Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
He would also bring out all the beauty in her. She could guarantee that she’d be the most gorgeous woman at tonight’s party.
“Beautiful.” Chu Lui smiled as he praised at the radiant Li Manni. Suddenly, there was awkwardness between them. She should be smiling shyly, not behaving like this—in an overconfident and ecstatic manner. He did not like things as it is, and he became absentminded.
“Let’s go. It’s almost time.”
Li Manni proactively put her arm around Chu Lui’s, and the two walked out into the pouring rain.
Li Manni stretched her hand out and raindrops fell onto her fingers. She hastily retracted her hand, looked at the exquisite silver high heels, and tried to figure a way to proceed.
“Lui, my shoes will get wet.” She tugged at Chu Lui’s shirt, unwilling to let even a drop of rain touch her. It would spoil her perfect image.
“I understand.” Chu Lui turned back, reached out with his hands, and carried Li Manni effortlessly like a groom carrying his new bride. Her legs were off the ground. Li Manni hugged Chu Lui’s neck tightly and smiled in extreme happiness.
“Lui, I love you,” She said, closing her eyes in complete bliss. However, she missed the look of loss and complexity in Chu Lui’s eyes.
“I love you, too,” he replied easily, reciting the word ‘love’ like a script. Yet, there was nothing like love in his eyes. Was his love in his heart, or had it left already?
The car sped through the curtain of rain as it continued to rain. All that was left was the splattering sound.
Once that car disappeared, and a drenched woman finally came out from the corner of the walls. She was unsure if it was because of the rain, but her long eyelashes were wet. She was powerless to open her eyes.
She looked down and quickly removed her hand that was covering her daughter’s mouth. Rainy stared at her with eyes that looked like hers. Then, she blinked and broke into a clever smile.
With one tiny hand on her blouse, Rainy leaned back into her arms.
“Rainy, did you see him? That is your father, but he did not know of your existence.” She hoisted her daughter higher and kissed her little face. “Sorry. Mommy had hurt you earlier. Mommy was afraid that if your father knew that we are alive, he won’t leave us alone. Especially you, Rainy.”
She was a mother who wanted to protect her child. She had experienced firsthand the extent of Chu Lui’s ruthlessness. She dared not let him know of Rainy’s presence; neither was she willing to put her daughter’s life in danger.
Li Manni’s child would be extremely loved by him; her child, she believed, would be loathed by him.
All because he hated her. That made him hate her child as well. This was Chu Lui. She had witnessed his heartless behavior, hadn’t she?
It’s just that she now know he was capable of loving a woman, more than he had loved Xia Yixuan. She felt slight jealousy fill up and then disperse, and maybe… she would cry.
Yet, she did not manage to. Life and stress, followed by her daughter’s birth, had not given her the luxury to love another with all of her.
Wasn’t this better? They both had the ones they loved. They would have nothing to do with each other anymore.
