Chapter 236: Chapter 236

Le Tong stared fixedly at Ji Rui, and Ji Rui also looked up, meeting her gaze directly.

Although she was thousands of miles away at that moment, he could clearly see the emotional turmoil in her eyes.

Le Tong’s dark eyes seemed to suddenly fill with emotions, many and complex. Ji Rui could see them clearly, yet he couldn’t understand!

Le Tong stared at him for a long while, which, in Ji Rui’s perspective, felt like an eternity.

"Mr. Ji, save this kind of request for the lady you fancy in the future!"

Ji Rui seemed unable to believe his ears; did she reject him again?

"Why?" Ji Rui stared at her.

It’s just a scarf, was it really necessary to reject him so righteously?

At that moment, he was focused solely on her rejection, without delving deeply into the "lady you fancy" she specifically mentioned.

"No reason, I just don’t like it!"

Le Tong’s expression remained calm, as if the woman who had just been concerned about his injury, who would blush at his words, who would smile at him, was not her!

Her words of dislike wiped away all the good mood Ji Rui had painstakingly accumulated!

For Ji Rui, a man who wielded power in the business world like a storm, he never needed to bother understanding a person.

But this woman on the screen forced him to think deeply, yet he could never figure her out.

At this moment, Ji Rui just felt that women were indeed the most unfathomable beings in the world.

She could do many silly things because of love, but she could also reject everything she deemed unreasonable, even if it was something as trivial.

However, this Le Tong, who could decisively reject him because of her dislike, made him feel both unfamiliar and somewhat familiar.

To him, Le Tong was someone he couldn’t see through. Sometimes, he thought he understood her, but before long, she’d do or say something that would repeatedly refresh his perception of her.

In the beginning, he thought she was a little white rabbit, gentle and courteous to him, a considerate and meticulous all-rounded secretary who combined the roles of secretary and nanny.

Later, when pushed by him occasionally, she would fight back like a proud little cat with sharp claws, yet at that time, she was still happy to curl up in Ji Rui’s territory, basking in the sun and wandering around.

Until the end, when he clearly expressed his desire for her to be his woman, she didn’t say much, just straightforwardly fled! To Ji Rui, this was a more humiliating outcome than a verbal rejection.

But even so, he still naively thought that as long as he appeared in front of her, she would return with him, no matter what.

Yet she, right before his eyes, tore the check to pieces, and those scattering fragments completely shattered her established image in his heart.

It wasn’t until that moment that Ji Rui realized he had perhaps never truly understood her.

Such a woman, at first glance, seemed easy to bully, but over time, Ji Rui increasingly discovered that Le Tong was actually a woman who could make people feel quite troubled.

She could, with no hesitation, be unceasingly good to you.

But she could also be utterly ruthless to you.

The her of the past, who seemed docile and easy to bully, perhaps, was not easy to bully after all, but simply disdainful to bother!

Yet if she chose to care, there would be absolutely no room for negotiation.

Not only to others but also to herself, she was equally decisive.

Just like a month ago, she could abandon everything she had painstakingly built before because of that contract, running off to an entirely unfamiliar new place to start anew, without leaving herself any room to retreat.

And now, just a mere little scarf, she bluntly said she didn’t like it, giving him no room for imagination.

"Really not possible?"

Ji Rui confirmed once again, even as he already anticipated her answer.

Sure enough, Le Tong’s answer was exactly as he had expected.

"If this request were made three months ago, would you have agreed?"

Ji Rui never regretted anything he did, but now, he suddenly posed such a hypothesis. He suddenly wanted to know the difference in his position in her heart from a few months ago to now.

Le Tong smartly refused his probe. In Le Tong’s view, no matter how much she once admired and was fascinated by the Ji Rui of the past, it no longer mattered.

She didn’t mind the one-sided giving because, after all, it was out of love. Once a person falls in love, they always find themselves passive.

But what she minded was the constant deliberate misunderstandings by others after her unconditional giving, and even worse, having to bear all sorts of undue accusations for those efforts. It made her feel very, very tired.

And Ji Rui’s contract and that check had completely ended all her thoughts about this man. Whether it was the kingly demeanor she had once deeply admired in him or the thrill brought by his handsome and extraordinary looks, it all turned to dust in that moment.

The current Ji Rui, to her, apart from being Baobao’s daddy, is nothing else anymore!

Sitting on the sofa, Ji Rui kept staring into Le Tong’s eyes, because he knew that her eyes wouldn’t lie.

Yet at this moment, Ji Rui saw all the complexity and turbulence in her eyes settle down instantly, replaced by the clean and clear gaze he was familiar with, which contained nothing.

Ji Rui’s heart trembled slightly, no what-ifs!

Even listening to such a simple answer, he felt that these simple four words contained much more meaning than he could ever imagine.

In that instant, in his heart, it was as if he realized that he might have missed something important once. He wanted to reach out and grab it, but everything seemed too late!

"Mr. Ji, Baobao’s baby teeth are a bit wobbly. If you have time, take him to the dentist to see if it’s a calcium deficiency or if he needs to change his teeth."

Le Tong on the screen shifted the topic to Baobao.

It’s unclear whether it was to avoid further awkwardness for everyone on that topic or she simply didn’t want to discuss past matters with Ji Rui, which have already become meaningless.

Ji Rui was forced to redirect his thoughts and realized he hadn’t noticed Baobao’s teeth were loose.

"The upper front tooth!"

Ji Rui couldn’t help but be puzzled, clearly, every time Le Tong and Baobao met on the screen, he was there, but why was it that she knew these things, while he, Baobao’s father, did not?

[First update. Always unconsciously delve into the inner world of each character in the text, and as I write, Zhu Zi becomes her/them...] This text is hosted at novel★fire.net