Ye Linyan's Adam's apple bobbed, and he continued, "How do you know it can't be done if you haven't tried! If those things hadn't happened back then, you wouldn't be the way you are today!"
"The life I just described is the life you should be living, the normal life you should be living at your age!"
Xu Nuo lowered her eyes, and after a few seconds, she looked up again, a slight smile playing on her lips as she looked at Ye Linyan:
"You don't need to make it sound so high and mighty! You just want to get rid of me! I know what you're thinking!"
Xu Nuo suddenly didn't want to sit so close to Ye Linyan anymore; the distance made it hard for him to breathe!
She stood up, took a few steps back, and looked at him, saying, "Why didn't you tell me these things before! Why didn't you think about kicking me out before? When you held me to sleep every day, why didn't you think about letting me find a girl to date?"
"You've achieved great success now! And I've become a stain on your reputation! You want to erase this stain, this stain you don't want to see, and all the past events—wipe them all away! As if nothing ever happened!"
Ye Linyan's expression darkened. Xu Nuo was only half right. He was unwilling to bring up the past, but that wasn't the whole story.
Xu Nuo gave a self-deprecating laugh: "I was right, wasn't I!"
"Then let me tell you this today: I don't need the kind of life you're talking about! I won't date girls! You never knew, did you? I'm gay! I've known since middle school! So the kind of normal life you're talking about, I'm destined never to have!"
Ye Linyan's eyes flickered, and he was about to speak when Xu Nuo stopped him.
"I'm not a child anymore! I don't need you to plan my life! I can live it however I want! I can date whoever I want!"
At this point, Xu Nuo put away her smile and looked directly at Ye Linyan.
"You just want to distance yourself from the past and cut ties with me, right? Fine! These shady businesses you've been involved in these past few years have nothing to do with you now! And they'll never be yours again! Including Yunduan, from now on, they all belong to the Xu family!"
"Promise!"
Ye Linyan coldly shouted, stood up, and yelled Xu Nuo's name with utter fury! He wanted to argue, to tell Xu Nuo that he didn't think that way, but the truth seemed to be exactly as he said...
"What? You can't bear to part with them! Didn't you want to get engaged to the third young lady of the Cheng family with a clean slate? Why are you keeping all this? Didn't you originally want to get rid of it all, just like me!"
“I told you long ago to cut off those businesses! What are you keeping them for? Do you think you have too long to live, or do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail?”
Ye Linyan became visibly agitated; the anger he had been desperately suppressing was now surging wildly upwards.
"Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with you! Whether you agree or not is irrelevant! Now, I'm the one who calls the shots!"
Xu Nuo smiled wickedly, watching Ye Linyan take a few steps forward:
"Or are you afraid! You said so many things about thinking of me before, are you afraid that I will take all your shady dealings and side with Nan Qing'an? If that's the case, then all your efforts over the years will have been in vain! Do you think the Cheng family will still let you be their son-in-law?"
Upon hearing Xu Nuo's words, Ye Linyan did not get angry but instead laughed:
"well!"
She said "good" twice in a row, and in her heart she was convinced that Xu Nuo had caused all this trouble because of Cheng Ying!
Turning around, Ye Linyan gripped the back of the recliner tightly a few times, then lowered his head and thought for a few seconds.
When he looked up again, the anger in his eyes was gone.
"You don't want to go abroad? No problem! I'll find you another place to stay in Yuncheng. You're not allowed to go anywhere until I get my hands on the Ye family's assets!"
Seeing that Xu Nuo had a smile on his face that was the opposite of his usual smile, Ye Linyan breathed a sigh of relief. At least he wasn't pretending in front of him anymore.
"You said you were born gay, right!" He grabbed Xu Nuo's chin and made him look at him.
"Fine! Then you stay here with me, and we'll just keep at it like this!"
Xu Nuo slapped Ye Linyan's hand away and raised a wicked expression: "Why should I waste my time with you! Are you the only man in the world?"
"What do you mean?" Ye Linyan asked in a deep voice.
"I've wanted to say this for a long time: your skills in bed are so terrible, how can you always be so confident! The short videos I sent you were just so you could learn and improve!"
Tsk~
Xu Nuo stepped forward and raised her head slightly: "But you're just too confident! I'm fed up with you!"
Ye Linyan grabbed Xu Nuo by the collar, his previously extinguished anger flaring up instantly, his eyes reddening.
A few days ago, a scene from the study, and the words Xu Nuo said, suddenly came to mind.
'Let me teach you!'
'If so!'
'I'll take a picture for you to enjoy!'
Xu Nuo grasped Ye Linyan's hand, which was gripping his collar, and smiled:
"What's wrong? Are you angry because you're embarrassed? I think you still need to learn a thing or two, otherwise with your terrible skills, you won't be able to serve Miss Cheng properly!"
Looking into Xu Nuo's mocking eyes, Ye Linyan felt an urge to strangle him right now!
Gritting his teeth, he squeezed out, "Even if my technique is terrible, you still slept with me for five years!"
"So I've had enough sleep! I've had enough!"
Xu Nuo looked at Ye Linyan's fiery eyes and chuckled, "Now, I want to sleep with someone else! I'm not playing with you anymore!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Linyan felt all the blood rush to his head, and he couldn't remember how he threw the punch.
Xu Nuo fell to the ground, feeling a burning pain on her left cheek, and immediately tasted blood in her mouth.
As the black leather shoes approached, Xu Nuo even braced himself for another kick.
Instead of the foot that she had imagined landing, Xu Nuo chuckled, wiped her mouth, propped herself up, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
He looked up at Ye Linyan defiantly:
"Brother, this is the first time you've hit me!"
Looking at Ye Linyan's frosty face, with veins bulging on his forehead, it seemed as if he was trying his best to endure something!
Xu Nuo shook her head, walked to the bedside table, and picked up the photo of the two of them together, which was also their only photo together.
Looking at himself smiling brightly in the photo, and Ye Linyan dressed casually, his hand unconsciously reached out to touch her.
Xu Nuo thought to herself, Ye Linyan looks better without a suit! Anything he wears is better than a suit!
"Ye Linyan!"
Xu Nuo turned around and looked at Ye Linyan, whose eyes were filled with a fierce light as if he might pounce on her and bite her to death at any moment. Once again, she called him by his full name!
"You're the one who said you don't want me anymore!"
As the words fell, the group photo in Xu Nuo's hand fell to the floor, and the glass in the frame shattered.
Ye Linyan was stunned for a moment when he saw the shattered glass on the ground.
It wasn't until he heard Xu Nuo's footsteps coming downstairs that Ye Linyan snapped out of his daze and chased after him!
"Where the hell are you going?"
He grabbed Xu Nuo and blocked him on the stairs.
"What does it matter to you where I go?"
Xu Nuo pressed his tongue against the sore spot in his mouth, and it fucking hurt!
"I'm telling you, you can't go anywhere! I said, if you don't want to go abroad, then you'd better stay here obediently!"
"Then you need to prepare something for me, right?"
Ye Linyan slammed Xu Nuo against the wall: "What do you want? Tell me, what do you want!"
Xu Nuo laughed and said, "I told you last time! It's a chain! The kind with a collar!"
He gestured with his hand across his neck as he spoke.
"Tie it around my neck! Then I won't be able to walk!"
The moment Ye Linyan moved, Xu Nuo shoved him away and growled:
"Today! Either you kill me here, or let me go!"
Ye Linyan's chest heaved as he stared at Xu Nuo for a long while before finally speaking:
"Do we really have to escalate this far?"
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