Charlize immediately talked about the core of the problem. What is the reason for Hugo's sadness and sadness? Is it because of the passing of this relationship, or because Uma is unwilling to fight for this relationship, or because Hugo's trust has not received Uma's response.

Hugo stood there in a daze, feeling a little chilled, and couldn't help but shivered, "Maybe they all." Hugo said softly.

Perhaps at the beginning, when Hugo learned that Uma had become the heroine of the "icing trap", the first thing he felt was betrayal. Joseph reminded him and Charlize also hinted at him, but he did not pay attention to it. He chose to believe Uma, so when he knew that the so-called belief was just his wishful thinking, he felt betrayal first. He gave Uma the opportunity to explain, but he was also unwilling to believe that his trust was worthless at all.

But when Uma gave up the opportunity to defend herself, when Uma gave up the opportunity to fight for this relationship, even Hugo's inner feelings might not be able to explain even himself. At that moment, he even began to doubt whether his emotions were authentic. Has everything in the past few months been just an illusion?

There was a moment when Hugo remembered Anthony's remarks about Uma. Could it be that Uma was really using him to use him as a stepping stone for her career? Then Hugo denied this idea himself, because when Uma was with him before, "Smelling the Fragrance to Know Women" had not been released yet, and no one was optimistic about Hugo, so naturally there was no stepping stone. But then Hugo began to suspect that Uma and herself had a real date from the premiere of "Yihai Xiongfeng". Perhaps Uma had started to think about it since then...

After the trust creates a crack, all doubts will be revealed, and details that were not doubts will become seeds of doubt.

Hugo had to stop his random thoughts, so that he began to doubt the authenticity of this relationship. So Hugo fell asleep in a drowsy way, from morning to midnight. In fact, Hugo did not really fall asleep at all. The struggle in half-dream and half-awake made him suffer, and his mental weakness seemed to be as if he could collapse at any time.

Trust is never an easy thing, and it is also the terrible thing about betrayal, because once you trust and encounter betrayal, you have to face the collapse of your entire world. Hugo is in this stage now, and he cannot even make a judgment on his past emotions.

Charlize looked at the fragility on Hugo's face, the fragility that would break if it reached out and touched, projected a faint reflection in the reflection of the moonlight. Charlize couldn't help but stretch out his fingers to touch the projection on the ground, but immediately shrank back in fear. She seemed to see the reflection trembling. She was worried that a slight touch of her would collapse the castle like a pile of sand.

"But," Hugo was silent for a long time, and his slightly hoarse voice disturbed the quiet moonlight, and rippled in circles, making Charlize shivering, "Is the reason really important? Human feelings are complicated, and there is no way to distinguish them in detail. No matter what the reason is, the result is that it is clearer. She left the key, and even did not leave a chance."

Uma left so firmly that she did not try to keep this relationship, and at the same time she also cut off Hugo's chance to keep this relationship. This result was too cruel. Not to mention Hugo, even Charlize doubted that did Uma and Hugo's relationship really exist?

"Maybe I just like her now, maybe I love her deep down, I...I just need a while to get closer to her step by step. I'm working hard, maybe, she's working hard, just..." Hugo said in a mess, "Maybe she chose to give up this relationship not because she didn't want to fight for it, but as she said, in love and career, she chose the latter...or rather, she wasn't unwilling to believe me, but the situation at that time gave her too few choices..."

After Hugo said a lot, he stopped weakly, "But why didn't she explain." These were all Hugo's guesses, but Hugo had no clue about his true thoughts. He gave her a chance to explain, but she refused. Any relationship is difficult to maintain without communication, and there is no doubt.

"Maybe, she doesn't want to explain because she doesn't want to continue." Charlize said in a daze looking at Hugo. This sentence made Hugo's tense shoulders completely relax. This is the fundamental reason. Hugo knew this, and he always knew it, so even Hugo, who never gave up easily, did not make any struggle after he let Uma leave, not because he didn't like Uma enough, but because he realized Uma's true thoughts: she didn't want to continue.

When Uma put the key in a glass bowl, the crisp sound might be the last end of the relationship.

Hugo lowered his eyes dejectedly, "I just need some time to figure it out, some time."

