"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
"The only person who can affect my emotions is you."
The garden outside the Plum Courtyard was silent after Xi Ying finished his words. Li Rui silently stared into Xi Ying's black eyes that were filled with intense love.
A moment later, she looked away.
Xi Ying sighed as he also turned his head. He never noticed how Li Rui's fist was clenched tightly inside her sleeves.
Every time she would look into Xi Ying's eyes …especially when he would let her see all the emotions he was feeling, she would feel her heart skip a beat, and then it would beat so quickly that she would fear that it would jump out of her chest.
This feeling…it was very new to her and hence somewhere it scared Li Rui.
To divert her attention away from her confused thoughts, Li Rui asked Xi Ying in a low voice.
"Then why are you angry with me?"