His Rui

Chapter 228 – The Cold Hearted Lord Xi

'You are pregnant Rui, with my child…with our child.'

The sentence buzzed in her ears again and again as she stared at the ceiling of the room with blank eyes.

She was pregnant…why?

Lost in her own thoughts, she didn't know that all the blood had left her face and now her face looked so pale that the man who had been hovering over her body was panicked at this sight.

"Rui"

Xi Ying got up from Li Rui's abdomen and moved towards her face. Gently patting her cheek, he called out again

"Rui"

Her blank eyes scared him and he couldn't help but ask worriedly

"Rui, what happened?"

Did she not want his child…their child?

The thought entered Xi Ying's mind making his heart stifled but he couldn't ponder over this thought.   

Because the next moment his waist was hugged by a soft arm and he found himself on the bed…under Li Rui.

Startled, he raised his head to look at the figure hovering over his torso now. On his waist, sat Li Rui leaning closer to him…. so much that he could even feel her warm breath falling on his face.

Both of his hands were held by his wife with her only one hand …above his head. 

Xi Ying would have liked this scene and their position very much if only between them there had not been a dagger just a needle distance away from penetrating his skin….ready to take his life. 

His black eyes followed the dagger held by soft white and beautiful hands and then they fell on the face of the owner of those hands who was none other than his wife…Li Rui.

Xi Ying had always liked Li Rui's black eyes especially when she looked at him with them…he would feel complete. He would feel as if he had the whole world in his hands.

But at this moment, seeing those same eyes he suddenly for them not to look at him like this.   

The cold and sharp eyes, filled with anger, resentment, and what not looked at his face.

He moved his eyes away not having any more courage to look into them. Something that he had not seen yet and he didn't wish to see…he avoided it like this.

His heart had already been sliced into thin pieces seeing those few emotions in them but if he saw hatred for himself in those eyes …then it would become Xi Ying's doom.

He was not strong enough to face Li Rui's hatred.

"Rui, what are you doing? You will get hurt."

He whispered gently as he looked at the beautiful hand that held the dagger with worried eyes… behaving as if it was not him who was the target of that dagger.

However, in response to his gentleness what he got was the pain.

The pointy dagger finally touched his throat and a very small amount of blood trickled down. It pained but he didn't even 'hiss'.

His eyes were still filled with love, gentleness as he looked at his wife's face again unable to move his eyes away from her still cold and sharp eyes.

"What happened? Are you angry with me? Did I do something wrong?"

He asked gently feeling the force with which both of his hands were controlled.

The force was neither small nor large but enough for him to gain control ….however he didn't wish to harm Li Rui so he maintained the position without any show of how much pain he was feeling because of the pointy dagger.

It was not that Xi Ying had been unable to comprehend Li Rui's moves. It was just that his guard always lowered down in front of Li Rui. Even though he could save himself when a hand had grabbed his waist, he didn't try to.

Even though he knew that she carried a dagger always inside her sleeve …even when she was with him, he didn't raise his guard against her.

It just hurt him that she didn't believe him enough to put aside that dagger in his presence.

"So cold-hearted you are Prime Minister Xi…"

The cold voice fell in his ears.

Cold-hearted …yes he was but only for others.

The confusion flashed in his eyes making Li Rui smile coldly. A smile so cold that it even froze the heart of the man who was currently lying under her.

Li Rui leaned down more and looked into Xi Ying's confused eyes as she continued

"You know…I have respected you for your intelligent mind before even though you were planning against My Clan now… that respect had been torn down in shreds by your cold-hearted heart."

The dagger in her hands left Xi Ying's throat and traveled down to Xi Ying's chest that was covered with his dark blue robes.

"Do you have one….here?"

Li Rui whispered coldly as she made her dagger touch the place where Xi Ying's heart was supposed to be. 

"I doubt its presence because if you had ….then how could you involve an unborn child in whatever schemes you are planning against My Clan, Prime Minister Xi?"

A moment later, she moved her cold eyes back to Xi Ying's black ones. 

Confusion still loomed in those eyes making her cold smile colder. The smile disappeared from her lips and she asked finally 

"What are you planning against my Clan? … Tell me."

She knew that perhaps this step of hers might be foolish but she couldn't keep pretending anymore. 

Her mind had stopped working since the moment she had come to know that she was pregnant.

Li Rui had thought that she would pretend in front of Xi Ying that she doesn't know anything and then she would use this fact in her favor to find out what Xi Ying was planning.

However, the news of her being pregnant made her abandon her plans. 

How could she be so irresponsible to not think about this matter after she had given herself to Xi Ying? If only, she had done anything in the beginning only then she would not have been in the current situation.

One more child like Xi Ling…Li Rui can't afford it. 

Why should her children suffer with her without any of their fault?           

She couldn't help but think that the child in her belly must be included in Xi Ying's plans and this only made her heart colder towards her so-called husband.