Xie Dahu still wanted to put up a fight and kept his mouth shut, but since Chen Jing had already spilled all his secrets, his resistance was futile. He simply gave up and confessed everything.
Liu Maoyuan’s disappearance was indeed not their doing. It turned out that Xie Bingbing had rejected his marriage proposal; she didn't want to marry him right away. Hurt and angry, he had staged his disappearance on purpose.
Before he left, he had told Xie Bingbing that he needed a definitive answer. He gave her three days: either she rejected him completely, in which case they would break things off for good and never see each other again—after all, this constant push-and-pull was driving him insane—or she accepted his proposal, and they would settle down and lead a proper life together. There was no third option. He had waited for so many years; he was tired of waiting, and he was fed up with it.
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