As Li Yuan spoke, he couldn't help but laugh. His past self was truly a pathetic clown…
Bai Weixi continued to listen quietly, but her mind was now filled with even greater confusion.
"For three years in college, I relentlessly pursued you. Even though we were at different schools, I visited your campus every weekend. I willingly scrimped and saved for you, secretly eating mantou dipped in chili sauce just to get by. I made up every excuse I could think of to get money from my parents and even took on part-time jobs on the weekends, all to make you happy—to buy you gifts, take you shopping, and go to concerts with you.
"During that time, I confessed my feelings to you twice more, and you rejected me with different excuses each time. After seeing the splendor of Modu, my own sense of inferiority grew. I knew deep down how things between us would end, but I kept deceiving myself, telling myself I just wasn't good enough.
