1137 I Want to Make You Stay 15 (1/2)
”What do you want me to do, then?”
”I just want you to say that you love me, even if you don't mean it. I really want to hear it.”
Fang Erlan did not expect that he would make such a request and was extremely bewildered. She said softly, ”I love you.”
Xiao Chenyang hugged her. No one would be able to understand how he was feeling at that moment.
He did not force her anymore and said in an electrifying voice, ”Let me tell you the story about me and Nan Chuang.”
She expressed assent and said, ”Go ahead, I'm all ears.”
”Nan Chuang married me when she was 16 years old. Her parents had sold her to me. I've never seen here before we got married, and my mother was the one who arranged the marriage for me because she thought that Nan Chuang was rather pretty. She was my concubine,” said Xiao Chenyang, who began recalling the events from centuries ago.
”I didn't fancy her, and we were married only in name. Although I didn't have an actual wife, she was still just my concubine. However, she had been through lots of suffering when she was married to me. She was a clever and bright girl, and in her mind, she believed she belonged to me since I had married her. Hence, she would do whatever she could and continuously look for opportunities to approach me. I rarely went home, but whenever I did, I would see her and she would call me 'Lord' with overflowing excitement, every single time. She looked really beautiful when she smiled. She would often smile at me sweetly. I'll never be able to forget that smile of hers,” said Xiao Chenyang, who began tearing up.
Fang Erlan remained still and listened to him quietly.
”I was touched by her devotion and finally fell in love with her in the end. When we were in love with each other, we enjoyed a blissful honeymoon period. She said that it was love at first sight for her and that she only had eyes for me. She said that I was her everything. However, our happiness was short-lived. She had a miscarriage, after which her health began to deteriorate. To make matters worse, it was wintertime then and she coughed incessantly. Initially, I thought that she had just caught a bad cold. However, I began to smell a rat after realizing that none of the many physicians whom we had sought help from could treat her condition. I only found out later that my mother had poisoned her. My mother said that I was a capable person and I can't have an Achilles' heel that'll get in the way of my life, especially not a woman. She didn't want me to have any emotional baggage. However, all I wanted at the time was for Nan Chuang to recover. Yet, she still passed on in the end.”
Tears welled up in Fang Erlan's eyes and soon rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably.
She crinkled her nose in discomfort.
”What happened afterward?” she asked.
”Afterward, a lot happened to me.”
”Could we not return to Mount Wanyan… please?” she asked.
”That'll depend on your behavior.”
Fang Erlan felt as if a huge boulder had been lifted off her chest and she exclaimed while smiling, ”Yes!”
She dozed off unknowingly again, and the next thing she knew, she was waking up to a bright sky.
He was no longer inside the room.
Fang Erlan got out of bed and peeked out of the window to see that it was pouring outside, just like she had expected.
She headed to the washroom and looked into the mirror, only to discover that she seemed to look a little haggard today.
However, it was fortunately not too serious.
When Xiao Yue came knocking on the door, Fang Erlan had already packed her things and was getting ready to go downstairs.
Xiao Chenyang was also standing by the door, dressed in a suit that accentuated his suaveness.
As soon as she realized that she had dodged instinctively, Fang Erlan looked at him and said, ”Let's have breakfast first.”
Fang Erlan was slightly peeved when she was scooping herself some food during breakfast at the buffet restaurant, because Xiao Chenyang kept hindering her from choosing the food that she wanted. He even insisted that she adhere to his diet plan.
”Don't eat that, it's too oily. Don't eat that, it's too spicy. It's going to give you pimples. Just have some milk, eggs, and a sandwich.”
”I don't want to drink milk today.”
”What would you like to drink instead, then?”
”Fruit juice.”
”You have my permission.”
”…”
Yan Ge immediately caught sight of Xiao Chenyang when he came down to the restaurant for breakfast together with his manager, assistant, and bodyguard.