153 Aren’t You A Fool? (1/2)
These words were spoken in a whisper.
It was too unlike him that it frightened Hui Yin even more. She struggled, but he didn't budge. Lu Shen gently rested his chin on her head, and didn't speak another word.
He remembered her getting drunk on their engagement party, and as he was carrying her in his arms to put her into the backseat of his car, he heard her murmur, ”I like him much better...”
There was sorrow in her face, and Lu Shen had asked despite himself, ”Who do you like better?”
Her eyelashes fluttered, her eyes opening to stare at him blearily. But before she could fall asleep again, she had answered, ”Fai...”
Fai was the name she bestowed on him when he lost his memories.
That was when Lu Shen had learned Xiao Yin didn't like his present self. The one she loved was Fai, the man who was simple and wasn't him. He had fooled himself into thinking that she would fall in love with him sooner or later as he and Fai were the same person...but she didn't.
Lu Shen could only hold her when he embraces her forcefully like this, so that she won't flee. His laughter earlier was for himself, for his obsession with her, for his tantrums, for not letting go of someone who desperately didn't want him. Truthfully, he thought to himself, aren't you a fool? He had seen her PV, he had seen his own actions mirrored by that singer, he had seen the ending where the girl he captured would eventually cause his own demise.
And still, you want to keep her?
He didn't refute her words because he was crazy, crazy for still wanting to keep her despite all the warning signs.
”Lu Shen, let me go!”
With a sigh, Lu Shen released her.
Hui Yin abruptly stopped struggling.
Eh? He actually obeyed?
Before she could look up, the tender and heart-wrenching expression on his face was already wiped away, masked by his usual indifferent look.
”Even if you don't want to marry me,” he said, with none of the weakness in his tone before, ”You will still marry me in the end, Xiao Yin.”
She knew he was saying the truth.