341 Just A Spare Tire (1/2)

”Marry me!”

Su Li had not said a thing since she arrived, but when she finally did, Xiao Luo was shocked into silence. It took a while for Xiao Luo to digest those words, and for a time, he simply gazed at Su Li in a stupor. She was wearing a white-colored dress with blue polka dots, which gave her a girl-next-door look. It was a well-cut outfit that accentuated her slim waist and slender legs, and a pair of yellow-colored high heels complimented the look. Her long black hair fell loosely, cascading down over her shoulders, and it gave her a youthful vibrance—but she retained that unmistakable quality that Xiao Luo had come to recognize, the frosty gaze of a woman who always got what she wanted.

”Marry you?”

Xiao Luo blurted out, finally finding his voice. He still couldn't believe what he had just heard. ”Are you serious?”

Su Li looked right at him, and there was a momentary glint in her eyes, but she kept an impassive expression on her face. She sat impeccably composed as she asked, ”Well, didn't you say that you were going to take responsibility?”

”Indeed, I did say that I was, but not in this way.”

Xiao Luo was stumped, feeling unsure how to react, and he was a little exasperated as well. To Xiao Luo, marriage was one of the most important milestones in life, a sacred commitment. Undoubtedly, the girl standing right in front of him was a rare beauty. Some would even say that she was one in a million, however, as a person, Xiao Luo found her to be cold and hard, and he felt that to marry a person with such a personality would not be the right match for him.

”If you don't marry me, then how are you going to take responsibility? Are you going to give me monetary compensation? Do you think that's what I need?” Su Li was beginning to lose some of her calm demeanor and began to sound somewhat anxious.

Xiao Luo did not know how to respond to that and decided to say nothing. All he knew was that he would take responsibility, but not by marrying Su Li.

Su Li gave Xiao Luo a strange look, and he could feel her doubts about the promise he had just made to take responsibility, and how he had now wronged her. He avoided eye contact but knew she was looking right at him, and the weight of guilt began to bear down on him. Suddenly, her eyes turned red, and tears began to roll down her cheek.

Xiao Luo sighed, and said, ”Miss Su, you and I are just two strangers. And marriage is a big thing; it's something you have to think through and consider carefully before making a decision.”

Su Li glared at him with a hint of resentment in her eyes and said, ”I've already thought it through and considered it carefully!”

”So, this is what you meant when you said you were going to take responsibility?” Su Li said. The edge was missing from her voice, and in its place, a tone of disappointment. Tears streamed from eyes once more, and Xiao Luo's heart went out to her. But he had to remain firm.

”I mean it when I say that I'm going to take responsibility, and there are many other ways of doing so. But marriage is out of the question,” Xiao Luo said.

”I've lost my virtue to you. I didn't think you would be this unkind...”

Xiao Luo looked aggrieved, and said, ”Miss Su, there is something I have to tell you. That night was my first time too. I didn't even ask you to take responsibility.”

”Ohh! You're shameless!”

Su Li was incredulous! She could understand if a man was not going to take responsibility, but for him to go so far as to say something like this! How could a man's ”first time” compare to a woman's? Su Li got so upset that she started getting heart palpitations.

”If you think I'm shameless then so be it, what can I do?”

Su Li wiped away her tears, glaring at Xiao Luo with reddish eyes, then she stood up and took a deep breath. ”I'll ask you one last time…” she said, pausing at each of the following words as she continued, ”are you going to marry me?!”

Xiao Luo gulped, he had a bad feeling about this but couldn't put his finger on it. He wondered if this woman was planning to argue with him until she got what she wanted.

He coughed, and shaking his head, he said: ”If you came to find me today with this in mind, then I'll have to apologize—my answer is no.”

”Fine then!”

Su Li glared at him, and tears of pain and sorrow ran down her cheeks. She sniffled as she fought to hold back her tears and said, ”When I am a ghost… I'm going to haunt you for the rest of your life!”

Xiao Luo couldn't help feeling like she was pointing an accusing finger at him, and every word she uttered cut deep.