Runaway Guide (逃婚指南 - ABO)

Chapter 77 - A Little Bit Abusive

Xi Wei was in such a shocked daze that he didn’t know how he got back to his room. He felt as if he was walking on cotton, and the whole world in front of him was swaying, on the verge of collapse.

—What exactly did Klaire mean to him?

—Why would he be this upset when he heard news that something happened to him?

Was he the manager who had always stayed by his side in the last world, taking care of his daily needs and helping him on his path to the throne of Film Emperor? Or was he the childhood friend who’d grown up with him in this world, and who always helped him at the critical moment?

No matter his identity, Xi Wei only knew that that man had always stood in a place where he could see him as soon as he looked back, always gazing at him with a smile. Every time Xi Wei encountered hardship, he just had to look at Klaire’s smile and he’d feel relaxed, because he knew that no matter what happened, they’d face it together.

All through two worlds, that man had never left him and never given up on him. At first, Xi Wei had been able to take Klaire for a good friend and a good brother, but after he earnestly confessed to him, Xi Wei found that it turned out it had all been out of love.

What did love feel like? Xi Wei had never known before. He’d acted in a lot of TV shows before, and he’d played the role of an infatuated male lead many times, but he knew that those dramas and scripts were fiction, and he’d only been acting.

But today, he finally understood.

So it turned out that worrying himself sick over someone would make it so that he couldn’t rest or eat in peace, and that when someone left, his heart would feel as painful as if it was emptied out.

Klaire had lost contact for so long that there was little hope for him.

—When he thought of that man not being there anymore, Xi Wei’s heart felt as if it was completely empty, as if a part of his life had suddenly been stripped away.

—It wasn’t until now that he knew Klaire was this important to him!

The pleasant surprise of realizing Klaire was here back then was still vivid in his mind. At the time, he’d thought he was so happy because he could meet a friend from his previous life in this world. It was as if he’d run into an old friend he hadn’t seen in a while in a crowd.

It was only now that he realized that to him, Klaire wasn’t only an old friend.

From today onwards, there would no longer be anyone who would understand him like Klaire, or who would look at him with warm eyes and say with a smile, “I like you.”

When he thought of this, Xi Wei’s heart felt as painful as if someone had emptied it out with both hands. He pressed down on his chest with both hands, but found that there was no way to ease the pain that came from the depths of his heart by the slightest bit.

The ache had sunk into his inmost heart, the ache had sunk into his marrow…

Because the person who loved him the most, Klaire, who he’d always mistakenly thought of as a friend, had suddenly left before Xi Wei could figure out his feelings…

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This New Year's Day was a day of celebration for many.

Carlo and Aiden, newly married, were planning to go on their honeymoon. Caesar and Brian had passed their eighteenth birthdays, and after New Year’s, they were going to get their luggage ready and set off for St. Romia Military Academy to begin their studies. He’d heard good news that the second princess Sia had gotten pregnant, and that the third princess Celine had successfully graduated from Ellen Academy.