in your past now. You can let it go.”
Li Zhen thought for a moment and said, “It’s impossible to let it go.”
It wasn’t until just recently, at the end of last month, when Li Zhen was catching his breath in the gym, that he told him.
“I think I no longer look up to Zhou Xian.”
When Xu Yanqi heard him say that, he thought he had misheard. After all, half a year ago, he had told him to let go, but he couldn’t no matter what.
“She has gradually disappeared from my heart.”
Only when he blurted out that sentence did Xu Yanqi, who was drinking water, furrow his brows slightly.
“How so?”
The person Li Zhen had loved so deeply for five years—even after he found out that woman had cheated on him while bearing the title of his fiancée—he still loved her.
Now, just half a year had passed, and she had disappeared just like that. Of course, it aroused Xu Yanqi’s curiosity.
“Mm.”
Li Zhen picked up the water bottle from the floor and gulped it down. He tilted his head back, gazing at the expansive floor-to-ceiling glass window of the gym, and zoned out slightly.
“Yesterday, I saw her with her husband, and I felt nothing.”
Xu Yanqi didn’t say anything. He just listened quietly as Li Zhen spoke.
Later, after the two worked out for another hour and packed their bags, on the short path from the gym to the parking lot, Li Zhen spoke calmly to him about what had happened recently.
“Do you remember I mentioned to you half a year ago, to cure my insomnia, I found a girl who plays the violin and has her perform by my bedside every night?”
Xu Yanqi nodded. “Mm, I told you it’s just changing the soup without changing the medicine.”
Li Zhen lowered his eyes and said casually, “Now, my insomnia is cured.”
After he said that, Xu Yanqi stopped in his tracks, somewhat stunned.
Li Zhen turned his head and slowly told him again, “I’ve tried it. Even without the violin, I can fall asleep.”
Hearing that, Xu Yanqi couldn’t help but feel moved. He furrowed his brow ridges slightly and looked at him thoughtfully. “So, it’s that girl?”
He had thought Li Zhen wouldn’t answer, but unexpectedly, this time he admitted it directly to him. “Mm, I’ve fallen for someone else.”
Xu Yanqi hesitated for a moment.
Because in his eyes, Li Zhen was such a devoted person. No one knew better than Xu Yanqi how much he loved Zhou Xian.
Yet such a person, who back then refused to let go no matter what was said, now could let go on his own.
To put it bluntly, he had shifted his affections to another.
But in Xu Yanqi’s view, how could Li Zhen be the kind of person who would shift his affections just like that?
The gym was quite close to Jiang University—just a ten-minute drive. After the two changed into their clothes, they directly started aerobic and strength training. Until an hour later, sweat flowed down from every pore on their bodies like a spring, washing away all the pressure and fatigue, leaving only the pleasure of each mastering their own body.
Xu Yanqi walked with steady steps to the dining area and got two bottles of water. He approached Li Zhen with rhythmic footsteps and handed him the water.
The two sat on the leather sofa in the rest area, each holding a bottle of water. Xu Yanqi asked Li Zhen in a low and steady voice.
“To what extent have you developed things with that girl?”
He asked Li Zhen while drinking water.
The last time he heard Li Zhen mention it was five days ago. He said the girl had just broken up, and he had only learned about it recently.
Li Zhen answered Xu Yanqi. “I haven’t found the right opportunity to tell her yet.”
“So you’ve just been letting it flow naturally?”
Xu Yanqi looked at him with a serious expression. “Just leaving it like that indifferently?”
Besides having things to say to Xu Yanqi, Li Zhen had nothing to say to anyone else—he was the cold and frosty type.
Even when talking to Zhou Xian, it was the same.
On the surface, he seemed like a heartless and indifferent person, but Xu Yanqi knew how warm his heart was inside.
“Shouldn’t you change that unapproachable attitude?”
Xu Yanqi reminded him.
Upon hearing that, Li Zhen fell silent.
After taking a sip of water on his own, he mentioned to Xu Yanqi, “She also graduated from Jiang University.”
“That girl?”
Since Li Zhen had said that, Xu Yanqi suddenly remembered that the girl was also a violin major. He pursed his thin lips slightly.
“Tell me her name. Maybe Wen Sui knows her.”
At that time, Xu Yanqi thought that maybe Chen Qiao knew her too. He could ask Chen Qiao to help inquire about her for Li Zhen.
She might be her junior, or perhaps her senior.
At this moment, Li Zhen lifted his head and looked at him seriously. “Chen Qiao.”
After he said that, Xu Yanqi’s whole body trembled slightly. “What?”
He thought he had misheard.
Until Li Zhen personally introduced her to him. “The Chen from Chen east of the ear, the Qiao from there are luxuriant trees in the south.”
In that instant, Xu Yanqi’s whole body tensed up. He even forgot to react and just stared at Li Zhen, who was also gazing at him.