Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon's Reluctant Love-Chapter 218 - 217: He’s like a negotiation expert, making her compromise step by step.
Chapter 218: Chapter 217: He’s like a negotiation expert, making her compromise step by step.
He was like a master negotiator, gradually leading and tempting her.
Ming Yao’s slender eyelashes drooped, and for a moment, she didn’t know what to say.
The man’s large hand gripped her delicate shoulders, his dark eyes fixed intently on her, “My word is my bond. If you don’t believe me, we can sign an agreement.”
He leaned down, his thin lips close to her ear, his voice low and seductive, “Heaven has made you Mrs. Gu, which means we are fated. Are you sure you won’t give me even one chance and choose to leave this world?”
Gu Siting was actually angry, angry that she would rather die than be with him!
So stubborn, so fierce!
Yet he knew clearly that if he showed his anger right now, it would make her shrink away even more!
“Mrs. Gu, a person only lives once. If you die this time, heaven might not grant you another chance at life. Do you really want to leave this world?”
Ming Yao’s delicate white teeth bit hard on her lip.
She didn’t want to!
There were still so many things she hadn’t done. If there had been any other way, she wouldn’t have hidden away in a nunnery deep in the mountains.
Watching her long eyelashes tremble like the wings of an injured butterfly, Gu Siting’s heart clenched, “I won’t force you now. Think it over carefully. Will you give us, each other, one chance? Two months from now, whether you leave or stay, I will respect your decision.”
“I’m going back to Hope Elementary School now, and I will wait for you there until tomorrow morning.”
Before Ming Yao could say anything, the man let go of her slender shoulders and left the room.
As soon as Gu Siting left, Xia Yiwan and Jing Hang noticed him.
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Seeing his tight profile and deep, sharp eyes, they both guessed.
Had he and Ming Yao had another argument?
Jing Hang wanted to ask something, but Gu Siting quickly left.
Jing Hang and Xia Yiwan had no choice but to enter the room.
Looking at Ming Yao leaning on the table, her eyes downcast and preoccupied, they hurried over.
Xia Yiwan embraced Ming Yao in her arms.
In just a few days, Yaoyao seemed to have lost a lot of weight.
“Yaoyao, are you trying to scare us to death? Your phone was off; we couldn’t contact you. You can’t do this again!”
Xia Yiwan hugged Ming Yao and started to cry.
Ming Yao patted Xia Yiwan’s back, “Sorry, I worried you.”
Xia Yiwan wiped the tears from her face, “Fourth Master and Young Master Jing haven’t slept for several days. Fourth Master turned Li City upside down; he really cares about you, and of course, so does Young Master Jing.”
Ming Yao looked at Jing Hang.
With several sleepless nights, Jing’s eyes carried clear red blood vessels. His usually devil-may-care handsome face carried a touch of gloom and fury. When Ming Yao looked over, he huffed angrily and turned to leave the room.
Ming Yao sighed helplessly and quickly followed Jing Hang out.
Jing Hang stopped in the courtyard.
Seeing Ming Yao catch up, fury blazed in his peach blossom eyes, “Senior Sister, I strongly disapprove of your life-threatening actions!”
Ming Yao was aware that Jing Hang was angry and upset over the thought of her dying!
She and he had grown up together, without any blood relation, yet closer than siblings, training together, facing life and death together, carrying out missions together.
They both held significant places in each other’s hearts!
Ming Yao pulled Jing Hang to sit beside the mountain. She hugged her knees and spoke with a hoarse voice, “I’m afraid I can’t give him the same feelings, and I don’t want to lie to him anymore.”
The thought of spending a lifetime by his side had crossed her mind.
But her nature had always been to cherish freedom, and she didn’t want to be tied down due to insomnia.
Even the closest of companions couldn’t be together every single day, everybody needs their work and personal space, don’t they?
Yet due to her insomnia, she had to be tethered to him every day, and even when he was away on business trips, she had to have someone bring back his coat.
Over time, wouldn’t he grow tired of this?
To cure it once and for all, his heart blood was necessary as an elixir primer.
But was heart blood so easily given?
In time, his own health would suffer!
She’d rather break off everything early than have him discover the truth later, fall ill, and be in pain!
Jing Hang frowned deeply, “Senior Sister, Senior Brother said that in two months, he will have developed a medicine to cure your ailment. Why can’t you even wait two months?”
Ming Yao looked at Jing Hang with eyes full of worry, her long lashes drooping, a tinge of light mockery on her lips, “Do you think I would accept the medicine he develops?”
Jing Hang was greatly shocked.
Indeed, if Senior Sister could settle her grudge with Senior Brother, she would not have hidden away by herself, making them unable to find her, and suffered from insomnia to the point of death!
If she had stayed at Tang Sect, even if Senior Brother couldn’t cure her insomnia temporarily, he would have certainly saved her life.
But she was so resolute and unwavering!
“Senior Sister, do you still love Senior Brother?”
Ming Yao pursed her lips, “I don’t love him anymore. From the moment I died, I had already let go of that relationship.”
She was not a person prone to indecision; once she had let go, she had let go.
Yet deep down she was someone with a prideful nature; she would never entangle herself with someone who had once hurt her.
Jing Hang was on the verge of tears.
“My Senior Sister, can’t your principled nature be a little less rigid? Think of it from a different perspective. Senior Brother has let you down, but think of the medicine he develops as his way of making amends, okay?”
Ming Yao looked at Jing Hang with a dispassionate expression, “The Ming Yao of the past is dead. What right does he have to make amends?”
Jing Hang, “…”
“Alright then, if you don’t want any further entanglement with Senior Brother, what about your husband in name? I didn’t have much contact with him before and didn’t understand his character, but these past few days, I can tell that he truly cares about you…”
“Since fate has made you his wife, why not try to let go of everything in the past and give yourself a chance at a new life? Try to get along with him, maybe after you fall in love, he will be willing to give you his heart blood willingly?”
“Even if, ten thousand steps back, he doesn’t give you his heart blood, his presence alone can sustain your life. You live well during this time, and we can think of other ways; maybe we’ll find another P-type blood even?”
“As long as one is alive, there is hope. Once you’re gone, all hope is lost!”
Ming Yao hugged her knees, her delicate chin resting on them, her eyes downcast, the man’s earlier words surfacing in her mind.
— Mrs. Gu, us being candid with each other this time might not be a bad thing.
— Let’s get to know each other again with a fresh perspective, trying to understand one another without any secrets or deception. Please, give me a chance; not too long, how about two months?
Getting to know each other anew, a relationship without hiding or deceit.
It seemed, truly not a bad idea!
…
The sky gradually darkened.
Gu Siting stood in the resting area next to the Hope Elementary School cafeteria, his fingertips clenching a cigarette, continuously engulfing and breathing out smoke.
He had been standing here for several hours, waiting for the woman who had not yet come.
