Chapter 232: Love grows over time, Mrs. Jiang
"Not in the true sense?" Xu Xian didn't quite understand the deeper meaning of these words.
In front of the balcony was another residential building with lights on. Star-like shadows of light fell on Jiang Shibai's eyes. His gaze was indifferent and unfocused, and he spoke in a leisurely voice, "When I first saw you, I can't say I liked you. I can only say that I was deeply impressed by you."
Xu Xian's beautiful eyebrows raised slightly, and the scenes buried deep in his mind emerged bit by bit.
Impressive?
On the day of picking up the bride, he accurately stated the time when he had met her. That day was the annual meeting of the Jiang Group, held in the Sky Building. There were toasts and drinks, and the champagne and the beauty were a perfect match.
All the female employees in the group dressed up for the event, and she was no exception. Since she had no money to buy a dress, she specially rented a black velvet evening gown.
The final makeup photos were sent to Li Nanyan, who exclaimed that she could charm thousands of boys and was simply a walking harvester.
"You are impressed by my beauty?"
I didn't expect that he was also a superficial man, but he was a perfect match for her, a superficial and lustful woman.
If she were to be honest, she wouldn't have been able to eat any middle-aged man with a beer belly and bald skin in the car that night.
Jiang Shibai retracted his distant gaze, a faint smile hidden in his dark eyes. He gently scratched the tip of her upturned nose, "It's not that your beauty seduced me. Madam Jiang was indeed very beautiful that day. The pure black dress made you look very white. It's just that you cried a little awkwardly, like a little cat."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Xian's expectant gaze visibly dropped.
Could it be that the impressive thing he mentioned was that she was crying?
The reason why he likes it is really unusual.
As if seeing through her inner surprise and superficial thoughts, Jiang Shibai confessed everything: "I was leaving the banquet hall and wanted to find a corner to smoke, so I went into the stairwell. I heard you crying loudly on the floor below. I walked down a few steps and saw you crying with snot and tears, blowing your nose with a tissue from time to time."
"I was wondering how someone could cry even more uglier than Xue Er, almost throwing a tantrum and rolling on the ground."
"You're the ugly one." Xu Xian raised his fist and hit his well-defined chest in a flirtatious manner.
On the night of the annual meeting, she hid in the stairwell and cried because she received a call from the doctor saying that her mother's condition had worsened and asked her to be mentally prepared.
At that time, she worked hard to make money, and the non-stop work made her exhausted. That phone call was the last straw that broke the camel's back. She burst into tears and vented all her grievances.
Even nearly soiled the evening gown.
Jiang Shibai groaned, and a deep laugh escaped, "Okay, okay, my dear, it's not ugly, it's not ugly, it's just a little scary. After all, the stairwell is very dark, and you cried miserably."
In the dim stairwell that year, her dark figure stopped on the stairs, and her resentful crying voice was a blessing that he was not scared.
"Then what happened? Since you had an impression of me, why didn't you take any action?" Xu Xian felt that Jiang Shibai was not the kind of man who was afraid to pursue a girl.
His effortless sweet talk and flirting skills still amaze her to this day.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have fallen into his arms so quickly.
Jiang Shibai said in a low voice, "Maybe I didn't realize I was interested in you and was slow to act, so I missed the opportunity to pursue you. In fact, I have met you in the building many times, but you didn't remember me."
"My eyes lingered on you, but I didn't realize it."
"Fortunately, God blessed us and let us meet each other, even though the timing was not good."
When he met her, he was 28 years old. He had already experienced the ignorance of teenage love, but had never experienced the feeling of being moved. Business in the world occupied 90% of his time.
But when he saw her sitting on the stairwell, talking to herself and crying, her dirty face was imprinted in his mind at that moment.
So much so that every time I met her in the building later, my eyes would subconsciously linger on her.
Maybe he didn't fall in love with her at first sight, but he still inevitably fell for her quietly.
It seemed as if ever since that chance encounter on the stairs, a person had quietly appeared in his world.
But he didn't think too deeply about it at the time, nor did he explore the meaning of his subconscious mind, nor did he feel that there was any problem.
It wasn't until I saw her so bold and exposed in the car that something seemed to break out from the depths of my heart.
The strangeness that has been accumulating in the corner of my heart has been answered.
Food and sex are human nature.
Some people can separate love and sex, but they know very clearly what they want. Love and sex should be combined into one. Loving someone includes the desire for her body.
It’s not that there weren’t beautiful women who stripped naked in front of him to seduce him, but he didn’t react at all.
But she simply sat astride his lap and said a few words lightly, and he reacted.
At that moment, he was sure that he had evil intentions towards her.
Xu Xian felt that his explanation was like clarifying a secret love that had been buried deep in his heart for many years. The unknown heartbeat was unnoticed by anyone, but one day it became a driving force.
"That night in the car, weren't you afraid I might have other plans? And you were planning to marry me too hastily. You gave me so much assets, weren't you afraid I might just take your money?"
As the person in charge of the Jiang Group, Jiang Shibai has countless women and men who want to get close to him in an attempt to gain resources and connections, or even help him.
If it had been a woman with bad intentions that night, he might be stuck in this mess now.
"I'm not afraid you have ulterior motives." He actually hoped she had some ulterior motives for him. "As for getting married, it wasn't a hasty decision. It was the result of careful consideration. In your view, the time from discovering you were pregnant to getting the marriage certificate was a matter of just a few hours."
"But in my case, it's two months."
"After that night, I went to the United States. In fact, I am not sure how much I like you. It's just that in the dead of night, I will think of you, and a voice in my heart tells me that I can't miss you."
"On my first day back home, I unexpectedly spotted you in the office, and I decided to pursue you right away. After all, if you forced yourself on me, you have to be responsible for me."
Xu Xian: “…”
He talks as if he is at a disadvantage, but it is clearly a consensual thing.
Jiang Shibai put his arm around her slender waist, his hands dishonestly pinching that sensitive soft flesh, and said softly, "You were misdiagnosed as pregnant. I gave you property and security. It's my responsibility as a husband and father. I have no other thoughts."
"When I learned that you weren't pregnant, I was both happy and sad. My emotions were very complicated, but now that I'm done with the baby, I don't have any regrets. It was at that moment that I clearly realized that my love for you was deeper than I thought."
"Even though it developed into love later, it wasn't love at first sight. I didn't feel my heart beating unsteadily when we first met."
"It's a matter of time, Mrs. Jiang."
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