BingLan thought the same as Delun.
"Zhu Rong Hui knew beforehand I was a doctor. " BingLan wrote on her phone.
Delun nodded.
"If I and BaiMing hadn't fallen out like this, I would have rejected his proposal in the next week anyway. If she is good enough to find out I am a doctor, she should be more than capable enough to find this part too, correct?" Bing Lan added.
Delun was surprised.
"You were going to reject Bai Ming ? Why ? " Wasn't the rich and handsome aim of this girl?
Why reject Bai Ming ?
"He is the white lotus type. On top of that, he has too many peach blossoms. He is great as a friend, but too much work as a boyfriend. " She wrote.
"Just for that? Don't you like money? Bai Ming's net worth is far more than you know. " Delun said.
BingLan looked uncomfortable.
Delun knew this look.
She looked exactly like this when he asked how she knew he was the one who offered her money to leave Bai Ming.
This means she has made this decision based on far more than what she told just now.
"Didn't you say you will be a hundred percent my person. Tell me the truth. Why reject Bai Ming? " Delun asked, all his senses alert.
If anything, BingLan looked more uncomfortable.
" Bai Ming … It feels like his mask is so well practised and in place, one can not tell where the person ends and the mask begins. I am not the first girl he proposed to. All the girls he dated have sob stories. " BingLan erased what she wrote.
" Rather, all the girls he dated are in desperate situations. After he proposed, they seem to be dealt with in one way or another, yet, he never protects them well enough… " she wrote.
Then, she erased that too, and wrote another answer.
"It feels like he never dates a person of whom he can not take hundred percent control. There are many girls better looking, better educated, and better personalities than the girls he dated, yet, he only goes for the girls whose lives he can make or break." Bing Lan seemed satisfied with this explanation.
This is what unsettled her the most when she thought about it.
She also belonged to the category of girls he could control hundred percent. He flirted with her, but it never went anywhere, for she never felt attracted to him.
Then, all of a sudden he proposed.
And, like every other girl, she was also met with a disaster.
"I was not willing to give that kind of control over me to anyone, much less Bai Ming. So, I rejected him." BingLan finished.
After all, she was the one who promised to be ' hundred percent your person'.
Delun stared at her.
BingLan seemed to have remembered exactly what she said. She kept her expression neutral even as her cheeks heated up.
Delun spoke, when he realized she's going to pretend to the end.
"He is smarter than you, so you couldn't calculate him. That's why you rejected him ? " Delun asked straightforwardly.
BingLan's elbow fell off the table.
Damn!
This man is too intuitive. Must he put it in such a way to make her feel dumb?
BingLan just nodded.
Delun could tell, this is not all. However, this is more than enough for him to determine no matter what, his wife wouldn't go for Bai Ming.
So, he doesn't have to expressly forbid her from staying away from the guy.
"We were discussing Zhu Rong Hui in the first place." Bing Lan wrote.
"She is probably reborn, like us." Delun opined.
"What do we do then ? " BingLan asked.
"For now, stay away from each other." Delun answered her.
BingLan frowned.
"There's no danger to you. For one, Bai Ming's enemies have backed off, and Zhu Rong Hui will probably not do anything for the time being. Neither of them could act above board, as they need to keep their slates clean. My enemies have no such compunctions. So, it's best for us to be strangers. " Delun explained.
"How long ? " BingLan wrote.
"No idea. Could be days. Could be years. " Delun told her.
BingLan nodded. She had a feeling Delun had wanted to say more, yet, he did not do so in the end.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
Secretary Yang entered the room, with a thick legal folder.
Another set of legal documents were offered to BingLan.
The essence of the document stated she will keep what happened in the room confidential, and another five hundred thousand are paid to her as the settlement fee.
She signed the document.
Secretary Yang left with the papers.
"What if Bai Ming approaches me again?" BingLan asked.
Delun thought for a moment.
For this ruse to work, he could not intervene at all.
"Deal with it as you see fit" he answered.
BingLan nodded.
They both remained silent, each immersed in his own thoughts.
Delun's thoughts are complicated. He had a feeling that in the last timeline Zhu Ronghui has been reborn. She did not just deal with BingLan, but also with Delun.
There are few practises that are taboo to a lawyer. Once you get caught in one such practise, many career paths will be closed to yourself forever.
In the last timeline, BingLan has been injured, and the access to himself had been blocked through every path other than directly barging into BingLan's room.
Surprisingly, BingLan herself walked out of the room and asked him if he had anything to ask her. He told her honestly, which would have been the most stupid path one could take.
Fortunately, BingLan settled with him, otherwise, his career as a lawyer would have stopped since that day. A law weekly's reporter had been squatting there. Had even the speculative article been published, He would have had no choice but to live as a gangster.
However, given it's the law news paper, the consent of the victim was important. He settled with Binglan, before the reporter could get her consent to publish the article.
This means, the vendetta of the Zhu eldest miss is as much with him, as it is with Binglan.
But, the same thing repeated in this world too. What does it mean?
Zhu Rong Hui was reborn more than once.
Her vendetta with him is big enough to ruin his life.
What could have happened in the first future?
Does it matter ?
Whatever had happened in those timelines, their future is in this timeline.
They will make it with their own two hands, not the other way around.
If they want to strike at him, he could only cut off their roots.
Thankfully, Bai Ming had enough enemies, and Zhu patriarch didn't seem to be in any hurry to hand over his empire to his daughter.
Now that he knows they are his enemies, he will watch them diligently.
On the contrary, BingLan is thinking something far more innocent.
This Miss Zhu must be crazy to go for myself, not Bai Ming. These kinds of characters are best avoided, so I will not meet Bai Ming no matter what.
She decided.
Moreover, she is married now, and her husband is a very super good male specimen. Why must she look at other people's white moonlight?
However, not meeting till Delun contacts…
That is going to be hard to do.
Think about this logically.
She is married.
What does this mean?
It means she could not meet any other man legally. Doesn't that mean all the dates she is losing needs to be compensated? Only, Delun did not mention anything about it at all.
She wants to go on dates.
She wants to have some skinship...
And most important of all, she agreed to the wedding night, albeit with the accompaniment of necessary ceremonies.
Think of all the kisses she's missing…?
Think of all the time they have to needlessly spend alone…
Isn't this just going round and round like those frustrating drama characters that lean in towards each other's lips in the first episode, and don't kiss till the last episode?
She doesn't want to wait for all these things…
'Might take days … might take years..' This is not acceptable.
If he is set on this kind of timing, he better divorce her, and she would rather be a loyal minion than a married widow.
BingLan spoke just as the sounds of footsteps echoed in the outside corridor.
"I will wait for a year. If you do not come to me within that time, I .. I will apply for divorce." BingLan rushed to say.
Delun seemed to want to say something, but the doors opened.
As soon as the lock sounded, Binglan brought her phone back, and deleted the message.
Delun swallowed whatever words he was going to say.
The attending doctor told her a room for her was arranged in one of the generic wards, and they will move her bed.
BingLan nodded her head to show her understanding, then sat down in the wheelchair.
Just like that, they parted from each other, never knowing when they will meet each other again.