Chapter 587 – A Knot That Cannot Be Let Go

Book:The Selfish CEO Published:2024-6-2

Yao Yang …
So sleepy …
“Why don’t you say anything?” For a while, without waiting for her voice again, Tang Yao Yang gently opened his mouth to ask.
But still, no voice answered him.
“Yui?”
On her shoulder, she was unmoving.
“Yui?” He patiently called out again.
But the response to him was still a strange silence.
The heart tightened, suddenly gripped tightly by a great uneasiness.
“Yi Yi?!” Tang Yao Yang cupped her small face up, and when he touched the unusual pallor, a never-before-experienced panic suddenly welled up in the bottom of his heart, “Yiyi, Yiyi, wake up! Don’t scare me!”
He kept patting her cheeks, but she just fluttered her eyelashes feebly and never opened her eyes.
“Ah!” Tang Yao Yang shouted, swept the dying her into his arms with one hand, and pulled out his cell phone to dial the ambulance call with the other. Unable to control his emotions, each of his movements to press down the numbers was heavy, his fingertips faintly shaking.
Yui …
Never, ever have an accident …
When Zige walked into the teahouse, she saw Lan Yu Feng sitting alone in the innermost corner from afar.
The teahouse was flooded with the rich aroma of tea. Apparently, the entire teahouse was emptied, and there were no guests other than him.
Outside the window, it was already vaguely dark. Inside the house, only the ancient candle flame was lit. He was sitting in the corner, the yellow candle flame pulsating, the light lining his face, inexplicably looking a little cold.
Ziggy walked over slowly, not sitting down, just standing at a distance.
“You wanted to see me about something?” The tone, rusty, unfamiliar.
He froze for a split second.
And only then did he slowly turn his face to look at her. The candle flame reflected into the bottom of his eyes, coloring those deep eyes more and more profound, and even more inscrutable.
“What kind of tea would you like?” He asked.
“Nothing to drink.” Ziggy didn’t move closer, just shook her head, the caution in her eyes clear. “I’m … engaged tomorrow, and I have a lot to do right now, so if you have something to do, you’d better be quick about it.”
Lan Yu Feng stared at her somberly. It was obviously a large space, but, inexplicably, Zi Ge felt crowded, so crowded that it was hard for her to even breathe.
Instead, he suddenly stood up and took a step towards her. Zige subconsciously took a step back, but her hand was held by him as he bent over.
She subconsciously struggled, but he led her right into the courtyard of the teahouse.
“Let go!” Her small face cleared of cold as she tried to shake him off.
His handsome face sullen, he held her in place, “Since you won’t drink anything, walk with me.”
Against her will, he had pulled her into the courtyard.
There were no streetlights, not even candlelight. The entire courtyard seemed more and more secluded. Lan Yu Feng walked on the stone path with his cane propped up, and could clearly hear the sound of the cane tapping on the stone floor. One by one, like knocking on Zi Ge’s heart.
Walking alongside him, Zige pursed her lips lightly and didn’t take the initiative to speak.
“Why do you want to marry him?” After all, Lan Yu Feng was the first to break the suffocating peace. But he didn’t give her a sideways glance.
I’m just afraid …
Bitterness that is too obvious under the eyes will flow out without being able to hide it.
“Need a reason?” Ziggy laughed a little, “He’s so good at everything, and he proposed to me, I can’t find a reason to turn him down.”
Lan Yu Feng gripped his cane tightly.
I knew the answer wouldn’t make me feel better, but …
And yet, I can’t help but ask for clarity.
“That’s a question you shouldn’t ask.” Zi Ge was still speaking, her voice soft, her eyes calmly staring ahead, “You should ask him why he married me. I’m not good at anything, I’m dumb and stupid, I’ll just let people cheat and cheat. Moreover, in a few months, there will be two more children. You should ask, how could he want a woman like me?”
Lan Yu Feng stood still and looked at her through the hazy darkness.
Nowadays, Meng Zige had learned to carry thorns in her words, and if she wasn’t careful, she would be stabbed by her.
The muscles in his right leg, suddenly ached so badly that he took a deep breath and looked at her, “So, you’re going to let my two boys call someone else dad?”
“I thought we had made it clear yesterday” Zi Ge looked straight into his eyes, “This child was born, and from … now on you and I, and the child, no longer have any relationship! So, in the future, the children call anyone father has nothing to do with you, as long as they are happy.”
“Menzie Ge! How dare you!” After all, he was not able to control his emotions, and his cane landed heavily on the stone floor, making a dull sound on such a night.
Like …
It was like a knock on his heart.
The Dull Duncan’s Pain …
He didn’t want to get so mad. Just want to say …
Menzies Ge, don’t marry!
If you can, just take the kids and stay close to him …
But what could he say?
In the end, he … can t give her anything, and what can he say?
“Mr. Lan, you’re meddling too much!” Zi Ge returned to him defiantly, the tip of her heart, however, was churning and stabbing with pain.
He sought himself out, but only because in the future, the child will call Hengjun daddy, and he’s not happy about it, is he?
“If you’ve only come to me about the baby, then we don’t have to talk anymore. Before, we had already reached an understanding.” Zi Ge looked at him and took a deep breath before she was able to calmly continue her words, “In the future,… please don’t come to me again. I don’t want to cause any more trouble for Heng Jun.”
