18 THE MOST PAINFUL THING IN THE WORLD (2/2)
”That's okay,” Xuan Tianyi said with a small smile. It was nice to see someone so worried about him. ”I'm fine now.”
”That's good. Hua Zhendan is such a good person. Have you returned his credit card?”
Xuan Tianyi swallowed a big lump of saliva. ”Can you have dinner with me? I have something to talk to you about?”
”We'll go home together after dinner, right?”
”Whatever you want,” Xuan Tianyi assured her.
”Good. But make sure you return President—”
”Bye,” Xuan Tianyi hung up the phone. The last thing he wanted was to hear Hua Zhendan's name.
As Xuan Tianyi exited the elevator, he walked towards the counter at the reception and clocked out. Despair was weighing him down. Of all the ways he had imagined this day could end, this wasn't one of them.
The knowledge that Hua Zhendan had given Tan Yao the supposedly better job had caused him pain and made him feel betrayed.
A strange kind of pain.
A strange feeling of betrayal.
Still, he felt like he could effortlessly forgive Hua Zhendan. Like if he could kiss him and hug him, then he would forget about the whole thing. Was having feelings for somebody this strange?
As he walked away from the aforesaid counter, two security men approached him. He was about to walk past them when they stopped him. ”Sir, please come with us.”
”What? Me?”
”Yes, sir. Please.”
Xuan Tianyi blinked. What was this concerning? As he had nothing to fear, he sheepishly followed them outside. Or did he have something to fear? Had Hua Zhendan called the cops on him?
As if to answer his question, at that moment, a cop car stopped in front of them and two cops emerged from it.
”Sir, you are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do might be used against you in the court of law. Please follow us to the station for questioning.”
”What? No! I'm not going to do that.”
As one of the cops tried to handcuff Xuan Tianyi, Xuan Tianyi gave him a shove.
This triggered an immediate reaction from the other cop who unexpectedly pulled a baton out of nothingness and hit Xuan Tianyi with it.
Before Xuan Tianyi could comprehend what was going on, the cops hit him again and again until he found himself lying in a ball on the ground.
Seeing him wholly submissive, the cops stopped hitting him and dragged him into their car. Ignoring the small crowd that had gathered.
The cops had hit Xuan Tianyi everywhere but in his face. It was difficult to sit on his butt as it hurt badly.
Everywhere hurt.
But nowhere hurt as much as his heart did. Less than an hour ago, love had come off as the most beautiful thing in the world to him. Now, that love had betrayed and hurt him and had instantly become the most painful thing in the world.