Chapter 207 - 147_2
With his fingers brushing against her eyes dyed red with anger, Pei Yuqing’s voice was gentle: "The Xie family’s villa hasn’t had anyone living there for a long time. You suddenly going over there, the servants will need a lot of time to prepare."
Xie Wanqing knew he was right.
What he didn’t say was that an unmarried girl going there late at night to stay would certainly reach the ears of her father and mother...
"Could you stop being angry?" His voice remained soft: "This time, it was my fault. I was just too scared..."
No one ever told him that liking someone could make you insecure.
The more you like, the more insecure you become.
The more you have, the more fearful you are.
He’s eleven years older than her, a fact he can’t change no matter how hard he tries.
He’s afraid she’ll change her mind, afraid she’ll regret marrying him, afraid of so many things...
To the point where he keeps making mistakes.
If she’d heard these words before, Xie Wanqing might have softened already, but now, after repeatedly being deceived and used by him, she was no longer moved.
In fact, she almost wanted to laugh.
"Afraid of what?" She laughed, looking at the person on her, "Afraid I’ll finally see your true colors, or afraid I’ll finally realize you’re not as good as Lu Ziyuan?"
Her laughter turned cold, "I thought you were a man of integrity; who knew you were less forthright than Lu Ziyuan."
Pei Yuqing supported himself with one hand beside her neck, the other gently brushing her slightly reddened eyelids, without saying a word.
Irritated by his always unchanging expression, Xie Wanqing continued: "I regret it."
These four words seemed to hit a nerve, Pei Yuqing’s pupils suddenly trembled as he stared straight at her.
Xie Wanqing was furious, even fearless when facing the hysterical Lu Ziyuan, so why would she fear him.
Seeing him looking over, she lightly smiled, "Your concerns are indeed right, Lu Ziyuan is young, accomplished, healthy, straightforward, although a bit overbearing, he just has a hard mouth, far better than your silent scheming."
So, she regretted it.
Pei Yuqing instantly understood the obvious underlying message.
He gently blinked, "Wanwan, you said you wouldn’t regret it."
"Isn’t this because you forced me?"
"You’ve always been testing me, from our wedding night to when we consummated, to everything that happened today, hasn’t it all been your tests?"
Xie Wanqing said plainly, "You believe my heart loves him, that I’ll eventually change my mind, so you continuously test, continuously create opportunities for me to completely break with Lu Ziyuan."
He didn’t know she awakened to memories of her past life in a dream, didn’t know she had already given up completely on Lu Ziyuan, so to him, her insistence on breaking the engagement with Lu Ziyuan and choosing to marry him might just have been impulsive.
Perhaps the smarter someone is, the more they only believe in themselves.
Pei Yuqing had long known Liu Manrou’s true identity, knew that the matter of Lu Ziyuan keeping a mistress was a misunderstanding, so he was certain that once the misunderstanding was cleared, she would change her mind.
He needed to personally witness her breaking with Lu Ziyuan, then he could let go of his insecurities, completely trust that he already has her entirely.
As for her saying she wouldn’t regret it, he wouldn’t believe it at all.
Thinking this, Xie Wanqing simply said, "You’re right, I’ve always liked Lu Ziyuan, liked him since I was young, that never changed."
"Then what about me?" The gentle finger brushing her eyelids suddenly exerted force, Pei Yuqing’s gaze darkened, "I’m your husband, you like him, then what about me?"
"I didn’t know you were aware you’re my husband?" Xie Wanqing said with mocking anger, "Then what did you consider me when you deliberately lured him to find me?"
This line of questioning made Pei Yuqing’s eyes pause slightly, he opened his lips, about to speak, when Xie Wanqing quickly interrupted: "Don’t talk about setting up guards, since you plotted for him to come, you were prepared for me to face him alone, weren’t you?"
The room suddenly fell silent, their bodies intertwined, an intimate position, yet the atmosphere was anything but gentle, almost confrontational.
The confrontation was one-sided from Xie Wanqing.
After a long while, Pei Yuqing spoke with difficulty, "He didn’t touch you, as soon as I left the palace..."
"What does it mean to touch?" Xie Wanqing laughed derisively, "You certainly have a generous side."
"...What do you mean?"
Xie Wanqing glanced at him subtly, stretched out a finger poking his shoulder, lightly pushing, said: "Get off."
The man who always complied with her, this time it was as if he didn’t hear her, instead of getting off, he wrapped his arm around her neck, encircling her completely, leaned closer, forcing the question: "What do you mean by that?"