Chapter 60 part1

If You Are a Dodder Flower Chapter 60 part1

If Liang Ziheng hadn’t planned to woo her, he wouldn’t have told this to Lu Jialan. And so in the end, Xia Rou was notified of his intentions before he had even started.

Xia Rou didn’t know if it was fate, but she didn’t want any relation with him at all. She was also loathe to alert Cao Yang to this matter and have him start paying attention to Liang Ziheng.

She wanted to use Lu Jialan as a messenger to convey her rejection, but Liang Ziheng obviously had not gotten the message.

After her class ended on Friday, she prepared to go back to her room to tidy up. The drama club didn’t have any activities planned for the weekend, so she could go home.

Just before the dorms, she saw Liang Ziheng speaking with Lu Jialan. When he lifted his gaze, he saw her easily and patted Lu Jialan’s shoulder. Lu Jialan turned back to look at Xia Rou, looking unwilling but still going back upstairs.

Then Liang Ziheng made his way to Xia Rou.

“Xia Rou,” he said, smiling as he called out.

Her roommates had gone to the cafeteria, but because she was planning to return home to eat, she had come back to the dorms alone. She heard him call out, so she had no choice but to slow down.

“Xia Rou, do you remember me? I’m Liang Ziheng, Hu Chen’s cousin brother.” In order to avoid another repeat of Xia Rou’s “I don’t recognize him,” he first emphasized his name.

“Need anything?” Xia Rou asked. Translated by The Novelst

Liang Ziheng didn’t understand why Xia Rou would be so cold to him. In his memory, he recalled her being quite friendly to others. Could it be because his family background wasn’t good enough?

But he had also gotten along with other rich girls in the past, none of which had treated him so coldly.

“That… Lu Jialan is my cousin. She’s the girl who had a misunderstanding with you last week,” he smiled. “Last time I mentioned your name to her, so she misunderstood my thoughts and caused the both of you to have an unpleasant experience. I have already spoken to her so I hope you don’t mind.”

Xia Rou nodded. “Alright.”

Liang Ziheng choked, but reacted quickly enough to smile, “Then that’s good. I’m relieved.”

“Then… Xia Rou, are you free tomorrow? Let’s have lunch. I’ll make it up to you.”

“No need. It was just a small misunderstanding,” she said. “If there’s nothing else, I’ll be leaving.”

Xia Rou’s rejection was within Liang Ziheng’s expectations. He had even already prepared the words he would respond with. But somehow, he couldn’t get them out. He felt that the atmosphere between them was kind of strange.

Since he didn’t speak, Xia Rou nodded briskly and turned to go upstairs, leaving Liang Ziheng rooted where he stood, staring at her shrinking figure.

Her roommates were still in the cafeteria, so she returned to her room and sat at her desk, hearing people walk past in the hallway past the closed door. But inside her room it was so silent it was scary.

Xia Rou spaced out for a while, slowly using her hands to cover her face…

Liang Ziheng, huh… She still remembered clearly. It was him who caused her death.

But he was also… the man she had wanted to marry in the past…

Initially when she had just rebirthed, she would fall into a rage every time she thought of him. Fury at his betrayal, at his use of her as a tool, and most of all, the way he would look at her as though she had a problem.

And not even to mention that she was dead because of him.

But slowly, that rage and resentment had dulled with the passage of time.

When she came to slowly understand that other people’s attitudes towards her was basically a reflection of how she had treated others, she couldn’t help but reflect on her actions in the past.

After she moved out of the Cao Family residence, Cao Yang was unable to see her every day and take care of her like in the past. So later their relationship gradually became more distant.

But when she got engaged to Liang Ziheng, her relationship with Cao Yang once again became close.

And at that time, Xia Rou hadn’t thought anything of it, but now she understood. Big brother… he had acted deliberately for others to see. So other people knew that Xia Rou was still close to the Cao Family and under his protection. That way, others couldn’t treat her simply.

But even so, he was unable to stay by her side like in the past.

So in the last two years of her life, the one to be by her side, driving her around, celebrating her birthday, preparing surprises, and being greatly concerned with her wellbeing… was Liang Ziheng.

And he wasn’t just good-looking, but also careful and considerate.

Though Xia Rou had chosen him for his family background and general condition, saying she had no feelings for him wasn’t completely true. At that time she had been just a young lady, and this was the man to whom she was engaged, and would soon marry.

If she were to say that she didn’t like him at all, she wouldn’t believe herself. Translated by The Novelst

But she also knew that the two of them had a relationship where they tried to use one another to gain benefits. She wanted to become Mrs. Liang, while he wanted to use her to lean on the Cao FAmily.

But saying he was using her unilaterally wasn’t fair either.

And finally, the thing she was unable to put aside, his betrayal… she had also slowly released, now.

Sometimes she would think back to her final day. Aside from how Cao Yang had been angry and raging, she also remembered hearing Liang Ziheng through the door. “She has a problem!”

That sentence had been filled with deep resentment.

They got engaged when she was 23, and he had promised to wait until she turned 25 to get married. And it had nearly been to the date of their wedding.

And until then, nothing had happened between Liang Ziheng and herself.

She had continuously rejected him and insisted on leaving that matter until after their wedding.

Proofread by: Hannah