Chapter 212: Chapter 212

"This check, I’ve written it, it’s yours. If you don’t want it, just throw it away. Why give it back to me?"

Le Tong really wanted to tear the check into shreds right in front of Ji Rui’s face and then sprinkle those torn pieces over his arrogant face.

Thinking this in her heart, her hand indeed retracted, took out the check from the envelope, unfolded it, gracefully handing it to Ji Rui.

Ji Rui seemed not to understand her intention, looking at her with confusion.

"This check, you gave it to me?!" Le Tong smirked with a mysterious smile.

Ji Rui blinked to indicate agreement, but the confusion on his face deepened.

Le Tong smiled with curled lips, "Then please, President Ji, watch closely!!"

Ji Rui couldn’t figure out what she was up to, just quietly watching her.

Le Tong held the check in mid-air, and in front of Ji Rui, who was still a bit puzzled, she tore the five-million cash check into pieces with a "rip, rip, rip" sound.

She amusingly looked at Ji Rui’s arrogant face, which went from calm to anger, and finally turned into a grimace of immense humiliation!

Compared to the insults he had hurled at her, this was far from enough!!

Le Tong slowly tore the check into a handful of fragments and, without waiting for Ji Rui to say anything, scattered them towards Ji Rui’s grim and twisted handsome face.

The snow-white pieces fluttered down like snowflakes, sliding off Ji Rui’s head and face, gently landing on the sofa and floor.

"Ji Rui, don’t imagine yourself as some kind of holy savior, okay? You give it to me, so I have to take it? I’m telling you, I don’t care for your money, Ji Rui! These five million, you can take it back and enjoy it with a little starlet, enough for you to play for years!"

Ji Rui’s lips twitched, his face darkened, and he looked through the swirling paper pieces at Le Tong, who stood straight and proud like a princess, grinding his teeth as he suddenly stood up and roughly grabbed her arm.

Le Tong didn’t expect him to go crazy suddenly, and stumbled as she was forcibly pulled in front of him. She struggled hard to escape his grip, but his hand was like an iron clamp holding her tightly, forcing her to stand still in place.

She lifted her eyes, wanting to continue mocking Ji Rui, but met his furious green eyes.

The man’s eyes were blazing as he gritted his teeth and stared at her, "Le Tong, are you trying to cut ties with me once and for all?"

Le Tong chuckled; his words were so narcissistic!

"Tsk, Ji Rui, you’re the high and almighty president, and I’m just a penniless pauper. How could I be connected to you in any way? You’re so generous and don’t mind belittling yourself, but someone like me being glorified would shorten my life! I’m begging you, don’t put someone like me together with you anymore!"

Once Le Tong unleashes her sharp tongue without restraint, it can cut a person deeply with deadly precision.

Her words unmistakably told Ji Rui that they were people from two different worlds. Being forcibly tied together was not happiness for her but an overwhelming disaster.

Ji Rui was so enraged by her words that his chest heaved as he leaned in close, their breaths mingling.

"Le Tong, dare you say you have no feelings for me at all?!" As a man, he still had that bit of confidence.

The deep green eyes, glowing with a faint light, reminded Le Tong of a wolf driven to madness!

In the past, such a Ji Rui would undoubtedly make Le Tong panic for no reason. But now, she just smiled indifferently.

"Alright then, Ji Rui, I’ll admit, in the beginning, I really did like your handsome face, to the point of being infatuated. People just love to be masochistic, and I’m no exception. Because of this infatuation, I did some pretty silly things, making you think I had intentions towards you. But don’t misunderstand, that infatuation was just about a pretty facade, entirely unrelated to deep, sacred emotions."

Le Tong’s tongue grew sharper as she continued her sarcastic monologue without even pausing for breath.

She was quite satisfied watching Ji Rui’s face grow increasingly ugly, and even as his angry face came closer, she showed no intention of stopping.

"Of course, if Mr. Ji insists on considering this as an emotion, I don’t mind. Anyway, this infatuation slowly changed after you used me and turned your back. Didn’t you always fear that I’d cling to you and never let go? Rest assured, all my silly fantasies and infatuation with your handsome face, if there was any bit left, were torn like that check earlier! Not even a speck left!"

Ji Rui was so infuriated by Le Tong’s continuous retorts that his chest felt like it would explode. He pursed his lips into a tight line, glanced at the white fragments scattered all over the ground, and an inner demon screamed in defiance, bringing a dull ache in his heart, indicating that the demon trapped within him was on the verge of breaking free from his control.

And the instigator who had recklessly provoked the demon was fearlessly watching him with pretty yet mocking eyes, and her arrogant face only fueled Ji Rui’s male instinct to conquer the woman before him.

He wanted to ravage her brutally, bully her, crush her, and swallow her whole.

That way, she could never escape again!

Ji Rui stared at that hateful mouth that carelessly spewed words that disgraced him and instinctively bent down, wanting to harshly seal it with his own mouth.

That way, she would never say such hateful things to him again!

His lips descended irritably but didn’t meet the soft warmth he longed for, instead kissing the hand she had placed against her lips.

"What, you want to force yourself on me again like that night?"

Le Tong raised an eyebrow, pressed her hand against his mouth, and tried to push him away with force.

The hint of hardly noticeable gentleness in Ji Rui’s eyes vanished instantly, quickly replaced by layers of anger.

Ji Rui, having grown up , had never needed to force himself on anyone.

As long as Ji Rui wanted, not just one woman, even a hundred or a thousand, with just a beckoning finger, wouldn’t those women swarm to him like bees?

But only she kept interpreting his advances and goodwill as insults.

And the most hateful, the most frustrating thing was himself! Being so repeatedly infuriated by her that he wanted to kill her, yet still forgiving her and letting it go each time!

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