"Lu Xinyi, I was upset. I didn't mean…" Lu Xinyi raised a hand to stop him to utter another word. He watched her in stunned silence at the confidence she had grown.
Recently she had developed a backbone. Every woman does when she is providing for herself. Nothing compares to that kind of sense of freedom, not even sky diving!
"When we are upset, we talk about it, fight about it! You are not collaborating with firms; you are in a connective circle with people in it! People who live, feel, and get hurt! The people you can't shut out or just give up on because you are 'upset'!"
She sighed, "You know how it's like? I have never been with a guy romantically, in fact, I had limited human interaction in life! I hadn't evaluated how I felt about you at that time. My last fiancé is your cousin for GOD's sake! My life was so packed up with many things weighing me down. And I wasn't ready to start a relation…"