The CEO's Substitute Ex-Wife-Chapter 489: Kaka, goodbye

His memory seemed to return to New Year’s Eve ten years ago. That night, Wushuang was just like that, under the dazzling fireworks, saying "I love you." Her eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky, as if countless stars were shining, beautiful, dazzling, and captivating.

Memory and reality seemed to overlap.

So beautiful, like a rose blooming in the morning dew, like the most brilliant pearl. This Wushuang, so radiant, belonged only to him.

Ten years!

Wushuang had given him ten years of her youth. Ten years ago, she said she liked him, and he flatly refused. Ten years later, she said she liked him again. Could he refuse? Did he want to refuse? How many decades had Wushuang wasted?

And what could he give her in return?

In these ten years, how much heartache had he inflicted on her? She was so strong, invincible, yet he had wounded her deeply, stubbornly waiting, waiting for ten years. And now she actually said she still liked him?

Why ask again, Wushuang? How much pride did you let go of to allow yourself to ask again? Kaka felt an extreme pang of heartache.

...

What was it about him that made her so devoted?

"Wushuang..." Kaka’s voice was slightly hoarse.

Wushuang looked at him steadily, her expression firm and beautiful. "You only need to answer, yes or no. I don’t want to hear the rest. If you want to speak, wait until you’ve given your answer."

"I..." Kaka was about to speak when Qinglong’s voice interrupted from the side, "Nanfeng, Long Chengtian is here and wants to see Miss Wushuang. Jiaqi fainted in the operating room. Do you want to go and see her?"

Wushuang frowned slightly. Qinglong looked at them, sensing the strange atmosphere between them, but didn’t say anything. Mo Wushuang looked at Kaka, silent, waiting for Kaka’s choice.

An answer wasn’t difficult to give.

"Go see Long Chengtian first," Kaka said, stepping forward and grasping Wushuang’s hand. His strong hands seemed to radiate power, transmitting strength to her. "Tonight, I will give you an answer, I promise."

"Why not now?" Wushuang asked in a deep voice. "One word if you want it, two words if you don’t."

She looked at Kaka, smiled slightly, and asked, "I’ve waited for you for ten years, isn’t it worth ten seconds for you to give me?"

Kaka’s heart ached terribly, as if he had been torn apart by a thousand knives in that instant. Wushuang had simply stated a fact in a calm and ordinary way, yet his heart felt like it was being cut by a knife, as if he were being subjected to extreme torture. How could he not know her heartache, and feel her pain as if it were his own?

Wushuang pressed on relentlessly. "These past ten years, I’m exhausted. I want an answer, an ending, even if the result isn’t what I want. I’ve done everything I could, given everything I could, except for what you don’t want. I wanted love, I gave it my all, I tried my best. If I can’t get what I want, I’ll accept it. So, Kaka, please give me ten seconds."

If Kaka couldn’t love her, it wasn’t his fault; it just meant they weren’t meant to be.

"I’m sorry..." Kaka lowered his head, uttering three words in a low voice. His gaze didn’t meet Wushuang’s, as if he couldn’t bear to see her sorrowful expression. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Even after ten years, all he could give Wushuang in the end was "I’m sorry," those three words.

His fists clenched tightly.

He had a premonition that his entanglement with Wushuang was finally over.

Proud as Wushuang was, elegant as Wushuang was, she wouldn’t linger on this fruitless love. She gave him the most beautiful ten years, the most beautiful ten years, from fifteen to twenty-five, the most radiant years of her life, spent with him.

He was unlucky...

He thought it could end later, he thought Wushuang could continue to play dumb with him, but he forgot that she was Wushuang. Ten years of lonely waiting had exhausted all her love for him.

Wushuang smiled faintly, still peerless in her beauty, her shimmering purple eyes sparkling like light, concealing countless splendors. Wushuang took a step forward, gently encircling his neck with her hands, softly pressing against his shoulders.

In that instant, silence fell.

Qinglong, seemingly infected by something, also did not disturb them. Wushuang quietly, greedily, allowed herself to be so close to him one last time, "Don’t say sorry, it’s not your fault. I’ve known all along that you don’t love me. For the past ten years, I’ve been forcing love that wasn’t meant for me. I was greedy. It’s not wrong that you don’t love me."

Kaka’s heart clenched, this abnormal clenching pain almost killing him, his face turning deathly pale.

He quietly endured this clenching pain caused by Wushuang.

She tiptoed slightly, her lips kissing his, her purple eyes glazed over, her beauty breathtaking. "Kaka, goodbye!"

This was her last kiss.

It was the only time in ten years that she had truly shown her feelings, and she never expected it to happen on the very day they were completely over. She would be willful one last time, letting him hear the heart that had beat for him for ten years.

From this moment on, she would completely and utterly give up on this relationship, correctly positioning them. They could be family, friends, siblings, but never lovers again.

Although it took her ten years to see this truth, Wushuang felt it was worth it.

Long ago, Ye Wei had asked her if persisting to the end was worth it, and Wushuang had replied that it was only a matter of whether she was willing, not whether it was worth it. But now she could answer Ye Wei: it was worth it!

From fifteen to twenty-five, in the most radiant years of her life, although Kaka hadn’t reciprocated her feelings, these were still her happiest, most fulfilling, and most brilliant ten years.

She thought that all the joys and sorrows, happiness and anticipation, loss and despair of her life had been used up in these ten lonely yet blissful years.

Having experienced the ups and downs of her love life, she would cherish the peace and tranquility of the future even more.

Wushuang felt regret that Kaka couldn’t love her; it wasn’t that she wasn’t good enough, but that she and Kaka were not destined for each other. In this world, you can’t have whoever you love. If Kaka could be happy, she thought she would bless him.

She had truly given everything for this relationship. Even if she were old and someone asked, she imagined she would tell a poignant love story under a tree to strangers. She thought she might forever cherish the memory alone.

She was also grateful to heaven for allowing her to meet the man she loved most in the prime of her life, giving him everything she had.

She didn’t regret these ten years of persistent waiting,

even if it resulted in this outcome.

Kaka, I only hope you remember that in this life there was a woman who loved you so deeply.

Once deeply loved.

Chu Nanfeng, my Kaka...

my love.

goodbye!