Yin Muchen squinted his eyes as he scanned her expression. He took a puff of smoke and stood up slowly. He placed one hand in his pocket while his steps were slow and casual as he came close to her. He laughed mockingly as he said, “How can you be so flustered? Don’t you know about the things between a man and a woman? Look at your yellowed and aged face. Tsk tsk, you turn a man off.”
As he spoke, he lowered his gaze down to the bag that was slung across her body as he said, “What is inside the bag? Let me have a look…”
He looked like he was about to open her bag.
Yin Shuiling was shocked. She was just like an injured little creature. She nimbly stretched her small hand out to firmly push him away. She pushed him a distance away before protecting her own bag.
After she pushed him, Yin Muchen took a step back, and his entire handsome face turned dark, but the more sinister he looked, the brighter his smile was. His straight white teeth were all exposed as he asked, “What are you afraid of? I am just have a look. I am not snatching it away from you. You are not letting me have a look, then let me have a guess what is inside your bag then. Didn’t you give my accounting records over to Sixth Older Brother just now? And Sixth Older Brother gave you the thing inside your bag right now. Yin De’s new identity overseas, and also two flight tickets? Yin De…and yours?”
Yin Shuiling took in a breath of cold air. She widened her eyes and looked at the man. Her voice was frail as she asked, “You…how did you know?”
How did he know about everything?
What he guessed was absolutely right.
“Hah…” Yin Muchen laughed lightly. She did not know when a remote control appeared in his hand. He pressed the button on the control, and the television in the living room was switched on.
Yin Shuiling had a look at the television screen, and she was shaking in fear as she did not know what she was looking at herself…
The first scene that appeared on the screen was the time they were in Hong Kong. They’d met John for dinner. She took the phone in her hand as she said, “John, Spaniard…”
The second scene cut to the study. She opened the computer and inserted the thumb drive…
The third scene was just now, before the safe deposit box….
The last scene was extremely long. It was so long that it seemed that her actions while she was taking the accounting record were filmed in slow motion. Before she squatted down on the floor, she used her hands to cover her face as she cried out painfully, and at last, she had tears in her eyes as she kissed the wedding ring.
Yin Shuiling was in a daze as she turned her gaze sideways at the man in front of her. Her voice was shaking so much that it did not seem to belong to her anymore. She looked at him as if she were looking at the devil. “You… knew all of it from the beginning?”
He knew everything she was doing right from the start, but he did not say a single word about it.
Yin Muchen stopped the video at the scene where she lowered her gaze down to kiss the wedding ring. He slowly puffed his cigarette. He looked her in the eye. His gaze was sharp as a knife as he scanned her face inch by inch. It was like he was punishing her afterwards. “Was it possible for me to not know? Hah, Yin Shuiling, don’t you know about your own limits? Did you think you were able to keep a secret with your gaze? If I’d been unable to tell, then I, Yin Muchen, would have died a few thousand times in the corporate world.”
He used his right hand that was holding onto the cigarette to knead her small chin, as he said, “Why should my computer password be the same as the safe? You inserted the thumb drive into my computer to duplicate the draft proposal of the CTCI tender. Could my computer not record it? Are you really foolish or just trying to be truly foolish? There are CCTVs installed inside the study. Yin Shuiling, didn’t you know that all of the information was given to you by me?!”
Yin Shuiling’s gaze was blurry with her tears. The tears in her eyes did not have any warning as they trickled down. She moved her red lips as she hoarsely asked, “Why?”
“Why? Hah, because I want to gamble this once. Isn’t it just a bit of money? I lost a hundred billion on the Southeast Asian gold mine project. The CTCI project has already taken up 80% of SK’s working capital. This accounting record contains all of my profits that I have made throughout these past ten years worldwide. All of these added up together is me, Yin Muchen’s entire net worth. Once any enemy is able to lay his hands on these, it would take my life away, but it is all fine, I have wagered all of these things to bet on your heart…”
Yin Muchen poked the flesh over her heart. He used more and more force as he did so, “I was betting on the fact that this place has me inside it. I was betting that you were also willing to do such a thing many times during this two year period together with me, but at that last moment, I was still unwilling to give up on you. No matter whether the probability was 0.01, I still wanted to give it a try, but how is your heart so cruel?
“Your bag has the flight ticket inside it, so you are not allowing me to touch it then? You are kicking me away after you made use of me? Where do you want to go with Yin De? Are you going to England to look for Jack, to forget me completely?
“Yin Shuiling ah, Yin Shuiling. I, Yin Muchen, have not been betrayed much in my entire life, and that was because I did not allow it. Therefore, no one was able to betray me on this earth. Did you know that I allowed you to betray me?”
“Oh, you probably did not know that, but why did everyone else on earth know? You look at yourself. You were so foolish that you did not know that there were CCTVs at home. Mu Hai and Yin De were confident and asked you to come. They were basking in the sunshine as they enjoyed tea. They were so sure that you would definitely win. Have a look. All of the people on earth knew that you were my weak spot, and everyone on earth knew that you could take my life. Why are you the only one who doesn’t know?”
Yin Muchen lifted his gaze towards the television screen. His narrow eyes were slightly red, and he panted as he placed his chin onto her forehead. He used his large hand to touch her ring finger and went around it twice. He softly asked “Even this is unable to persuade you to stay? Is it really unable to persuade you to stay behind?
