Free Web NovelChapter 1227: Chapter 1247: Do You Still Want Me or Not 7
Rarely did she look at him this way, but Nangong Yaoling suddenly felt a stinging pain in his eyes, and his heart ached along with it.
He remembered hearing somewhere that he disliked people apologizing to him because it meant they had definitely done something to wrong him.
Nangong Yaoling felt exactly this way now.
He deeply resented that guilty look in her eyes, a look that pierced his heart with sharp pain.
Yet he smiled as he looked at her: "Since you’re going upstairs, why did you come down just now?"
Xia Xiaonuan froze upon hearing his question.
The next second, her face turned pale.
If she was going upstairs, why come down?
His implication was, did he really hate her?
She stared at him with wide eyes, not knowing how to respond.
He, however, curved his lips into a smirk and turned away.
"Wait."
Xia Xiaonuan saw him about to leave and quickly took two steps forward to stop him again.
Nangong Yaoling took a deep breath and turned around.
This time, his smile finally fell off his face, replaced by a gaze of hatred, or rather, a look as if he wanted to rush up and strangle her.
"Nangong Yaoling... do you... still want me?" Xia Xiaonuan fearlessly stared at him, murmuring.
The man’s tall body instantly stiffened.
They were only a little over a meter apart, yet it felt as if she was looking at him from miles away.
Between them seemed like a world of distance.
Her eyes held a trace of helplessness and pleading, with a little bit of pity.
His gaze deepened as he scrutinized her, watching her in that state, as if he could hear something within himself collapsing in waves.
These past few days, he had asked himself.
Even if he knew from the start that the child Xiaonuan was carrying belonged to Situ Yan, what would he do? Would he leave her? Would he let go?
The answer was, of course, no.
But, just as he said that day, if she was carrying Situ Yan’s child, he definitely wouldn’t let the child be born.
How could he let his woman give birth to another man’s child?
However, then he thought, if Xiaonuan insisted on giving birth to this child, if she tried desperately to protect it, what would he do?
He later didn’t even know himself.
The only thing he could be sure of was, no matter if she carried Situ Yan’s child, no matter if she had ever been with another man; he probably couldn’t let her go.
Yet, he cared about more than just that.
It was why she hadn’t told him about this earlier. Could it be that she truly didn’t trust him?
What he cared about most was still her heart.
Or, was she truly a woman with deep schemes, that being with her for so long, he still hadn’t really understood her?
And at this moment, as he looked at Xia Xiaonuan, he suddenly felt that the woman before him...
Was terrifying.
She stole his heart, yet still domineeringly demanded he surrender to her, and wanted him to make a choice right now in such a situation.
She always said he was overbearing and self-centered.
But isn’t she the same? At the end of the day, they were the same kind of people!
Perhaps this was truly destiny; he, Nangong Yaoling, was destined to be entangled with this woman relentlessly.
He clenched his fists, making his knuckles crack.
He gazed at her, wanting to say something, but in the end, said nothing at all.
