Chapter 360 - An Idiot (1/2)

”You want to know why?” He did not pull Li Manni's hand away and asked faintly.

Li Manni was stunned. She didn't nod or shake her head. Her body just trembled constantly.

”Don't worry. I won't do the same thing again. You don't have to worry if I'll do anything to you.” He pulled away from her hand and walked forward.

Li Manni followed behind him closely, fearing that she would lose him if she stepped late.

Except she had already lost him.

In a restaurant, Chu Lui drank the alcohol from his glass, his black eyes misty and deep. He put down the glass in his hand and looked at the woman sitting opposite him.

”I've told you everything you want to know. Anything else?”

Li Manni's looked terrible. Her hands were on her lap, clutching her thighs tightly. ”So, the person you were looking for was never Xia Yixuan, but Xia Ruoxin all this while. You just recognized the wrong person. So your love actually belongs to Xia Ruoxin. So, Xia Yixuan—who should be dead—wasn't actually dead so you hated the wrong person.

So, what now? What are you going to do now?” Li Manni asked faintly with a sense of despair. How could things turn out this way? If the person he was always searching for Xia Ruoxin, what could she do to make him stay and protect her marriage, her family?

”Redemption.” Chu Lui spat out the word coldly but with a hint of determination.

”What are you going to do with me, then?” Li Manni stared at him with empty eyes. He wanted to turn things around with another woman, but what was she—his wife—supposed to do? Abandon her position as the lady of the Chu Enterprise, generously return it to his ex-wife, and then give them her blessings?

She couldn't do it. She would never do it. She had worked hard for four years, and she would never give up no matter what… unless she died.

Chu Lui took another glass of wine and downed it in one gulp. He wasn't negotiating; he was just telling her everything she wanted to know. He hadn't thought any further yet.

”I said that I wouldn't do anything to you,” he said with heavy eyes. He had never put her on a pedestal and thought of her as a saint. They were birds of the same feather: using any means necessary to achieve their own goals and were shamelessly conniving. No such person would readily give up what they have in their hands.

Li Manni's red lips quivered.

”Xia Yixuan was the one you thought you loved. Xia Ruoxin was the love you actually wanted. Then, what is Li Manni to you? Tell me, just what?”

Li Manni put her hands on the table, fists clenching tightly.

Chu Lui put down his glass of wine and stood up stretching a hand towards her. ”Let's head back. It's getting late, and I still have work tomorrow.”