Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The impact of the slap sent a chilling sound throughout the room, and on Huo Shiyu’s fair, perky cheek, was a fresh, red palm print.
Huo Shiyu cupped her cheek and in disbelief, she glared at Xia Yanxi.
“Sister, what did I do wrong? Why did you hit me?”
Tears started to fall, drop by drop. That face of hers, the innocent, child-like face, coupled with her immature behavior…
Bai Wenxuan raced out of the room and pulled the pitiful little Huo Shiyu into his embrace. With a hateful glare, he barked, “you know what you did was wrong and yet you dare strike Shiyu! Xia Yanxi! You’ve grown far too conceited to be saved!”
The thought of another man claiming Xia Yanxi as his own made Bai Wenxuan’s insides burn with rage. If he could, he would have just skinned her alive! How could she pretend to be so precious, and so conservative all these years, while behaving so shamelessly with other men! For so long, he was blinded! That was probably why he had never been able to see the real Xia Yanxi!
Xia Yanxia withheld the pain and disappointment inside her. Not wanting to speak another word to those two, she raced down to the living room. Halfway through, seeing as how her clothes were ruined, she turned back up and returned to her own room.
After Xia Yanxi had shut the door, Bai Wenxuan assisted Huo Shiyu to another room, all the while embracing her tightly. The girl was crying like she had just faced a life sentence. Bai Wenxuan continued to console her, even helping her to wipe away her tears.
Even though she had shut the door, she could still imagine that face of his. It would be kind and gentle.
She scoffed as her eyes teared up a little.
Before he had left for his overseas work trip, the man would have sworn to the world that she was the only woman he loved. Now, just because she had lost her virginity, the man withdrew his oath in a heartbeat.
Could it be? That this love was as fragile as the thin layer of membrane she had lost?
Then again, he did immediately jump to the conclusion and blamed all that was wrong on her! So much for love… Today, she finally saw the real Wenxuan behind the facade of sweet words!
After changing into a full set of clothes, Xia Yanxi went downstairs and faced the man who was busy instructing his servants to prepare a sumptuous lunch.
“Mr. Huo. When my mother passed, any shares under her name were to be split into half between me and you. Back then, since I was not of age, you have tricked me into signing an agreement preventing me from having ownership to the aforementioned shares until I reach twenty two years of age, or, I was married. I’m twenty years old now and I want those shares back.”
Huo Changsheng was midly shocked to hear Xia Yanxi bringing up such a matter. He calmed down for a bit and replied, “The agreement clearly states the fulfilment of either one of the two conditions before I am to surrender those shares to you. You have fulfilled neither of the two conditions! Your shares all belong to me.”
Xia Yanxi curled her lips inward, she was angry and disgruntled.
Twenty two years of age was… unachievable for now. But marriage…
“If I get married, will you return the shares that belong to me?”
She was naive as she was younger back then. She thought that her father was a decent man and since she had no interest in any of her mother’s ventures, she believed everything her father had said. Now, the man had changed. He was no longer the man who once loved her mother!
Knowing that Bai Wenxuan would no longer want Xia Yanxi, Huo Changsheng agreed, seeing as there was no way she could find herself another man to be betrothed to.
“Yes.”
“That is all I want to hear,” Xia Yanxi said as she sneered. Determined, she clenched her fist and barked, “I will get married and when I do, you best keep your words.”
Before she said that, both Bai Wenxuan and Huo Shiyu were just making their way down and heard that declaration. Huo Shiyu, with her teary eyes, looked as innocently as she could at Bai Wenxuan and said, “Big brother Wenxuan, are you getting married with big sister?”
Bai Wenxuan merely stared at the back of Xia Yanxi who was leaving the house, as he said solemnly and dejectedly, “She’s no longer clean. There’s no way I would marry her.”