Chapter Eighty-two Who Harms Whom

  I followed Leng Xuan to the elevator entrance: "Are we going back now?"

  "What? You want to stay here?" he asked, turning his head.

  I shook my head: "Is it just worth spending so much time dressing up for such an entrance?"

  "Not!" He emphasized the two words and pulled me into the elevator. As expected, we didn't go down but arrived at the 12th floor.

  I looked at him in confusion: "Where is this?"

  "You'll know soon enough!" he said mysteriously.

  I nodded and stopped talking, following him. He asked me to hold his arm, I did as he said. He nodded in satisfaction and led me inside.

  Inside was a magnificent scene, and there were many high-ranking officials present. Everyone looked at me with curiosity as I appeared, but I calmly observed everything.

  Suddenly, I saw a familiar figure among the crowd. He came in at the same time as us, but not on the same elevator. He looked at me with surprise, and I gazed back at him calmly, while my heart was turbulent with excitement. Didn't he say he loved me? Why did he bring her instead of me today? Is she really better than me? Have you really fallen in love with her and abandoned me? Waves of pain rose up inside me. I grasped Leng Xuan's hand tightly, afraid.

  Leng Xuan realized my fear, pulled out the hand I was holding onto, and directly wrapped me in his arms. He walked towards Nan Gong Ye's direction while hugging me: "Nan Gong Ye actually brought a female companion today, how rare!"

  "You're not bad yourself, Young Master Xuan!" Nan Gong Ye retorted.

  "Of course! Being the woman of Leng Xuan is naturally not bad at all! Unlike some people who can't even compare to my wife!" Leng Xuan said sarcastically.

  "Wife?" Nangong Ye looked at me incredulously. I turned away, avoiding his gaze, and inexplicably nodded slightly.

  Nangong Ye looked at me and sneered: "I didn't expect the Fourth Master of the 'Night' gang to become the young mistress of the 'Cold' gang so quickly!"

  "Yes! Thank you, Nan Gong's leader, for your previous cultivation!" I said calmly. My heart was aching with pain, why did he have to say that, couldn't he see that I've always been wearing the exclusive ring that belongs to Nan Gong Ye?

  Airi saw that we were talking and ignoring him, so he coquettishly said to Nangong Ye: "Ye, I'm thirsty! Let's go over there!"

  Nangong Ye smiled gently at him: "Then let's go!" After that, he put his arm around Aili and left.

  I stood there, with tears welling up in my eyes. Cold Xuan held me tightly in his arms and whispered, "Then we'll go too, okay?"

  I nodded: "I want to go to that beach!"

  He hugged me, left the hotel, drove and took me to the beach we came many times.

  I sat quietly on the beach, as if isolated from the world. Suddenly, my phone rang: "Hello!"

  "Where are you?" came a familiar yet heart-wrenching voice from the other end.

  "I don't know!" I said coldly.

  "Just wait a minute, I'll be right there!" He said and hung up the phone. Before long, he really came.

  Leng Xuan looked at Nan Gong Ye who had just arrived: "You..."

  "I want to have a word with Han alone!" Nan Gong Ye spat out coldly.

  After a moment of contemplation, he drove away.

  Nangong Ye looked at me sitting on the beach and walked towards me.

  "Wife!" he called out softly.

  Tears finally fell down uncontrollably.

  "Wife, don't be like this! You know I love you!" Nangong Ye said sorrowfully.

  I wiped away my tears: "Actually, you love her, is it a punishment for me? Punishing me for leaving you? Did you say you loved me out of pity?" Tears kept flowing down, I sniffled, took the ring off my hand and put it in his: "Let's just forget it!"

  "It's cold, don't!" He wrapped his arms around me, and I was afraid to be in his embrace, smelling the familiar lavender scent that had been his for so long. Tears poured out like a dam breaking, and I struggled free from his arms, shouting loudly: "Why? Why? If you clearly don't love me anymore, why are you still hugging me? Are you pitying me?"

  "It's cold, I love you, I love you all! Do you believe me?" Nangong Ye begged.

  "Believe you? What makes me believe you? Is it because of what I saw that night? Or is it because you brought her here to show off to me tonight? Or is it because of the ring you said you wouldn't take off but did?"

  "Han, I'm sorry!" said Nangong Ye sadly.

  It can be said that he is the one I have never seen before, but why did he hurt me again and again? I don't know, really don't know. "I want to be alone!" I said faintly to him.

  "Take it with you." He raised the ring in his hand.

  "Cold? Haven't you noticed that you haven't called me 'wife' for a long time? Since I'm not your wife, then it's unnecessary." I said coldly.

  He stood there, I ignored him, walked around him and left!