Chapter 287 - 288: Unfixable trust-I
Li Lian raised her brows at the words. Was there such a rule? Insisting the person that she would pay is only be weird thought Li Lian and she took back the card to her wallet to go back toward Zhuang Xuan whose eyes were staring at her.
The woman who had challenged Li Lian stepped forward after seeing the movement from afar, even if she wasn’t close to the place, she believed that the way the counter gave back the card meant Li Lian wasn’t able to fulfill her words. "I see that you couldn’t pay, Li Lian. This is the-"
"We could go home now. Thank you for today. I was entertained." Li Lian replied and her eyes fell on the woman who took times to slowly realize that Li Lian had paid for the meal successfully.
Most people was speechless, not knowing what to say in awkward moment but one of the man in the group who had bickered with the woman earlier took a step forward and scoffed, "Miss Wan I remember you said you would roll on the ground and cut your neck open. Would you do it now?"
"What?!" The woman yelled at the man who instead make her position worse as if before wasn’t enough yet. Her hands were clenched tight and she cursed the man deep inside her heart and her eyes went toward Li Lian, "I’m sure you understand that was an expression, didn’t you, Li Lian?" Her smile turn sweet unlike the fierce glare she had to Li Lian earlier.
Li Lian glanced across her shoulder, her eyes meeting Zhuang Xuan’s brown ones. "What should you do Li Lian?" asked Zhuang Xuan with a frown.
"It’s an expression, Zhuang Xuan." Li Lian smiled and her eyes went toward the woman, "I understand that it was something that came offhanded." The woman smiled bright to Li Lian when she continued, "I can’t have you cut your neck open here to die, I am not that cruel. You have a family to protect and see again, if you die they would be sad." She whispered the words for only the two of them.
The woman watched how Li Lian’s eyes that were kind slowly loosing the glimmer of kindness and his eyes contained a curling cold emotion that had the woman to feel daunted. Li Lian reaches out her hand. The woman was wearing a scarf with a thin fabric and looking at it, Li Lian ran her hand across the scarf, to her neck. "You should be careful with you words, Wan. Not everyone could fulfill what comes out from their mouth and it would be better if you are careful. You will not meet someone like me again who would spare you not to do what you claimed you could do."
"There is also the option that she could roll on the ground," said Zhuang Xuan, who didn’t heard the words Li Lian said to see the woman immediately taking a step back and bowed her head,
"I’m very sorry for my rude words and I promise I will not repeat my mistakes anymore."
"Will you?" asked Li Lian gently, tucking her hand from the woman’s neck and she lifted up to meet her eyes for a smile that send chill to the woman’s spine.