Bab 188: Chapter 129 Clues (8k)_4

Any further change could easily destroy this connection, make it deteriorate, and ultimately turn into something no one wanted to see.

At first, he didn't care and had even tried to express his refusal to Hong Siyu outright, but since the other party was unwilling to be clear and acknowledge it, he also tactfully dropped the matter.

They were no longer children after all, and relationships between adults always required such careful nurturing of each other's distance. Everyone has true feelings hidden in their hearts that they never articulate, and there's no need to delve too deeply. Insisting on having everything completely transparent is impossible.

At the end of the day, between two adults, as long as they can maintain their personas till the end, the true feelings hardly matter. Preemptively bringing up the topic of going further would only spoil the delicate balance they had achieved.

So, the way things were now was sufficient.