Chapter 63: Will Only Marry the Man She Loves Most
"What?" Huo Qinglin's face turned dark and terrifying the moment he heard her say she had fallen for someone else. The handsome features were now overshadowed by fury, his voice stripped of the tenderness from earlier and replaced with rage: "Banxia, are you playing me for a fool?"
Lin Banxia knew he would definitely fly into a rage on the spot, but she wasn't afraid. Her tone remained calm, as though indifferent: "I didn't expect you to propose to me in front of so many people. Qinglin, I'm truly sorry. I originally planned to use this opportunity to have a proper talk with you. But you... sigh. If I'd known you would propose in front of such a crowd, I should have told you about this earlier."
"Lin Banxia, you don't want to marry me?" Huo Qinglin's anger exploded in an instant. He couldn't have imagined that Lin Banxia would dare to reject him.
Of course, losing face was a small matter; losing the property deed for the pear garden was something that could kill him.
"Yes, it's not that I don't want to marry you. It's that... I truly have someone I like more, Qinglin. Surely you can understand, right?" Lin Banxia feigned a conflicted expression as she delivered yet another refusal.
Originally, she had planned to wait for Huo Qinglin to present her with the proposal ring, only to throw it directly into the sea. But after some thought, she realized the ring must have cost him a lot of money. Throwing it away—would he make her compensate for it?
So, she ultimately decided not to throw the ring. Turning him down in public was already humiliating enough for him.
"Who is it? Lin Banxia, besides me, who would dare to marry you?" Huo Qinglin's fury had reached its peak. The thought of the fat prize slipping out of his grasp made every inch of his aura menacing.
Lin Banxia hadn't anticipated that Huo Qinglin would actually dare to interrogate her like this. Had he not bothered to ask himself whether he was worth her disregarding everything just to marry him?
Shameless people like him were nothing short of nauseating.
"Second Young Master Huo, let me be honest with you—actually, the other person doesn't even know I like him. I've been secretly in love with him all along." Lin Banxia's words were like salting the wound of Huo Qinglin's already injured pride.
Huo Qinglin's face turned a mottled shade of green and red.