Chapter 344 You Don't Like Me Anymore?
"No need, I can manage on my own."
Zhou Mubin's hand froze. He casually put his hands in his pockets, lowered his voice, and breathed lightly against her earlobe, "Cui Xiao, are you that afraid of me? Or is it that you've never truly let go of me?"
Cui Xiao turned her face away, not daring to look at the turbulent emotions in his eyes. "Zhou Mubin, that's enough."
As soon as I finished speaking, my throat tightened.
In fact, Cui Xiao has never completely let go of her, even if he doesn't want to admit it, it's a fact.
Therefore, being exposed by him made Cui Xiao want to escape even more.
Zhou Mubin was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly reached out and grabbed her tightly clenched wrist.
Cui Xiaotong was startled and looked at him in fear. After realizing what was happening, she struggled violently, "Let go, Zhou Mubin, I told you to let go."
His palm was warm, and his strength was just right, neither making her feel restrained nor allowing her to easily break free.
"I won't let go."
He lowered his body, his deep eyes meeting hers. "Cui Xiao, break up with Mo Ziqian, and I'll marry you."
A gust of wind blew through the window in the hotel corridor, ruffling the stray hairs beside Cui Xiao's ears, but it couldn't dispel the sudden dizziness.
Cui Xiao was stunned.
She gazed at the man so close to her, a seriousness she rarely displayed. Even her usual nonchalant tone held no hint of jest, but rather carried an undeniable certainty.
Like a pebble thrown into ice, it broke a hole in the frozen lake of Cui Xiaobing's heart.
Cui Xiao could hardly believe her ears and asked again, "What...what did you say?"
Zhou Mubin seemed to see through her panic. He gently brushed his fingertips against the skin on the inside of her wrist. The warmth surged through her body like an electric current, making Cui Xiao instinctively want to shrink back, but he held her even more firmly.
Zhou Mubin lowered his voice even further, his breath brushing against her forehead, carrying a faint scent of perfume, "Break up with Mo Ziqian, and I'll marry you."
This time, every word fell clearly into her ears, without the slightest ambiguity.
Cui Xiao finally snapped out of her shock, her face deathly pale. There was no joy, no excitement, only terror in her eyes. "Zhou Mubin, you've gone mad."
Zhou Mubin raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of coldness creeping into his deep pupils. "I'm not crazy, Cui Xiao. I've thought this through very clearly. I want to marry you."
He's gone mad, he must be mad.
Cui Xiao frowned slightly, trying to calm herself down. "I will not marry you. If Zhou Lu wants to get married, he might as well go find other girls."
She turned her face away, not daring to look at him again.
Suddenly, Zhou Mubin grabbed her chin, turned her face back, and locked his gaze on her. "You don't like me anymore?"
Zhou Mubin's eyes were churning with turbulent emotions, causing Cui Xiao's initial struggle to gradually dissipate.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Zhou Mubin panicked. "Look at me. I don't believe you have absolutely no feelings for me."
So what if I feel something, and so what if I don't?
There's no future for her and this man. Cui Xiao loves him, but she's not to the point of being love-struck.
Cui Xiao stared at him intently, her tone chillingly calm, "Zhou Mubin, people change. Take Nan Zhi, for example. She loved Pei Jingchuan so much back then, and was willing to give everything for him. But now, hasn't she fallen in love with another man? I'm no exception."
Zhou Mubin's body swayed suddenly, and he staggered back a few steps.
Cui Xiao's words were like sharp blades piercing his heart. The temperature of his fingertips suddenly dropped. Looking at her calm and collected appearance, his Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily. A dense, tingling pain spread from his heart, and even his breathing became slightly labored.
Cui Xiao didn't want to continue the entanglement, and when she finally left, she didn't even say goodbye.
But as soon as Cui Xiao got into the car, her feigned indifference crumbled, and tears slowly streamed down her face.
She slumped over the steering wheel, crying silently.
After a long while, Cui Xiao finally composed herself and prepared to drive home.
After being so busy for so long, I'll just treat this as a break for myself.
Just as Cui Xiao was about to start the car, her phone rang.
Upon picking it up, Cui Xiao's face suddenly turned cold. After a long while, she answered the phone, "Speak quickly if you need anything, I'm busy."
Then, a woman's ingratiating voice came from the phone, "Xiaoxiao, how have you been lately?"
Cui Xiao was extremely annoyed. "How much money are you planning to ask for this time?"
The woman said, "Xiaoxiao, how could you think of me like that? Mom was just concerned about you. You child, how can you not understand your mother's heart?"
If she were a teenager, she might have believed these words, but now that Cui Xiao knows their true colors, how could she possibly believe them?
Cui Xiao said impatiently, "If you don't tell me, I'm hanging up."
The woman hurriedly said, "No, no, you child, you're so impatient. It's like this, look, Lulu has graduated. You've been in Gangcheng for so many years, I'm planning to let Lulu go to Gangcheng to stay with you. Xiaoxiao, you must take good care of your sister."
Cui Xiao's face immediately turned even uglier. "What did you say? You want Sun Lu to come to Gangcheng to develop her career? Do you know how high the cost of living is in Gangcheng? She's just a recent college graduate with no work experience whatsoever. What can she do in Gangcheng?"
Upon hearing this, the woman became displeased. "Cui Xiao, what do you mean by that? Who are you looking down on? You, a graduate of a third-rate university, can still establish yourself in Hong Kong, so why can't Lulu? I think you're just jealous of Lulu, afraid that she'll do better than you, and you're feeling unbalanced. Cui Xiao, how can you be so narrow-minded? Lulu is your own sister."
Cui Xiao was at her wit's end. She took a deep breath and said, "Fine, she can come. That's her freedom. But I won't interfere. Let her do as much as she can."
The woman's voice suddenly became shrill, "Cui Xiao, Lulu is your sister. She's unfamiliar with this place. If you don't take care of her, who will? I'm calling you today not to discuss anything, but to inform you that Lulu will arrive in Gangcheng tomorrow. Let her stay with you. If you're too busy with work, find Lulu a nanny. She can't cook, and she gets a stomachache from takeout. In short, you'd better take good care of her, understand?"
Cui Xiao gripped the steering wheel, his eyes filled with coldness.
After a moment, she sneered, "Mom, have you forgotten that I am also your biological daughter? When I graduated from university and came to Hong Kong to make a living, I didn't have a penny to my name. I called you to ask to borrow a hundred yuan, but you wouldn't give it to me. Do you know how hard it was for me back then? I lived in a park for a whole month, surviving on expired food thrown away by convenience stores. Did you have even a shred of pity for me back then?"
The woman felt guilty after hearing what she said, but she stubbornly refused to admit it. "You ungrateful wretch, if I didn't treat you well, would I have let you go to college?"
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