Ceo And His Empress.. - Volume 2 Chapter 229 226. Rest 99 Steps..

Xun Luli couldn’t stay there anymore… it was evident in her eyes that she was just a speck of dirt to him; he wouldn’t lower himself to care about it.

But contrary to what she thought, her mind was actually calm and clear; she felt like she lost something that should be important to her just now, but in the deepest corner of her heart there was indeed a sense of relief without her knowing it…

If it was not now, it could be at a later period of time, but one day, she would have to wake up from this dream and so, it was actually better for that to happen now than at a time when she couldn’t do anything about it… the after-effects of the chains releasing her were dominating her now, but one day… she will understand everything about this…

Luli was about to be escorted out by her guards when ZiXuan suddenly spoke, “…. I wonder if you just infringed our privacy and were going to ‘show’ it to the world after editing it according to your whims..”, the tone he used was very light, but the threat was evident.

If Meilin could guess it, ZiXuan could too… he had numerous cues to begin with compared to Meilin plus, he wasn’t a fool, he was just the opposite and had also connected the dots early on.

Luli froze for a second, but it was high time she let go…

She turned to him and gave him a last look, “Have you ever, even for the briefest of the seconds, thought that you have loved me?”, it was her last fight… she wasn’t being a sore loser, but she could not let go of these feelings she had harboured for him over the span of 5 years now… in a way, she was actually quite pitiful, the person she thought she was destined to love didn’t feel the same for him and in the long run, even if they did get to marry, she would still have lived a lonely life till death… it made one think if the world’s consciouness really saw her as its favourite; her voice had trembled a lot as she was finally realising that many of the things she did in the past seemed very ridiculous to her now, as if, she was forced to fell that way… and that led to a conjecture, ‘was my love for him….real?’, she didn’t want to deny what she ad felt for the last few years, but she couldn’t help but think that she had been acting without thought… she also entered the same university as ZiXuan, she could boast about her brain and no one could question her, but she felt that what she did was illogical…

ZiXuan heard her but the first thing he did was to caress Meilin; she had stiffened up when she heard her question… once she loosened up a little, she replied to Xun Luli, who was in a daze, “You have always been the Xun family’s daughter whose grandfather was the friend of our grandfather…”

It was very cruel of him to logically explain her position so clearly, a simple ‘no’ would have hurt less… but he was not one to give false hope; the two of them had been using the other for their own selves and if possible, it would be better for her to stop with her delusions and he didn’t mind playing the bad guy here…

As expected, Luli’s eyes widened in shock and they clouded, but this farce had finally ended…

The world probably wanted to shift their lives back to what it should have been, but fate wasn’t everything, you write your own destiny from all the choices you make as you walk every step in the passage of your life… and even if it was indeed the case, the fate of ZiXuan and Meilin was just stronger…

Luli took off the hidden camera that was in the form of a brooch she was wearing and gave it to a bodyguard and finally walked out… her body lighter than ever.

…..

Meilin, on the other hand, has been feeling restless for a while now; it probably started when she showed many of her hidden emotions to Luli… her blank canvas was being painted or more like, the haze that had been covering her life finally vanished.

The moment he stopped their kiss, like a miracle, she started remembering everything about herself and him and before she knew it, she had returned to the Meilin before her memory loss; the things that happened during her temporary amnesia was a little blurred… but she definitely remembered what had happened just now…

They had indeed kissed… just what did that mean…?

She even thought that everything was actually a dream and when she wakes up, she will still be alone in her room, back in the QMX building and her body immediately cooled down.

When she heard Luli’s question in a daze, she stiffened as she couldn’t distinguish reality from her dream and she vaguely remembered something similar happening; the result was definitely not to her liking back then… she was scared…

But that answer from him calmed her nerves as her mind again wandered back to the kiss they shared… in the entire history of Qin Meilin, it was probably the first time, she was facing a system crash and failure!

Just when she thought she would wake up, his deep voice reverberated beside her ears;

“Linlin, just now… I… forced myself on you… but I won’t apologise…”, compared to how he spoke to Luli, his tone now was laced with his feelings towards her; Meilin who was having a hard time escaping reality, reflexively looked up as she opened her eyes wide…

ZiXuan was gently looking at her, he had been contemplating what he should say for a while now, but once the time came, he became quite fl.u.s.tered… he tried his best to not show his nervousness, but when Meilin looked up at him just now, a confused light in her eyes… he couldn’t help but feel a pang of guilt; he had known for a while now that she had loved him, but it was not the same for her, she has been walking this lonely path… now that she had taken the first step towards him, he couldn’t continue to act like this… He had decided to take the rest 99 steps and he would like to take her into his embrace as soon as possible and let her know that, he too had loved her… probably for a longer time than her.