peninsula asteroid.

Chapter 850 Sorry
Zhou Ziyu's sudden appearance was like taking out a silencer. The room, which was quite lively just now, suddenly became silent. There was only the voice of Ming Jingnan telling a story still echoing in his ears.

In fact, most of the members of Twice know Zhou Ziyu's little thoughts. After hearing about the relationship between Mingjing Nan and Ji Jingyuan, they were surprised, and their first reaction was to think of this. They were just worried about what would happen after Mingjing Nan came back, and now the expected scene has come true.

Several people looked at Chou Tzuyu and then at Ming Jingnan with some concern, their eyes were filled with sorrow and they seemed to be hesitant to speak. After what happened with Park Ji-hyo just now, they were afraid that these two would suddenly start quarreling, which would make the already cracked team atmosphere even worse.

Although they are in the same group with Minami Nagai, to be honest, many of them are also on good terms with Tzuyu Chou. Not to mention that Chaeyoung is in the same dormitory with her, Sana Minatozaki has always been very close to the youngest member, and when she saw that there was obviously a problem between the two, she was very anxious.

Ming Jingnan looked at Zhou Ziyu, who had a calm expression at the door, and their eyes met in the air. He pursed his lips without leaving a trace.

She actually anticipated this before she came back.

“Tzuyu… yes.”

Ming Jingnan stood up and gave Zhou Ziyu a smile. Under the worried yet curious eyes of the crowd, the two of them walked to the balcony at the back.

Minatozaki Sana and the others looked at their backs, glanced at each other, and remained speechless.

With a "bang", the curtains closed, the balcony door was shut, and a transparent glass door seemed like a chasm, separating two silent rooms where even the air was frozen.

The sound of car horns and engines on the distant road lingered in the distance, and the sound of the cold wind blowing through the gaps in the windows made the small balcony seem even more silent.

From the bright dormitory to the dark balcony, not only did their eyes become darker and deeper, making it impossible to tell their emotions, but the sudden drop in temperature also made their bodies shiver uncontrollably.

Fortunately, they had not been back to the dormitory for long, so it was no problem that Ming Jingnan had not had time to change clothes. Although Zhou Ziyu was only wearing a coat over her pajamas, it did not seem to have any impact.

After they came in, neither of them spoke. Zhou Ziyu stared at the night lights in the distance, her pupils unfocused as if she was thinking of something. Ming Jingnan also didn't say a word, but he wasn't as oblivious as the youngest member next to him.

"Ouni..."

After a long while, when the shrill sound of a street-racing sports car's engine gradually faded away, Zhou Ziyu seemed to come to her senses. She turned to look at Ming Jingnan, hesitated for a moment and spoke. Her voice sounded calm at first, but upon closer inspection, it seemed to carry a hint of expectation and pleading: "Are you really dating him?"

Looking at Ming Jingnan in front of her, Zhou Ziyu couldn't tell what emotion she felt towards this familiar sister, anger, sadness, disappointment, surprise, or jealousy?
Maybe both.

When I heard the news in the car just now, I was really shocked. It was like I was struck by lightning and I was stunned for a long time.

In her heart, she has always been the closest to Chi Jingyuan, and their relationship is the most special. The other members of Twice also know this, and they are waiting for their relationship to change slowly as they get older... How come a Ming Jingnan suddenly appeared?

After a moment of surprise, I couldn't control the anger and panic in my heart.

Not long after she came to Peninsula in 12, she met Chi Jingyuan and has been with him ever since then. It can be said that the man has accompanied her throughout all the periods since she left home, and has long been imprinted in every corner of her life. She also didn't know when her feelings changed...it could be last year's "Rooftop", it could be the touching moment in 14, or it could be even earlier.

Anyway, ever since the relationship went sour, Zhou Ziyu has never considered anyone else, either now or in the future, nor has she imagined what life would be like without Chi Jingyuan by her side.

When I was young and just beginning to fall in love, I met a very stunning Chi Jingyuan. I had a perfect person in my heart, so everyone I looked at seemed a little inferior.

Although she was very clear that Chi Jingyuan had been dating someone all the time and his girlfriends were almost seamless, but perhaps because it had not happened to her and she had no personal experience, Zhou Ziyu did not feel any sense of crisis even though she knew about it. She even seemed a little naive and thought that it would not affect her in any way.

