Did That Doctor Successfully Remarry Today?
Chapter 236 - 232 I Like You

Chapter 236: Chapter 232 I Like You

Chapter 232 I Like You

The rain outside the window was pattering down, suddenly becoming more urgent, slapping against the glass with a "drip drip drop" sound, incessantly knocking on one’s heartstrings.

Jiang An looked up at the rain outside, her eyebrows slightly knit with worry, and turned her gaze back to Gao Chuan sitting opposite her. She saw that the man had placed both hands on the table, listening to her without uttering a single word throughout.

Perhaps he was touched by what she said and didn’t know how to respond, thought Jiang An to herself.

Sometimes she really couldn’t figure out what was on Gao Chuan’s mind; it seemed like he would always face everything with a calm expression, and his cold attitude towards things made people involuntarily hesitate.

If he said those words about learning to love her just out of guilt, then how long could this guilt support their relationship in the future?

Moreover, when it comes to matters of the heart, where does the idea of picking up the pieces come from?

"Dr. Gao, you don’t need to feel sorry, after all... during the hardest times for me, you once gave me warmth." Distant memories were evoked, and Jiang An’s voice suddenly turned teary at the mention.

Gao Chuan looked up at the woman’s moved expression, a deep melancholy rising in his dark pupils.

She had also once given him a home, a feeling that he still coveted now.

"Let’s end it here, I hope we can both find our own peace."

Jiang An’s light voice finally settled in his ears, like the rain outside, stirring ripples in the man’s heart.

His eyes followed Jiang An as she stood up and left, his gaze long and deep.

A heart as if silently being torn, faintly aching.

Had they... just ended things like this?

Jiang An rushed out of the coffee shop with her head down, even though the words had been rehearsed countless times in her heart last night, when she spoke them in front of the man, tears still embarrassingly swirled at the corners of her eyes.

She was afraid that if she continued to sit there, she would not be able to hold back her tears the next second.

She didn’t want to cry in front of Gao Chuan, didn’t want to show even a hint of lingering attachment.

This should finally be a complete breakaway, right?

Thinking this, the woman shielded her head with her bag and braved the spattering rain, rushing straight out, her frail figure completely succumbing to the dense drizzle, her face no longer distinguishable between rain and tears blurring her eyes.

The rain poured down on her mercilessly, and on the empty streets, she suddenly had nowhere to hide.

Through her blurry vision, Jiang An quickened her pace, wanting to run to the corner to hail a taxi. Just a few steps out, the rain that was falling overhead suddenly disappeared, and she looked up in confusion, only to see a lake-blue umbrella in her sight.

The next second, she was abruptly pulled by the arm, and turning around in slight disarray, Gao Chuan had already reached her from behind.

In the soft wind and fine rain, she stood under a small piece of sky beneath the umbrella, separated by a curtain of rain, her surprised gaze settling on the man in front of her, as if all the noise around had vanished in that moment.

Their eyes met, and the person in front of her was looking at her with deep affection, his low voice falling on her ears along with the rain.

"What if I say, I like you?"

The man held the umbrella steady in front of her, his vivid words spilling from his lips.

"Jiang An, what if I say, I’m doing this because I like you?"

Standing mostly outside the umbrella, the sparkling raindrops slid down his cheeks, and amidst the pouring rain, he looked down at the person in front of him, repeating the words.

It wasn’t the guilt and responsibility she spoke of, but truly loving her, wanting to marry her.

He liked her, having forgotten exactly when it was that he began to in some inconspicuous moment.

The "whooshing" sound of rain flooded into her ears, and Jiang An looked up at him in complete astonishment.

In that moment, her long-silenced heart suddenly began to beat.

— —

Jiang An seemed to have forgotten how she followed the man step by step into the car and returned home. Along the way, the words "Jiang An, I like you" from Gao Chuan kept echoing in her ears and mind.

The scene just now was hazy, like a dream, ethereally unlike reality.

It wasn’t until she finally fled in a panic from the man’s side and shut the door to her room that she truly heard the sound of her own heart beating like a drum.

Jiang An, disregarding her wet clothes, buried her head in her blanket, her emotions a mixed turmoil.

For a full five years, all her blushes and heartbeats were because of the same person.

She thought it would end there, but his confession had defeated her once again.

Was she crazy?

The sound of rain continued outside the window. As she was lost in thought, a soothing melody suddenly came through; she took out her phone from her bag—it was a call from Wei Yan.

After calming her emotions, she put the phone to her ear, and from the other side of the speaker came the man’s magnetic voice: "Anan, guess who I found out about?"

Jiang An pressed the phone closer to her ear, listening intently and involuntarily revealing a puzzled expression.

"Your uncle."

Jiang An grew up with Fang Qing, and a few years after her father passed away, she came to Jing City alone with Jiang An. Although her mother seldom mentioned her family while she was alive, Jiang An vaguely knew that Fang Qing had eloped with her father.

In the time shortly after Fang Qing’s passing, she tried to search for her mother’s family, but there had been no news for many years.

It was only now that Wei Yan suddenly brought news, saying she had an uncle, and she would meet him in a few days.

Although it was still uncertain, she had always longed to have her own family, and she was so excited that she couldn’t sleep all night.

— —

Two days later was Gao Lin’s seventieth birthday, and the Gao Group held a grand banquet to celebrate the elder’s birthday.

Jiang An was naturally invited by Shen Mei, who casually mentioned it was just a simple meal and someone would come to pick her up when the time came, but Jiang An had not expected that person to be Gao Chuan.

After work, Jiang An walked out of the hospital and from a distance saw the man waiting for her at the entrance.

Since confessing to Jiang An in the rain that day, Gao Chuan had been busy preparing for the birthday banquet, and Jiang An had been spending her days in the hospital; they had not met since.

Jiang An no longer resisted and got into the car directly. Gao Chuan started the car in silence, and an awkward atmosphere instantly enveloped the interior.

The man driving glanced at the gift box in Jiang An’s arms and took the initiative to start a conversation: "What’s that?"

Jiang An came back to her senses upon hearing this and told him it was a gift prepared for the elder.

"Mm."

Another suffocating silence ensued.

"The other day..."

"Actually you..."

Both spoke at the same time, then immediately fell silent upon hearing the other’s voice.

The air seemed to freeze instantly, and Jiang An quietly clutched the gift box in her arms tighter.

"You go first," said Gao Chuan, gripping the steering wheel tightly, offering her to speak first.

Jiang An turned to look at the man’s cold expression, then shifted her gaze away, quickly brushing it off: "It’s nothing, it’s nothing."

Gao Chuan noticed the woman hesitating to speak in front of him but did not press further.

Bored, Jiang An leaned back in her seat to take a nap, thinking Gao Chuan would take her to the Gao Family’s place. However, when she woke up she found herself being taken to a makeover salon.

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