"It's time for dinner, Mr. Tang, I won't keep you any longer." Zhao Chuning wanted to send him away quickly. The longer he stayed here, the more dangerous it would be.
Tang Yi had a cold expression. He had been on a business trip for ten days, and the first thing he did after returning was to come to her. However, this woman was so cold to him.
He grabbed her and stuffed her into the car without saying a word.
Zhao Chuning didn't struggle. It was better for him to leave than to stay in the community any longer.
"Didn't you just come back from a business trip today? Why are you downstairs of my house?" Zhao Chuning adjusted his mood and asked him.
"Just passing by." Tang Yi replied casually. Driving along the way, thinking of the cute little girl, he asked casually: "Is there a little girl in your neighbor's house?"
Zhao Chuning's relaxed mood became tense again because of his question, "What?"
"My name is Mimi. Don't you know?" Tang Yi glanced at her from the side to gauge her expression. "With you, I live on the 12th floor of your place."
Zhao Chuning's face was very stiff. "Ah, I know... I have met her a few times. Why do you suddenly ask this?"
Tang Yi's inquiring look wandered across her face. Zhao Chuning's heart was in her throat, unable to tell whether this man knew something.
The next moment, Tang Yi withdrew his gaze, and his eyes fell on the road conditions ahead, and he said calmly: "Just asking."
The threatening gaze withdrew, but Zhao Chuning's heart was beating. This man's insight was always terribly sharp. If she continued to pester him like this, there would be more and more coincidences like this in the future! She couldn't let this happen.
She took a deep breath and said, "Boss Tang, please stop the car on the side of the road. I want to go back."
Tang Yi glanced at her, turned a corner, braked, and really stopped the car on the side of the road. Zhao Chuning looked at him and lowered her head to unfasten her seat belt. The next moment, her face was lifted up by him. Tang Yi stared at her deeply, and she felt that it was a whirlpool that could make people unable to control themselves and be sucked in, but in the end, it would end up in a whirlpool that would shatter them to pieces.
She wanted to avoid him, but Tang Yi would not let her avoid his eyes. He increased the strength of his hands, forcing her to look at him. "Have you missed me in these ten days?"
Zhao Chuning hesitated for a moment, and opened her red lips slightly, "... No."
His face suddenly turned cold, and his eyes seemed to be icy. But the next moment, he remembered something and his face warmed up a little, "I saw your ability to say one thing and mean another last time."
He stroked her lips slowly with his fingers, looking at her with an ambiguous smile, "For the remaining 99 times, shouldn't you pay me back a few times today?"
Zhao Chuning only felt her lips burning, but she didn't have any extra thoughts at the moment. Her mind was full of how to protect Xiaomimi, how to get rid of Tang Yi, and how to prevent them from meeting again. She held Tang Yi's fingers, her expression serious, "Mr. Tang, let's make things clear."
Tang Yi looked at her calmly, as if waiting for her next words.
"You have been pestering me since the first day we met. I want to know the reason - is it because you found that you actually love me?" Zhao Chuning looked at Tang Yi aggressively, deliberately saying something to the point of self-humiliation.
As expected, the word "love" made him frown instinctively, and the resistance and disgust between his brows could not be more obvious.
Zhao Chuning was thinking, if he dared to nod at this moment, she would dare to say that Xiao Yimi was his daughter. However, he could never nod his head on this issue. She knew this man, and "love" was a burden to him. It was like this six years ago, and it was still like this six years later. This man was incapable of loving!
I thought I didn't have any expectations, but I was still disappointed when I saw such a reaction.
She smiled sadly, as if mocking herself.
Tang Yi frowned at the complicated expression on her face. He opened his lips to say something, but Zhao Chuning raised her hand to signal him to be silent. She smiled, but her smile was a little broken. "I know you are going to say: 'Zhao Chuning, don't be ungrateful. I, Tang Yi, only talk about sex with people, not love. No woman is worthy of asking for love from me'. Right?"
Tang Yi pursed his lips tightly and did not answer.
His silence was a tacit agreement. Zhao Chuning felt a pain in his heart, but he kept a stubborn smile on his face. "Tang Yi, you have your own rules, but I also have the right to choose whether to participate. I played a game with you six years ago, and that's enough. I'm not young anymore, and I don't want to find a sexual partner. I want to find a man who can talk to me about love, life, and marriage. Do you understand?"
Tang Yi's thin lips tightened, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, don't come to me again. Starting tomorrow, I will find someone to marry. As for you - I heard that you and your fiancée are getting married soon, so don't let her down."
"When do I need you to arrange my affairs?" Tang Yi's eyes were filled with gloom. He pulled her little face close to him with such force that it seemed as if he wanted to crush her.
Zhao Chuning was in so much pain. The pain was not just physical pain.
When I made up my mind to withdraw from this fruitless relationship, it felt like my tendons and bones were being pulled out. I had experienced it once six years ago, and now, six years later, I have actually gotten used to this pain.
"There is one more thing..." She started, her voice still sounding so light, "The reason why I said 'I like you' in front of Cheng Zheng last time was just to avoid his pursuit. In fact... Tang Yi, when I dumped you six years ago, I no longer loved you!"
The last few words were spoken with great emphasis, and then he added: "Every time you touch me, I find it unbearable."
Tang Yi held her chin tightly, his fingertips almost digging into her flesh. So close, she could see the beast-like fierceness in his eyes, as if he wanted to tear her into pieces.
Just when I thought he would never forgive me, he spat out a cold word from his lips, "Get out!"
After saying this, he pushed her away.
Zhao Chuning glanced at him, only to see his cold and temperatureless profile and his hands with veins throbbing on the steering wheel.
She didn't hesitate, pushed open the car door and walked out. The bones on her face felt like they were broken.
The car rushed out for a long distance at the fastest speed, and then a box suddenly flew out of the window, fell to the ground and rolled over.
Zhao Chuning walked over and picked up the box. A valuable white watch came into her eyes, and her eyes couldn't help but moisten slightly. She rubbed it slowly with her fingers, and her fingertips trembled. The next moment, she took a deep breath, raised her head again, and suppressed the bitterness in her stomach.
That’s good!
Rejecting him decisively and cutting off all contact with him was something she should have done a long time ago. She had been dragging her feet before because she was always obsessed with him and was reluctant to give up. Today, after being provoked by Xiaomi, she has been forced into no choice.