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CHAPTER 364 – CONFRONTED

The door pushed open with Li Jing stepping into the dark room slowly before closing the door.

It was as though her mind knew there was fire on the mountain and she needed to run. Taking a deep breath she decided to go drop her bags first then switch on the lights. It seemed that Ye Cheng was in his study.

To some extent that was good as she could calm her heart and prepare for what was to come.

Immediately she turned on the lights, she heard a voice not too far from where she stood. "Where have you been?"

Startled, she turned around only for her eyes to meet with his. They weren't looking all particularly happy rather his brown eyes shone with no delight with them but a coldness that seemed to reach deep into the onlookers bones.

"Li Jing, where have you been?"

"Ye Cheng, good evening."

"Answer the question Li Jing," Ye Cheng probed further.

Letting out a sigh, she shook her head before answering his question. "I went out with Tang Zixin."

"You went out on a date with him, huh."

"Not a date, Ye Cheng. I am sorry for coming late though."

"You do not call this a date Li Jing? You are married to me. What do you think people would say when they see you dinning with another man? Lest I forget, I think you have been seeing him a lot these days, isn't that right?" As he spoke he rose from the bed and walked up to her.

Li Jing scoffed. "Oh, I never knew you bothered about what people say," Li Jing fired back calmly.

"That is not what I mean and even you said so yourself then. Even if we do not care about what people say, to some extent it matters. We are trying to make people believe that we are really married and in love, so what picture would it portray when people see my wife dining with a different man every day?"

"Is that how you want to put it Ye Cheng?"

"I am just saying and now you are keeping late nights, ignoring your duties as my wife."

Wow! Ye Cheng was indeed pushing it.

"Wifely duties? What about your own husband duties? What about us indicates we are actually married to each other apart from the rings on our fingers? You do not come to bed with me. Even on the bed, you distance yourself from me like I am a flu or a virus. Then before I wake up every morning you are awake and long gone from the office."

"That was before," Ye Cheng defended.

"That was because I put it upon myself to get back the friendship between us. It was supposed to be much easier since we were once acquainted. I wanted a separate room but you insisted all for the façade sake."

"It was necessary but you seeing Tang Zixin wasn't the right thing. Even if you want to do that, do it later in the marriage not this soon."

"For your information Ye Cheng, I wasn't seeing Tang Zixin like you called it. I am just helping him out on a business that I now chose to partner with him on since he would be needing investors."

"Didn't he have investors before he met you and did he not have people that planned out his businesses? So why use you?"

She could see the trace of jealousy deep in his eyes and that had hurt her. She wasn't doing all of these to hurt him or cause a rift between them. She cherished him.

'If only you could see just how much I cherish you.' Li Jing thought to herself.

"He is not using me for crying out loud, Ye Cheng. He is a friend and I helped him just the same way I helped you."

"What about our families then? You cannot explain all of those to them. What do you think they would think? Li Jing we are just starting and I did not think that you want this thing to crash. You still have your grandfather disturbing you."

"Crash? Grandfather? For the record, I have made it clear to my grandfather that I have the right to choose whom I am to marry and he has no say in that. I can live my life. So I have nothing to worry about. Besides I believe I can see whomever I want to see Ye Cheng. That was the basis for this deal."

"If that is so, then why did you choose to do this deal with me? Eh why did you chose me, Li Jing? Why didn't you go and meet Tang Zixin your boyfriend?"

"I never thought I would wish this, Ye Cheng but now I wished it were him I had done it with because he wouldn't be as jealous as you are right now."

"Why would he be jealous? Hasn't he already won your heart?"

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Li Jing did not know what to say after that accusation. Did he just say that to her?

"What? Did I lie? Huh? Do I even mean anything to you, Li Jing? Have you ever once considered how I felt with all of this?"

"How dare you say that to me, Ye Cheng? Why do you think I chose to enter this deal with you? Even though I could ask someone else?"

"I don't know," Ye Cheng shrugged. Hos pain still evident in his eyes.

A pained laughter escaped Li Jing's lips that moment. Was that how far they had gone apart? She asked for a pause on things not for their relationship to grow this sour. "Ye Cheng!"

Before he knew it, her tears had begun to pool in her eyes and waiting to spill free. His words were hitting her were it hurt and she was tired, tired of it all already. She never expected he would say that about her ever.

"Ye Cheng," Li Jing called out again. "I did that because I love you." No longer could she contain it anymore. Her tears broke free that instant. "I loved you and I still do."