Chapter 389: Chapter 388 Renewal (18)
"The things you said just now, are they true?" Dong Xin Yan couldn’t believe it, her delicate brows furrowed, her dark eyes fixed firmly on him, her voice filled with disbelief.
"What else?"
Gu Ningyi replied lazily, answering the question with another question.
Dong Xin Yan was momentarily at a loss for words, stunned for a few seconds, but quickly regained her composure, "Why?"
This "why" from Dong Xin Yan seemed to hit Gu Ningyi’s funny bone. He sat up again, his black eyes sizing her up, his gaze frivolous and wanton, "Why do you think a man wants to keep a woman?"
Gu Ningyi’s gaze was filled with an oppressive sense of danger, and Dong Xin Yan felt an icy chill rise from the soles of her feet, swiftly spreading throughout her entire body.
A man wanting to keep a woman... is it?
Even if she didn’t want to think in a certain direction, such words made it hard not to.
She swallowed hard, her voice low and trembling, "Weren’t you... just fooling me earlier? Wasn’t your confession... fake?"
"Yeah, it’s fake."
Gu Ningyi admitted it openly, yet there was an undetectable bitterness in his tone, while his smile grew even more wicked, "But that doesn’t mean I can’t keep you by my side."
"Wha- what do you mean?" Dong Xin Yan felt as though she couldn’t comprehend Gu Ningyi’s line of thinking.
"It means, Dong Xin Yan, I don’t want to let you go."
Not wanting to let go, not wanting to release, not wanting to give up. So much deep love, yet it dared only to hide behind aggression.
Dong Xin Yan’s face turned as pale as paper the moment Gu Ningyi said this; she stared wide-eyed in disbelief, the cold seizing her entire body.
Gu Ningyi watched her, watched her expression change abruptly, his dark eyes narrowing deeply, his heart tangled, struggling, even hesitating for a second.
He had sworn never to hurt her even a tiny bit again.
But he was out of options.
Dong Xin Yan felt cold all over, her teeth chattering with chills, her fear soon overshadowed by a fury rising intensely, "Gu Ningyi, our deal is over!"
She spoke each word carefully, deliberately emphasizing her tone.
Gu Ningyi chuckled lightly and nodded, "Yes, it’s over, but..." He deliberately paused for half a second before speaking slowly, "We can renew the contract."
Renew the contract?
Dong Xin Yan could never have imagined Gu Ningyi would say something so shameless, her face turning even paler with anger, almost gnashing her teeth, each word squeezing out through clenched teeth, she replied without hesitation, "Impossible!"
"Impossible?"
Gu Ningyi pondered over these words, suddenly laughed again, resting his chin on his hand while lazily staring at her, his sensual thin lips parting gently, word by word, "If Cheng Ziyang knew about our past deal, would you still answer this way?"
Gu Ningyi listened to his own cold voice, speaking despicable words word by word, attempting to grasp that nearly hopeless chance.
He knew that what he was doing would only push Dong Xin Yan further away, even out of his world completely, yet he was still reluctant to let go.
He just... wanted to fight for a chance for himself.
Or perhaps, fight for a... final time that belonged to him and Dong Xin Yan...
A time with an already predetermined ending.