TVCEO Chapter 48.3

She shivered from the cold, and even after reaching the top of the observatory, she couldn’t help but shudder.

Su Zhengxing stopped and saw her stamping her feet. He took off his down jacket from his suit and draped it over her shoulders.

The black down jacket still retained his warmth. Lin Qiao looked up in surprise, meeting his gentle, watery eyes.

He seemed a little different than usual today.

“When I was little, my grandma was afraid I’d get cold, so she’d make me wear so many layers of clothes like this.” Su Zhengxing said, helping her zip up the jacket and wrapping her up in the down jacket like a silkworm.

Lin Qiao only knew about Su Zhengxing’s past from his conscious self; this was the first time she’d heard him talk about it in real life.

“I loved winter the most back then, because its arrival meant the New Year was just around the corner. My mother would come to visit, and my grandmother would invite her to stay for dinner. Only then did I feel like I had a family and that someone loved me.”

His tone was calm, so calm that it sounded like he was telling someone else’s story. But Lin Qiao had seen him lose control due to childhood trauma, even developing somatization symptoms. Those memories must have been very painful.

Lin Qiao stepped forward and gently took his hand, unsure how to comfort him.

He chuckled softly: “Actually, life in an orphanage wasn’t as terrible as I imagined. It’s just about training children to be commodities and finding suitable buyers. I was lucky to meet Chairman Qin before I was old enough to be kicked out. He adopted me, and I’m very grateful to him.”

The more he downplayed it, the more heartbreaking it became.

“From the first day I arrived at the Qin family, I knew that I was different from Qin Shen. He could have countless opportunities to try and make mistakes, but I couldn’t. I had to be invincible, I couldn’t make any mistakes, and I couldn’t be lazy at all, because I had nothing. Everything I had was given to me by the Qin family. What the Qin family could give me, they could also take away.”

“That’s why I always backed away when you approached me. I was afraid my obsession would bring bad results like before, and I’ve become accustomed to assuming the worst of others.” He explained to her.

“But running away won’t solve anything. Lin Qiao, I only have one question for you…”

He stopped, took her hand in his, and gazed into her eyes: “Do you love me?”

Something seemed to explode in her mind. This was the second time he had asked her this question; Su Zhengxing, in her consciousness, had asked her a similar question before.

Lin Qiao isn’t exactly an honest person; she can lie without batting an eye. She lied the first time in the underground parking garage of Baitian, only her actions betrayed her.

She thought that she could answer without hesitation this time too, even for the sake of that hundred million, but the words just wouldn’t come out.

The word ‘love’ was too heavy, too burdensome. She’d come to him with a lie; what right did she have to say she loved him?

Su Zhengxing saw hesitation in her eyes. He suppressed his emotions, forcing a self-deprecating smile.

Noticing his subtle expression, Lin Qiao’s heart clenched painfully. He cared so much about the answer to that question that he had to confirm it again and again. He must be very disappointed now.

Just as she was feeling guilty, a big hand gently encircled the back of her neck, slipped under her hair, and lifted her chin.

The warm touch against her lips caused Lin Qiao’s breath to stop abruptly, her heart to race at an alarming rate, and a suffocating swelling to fill her entire body.

She was shocked, yet unwilling to push him away, letting Su Zhengxing’s passionate kiss linger between her lips and teeth, his uncontrollable fervor invading and entangling her relentlessly.

His rapid breaths sprayed down her chin to her neck, like an electric current, tingling and numb.

His tender voice rang in her ear, leaving no room for refusal.

“Then start loving me from this moment on.”

 

 

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