Chapter 226 - If It Weren’t For Her (2/2)

Xu Ruoli could not help but see this visual exchange between Su Qingsang and Huo Jinyao. She felt sick but said with a smile, “Jinyao, thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

Huo Jinyao went out and got into the car with Xu Ruoli. In fact, the Xu Mansion was not far away from the Huo Mansion. After getting in the car, Xu Ruoli fastened her seatbelt and kept her eyes on Huo Jinyao.

“Jinyao, there were too many people yesterday, so I didn’t get the chance to talk to you too much. You—”

Xu Ruoli seemed to be hesitating. She still felt uncomfortable thinking about that exchange between him and Su Qingsang. “Are you serious?” she asked.

“We’ve got the license. What do you think?”

Huo Jinyao started the car with a slightly unruly smile on his face. Xu Ruoli felt a pang of bitterness.

“Really? Why her?”

“Maybe it’s fate.”

Xu Ruoli did not believe him. Huo Jinyao was not a man who would talk about fate. “If she didn’t exist, would we… would we possibly—”

She hesitated, not knowing that Huo Jinyao was far more determined than she thought.

“There is no if. Ruoli, to be very clear, nothing can ever happen between us,” he interrupted her.

“Jinyao, I—” Xu Ruoli thought for a while and said recklessly, “Is this about the engagement? You don’t want to be constrained, you don’t want to—”

“No,” again he interrupted her. “If you really knew me, you would know that I don’t care about such worldly affairs or what people think of me. We’re impossible, simply because I do not care about you that way.”