160 confessions
Xie Yaoyao thought of Huo Yanxi and smiled slightly, "He always has a kind of magic that can influence the people around him to become better."
“Yes,” Pei Yan said, then added, “Actually, President Huo has it tough too.”
Xie Yaoyao stopped upon hearing this.
Pei Yan had sent her a lot of voice messages last time, so she knew that Pei Yan cared about Huo Yanxi.
"Has he...not had a good life these past few years?"
Last time, Pei Yan said that he often hurt himself, and those purplish-blue electric shock marks were left from that.
Pei Yan said, "No good."
Xie Yaoyao felt heavy-hearted; she actually often searched for news about Huo Yanxi.
In the first year after they separated, it was almost impossible to find any news about him.
Even searching the Huo Group yielded no information about him.
It wasn't until the following year that he slowly began appearing in financial magazines, attracting widespread attention.
He stood where she wanted him to stand, but she never saw him smile.
"Can you tell me what you can say?"
Pei Yan sighed softly, "Actually, there's nothing that can't be said, but President Huo might prefer you to ask him yourself."
Xie Yaoyao lowered her head. "He won't tell me."
Huo Yanxi only ever tells her the good things; he never tells her the bad things.
Just like six years ago when he was bullied by his company leader, who forced him to drink, he drank until he had a stomach hemorrhage and was hospitalized. He even called her to tell her that he was on a business trip.
Actually, she was standing across the street at the time, watching him vomit blood.
Pei Yan knew Huo Yanxi's personality well; neither of them spoke up, and the other didn't ask.
Even if we live together now, it will take a long time to overcome the awkwardness of these past five years.
"When President Huo returned to Hong Kong, the Huo Group was on the verge of bankruptcy, owing hundreds of billions of dollars. The Huo family asked him to come back so that he could take the blame for his elder brother, Huo Yanzhou."
Xie Yaoyao's eyes widened. "Didn't Madam Huo say that he was to come back and take over the Huo Group?"
"You could say that, because when Huo Yanzhou disappeared, the Huo Group was in chaos and no one was in charge. Old Master Huo couldn't take the blame for his eldest son and go to jail, so he had no choice but to bring President Huo back."
Xie Yaoyao felt as if her heart had been struck several times by a blunt object, and she was in so much pain that she couldn't breathe.
How could that be?
When Madam Huo forced her to break ties with Huo Yanxi, she clearly told her that Huo Yanxi would return to the Huo family to inherit the family business, and from then on, he would rise to prominence and would never be troubled by villains again.
But how could he have been brought back to take the blame?
Pei Yan sighed, "You don't believe it either, right? We didn't believe it at the time either, but we really didn't get in touch with him for half a year."
Xie Yaoyao recalled that she hadn't seen any statement from Huo Yanxi joining the company on the Huo Group's official website for the past six months.
She thought he was going to start from the bottom, but it turned out he hadn't even joined the company at that time.
"Then...where did he go back then?"
Looking at her almost broken expression, Pei Yan said with some pity, "In Xiaojianshan Prison."
Xie Yaoyao swayed, and if Pei Yan hadn't reached out to support her in time, she probably would have fallen to the ground.
"Prison? How could he be in prison?" Xie Yaoyao's tears rolled down her cheeks like broken beads.
Her arrogance landed him in prison.
No wonder he was in so much pain later; it was all her fault.
Pei Yan said, "The Huo Group needs a scapegoat, and he is the best scapegoat."
Xie Yaoyao raised her hand to cover her eyes, regret and heartache welling up in her heart at the same time.
"It was my fault, I acted on my own initiative, I thought..."
She thought she was doing it for his own good, but she never expected to push him into the deepest abyss.
Seeing her blaming herself, Pei Yan said helplessly, "None of us knew that the Huo family would be so cruel to him."
Xie Yaoyao didn't know how she got back to the apartment. As she walked into the entrance hall, she immediately saw Huo Yanxi lying on the sofa.
A television was in the living room, its light flickering and falling on him.
She changed into slippers and slowly walked over, only to find that he had his eyes closed and seemed to be asleep.
Xie Yaoyao squatted down in front of him, carefully looking at his face.
His face was still outrageously handsome, but she had no idea how much suffering he had endured.
And all this suffering was brought to him by her.
She sat cross-legged on the carpet, raising her hand to trace his outline through the air.
"Huo Yanxi, I'm sorry."
She thought that if they separated, she would no longer be a burden to him and could allow him to live a good life.
But how could the Huo family treat him like this?
He was abandoned by them when he was a child, but they took him back when they needed him to take the blame.
They are his closest relatives, why can't they love him properly?
"I was wrong."
From now on, she would never let go of his hand again, and she would never make him sad again.
Huo Yanxi's eyelashes trembled, and he slowly opened his eyes. When he saw her so close to him, he blinked.
"You're back?"
The man's voice was still hoarse from just waking up, and when he saw the tears covering her face, he was startled. "Why are you crying?"
Xie Yaoyao quickly wiped away her tears, "I probably got some sand in my eyes, I'm fine."
Huo Yanxi stared at her for a few seconds, then sat up, reached out and pulled her up from the carpet, so she sat sideways on his lap.
He looked at her red eyes and said, "Tell me, why are you sad?"
Xie Yaoyao felt embarrassed by his intense gaze, so she rested her chin on his shoulder.
"I am not sad."
"Then why are you crying? Who bullied you?"
Xie Yaoyao wrapped her arms around his neck. "No one has bullied me, Huo Yanxi. Have you ever hated me these past few years?"
Huo Yanxi was taken aback.
He hated it at first.
He hated her for being heartless and for abandoning him. When he was being beaten by a group of people in Xiaojianshan Prison, he almost couldn't take it anymore, but he also thought that he couldn't just die like that.
If he were to die, she might find out and laugh at his incompetence.
He wanted to live, to live well, so that one day he could reappear before her in glory and make her regret saying goodbye so easily back then.
But after surviving a near-death experience at Xiaojian Mountain, when he finally breathed the air of freedom, he didn't want to go back to the Huo family to fight for their inheritance, nor did he want her to regret it.
All he wanted was to see her.
Even just a glimpse from afar is enough to satisfy him.
But when he hurriedly returned to the small fishing village, the houseboat had burned down, and she was gone.
He was completely abandoned by her.
Later, his hatred was worn away completely over the course of day after day and year after year.
As hatred fades, love blossoms anew, day after day, year after year.
It was then that he realized he loved her, and that he would not care about anything else as long as she came back to him.
At that moment, he looked at his lover in front of him, raised his hand and gently brushed the hair that was stuck to her cheek behind her ear.
He said, "Manman, I have always loved you, I love you so much."
Xie Yaoyao's pupils dilated. Even though she had heard him say he loved her from Uncle Jian and Pei Yan, hearing him say it to her in person still made her heart surge like a tide. She couldn't believe it, yet she was filled with love.
"Huo Yanxi, say it again, who do you love?"
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