"Aili, go back to your room and change your clothes. I'll take you to see the flowers later," Su Yan turned his head and gently told Jones Ellie.
"Okay." Jones Ellie left a kiss on his face.
The intimate scene between them caused the queasiness that Bai Xue had barely subsided to surge up again. She couldn't control it and started vomiting uncontrollably, spitting out bile until her mouth and heart were filled with bitterness.
Su Yan frowned, "What's wrong with you?"
Bai Xue lifted her head, her face pale, "Can't you tell that I'm disgusted by you two?"
"Bai Xue, you're really good at playing the victim," Su Yan soon sneered, withdrawing any concern he had.
"Playing the victim?" Bai Xue couldn't help but laugh despite her tears. She was the victim? How was she the villain?
"You've stirred up a storm by getting involved with Mayor Gong, and now you're complaining that we're disgusting you. If this isn't playing the victim, what is?" Thinking of this morning's newspapers, Su Yan was so enraged he felt like killing someone!
Bai Xue's private meetings with Gongze Yu weren't occasional - in prison, Mayor Gong visited more frequently than her own husband. And there were those times at the Qingya Cottage, and more...
Would they meet this often if there was nothing going on between them?
Would Mayor Gong be so kind to her if there was nothing?
"Me getting involved with Mayor Gong?" Bai Xue felt a deep sense of helplessness, "Su Yan, I don't want to talk to you. Please disappear from my sight!"
She really didn't have the energy now to tolerate his nagging accusations!
"So, you're feeling guilty, can't face it, can you?" Her lack of explanation led Su Yan to believe that she was truly guilty. She had no energy to explain.
His expression grew colder and steelier.
Such is men's nature--no matter how flirtatious they are, they can't accept their wives giving them even the slightest hint of "unfaithfulness," even if it's the wife they don't love.
"If you want to condemn me, you can always find an excuse," Bai Xue stood up and walked away. Her physical discomfort made her feel fragile and unable to bear his cruelty any longer.
"An excuse? Is this what you call an excuse!" Su Yan threw the newspaper he was holding in front of her.
The front page featured a high-resolution photo of her falling into Gongze Yu's arms.
The intimate pose made them look like lovers hesitant to part.
Bai Xue felt a surge of headache, she had been vigilant, but still, someone managed to capture such a scene. Truly, what one dreads, one is bound to meet!
"I was feeling unwell yesterday and almost fainted when I got out of the car. Mayor Gong was just lending me a hand. As you know, journalists love to sensationalize and distort facts. It wasn't the first time you've been framed by such reports, you should know there's nothing to it!" Bai Xue explained.
"He was merely lending you a hand with that intimate pose?" Su Yan knew all too well about how these incidents were distorted, and from the angle of the picture, he could tell just how tightly Gongze Yu was holding her, and how close she was to him.
Bai Xue was annoyed, "So, what do you want?"
What did he want? He wanted them to have nothing!
But their closeness, their private meetings made him unable to trust that there was really nothing between them!
"From now on, you're not allowed to meet him privately. And withdraw the investment in Xing Village!" Su Yan wanted to believe her but couldn't. Not knowing what to do with her, he could only cut off her meetings with Gongze Yu.
If she could stop seeing him, then he would be willing to trust her!
Bai Xue didn't even think before responding, "Impossible!"
She had her sights set on that piece of land in the village long ago. Besides, everything was already set, contracts signed. How could she just withdraw the investments like that!