However, when she realized that the person standing next to Chi Jingyuan was Ming Jingnan, the member of the same group she had been with day and night, she had a strong sense of reality for the first time, and for the first time she felt the fear of "I might lose him" and "he no longer belongs to me".

From that evening until now, after calming down a little, the anger in my heart has actually been suppressed a lot, and my heart is instead filled with various other complicated emotions.

But when she saw the face of her usual sister, she felt very close to her, Zhou Ziyu felt indescribable discomfort in her heart.

"Um……"

Ming Jingnan heard the heart-wrenching plea in Zhou Ziyu's voice, but she was silent for a few seconds and nodded gently.

At this time, both Ming Jingnan's expression and voice had returned to their usual gentle state. He no longer had the aggressiveness he had just shown when facing the captain. He was even softer than usual, and felt a little guilty.

Her quarrel with Park Ji-hyo already went against her nature, and she only got angry in public because she really couldn't bear it anymore.

But at this moment, facing Zhou Ziyu, who was usually as quiet and gentle as her, and facing the youngest member who didn't speak Korean fluently but still habitually stuttered and added the honorific "smecta" after every sentence even when confronting her love rival, she really couldn't find the sharpness and strength just now.

Moreover, she knew that her boyfriend had a very close relationship with the youngest member, and she knew that if she and Zhou Ziyu quarreled, Chi Jingyuan would be unhappy.

But... although she felt a little guilty, she might give in to Zhou Ziyu in other aspects, but when it comes to her boyfriend...

"..."

Zhou Ziyu was slightly stunned after receiving Ming Jingnan's affirmative answer. The last bit of hope was shattered. She bit her lower lip unconsciously. In order to maintain her self-esteem, she tried to make a calm expression and looked at Ming Jingnan: "Ouni, when did you and him... get together?"

"It's been more than three months..." Ming Jingnan did not hide it.

"That was in July or August. It was so early, and I didn't even know about it..."

Zhou Ziyu silently calculated the time, her expression darkened slightly, and then she perked up and asked, "Ouni, do you know that he and I have known each other for a very, very long time?"

"Well, Tzuyu, you just happened to meet him when you first came to the Peninsula."

The members of Twice also knew the general idea later, while Mingjing Nan heard from Sana about it and knew even more details. She even knew that it was Chi Jingyuan who gave Chou Tzuyu the ticket to the EXO concert.

"Ouni, you two are already dating and have such a close relationship, why are you pretending to be strangers during this period of time?"

"because……"

"Then, unnie, before you started dating him... did you know that I actually always... liked him?"

"……I know."

Although he sometimes pretends, he is not completely pretentious and anyone can see that.

“So, unnie…”

Zhou Ziyu's speech speed became faster and faster. After asking a few questions, it seemed that her anger had reached a peak. Then she showed her sharpness. She interrupted Ming Jingnan, looked at her, and said stiffly word by word with a mocking tone: "So, unnie... do you like to steal other people's things?"

Even though he was still speaking halting Korean and using poor honorifics, the emotionless "smecta" at the end of the sentence could not suppress the suppressed anger and questioning. It was the first time that Mingjing Nan saw the youngest member of the team, who never blushed and would just be unhappy by himself even when something happened, show such a face.

But this seems to be her limit... This well-behaved youngest member still can't do things like falling out and swearing.

Facing Zhou Ziyu's questioning, Ming Jingnan paused for a moment. Even though he felt guilty, he couldn't resist the nameless anger that was growing inside him.

She really doesn't like the word 'steal'.

I don’t like it. I really don’t like it.

Hearing this, her harmless look suddenly changed. She pursed her lips and tried to keep a calm tone. She looked at Zhou Ziyu with a soft voice, but it sounded inexplicably tough:
"So...does he know...that he's yours?"

"..."

Hearing this, Zhou Ziyu, who had just been suppressing her anger, was stunned for a moment. Her body froze in place, as if held in place by an invisible force.

Yeah, he knows… he’s mine, right?
Does he know... that I have always liked him?

Maybe it's because they have been together for too long, or maybe their relationship is too close, Zhou Ziyu has always been accustomed to the special close relationship between her and Chi Jingyuan, and she naturally treats him as her own.

