"Shu Jing, let’s go, let’s grab some food!"

This voice rippled in Bo Shujing’s ears like a wave, bringing her back from her work.

Immediately, she raised her head blankly...

She saw a colleague she got along well with walking by in a hurry, phone in hand, face relaxed after work.

Bo Shujing looked around and found the spacious office had long lost its previous busyness. Colleagues had packed up and left, leaving her alone working at her desk, like a forgotten corner in time.

She sighed softly, a slight feeling of loneliness rose in her heart, and she said with a touch of apology: "I’ll pass today, you go ahead and eat."

Since the breakup, her life seemed shrouded in gray, losing its former vibrant color.

Although rationally, she was the one who initiated the breakup and should feel relieved and free, every time her thoughts drifted to the past, realizing her position in his heart was less than a few skewers of grilled lamb, a wave of unspeakable resentment and indignation surged in her heart.

This emotion troubled her, preventing her from truly letting go, making her mood unpleasant lately.

The colleague stopped upon hearing her, looked puzzled: "Ah, why? Is there something? I noticed you’ve been preoccupied recently and often skip meals."

Bo Shujing choked up but didn’t dare to tell the truth, she just briefly explained: "Nothing, just not feeling like eating now, no appetite."

"Well, let’s just say it’s for dieting, I heard that skinny beauty is trending now, I want to give it a try too."

Upon hearing this, the colleague couldn’t help but look Bo Shujing up and down with disbelief in their eyes.

Your height is 165 cm, and you weigh only 92 pounds, such a figure is already the epitome of perfection.

Come on.

pounds, still needs to lose weight?

When did that craze for ’extreme thinness’ in the entertainment industry sneak into the office?

She slightly frowned, eyes flashing with a bit of speechlessness, her tone carrying envy and self-deprecation: "With that graceful figure of yours, you still need to lose weight? I’m already envious! Look at me, I’m 162 cm tall but weigh 108 pounds, in comparison, I’m the one who really needs to diet!"

Bo Shujing smiled slightly, responding: "You don’t need to be envious, everyone has their own unique beauty. Besides, health is the most important."

"You go on ahead, don’t mind me!"

Saying this, she lightly waved her hand, signaling her colleague to go first.

The colleague asked with concern, "Do you want me to bring you back something to eat later?"

Bo Shujing shook her head, with a warm smile on her face: "No need, thank you. I have some food in my drawer."

"Okay then, I’m heading out first. Remember to take care of yourself." The colleague reminded, then turned to leave.

"Alright! Be careful on your way."

Bo Shujing watched as their figure disappeared at the door and gently closed the office door.

Now.

The office returned to silence, leaving Bo Shujing sitting quietly at her desk, extraordinarily lonely.

"Phew, back to work! Work makes me happy."

She spread her arms and did a chest-expanding exercise, reenergized, and focused back on the computer, determined to finish the work at hand in one go.

Checking the time, it was already past one in the afternoon.

Bo Shujing lightly shook her head, subconsciously touching her stomach.

She thought she could ignore the hunger, but her stomach protested loudly.

The growls were getting more frequent and louder!

Finally.

She had to compromise with her rebellious stomach and decided to eat something to soothe it.

But the takeout outside, the repetitive menus, the monotonous flavors, no longer stirred her appetite,

She was fed up!

So...

She pulled open the bottom drawer of her desk, grabbed a cup of instant noodles and a few sausages, deciding to make do with this meal.

Such simple meals had recently become her routine.

She skilfully tore open the instant noodle packaging, poured the vegetable and sauce packets inside, snapped the sausages into pieces and casually placed them on top of the noodles.

Then, she went to the pantry, picked up the kettle, and poured boiling water into the noodle cup.

Using a plastic fork, she held down the lifted lid, brought the cup back to her desk, took a long breath, and slumped back in her chair.

Thinking of nothing, letting her mind go empty.

Emptying herself...

Temporarily forgetting the busyness of work and life’s troubles.

After five minutes...

She came back to her senses and straightened up.

She pulled out the fork from the noodle cup and tore off the lid completely.

Instantly...

A puff of steam hit her face, accompanied by the aroma of sausage and the rich scent of instant noodles, filling the entire office with a tempting fragrance.

She took a deep breath, savoring this simple and genuine happiness.

She gently stirred with the fork to let the noodles and sausages fully absorb the flavor of the broth, carefully lifted some noodles, blew on them, and took a small bite.

Still that familiar taste!

Beep Beep!

