Unable to restrain oneself
Hong Fu's malicious and seductive words were like a needle coated with deadly poison, piercing through the cold monitoring equipment and stabbing deeply into Feng Jinxuan's heart.
Holy Maiden of Tianyan Pavilion.
This distant and mysterious title, which he had only heard once from his grandfather, was now connected to the girl beside him, whom he was trying his best to protect, in the most cruel and direct way.
He stopped wasting words with Hong Fu.
He simply turned off the communicator, turned around expressionlessly, and left the monitoring room.
Behind them, lawyer Zhang Deshuai calmly inquired.
"Mr. Feng, is the deal... still open for discussion?"
"That's it." The man's voice was as cold as ice. "Follow the procedure. I have only one request: let her stay in prison for the rest of her life."
Stepping out of that heavily guarded building, the sun was shining brightly outside.
The warm sunlight shone on him, but it could not dispel the bone-chilling coldness in Feng Jinxuan's heart.
He got into the car but didn't immediately tell the driver to start the car.
He simply took out his phone and opened an app he had recently downloaded, whose interface was filled with cartoon koi fish and golden ingots.
He skillfully opened the "super administrator" backend with the highest privileges.
Through the backend, he could clearly see Yu Jinli's real-time status.
She was neither at the company nor at her mansion.
She was sitting by the window in a dessert shop in the city center, with a strawberry cake in front of her that looked very sweet.
She was chatting and laughing with a girl.
He recognized the girl; she was Lin Feifei, Yu Jinli's best friend.
On the screen, Yu Jinli smiled with her eyes crinkling, like a little fox who had stolen some honey.
She seemed to be showing off her recent "achievements" to her best friend.
She exuded an aura of...hope for the future, a radiant glow.
She was completely unaware of the danger she was about to face.
Feng Jinxuan stared at the smiling, radiant girl on the screen, who was completely unaware of the danger he was about to face. This filled him with an unprecedented fear that almost consumed him.
This fear was clearer and more etched in his memory than when he fell off the cliff three years ago.
He was scared.
He feared that this single ray of light, which had finally pierced the darkness of his life, would be torn to shreds by the hyenas lurking in the shadows, just as it had been to him years before.
He even began to regret it.
He regretted dragging her into this dangerous, dirty world full of scheming and killing.
Perhaps, he should have stayed far away from her from the very beginning.
Sitting in the driver's seat, Assistant Wang looked at his boss's gloomy face, which was so dark it looked like it was about to drip water, through the rearview mirror, and didn't dare to even breathe loudly.
He had no idea what was happening in the interrogation room.
All he knew was that his boss was in a very bad mood, extremely bad.
Within a radius of ten miles, not a blade of grass grows.
"go home."
After a long while, Feng Jinxuan squeezed out two words through gritted teeth.
...
After having afternoon tea, Yu Jinli and Lin Feifei went on a shopping spree at the mall.
She used her first "project bonus" that she had just received to buy Lin Feifei a brand new designer handbag.
This moved Lin Feifei to tears as she hugged her, exclaiming, "My dear sister, if I become rich and powerful, I will never forget you."
By the time she returned to the mansion with her bags full of belongings, it was already completely dark.
In the living room, only a dim wall lamp remained on.
The air was thick with a sense of impending doom... like the calm before a storm.
Yu Jinli's heart skipped a beat.
She put down her shopping bag, changed into slippers, and tiptoed into the living room.
Then she saw the figure sitting on the sofa, almost blending into the darkness.
It is the sealing of the profound mystery.
He didn't turn on the light, nor did he look at the documents.
He just sat there quietly, holding a cup of coffee that had gone cold, lost in thought.
The thick black mist surrounding him, a symbol of misfortune, now seemed to come alive, surging and roaring wildly around him.
Yu Jinli's heart clenched instantly.
She had never seen him like this before.
It's more dangerous than being on a cruise ship or at a birthday banquet.
"Boss?" she called tentatively, "What's wrong? What happened?"
The man slowly raised his head.
Those usually deep and cold black eyes, at this moment, were like two bottomless whirlpools, filled with pain, struggle, and an emotion that she couldn't understand, so intense it was almost overflowing.
"Where did you go?" he asked, his voice hoarse.
"I...I went shopping with Feifei." Yu Jinli felt a little uneasy under his gaze.
Why didn't you tell me?
"...I sent you a WeChat message." She sounded a little aggrieved.
The man did not speak.
He simply stood up and walked towards her, step by step.
His tall figure cast a huge, oppressive shadow under the dim light, completely enveloping her.
Yu Jinli subconsciously took a step back.
"Feng Jinxuan, you...you shouldn't do this, I'm a little scared."
However, her retreat acted like a fuse, instantly igniting the extremely tense string in the man's eyes.
He suddenly stepped forward, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her roughly into his arms.
"Afraid?"
He looked down at her peach blossom eyes, which were slightly widened with panic, and laughed self-deprecatingly.
That smile was uglier than a cry.
"Now you know fear?"
"When you went to see Gu Yanzhi, why weren't you afraid?"
"When you rushed out to shield my grandfather from disaster at the birthday banquet, weren't you afraid?"
“Yu Jinli,” he practically spat out her name through gritted teeth, “do you think you’re so tough?”
His arms, like iron hoops, tightly bound her, with such force that they almost crushed her bones.
Yu Jinli felt the pain and couldn't help but struggle.
"Feng Jinxuan! You're insane! Let me go!"
Her struggles only further enraged the beast that was already on the verge of losing control.
Feng Jinxuan lowered his head, giving her no chance to speak, and kissed her fiercely.
That wasn't a gentle kiss.
It was a kiss filled with a sense of punishment, tinged with despair, and almost devouring.
He used a method to steal the air from her mouth, venting all the unease and fear in his heart.
He hated her recklessness, her fearlessness, and even more so, he hated himself... his damned, powerless weakness.
Yu Jinli's brain completely shut down.
She was so overwhelmed by his kisses that she felt weak all over and didn't even have the strength to struggle.
She could only drift like a small boat in a storm, at his mercy.
She didn't know how much time had passed, so long that she thought she was about to suffocate, before the man finally slowly released her.
The two men pressed their foreheads together, panting as they looked at each other.
Looking into the man's eyes, where emotions and possessiveness were so intense they were almost overflowing, Yu Jinli's mind went blank.
Feng Jinxuan looked at her lips, which were red and swollen from his kisses and glistening with moisture, and her eyes, which were misty with tears from lack of oxygen.
The madness in his eyes gradually faded.
Instead, there was a belated, overwhelming sense of regret and panic.
"I……"
He was just about to apologize.
Yu Jinli suddenly stretched out her arms and hugged him tightly.
She buried her face deeply in his still slightly cool chest.
Feng Jinxuan's body froze completely.
"Feng Jinxuan," the girl's muffled voice came from his arms, "you... coward."
As he listened to the girl's accusations, tinged with grievance and heartache, he felt his wildly beating heart finally settle back into place.
He reached out and awkwardly but with utmost tenderness embraced her.
“Yu Jinli,” he whispered in her ear, his voice hoarse, almost commanding yet pleading, “from today onwards, you are not allowed to leave my side without my permission.”
Not even one step.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
