Chapter 368 - She Was Guilty (1/2)

Xia Ruoxin looked at the box in his hand. That rectangular box seemed familiar, but she didn't know of anything else she had left behind.

The rain continued to fall, but the two of them remained unmoving. At last, Xia Ruoxin took the box from him, and Chu Lui retracted his hand. He clenched his arm, which felt slightly numb.

Xia Ruoxin opened the box, revealing a white pearl necklace.

”I thought it broke.” She ran her fingers lightly across the pearls. Yes, he broke it with his own hands.

”It did. I wove it together. It's yours. You forgot to take it.” Chu Lui's fingers throbbed. They were almost full of pinpricks. He almost became a porcupine, trying to string the pearls together.

However, Xia Ruoxin closed the box without a sign of nostalgia or happiness.

”This isn't mine. You said that I had no right to take anything from the Chu household so this doesn't belong to me. I don't want it.” She stretched her hands out and held the box before him. She vividly remembered every word he said before.

Chu Lui smiled bitterly. It was finally time to pay for everything he had done. ”It's yours. If you don't want it, then throw it away.”

Xia Ruoxin retracted her hands. ”Tell me. What are you plotting again?” She wasn't to blame for thinking so. To her, Chu Lui was a scheme himself. Everything about him wasn't genuine.

”I'm not plotting anything. I just want to return you some stuff.” Chu Lui swallowed, a hint of regret in his eyes. This was his retribution. He deserved to go through it all now.

Xia Ruoxin gently touched the box in her hands. She still remembered how he had forcefully yanked apart this necklace.

”This isn't mine anymore. It broke, and that was it. Even if you strung it together, it still isn't the same necklace as before. You don't know what that necklace meant to me. It stood for happiness. How are you going to return my happiness to me? Can you even? I want a home, a home that belongs to me. I want my family. Could you give me all that?”

”I…” Chu Lui choked and his eyes darkened. No, he couldn't. He couldn't give her anything she wanted. He was already married to a wife, and he had promised her that he wouldn't divorce another woman in the same way. Everything was his fault. Four years had passed, and he wasn't the same cold-blooded man he was before.

Therefore, there was no way he could be ruthless once more.

”I understand.” Xia Ruoxin couldn't tell where her heartache was coming from.

”You could treat me cruelly and dumped all your hatred and revenge on me, but you can't do the same to Li Manni?”

Chu Lui was stunned. He shut his eyes at last. ”She's innocent.” Thus, he couldn't do the same thing once again.