314 The New Darling

The thing that he learned about women is if don't explain anything to them and they will make one explanation of their own and put faith in it like a f*cking totem!

Lei Xinyi was a sharp woman who knew the ropes and it never ended well for people around her. If she was to assume everything and that everything was not up to her liking, she may even run away which wasn't the worst part. Who knows how he would find her this time around.

She had too many enemies to walk in the open sky…

He wanted to address the easier questions first because if she wasn't getting anything she wouldn't stop pestering him or may even go around investigating.

Su Qianwei…

Yes, he was angry at her but it all ended some days of not knowing where she was. He cared about her and her security was a concern, he had sent his people to search her but she wasn't seen after the night she came to his place to...

Her being Lei Xinyi's cousin and a Lei's heir, if only made him more concerned about her safety.

For a moment his eyes sharpened thinking of how Lei Xinyi had collaborated with her to fool him. They were efff*ng playing around with him, throwing him at each other like volleyball.

And now that he thought about it, the little Raven already knew about her feelings for him. Those days she wasn't having jealousy streaks against Su Qianwei, she knew what was cooking for sure!

Lei Xinyi gave him a sheepish smile avoiding his eyes awkwardly catching onto what he was thinking.

He cleared his throat and frowned at her questions, "The earlier ones are quite random. Oppose to what you believe, I really didn't have a grand meeting with Su Qianwei. 

It was on one of the Christmas Events that she served me cake bragging about how tasty it was and would do the same every year. Slowly she just warmed it up for herself. She was too young and her trying to be genuine in her advertisement was too cute." He fondly spoke of that witch, looking in a distance with a smile, like playing it all in his head.

She listened to him with a soft smile when she wanted to rip his eyes out which were gleaming in that witch's memory.

She wouldn't say it out loud but she was jealous of how they went way back to the roots!

His smile widened and he looked about ready to spew some sugary sweet bullsh*t about the b*tch when she had enough and cut him off, "Your Father?"

His smile faltered before he smirked bitterly at the memory, "My mother has a good life as a widow that's for sure and I have a good life being what I am. The man had messed up a lot with the company and Underworld which proved for my ascendance to be hard."

She noticed how he spoke of his father like there wasn't even supposed to be feeling like it was too platonic to be sentimental.

She felt the same about her birth parents. How can you feel the loss of someone who wasn't there in the first place? All those years she had felt alone, isolated, and unprotected but her thoughts never drifted too long for someone who was never there.

In her world, she hadn't seen any familial bonds to feel something missing.

He shrugged with a nonchalant expression etched on his face, "Just like it is. The board, the internal forces in the Li's Armies, and the external underground forces all wanted Li's stripped of power and another family to ascend. My distant relatives wanted power and so did everyone else; this is what resulted in the so-called hundred men war. All wanted a share of power."

The expression of pain wiped and a smile of pure bliss took over his features, "And then my darling saved me."

Darling?! He had a darling! So was she the one he was saving himself for and would always keep her on physical length? Was she the one he was f*cking around with her for?! 

His words fell on her like an avalanche. How many women was he divided among? What was f*cking wrong with him?! She held the urge to dig her sharp nails in his protruded veins.

GOD have mercy, she will make this b*tch and this bastard yesterday Breaking News!

With a straight clenched jaw, she sourly insisted, "Which Darling?"

Looking at her scorned face an amused smirk took over his features as he fondly confessed, "I only have one darling."

"Wow… I mean wow!" She sarcastically exclaimed, nodded her head with pursed lips sitting up on the bed and throwing her hands up in sarcasm, "So you have one darling and one sweetheart. What else do you have? Ladylove? Beloved?" Her eyes were laced with venom and disgust.

"Tch…Tch… Tch…" He tsked and stood up beside her trying to take her in his arm to coo her but she pulled away from him as if his touch burnt her.

Seeing her adamancy he glared at her disapprovingly and pulled her in his body forcefully, "You are such a clingy, possessive fiancé. I was talking about you!"

Her eyes narrowed at him into slits and she scoffed at his audacity to play her for a fool. Did she look like a moron to him that he would twist his words around and she will play right into his hands like an air-headed pretty head! He was definitely hiding something and using dirty tricks to accomplish that!

"Li Yuan, I never saved you and you should stop messing with my head…" Her ferocious pitch turned to a squeak as her eyes widened and her face lost all its color.

Li Yuan took his shirt off and turned his back to her. The slender obscured lean white linings running many wards on his hard ripping back were the strokes of art she would recognize anywhere.

She froze as her breath itched. In the warm comforter, she felt like she was chilled to bones looking at the sight. Effortlessly, she could comprehend the deep gashes that were once in their place.