Tiny Genius Alert! Mom & Dad Better Make Peace-Chapter 565 - 514: Jun and Your Liangsheng Ending, Middle Part: What Are You Hiding From 2
"What do you mean?" Huo Chengjin stared at Jian Liangtong with a mischievous grin at the corner of his mouth.
"You’ve been checking in on me at my home, what exactly are you trying to do?" Jian Liangtong was so tense that her voice trembled as she spoke to Huo Chengjin.
Huo Chengjin’s long eyes darkened, the curve of his lips lingering, "I mean, are you that nervous? I went to your house just to try my luck, to see if I might run into you."
"Do you think I’d believe that?" Jian Liangtong said hoarsely.
Today when he went to her house, it was impossible he didn’t know she was home beforehand.
Huo Chengjin looked at Jian Liangtong’s pale face, taking one hand out of his pocket and reaching toward her face.
But as he was about to touch her, she anxiously backed away.
Huo Chengjin clicked his tongue, frowning as he stared at Jian Liangtong’s defensive eyes, "What are you dodging for? Do you think I would eat you?"
While speaking, Huo Chengjin suddenly took a step towards her.
Jian Liangtong jumped in fright, hurriedly retreating with terror in her eyes.
The furrow in Huo Chengjin’s brow deepened, and the raised corner of his mouth finally fell, his voice stern and menacing, "Are you really that afraid of me? Am I a monstrous flood or some cold-blooded killer?"
"Don’t come any closer!" Jian Liangtong cried out in panic, her voice trembling violently.
Seeing the steps behind her, Huo Chengjin narrowed his eyes, pursed his lips and stopped, "Okay, I won’t come any closer."
...
Jian Liangtong hugged her arms, and although she also stopped, her legs remained poised to retreat at any moment.
Huo Chengjin glanced behind her, slowly put the withdrawn hand back into his pocket, and said heavily, "Come a bit closer, I have something to tell you."
Jian Liangtong’s breathing tightened, she wasn’t sure if it was from fear or something else, her eyes were red, "What do you want to say?"
"Come closer first," Huo Chengjin insisted.
Jian Liangtong didn’t move, clearly rejecting Huo Chengjin with her eyes.
Huo Chengjin clenched the hands in his pockets, "Won’t even come a bit closer to me, do you really dislike me that much?"
Jian Liangtong’s eyes slightly trembled, a complex look flashed through them as she looked at Huo Chengjin.
She didn’t dislike Huo Chengjin, not at all.
On the contrary.
She was grateful to him.
Grateful that he appeared in time to save her back then.
But she couldn’t help recalling that night every time she saw him.
Rather than saying Jian Liangtong disliked him.
It’s more accurate to say she was avoiding him.
In Jian Liangtong’s view.
That night was the beginning of all her misfortune.
She suffered unprecedented blows, misunderstood, resented, and hated by Huo Shaojun.
That night left an indelible mark on Jian Liangtong’s body, filled with endless humiliation and embarrassment.
So seeing Huo Chengjin, she felt deep pain.
That pain made her begin to hate.
Hatred for why, out of everyone in the world, it had to be her to suffer such humiliation.
She hated the world’s unfairness, and she hated Fang Jingting, the culprit behind all her suffering.
And the man she loved deeply, who cruelly abandoned her after everything that happened!
Looking at Jian Liangtong with a pale face lost in painful thoughts, Huo Chengjin half-closed his long eyes, taking a step forward, approaching her.
Her neck was suddenly hooked from behind, Jian Liangtong’s heart raced wildly, and it was too late to resist as she was startled awake.
She was already pulled forcefully into his arms, her waist and neck held firmly by him.
Jian Liangtong struggled with all her might, but it only resulted in a stronger hold from him, leaving her unable to escape even a little.
"Huo Chengjin, are you crazy? Let me go, let me go now!" Jian Liangtong’s voice panted urgently, filled with anger and panic.
"If I let you go, you’ll just run away again. This is always the way with you, never willing to calmly listen to me speak." Huo Chengjin smiled contentedly, holding Jian Liangtong in his arms, his chin resting on her head, his eyes lightly closed.
"If you didn’t approach me this way every time, why wouldn’t I listen to you?" Jian Liangtong took a deep breath, her head throbbing.
"So you’re saying it’s my fault?" Huo Chengjin curled his lips, looking down at Jian Liangtong with a gentle voice uncharacteristic of him.
Jian Liangtong felt her breath becoming labored, she struggled to lift her neck, her reddened almond eyes looking at Huo Chengjin, "Huo Chengjin, let’s not do this, whatever you want to say, let’s find a place better suited for a conversation, and you speak, I’ll listen, okay?"
...
Huo Chengjin glanced at Su Zhan around, his long eyes deeply gazing at Jian Liangtong’s slightly pale rigid face, then lightly pressed his thin lips, "Alright."
The coffee shop not far from the community.
Jian Liangtong frowned, looking at Huo Chengjin with eyes that could not relax.
Huo Chengjin leisurely added sugar to his coffee with a small spoon, his lowered eyes intently stirring the coffee, resembling a child.
"My eldest brother and Mo Chen Ge are quite alike, even in taste, they prefer coffee that’s bitter beyond words." Huo Chengjin suddenly said.
Jian Liangtong’s eyes flickered slightly, she didn’t understand why he said this so suddenly, so she didn’t respond.
Huo Chengjin turned the small handle of the coffee cup half-circle, looked up at Jian Liangtong, his gaze black and clear, starkly different from the capricious, roguishly shadowed manner he usually presented.
