Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

by Meng Xi Shi

Shen Qiao shook his head. “He’s not cruelhearted—he never had a heart in the first place. He treats everyone in the world with the same callousness, and he’ll never be particularly gentle toward anyone. But I didn’t understand that part. I thought that even the hardest of hearts could be thawed one day. I took him for a friend, and I believed that he should do the same. But that belief was unrequited.” “If you took him for a friend, shouldn’t he take you as his friend too?” Shen Qiao laughed. “No. In this world there are many, many situations where

giving someone something doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll receive anything in return. When you choose to give, you must remember this, or else the only one hurt will be you.”