To be fair, even without this truck accident, he would have come clean eventually. She was the love of his life, and if he wanted them to spend the rest of their lives together, honesty was important.
However, this had happened so suddenly that he wasn't mentally prepared yet. He was afraid, afraid that she might react the same way as those people from his childhood after she found out about the truth. The fear, the isolation, the hatred… he couldn't bear to see those emotions on her face.
"Su Zhinian?" Song Qingchun looked at how Su Zhinian had gone petrified with the glass in his hand, and she couldn't help but prompt him.
"Hmm…" Su Zhinian heard her and quickly pulled himself back from his thoughts. He finished the rest of the lemonade slowly before resting the glass back on his desk. He stood up to walk toward Song Qingchun.