"What’s strange is, their personalities are also quite similar. Silent, unsociable, to those who don’t know them, they seem to lack desire, bland, indifferent."
Jian Liangtong remained silent.
Huo Chengjin chuckled, "But in fact, it’s not like that at all. They have an intense, even obsessive possessiveness and exclusivity over what belongs to them. This trait is particularly evident in my eldest brother."
Something flashed quickly in Jian Liangtong’s eyes, she furrowed her brows, looking at him softly saying, "What do you want to say?"
"I think you know what I’m trying to say, but you’re just pretending not to understand." Huo Chengjin said softly.
Jian Liangtong’s straight back stiffened slightly, and her voice came out somewhat harsh, "I don’t understand."
Huo Chengjin’s gaze locked onto Jian Liangtong, those focused and deep eyes intensified the pressure in Jian Liangtong’s heart.
"There won’t be any result between you and my brother." Huo Chengjin said.
"..." Jian Liangtong’s eyes widened, her dark pupils trembling intensely, as if ready to split open with red liquid pouring out at any moment.
"His personality, he absolutely cannot accept any betrayal!" Huo Chengjin continued.
Betrayal?
Jian Liangtong’s eyes reddened, her throat seemed to be sharply scraped back and forth by some object, her voice hoarse as she said, "I haven’t betrayed him, never have."
"I know you haven’t, I know." Huo Chengjin repeated "I know" twice.
Jian Liangtong looked at him in surprise, "You know?"
Huo Chengjin stared deeply into Jian Liangtong’s eyes, suppressing something, "I know you wouldn’t betray my brother, I believe you."
"...you believe me?" Jian Liangtong murmured.
Huo Chengjin inhaled, as if concealing something, diverting his gaze from Jian Liangtong, looking out through the glass window, and when he turned his attention back to Jian Liangtong, no excess emotion remained.
He said, "If I deeply loved a woman, I would never doubt her actions, I choose to trust her unconditionally!"
Huo Chengjin’s "confession" didn’t stir the slightest ripple in Jian Liangtong’s eyes.
Instead, the words "I believe you" shook Jian Liangtong.
She looked at Huo Chengjin, her heart filled with endless sorrow.
Why does even Huo Chengjin believe her, yet he doesn’t?
Perhaps.
Trust or not isn’t the key.
The key is.
He feels she’s tainted!
He rejected her back then just because she was tainted, that’s all!
Just as Huo Chengjin said.
His fatal possessiveness and exclusivity do not allow anything "belonging" to him to be touched by others.
If such a thing happened.
The fate awaiting that "object" is ruthless abandonment.
Jian Liangtong suddenly fell silent.
Her long lashes lowered, her face pale and weak.
She seemed shrouded in a layer of ethereal white light, lightly touched, would disperse.
Huo Chengjin was deeply staring at Jian Liangtong, his breathing very light, "Tongtong, Huo Shaojun doesn’t deserve you at all! He doesn’t deserve your true heart, doesn’t deserve to have you!"
"..." Jian Liangtong’s hidden lashes trembled violently, her pale cheeks instantly covered in pain.
Huo Chengjin watched her hands on the table clenching and unclenching, unclenching and clenching.
His long eyes lightly flashed, Huo Chengjin held his breath lightly as he looked at her, "Tongtong..."
Huo Chengjin had just spoken.
Jian Liangtong’s phone rang timely. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
Huo Chengjin squinted slightly, frowned tightly as he looked at Jian Liangtong.
Jian Liangtong’s fingers trembled, picked up the phone, and as her blurred gaze swept over the phone screen, she slightly withdrew an inch.
Her fingers gripped the phone tightly, Jian Liangtong answered, "Ju Zi..."
Unexpectedly, Huo Chengjin suddenly raised his arm and snatched the phone by her ear.
Jian Liangtong looked at him dazedly, her whole being wooden.
It seemed Huo Chengjin said something, at this moment Jian Liangtong’s ears buzzed, did not hear clearly.
Huo Chengjin hung up and immediately turned off the phone.
As she watched him throw the phone to the side where he sat, only then did Jian Liangtong’s blank vision gain a bit of clarity.
Her pale lower lip tightly contained, Jian Liangtong’s brows furrowed deeply.
Suddenly, the hand on the table was enveloped by a man’s warm palm.
Jian Liangtong gasped in surprise, instinctively tried to shake it off.
But the man held tightly, she couldn’t shake it off at all.
Jian Liangtong panted in panic, staring fearfully at the now exceptionally solemn expression of Huo Chengjin.
Huo Chengjin tightly gripped Jian Liangtong’s hand, looking into Jian Liangtong’s eyes, hidden within were barely noticeable tension and anxiety, huskily said, "Come to my side."
Jian Liangtong’s pupils trembled in shock, anxiously she tried to pull her hand harder twice.
Still didn’t break free.
"As long as you’re with me, I, Huo Chengjin, promise, in the days to come, I won’t let you suffer even a bit of grievance. I’ll listen to everything you say, alright?" Huo Chengjin almost pleaded.
Jian Liangtong shook her head frantically, "Huo Chengjin, what kind of joke is this, it’s not funny at all!"
"I’m more serious now than ever! Serious unlike anything before!" Huo Chengjin steadfastly looked at her, "Tongtong, from the first time I met you when I was fifteen, I knew you were different for me. I admit I was a bastard to you before, because if I didn’t act this way, I feared you wouldn’t notice me at all."
Huo Chengjin’s eyes flushed crimson, suffused with the years he had loved her, "I love you, more than anyone else."
