508 Do It For Yourself (1/2)

Even after Xiu left, Zhou Jinhai was being beaten up by Ying without any mercy. If she didn't let go, he believed he was soon gonna have a hole in his head where she had been smacking. She was treating him like a kid whom she could bully easily. And if he resisted, she'd beat him even harder!

”Will you talk back to me again, Jini?”

Zhou Jinhai bared his teeth at her dangerously. ”Did I say anything wrong? I'm really just following your path! Being a rebel is something I learned from you.”

”And exactly how am I a rebel?” voiced out Ying in a strained voice.

”Aren't you still refusing to take over your position as an heiress? Instead of sitting in an office, you'd prefer wandering around all over the world doing God knows what!”

Ying now pulled his ear like he was a kid as she said, ”Doing God knows what?! I think Jini, you know very well what I had been doing!” He scoffed while rolling his eyes at her. But she didn't stop at that. ”And besides, what's the point of being a rebel now? If you had been like this before, perhaps you could have saved her. Perhaps, today Regan wouldn't have been so distant from you. And perhaps, you won't be looking like a dead person!”

He suddenly stopped resisting as he sighed out with his head hanging low, ”I tried...”

”What?” she was startled as she let him go and looked at his despondent expression.

”I tried being a rebel for her sake as well...” Ying frowned as she saw how he closed his eyes painfully as he breathed out. ”She had to pay the consequences for that too.”

”What do you mean?” asked Ying.

He looked away from her as if to hide something but Ying had already seen something shining at the corner of his eyes while he shook his head and said, ”Forget about that. I just figured you truly meant it when you said you've taken a liking to my brother's girlfriend. I have never seen that look of doting on your face. Or maybe I have... But that's a very distant memory.”

Ying instantly grinned at the mention of Xiu all over again as she nodded, ”Didn't I say that I couldn't resist it? She feels so familiar that I just want to hide her from the world and protect her from everything. Xiu is just so lovable!”

She immediately held herself back when she noticed the shift in his expressions. As she placed her hand on his shoulder he smiled sadly, ”Her name is also Xiu...”

She nodded before saying, ”Indeed, her name is also Xiu. Maybe that's why I want to protect her so badly.”

They both stayed silent for a long while before he said, ”Do you really not want to come inside?”

”If I went to your place, Dylan will be upset that I refused to enter his place but went with you. It won't be fair.”

”Stop pleasing others! When are planning on thinking about yourself?”

”Then you really need someone who only thinks about you.”

Just as Zhou Jinhai's words fell, Ying's mind instinctively played the memory of Han Bohai whose eyes only found her in the crowd. Who had been staring at her so intently when he was around that she started feeling something itching in her heart. She shook her head immediately. She must be insane to think of him at this time.

”That just reminds me,” he started again. ”Are you planning on attending the wedding alone?”