Chapter 29 Don't Care
What do you care about and what do you not care about?
She got justice for him, made the abuser apologize, and obtained compensation. Isn't that a great thing?
How can you not care?
No one knew better than Sheng Zhao how many people would despise him if he were a powerless person, and he might even be despised to death before the case was overturned.
So, why was he biting her lower lip as if to vent his anger?
Sheng Zhao was pressed down by Li Ji, and the faint fragrance on his body wafted into her mouth and nose, which was particularly alluring. At this moment, he seemed to be biting her lower lip with suppressed anger and rubbing it.
Sheng Zhao paused, turned over and pressed his food on the sofa, then looked down at his watery lips and cold eyes filled with inexplicable emotions.
Her words were direct and to the point.
"This is the best decision."
She can profit from it and help Sheng's family move to a higher level, and Li Ji will also get an apology and a clean reputation that he may never get in his life.
But he looked at her stubbornly, his voice hoarse.
"But I have the right not to forgive."
Sheng Zhao paused. She really didn't seem to expect that he had the self-respect to say "no forgiveness".
She frowned slightly and asked softly, "But you have nothing. An apology from the bully, compensation, a clean reputation—those are what you want, right?"
"...No," he replied, his hoarse voice carrying a subtle fragility. "I want to have self-respect."
"From a long time ago, all I wanted was self-respect."
His voice was low and hoarse, but he spoke each word with great solemnity, and his eyes were fixed on Sheng Zhao with great stubbornness.
Sheng Zhao had no interest in pinching his face and telling him that you are just a dull stray dog in this world where power is intertwined. You can't make any waves and you have no intention of asserting your initiative.
In her opinion, collaborators just need to be obedient and behave well.
Li Ji is very well behaved.
Only at this time will I be stubborn.
But even though he emphasized his dignity over and over again, didn't he still rub against her fragilely, kiss her lips, and not say a word when signing the contract to conclude the deal?
Is he throwing a tantrum or trying to get attention?
Sheng Zhao didn't bother to think. She bit Li Ji's lower lip cleanly and hard. She didn't respond to his words but whispered, "I bit it back. We're even."
Then he stood up neatly and walked out of the living room.
Only Li Ji was left lying on the sofa, his hands covering his eyes, looking at the dim light from the chandelier on the ceiling through his fingers.
He used his other hand to rub the slight teeth marks on his lower lip, closed his eyes as if confused, and said no more.
Li Ji and Sheng Zhao were in a cold war.
Li Ji no longer spoke a word to Sheng Zhao, nor did he give Sheng Zhao any extra expressions. After cooking, he went out to work.
Because all the rumors have been clarified, Li Ji's popularity has increased a lot, but he doesn't have many representative works, so he has been receiving a lot of notices for movies, TV series and variety shows these days.
He also watched Shen Moyi's apology video.
The young master was in tears, and he recounted his mistakes in a wronged manner.
...crocodile tears.
Li Ji turned off the video without a care and continued filming.
Shen Moyi sent someone to find Li Ji to apologize in person, but Li Ji didn't even have the patience to listen to the end. He just walked away and blocked Young Master Shen on various social media platforms.
Just because the problem is solved doesn't mean Li Ji can be Shen Moyi.
Of course, even if Sheng Zhao and Li Ji were in a cold war, he would do his job seriously, and even do the housework and cooking, so for Sheng Zhao, it didn't matter whether they were in a cold war or not.
After Li Ji didn't respond after the first and second times of questioning him, Sheng Zhao didn't take the initiative to talk to Li Ji.
As a result, Li Ji's air pressure became lower and lower, and the air pressure around him was so low that it was terrifying. He had a cold face. The last time Duan Jingrui came to secretly follow Li Ji's itinerary and prepare to find Sheng Zhao, he was shocked by Li Ji's air pressure.
And he didn't find Sheng Zhao either.
But Duan Jingrui hasn't seen Sheng Zhao for a long time.
The fact that he had a fiancé was not just a rumor or his imagination. When Sheng's mother and father were still alive, seeing that Duan Jingrui was lively and cute, they were also thinking of getting engaged.
But unfortunately, Sheng's father and mother died in a car accident, and the matter came to nothing.
But Duan Jingrui always regarded himself as Sheng Zhao's fiancé.
He will definitely be a good husband, take care of his wife and children, wait for Sheng Zhao to come home every day, and have a few more daughters and sons.
Duan Jingrui has been traveling back and forth between Sheng Group, Sheng family mansion, and the villa where Sheng Zhao and Li Ji live together these days, but he has met Sheng Zhao very rarely.
Angry! Blame it on that guy!
He enjoyed the previous melon with gusto, but he was still a little disappointed when he saw the reversal.
He sighed sadly and took a bite of the small cake and juice handed to him by Yu Shiyun. Duan Jingrui bit the rim of the cup, and the tip of his teeth hit the glass, making a crisp sound.
Duan Jingrui stretched out his voice, "Brother Sheng... When will Sister Sheng come? I've been waiting for several days, and she didn't even reply to my messages."
