Chapter 65: Exchanging Secrets
Xiao Beisheng stared at her face, his eyes deep, like mellow and intoxicating wine.
"Sure. What do you want to hear?" he asked.
"Well... just tell me, what happened between you and Luo Yan before? I'm quite curious."
"How do I know if your secret is worth it? What if you say it's innate? Wouldn't I be at a loss?"
"Mr. Xiao is intelligent and strategic, and more importantly, he has the ability to judge people. Whether I'm worthy or not depends on Mr. Xiao's own assessment, doesn't it? It all depends on how much I'm worth to Mr. Xiao."
Although Su Man was slightly tipsy, her mind was still clear.
She practiced Tai Chi with Xiao Beisheng calmly.
When masters fight, each one of them counters the other's moves.
Xiao Beisheng smiled and said indulgently: "Actually, even if you don't submit the exchange, I can tell you anything you want to know."
This is the good thing about Xiao Beisheng. When he has you in his eyes, he can give you the whole world, including himself.
On the contrary, he is an iceberg that cannot be melted by sunlight and can even freeze people.
"Then tell me, what happened that Luo Yan was injured because of you?" Su Man's eyes were watery.
"I used to be a lawyer, you know. Back then, I mainly handled economic crimes, and all I dealt with were economic criminal cases. For a lawyer to win a case, it's not just about writing a defense statement; you have to conduct in-depth investigations and personally collect evidence. At that time, I took on a smuggling case. The criminal gang was huge, a major international criminal. The case was slow to move forward. To help me, Luo Yan contacted the gang without telling me, but her identity was quickly discovered, and she was imprisoned and tortured for over five months. When I led the police to rescue her, she was on her last breath. She spent over three months in the intensive care unit before she could speak..."
His tone was flat.
But Su Man knew that behind this calmness lay many deep emotional ups and downs and strong feelings.
She was even a little envious, envious of Luo Yan and Xiao Beisheng for having experienced so much together.
This is an experience that no one else can replace.
"I'm so envious..."
"envious?"
"No one can surpass Luo Yan's position in your heart." Su Man said.
Xiao Beisheng looked at her silently, pondered for a while, and said, "On a certain level, that's right."
Su Man felt sour in her heart, she found that she still cared about Xiao Beisheng.
She asked, "Then why did you give up on her? Even if she refused to marry you right away, she would still love you. You could still get married after three years."
"I used to think that she and I were of the same kind, but now I realize that we are not. She has gone astray and I don't recognize her anymore." Xiao Beisheng picked up the wine glass in front of him, shook the red liquid inside, tilted his head back and took a sip.
Su Man thought about it and thought that what Xiao Beisheng was referring to might be related to what Luo Yan’s father did.
But the sins of parents do not extend to their children.
Could it be that... Luo Yan is also doing something shady like her father?
Xiao Beisheng did not continue the topic, but asked: "It's your turn, what is your secret?"
"Hmm... let me think about it." Su Man organized her words, "You guessed it right. I'm afraid of heights, but it's not congenital."
Xiao Beisheng put down his wine glass, crossed his hands on the table, and listened to her attentively.
"On my eighteenth birthday, my aunt said she wanted to celebrate my birthday. The party was held in a sky restaurant. My aunt bought me a beautiful designer dress and dressed me up like a princess. I was very happy. At the party, besides my aunt and uncle, there were several other uncles. They were very kind and friendly. Each of them gave me red envelopes and gifts, watched me blow out the candles, and helped me cut the cake..."
When she said this, Su Man's voice suddenly choked.
Xiao Beisheng also had a bad suspicion in his mind. The moisture from the sea made the air a little stagnant.
"My uncles were eating cake with me, but when I turned around, I couldn't find my aunt and uncle anymore... The uncles finally revealed their true appearances. It turned out that my aunt had promised them that as soon as I came of age, she would give me to them."
"The cake fell to the floor... The little dress my aunt bought me was torn... I was disobedient, so they pinned me against the window... I looked out at the night view, the lights of the entire city, bustling and dazzling. Before that day, I loved this kind of city night view, but at that moment, it became the darkest and most humiliating scene in my life, dirty, emitting a stench of decay."
Su Man spoke intermittently and several times she was about to stop. Xiao Beisheng reached out and held her hand on the table. "If you don't want to talk about it, don't talk about it."
Su Man smiled and said, "Of course I have to say it. The most exciting part is yet to come."
Xiao Beisheng's brows were solemn.
Suman said: "Everyone wanted to be the first, so they had an argument. I took the opportunity to poke out the eyes of the person in front of me, and then jumped out of the window. More than 30 meters high, I thought my life would end on the day I turned 18. But God was kind to me. There was a river next to the hotel, and I jumped into the river and survived."
"Have you been afraid of heights since then?"
Su Man laughed at herself: "It was quite disappointing. I wasn't afraid of death at the time, but later I became afraid of heights. I often had nightmares afterwards. I dreamed that I was falling from a great height, falling and falling, and could not reach the bottom. There were some very scary human faces and ghost hands in the air, trying to catch me."
Xiao Beisheng knew that what Su Man was afraid of was not the height, but the long and dark half an hour.
His eyes were filled with compassion and a hint of anger. "You are a bunch of beasts. If you want, I can help you get revenge."
"I took revenge a long time ago. After that incident, Gu Ziheng happened to pursue me, and I chose to be with him. Later, I took advantage of the Gu family's snobbery and brought them down one by one. I couldn't survive if they didn't fall."
Su Man also spoke calmly.
Xiao Beisheng stared at her for a long time. "I didn't expect you to be so brave. I thought you were with Gu Ziheng just because of his money."
Su Man suddenly said, "Actually, I once made an appointment with someone that he would come to celebrate my birthday with me and listen to him play guitar for me, but he didn't come."
Xiao Beisheng's expression suddenly showed a hint of panic. He raised his hand and knocked over the red wine bottle beside him. The red wine bottle fell and rolled onto the deck, staining the white tablecloth dark red.
The waiter came up to clean up, and Xiao Beisheng was a little absent-minded.
He asked, "If he comes but can't help you take down those people like Gu Ziheng did, will you still accept Gu Ziheng?"
"If he had come... he would have taken me away, and I wouldn't have had to go through all that. What's the point of talking about revenge? But there are no ifs. What happened happened. Besides, I can't contact that person after that."
Xiao Beisheng seemed to be lost in thought, as if he had lost some important treasure, and his eyes suddenly became dim.
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