"I know you care a lot about your engagement," he said.
"But if you really like her, shouldn't you let her go instead of keeping her here with an engagement?"
"..."
Doctor Ji spoke earnestly, as if he were advising a child planning to elope with a troublesome boy at the school gates.
"Instead of ending up not speaking to each other for life, why not take a step back and just be friends?"
"But she doesn't want to; she keeps avoiding me," he complained.
"That might be because you look at her too intensely, which burdens her psychologically. If you decide to continue being friends, you need to rein in those thoughts," Doctor Ji advised.
"Go back to being just friends. The way friends look at each other shouldn't be with the intense heat of lovers."
"Previously, you claimed to be friends, but everything you did was from the perspective of someone who has feelings for her. You need to correct this."