Contractual Marriage: We’re Meant to Be Together

143. Are You Crying?

Translator: Jenny

“Yes, you are right.” Yan Chuyang said without hesitation, “I’m a loser who failed to do everything. I don’t think I am qualified to have you.”

“You’re not the one who can judge if you’re qualified to have me or not,” Wei Qing said seriously, “I think you’re qualified, and I’d love to let you have me!”

“You’d love to, but I would not,” Yan Chuyang turned away and gave Wei Qing a stubborn look, “I’m a failure, a total failure, not worthy of a marriage.”

Wei Qing gritted his teeth, “Just because you failed the competition, you completely denied your own merits?”

Yan Chuyang thought for a moment and said hoarsely, “Not only this time, but many times. I am a disappointing person to my mother, my grandmother, you. And now, to myself.”

Yan Chuyang sighed heavily, “So… let’s split up.”

Hearing the boy’s serious tone, Wei Qing’s heart trembled. He suddenly said, “You didn’t lose.”

Yan Chuyang shook his head and looked down in frustration, “You don’t need to comfort me. I’ll be leaving in a while. The bus to school should be here soon…”

“You really didn’t lose,” Wei Qing interrupted him, paused for a while, pressed his lips and said, “You are the first place in the competition, and your score is far higher than the second one by 17.8 points.”

Yan Chuyang’s expression froze, and suddenly looked up at Wei Qing and stared at him, “Are you lying to me? The result of the competition is … ”

“The result of the competition is fake,” Wei Qing lowered his eyes and said calmly, “The person who in charge of the competition is a friend of mine. I called him last night and told him… to wipe out your name from the winner list.”

The air seemed to freeze.

After a long silence, Yan Chuyang sneered and said in disbelief, “That’s impossible. Why would you do such a boring thing?”

“Why can’t I do a boring thing?!” Wei Qing raised his head suddenly, his eyes looked cold, and said very slowly, “I don’t want you to go to Japan.”

Yan Chuyang’s shoulder trembled, and he stared at Wei Qing in front of him in a daze. “So…? Just because you don’t want me to go to Japan, you wiped out my merits that I got from my extremely hard work for such a long time?”

The look on Wei Qing’s face changed. He pulled at his own collar and said, “I was not intend to do that. It was Song Huaiqi who provoked me! If he didn’t send the hot spring flyers home, I was not gonna do that!”

“Wei Qing!” the boy raised his head and said coldly, “Are you feeling particularly proud of yourself now?”

“No.”

“Why not?” Yan Chuyang sneered, “To change a person’s life like me, with no background. You only need to lift your little finger to do that. Looking at me in pain and depression and want to give up everything, don’t you feel like laughing? Don’t you feel you are so great?”

“I don’t,” Wei Qing frowned, and said quickly, “Seeing you so much pain, my heart is breaking. How could I feel like laughing?”

“Heartbreaking for what?” Yan Chuyang stared at the man in front of him in disbelief, “It was you who did everything. It was you who made me frustrate and depressed. Wei Qing, everything went on following your expectations. Don’t you just want to see me looking so stupid?!”

Looking at the boy’s blank eyes, Wei Qing was startled. He took a step forward and said quickly. “Yan Chuyang, listen to me. I don’t know the competition is that important to you…”

“Of course you don’t know,” Yan Chuyang interrupted him and said in a daze, “Wei Qing, you know nothing about me.”

‘You don’t know how inferior I am in front of you. You don’t know how much I want to prove myself to you. You don’t know how much effort I have put in for this competition. You don’t know how much I want to be as successful as you quickly. You never wanted to know me, Wei Qing.’ Yan Chuyang thought inwardly.

“Don’t be angry, Okay?” Wei Qing lowered his head, compromising. “I apologize. I know I did something wrong.”

Yan Chuyang sighed, “What can an apology save? In your eyes, my efforts in the two months are worth nothing but a single word of apology, right?”

“I didn’t mean that,” Wei Qing said helplessly, “I think it’s just a game. If you want to compete in a game, I can ask the company to hold many competitions for you like this one. If you want to win,  then we’ll pull some strings to make you win every competition, OK?”

Yan Chuyang was stunned. After a long pause, he clenched his fists and said in a trembling voice, “Wei Qing, in your eyes, am I the kind of person who can only win a competition by cheating or pulling strings?”

“No.”

“Ahh,” Yan Chuyang lowered his head and smiled bitterly. “Even if not, in your eyes, I should be a weak person, who always relies on others’ charity.”

There was never equity between the two of them. How could the two persons from completely different worlds fall in love with each other? How could they understand each other?

“Charity?” Wei Qing lowered his hands, stared at the person in front of him, and said in disbelief, “Do you think everything I did for you is charity?”

Yan Chuyang gritted his teeth, “Yes, charity!”

The air seemed to freeze for two or three seconds.

The two of them stood there face to face, and said nothing.

The atmosphere was stiff.

“Are you always thinking of me that way?” Wei Qing broke the silence, and his voice trembled. “Since the day we got married, I loved you, doted on you, spoiled you, and sometimes I felt that I love you so much that I even wanted to give you everything I have. Yan Chuyang, I’ve done so much for you. But in your eyes, what I did was just charity?”

The boy’s shoulder trembled, and he raised his head, a little confused.

“… Wei Qing,” Yan Chuyang’s heart was tremebling. He took a step forward and stared at the man’s red eyes, then said with uncertainty, “You… you’re crying.”

“No!” Wei Qing roared, and turned away to avoide the boy’s gaze.

Yan Chuyang said carefully, “You cried just now. What’s the matter with you?”

“What’s the matter?” Wei Qing chuckled. “My good intentions are regarded as evil intents. All my effort is treated as self-indulgence. What a joke.”