"Doctor Ouyang, I didn't know you like to run in the morning." Eve took off her sunglasses and put it on the collar of her blouse. She looked at Doctor Ouyang with an indifferent expression on her face.
The doctor briefly looked at the sunglasses hanging on Eve's neckline. The pair was one of MK's most popular styles this autumn. It was actually one of Elizabeth's favorite brands.
"Running has become my habit. If I don't run for even a day, I'll feel really uncomfortable." Ouyang took off his headphones, turned off the music on his phone, and began to talk to Eve. Suddenly, he looked really focused.
"Do you also run during rainy days?"
"When it's raining, I run on the treadmill," Ouyang casually replied. Eve didn't know it, but he was suddenly recalling some unbearable parts of his past.
Back in college, Ouyang was a quite big-boned, so he was often laughed at by his classmates. Everyone called him names. Not a day went by that they didn't make fun of his appearance. He remembered it very clearly that Elizabeth liked men who had an eight pack abs. For some reason, it gave people a sense of security, so he tried his best to lose weight.
A vast majority of people would always say that they wanted to lose weight, but all they would usually do was talk and think about it. They didn't do anything about it. After all, the most difficult thing when trying to lose weight was to stay committed. For more than half a year, Ouyang exercised day after day. He also worked really hard to develop some muscles and most especially the eight pack abs because Elizabeth liked it in a man.
However, after Ouyang had plastic surgery, and he finally became conventionally attractive, Elizabeth was already with another man. He did not know about it until it was already too late. It was for this reason that it had been a long time since he knew something about love. Often times, when a person is single, they had a lot of requirements for the one they were looking for. But when you meet that one person, all of those conditions would just vanish into thin air. This was what happened to the doctor once upon a time.
"Habits can sometimes be a terrible thing. Sometimes, people get so caught up in what they're used to that they became so stubborn. Even when everyone around them kept telling them they were wrong, and even in their hearts, they knew what's right, they'd still stay with what's comfortable. Because it's safe and whether we admit it or not, we're always looking for some stability in our lives." Putting her hands in her pockets, Eve thought for a while. A faint smile appeared at the corners of her mouth.
Ouyang sneered. However, it was not directed at Eve, but to himself. Because he knew that what she said was right.
When you got used to loving someone, it was really difficult to fall out of love and look at others. Even if you found someone else, you would always have this thought that it was not the same.
Eve knew that it was wrong to fall in love with Nathan, but she couldn't help herself. The world was so huge. There were billions of people, and yet she didn't want anyone else. Her stubbornness might hurt a lot of people, including her, but she didn't care about it anymore. The two things in life that would make her the happiest were to find a job that she loved and to find a man who she loved. In fact, it had come to the point that she didn't want to put up with living this way for the rest of her life. She, too, was getting tired of it all.
"What if you take one more step forward, and there is nothing but a cliff in front of you?" Ouyang smiled and looked up at Eve with his eyelids dropping a little.
"Then I'm going to take my rival in love, and together, we'll jump off the cliff. I'll be dead anyway so I won't get the love that I want. This way, she won't get that love either."
While listening to her, Ouyang's eyes widened in shock. He looked like he was a little scared. He didn't expect that Eve would have such dangerous thoughts. Looking at her, he firmly asked, "Is that necessary?"
"If I'm not mistaken, there must be someone in your heart, too, Doctor Ouyang."
Ouyang smiled without saying a word. In fact, his silence meant acquiescence.
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