Seeing how she had nothing to say, a relieved smile revealed itself in Sila s’s eyes. “Taya, I’ve seen what it’s like for you to love someone.” “Reckless, willing to give everything, even life, for the person you love…” “So I know very well that protecting him from sulfuric acid is not just to repay him, more of it is because you love him…” Sil a s’s eyes were on the girl he had loved for half his life, tears began to well up in his eyes… “The way you love him is just like the way you loved me back then. It’s just that I lost the precious you, and I can’t find her again…” Taya felt pain in her heart, instantly welling her eyes with tears. “Silas, I’m sorry, I was the first to betray you…” Silas shook his head, without blaming her at all. “I set you off, and that’s the cause of the car accident. I’m the one who caused it all.” In fact, Go d told him few years ago with a car accident, the fate between them was over, but he remained clinging to the past.
The more Silas thought about it, he raised the corners of his warm lips, looked at Taya, and smiled faintly. “Taya, forgive me, I lost five years of memory. When I think about it, I can only remember memories of our past youthful years. I couldn’t bring myself to let go of the past. If I let go of my obsession with you and the past earlier, you won’t have to choose to stay with me because of guilt.” Taya looked at him with sad eyes. “Silas, I…” Silas shook his head and interrupted her. “Taya, you said that you want to start over and fall in love with me again, but you’re just like me, obsessed with the past. Our friendship has lasted for more than twenty years. There’s too deep of an entanglement between us that causes you not to be able to let go, but I know that you’ve lost all for me…” With that, he looked to the rows of men’s suits in the closet. “Now that there’s a man, who loves you just as much as I do, even more than I do, why should I cling to you, and I…” He paused, a relieved smile gradually appeared in his eyes. “It’s enough that I once enjoyed the love he has.
How could you expect you to love me all the time…” Taya heard his words, feeling the sudden urge to burst into tears. Before she knew it, tears started streaming down her cheeks. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry…” Just like when they were young, Silas raised his fingers to dotingly tousle her hair. “Fool, you should never feel sorry. It’s between you and me that we’re destined to miss out on each other after fate is depleted between us. No one is to blame…” Filled with guilt, she couldn’t face Silas. Instead, she buried her head in the pillow, tears streaming down her face. Silas was afraid that she would pull on the wound with force, so he comforted her in a soothing voice. “Taya, don’t cry, and don’t feel guilty. I’ve let go, so from now on, you have to let go too.” Taya took a long time to calm down before turning her head to the side, her eyes red and swollen, to look at him. “Are you leaving?” Silas nodded at her. “Taya, get Griffon to take care of you in the future…” Taya raised the corners of her lips to a helpless smile. “Silas, have you thought it through?” He nodded as usual. “Taya, when I’m not by your side, please take care of yourself, and…” Silas took out a contract, going on to say, “Griffon saved me, sent his men to care for me, protect me, and now he’s brought the Sterling pack back to me, not to mention eliminating my enemy for me.
Everything he has done has paid off your debt, so there’s nothing owed between you and me again. You don’t have to feel guilty about me again…” Hearing so, Taya finally figured out the underlying meaning behind the cliff dream. It turned out that she wasn’t meant to choose them, instead, they left her… The debt she owed was paid off the moment they turned and left… Silas put down the contract in his hand with a faint smile. spread across his gentle face. Taya was lying on the hospital bed, looking at him quietly from the side, as if seeing the boy from before. He sat in the last row of the cla*sroom, with one hand on the desk, looking at her pa*sing by the window. He had been just like he was right then, gentle and elegant. They looked at each other as if saying goodbye to the regrets they missed out on when they were young. After a long time, Silas withdrew his gaze to glance down at his watch before looking up at Taya, as if to have left it all to go. “Taya, at a quarter past four, I’ll be returning to Wolverly Capital.” Taya was still full of guilt, but when she saw the relieved look in his eyes, she swallowed the words that were at the tip of her tongue. She looked at him, as gently as she did when she had sent him off the competition, and replied, “Silas, be careful on the road…” Sila s’s hands that were gripping the contract tightened a little.” Taya, do you still remember what a quarter past four means?” Taya gave it some thought before slightly shaking her head at him after finding that she couldn’t remember what it meant. Silas let go of the hand that was holding the contract, bitterly holding on, praying for the hint of a miracle. After an embittered smile, he pushed the wheelchair away. Taya still couldn’t turn her head back.
All she could hear was the sound of the wheelchair rolling on the ground, gradually disappearing into the distance… She looked at the white clouds outside the window, recalling in a daze the scene when Silas had confessed to her with a bouquet of flowers back when she had been seventeen. His words lingered in her mind, “Taya, the time I confess my love for you is exactly a quarter past four. You have to remember the time. Don’t forget.” She vividly remembered her response was, “Okay, I’ll never forget.” It turned out that a quarter past four was the moment he had confessed his love to her back at the age of seventeen… Enduring the severe pain, Taya got up from the bed to look back at Silas. “I’m sorry, Silas, I forgot…” Silas paused, but he didn’t look past his shoulders. “Taya, it’s okay, it’s enough that I remember it.” Taya’s tears rolled. The severe pain in her back sent her forehead dripping with cold sweat. “Silas, will I be able to meet you again?” Silas was holding back tears, but he didn’t look back. “Taya, in the future, we won’t meet again, and…let’s not keep in touch…” Only by completely withdrawing from her life could he let her go forever. Else, what could he do to forget the person he had loved for half his life? Silas pushed the wheelchair, and without looking back, left the ward, leaving her… Staring at the determined figure, Taya couldn’t hold back tears from brimming in her eyes, “Silas, goodbye…” “Goodbye, my boy, goodbye, the Silas I owe for half of my life…” The man in the wheelchair, with red-rimmed eyes, had the corners of his lips tugged. “Goodbye, Taya…” Camille stood guard in the corridor.
Seeing him leaving the ward, he hurried over. “Mr. Sterling, Master Sterling is waiting for you at home, let’s go home…” Silas turned his head and looked in the direction of the ward before forcing himself to look away, saying, “Let’s first head over to the orphanage.” Upon receiving the order, Camille pushed him into the elevator, and drove him to the orphanage. Silas did not go to the orphanage. Instead, he arrived at the park where the wedding was held, staring at the bushes in the distance. He had stumbled into Taya among the bushes, and that was where their fate started, and too, where their fate ended. No one in the world would know that he would eventually be trapped in the past alone, unable to extricate himself forever.