She Lost Memory Before the Divorce-Chapter 232 - Huo Tingxiao is Simply Driven Mad with
Chapter 232: Chapter 232: Huo Tingxiao is Simply Driven Mad with Jealousy
Chapter 232: Chapter 232: Huo Tingxiao is Simply Driven Mad with Jealousy
Mu Lan was startled, obviously not expecting Huo Tingxiao to suddenly do that.
Looking into his dark eyes that held a sharp glint, Mu Lan showed no signs of fear and faced him directly.
Their eyes met, staring at each other as though the first to look away would lose.
Seeing Mu Lan’s stubborn expression, Huo Tingxiao softened his tone.
“Pei Zhao is not a good person, don’t get close to him.”
Mu Lan snorted coldly, completely unappreciative.
“Whether he is a good person or not is not for you to tell me, at least he has never done anything to hurt me.”
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Huo Tingxiao felt heartbroken, as if Mu Lan had stabbed him twice.
“Do you have to be so confrontational with me?”
Mu Lan looked at him steadily.
“With the way you are now, you still expect me to be nice to you? Huo Tingxiao, what right do you have to criticize me?”
Huo Tingxiao was so angry that he wanted to kill someone, but he knew he couldn’t vent his anger on Mu Lan, or else it would play into Pei Zhao’s scheme.
“I’m not trying to criticize you. Pei Zhao is targeting me!
From the beginning, he planned everything, getting close to you, using you, just to strike at me.”
Mu Lan’s gaze was tranquil.
“I’ve known Mr. Pei since a year ago, you should know the state of our relationship back then without me having to remind you.”
Huo Tingxiao felt like he was suffocating, unable to exhale or inhale.
The calmer she spoke, the more speechless she made him.
“So, did you know a year ago that he was the one who saved you back then?”
Mu Lan pursed her lips.
“What does knowing that matter? Do you want to prove I’m foolish to the extreme, knowing the truth yet not choosing to divorce you right away?”
Huo Tingxiao choked up.
“That’s not what I mean.”
Mu Lan, like an animal with ruffled fur, finally showed a surge of emotion in her calm gaze.
“Then what do you mean? Oh, you still want to criticize me for having contact with another man while still married, thinking that I am morally flawed?
Or perhaps, you think I’m two-timing? Having an affair with Pei Zhao?”
Huo Tingxiao spoke angrily.
“I know you’re not that kind of person, don’t speak angrily!”
Mu Lan glared at Huo Tingxiao, her few words cutting through his heart like a knife.
But she had tasted this kind of feeling long ago.
“What I’m saying is the truth. You want softness, then be soft, say you’ll turn your face and you do.
Changing your face is faster than flipping a book, one moment you’re coquettishly asking for praise, the next you’re physically overpowering me, getting tough with me.
You blame me for not giving you a chance, for being cold, why don’t you ask yourself why I should give you a chance?
Just because I don’t remember the past seven years for the last three months, should I mindlessly make some foolish promise?
Huo Tingxiao, I could also deny it all!”
Huo Tingxiao’s eyes darkened, his last bit of reason incinerated by Mu Lan’s words of denial.
“Denial? During these three months of your amnesia, I saved you several times, Gu Xiaoman must have told you, talking about gratitude, I owe more than Pei Zhao, and if it’s about repaying, it’s not his turn.”
Mu Lan hadn’t expected him to count that against her.
“Huo Tingxiao, you’re shameless!”
Shameless? His wife was about to be gone, let alone being shameless; even if he had to be a villain or a pervert, he could do it.
“I’ve already told you, I’m not a good person.
If you’d just cajole me a little, I might not be found in the Capital in the North, yet you insist on confronting me head-on…”
“So, what do you want? To hit back hard?”
Mu Lan’s distinctly black and white eyes, due to anger, sparkled vividly.
Huo Tingxiao felt like he was being tortured to death; no matter how tough he acted, he couldn’t out-tough her. Without waiting for her to act, he was already suffering greatly.
He was just a paper tiger, trying to scare her, but she was completely unshakeable.
“I can’t do anything about you, but I always have a way with Pei Zhao.”
Mu Lan frowned, remembering how ruthless Huo Tingxiao had been in Paris. If he lost his mind, and something happened to Pei Zhao, she couldn’t bear the sin.
“What are you going to do? Huo Tingxiao, don’t go crazy.”
Seeing her so anxious, Huo Tingxiao felt a killing jealousy.
“So, you care for him?”
Mu Lan didn’t want to argue with him.
“The issues between you and me have nothing to do with Mr. Pei, and likewise, what I have with Mr. Pei is none of your business,
why do you have to complicate things so much?”
Huo Tingxiao looked at her intently and said word for word,
“You think it’s unrelated, but from the beginning when Pei Zhao found you, perhaps he wanted to ally with you against me.
But now, having discovered your place in my heart, he intends to use every means to stop me from winning you back, relishing in my pain.
The entanglement between him and me is too deep, to separate matters clearly, how is that possible?
Do you know why he ended up disabled?”
Mu Lan shook her head blankly.
“I don’t know…”
Huo Tingxiao’s voice deepened, and he paused before speaking:
“It was to save me.”
Mu Lan stared in disbelief.
“To save you? But how could he have…”
Huo Tingxiao abruptly let go, stepping back.
Mu Lan propped herself up, watching Huo Tingxiao subconsciously touch his pocket, probably looking for a cigarette.
“After he saved me, he suddenly disappeared from the hospital, vanished as if evaporated from this world.
Later, I accidentally learned that someone had sent him away.”
Mu Lan watched as the atmosphere around Huo Tingxiao subtly changed, seemingly engulfed in a certain emotion.
“Who was it?”
Huo Tingxiao pressed his lips together, and it took a long time before he spoke.
“My father.”
Mu Lan was stunned. Huo Qidong? Why would he unreasonably send someone away?
“Mr. Pei misunderstood and thought you had sent him away?”
Huo Tingxiao didn’t speak, his silence serving as confirmation.
“Then why don’t you explain it to him?”
Huo Tingxiao looked up at Mu Lan.
“Is there a need to explain? Whether it’s me or my father, what’s the difference? A son’s duty to bear the debts of his father is natural and right.”
Mu Lan couldn’t understand his logic, things should be as they are. Did he think everyone could read his mind?
“Huo Tingxiao, do you know how annoying your assumptions can be,
I don’t know the other grievances between you, but there are burdens you shouldn’t have to bear, and yet you insist on bearing them; is that fair to others?
Mr. Pei might hold deep resentment against you, but I don’t think he’s inherently an unforgivable person.”
Huo Tingxiao couldn’t stand hearing Mu Lan speak for Pei Zhao.
“Do you know that to quickly restore your memory, it was Pei Zhao who caused that car accident, almost killing you and Yun Xi!
If Yun Xi hadn’t been with you that day, you…”
He dared not recall that day, the sensation of blood flowing backward in his veins, he didn’t want to experience it again.
Mu Lan looked at him in astonishment.
“What did you say? Mr. Pei caused the accident?”
There was noise from the staircase, Mu Lan looked up, watching Yun Xi come down from upstairs.
“Mu Lan, I have something I want to tell you.”