But now thinking about it, she found that she had never directly expressed her feelings and thoughts to Chi Jingyuan. She had always been with him as a friend or even a sister. The only time she crossed the line was when she secretly kissed him while watching a movie at his house... But Chi Jingyuan was asleep at the time and didn't know about it.

Looking back now, when Chi Jingyuan was with her in private, or when they were in contact on the phone, whether he was joking or scolding her or complaining about her out of habit, it was obvious that he treated her more like a friend, or even a sister. What he complained about most often was that Chou Tzuyu was still a "little brat", and every time he talked about it, he treated her like a child.

He also often talked to her about his relationships with men and women, and he didn't shy away from saying things like "I went out to dinner with my girlfriend yesterday."

Now it seems that there is nothing ambiguous between the two of them.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ziyu's face turned even paler.

She knew Chi Jingyuan very well. She knew that Chi Jingyuan was very observant and could easily guess a girl's thoughts through observation. So he should not be completely unaware of her little thoughts. He should know some of them.

But the more she understood, the sadder she became.

...Because, knowing the truth but pretending not to know it, isn't that already showing an attitude...

Her mind was in chaos after hearing Ming Jingnan's question, as if countless voices were clamoring and laughing at her. The anger in her heart was instantly extinguished by cold water. She felt that Ming Jingnan had stolen her man, and that her strong position as being on the high ground of justice was instantly wiped out.

The reason why she was so angry just now was because she had acknowledged her relationship with Ji Jingyuan. She also knew that the members of Twice knew something about it, so she was disgusted and angry about Mingjing Nan's sneaky behavior and felt betrayed.

But at this moment, the point that had been supporting my heart suddenly collapsed. All of a sudden, all of the words, questions, and ridicules that I had been preparing for before could not be said. I felt confused and didn't know what to say.

Seeing Zhou Ziyu suddenly become depressed and sad, Ming Jingnan paused for a moment, and a bit of guilt brewed in his heart.

She and Chou Tzu-yu are actually somewhat similar, whether in personality, way of doing things, or their non-competitive style within the team. Both of them are relatively quiet, gentle and introverted types.

Perhaps only when it comes to love could two girls with such personalities blush at each other.

But when it comes to love, she will never give in.

Ming Jingnan sorted out his thoughts and said in a voice with obvious fluctuations: "No one is anyone's private property. You are not his, and he is not yours. You may have known each other for a long time and may have a good relationship, but as long as there is no formal relationship, there is no reason to stop me, or others' feelings towards him."

"Actually, if we talk about how long we've known each other, I wasn't much later than you. Maybe we haven't known each other for as long as you and Yuan-chan, and there were a lot of trivial daily things in between, but the moment he appeared in front of me, he instantly filled my world."

"But Tzuyu, there is no first come first served in love. It's not about who knew each other earlier and who knew each other later."

In a trance, Ming Jingnan recalled her first meeting with Chi Jingyuan in the club in 14. It was one of her most profound memories to date. They may not have known each other for that long, but in terms of fate and bond, she did not think she was worse than Chou Tzuyu.

As she spoke, she looked at Zhou Ziyu who was dazed and silent. She paused for a moment as if she was hesitating about something, and then she said, "Since you have known him so long ago, you should have realized his excellence earlier and more deeply than others."

"Everyone cares about an excellent man. Why do you think that such an excellent man has no one else who can see his merits, no one else who likes him and takes action? Why do you think he will always stay where he is and play house with you?"

"Tzuyu, you are not a child anymore..."

When the familiar word "child" reached her ears, Zhou Ziyu's body trembled. She felt as if a huge rock was pressing on her chest, making it difficult for her to breathe.

After saying this, Mingjing Nan seemed to be aware of the shock to the youngest member, and she did not continue to speak. She slowly took a step forward and stood in front of the window, looking at the tall and magnificent skyscrapers in the distance. Listening to the noisy sound of tires rubbing and honking in her ears, she fell silent for a while.

Although she seemed to have the upper hand and easily dealt with the maknae's questions, she still felt a tightness in her chest and was in a state of confusion.

She didn't want this to happen, but...

"I'm very sorry……"

After a long silence, Ming Jingnan exhaled lightly, pursed his lips forcefully, turned around and raised his head to look at Zhou Ziyu who was in a daze, and whispered:
"But I'm not sorry about me being with Gen-chan."

"I'm just sorry...I kept it from you until now."

(End of this chapter)