Chapter 146 The Opportunity to Pursue You

The man's gaze was fixed on her face as he spoke, his tone excessively soft, the deliberately gentle manner sending chills down her spine like a snake's tongue.

Ruan Yi felt a chill run down her spine. "Don't follow me! I warned you last time that this isn't just about finishing off the enemy, don't push me too far."

The man tilted his head slightly, his long eyelashes drooping to conceal the emotions in his eyes, and said in a very sincere tone, "That's terrible."

"Pei Lian!" Ruan Yi almost shouted, feeling that the other party was provoking her.

But the man opposite him didn't seem frightened at all; instead, he moved closer.

"Pei Lian is here." He still had that gentle and kind demeanor, and his tone even carried a hint of pleasure at the end.

Ruan Yi felt a tightness in her chest, unable to go up or down, even more uncomfortable than if she had eaten poop.

Her anger was like a fist thrown out and slamming heavily onto a soft ball of cotton.

Ruan Yi took a deep breath, placed her hand on her chest to calm herself, and tried to suppress her surging anger.

Seeing her so angry, the man reached out a large, "kind" hand to her, seemingly wanting to help.

"Don't touch me!" Ruan Yi reacted quickly, slapping Pei Lian's hand away with such force that the back of his fair hand instantly turned red.

The man lowered his eyelashes, touched the back of his reddened hand, and pursed his lower lip, looking "weak and easily bullied".

Looking at the pretentious man, Ruan Yi was filled with anger and had nowhere to vent it. In a fit of rage, she grabbed a few strands of hair and rubbed them hard, turning her once neat hair into a messy ball of static electricity.

"Pfft..." He chuckled as he watched the girl vent all her anger towards him on her hair. His usually hypocritical and playful eyes softened.

"You're a bit silly. Why are you pulling your own hair instead of mine when you're so angry?"

The man spoke softly, grasped her wrist as she was still clutching her hair, and pulled her hand away from it.

Cool fingertips brushed past her cheeks, smoothing out the girl's disheveled hair.

"I didn't intend to do anything to you."

"I was wrong in how I pursued you before. I'm here now just hoping that Miss Ruan will give me a chance to pursue you again, is that alright?"

Ruan Yi looked at the man's acting, which was almost indistinguishable from reality, and felt nothing but irony.

"What kind of gentleman are you still pretending to be?"

"He started touching me and hugging me the moment we met, and every word he said was meant to provoke me! Is this how you try to win me back?"

The man's eyes widened slightly, and he remained silent for a few seconds as if he had been struck by a provocation.

"Indeed... I did want to perform better at the beginning."

But when he saw the girl in a white dress standing on the street covered with orange and yellow fallen leaves, it was like an extreme white appearing in a spilled palette of paint, so dazzling that he couldn't take his eyes off her.

The girl angrily stomped on the leaves with her head down, her fair face scrunched up, her eyes shifting from anger to grievance, her little expressions a riot of colors, so vivid it made one's heart clench.

Without a second thought, my body moved closer, and as if possessed, I pulled the person into my arms.

When the girl's unique fragrance wafted into my nostrils, my mind went blank for a moment, leaving only the urge to get closer.

He even felt an urgent urge to penetrate her body and explore how such soft beauty was formed and what it tasted like.

Every time I see her, my wicked nature can't help but surface.

Every cell was screaming, wanting to "bully" her, wanting to see her more vivid, wanting to see its own reflection in her wide-open eyes, even if it was filled with anger.

Listening to the girl's indignant accusations against his so-called pursuit, Pei Lian chose to temporarily skip over this topic, which would surely scare her away if he explained it.

The man adopted a regretful and helpless expression and sighed softly.

"It's really a pity."

He released Ruan Yi's wrist, but then took her hand in his own, his fingertips caressing the delicate skin on the back of her hand.

"I've known Fu Jingchen for so many years. He looks respectable, but I never expected him to do something like murder."

"As his friend, I'm truly heartbroken for you... You can know a person's face but not their heart. How could Miss Ruan have chosen such a person with such poor character?"

As the man spoke, he gently shook his head, his expression of sympathy perfectly conveying his sorrow.

Before Ruan Yi could even open her mouth to refute, he changed the subject, his tone becoming calm and gentle, as if he were analyzing a case.

"And Miss Ruan's fiancé... seems to have some violent tendencies, doesn't he? From a doctor's perspective, his condition might indicate a tendency towards supermale syndrome."

"In this situation, there is a high chance that the child will inherit it. You can't keep the child with the super-male zodiac sign, because he will bully his mother."

The man spoke softly, every word seemingly out of consideration for her, “Oh, and that… ‘duck’ you keep? Oh, no—it’s your brother.”

A hint of a smile flashed in his eyes when he deliberately paused, but it was devoid of any warmth.

"As Mr. Ruan's psychiatrist after all, I still have to offer this advice. Although Mr. Ruan is recovering quite well now, does Miss Ruan really want her to know about this?"

"Considering Ms. Ruan's tolerance level, being with her younger brother would be too much of a shock for her mental state."

Pei Lian gently shook the hand that was holding hers, his face showing a confused yet innocent expression, as if he was genuinely worried for her.

"It's strange, what a coincidence!"

"Miss Ruan, the people around you who could help you achieve your goal of 'having a bunch of children' don't seem quite right..."

Pei Lian's gaze fell on their clasped hands, then slowly moved down to the girl's perfectly rounded and lovely fingertips, which had a faint pink sheen.

His Adam's apple bobbed slightly as he slowly leaned down, raising the girl's hand slightly in his grasp.

What should have been a perfectly gentlemanly hand kiss was done in a completely ungentlemanly manner; his thin lips didn't just lightly touch hers, but actually pressed against her knuckles.

