"Haha! Brother Fan, you're back! You're finally back! I thought you had forgotten all about your friend here," Shin Yu-Xiang immediately started laughing loudly when he saw Ye Fan.
But as he laughed, his eyes started to redden and he started to sniffle.
Ye Fan had disappeared for the last three years.
He thought that something bad had happened to Ye Fan, so after seeing him here, Shin Yu-Xiang was very excited.
But at the same time, all the emotions that he had been suppressing for a long time were all let out now.
He actually hugged Ye Fan and started bawling.
"Xiang, what's happened? What's wrong? You looked so listless just now, it's as if the sky fell down," said Ye Fan confusedly.
"Brother Fan, Wen-Ya is getting married, but the groom isn't me. Fan, what should I do? What am I going to do without her?" Shin Yu-Xiang's voice choked up and it was filled with pain and sadness.
Ye Fan got a shock after hearing this.
"Wen-Ya? You mean Du Wen-Ya? What happened? Weren't the two of you ok when I left? Did Du Wen-Ya have a change in heart?"
Ye Fan was extremely surprised to hear this.
For most other ordinary couples, it was normal to break up and get together with someone else.
But Du Wen-Ya and Shin Yu-Xiang were different. The two of them grew up together as close friends, and when they were ten, their parents even agreed on letting them get married after they grew up.
In school, everyone knew that they were a couple.
One was fair and reasonable, the other was caring and understanding.
In Ye Fan's memory, these two were always together and almost never quarreled in their ten years together.
They were a model couple that everyone was envious of.
But now, this model couple had broken up and one of them was actually getting married?
Ye Fan was thoroughly shocked.
"No, Ya didn't have a change of heart and she still loves me. But her parents have forced her into this. They've forced her to marry someone else," explained Shin Yu-Xiang in a righteous voice.
It turned out that Shin Yu-Xiang's family business failed a few years back and the family was on a decline. Meanwhile, Du Wen-Ya's family was doing better and better.
So after some time, Du Wen-Ya's father started to become unhappy with this engagement his daughter had.
One day, someone introduced a young man who was doing well in his business to the Du family, and this man took a liking to Du Wen-Ya.
Under such circumstances, in order to cling onto more power and to ensure that his daughter could marry someone better, Du Wen-Ya's father immediately decided to break off Du Wen-Ya's engagement to Shin Yu-Xiang and got his daughter to go out with this young man instead.
"It's all my fault, I'm so useless. If I weren't so useless, Wen-Ya's father wouldn't separate us. I'm just a piece of trash, a useless piece of trash. There's nothing good about me and I don't even have a proper job, so I'm worse than trash...maybe it's good that Wen-Ya doesn't marry me.
I'm not worthy of her, so if she marries me, it'll be like stick a fresh flower on a pile of cow dung," wailed Shin Yu-Xiang miserably as he picked up the can of beer on the table and downed it in one gulp.
His eyes were bloodshot and filled with
tears.
Ye Fan didn't say anything and just looked at Shin Yu-Xiang.
After a moment of silence, he asked in a quiet voice, "Xiang, are you telling me the truth? You and Wen-Ya have been separated? Wen-Ya really still loves you?"
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