Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon’s Reluctant Love
Chapter 442 - Chapter 442 Chapter 440 Have You Ever Loved Me

Chapter 442: Chapter 440: Have You Ever Loved Me? Chapter 442: Chapter 440: Have You Ever Loved Me? Hearing Xia Yiwan’s words, Yanxi’s pupils suddenly contracted, and emotions flickered through his peach blossom eyes.

In the silent room, their gazes met and held for a long time.

No one spoke; there was only the sound of their breathing, uneven in depth.

Xia Yiwan fought to push the tears back from her eyes.

“You even fed each other steak, sweet, isn’t it, Young Master Yan?”

Yanxi’s handsome face abruptly darkened, his aura chilling, as the air around them seemed to drop to freezing point.

Xia Yiwan didn’t look away, maintaining eye contact.

“You had someone follow me?”

Xia Yiwan laughed, her almond-shaped eyes full of scorn and mockery, “If I didn’t have you followed, how would I discover your despicable behavior?”

Yanxi’s handsome face was enveloped by an icy chill, “Xia Yiwan, don’t talk nonsense! Sister Shi Ying and I are innocent!”

Innocent?

Heh, he better not insult that word!

Xia Yiwan looked at the man who was still making excuses at this time, her vision once again blurred by tears.

She blinked several times, the mist in her eyes clearing, her vision becoming sharp again, “That night, the lipstick mark on your shirt wasn’t caused by some other woman, it was Shi Ying, wasn’t it?”

She did not wait for the man to speak and continued to ask, “Also, once when you came back in the middle of the night, the back of your shirt was stained with a woman’s long hair; that was Shi Ying’s too, right? You probably don’t know, but Yaoyao and I were in that store when Shi Ying took a liking to that denim jacket!”

Yanxi’s thin lips gradually pressed into a straight line.

Silence spread, and for a long while, he said not a word.

Xia Yiwan sneered, “Yanxi, if you’re a man, then have the courage to admit it!”

Yanxi looked at the tears staining Xia Yiwan’s long lashes, his throat raw with emotion, and after what seemed like forever, a word spilled from his lips, “Yes.”

Hearing his eventual admission, Xia Yiwan swayed unsteadily.

Yanxi raised his hands, firmly grasping Xia Yiwan’s delicate shoulders, his peach blossom eyes darkly fixed on her, “I didn’t tell you because I was afraid you’d overthink it. Wanwan, my relationship with Sister Shi Ying is pure, it’s not what you think…”

She interrupted him before he could finish, her eyes red-rimmed, “Enough! Didn’t you go have a romantic time at the seaside villa after having dinner with her?”

The palms that Yanxi had on Xia Yiwan’s shoulders suddenly tightened.

The pressure was so intense it seemed like he wanted to crush her bones.

“Xia Yiwan, what do you take Sister Ying and me for? Which eye of yours saw us being intimate and entwined?”

Yanxi’s anger was greater than Xia Yiwan’s.

Stunned by his roar, Xia Yiwan reacted and raised her hand, swinging hard towards his face.

But in the next second, her wrist was caught by him.

“You wrong me and still want to hit me?”

Xia Yiwan pulled her hand back forcefully, her breathing ragged and uneven, her heart wrenching in pain, “Yanxi, I’ve never seen a man as vile as you! You dare to do it, but not admit it…”

Xia Yiwan’s mocking laugh arose, tears uncontrollably sliding down from the corners of her eyes, heartbroken beyond measure, “I went to the seaside villa, the villa of my dreams you gave to Shi Ying, and you were with her in the bathroom…” She really couldn’t bring herself to say the rest!

He truly was the most disgusting man she had ever seen!

She went to the seaside villa?

Yanxi seemed to think of something, his eyebrows deeply furrowed. “You were standing at the bathroom door when you saw it? Did you go in? Are you sure that Sister Shi Ying and I did something to wrong you?”

“The restaurant manager brought wine with a sobering effect, she drank too much, and the medicine took effect; she indeed mistook me for Fourth Brother, but I did nothing with her. Later, I pushed her into the bathtub water to sober her up.”

“Sister Shi Ying has been kind to me, I regard her as my own sister, a family member, it’s definitely not the kind of relationship you’re thinking of!”

Xia Yiwan would no longer believe Yanxi’s words.

She looked at him directly, asking word by word, “Yanxi, why can Gu Siting make things clear with Shi Ying, but you can’t? Touch your own conscience and tell me, isn’t Shi Ying the one you’ve been unable to obtain?”

“If she hadn’t seen you as Gu Siting, but called out your name Yanxi, would you still have pushed her into the water?”

Yanxi’s peach blossom eyes were filled with a cold hostility. “Xia Yiwan, you really are being somewhat unreasonable. Could it be that, once I’m married to you, I can’t have even one female friend by my side? Can I only revolve around you?”

“There’s really nothing between Sister Shi Ying and me, yet you insist that there is. Do you have a problem with your thinking?”

His words, undoubtedly, were like a heavy hammer, smashing hard onto the tips of her heart.

She looked at the peerlessly handsome man in front of her, her chest, that sharp pain, continuously spreading to her limbs and bones.

It made her feel as though she could scarcely breathe.

Her soul seemed to split into two halves. She lifted her hand to cover her chest and took a deep breath.

“Yanxi, even now, you’re still making excuses? Do you think I’m stupid? If it wasn’t that your mother engineered our marriage, would your reluctance to marry be because of Shi Ying?”

“Isn’t she the White Moonlight that you’ve always longed for but could never obtain?”

Looking at Xia Yiwan’s red-rimmed eyes, the lashes wet with tears, her angry little face, Yanxi’s eyebrows crinkled into a frown; her agitation and anger were also because she cared about him.

A softness crept into his heart.

He reached out, wanting to touch her small face, to wipe away the tears sliding from the corner of her eyes, but before he could touch her, she forcefully pushed him away.

“Yanxi, don’t you fucking touch me. I find it disgusting!”

“Xia Yiwan, haven’t you ever liked other men before? Have I ever made a fuss about it? And even if, a long time ago, I saw Sister Shi Ying as my White Moonlight, I never had any dirty thoughts about her. I’ve always felt she and Fourth Brother were a good match, I never thought of possessing her!”

“Moreover, now I only see her as someone I owe, a friend, a sister. I know what my responsibilities are. I’ve said that I would take responsibility for you and the child, and I wouldn’t do anything to wrong you!”

Xia Yiwan looked up at the man before her.

Even at this moment, he was still deceiving her.

Did she look that idiotic, that easily fooled?

The tears in Xia Yiwan’s eyes swirled but didn’t fall again.

In that moment, she was like standing on a deserted island, her eyes carrying both despair and calm, “You say you’ve done nothing to wrong me, fine, tell me now, have you ever loved me? Even the slightest bit of love, was there any?”

Yanxi’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed. “Xia Yiwan, we are husband and wife now, and you are carrying my child. If I didn’t like you, would I let you…”

“I just want you to answer, have you ever loved me?” she asked, looking directly at him, her hoarse voice carrying a hint of aggression.

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