“Shui Ling, I really wanted to marry you…” He closed his eyes as he brought his thin lips to her forehead and kissed her. His voice was shaking as he said, “During this year, I have been working hard. I was trying hard for my mother to accept you… The diamonds in Africa were the best, so I went there personally to make a wedding ring for you… I brought you to the wedding gown shop to joke around with you. Your wedding gown was already designed a long time ago in Paris…
“I had planned everything already. I did it all without saying a single word to persuade you from walking away. Other than saying I love you, I would not say another romantic words. I thought that by pressing the wedding ring on the accounting record, it was the most romantic and long-lasting confession that I had for you. What I’ve ever possessed in my life, I just gave it all to you…
“But, Shuiling, you still left, didn’t you? Nothing could persuade you to stay, and you threw me away and left…”
Yin Muchen stretched his tongue out to lick his chapped lips. The corners of his lips were wet. He lifted his gaze up to control the moisture as he said, “Just now, when I watched you cry painfully as you kissed the ring repeatedly, if I did not see you crying, how could I know that your heart hurt at all for me? Yin Shuiling, you are really way too cruel; you are really too fucking cruel towards me!”
He let go of her and took a couple steps back, Yin Shuiling could not take it anymore. She followed the wall as she collapsed before using her hand to cover her face, and she cried out loudly.
Her heart seemed as if it had been stabbed by a sharp knife. She was really in so much pain. She was in so much pain that her entire body felt paralysed. She felt the energy slowly drip out of her body, and what was left behind was loneliness and desperation.
After being in love with one another for fourteen years, she finally turned her back on him, and they each headed in opposite directions.
Yin Muchen looked at her coldly. He turned his gaze sideways to glance at Wu Qian, who was standing aside. He moved his thin lips coldly as he spat two words: “Come over.”
Wu Qian acted as if she were under a spell. She quickly walked over to the man’s side.
“Do you know her?” he asked.
Wu Qian nodded her head and said, “I do…” As she spoke, Wu Qian looked at Yin Shuiling, who was curled up on the ground as she cried out painfully. She greeted her and said, “Older Sister Yin.”
Yin Shuiling lifted her head up with tears flooding her eyes. She stretched her hand out to tug onto the trousers of the man as she choked up. “The things between us, don’t bring someone into this.”
Yin Muchen curled the corners of his lips up. He smoked while he turned his gaze to the side to glance at Wu Qian, and there seemed to be a small smile on his face as he said, “Your good older sister is asking me not to touch you.”
Wu Qian’s face turned red when the man looked at her. She quickly lifted her eyebrows up into a frown as she coyly said, “Older Sister Yin, since you were dating President Yin in the past, but you did not get married, anyone has the right to like President Yin. I have had a crush on President Yin for a long time.”
Yin Shuiling froze. Did Wu Qian like Yin Muchen?
She actually could not even tell.
If she did not remember incorrectly, this Wu Qian had not interacted with Yin Muchen before, and only that time when she served tea…
Yin Muchen could immediately tell what Yin Shuiling was thinking. He burst out into laughter as he said, “Shuiling, you find it weird? The man that you could not bother with, other women are actually treating him like a treasure?”
It was only then that Yin Shuiling knew the true prowess of this man’s attractiveness. No matter whether he gave them a look in the eye at all, there were still a large group of beautiful women who were attracted to him.
He was like a demon who had captivated the hearts of so many women.
Yin Muchen placed a hand into his pocket while he used the hand that was holding on to the cigarette to touch his own chin. He went down on one knee and lifted his eyebrows up as he looked at the small woman who was crying in front of him. He laughed softly as he said, “The question that you did not ask last night, I will reply to you right now: Yes, these past four years, other than you, I did not have any other woman.”
He took another breath of smoke and exhaled it. He lowered his gaze at his trousers in the waft of smoke as he said, “This place, ever since you went to England when you were 18 years old, it did not lift its head up for another woman after that. It has recognized its owner now.”
Yin Shuiling Iistened to his words and felt like her own heart was torn into two pieces. It turned out that he really only had her alone…
He actually…only had a reaction for her…
His tone was extremely gentle. She did not know whether it was because of his emotions as he sighed, but this gentle tone seemed to belong to someone locked up in Hell. Yin Shuiling’s face was covered in beads of tears that were flowing messily. She used both of her small hands to block her ears as she said, “I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to listen…”
She did not want to hear him say anything else.
But the man’s voice rang out in the air clearly. “In the past, when I was in America, I had many women. Those women were not what liked. For a poor chap who did not have any money or power, sometimes, when I accompanied those rich daughters to sleep or took the advantage to seduce the mistress of some big boss, I could work for a few years less. At that time, I really needed money. I went crazy as I thought about money. I really wanted to succeed…
“Those seven years, I always remembered the promise that I gave you when I’d just left for America. I wanted to be able to protect you when I came back from America, but what should I use to protect you? if I did not succeed, what was I going to do? Look at how much trouble you got into when I just came back from America. The hawker who wanted to touch you, I smashed his balls and chopped both of his hands as I threw him into the lake. That rich son who masturbated as he looked at you, I changed all of the directors in T City and changed the entire environment. Oh, and also that Sixth Older Brother’s boss, Mu Hai…”