232 A Gentleman

Lei Xinyi was staring out of the window in thought and Li Yuan was gazing at her, the temperature was moderate in the car with nothing but silence between them.

There was a divider between them and Ji Zhou and Fan Bingbing who were on the front seats. Li Yuan's Mansion was two hours away from this secluded area so it was a very long distance that they had to cross.

She was trying to wrap her head around all that had gone around and Li Yuan was trying to wrap his head around what she was thinking.

He wanted to bind her to him but if he was a little pushy she would slide out of his hold, he had to get her to sign the contract then enforce her in the position beside him and quietly and sneakily slid in her heart.

There was nothing more guarded than her heart, she would never trust anyone with it but this will have to change

His heart yearned to have her in his arms but even if there was hardly inches between, she was miles away from him, metaphorically.

He wanted to be skin to skin to his Raven but didn't want her to be aware, she was preparing for her impending death as the game of the Lei's proceeds. She was living one day at a time just so she has a present because she thought she didn't have a future. Li Yuan clenched his fist and his insides stormed in turmoil.

This thinking process of her had to change. There was no way any of the Lei's were coming close to even her shadow, especially now that he knew who they were. He would kill them all before they even tried to lift a finger on her.

But Su Qianwei and Yu Wang were his relatives, Jiang Cheng and He Zheng were Lei Xinyi's brothers…

At least he could deal with Yi Yang for the moment and keep a keen eye on the others. One down four to go.

"Don't kill him." Lei Xinyi's voice penetrated the tense still air between them.

Li Yuan snapped his head to her and sharply questioned, "Who?"

He knew who she was talking about but he needed to confirm that she knew before promising anything or alleging.

Lei Xinyi turned her face to him and rolled her eyes, "My cousin."

For a moment he just stared at her. He was going to kill him anyway, a murder attempt is as same as an actual murder that is warranted with a death sentence!

He pursed his lips as the air thickened between them and Li Yuan's face visibly darkened in rage, Lei Xinyi felt the charged tension electrocute her but stood her firm ground.

"Why?!"

She glared at him for a while in an intense game of eye to eye before she decided to bent for her douche bag cousin's life, "I will talk reason, he is useful. Besides, I know you know of the 'Games' and once an Heir is murdered, all the other heirs are notified and that is when his name is revealed."

"Since the last six years, there hadn't been even one heirs' murder. For a while, I would like to keep it that way! But if out of nowhere an heir is murdered the other heirs will feel threatened and go on the wild hunt."

Li Yuan just glared at her in reply, she huffed out a breath and compromised, "Do anything you like but no permanent damage, just make sure to keep him on his feet."

They stared at each other for a while and exchanged a promise, Lei Xinyi nodded and stared back at the passing lights blurring into lines, it was late and the roads were vacant like the valley of her heart.

She didn't regret it, she knew it was high time it was done but now the Lei's Head has a loose end. After the injuries Yi Yang sure will retaliate and then she will have to do something about it. Or…perhaps she wouldn't have to!

She turned back to Li Yuan who was glaring at the glass, she wanted to roll her eyes at his sulking, "Li Yuan." She called out to him.

He didn't even turn to her but his glare intensified, if only he was superman and his glare could laser drill the glass!

Lei Xinyi frowned and huffed, "Listen or don't listen, up to you." She too started to glare the same glass-window, "I just wanted to say that you can keep him imprisoned forever if you liked."

Li Yuan ignored her for a while, he was angry at her defending a man who almost killed her and she was still caring for him like he was some innocent alleged man so he opted to silence. He didn't want to say or do anything that will hurt her in his anger.

Without turning to her he voiced his annoyance, "Why do you even care what happens to him?! He didn't care when you…when you were nibbling or your next breath in your own pool of blood!"

Lei Xinyi closed her eyes at the agony of the event and murmured through gritted teeth, "You don't understand!"

Li Yuan turned to her with a newfound rage and slid closer to her so their breaths were mingling, "Then make me understand, Damn it!"

Li Yuan's veins were popping, he was gritting his teeth and huffing out in anger. He was like beast let out loose but Lei Xinyi didn't submit nor did she flinch, she stared at him. 

"Do you know who the other Lei Heir's are?" Lei Xinyi asked him quietly, after a while when Li Yuan breathing had calmed and he was resting his head on her forehead.

He didn't respond but his expression of nonchalance was enough when his eyes were shimmering with recognition.

He knew about his dear Su Qianwei, his cousin Yu Wang, the Yu's most treasured employee Jiang Cheng being of the blood of the rival. But then a thought struck her, how did he know?

If it was that much of an apple pie all the heirs would know. She will have to investigate into this later because there was no way Li Yuan would tell her or even if he would. Lei Xinyi was interested in figuring out the limits of his empire.

Lei Xinyi smirked in his direction, not a taunting smirk but rather a gloomy smirk, "They hate me and I don't blame them for it."

She sighed, "See Yi Yang is like Li Qiang is for you, not your real brother but brother never the less. I hate him for what he did but it can't blur the fact that the situation warranted it. You don't kill, you get killed! That's the rule, isn't it?"

Li Yuan's eyes stared at her beholding all the ache her words brought, "You have killed before, why not kill them too?"

He knew the volumes his words held but there was no battling it, he didn't want them dead but he didn't want her dead too, more than anything. Her disappearance can de-materialize his whole existence, if…if she died, how would he live every day in the agony that she is not there?

Lei Xinyi looked for answers in his dark pair of abyss when she had none, before pushing him away with her hands on his chest; she leaned toward him and smiled ruefully, "I have never killed in cold blood, never. They are trained assassins, all of them, but I will not forget that this is what I made them."

Li Yuan gritted his teeth as his sanity seem to want to abandon him; again the same bullsh*t that she killed the bastard Lei and that it was her fault that the games had started.

He wanted to shake her to her senses even if it was her fault, why was she becoming a martyr and offering herself?!

At that moment Li Yuan decided that Lei Xinyi wasn't really good in the decision-making-department and he will deal with all this Lei's drama on his own and later ask her for forgiveness.

It will be like banging his head on the wall for no reason, at the last her needle will still be pointed at the stupid 'honor-suicide' she had come up with as her last resolve!

Li Yuan nodded at his idea that is right. He will deal with this centuries-old crazy tradition of the Lei on his own. His little raven is tired and al fuzzy that is why a little crazy.

In any way, he couldn't wrap around the stupidity that he would allow the woman he had found after this to just serve her life in a platter!

She held his hand and brought it to his heart, "Ask yourself, Li Yuan, would you want to see them dead. They all are blamelessly forced into this. If it was for me, I would never let any of them die. When…when the time comes, I will be to bury them all with my own hands, and then I will be…"

"So you are going to let them kill you?!"

"No, I will do what I feel is right. I will do anything for my family but if they raise a gun at my head they are no family."

At that moment Li Yuan wanted to claw her mother's heart out. If only that b*tch hadn't deprived Lei Xinyi of a family like that, she wouldn't go around looking for deranged relations in murderers!

He wanted to f*cking show her, how he can give her as much family she wanted, that she would be popping out one every year!

If only he wasn't a gentleman!