Hugo didn't say what he wanted to figure out, maybe he figured out what was going on, maybe he figured out how deep his feelings for Uma were, maybe he figured out how to get into such a dilemma... But Charlize knew that Hugo could not do normal thinking now, and the crack of trust left him covered in bruises, so that he had no way to think at all.

Charlize fell silent. She didn't know what to say, because as a friend she had said everything she could say, and the rest was something Hugo had to figure it out herself, and she couldn't do anything. It might be what she should do as a friend.

"So, do you want to drink?" Charlize said with a distraction and pretending to be relaxed. "There is a lot of beer in the refrigerator and a bottle of red wine in the cabinet, I remember."

Hugo let out a long breath, closed his eyes, and rubbed his temples again, "If possible, would you please give me a bottle of beer? Thank you." He left with a headache, and his knees seemed to start to hurt again. This damn weather.

Hugo had always been glad that he was in Los Angeles, which was followed by dryness and little rain, and the chance of snowfall was very low, and the annual rainfall was even less. It was originally said that the rainfall in Los Angeles was basically concentrated in winter, but today's winter is obviously a clear season, which made Hugo's knees never have any problems. But tonight, the pain in the knee really took away all his strength, and he didn't even have much sadness left.

Charlize brought two bottles of beer, handed a bottle to Hugo, and sat down again on the sofa. She saw a few pages of paper scattered on the table with large paragraphs of text written in pencil, and pointed, "What is this, can I read it?"

Hugo took a sip of beer, shrugged his shoulders and said it didn't matter, and then closed his eyes. He felt very tired, sleepy and tired now, but he couldn't sleep. His eyes were obviously sore and painful, but he just couldn't fall asleep. Hugo didn't know if he had been squinting for too long before, or because the pain in his knees and head had been stimulating his nerves.

Charlize picked up the paper and found that it was actually a supermarket receipt. Hugo wrote a random sentence on the back of the receipt, like a diary or a poem, but Charlize guessed that this should be a lyric.

"The departed wandering soul left the aftertaste of perfume on the pillow, and in the room without any light, I lost my sleep... When you are by my side (when.are.near.me), when you are here I re-recognize myself and discover myself."

The sadness and sorrow between the lines appeared on the paper, which made Charlize couldn't help but look at Hugo. Hugo still closed his eyes, rubbed his temples, and then looked at the lyrics. Charlize noticed that "When you are by my side", Hugo used "near" to indicate nearby, rather than other prepositions that were closer. Just this word, you can see the delicate feelings in the words and sentences. What Hugo needs is not her by her side, but just being near herself. This is enough.

More importantly, when Hugo wrote the sentence "When you are by my side", it uses the present tense, not the past tense, which means that when Hugo recorded these words, it is not a kind of nostalgia and a mourning, but a call.

Hugo is not commemorating the lost love, but is calling Uma's response.

When Charlize realized this, she was hit in an instant. Perhaps deep in Hugo's subconscious, what he was sad about was not Uma's betrayal or the passing of feelings, but Uma's abandonment. There was no resistance, no big quarrel, no effort to explain, and he gave up easily. Such a relinquish made Hugo unable to believe Uma's feelings for him, and Hugo could not believe everything in the past of this relationship, making Hugo even doubt whether his trust was worthless.

Charlize closed his eyes in a panic and quickly lowered his head, fearing that his embarrassment would be seen by Hugo. It was not until this moment that Charlize knew how painful Hugo was in front of him. The pale and powerlessness on the surface made people unable to see the pain and struggle in his heart. Perhaps in Hugo's heart, he was already bloody and scarred, but there was no way to heal him.

Charlize opened his eyes again and looked at Hugo who was closing his eyes in front of him. Hugo seemed to be asleep, without much movement, which allowed Charlize to look at the man in front of him.

In fact, Charlize had never really looked at him carefully. Just by looking at him, he knew that this was a handsome man. His temperament even surpassed the feeling brought by his appearance and facial features. However, after careful reading, Charlize found that Hugo's eyebrows were outlined little by little with ink and water were so delicate, just like an ancient ink painting, extending gently and fragilely under the reflection of the moonlight.

The slightly tangled eyebrows made people involuntarily want to smooth it out and then tell him that everything will be fine.
Chapter completed!