Chapter 255
Chapter 255
If she just softened a little and said she did not want to go, what could happen! Hadn’t Zhong Ning pampered her enough already? If she acted a little coquettish, Zhong Ning would definitely take back the decision.
“She was clearly just giving up on herself. She should be made to suffer a bit!”
“Am I some spineless pushover? Haven’t I treated her well enough? Anything she asked for, anything she wanted, I almost never refused, right? Even though she hardly asked for anything in the first place, didn’t I still care about her?”
“Could it be that she thought she had me figured out, so she dared to do whatever she wanted? Deliberately relying on the fact that I liked her to play petty tricks? Outrageous, absolutely outrageous!”
The car started and drove out of the garage.
Zhong Ning: “…Did she beg for mercy?”
Michelle: “Miss Xie has not said a single word so far.”
Zhong Ning: “…Damn it!”
Still wearing her slippers, she ran downstairs with hurried thuds, did not even change into outdoor shoes, and rushed straight to the garage just like that. She picked the nearest car, stepped on the accelerator, and chased after them.
Why did she have to care about her at all?
This person looked completely detached from everything around her, as if she heard nothing of the outside world, wholly immersed in her own inner world. Why should Zhong Ning still care about her? She had already experienced it anyway. Fengcheng was so large, could she really not find a replacement?
Or she could simply switch to a different type of little lover. Wouldn’t that work too?
She got bored easily. Even if she was not bored yet, that day would come soon enough. What was so terrible about moving the timing up a little? It was completely possible.
But… but…
The moment she imagined Xie Shiqing being left all alone in the noisy crowd, trapped in a clamorous and unfamiliar environment, drifting like a wandering soul—
Zhong Ning felt deeply uncomfortable inside.
…
“Let’s just say that her recent behavior had been good, so I felt a bit of pity for her.” Zhong Ning muttered to herself, talking herself into it. “No matter what, I’m still a model young citizen. It’s only normal that I can’t stop worrying about the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled.”
“You should see things through from beginning to end. Even if the relationship is over, the person should still be settled properly. What kind of thing is it to just dump someone on the street?”
Even so, Zhong Ning still did not take back her words and tell Michelle to bring her straight home. There was still a little stubbornness in her heart, a little unwillingness to let it go. She wanted to hear Xie Shiqing beg for mercy.
But she did not.
One red light after another passed. Zhong Ning asked several times during the drive, and every time she got the same answer.
Xie Shiqing remained silent from beginning to end, sitting quietly in the back seat like a clay doll.
Guangming Avenue had arrived.
The two cars stopped almost one after the other. Michelle helped Xie Shiqing onto the sidewalk. “Miss Xie, you can still act a little coquettish now.”
Xie Shiqing tugged at the corner of her lips. “No need, thank you.”
The light breeze lifted the hem of her pure white clothes. Zhong Ning stood not far away, watching her. She looked like a snowflake that had fallen into a season that did not belong to her.
Xie Shiqing took one step, facing toward the road, then took another. She bumped into a passerby, did not apologize, and just kept walking forward.
The traffic flowed close and fast. Just as she was about to walk straight into the street, a taxi drove toward her head-on, and suddenly her arm tightened.
Xie Shiqing fell backward and crashed into an embrace filled with a cool fragrance.
“What are you doing? Are you crazy!”
Zhong Ning shouted, “That was a road, those were cars! Aren’t your ears working just fine? You—”
She stopped abruptly.
Xie Shiqing could not possibly have failed to notice the cars here. She had walked in this direction on purpose.
Zhong Ning’s chest rose and fell sharply once. She directly lifted her into her arms, stuffed her into the back seat, pressed her lips tightly together, and returned to the villa.
She threw her back onto the bed.
Xie Shiqing merely lay there.
“Since you do not want to live anyway, I might as well enjoy myself first.”
Zhong Ning tugged at her collar. The snapped buttons scattered across the floor. She pounced directly onto her, pinched her chin, and pressed her lips against Xie Shiqing’s lips.
No movement.
She did not move, and Xie Shiqing did not move either.
Zhong Ning propped herself up, wiped her face, and said helplessly, “What exactly is wrong… I’ll hand Xie Corporation over to you right now, alright? What is there to brood over so much? It’s only a company.”
“Jiasheng Group? Do you want it? Yuefei? Changda? I’ll give them all to you, okay? Just stay alive, alright?”
She lay down on the bed too, side by side with Xie Shiqing. After a while, she really could not hold back anymore and pulled her into her arms. “Alright, what exactly are you feeling wronged about? How much grievance could I possibly have made you suffer? It shouldn’t have come to the point of seeking death, should it?”
“Do you want to talk? Tell me, and I’ll change it.”
“You don’t want to talk? Then do you want to eat? Drink water? Eat some fruit? Do you want to pet the dog?”
“You do not want to do anything? Fine then, let me hold you for a while.”
Zhong Ning wrapped her arms around her and turned over once, making Xie Shiqing lie on top of her, while her palm gently stroked through her hair.
“I’m not very good at understanding other people’s emotions. A lot of the time, I can only understand the literal meaning of words, and the way I speak is often quite blunt too.”
Her voice was calm, like a stretch of deep sea. “Did what I said make you sad? If it did, then I apologize. I’m sorry.”
“I called the former butler of the Xie residence. She said that you are someone with very strong self-respect, and because you felt the gap, along with your competitive nature, that was why you became so downcast. Is that answer correct?”
“The truth is, I cannot understand what those things mean.” Zhong Ning wound Xie Shiqing’s long hair around her fingers, letting it coil around them again and again before loosening. “It is as if I was born missing that part entirely. I can only sense whether I myself am happy enough.”
“Other than happiness, there is only boredom. My life has only these two states. Right now, you are making me feel a little stifled, and it is rather novel.”
“I did not mean to use Xie Corporation to humiliate you on purpose. Making that request was purely because desire arose at the sight of your beauty, on a sudden impulse. I was afraid you would refuse, so I added more bargaining chips.”
“I always feel bored. Fu Nanshuang said that I should find a girlfriend, play around with feelings, or let feelings play around with me.”
“Mm…”
Zhong Ning pondered for a while. Sunlight passed through the thin gauze curtains and fell warmly and gently into her eyes, onto Xie Shiqing’s hair, as though coating it with a layer of light.