Playtime's Over, CEO: She's Really Done With You-Chapter 363: Is Everything Because of Serena Sterling?
What could it be that makes Xander Linton, a man with blood on his hands, inhumane and playing games with the world, unable to forget Serena Sterling for so many years.
Even after knowing Serena has a boyfriend, he still relentlessly pursues her!
What kind of charm did Serena give Xander!
She really wants to know.
If she knew, she would definitely do everything possible to learn it, to make Xander fall in love with her!
But Xander didn’t answer immediately, he just looked at Isla Lawson with sadness in his eyes.
"Say it!" Isla Lawson shouted loudly.
"That gamble back then." Xander looked at Isla and said, "It was a gamble with life."
"I lost," Xander said.
But Isla didn’t understand, "So just because you lost a gamble, you’re devoted to her?"
"Yes." Xander lowered his head, picked up the wine bottle, and poured himself a glass, the red wine as crimson as the blood-stained ground and pool back then.
Xander recounted the events of that year.
How Serena carefully strategized, designing reversals within a limited space.
That psychological battle completely shattered the pretense and facade he had maintained for many years.
She even pointed him a clear path.
Telling him that to protect the people around him, he must fight and compete, even if it means shedding blood, he must continue.
She told him he could do it.
So later, he really worked hard, and in the end, he succeeded.
Although there were many dangers along the way, he ultimately achieved it.
It can be said that without that life-and-death psychological battle, he would still be the carefree Xander Linton today.
At a time when everyone feared him and misunderstood him, it was her who got involved, using her blood to make him see things clearly, even if she did it all for Julian Lawson back then.
She was the one who could see through everything and strike at his heart.
She was also the inner pillar he recalled countless times during those difficult and bloody days when he wanted to give up.
So, how could he not remember her?
After listening to what Xander said, Isla was silent for a moment.
"I can do it too!" After about half a minute, Isla said loudly, "Xander, I can die for you too, I can jump into the icy pool for you!"
But Xander just shook his head.
There were plenty willing to jump into an icy pool for him, not just Isla.
But at that time and place, Serena was the most special, and back then, Serena gambled with her life for Julian Lawson, not for him.
Serena understood him.
And she was very determined.
Isla grew more anxious.
"Xander, I think you misunderstand Serena," Isla said, "Back then she approached you for collaboration because The Lawson Corporation had a technological breakthrough, she only gambled with her life because she was forced to stand against you alone!"
Xander took another sip of wine.
"She had no choice," he said, "but everything was within her calculations, Isla, that day I had no intention of signing a contract, what does The Lawson Corporation’s breakthrough have to do with me?"
"I wanted to swallow it all, I never intended to cooperate."
"It was because of Serena that I changed my mind."
He had never seen such a ruthless person, ruthless in scheming against others, ruthless in hurting herself.
"If she hadn’t been pregnant then, perhaps things wouldn’t have ended this way today."
Xander said, "I’ve told you, there’s no possibility between me and her, she didn’t string me along."
"Between us, there’s a life separating."
"Isla, do you understand?"
Isla covered her ears, "I don’t want to hear!"
"What you had with her was just a coincidence," Isla said.
"The one you care about is me!"
Isla only felt her blood pounding violently in her veins.
"The time you saved me, your worry and urgency were not fake!"
Isla grasped Xander’s hand urgently, "I later learned that you were handling something very important then, and you were injured, you came all that way for me!"
Xander didn’t know what to say, so he could only look at Isla helplessly.
The information he got was that The Lawson Corporation’s Frelia liaison was in danger, a young woman.
He didn’t know it was Isla, he thought it was Serena.
Even later, he also thought Serena personally handed over relevant affairs in Frelia to Isla, that’s why he specifically instructed everything should prioritize The Lawson Corporation.
Over the years, besides saving the wrong person, other things he explained clearly.
To make Isla see it clearly, he even took her to his wine cellar, to show her the wine named "Serena."
But Isla was immersed in her own fantasy, refusing to believe it.
Xander thought about whether to tell Isla, but worried it would hurt Isla’s self-esteem, making her hate Serena more.
So he said, "Rescuing you that time was just incidental, not what you imagined. In short, that Lawson Corporation order was indeed signed successfully because of Serena."
"Ah!"
Isla screamed.
She doesn’t believe it.
His urgency and worry back then weren’t fake!
Back then, there was clearly affection in his eyes!
Not to mention that the key order that transformed the Lawson Corporation was accomplished by Serena?
Serena is just a vase sticking to Julian Lawson.
Serena is nothing!
"It was Serena who told you to say that, right?" Isla looked at Xander with red eyes.
But Xander just shook his head.
"I’m stating the facts," he said.
As Xander spoke, he stood up, walked over to Isla, and faced her.
"I’ve been in Aeston for a long time, it’s time to return to Frelia, I’m telling you all this today just to let you know there’s no possibility between me and her."
"So, don’t make it difficult for her."
Saying that, Xander reached out and patted Isla’s shoulder, trying to comfort her.
But Isla suddenly knocked away his hand.
Her eyes were bloodshot, she kept shaking her head.
Without saying a word, she turned and ran out.
It must be Serena’s doing!
Erasing what she had with Xander.
Giving all the credit to Serena, even counting the Lawson Corporation’s successful transformation as Serena’s achievement!
It was Serena who called Xander, asking him to say these things, for Xander to humiliate her and make her give up.
Serena, that cunning woman!
Surging with hatred.
...
On the other side.
Serena received a message from Xander, learning about his recent meeting with Isla.
She had wanted to bring the two of them together to clear the air, but was so focused on The Dark Horse issue, she forgot.
She hadn’t called Xander either.
It’s good they met and talked. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
Hopefully, Isla can figure it out.
Thinking, Serena replied, "When’s your flight? Silas and I will see you off."
Soon, Xander replied — "Enough, I don’t want to see you flaunting your love!"
Serena shrugged, put her phone aside.
Alright then.
"Raine, come with me to visit Mr. Huxley tomorrow," Serena said.
Raine nodded, "Okay."
Sorting through the information.
Serena made calls from time to time, learning some things.
Information spread like tentacles, reaching everywhere.
But it seemed she still couldn’t reach the core.
Serena clenched her hand.
She still needed to investigate on the ground.
And she needed a plan...
Thinking, Serena approached an employee and said something to him.
"Is this okay?" the employee asked.
"Just follow my instructions for now," Serena said.
"Okay." The other person nodded, immediately taking action.
