Chapter 2583: 710: For a Long, Long Time

This road took almost a full hour to walk. But Xia Ye didn’t feel tired at all.

When they got back to the apartment, Yinxing was still drowsy and muddleheaded.

Xia Ye directly tossed her onto the sofa.

Then he didn’t even spare her a glance and headed straight for the bathroom.

Xia Ye took a cold shower for a full twenty minutes.

By the time he came out, he had basically calmed down.

And at this moment, Yinxing was still curled up in a corner of the sofa like a little cat.

Xia Ye walked over.

She really was like a little cat.

Her whole body small, curled into a ball, her face flushed bright red, eyes closed.

But her long eyelashes looked as if they were damp with mist.

Her lips were a rosy red, and she was whimpering softly, no one knew what she was saying.

Looking at Yinxing like this, Xia Ye only felt a tangle of emotions.

He simply sat down on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

He leaned forward slightly, studying the "little cat" in front of him in detail.

Three years. A full three years.

These three years had been as long as a century.

But they also felt as if they were just yesterday.

Back then Yinxing had suddenly vanished without a trace, and even his all‑powerful father was like looking for a needle in a haystack, not getting any news at all.

Back then Yinxing didn’t give anyone any way out.

But she didn’t know that by acting willful just that once, how many people she tortured.

How long is three years.

How tormenting are the days and nights of three whole years.

Especially when he had no idea how many sets of "three years" it would take before they met again.

Yinxing had once asked him a question.

If one day she disappeared, would he look for her?

At the time he had given his answer with absolute certainty.

Xia Ye remembered he’d said two words back then: he wouldn’t.

Actually, when Yinxing asked him that question, a flicker of panic had flashed through Xia Ye’s heart.

What followed was a kind of inexplicable anger.

Why would Yinxing think that way, why would she ask that kind of question?

Since she had voiced it, it meant she’d already had that thought.

That made Xia Ye feel terrified.

So when he said he wouldn’t, it was to make Yinxing give up testing him, give up that kind of thought that shouldn’t exist.

But Xia Ye hadn’t expected Yinxing to still leave, so completely without warning.

This was probably the biggest failure of his life.

Caught totally off guard.

The first time he knew what helplessness felt like.

The first time he felt how painful loss could be.

And now, Yinxing had appeared in front of him again, within arm’s reach.

These three years suddenly seemed to have passed in an instant, as if nothing had changed at all.

For the first time, Xia Ye had the feeling that everything was like a dream.

Without realizing it, Xia Ye reached out a hand, his fingertips slowly coming to rest on Yinxing’s cheek.

The warmth at his fingertips was that real.

The sheet of ice somewhere deep in his heart seemed to crack in that instant.

Over these three years, his longing had flooded and overflowed, and finally even bred a trace of resentment.

But in this moment, even that last trace of resentment in his heart seemed to be evaporating bit by bit.

Even Xia Ye himself didn’t notice that his expression, his eyes, were gradually turning gentle.

Xia Ye slowly leaned in and lightly pressed his lips to Yinxing’s.

Xia Ye was certain: this was the taste he had pined for day and night.

That warmth made him reluctant to pull away.

But everything felt like a dream, and he didn’t dare use any force, afraid to disturb this beautiful dream.

Xia Ye’s lips just rested on Yinxing’s like that, for a very, very long time...

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