He gently kissed her, slowly moving upwards until he reached the back of her hand.

The man lowered his eyelashes, his gaze falling on the girl's fair skin where bluish-purple veins were faintly visible. His breath gently brushed against the back of her hand, bringing a tingling sensation.

"Ruan Yi, I just want a chance to pursue you again."

The girl stood there, dumbfounded, watching the man in front of her ramble on and on, eliminating all other options for her.

Ruan Yi was so shocked by his shameless act of belittling everyone that she forgot to stop him.

It wasn't until the warm touch of his lips and teeth continued to rub against the back of her hand that Ruan Yi suddenly realized what was happening and pulled her hand back as if she had been burned.

She flicked her hand away as if in disgust, but a sweet smile suddenly bloomed on her face, her voice excessively soft and sweet, "Is that so~ But Miss Ruan thinks..."

Ruan Yi deliberately dragged out her words, looking at the expectation in the man's eyes, and said, word by word, "Her future husband might be her younger brother, who is rumored to be her child husband, or he might be her fiancé who is willing to undergo sterilization, or even a suspect in a shooting case~"

She paused, then abruptly changed the subject, her smile still sweet, but her eyes looking at trash.

"But—there's absolutely no way he could be the pervert who once tried to tattoo his name on my body or inject me with drugs~"

She mimicked Pei Lian's innocent yet regretful tone, tilted her head, opened her round eyes, and pouted her little mouth in a cute and mischievous way.

"That person just happens to be someone with gray hair, and definitely not a doctor!"

"Huh? What a coincidence, it seems like only one person perfectly fits the 'impossible' criteria..."

Ruan Yi deliberately dragged out the last syllable, her eyes full of sarcasm, clearly intending to infuriate him.

Pei Lian's smile froze and gradually disappeared without a trace.

He stared at the girl's overly sweet yet aggressive face when she was facing him, his Adam's apple bobbing violently.

What's the point of all that talking, all that badmouthing everyone around her, all that humbling herself and pretending to be gentle and harmless?

Even if Ruan Yi's good boyfriend spends his whole life in jail, it won't be his turn, and he certainly can't do what he did and send the rest of the people to jail as well.

An unprecedented sense of powerlessness welled up inside the man. He lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes casting a shadow beneath them, and fell silent.

"Is that the only way?"

It took him quite a while to slowly raise his head.

The man's eyes had lost their previous gentleness, leaving only an intense, unyielding darkness.

"Is that so?" Pei Lian spoke again, his voice as soft as a sigh, as if he had already anticipated Ruan Yi's possible response.

"Then all my painstaking efforts to send my good brother, Miss Ruan's good boyfriend, to jail—wouldn't that have been for nothing?"

"What a pity... Miss Ruan didn't give me a chance to pursue her."

Ruan Yi's eyes widened suddenly. "What did you say?!"

She grabbed Pei Lian by the collar and pulled him down hard, her voice trembling: "It really was you?! You planned all of this?!"

"Are you even human?!" the girl shouted, her eyes red.

"You used one person's life to harm another! Now Fu Jingchen is going to jail too, are you satisfied? You beast!"

Pei Lian merely raised an eyebrow, his tone as calm as if he were talking about something insignificant.

"Hmm, maybe they don't count as people."

The man's cold-bloodedness completely ignited Ruan Yi's anger.

Her eyes were red with anger. She hated him for harming Fu Wang and scheming against Fu Jingchen, and she hated herself even more for unwittingly becoming the most ridiculous accomplice in his plan.

The anger in her chest was almost burning her up. Looking at the almost bewitching face in front of her, she wished she could stab him to death right then and there.

Before Ruan Yi could make a move, Pei Lian leaned closer and repeated the words that disgusted her, his tone mocking.

"Then may I ask one more time? Miss Ruan... are you willing to be pursued by something that is 'not even human'?"

"Get out!"

Ruan Yi could no longer hold back and shoved him away violently. The man staggered back two steps, but seeing the hatred in her eyes, he didn't come any closer.

Ruan Yi was too lazy to say another word to this scumbag. Right now, she only had one thought in her mind—to see Fu Jingchen!

"After asking so many times, is the answer still a refusal?" The man's voice sounded from behind.

Before the man could finish speaking, Ruan Yi had already turned and run away in a hurry, without even giving him a second glance.

Pei Lian stood there, watching the girl's hurried back without blinking.

Even after the girl's figure had completely disappeared around the street corner, he still stared intently in that direction, his emotions long gone, leaving only a deep, unfathomable darkness in his eyes.

"The next request... won't be as simple as just agreeing to be pursued."

Ruan Yi ran along, her mind a jumbled mess.

Everything was Pei Lian's conspiracy. Fu Jingchen's loss of control and killing Fu Wang must have been partly due to Pei Lian's interference!

She now has only one selfish thought... she can't let Fu Jingchen go to jail.

Perhaps this is very unfair to Fu Wang, but Fu Jingchen's imprisonment cannot bring Fu Wang back to life; it will only allow another person to be ruined by Pei Lian.

As she ran, she apologized to Fu Wang in her heart and made a silent vow.

If Fu Jingchen is alright, she will definitely force him to go to Fu Wang's tombstone, kowtow, and beg for forgiveness!

He stopped at the roadside, his hands trembling as he opened his phone's contacts and found the name he hadn't yet removed from his blacklist.

Unable to accept that Fu Jingchen had killed someone, and fearing that she might soften her heart, she made the difficult decision to temporarily block him.

At that moment, Ruan Yi unhesitatingly removed him from the blacklist and pressed the call button with trembling fingertips.

The call was answered almost instantly, in less than half a second.

The man on the other end of the line called her name in a deep, urgent voice, and Ruan Yi spoke almost simultaneously.

I want to see you, right now!