At that moment, I actually had an urge to tell Leon about my staff with Xiang Feng, but I still held back from saying it.
Leon kept on saying, “If you are looking for a rival, you have to find a very strong one, which is able to show your strength. Even if you beat down a hundred retards, it can prove nothing. The rival too weak can instead reduce your own strength. When you really meet a strong one, you’ll lose badly.”
It’s not exactly a middle-of-the-road statement, but I know it’s useful.
This is indeed the truth.
Nan Lin was just a person who wanted to marry into the purple. The only leverage she had was the care she once gave to Leon, which heavily depended by his attitude.
But in this world, love feelings were unreliable, so Nan could not be my rival.
Unlike Xiang Feng, she almost put me to death.
Although I now had some of her secrets in hand, but she was canny, one day she may use more sophisticated means to challenge me.
“Thank you for the advice.” I smiled and said to Leon. “You mean I should not compete with Xiang?”
“Not to compete, but to defend yourself. In this family, if you don’t strive to the best, you will be out.”
“Alright, I see. Thanks.”
“Tomorrow there will be Nanhe Group’s celebration. And we will go to Yang City together.”
“Good.” I nodded.
“You will not be nervous if I am attacked by someone, will you?” Said Leon, suddenly
I sniggered. He’s still remembering this? Was he still holding a grudge? This was mean to me.
“Fourth Brother, you’re a person with rich experience and there’s the truth that you won’t be unaware of-what you give to the other, the other will give you back the same. Favors are exchanged equivalently. After I disappeared, you went out with someone like nothing had happened. You weren’t nervous, were you? Since you’re not nervous about me, why should I?”
He squinted without saying anything. Then he was apparently sort of regretful, “Who told you that I didn’t try to find you? Who told you that I was seeing someone?”
“You said this yourself and you just act like you care nothing at all.”
In fact, I knew he was looking for me all the time and I just wanted to force him to say it himself.
His regret was even more easy to sense, “I do care a lot. That I don’t care about you is all thought by your own self.”
I learned his usual manner of teasing me, “So, can you tell me what exactly was going on?”
“Well, stop. Are you done eating? Can we go now?”
Standing up, I said, “I haven’t finished yet. What do you mean? Do you want to fall out with me?”
Leon sat down, in an angry mood, watching me eating.
The more patience he had, the slower I would be. I would drive you crazy.
“Say, you would not be nervous if I was attacked. But I’m your husband. What good will it do to you? Why aren’t you nervous?”
This time I genuinely laughed because it was so funny that he couldn’t give up the topic.
“What’s so funny?” Leon was truly annoyed to see me laughing.
I tried to hold back a laugh, but the more I tried, the more I felt like laughing. I couldn’t repress it.
The funny point was that a man like Leon stuck with such words.
“Stop laughing, OK?” Leon raised his voice, becoming serious.
“Well, I’ll stop, seriously.” I was in earnest.
“You’re quite happy. Why not keep laughing?”
“Fourth Brother, I told you I’ll stop. If you were attacked, I would definitely be the one that worry you most in the world.” I say it seriously.
His eyes lit up for a moment, but then quickly darkened, “How hypocritic you are! You’re not saying so before.”
“That was a lie before. Although you don’t take me seriously, you are my husband afterwards. You’ve been so nice to Alex, giving him a different life, and offered me the opportunity to change my destiny, making me out of my low-class status. I wish you all the best whether there is love or not.”
Emotion is something wired and I rarely say such numbing words to Leon in such a serious manner, but when I really said so, I felt like every word was from the bottom of my heart.
Then I felt my eyes welled up with tears.
He stared at me, and I was a little embarrassed, pretending to keep eating.
“Are you expressing your love to me?” Leon’s expression finally looked good.
“Didn’t you just say that I’m hypocritic? Why you are feeling good now?” I threw him a supercilious look.
“Your eyes were welled up with tears, which means there is no hypocrisy. Hey, do you actually love me very much?” Leon leaned to me.
I’m a little shy, with my face blushing.
I couldn’t believe that I was like a teenager girl, having such awkward feelings. What was going on?
“You are blushing. I was right!” Leon suddenly became excited with squint eyes, “You definitely fall in love with me.”
“Doesn’t Mr. Hua like to force girls to say they love you in such way? And then you can enjoy the vanity it brings you?” I said with no emotion.
“Don’t call me Mr. Hua. I like you to call me Fourth Brother.”
“Everyone calls you Fourth Brother. Why should I do the same.”
He shook his head, “It’s not the same. You’re different.”
“What’s the difference?”
He thought for a while, “I can’t tell. I just feels different anyway and I like it. from now on, you can just call me Fourth Brother.”
“Okay, when I’m happy, I’ll call you Fourth Brother, and when I’m not, I’ll call you Leon.”
“This is not so important. Answer me first, are you in love with me?” He seemed to be more interested in this.
I lifted my chin, answering arrogantly, “Of course no.”
“Liar! I don’t believe.” Leon screamed.
“I’m telling the truth. If you still insist, are you in love with me? You want to force me to admit that I’m in love with you too, so you can strike a balance?”
“Never mind. I’m leaving.” Leon stood up.
“Pay the bill before you go.” I laughed and said, “Maybe if you pay the bill, I’ll really fall in love with you. I like men who pay the bills…”
Before I could finish my words, I knew I made a mistake.
He changed his attitude, and he pulled me up from the table, “If any man pays for you, you will like him? Was it the same as before?”
I hurried to explain, “Absolutely not, I was just joking. Don’t take this seriously. I’ll pay it myself. OK?”
Leon grunted with great dissatisfaction and left.