High-level martial arts: Contract cashback, invincible starting from the Zerg.

After a day of Martial God Ladder competition, it was already evening.

Su Qingyuan, who was leading in the family score, immediately led Chen Feng, Mu Wen, and several direct descendants of the Su family to Gu Yong's upscale health center for recuperation.

Watching Mu Wen and the Su family members walk ahead, laughing heartily, Chen Feng looked at Su Qingyuan, who had just locked the car door, only to find that she had no intention of getting in.

Chen Feng immediately stopped and asked, "Senior Sister, aren't you going in?"

"I'm not going." Su Qingyuan took a lollipop out of her bag and popped it into her mouth. "You should go, the package ticket I bought for you wasn't cheap."

"Can I not go?"

"Why not go? You've never experienced it before." Su Qingyuan was a little surprised.

"I'm just not really interested," Chen Feng said in a deep voice.

"Okay, you can keep this ticket then. There's no time limit on its validity, so you can come whenever you want. I'll finish this lollipop here and then go back to the Su family home." Su Qingyuan walked up the corridor of the sanatorium and sat down on a chair.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Feng also walked up into the corridor and sat down next to Su Qingyuan.

The motion-sensor lights in the corridor cast long shadows of the two people, overlapping on the gleaming marble floor.

Su Qingyuan, with an orange-flavored lollipop in her mouth and her cheeks slightly puffed out, stared at a floor-to-ceiling window at the end of the corridor, letting in the night.

She seemed to think Chen Feng would say something about tomorrow's match.

However, Chen Feng just sat quietly beside her without saying a word.

A long time passed, so long that Su Qingyuan was almost asleep, before she heard Chen Feng's deep voice, with a hint of hoarseness she had never heard before.

"Senior sister, have you ever... had two people on your mind?"

Su Qingyuan paused for a moment as she twisted the candy stick.

She turned her head and saw that Chen Feng's eyes were shrouded in a thick shadow, while his fingers were curled up and rubbing together.

"I once liked a girl named Liu Siyu. She was the only woman I ever loved in Haixing City, but..."

Chen Feng's voice was very soft, as if he were talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

He paused, his Adam's apple bobbing.

"In the days without Liu Siyu, only Bai Fei has been with me. She made me feel alive and gave me warmth... I don't know whether I should forget or hold on... I really don't know."

Chen Feng paused, then leaned back in his chair.

Looking into Su Qingyuan's eyes, there seemed to be a blank and painful look.

Su Qingyuan didn't speak, but simply took the lollipop out of her mouth, the sugar strands stretching into a shimmering arc under the light.

"Although I also like Bai Fei, I always feel like there's an empty space in my heart. I'm afraid that if I'm with her, I'll always think of Si Yu and the promise I owe her. I can't lie to myself either; I can't live with her with guilt for the rest of my life."

"I feel like a jerk. I can't let go of the dead, and I'm also holding back the living."

Silence fell again in the corridor. Only faint laughter drifted from afar, and the rustling of leaves in the wind outside the window could be heard.

Su Qingyuan stared at Chen Feng's tense profile for a long time.

Then she put the lollipop back into her mouth, spoke indistinctly, but her tone was unusually serious.

"Chen Feng, I have a question for you."

"you say."

"If Liu Siyu were still alive, would you still be with her now?"

Chen Feng frowned, opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't answer.

He had indeed imagined countless times what it would be like if Liu Siyu were still alive, imagined them settling down together in Gu Yong Shangcheng, and imagined her wearing a beautiful dress, smiling and accompanying him.

But he never considered whether it was love between them or his obsession with the only ray of light in that darkest time.

"You see, you don't even know it yourself anymore."

Su Qingyuan smiled gently, but there was no smile in her eyes.

"People always romanticize what they've lost. She died when you were at your lowest point, when you needed her the most, so in your heart she will always be the most beautiful image, always perfect, and never make a mistake. But if she really had lived, you would have argued, had conflicts, and life would have worn down your edges, and you might still have separated in the end."

Su Qingyuan paused, and her voice softened a little.

"I think you can keep her in the cleanest corner of your heart and live well with her hope. That's not betrayal... The real betrayal is when you trap yourself and another living person in the cage of the past for the sake of someone who is already dead."

Chen Feng was a little stunned.

Because he seemed not to have expected Su Qingyuan to have such profound insights.

"As for Bai Fei, whom you mentioned," Su Qingyuan's gaze turned serious. "Do you really think that by not saying anything, you're protecting her? You're wrong... Girls are much more sensitive than you think. She may have already sensed your feelings for her, or perhaps she's just been unwilling to admit it and has been deceiving herself."

"By dragging your feet and letting her hold onto a sliver of hope, wasting the best years of her life on you, that's the greatest harm you can do to her."

"Then... what should I do?" Chen Feng asked, his voice a little hoarse.

With a crunch, Su Qingyuan bit the last piece of the lollipop into pieces.

The sound was exceptionally clear in the quiet corridor.

Su Qingyuan threw the candy stick into the trash can next to her, then turned her head and looked intently into Chen Feng's eyes.

"Honesty."

"Find some time to have a good talk with Bai Fei. Tell her your true thoughts and feelings for her, and maybe you'll find a way out on your own."

"As for Liu Siyu," her voice softened, carrying a hint of tenderness, "just keep her in your heart. Don't let her become a burden on your progress."

In this life, you will meet many people. Some are meant to be remembered, while others are meant to be spent the rest of your life with.

Su Qingyuan's words were like a key, unlocking the door in Chen Feng's heart that had been locked for many years.

The guilt, confusion, and pain that he had never dared to confront finally found an outlet at this moment.

He didn't know how much time had passed before he finally let out a breath, and his tense back finally relaxed.

"Thank you, senior sister." His voice was still a little hoarse, but it was no longer as heavy as before.

Su Qingyuan smiled slightly but did not turn around.

"You're welcome. I'm just sharing my thoughts from a woman's perspective."

She stood up and dusted herself off.

"I'm leaving now. I've finished my lollipop, and I should head back to the Su family home. I have some bad news today... I know you have a boyfriend, haha," Su Qingyuan said with a smile.

As she walked to the car door, Su Qingyuan suddenly stopped, a sly smile playing on her lips as she looked at Chen Feng.

"By the way, Chen Feng."

"Um?"

"Once we've sorted things out, maybe... you'll find there are even better people around you."

After saying that, she opened the car door and started the top-of-the-line sports car without waiting for Chen Feng's reaction.