A mouthful of ‘Heng Jun’, so intimate that it made Lan Yu Feng’s heart, tear as pain. Gasping heavily, before he could say anything, she had already turned around with determination.
Looking at that back, his breath caught, Lan Yu Feng dropped his cane and reached out, then hugged her from behind.
That chest like iron leaned over, and his stiff, cold lower jaw was pressed against the top of her head. The heavy and suppressed breathing caused Zi Ge to be stunned, and in return, she subconsciously had to pull away from his large palms that were encircling her waist.
“Zige …” he called with a stoic low voice, causing her movements to abruptly stop and fall in the air.
“What should I do with you?” Lan Yu Feng hugged her tighter, as if he wanted to rub her entire being into his bones and blood. The furrowed brows were filled with suppressed bitterness and helplessness, “Tell me, what should I do with you?”
He didn’t have the heart of a naked man like Ke Hengjun, and he wasn’t as open and honest as Su Chen. He had one knot after another in his heart, and every one of them was a dead end.
He, trying harder and harder, can’t untie and let go of the knot …
But …
Damn it! He realized that giving her up was something he simply couldn’t do!
That’s no different than ripping out his heart!
“Menzie Ge, what will it take for you not to marry him?” Without warning, he turned her around and looked at her with sunken eyes, almost hissing.
The voice was dark and alarming.
There was a string in her heart that was trembling. As if, at any moment, it would be torn apart by him.
“I … you let go first …” This feeling, which made her inexplicably afraid.
It was as if there was a vortex that was swirling her down and down …
Will …
The moment it falls, it’s pulverized again?
“You tell me, what do you really want?” Lan Yu Feng refused to let go.
Zige lightly bit her pale lower lip and raised her head. Through the hazy mist, she looked at his eyebrows, his eyes, “I should be the one asking you, what do you really want? Lan Yu Feng, is it that if I return all my children to you, it doesn’t matter to you who I get engaged to? If that’s the case, I … well …”
Her words, before she could speak, he suddenly reached out and pulled, imprisoning her entire body in his arms. Being very, very close to each other, his deep, misty pupils wrapped her tightly, causing her throat to tighten, unable to say a single word.
“I don’t want you to marry anyone, nothing to do with the child! Meng Zige, do you hear me?” He sank, proclaiming over his head.
Zige was so shocked that she couldn’t speak for a long time. She could only be secured in his arms, tilting her face up and staring blankly into his eyes.
“You said …” Lan Yu Feng hooped her tightly, cool fingers, carefully caressing every inch of her face, as if he wanted to carve her firmly in his heart, “What can I do? You teach me. What do I have to do to give up the past, no longer entangled with those things? What do I have to do so that I don’t have to live such a hard life and can do whatever I want?”
Why wouldn’t he want to make things easier on himself if he could?
Such a life immersed in a dark quagmire was as grueling as a lingering existence, and if he could, why wouldn’t he want to get out?
But …
In that darkness, but long ago there was no light …
Zi Ge quaked in his arms for a long, long time. It was as if she could feel the pain that came from him, so heavy that even she couldn’t breathe.
“Lan Yu Feng …” Finally, she found her own voice and spoke astringently. Hand, fell on his stiff fingers. She raised her eyes to look at him, “What I want … you can’t give. And what you want, I’m afraid it’s not something I can give you either …”
Holding back the trembling in her heart, Zige broke his fingers, one by one.
Ten fingers, more and more stiff and cold, like dipping in a cold pool. He looked at her, and the despair that slowly welled up under his eyes annihilated each other little by little.
He wants redemption …
She wants stability …
They, each other, can’t give a damn about anyone …
“Zee! Zee!”
At the sudden sound, both Xiang Zige and Lan Yufeng were stunned for a moment. Turning back in unison, they only saw Mo Simin and Su Jie appearing together in the courtyard. Before it was too late to break away from his arms, Mo Simin had clearly seen this scene.
His face sank, and when he walked over, he pulled Zi Ge out of his arms. Another nonchalant push was given to Lan Yu Feng. Mo Simin’s strength wasn’t small, and caught off guard, Lan Yu Feng was pushed back a step by him, enduring the pain in his right leg before narrowly stabilizing himself.
Zige looked at him like that, and her heart couldn’t help but twist.
“You don’t want to bully our Xiaozi anymore.” Mo Simin wrapped her arms around her daughter with a strong protective undertone. She glared at Lan Yufeng warily, “Tomorrow, Zi Ge will be engaged to Heng Jun, and will not have any semblance of relationship with you in the future! If you dare to harass our family’s Xiao Zi again, don’t blame us all for not being polite!”
Mo Simin warned nonchalantly, and after saying that, regardless of Lan Yu Feng’s response, she dragged Zi Ge away.
“Come back with me!”
Her mother’s anger wasn’t small, so Zi Ge naturally didn’t dare to disobey. However, she still couldn’t help but want to look back, and was broken over by Mo Simin’s sharp eyes, “Don’t be so unproductive! Look at yourself, what have you gotten yourself into by him? You’re still not dead in the water?”
“That’s it!” Xi Sujie completely agreed with Mo Simin’s words, and with that string of warnings just now, she simply wanted to clap and applaud from the sidelines. Mo Simin knew her daughter too well and poked her, “You, you just have soft ears. Two words with him and you’re going to be blindsided.”