Did he mean that she had been lying to him just because she had not been hypnotized and had pretended to forget him?
What about him?
Wasn’t he not hypnotized?
Xiao Ying did not want to argue with him. Taking a deep breath, she forced herself to speak calmly. “Mr Long, is it that important to know if I was hypnotized? I haven’t disturbed your life in the past few years. Isn’t it good for everyone to live their own lives peacefully?”
Long Ming’s gaze on Xiao Ying turned sharp and cold.
His tall figure approached her.
Xiao Ying took a few steps back, but the next second, her wrist was grabbed by his large palm.
He threw her against the nearest wall, his deep eagle eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze dark and the aura he exuded was like a large net that enveloped her.
Xiao Ying found it hard to breathe.
It turned out that in front of him, no matter how strong her mentality was, she would still be vulnerable.
The two of them remained that way for a while before Xiao Ying met with his cold eyes that seemed like they wanted to swallow her up. “Mr Long, I hope you can keep our promise. You said that as long as I’m alive, you won’t force me anymore.”
Long Ming’s slender fingers pinched Xiao Ying’s chin, his handsome and cold face approaching her as his cold aura gushed out. “The condition is that you keep your promise.”
“You didn’t keep it either!” Xiao Ying suddenly felt like she couldn’t explain herself.
Seeing the coldness in Xiao Ying’s eyes, Long Ming’s heart surged.
He did not know what was wrong with him. He clearly had no reason to find her again, but he found the worst excuse to pester her!
When they met at the hotel last night, he had caught the flash of panic in her eyes when their eyes met.
At that time, he started to suspect that she had not actually been hypnotized.
Hence, he used the excuse of visiting the Qiao family in the day to meet her.
After meeting at the Qiao family, his suspicions deepened.
When he bought a tie at the mall at night, he was sure that she had not forgotten about him.
He was undoubtedly happy that she had not really been hypnotized. No matter what they had experienced in the past, those were all indispensable memories in their lives.
However, when he came to look for her and saw her video-calling another man to buy a cake for another man, his heart sank completely.
In the past few years, he had tried not to think about her.
He had also allowed himself to start a new life. He worked from morning to night every day to reduce the chance of thinking of her.
However, every time it was late at night and he was alone, he would still think of the past. His psychological illness was getting worse and the psychiatrist advised him to get hypnotized again to remove her from his heart.
But he could not bear to do so.
Whether it was the pain or the unforgettable memories, they had become the most important part of his life!
He was still living in the past, but she had already started a new life!
Long Ming’s heart was in turmoil. He clenched his fists and suddenly swung them at Xiao Ying’s face.
Xiao Ying thought that Long Ming was going to hit her and she wanted to retaliate instinctively.
But Long Ming’s fist did not land on her face but on the wall above her head.
A loud bang shook Xiao Ying’s heart.
Xiao Ying stared at Long Ming, whose expression was cold, as if he wanted to swallow her alive. She furrowed her eyebrows tightly. “Are you… still living in the hatred of the past?”
Long Ming lowered his hand, his facial features tense. “If I say that I can’t let go, what will you do?”
Under his dark and cold gaze, Xiao Ying slowly lowered her head. She stared at the back of his hand that was bleeding from his injury, her eyelashes fluttering slightly.
What would she do?
She really did not know.
Back then, she had ignored her own life and gone to Long Di’s side to get the confidential documents that were beneficial to him. She just did not want him to live in pain and hatred anymore and wanted him to start a new life.
They were not from the same world. Both of them were covered in scars. They were like two hedgehogs. If they were together, they would only hurt each other.
She had been trained to be a cold-blooded person since she was young and would not fall for men easily. Back then, she had only fallen for Qiao Yanze because he lived a carefree life and she yearned for that kind of life too much.
But Long Ming was different. He had too much to bear!
When she was with him, she would only think of all the things that had happened in the past, want to escape and breathe the fresh air of freedom!
“Mr Long.” Xiao Ying looked up into his cold and dark eyes. “The man you saw in the video is my husband.”
What?!
Long Ming grabbed Xiao Ying’s shoulders with such strength that he almost crushed her bones. “What did you say?”
“After I left you, I started a new life. Half a year ago, I got married, but it was a secret marriage. I didn’t tell anyone.”
Xiao Ying looked at Long Ming’s dark and cold face and pursed her lips slightly. “You know, I only had a code name in the past and I didn’t have a surname. But now, I have a surname. My husband’s family name is Tang and the name on my identification card is Tang Ying.”
Long Ming stared at Xiao Ying for a long time before a cold smile appeared on his lips. “Ha.”
The large hand on her shoulder suddenly pinched her slender neck. A trace of malevolence appeared on his handsome and cold face.
If he could, he really wanted to strangle her to death!
However, he could not exert any strength on her neck.
He just found the situation extremely ridiculous!
She was carefree, living a new life, having a husband, and even had her husband’s surname. As for him? He was still struggling in hell. Power and status did not bring him much happiness. In his dreams at night, the woman he loved and hated would still appear in the depths of his memories!
But that woman was now telling him that she was married and had taken the surname Tang from her husband’s family!
Long Ming’s hand on Xiao Ying’s neck slowly fell.
His gaze on Xiao Ying became even colder. “You’re still that Number 21 from back then. You always do the most unexpected things!”
He stared at the half of her face that had been repaired, his calloused fingers caressing it. “For that man, you even fixed your face. Does he know I played with you in the past?”
Hearing this, Xiao Ying raised her hand and threw it at Long Ming’s handsome and despicable face.
But before she could touch him, he grabbed her wrist.
He grabbed her wrist ruthlessly, his words extremely cold. “Do you know the price of hitting me now?” He shook off her hand, as if he was extremely disgusted. “If you see me in the future, you’d better hide far away. If not, don’t blame me for being rude to you!”
Long Ming did not look at Xiao Ying anymore. He turned around and left quickly.
Xiao Ying stared at Long Ming’s back, her lips pursed until they were pale.
Xiao Ying only took out her room card after the figure had walked away. She looked down at her wrist that had been pinched by him and it was completely red.
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