Once, he was happy by her side, and he truly loved her. This love certainly wasn't as profound as Xue Ru's love for him, but it was genuine, and so he felt very happy.
Later, he slowly lost interest in her, for many reasons.
Chen Xueru's personality was too conservative and didn't align with his. Their interests were entirely different. She always accommodated him but never had anything to talk about, and gradually, he lost interest. Furthermore, Chen Xueru couldn't give him the desired pleasure in bed. Many reasons made him begin to find her boring. Later, when he met Han Bi, his last lingering attachment to her also disappeared.
In these past few years, he never deliberately paid attention to news about her. Occasionally, when he saw her appear on small news pages, he would think, "This woman is the one I abandoned. She's unhappy and uninteresting."
This was almost his entire impression of Chen Xueru.
