Chapter 1131: [Bonus chapter] Even More Now
Chapter 1131: [Bonus chapter] Even More Now
Seeing how she didn't even blink, Xia Zhao put his hand on her eyes to close them. "Are you surprised or shocked? Is it really that shocking though, Yanzi?"
Mu Chenyan held his hand and put it down as she looked at him and laughed. She laughed so much that tears came to her eyes. She just couldn't stop laughing it seemed just that funny right now to her. 𝘣𝑒𝘥𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝑙．𝘤𝘰𝘮
"Do you think I'm joking?"
"It's the funniest joke of my life," she told him as she wiped her tears.
"It's not a joke though," he said. "And you know it too. Now, you're just avoiding it once again. Just like you avoided it years ago."
"I avoided it?" she asked strangely. She held his collar and pulled him closer as she said, "You're the one who said you'd take responsibility. Do you understand that at that time I didn't want to hear that."
Xia Zhao looked at her strangely, "You got me drunk, you pulled me to the cabin. You were dissatisfied with it in the morning. I am yet to understand what I even did wrong. Was it so wrong to tell you that I'd take responsibility? We slept together. Wasn't I supposed to take responsibility for my actions?"
"But that wasn't what I wanted to hear the first thing in the morning after my first time," she said stubbornly. "I didn't know what I wanted to hear at that time but I just know that it didn't feel good when you said you'd take responsibility for whatever happened between us. As if I was nothing more than just a responsibility. Do you think that's what I wanted to hear at that time?"
"Wait! I think I won't be able to explain this," said Xia Zhao and stood up. He went to the balcony opened the French windows and walked out. He raised his voice and shouted, "Ru! Get down here!"
After shouting only once, he walked back inside and almost within a minute Ru entered behind him.
"What happened Uncle? Why are you disturbing my star gazing now?"
"I'll ask you something. Please, just answer. Sorry for bothering you."
Ru shrugged nonchalantly, "Go ahead."
"What was the very first lesson your teacher in the clan taught you?" asked Xia Zhao.
"A man must be loyal and responsible. Without loyalty and responsibility, a man is worse than a beast. If you don't know how to be responsible for your words and actions, you don't deserve the name of the clan that nurtured you."
Xia Zhao looked at Mu Chenyan and said, "Do you understand something?"
"I don't," she responded.
"Oh, it's about that," said Ru. "Then I think I'd be able to help." Ru walked over and looked at Mu Chenyan, "Miss Mu, you might have felt like my uncle thought you're just a responsibility to him just because you guys slept together. But I assure you that's not it. The first thing he spoke to you about was responsibility only because that's in his blood. The words I told you, I was taught at the age of 2. And that lesson continued until I left the clan. It's a sin in our clan to be disloyal and irresponsible. Why do you think Uncle Zhao's father isn't a part of the clan anymore?"
"I didn't call you here to go into so much detail," said Xia Zhao.
"I'm helping you here. Who told you to be so bad at explaining yourself?" asked Ru as if he disdained his own uncle for being so useless. "Don't you know women need to be coaxed? Especially after such an intimate night, the first thing you did was act like a man by being responsible. Did you think that a woman like Miss Mu wouldn't want that?"
"Wow! Even your nephew understands that Zhao! Why are you so dull?"
"He is a block of wood! It's just as his grandma says. He is really a dense block of wood!"
"Young Master Ru," Xia Zhao called out. He was regretting calling this nephew down. It was really not a good decision. "Get out!"
"If you weren't my Uncle, I'd blow your head for treating me like this. Call me whenever you want and throw me out whenever you want. Do you think this young master is that easy to use?" Ru turned to leave but stopped and looked back at Mu Chenyan, "Miss Mu, my Uncle might be a bit dull but his feelings for you are not. Back then he might not have realized his feelings for you but even back then, it was true that you meant the world to him. And it's true even more now. Why else do you think he is all alone even now? Isn't it surprising? It's not like a man like him can't find a match at his age."
"Ru, go now!"
"Aren't I doing it for you? You can't speak. But I told you, I am very good at speaking. You should take some crash courses from me."
"Says the person who doesn't have a date as well."
"That's by choice! Choice! Do you understand?!" With a humph, Ru walked away and left as fast as he came just now.
"Your nephew is like a gust of wind," commented Mu Chenyan.
"Really? People say he is more like a ghost. You never know when you'll encounter him."
Mu Chenyan didn't respond and continued to think about what Ru just told her. In fact, she was really mad back then. There was nothing wrong with Xia Zhao telling her that he'd be responsible. Considering from the point of view of that time, it was perfectly normal and yet, it didn't sit well with her and she avoided him instead. All because she really didn't want to hear that from him.
As for what she was expecting to hear. It was only now she understood it.
She looked at him with a complicated gaze as he came to sit beside her again and held her hand in his own this time.