I was curious but I didn’t keep inquire, because I knew I wouldn’t get an answer from him, considering his characteristics.
But I would talk about this with Leon. Xuanlong being such a good friend of his, he should care for him and find him a girlfriend.
Then we got to the part. Xuanlong called Leon, and Leon came.
I was surprised, saying, “You are the star of tonight’s show, why aren’t you with your guests?”
Leon passed me a box of sweeties and said, “You’ll have to drink when you get up there, so you’d better eat something before hand or you will hurt your stomach.”
“This is why you come down?” I garbed the food.
“Isn’t this important? I’m concerned about your health. Eat, and I’ll watch you eat.”
I wasn’t hungry but in order not to keep him there for too long, I ate quickly. Then I got full.
“Is that all you can eat?” Leon asked.
“I wasn’t hungry in the first place. Go back to the part, or they will find you rude.”
“I’m not the chairman anymore, nor am I the star of the show. It was held by Aunt Xiang with the intention of proving that I wasn’t forced by her.” Leon said.
I walked to the scene, holding Leon’s hand.
This party was exclusive to directors, senior officers of Hua’s group and some cooperators. Leon’s leaving made those against him happy and those who support him were rendered rather sad, as his capability was known to everyone.
Just like Leon had expected, I was soon surrounded by some former colleges of mine when I showed up. After all, I was once a senior director of Hua’s grouponce and I do have some connections. I drank with them and kept saying hi to some other people.
Of course, there were people gloating over Leon’ s leaving, and in their eyes, Leon was the star tonight, but he would be forever gone by the next day.
I didn’t want to be rendered drunk so I found a place to take a rest, only to find Chenxing Hua and Ruoxin Chen right beside me. I wanted to walk away but it was too late.
Chenxing was polite, and he nodded at me. But Ruoxin was pretty mean as her pleasure over Leon’s leaving was written all over her face. “Isn’t this the prisoner? We are here to send of Leon. Why are you also here?”
I smiled at her and looked the other way.
But she walked to me and took a seat right in front of me, and kept staring at me.
I asked, “Is there something on my face”
“No. I just want to see how disappointed you can be. Now that Leon is gone, whom would you rely on? You must be feeling sad. Is your smile fake?”
Chenxing walked away after seeing Ruoxin was messing with me, having no desire to get involved in that.
“Ms Chen, would you let it go. As you mentioned, Leon is no longer a threat to you, and why are you still picking on me?” I said, trying my best to suppress my anger.
“I don’t know why. I just hate your ugly face so much and I want to spit on you and I want to stamp on you.” She was rather frank.
“What a coincidence. I hate you too. But I’m so tired of arguing with you and now you find us pathetic, would you leave us alone?”
“I shall never forget the day when you took Leon away from me. What a shame! Now I’m genuinely happy to see you and him fall! Oh Leon! Blind man like him should spend his life wondering on the street, and you, Nala, you only deserve to be with man at that level.”
I looked at her with a smile on my face. Finally, she was giving vent to the hatred and anger that had been torturing her for so long.
“Why are you laughing? Is your laughter a mask to cover your pain?” she said.
I got it. She would never stop unless I fought back.
My original intention was to let all the past go with the wind, but obviously this woman here didn’t think the same way. I would have to fight back or she would keep talking dirt to me.
“I admit. I do feel bad.” I said.
Ruoxin laughed, “That’s right. I knew it. Why do you have to pretend to be happy? Aren’t you tired?”
“Yeas I’m fake, and I’m tired. I will have to go to America with Leon soon and from then on, he will be right beside him all the time. I can see him, I can touch him and I can smell him. We will have children, and we will watch them grow and then we will take them to travel around the world. We will cook together, we will play kites together and we will watch sunsets together. And how exhausting will it be to live such a fulfilled life!”
Ruoxin’s smile faded and her eyes darkened. I knew it was a huge blow to her but she wouldn’t drop it and what else could I do?
“But Ms Chen you have a wonderful future ahead of you. You will stay in Hai City and keep your power struggle with the new chairman going. Me? I will stay out of this and live my life with Leon. But you don’t need to envy us since you find that kind of life pathetic.”
I made myself laugh.
“Nala, I’m not jealous at all. What’s so good about living your life in another country with a loser.”
“That’s why I’m pathetic. I’m living my life with a loser.”
“Why am I a loser? Do I look like a loser?” Leon was there.
I laughed, “I didn’t say that. Ms Chen did. You should feel lucky that you were only a loser, because I was called a prisoner, not even a normal person.”
Leon didn’t care. “Nala you are getting more and more boring. Now you are talking with boring people about boring things, Go over there. Some people want to talk to you.”
Ruoxin’s face darkened. “What do you mean? Who is the boring person?”
Leon ignored her and took me away.