"So what if my destiny does not have her. My heart is still filled with her and no one can empty it, not even me." ------------ I despised her. I despised how she schemed to get married to me. I despised her because of her arrogance. " Li Rui, you don't know how many times I have wished to kill you. " But all of this was my illusion. Everything was a mysterious trap of lies. A trap that was laid to trap me. "Rui, I want to protect you from this whole world. I will not ask you to love me.....just don't hate me. Hmm...." --------------- [This is an original story] Buy me a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ada_5253 My other book on Webnovel - CEO He: Please Don't Love Me (Ongoing
Xi Ying's words surely brought General Li a great relief but the remembrance of the information he had since a few moments ago completely replaced that relief very soon.
He looked at the young prime minister with a grim face and said in a very disappointing tone.
"This General had not expected this from you, Prime Minister Xi."
He had thought that his secret was safe with Xi Ying but now he knew that he had been wrong.
On the other hand, Li Rui frowned when she looked at her silent husband. She couldn't help but remember how defeated and regretful he had been looking last night.
Last night surely changed something inside her for Xi Ying.
It made her feel protective of him. Perhaps that's why she couldn't stop herself from defending Xi Ying in front of her father.
"Father, it is very easy to blame him. Rui is sure that whatever he did, he must have some reason behind it."