Empty Promises: The Ceo Cunning Bride - Chapter 190

Xiong Guozhi shook his head. What kind of ridiculous thought was he having? He couldn’t believe something like that even crossed his mind.

“I don’t care about what that person said to you.” He stood up and pointed at Xiong Jingfei. “I am giving you another chance to change your words. Do you realize what will happen to us if you do break it off!?”

“Nothing. They won’t do anything to us.” Xiong Jingfei calmly replied and shrugged her shoulders. “They’ll be more than happy to get rid of me. I have nothing to offer to benefit them.”

There is already someone that has all of those perks, Wen Yingyue.

“Exactly! You have nothing to offer, but they do.” Xiong Guozhi took in a deep breath and sat back down. He knew that his daughter was against this arrangement, but she never mentioned breaking it off. “Are you telling me nothing developed between the two of you living together?”

I developed hatred if that’s what you’re asking? Xiong Jingfei replied in her head.

“If it’s love that you’re worried about, then there is nothing to be worried about.” Xiong Guozhi continued, thinking that might be why his daughter is going against the marriage. “Once you’re married, you’ll come to love him eventually.”

“Pft.” Xiong Jingfei sneered.

[‘Love! Love! Love! Is that all you know?’]

[‘Can love feed you? Can love give you money? Can love shelter you from the rain and wind?’]

Hearing the word “love” and for Yang Zheyan coming from her father’s mouth was hilarious. If only he could remember how much he hated their family.

[‘Is it wrong to love? Father, I love him.’]

Remembering how she cried and confessed her love for Yang Zheyan to her father, Xiong Jingfei wanted to use something to clean her mouth. Something to completely erase that she ever said those words for someone like Yang Zheyan.

[‘Why did you go crying at that disgusting place! They already stomped on our face by breaking off the marriage with you.’]

Xiong Jingfei winced at how she lost her sanity and begged Yang Zheyan to marry her but only to be tossed away at his doorstep.

Ahh! She can still taste the blood in her mouth when her father slapped her. Unfortunately, it didn’t wake her up then. But it made no difference to her since he was going to sell her off shortly afterward to someone else.

It left a greater bitter taste than when she called Li Roulan mother.

“Tch! I knew it! Something was off about you today.” Xiong Changchang crossed her arms in an arrogant attitude.

Xiong Jingfei, getting yelled at by their father, brought her a sense of accomplishment. Their house has been quiet for far too long. Plus, she is stupid enough to want to give up this marriage.

“Father, you should bring her to a psychiatric hospital.” Xiong Changchang covered her mouth from laughing out loud.

“Changchang!” Xiong Guozhi warned. His focus immediately went back to Xiong Jingfei. “We are not breaking off this marriage. Do you hear me, Feifei!?”

“Hmm…” The corner of Xiong Jingfei’s lips lifted upward. “Father, I don’t think you heard me correctly. This is not a ‘we’ but an I.”

What Xiong Jingfei plans to do was already put in motion the day she went to see Xu Song. She isn’t going to die for anyone else in the name of love in this lifetime. She is also not going to be under someone else’s control.

“Xiong! Jingfei!” Xiong Guozhi slammed his fist down on the glass table. This time, it shattered the surface top into tiny crystals. “Are you going against me!?”

“Honey!” Li Roulan exclaimed. She was afraid to be near Xiong Guozhi, but it wouldn’t look good for her to move away from her husband. But since his rage is for Xiong Jingfei and not her daughters, she was okay with it.

“Father! Since she doesn’t want to marry him, then let it be me!” Xiong Changchang stood up, and passionately spoke her deepest desire. She wasn’t afraid of her father if there was a possible chance of marrying Yang Zheyan. “I am just as good as her!”

“Changchang!” Xiong Guozhi turned his sharp gaze at her. “Are you trying to covet for something that does not belong to you?”

“H-honey~! Please calm down.” Li Roulan quickly found her courage and stroked Xiong Guozhi’s right arm back and forth. “What Changchang said isn’t wrong. We don’t have to break the promise between both families. Instead, we can just replace the bride! We have two daughters that Yang Zheyan can choose from.”

Li Roulan didn’t realize that Xiong Changchang’s face slightly frowned when she said, “two daughters to choose from.”

Xiong Jingfei nodded her head. “We agree on something for once.”

She doesn’t care who is going to replace her. That’s if they can even get near Yang Zheyan without him running away. The greatest woman Wen Yingyue tried but failed, so how can someone like Xiong Changchang compare?

“I-I… I don’t want to marry him!”

It was finally Xiong Jingfei’s turn to be surprised. The quietest voice in the household became the loudest one at rejecting a juicy marriage.

“Jiayi!” Li Roulan bit her bottom lips and gave Xiong Jiayi the eyes. Truthfully, out of her two daughters, Xiong Jiayi, was the best candidate! If she backs down, then all that’s left is…

“I don’t want to marry this Yang Zheyan.” Xiong Jiayi’s eyes were resolute, as well as the tone of her voice.

Xiong Jingfei smiled. That once small and soft voice that begged me not to leave in the past can now speak for herself. Jiayi, I’m happy that you became braver.

For a split second, Xiong Jiayi thought she saw Xiong Jingfei smile at her. It wasn’t the kind of smile she gave her mother and Xiong Changchang. It was the kind that belonged to someone proud of her.

Why? All she said was the truth. Xiong Jiayi did not want someone she barely knows.