"You... you have another woman?" Lin ngyao didn’t know how she managed to say this complete sentence, her mind wasn’t even thinking anything, just a blank. Her voice trembled involuntarily, and the hand holding the phone kept shaking, so much that her palms beca sticky with sweat, almost causing the phone to slip and fall to the floor.
Although Xu Ke hadn’t planned to hide Ariel’s existence from Lin ngyao, he hadn’t intended to tell her about it so soon either. He wanted to give her ti to accept and transition, never expecting everything to happen so unexpectedly.
"All of this is fake, right? You’re lying to , right? How could you possibly have another woman? Am I just overthinking it?" Lin ngyao spoke with a slight sense of hope. She relentlessly denied it to make Xu Ke cooperate with her, trying to deceive herself in this way.
But Xu Ke didn’t intend to lie to her, "Yes, I have another woman, and I have fallen for her." Xu Ke said in a low voice.
Lin ngyao’s voice disappeared from the receiver, leaving only the sound of shallow breathing. After a long ti, Lin ngyao’s voice sounded again, she licked her lips, her eyes unknowingly reddened.
"You have fallen for her, so what about ? What am I?" Lin ngyao asked, her voice trembling.
"I’m sorry, but I also love you very much." Xu Ke’s low voice sounded, and those words only made Lin ngyao feel like laughing as she listened, so she followed her heart and laughed out loud.
"Ha, what do you an by this, that you love but also like her, is that what you’re trying to say?" Lin ngyao’s voice was no longer trembling, with more of a sneer and ridicule.
"Although it sounds pretty ssed up, you’re not wrong in understanding it that way. I like both of you. You two are completely different people. By your side, I can find the feeling of ho, a sense of security, but with her, I feel blood-boiled and thrilled, she makes feel like I’m still an eighteen-year-old lad." Xu Ke honestly conveyed his feelings for both Lin ngyao and Ariel.
"I like both of you two, perhaps saying this makes you think I’m such a jerk. I feel that way about myself too at tis, but I don’t want to give up either of you. Both of you are my sunlit side and shadow side, and I don’t wish to lose any part if possible. I hope the three of us can co-exist peacefully, like a harmonious family. She won’t threaten your position."
"Xu Ke, it’s the first ti I’ve realized you’re such a shaless person. Who do you think you are, do you think you’re an Emperor? You even want to emulate the Empresses, wanting two won to serve one husband? Where do you get the courage and face to say such words? I always thought I’d married the right person, but I didn’t think I had been wrong about you. It’s with blind eyes that cannot see people clearly." Lin ngyao shouted towards the phone with all her strength, her voice filled with a thick sob.
Lin ngyao didn’t hang up, but instead directly smashed the phone onto the floor. The good phone instantly shattered into pieces, just like her supposedly perfect marriage, which seed to have a long lifespan but burst apart in an instant.
The empty villa had no signs of human presence, and Lin ngyao cried out unrestrained, abandoning all modesty and upbringing, crying uncontrollably, and she cried so hard that due to lack of oxygen to the brain, her vision turned black, wanting to get up but only able to slump back down.
Xu Ke looked at the suddenly disconnected call, without having to see, he could imagine how devastated Lin ngyao was on the other end, but he didn’t regret telling Lin ngyao his true feelings, only regretting the timing of telling her.
Xu Ke sighed heavily with his phone in hand, dialed Lin ngyao’s number again, but was t with a busy signal, he couldn’t reach Lin ngyao’s phone.
Xu Ke frowned, his inner worry was unconcealable, and he smoked more ferociously, almost finding himself already booked a ticket back ho and chose the city to land as Los Angeles.
Ariel, in her sleep, didn’t know what had happened, but she woke up, not due to a woman’s sixth sense but because a breeze happened to blow in, carrying the smoke ring Xu Ke just exhaled to her nose, thus Ariel opened her eyes.
Perhaps they had been too wild last night, as she strained to prop her body up to sit, only to fall back due to lack of arm strength.
The commotion Ariel caused brought Xu Ke back to his senses.
"Why are you awake so early, it’s still dark."
Ariel rubbed her eyes, her voice slightly hoarse as she said, "I got woken up by your smoke, it’s not fully dawn yet, why are you up?"
"Had a call to make, are you still sleepy? I’ll sleep with you a bit more." Xu Ke stubbed out the cigarette, returned to bed, holding Ariel in his arms, and soon Ariel’s breathing gradually beca steady again, she drifted back into sleep.
After this happened, Xu Ke didn’t return to China imdiately but stayed in the U.S. instead, focusing on the East District and West District matters, and sent Lin ngyao an email, briefly explaining his current itinerary and expected ti back to Los Angeles,
"There are so issues I hope we can discuss in detail when we et. I hope we can both calm down and carefully consider our future during this ti." This was the last sentence of Xu Ke’s email.
Seeing the successful send-off ssage of the email, Xu Ke slowly exhaled a breath.
East District.
Upon seeing five of the six people he sent to guard the items dead and one missing, with his hidden safe opened and everything inside missing, Arthur smashed the entire room into pieces, his vision swirling so much he could barely stand.
There was a fire in his heart stirring restlessly, ready to set everything ablaze at any mont.
"Bold, indeed so brazen, daring to betray and commit such acts, this is indeed my good daughter." Arthur stood amidst the ruins of the smashed room, eyes red to the brink of bleeding, all his followers who ca with him cowering down, desperately trying to minimize their presence, not wanting to beco his targets.
Even the breathing in the room beca as light as could be possible, the place was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.
"Go find her, use any ans necessary to bring Ariel back to . Daring to try to escape my control and betray , does she think being my daughter, I will show rcy to her? She’s not my only daughter, I want her to know the cost of betraying , know how powerful I am, you all get out there and find her and bring her to , go now!" Arthur roared loudly.
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