Chapter 63: Riding a Tiger is Hard to Get Off

  Xu Shaoyan strode towards Bai Jie with large steps, then grasped her left arm and pulled her to a secluded corridor without any tenderness. He fiercely flung open Bai Jie's arm, gazing at her with dangerous and icy eyes, and asked discontentedly: "What do you want to do?!"

  It hurts so much...

  Bai Jie furrowed her brow, enduring the waves of pain spreading up her arm, and looked up at Xu Shao Yan with a cold smile playing on her lips. "What else can you do? Isn't it just to see your beloved woman?" she said in a cold tone.

  She deliberately emphasized the seven words "your most beloved woman", saying them with gritted teeth, filled with resentment - when did she just drive away one of his "beloved" women, and now another one of his "most beloved" women has come! When will this cyclical game end? When will Xu Shaoyan learn to be sensible and calm down?

  Xu Shaoyan's eyebrows furrowed, and he gazed coldly at Bai Jie. A hint of a dangerous smile played on his lips as he slowly leaned in, his voice low and menacing in her ear: "I'm warning you - if you dare touch a single hair on her head, I'll never let you off! For her sake, I can do anything!"

  "You——" Bai Jie's face turned white with anger: Isn't he doing this on purpose? Purposely defending that wild woman in front of her, purposely provoking the jealousy in her heart to make her retreat, purposely humiliating her to achieve his goal of breaking off the engagement!

  No! She absolutely won't let Xu Shaoyan get his way! She has loved him for so many years, and paid out so much for him. She must have him! In this lifetime, Xu Shaoyan is destined to be her man, and can only be her man!

  Bai Jie sneered, suppressing the jealousy in her heart, and asked with a raised corner of her mouth: "Is it because of that 'woman' that you want to cancel our engagement?"

  "Right!" Xu Shaoyan calmly faced the jealousy and anger in Bai Jie's eyes, nodding in acknowledgment, "She is the only 'woman' I want to marry in this life! Apart from her, I don't want anyone else!"

  “Hah... hahahaha...” Bai Jie suddenly burst out laughing maniacally, then her eyes welled up with tears as she glared at Xu Shao Yan with hatred and said in a low, mournful tone, “I had already sent someone to investigate her. She doesn’t have anything that can compare to me! I won’t lose to this kind of ‘woman’! I told you before, unless you find a woman who is better than me, Bai Jie, and make me admit defeat willingly, make me willing to let go, otherwise, for this lifetime, you will be my man!”

  "Madman!" Xu Shaoyan said angrily, "You're just like my mom, you're all madmen! I never liked you anyway, why do you still want to torture yourself like this?"

  "Yes! I'm crazy!" The tears in Bai Jie's eyes finally fell, and then she said with an extremely resentful and sorrowful tone, "But all of this is because of you... You're the one who drove me crazy! If you really didn't like me, why did you agree to get engaged with me in the first place?!"

  Now that so many people know about her engagement to Xu Shaoyan, if the Xu family were to call off the wedding, how could she, Bai Jie, still show her face?! As a proud and arrogant woman who has never allowed any stains on her life, how could she bear the humiliation of being jilted, or allow herself to become a laughing stock?!

  For more than two years since their engagement, Xu Shaoyan has always been evasive and reluctant to marry her, lingering in the "flower" scene, finding one woman after another to make her worry, treating her with indifference...

  Facing the relentless pursuit of 'Rong' Die, facing the unattainable warmth, sometimes she feels tired, very tired, and even thinks about letting go, allowing Xu Shao Yan to wander freely. However, her strong self-esteem does not allow herself to do so!

  Now she's in a dilemma! Even if she knows that the forced melon is not sweet, even if she knows that Xu Shao Yan doesn't love her, she still has to hold on! Proud as she is, she will never let herself become a loser in the battlefield of love, will never lose to an ordinary woman who is nothing but mediocre, and will never make herself a laughing stock for others!

  In this world, as long as it's something Bai Jie wants, she'll definitely get it!

  Yes, since Xu Shaoyan didn't like Bai Jie, why did he agree to get engaged to her in the first place? Only because at that time, he hadn't met Cheng Ziyue yet!

  At that time, he was still a dissolute and debauched young master, nearly thirty years old, being forced by his mother to go on blind dates every day, which really annoyed him! At that time, he had no idea what love was, what marriage was, and women were like mass-produced dolls to him. At that time, he thought getting married was just a matter of finding someone to spend the rest of his life with, so what difference did it make who he married?

  So when his mother brought up the idea of him and Bai Jie getting engaged, he agreed without hesitation. At least, he and Bai Jie had grown up together since childhood, so they knew each other inside out, which was better than marrying some random stranger, right? So, he privately thought to himself that one day when he got tired of playing around and wanted to settle down, he would marry Bai Jie...

  Who would have thought that after getting engaged, Bai Jie started acting as if she was his wife, controlling him everywhere he went, just like Tang Seng's nagging, reciting the tight箍咒 spell every day, restricting his freedom and making him feel suffocated. As a result, he began to dislike Bai Jie more and more.

  Later, as if it were a predestined fate, he met Cheng Zhiyi, fell in love with her at first sight, and unknowingly sank into her gentle smile. Now, he even feels that if he loses Cheng Zhiyi, his life will be incomplete!

  It wasn't until then that Xu Shaoyan understood that marriage was about "holding hands and growing old together", it was about "wishing to find a soulmate, and not parting ways even in old age", it was about "being husband and wife from the beginning of life, loving each other without any doubts"! So he couldn't help but privately betray Bai Jie, otherwise he would be betraying Cheng Zixi, betraying love, and betraying himself.

  "I'm sorry! It was all my fault from the beginning!" Xǔ Shǎoyàn sincerely apologized to Bái Jié, "At that time, I didn't understand what true love was, so I agreed to be engaged to you. But now I understand, if I lose Chéng Zhīyī, I will regret it for the rest of my life! So, please let us be together..."

  "What is true love?!" After hearing Xu Shaoyan's words, Bai Jie was immediately blinded by jealousy and angrily said, "So you're saying that your feelings for me aren't true love, but they are for that 'woman'? You want me to help you two be together? Then who will help me?!!"

  "You said that losing her would make you regret it for the rest of your life? What about me? Am I so insignificant?" Jealousy was like a furious beast, rampaging through Bai Jie's heart, desperate to find an outlet. She was trembling with rage, her eyes red, as she furiously shouted at Xu Shao Yan.

  "Xu Shaoyan, I'm warning you! If you really go through with the divorce, I'll make sure you regret it for the rest of your life!"

  Then Bai Jie turned around and left the corridor, storming towards the banquet hall in a rage.