Dispute
The temperature was low at night and Jiang Nian's clothes were not warm enough. He should have gone back to his room to change, but was forced to stay here for a while.
My whole body was filled with coldness, and my fingertips had been touching the door frame for a long time, making the coldness even more biting.
She turned around, perhaps because she caught a cold, or perhaps because she was in a bad mood. The indifference on her face replaced the gentleness and tranquility of the past, and her facial features seemed more distant.
"What does Duke Xiao mean by this? I don't understand."
She didn't want to be bound by the cumbersome etiquette here, nor did she want to pretend in front of him. The annoyance in her heart replaced all more rational emotions. Jiang Nian withdrew her hand from the door and pressed her fingertips impatiently to dispel the coldness on her fingertips.
Xiao Yingzhu restrained his nonchalant smile, the indifference in his pupils reflected the unstable emotions in his heart, and his gaze was even colder than the temperature of the storage room. He looked at her without mercy and without any aggression.
He casually pushed the papers on the table a little further away, and leisurely changed his posture to look more like a "superior".
Because of the slightly tilted angle of the head, the blood-red pendant fell down from the black hair again.
Seeing this cold and distant look, Jiang Nian suddenly felt like it was the first time he met Xiao Yingzhu.
It seemed as if she had never really known Xiao Yingzhu.
I have always used my own analysis to look at him, but I don't know his past and thoughts, so naturally I can't guess what kind of personality is hidden under the mask on his face.
It's always unpredictable.
"What does Miss Jiang think?"
He tilted his head and looked at Jiang Nian mockingly.
"The 'I' you're thinking of has nothing to do with me. Why should I, Xiao, answer your question?"
“…”
Jiang Nian pursed her lips, frowned, and did not answer him directly.
Facing her complicated gaze, Xiao Yingzhu's expression of boredom, "So that's all," appeared again. He seemed to have lost interest in Jiang Nian. He stood up with some interest and picked up the pages of paper casually.
The action of picking up the paper from the table was smooth and took only a few seconds.
The storage room was silent. Apart from the two of them, everyone else was silent and dead. Naturally, they would not answer Xiao Yingzhu's questions on behalf of Jiang Nian.
After a moment, Jiang Nian relaxed his subconsciously clenched hands, retracted his gaze, and replied calmly: "Out of alliance, I only expressed my concern."
"If I have offended you just now, please forgive me, Duke."
It turned out to be my wishful thinking.
Seeing Xiao Yingzhu's distant, bored and boring attitude, he knew that she was meddling in other people's business.
Perhaps even if he agreed to her cooperation, even if he had been protecting her all the way.
——It is all to prevent the emergence of "uncertainties" in the plan, and they don't want the enemy to see her, so as to prevent them from having any ideas about the insect repellent.
Therefore, those ambiguous moments in the past were just illusions in the water, like foam that would burst with a single blow.
It cannot stand up to scrutiny or questioning.
Like petals rotting on a street corner, they break when stepped on.
In just two months, she was the only one immersed in this relationship.
What would Xiao Yingzhu think of her?
You should think it's nothing and just laugh it off.
He had never made any promises to me, so why did I unconsciously get close to him, even thinking he was trustworthy? I even revealed my secrets to him twice.
She had clearly heard of Xiao Yingzhu's name from the very beginning.
How could such a person be fooled so easily?
He's not some idiot who can be easily manipulated.
Jiang Nian took two steps back, opened the door, and left a small space for Xiao Yingzhu.
If he wanted to open the door, he could do it now.
Then we parted ways on bad terms tonight, each going home to find his own mother.
Ha, how could she forget that Xiao Yingzhu had no parents long ago.
Heart aches, the pain spreads through the nerves and throughout the body.
At this time, she is still thinking about nonsense.
I've really lost my mind.
Jiang Nian didn't want to look in the direction Xiao Yingzhu was coming from, so he turned his head and looked the other way.
All she could see was the wooden floor, illuminated by the moonlight and covered with a light layer of dust. When she moved, footprints appeared where she had been standing.
The dull sound of footsteps was particularly clear in this not-so-big storage room. As the sound got closer, she couldn't hold her breath.
He no longer wanted to perceive anything. At this moment, Jiang Nian just wanted to leave here immediately, go back to his room, take a nap, and escape from the busy tomorrow.
This cycle repeated itself until she and Xiao Yingzhu reached a cooperation, and the intersection lines dispersed and extended in different directions, and there would never be another intersection again.
Jiang Nian blinked his slightly sore eyes, but his face showed no sign of weakness and still showed a calm expression.
Even though her heart was in turmoil, she was unwilling to show her embarrassing and vulnerable side to outsiders.
The footsteps stopped in front of her, and a flash of white came into her sight.
Slender fingers stretched out from below, and before Jiang Nian noticed, his chin was lifted up by Xiao Yingzhu.
Startled, Jiang Nian opened his eyes slightly, and just as he was about to move, he saw those eyes that were slightly displeased.
Xiao Yingzhu's face was frosty, and all his previous casualness and spontaneity had become a bubble.
His beautiful and charming eyebrows and eyes were like a mountain painted in mist, as handsome as when we first met, as if he was an immortal who had just entered the mortal world.
But everyone who knew him knew that he treated people like dirt, and Jiang Nian knew this bad nature of his even better.
He is willing to use himself as bait, using the simplest and easiest method to approach a woman he doesn't want to approach, and then to grasp her heart and control it in his hands - all of this is paving the way for his future "great cause".
Fate is so unfair.
But he was given a good-looking appearance.
Make these things even easier.
Before meeting her, had Xiao Yingzhu treated others in the same way?
Perhaps before she arrived at this era, there were already so many that she couldn't count them.
Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment by the displeasure in Xiao Yingzhu's eyes, then raised his hand and fiercely pulled his hand away.
"A gentleman uses his mouth, not his fists—don't you know that?"
"If you take me as an offense, why do you do this?"
She was like a fool put on a bright stage, so Xiao Yingzhu looked at her again and again as if she were watching a play.
It's such a cheap deal.
The person who had offended Jiang Nian happened to be standing in front of her, his eyes fell on her face, and he could see her expression clearly.
The silence in the room was suffocating. Jiang Nian turned his head and turned around, wanting to go somewhere else.
It always feels hard to breathe when Xiao Yingzhu is around.
Raising his hand, he touched the skin that was hurt by his grip. Jiang Nian took a deep breath and tried to go around to the other side of the storage room.
The air around me was cold. After taking a deep breath, I realized that I was shaking with anger.
My whole body seemed frozen, like a frozen block of ice. Only my breath was warm.
Jiang Nian raised his hand, lowered his head slightly and twisted his nose, only then did he realize that his eyes were also a little warm.
Is she crying?
What's there to cry about?
Sentimental and affectionate.
This is totally inappropriate in this era, and the other party is not someone who deserves her to treat him like this.
Jiang Nian wanted to take another deep breath, but when she realized she was sad and dazed, she heard someone's black hair falling behind her.
Ice-cold fingers brushed against her skin again, pressing against her neck.
A warm breath hit her cheek, and Xiao Yingzhu's cold and smiling voice sounded softly in Jiang Nian's ears, and the leisurely tone was creepy.
"What do you think?"
He looked up at Jiang Nian in a teasing manner, his eyes never leaving her face, and with his lips curled, he continued slowly:
"Jiang Nian, you're imposing your wishful thinking on me, and you don't even allow me to feel resentful?"
"Or is it that the 'I' you think you are is the real me?"
Jiang Nian lowered her head slightly, her hair falling down due to the force, covering her red eyes.
She didn't want to answer Xiao Yingzhu at this time, and only prayed that Xiao Yingzhu would not let her see her crying.
That would be so embarrassing.
But the two of them were extremely close, and she didn't want to make any big movements and arouse the other party's suspicion.
Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, she stood in the shade where the moonlight could not reach. She sniffed softly, slowed her throat, and then tried her best to reply calmly:
"I don't know what Duke Xiao is talking about. If you have anything else, please discuss it at the meeting tomorrow."
The fresh breath of the person next to him seemed to be choked for a moment. He did not expect Jiang Nian to be so bold and reject him without caring about his emotions, not even leaving him any chance to speak again.
Xiao Yingzhu was stunned for a moment, then laughed out of anger. Jiang Nian's blocked nose suddenly felt a strong fragrance.
The force on his shoulders suddenly increased, and his right hand gently grasped her neck, as if to warn her to kill this disobedient chess piece.
But now, the warning is no longer valid, and he wants to try a different approach.
Before Jiang Nian could calm down and hide the remaining tears on her face, the other party did not give her the opportunity to secretly restrain her emotions and turned her over -
The positions of the two people suddenly changed, and Jiang Nian was pulled with such a force that she could not keep her balance. When she finally stood firmly on another piece of ground, the emotion that betrayed her could no longer be concealed.
The ground here is already covered with silver moonlight.
Xiao Yingzhu's gaze fell on her brows, and after a moment, he narrowed his eyes.
He lowered his head and moved slightly closer to her, not intending to touch her any further, but his gaze, which seemed to be real, made Jiang Nian feel very uncomfortable.
The blood-colored pendant swayed in her sight, and the dazzling red reflected in her eyes, like a death warrant falling from an hourglass, forcing her to respond immediately to Xiao Yingzhu's words.
Xiao Yingzhu leaned down slightly and looked at her with a smile, but there was no smile in his eyes when he looked at her.
As cold as ice.
"So what? Jiang Nian."
"You define me with your own opinion."
"So now that you've discovered that the person you imagined is different from me, do you want to escape?"
The real him.
The tear marks on his face had not yet dried, and Xiao Yingzhu must have seen it.
——Such bright moonlight.
How could he not see it?
But Xiao Yingzhu acted as if she hadn't seen it, and just assumed that her emotions were as stable as usual, answering him with rational words and giving him a reasonable explanation.
The angle between them no longer required Jiang Nian to look up at him, but instead reached an angle where he could almost look at him straight without having to look up.
Jiang Nian was silent.
She didn't want to answer so quickly.
Now if you say one word more or one word less, something bad will happen.
The Xiao Yingzhu in front of her had a strange smile, as if she was someone she had never seen before.
Her sixth sense told her that Xiao Yingzhu's emotions were not as stable as usual at this moment. If she said the wrong thing, it might trigger a bad outcome.
Even though he was already in tears, Jiang Nian didn't want this cooperation to end badly.
The other person's gaze was blazing and hot in the cold temperature, as if it wanted to burn through her and see through her thoughts and her heart.
Jiang Nian really didn't know what Xiao Yingzhu was thinking of her now.
Because it was a situation of mutual exploitation from the beginning, he has been taking advantage of her.
Recently, I found that this useful chess piece of hers seemed to be showing signs of "uncertainty", so I left it vacant for a while.
——Even when they were in front of the mansion, he looked at her with cold eyes because there were people around.
But there must be a reason why Xiao Yingzhu herself didn't want to see her.
But now, he was waiting for her reply madly and persistently.
Is it because he realized that even if he cooperated with the 'pawn', he would still want to escape his control?
So now we have to find out the reason.
If the answer is not perfect.
Will her ending come to an end here?
Her life was wiped out by him in this unknown storage room?
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