Spoiled by the CEO after amnesia!-Chapter 108 - 106 I choose the second option

Jiayi’s eyelashes fluttered slightly as she fixed her gaze on Huo Tianpei, waiting for the unfinished words of the elder.

"First, you continue your relationship with Zhenyang, remain his fiancée, and then get married. I will convince Zhenru to send Qingran abroad to have the baby, and after the child is born, we will bring the child back to the country and raise it as your own. This way, it’s a win-win situation; you and Zhenyang can still be together, and I can keep my grandson."

Jiayi’s lips twitched silently, almost with a silent laugh.

Indeed, everyone in the Huo Family is a businessman, always calculating.

Asking her to raise Mu Qingran’s child? She wasn’t degraded to that extent.

Always be reminded, by the child at her side, of her husband’s premarital bed-sharing and one-night infidelity?

She admitted her heart wasn’t that big.

Both love and marriage are things that cannot tolerate flaws, and such a big flaw is something she could never accept.

"The second suggestion is—" Huo Tianpei continued.

Jiayi smiled faintly, "Elder, no need, I choose the second option."

Huo Tianpei was stunned, "Do you know my second suggestion?"

Jiayi’s lips curved up, holding back a sudden surge of bitterness in her heart, "The second suggestion is that I leave Huo Zhenyang, making it impossible for him to find me. Time will dilute everything, and after a while, he will surely give up, and then, under the elder’s arrangement, he will smoothly marry Mu Qingran. Right?"

Huo Tianpei took a deep breath, looking intently at the girl in front of him.

Her heart seemed like a crystal-clear mirror, effortlessly articulating his intentions.

He didn’t speak for a long time before finally saying, "Have you really decided on the second option?"

Jiayi parted her lips and nodded with determination.

In fact, she knew, when the elder presented these two suggestions, he must have been determined to send her away, simply too embarrassed to bring it up, so he let her say it instead.

But, that was okay.

Perhaps it was for the best for both the elder and her.

Hadn’t she always wanted to break free from this man’s restraints and gain her freedom?

Now, she had finally managed to do it.

The Mu Qingran incident was merely a small explosive, still within the range she could tolerate.

What truly made her unable to accept this was the possibility of this man using her as a bargaining chip to win the elder’s favor and obtain control of the group.

At the moment of nodding, there seemed to be a sourness and warmth surging into her eyes, turning into liquid as it whirled within.

Immediately after, she suppressed the tides of emotions, lifted her head, and her tone became unusually decisive in a split second, "However, he’s watching me very closely right now, and the Huo Family’s power in G City is too great. Even if I want to leave, I’m afraid it will be difficult. For this, I might need your help, uncle."

Huo Tianpei sighed, "I know."

——

When Jiayi and Huo Tianpei came downstairs together, Huo Zhenyang stood up from the sofa, his tensely clenched handsome face relaxing.

He had never felt time pass so slowly; it seemed that from some point on, he couldn’t stand her being away from him.

Her presence and time were naturally supposed to belong only to him.

He went over in a few strides, extended his hand, and grasped the girl’s tender small hand firmly as if no one else could summon away his little possession and said in a heavy voice, "Come back with me."

Jiayi did not struggle, obediently nodded, allowing him to hold her hand, and then took another look at Huo Tianpei, "Uncle, I’m leaving first."

Huo Zhenyang was surprised by her compliance.

Just before going upstairs, she had been cold and indifferent to him, and after talking with the family elder, her attitude had changed.

He thought she was still angry and tested, "Not going back to the Tang Family?"

"I’ll make a call to En’en later and let her know."

"What did the elder say to you?" His gaze deepened, doubt surfacing, as he leaned close to her ear and said with not a little seriousness.

She felt somewhat guilty and managed to squeeze out a faint smile, lifting her fair and charming face to stare at the man: "Uncle has advised me before." Then she looked over at Huo Tianpei, "Isn’t that right, Uncle?"

Huo Tianpei’s gaze flickered for a moment, but he also revealed a smile, nodding in agreement.

———

The car stopped in front of the apartment building.

Having not returned for several days, Jiayi was now looking at the familiar high-rise with a surge of emotion. While the man beside her was reversing into the garage, she rested her cheek in her hand, lost in thought and silent.

She wondered if this was going to be the last time she stayed in this apartment?

"What’s wrong?" Huo Zhenyang suddenly spoke up, twisting the steering wheel, his deep eyes intently studying the woman beside him who seemed lost.

It had to be said that a man who could achieve such a position in the corporation at a young age certainly didn’t have simple thoughts.

A casual glance seemed to be enough to probe into the dynamics of her heart.

She was a bit flustered, playing dumb: "It’s nothing."

It’s nothing?

He didn’t believe her, pressing the brake, his hand leaving the steering wheel, he leaned in close, with a mischievous tone in his voice: "Really nothing?"

The heat was heavy, burning her so much that she almost couldn’t breathe: "Nothing."

"Really not angry anymore?"

"Mhm."

"Then show me," he said with an increasingly frivolous and charming tone, yet filled with an intense dominance.

She froze, show him, how?

While she was still dumbfounded, the man’s iron-like body pressed down on her, his breath hot and scorching, raising his eyebrow: "Hmm? So when you said you’re not angry, were you just paying lip service?"

She gritted her teeth, went for it, and leaned into his thin lips with a light peck.

This was her first time initiating a kiss with him, clumsy and naive, like a dragonfly skimming the surface of water.

Although it was brief, the man apparently had no more doubts, and after enjoying the sweet nectar, he gently lifted her chin, his voice gentle, resonating like the strings of a silk instrument, deep and serious: "The engagement on Chongren Island was too hurried. In a while, let’s have another ceremony in France, alright?"

The engagement ceremony at the anniversary celebration hadn’t officially proceeded before the young lady had fainted from drunkenness.

France was where Huo Tianpei and his biological mother got married, and also where he studied; it held special significance for him.

Moreover, the little one should like it.

The man’s burning gaze was still heart-stirring. She really wanted to ask, "Am I truly just a pawn for you to regain the Huo Family empire?"

But the words got stuck in her throat, and she swallowed them back down.

If his answer was ’yes’ or it was a lie transparent to anyone, she feared she’d lose even the last bit of her fantasies.

Better to indulge in the dream than confront such reality.

After all, a dream is most beautiful when one has yet to awaken.

Besides, asking or not didn’t make much difference anymore because she had already promised the elder statesman to leave him.

From now on, she would just regard everything about him as a dream...

But, could she really treat it all just like a dream?

——

She went upstairs and entered the room.

Auntie Li was the first to rush up to her, nearly in tears: "Jiayi, where have you been these past few days?"

Auntie Li had also heard about the Mu Qingran incident and thought that Jiayi was probably angry, had gone to stay elsewhere for a few days, and was relieved to see her finally returning.