Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

Shen Tingci was initially indifferent, but as her tears fell, a hint of disgust appeared in Shen Tingci's eyes.

“If Comrade Wu has any grievances or injustices, he should go to the discipline inspection department, not me.”

“Tingci, I…” She frantically wiped away her tears, “I didn’t mean anything by it, I…” She wiped away her tears and tried desperately to explain, looking extremely pitiful, but Shen Tingci showed no sympathy.

"If Comrade Wu has any complaints about me, please go to the discipline inspection department."

Wu Xinyi immediately shook her head, "No, listen to me, I know I was wrong."

“Heh,” Shen Tingci chuckled. He picked up the phone on the table and dialed, “Let Shen Tingyu in.”

As soon as Shen Tingci finished speaking, Wu Xinyi stepped forward and said, "Tingci, I know I've wronged you. You can resent me, hate me, but please don't..."

“Brother,” Shen Tingyu pushed open the door and saw Wu Xinyi crying and rushing towards his brother’s desk.

He didn't know why his brother had called him in at this time.

Shen Tingci simply wanted him to come in and see the trouble he had caused.

As soon as Shen Tingyu entered, Shen Tingci pointed at the person in front of him and said, "You've brought this trouble!"

Wu Xinyi remained frozen in place, still in the position of a pupa, unable to believe the words she heard: "Trouble!"

She's a problem.

Wu Xinyi immediately squatted down and cried, hugging her knees and sobbing pitifully, "I just wanted to come see you as a friend, that's all, why, Tingci, why did you treat me like this!"

Shen Tingyu probably didn't expect his brother to say that Wu Xinyi was a problem. Seeing Wu Xinyi squatting on the ground and crying, he was at a loss for what to say.

She glanced at Wu Xinyi, who was sobbing on the floor, then at Shen Tingci, who was sitting upright behind his desk, and opened her mouth...

Before he could speak, Shen Tingci spoke first.

However, Shen Tingci was speaking to Wu Xinyi, asking, "Friend?"

"What friend?"

Shen Tingci's words made Wu Xinyi pause in her sobs for a moment. "We, we used to..."

She stammered and spoke unclearly.

Shen Tingci hated this the most; it was like having a bucket of dirty water thrown on him that he couldn't wash away.

“I used to date someone,” Shen Tingci said for her. “Perhaps I’m an ex-boyfriend you can’t be proud of. So, I won’t mention this to anyone else in the future, and I hope you won’t either.”

Wu Xinyi immediately shook her head, "No, no, listen to me, I..."

Shen Tingci interrupted her again, "Since you two were once a couple, what makes you think we can still be friends after we broke up?"

“And it happened after the relationship was severed…” Shen Tingci calculated, “Eight years later.”

Shen Tingci couldn't help but say sarcastically, "You're as selfish as ever."

Accused of selfishness, Wu Xinyi's face paled.

But Shen Tingci hadn't finished speaking when she said, "The wedding date was already set, but you said you wanted to go to the countryside, and you insisted on going no matter what. Of course, that's your freedom, and I don't object."

But if you had considered me even a little bit back then, you probably wouldn't have gone, right?

"Since you chose the path you wanted to take back then, as an adult, whether the path you chose is full of wildflowers or full of thorns, it is still the path you chose. You can choose to walk it on your knees, or you can turn back. But how can you imagine that if you turn back, someone will still be waiting for you at that crossroads?"

"It's good to be confident, but being overconfident is called arrogance, which can easily cause unnecessary trouble for others."

"I must make it clear to you that I, Shen Tingci, am not your friend."

Wu Xinyi shook her head, probably because she couldn't accept Shen Tingci's heartlessness.

"Could it be that all the affection we had back then was fake?" Wu Xinyi asked, unwilling to give up.

Before Shen Tingci could figure out how to answer him, Wu Xinyi asked again, "I know it was wrong of me to abandon you back then, but are you going to hold a grudge against me for the rest of your life because of this?"

Shen Tingci thought for a moment, then gently wagged her index finger at her, "No, I don't hold a grudge against you."

"As for relationships, well, I think we're like most unmarried men and women dating. Some are attracted to looks, some to first impressions, and some to compatibility..."

"I chose it because it suited me!"

"So I really don't hold a grudge against you."

"Although your resolute decision to go to the countryside back then did make me doubt myself, I felt that there might really be something wrong with me, otherwise why would even you look down on me!"

“But that’s something a twenty-something Shen Tingci would doubt. Twenty-eight-year-old Shen Tingci…” Shen Tingci shrugged, “Even if we’re not married yet, you’re no longer my choice.”

"Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, I got married!"

"My wife is very beautiful."

"She's pregnant and will be giving birth soon. I'm really looking forward to the arrival of our child."

"I shouldn't have shared this kind of news with you, because you're neither my friend nor someone I know well, but since you seem to have some inappropriate thoughts, I've decided to share it with you anyway."

"My assessment of you just now is that you are suitable, which is something I discovered after meeting my wife."

"My wife is exactly my type."

"Actually, we almost missed each other."

"We met through a blind date. She was very beautiful, but the way her skirt swayed in the breeze when we first met made my heart flutter, yet I dared not."

"Because you used to be like that too."

"I'm actually a little scared, scared that she's like you, saying one thing and meaning another," Shen Tingci couldn't help but say what was on her mind.

Wu Xinyi's eyes widened in panic, but she noticed that Shen Tingci was talking to himself and not looking at her at all.

"I later realized that people may be similar for a moment, but upon closer inspection, they are all very different."

"Then I realized that she was the one who was really right for me."

“You are not. You are the choice of Shen Tingci, who was eighteen years old and had unclear eyesight.”

"After meeting my current wife, I'm so glad, so glad that you insisted on going to the countryside and left me, with my impaired eyesight, otherwise..."

Otherwise, what would be the result? He turned his gaze to Shen Tingyu.

Shen Tingyu lowered his eyes subconsciously, not daring to meet Shen Tingci's gaze.

Shen Tingci dialed the internal line again, "Come in and help me clear out the unimportant people."

Zhang Guang quickly came in and pulled Wu Xinyi, who was slumped on the ground, out.

Shen Tingci looked at Shen Tingyu, who was still standing there, and asked directly, "Why do you think I would want to see her?"

Shen Tingyu opened her lips, but couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

"I feel like I should see her because she's someone I used to date?"

Shen Tingyu remained silent.

Shen Tingci said, "But shouldn't our relationship have ended after she resolutely went to the countryside?"

"When I saw her again, was it because I was unwilling to accept that she had abandoned me, or because I felt we could be friends?"

What do you think?

Shen Tingyu couldn't say it, because his brother's ideas were completely different from his.

The two have very different ideas.