Love in the Midst of Mistaken Identities - Chapter 345
Chapter 345: I Just Wanted to Know if You Were Dead
Chu Lui was true to his words. He did not speak of or pursue the matter anymore, but a layer of fog seemed to have lowered down on the couple. No matter how much Li Manni tried to close the distance between them, it seemed Chu Lui’s heart was no longer hers to hold onto. They still slept together and ate together, but it felt like something had waned. Something had changed.
“Lui, are you coming back for lunch? I asked them to make your favorite food.” Li Manni followed Chu Lui to the door and raised her head, her eyes filled with too much anticipation. They had not spent quality time with each other recently. He was getting busier and busier and would even occasionally spend the night at the company. At this rate, she would not be able to have a child. Her period had come this month, and she was in her safe period now.
Chu Lui glanced at his watch, said indifferently, and slightly superficially, “I’ll make some time.” He turned around and left, his body exuding excessive coldness and distance that made Li Manni uncomfortable. She closed the door and sat weakly o the sofa, hugging herself tightly. Things were still the same, but why did she feel so cold?
At the company, everyone was walking on eggshells. They even watched their timing in the bathroom. This was because now, their CEO had surpassed even a work machine. All he did was work and sign contracts. His butt never left the chair at all.
His cold face was even scarier now. He showed no expression at all, much less say smile. They might be rendered silent with just a look from him. He was just like the cold wind in December, so cold that it made people shudder uncontrollably.
Du Jingtang raised his head to observe Chu Lui once in a while. “Cousin, do you regret it?” he asked suddenly. Only he dared to talk to Chu Lui normally in the entire company.
“Regret?” Chu Lui raised his head up from the pile of documents. “Say, can regret do anything? Can it salvage anything? Or does it just make you feel better? It’s just an excuse for failure.”
His thin lips lifted. For him, there was no such thing as regret, and it would never appear. However, why was it that he felt like he would regret, really, even though it was not supposed to exist in his dictionary?
Du Jingtang just shrugged. Forget it. He had no common language with heartless people like him.
“I’m heading out,” he said and took a quick look at CEO. His head was buried in the pile of documents again, and he was treating him like air as always. So, the great CEO Chu would not care much without the bit of air that he was. He needed to get some air for the atmosphere was too tense here.
He closed the door, separating the outside world from inside. Chu Lui straightened his back slightly, his black eyes gleaming slightly with fatigue. He raised his wrist which showed the time now, and he suddenly remembered that he promised to go back and eat with Li Manni.
He stood up, but he felt a little woozy and unsteady on his feet. He massaged his forehead gently and then walked out. Everyone in the company stayed away from him like a mouse running away from a cat.
Chu Lui strode away and sat in his car. He had time to go back, but he did not want to. He sat in the car, took out a cigarette, and lit it. It had been a long time, but he had fallen in love with days of smoking all over again. He was getting used to smoking sticks followed by sticks. His cold eyes narrowed slightly. The hazy smoke in his car dimmed his vision. It was clear for a moment, and then it grew fuzzy.
Suddenly, he put the cigarette out and turned the car around. He did not want to say that he missed the woman. He also did not feel like he had done anything wrong. He wasn’t going for an apology. He just wanted to know if she was dead.
He drove swiftly. He had never been so eager to see someone, an enemy at that.
The car stopped. It was daylight so there were few customers. He walked in and looked darkly at the place that made him feel uncomfortable and where she worked.
It was such a shameful place, but he still walked in. There were only a few guests inside, men and women. It was a life of luxurious languishing and debauchery, a stupefying dream.
He sat to one side, and someone came up immediately. “What can I help you with, sir?”
“I’m looking for Xia Ruoxin,” he replied coldly.
“I’m sorry, sir. There’s no such person here.” The young man said with an apologetic smile. There was indeed no one like that here.
“Ask her to see me.” Chu Lui retrieved his wallet from his chest pocket and took out a few notes, throwing it on the table without hesitation. At a place like this, one could get whatever one wanted as long as one had the money.
“This… please wait a moment. “The man still maintained an apologetic smile, turned around, and walked out. He really did not know of anyone named Xia Ruoxin here, for no one would use their real names here. So, even if there really was such a person, he wouldn’t know anyway. However, it didn’t mean that she wouldn’t.
Shen Wei put down the glass in her hand and turned around. “You say someone has come in search of Xia Ruoxin?”
“Yes, the gentleman said that he wanted to find someone called Xia Ruoxin,” the young waiter told Shen Wei. He was rigid and reticent, but he was definitely not stupid. Even a mere waiter here should not be underestimated.
“Mmm, I got it. I’ll head out in a while.” Shen Wei lifted the cup in her hand, sipping leisurely without a hurry in the world. If he wanted to wait, then she would let him wait. There was only one person who could find that woman here and speak of her name, and that was him.
“Chu Lui…
“You finally came.” Her lovely voice was lined with a light tone. She thought he wouldn’t appear, but as long as he was here, it was the start of his regret.
She liked to see such a heartless man regret and even suffer in pain with no way to be free until the day he steps into a coffin.
Chu Lui’s face became darker. He lifted his wrist and looked at his watch. He had already been waiting for half an hour, and the woman still hadn’t come out yet. It seemed she had learned how to put on airs. Very well, he wanted to see how much she could put on.