Just as she took a bite, her phone next to the monitor suddenly beeped twice, notifying her of new messages.

She put down the fork and reached for her phone.

After unlocking the screen, she was surprised to find the message came from her inseparable roommate.

"Hmm? At this time, why is this guy suddenly messaging me? Could it be that they want to have dinner with me after work?"

With a hint of doubt, she opened the message.

It was unexpected that the roommate had shared a video link with her.

Well, she could only say that her high hopes were misplaced...

Although she couldn’t figure out why her roommate was suddenly acting out of character, out of courtesy and respect, she clicked on the video link.

The next second...

The familiar face of ex-boyfriend Lv Pengfei suddenly appeared on her screen.

At that moment, she felt as if she was struck by lightning, quickly pressing the pause button and exiting the video.

She just didn’t want to see that face!

It pissed her off just to look at it!

"So annoying! Why does it have to be him!"

She furiously typed on the keyboard, sending a message to her roommate: "What are you up to? Sending me a video of him? And where did you get this video?"

The roommate replied almost instantly: "He’s a hot topic online right now, his videos are everywhere, and he’s trending on social media. Take a look, really! And it seems like he’s getting close with a pretty streamer named Jiang Shuihan, as if they’re going to stream together, becoming online influencers. I’m telling you, being an influencer nowadays is lucrative, probably soon, he’ll be quite well-off..."

"What?"

She widened her eyes, face full of disbelief.

Indeed, all men are jerks!

Barely broken up, and he’s already found someone new.

And it’s a female streamer...

With this intense curiosity, she immediately reopened that video.

In the video, ex-boyfriend Lv Pengfei was recounting an incident at the lake scenic area last month where he was dissuaded from jumping into the lake over a few skewers of mutton...

Seeing that once-familiar face, hearing those once-familiar past events, her heart was filled with mixed emotions.

Then, she opened Weibo, and sure enough, saw the trending topic "#The Light of Redemption for the Suicidal, Mutton Skewers#".

She could figure out with her toes that this trending topic must be related to Lv Pengfei.

Clicked into the trend. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Indeed!

She silently browsed through those comments, her heart filled with complex emotions.

In the end.

With heavy and complicated feelings, she clicked on the replay of Jiang Shuihan’s live stream, her fingers anxiously sliding across the progress bar until Lv Pengfei’s figure appeared in view.

She slowly slowed down the playback speed, carefully observing the interaction between Lv Pengfei and that pretty streamer.

The tacit smiles between them, the ambiguous atmosphere in their words, all glaring under the lens, as if mocking her past.

Lv Pengfei’s current spirited demeanor intertwined with the streamer’s joyful laughter, forming a harmonious and beautiful picture.

Netizens’ bullet comments teased the two of them, each sentence stabbing her heart like a needle.

Those past memories and the current scene intertwined in her mind, her heart being repeatedly cut by sharp blades, painful almost to the point of breathlessness.

The camera turned again...

She saw Lv Pengfei in the cafeteria of Dorami Kindergarten, enjoying a sumptuous lunch, eating with great enjoyment.

Beside him, Jiang Shuihan smiled brightly, the two sitting around the dining table, creating a warm picture.

Even across the screen, she could sense that sweetness.

What made it even harder to accept...

Lv Pengfei, noticing that Jiang didn’t like eating pork liver, even proactively and considerately offered to finish it for her.

This detailed care made her realize that he truly had moved on from the past and started a new life...

And what about her!

At this moment, she could only face a bowl of instant noodles on the table, sitting alone in the empty office, spending her meal time in loneliness.

This enormous gap...

Made her feel an unprecedented sense of frustration.

Turns out, after the breakup, only she was still stuck in place, unable to quickly step out from the shadow and restart a new life.

As for Lv Pengfei...

He had long taken a new step, moving towards a new life...

Although it was she who proposed to break up and insisted on taking this path, witnessing him living a more exciting life than herself, not wallowing in depression for losing her, her feelings became extraordinarily complicated, indescribable.

She didn’t know whether to feel relieved for having rid herself of him or to feel bitter about her own sense of loss.

Thinking about Lv Pengfei’s future days becoming more prosperous, more beautiful, possibly even achieving financial freedom...

Her heart was even more filled with complex emotions.

She was once his partner, having weathered many storms together, now she could only watch from afar as he moved toward an even brighter future while she remained at a standstill.

This gap made her start to reflect on whether her decision back then was truly the right one?

Maybe... she was wrong!