Sheng Cehan tapped the screen again, then squatted down and looked at Duan Jingrui who was mumbling beside him. He lowered his eyes again, his eyelashes trembling for a moment before speaking, "...I don't know."
Yu Shiyun, who was standing by, watched Duan Jingrui continue to send messages. She sneered and said, "She doesn't even reply to work messages. She won't meet someone she doesn't want to meet."
Only this room full of resentful husbands was left.
Sheng Cehan actually has a complicated opinion about Duan Jingrui.
Duan Jingrui didn't know that Sheng Cehan was adopted. Before Duan Jingrui met Sheng Zhao, Sheng Cehan had already appeared in the Sheng family mansion.
He treated Sheng Cehan as his own brother and expressed his love for Sheng Zhao passionately and unrestrainedly.
So much so that Sheng Cehan envied that kind of openness, but was jealous of his enthusiasm and love.
What if Sheng Zhao is overwhelmed by this passionate love and really falls in love with Duan Jingrui?
Fortunately, Sheng Zhao was dismissive of his feelings—and his own.
Sheng Cehan paused and said no more.
She treats everyone the same and has no love.
Where is Li Ji?
Sheng Cehan almost laughed out loud at the fact that Sheng Zhao had allowed Li Ji to cause trouble for the Shen Group.
He had always been worried that Sheng Zhao would treat Li Ji differently.
But there is no difference.
She was as cold-hearted as ever.
It can even benefit the Sheng Group.
Perhaps she had chosen Li Ji's special plan in the beginning just for her own benefit and pleasure.
Sheng Cehan's tension eased a lot.
...Li Ji is no different.
That's ridiculous.
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Li Ji was as strangely silent as ever at the dinner table, pursing his lips and saying nothing.
On the table was still Sheng Zhao's favorite meal. He hated the fact that the seasonings were not balanced, some were salty and some were bland, but because of his cooking skills, it didn't taste that bad.
Sheng Zhao ate with gusto as always.
But nothing was said.
What day of the Cold War was this? I forgot.
Li Ji thought so nonchalantly.
He looked into Sheng Zhao's eyes. She seemed to have eaten a lump of salt and she frowned, stuck out her tongue, and then spat out the salt lump and gulped down the water.
Will she be sad because of the cold war?
Would she want to talk to him?
Is she also like Li Ji, tossing and turning at night because of the cold war?
Li Ji looked at her as if he was longing for something.
No.
She ate well and slept well as usual, and was doing things that he had no idea about, as if he could not touch her world at all.
...it had absolutely no effect on her.
An inexplicable emotion suddenly surged in Li Ji's chest.
Why was he so lost in thought because of Sheng Zhao? Why did he sometimes stare at a certain spot for so long, wondering about Sheng Zhao's feelings? Why did he constantly think about Sheng Zhao? Would she come and comfort him? Why... did he care about Sheng Zhao so much? And Sheng Zhao didn't care at all?
Li Ji pursed his lips slightly, and his stern face looked even colder.
His fingertips gently stroked the chopsticks, and his eyelashes drooped, and his crow-feather-like eyelashes trembled slightly.
He wanted to ask Sheng Zhao.
Why ignore him?
But Li Ji has always been a patient person. He endured a year of school bullying, a hellish family background, and other people's contempt and humiliation.
He couldn't speak because of his ridiculous dignity and persistence.
His back was tall and straight, gradually narrowing with a slightly protruding spine, his waist and abdomen were strong and lean, and he had the dignity and pride of a swan.
Just sitting there straight and upright, he was using the things he had to protect himself after struggling in this world for many years, indifference and unruliness - these were the things that he, as a man, had to use to protect himself in this world.
His eyes were dark and deep, filled with emotions as thick as ink, but he forced himself to suppress them and hide his trembling heart.
Sheng Zhao gulped down the water and stuck out her tongue, her brows still furrowed as if she still found it very salty. After a moment, she spoke, "...It's so salty. I feel like my cooking skills have declined significantly in the past two days."
Li Ji was full of thoughts. Suddenly he looked up when he heard her words and met her usual gaze.
Clear, plain, beautiful... the same eyes, expression, and tone as always.
Did she speak up?
...Are you seeking peace and ending the Cold War?
Will she also be moved by him?
Li Ji pursed his lips, and after a moment, he said "hmm" softly in a hoarse voice.
“I’ll make something delicious next time.”
His voice was soft.
But in an instant, the thick low pressure seemed to ease a lot, and his indifferent expression was not so gloomy anymore.
He looked as if he had been coaxed.
Sheng Zhao looked at Li Ji in a daze, as he was obviously happy in an instant.
She just couldn't understand Li Ji's temper recently. She thought he was in a bad mood because his uncle came. Since he didn't say anything, she didn't say anything either. Anyway, he did a good job.
She continued to eat her meal in confusion, bewildered. She only felt that the man's moods were unpredictable, and she had no idea that they had just ended a cold war.
That's it.
She didn't care, he was no different, she didn't care about other people's emotions.
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