CHAPTER 427: CHAPTER 427: CHRISTMAS "SURPRISE" (PART 7)

The last time Sheng Jianan took Shen Yao back, he only stopped the car at the entrance of the neighborhood. This time, since Shen Yao’s foot was inconvenient, Sheng Jianan parked the car directly downstairs of the apartment building.

He opened the door, got out of the car, and picked Shen Yao up again: "Which floor?"

"Seventeen."

Sheng Jianan’s gaze showed no emotion, as if he was just doing a job.

They went up to the seventeenth floor. Shen Yao opened the door and went inside. Sheng Jianan sat on the sofa, his eyes casually scanning the room. The simple and bright decoration style was his kind of style.

"Jianan, sorry to trouble you. I’m not convenient to entertain you right now, please make yourself comfortable."

Shen Yao placed her medicated foot on the coffee table, maintaining her usual gentle demeanor.

However, Sheng Jianan did not hurry to leave. Instead, he sat down next to her: "Weren’t you afraid of being hit just now?"

"I was scared, but I didn’t think that much at the time."

"Why?"

Mysteriously, the atmosphere became somewhat strange. Shen Yao looked gently at Sheng Jianan for a long moment, then bit her lip: "Don’t you know?"

Sheng Jianan squinted his eyes without speaking. Shen Yao smiled slightly and continued to say: "Jianan, I know you know, but some things are better left unsaid. You’re well with Miss Tang now, and I will be fine too. I will treat the past as a dream, and it’s over."

Shen Yao’s voice was very light and soft, making people feel moved just by listening.

Strangely, upon witnessing Shen Yao disregarding her own safety to save him, Sheng Jianan felt little emotion—no shock or gratitude seemed to ripple in his heart.

In the hospital, watching Shen Yao frown while applying medicine, he thought of another woman.

So from just now until now, everything he did was merely what he thought a man should do, without any other emotional factors involved.

Perhaps he was cold-blooded. Even when seeing a woman risking her life for him, Sheng Jianan really didn’t feel much.

But now, listening to Shen Yao’s gentle voice and hearing her mention the past, a trace of softness finally appeared in Sheng Jianan’s heart.

The girl who accompanied him through the darkness still held a significant place in his heart.

Even though he really didn’t have many other feelings towards Shen Yao now, discussing the past still stirred something in Sheng Jianan’s heart.

The emotions in his eyes and brows softened: "Back then... was it you?"

Shen Yao softly lowered her eyes: "It was me."

"Why didn’t you tell me at that time?"

"If I told you I was Shen Yao and we knew each other, and considering that you and my cousin were rivals, would you still have let me accompany you?"

"So at that time, you almost didn’t speak because you were afraid I’d recognize you?"

Shen Yao nodded, and Sheng Jianan pressed his thin lips slightly. For some reason, he still felt something was off, a thought flashed through his mind too quickly for him to grasp.

The first day he reunited with Shen Yao, she unreservedly revealed that she knew about his blindness experience.

Sheng Jianan was momentarily shocked, but did not ask her much afterwards until they talked about it today.

After chatting with Shen Yao for a while, Sheng Jianan got up to leave. At the door, he paused and spoke: "If you need anything in the future, feel free to come to me. If I can help, I certainly will."

Leaving those words, Sheng Jianan opened the door and left. Shen Yao watched until his back disappeared, and then her whole person suddenly deflated like a punctured balloon. She hoped she had done well? He shouldn’t have noticed anything, right?