Chapter 267
Clang!
The door to the office was closed, and the inside was suddenly quiet.
Rongshu looked at the two hands that were grabbed by Fu Jingting and said coldly “Mr. Fu, Ah Qi has already been taken out, can you let go of me now?”
Fu Jingting let go of her.
With her hands free, Rongshu immediately took two steps back to distance herself from him, “Mr. Fu, what exactly do you want to say to me?”
Fu Jingting looked at her, his eyes serious and mixed with deep emotion, “What I told you last time in the shallow water bay was not a trick, it was all true, the person I love is not Gu Manyin, it’s you!”
“……” Rong Shu was silent for a few seconds before laughing mockingly, “Mr. Fu, what is there in me that is worthy of your thoughts, not only do you still want to lie to me, but you even joined forces with your grandmother to lie to me? ”
Seeing that she was still unwilling to believe in her sincerity, Fu Jingting sighed, “Do you still remember Xiao Zhong?”
He asked instead of answering.
Rongshu’s expression changed slightly as she heard the name, “How do you know Xiao Zhong?”
She really was the real Maple Leaf!
Fu Jingting’s eyebrows became even gentler as he lightly opened his thin lips and said, “Zhong He is another name for me, many years ago, I took my mother’s name and my mother called me Xiao Zhong!”
“You …… you ……” Hearing these words, Rongshu pointed at him with incredulous eyes, where did she not understand that he was the Xiao Zhong who had been her pen pal for many years!
Seeming to know what Rong Shu wanted to say, Fu Jingting pressed her hand down gently, “I’m the Xiao Zhong you’re thinking of, Maple Leaf!”
He had called out his pen name, and Rong Shu could no longer deny that he was not her pen pal.
There was just something she still couldn’t accept.
“How could it be you?” Rongshu bit her lip, feeling only absurd, “Why would you be Xiao Zhong?”
That gentle, big brother who would comfort her with letters when she was bullied by her stepmother and was unhappy, was actually Fu Jingting!
“Why can’t it be me?” Fu Jingting frowned slightly and asked “Or are you sorry that Xiao Zhong is me?”
He could see that she looked disappointed when she confirmed that he was Xiao Zhong.
She actually did not want him to be Xiao Zhong!
Fu Jingting’s heart tingled slightly.
He had come full of excitement, wanting to tell her that they were pen pals.
He had thought that she would be happy to know that he was Maple Leaf, because they had been so close.
But to his surprise, she had reacted like this!
Maybe she wasn’t unhappy to see Xiao Zhong, she just happened to not want to accept that Xiao Zhong was him.
If another person was Xiao Zhong, she would not have reacted like this.
Thinking of this, Fu Jingting’s hands on either side of him could not help but clench up, and cold air spilled out all around him.
Rongshu took a deep breath and looked at him, “Sorry Mr. Fu, I do regret that you are Xiao Zhong, because you don’t bear the slightest resemblance to the Xiao Zhong I know.”
Of course, it should be said that the Fu Jingting of today bore no resemblance to Xiao Zhong, the Fu Jingting of six years ago was more or less the same.
When she met Xiao Zhong, she was barely twelve years old and had just started secondary school. Once, her stepmother’s younger sister broke a vase, and then the younger sister accused her of breaking the vase.
However, not long after, a message alerted her that someone had replied to her drift bottle, and that person was Xiao Zhong.
He would answer all kinds of questions for her and be patient when she was frustrated, and even gave her a number of ideas to deal with her evil stepmother.
When she was in high school, she fell in love with Fu Jingting at first sight and began to get to know him. The more she got to know him, the more she realised that Fu Jingting and Xiao Zhong were very similar in character, both being gentle people.
She asked Xiao Zhong this question herself, but of course, when she asked, she didn’t say who she really liked, she just said it was a senior who had graduated a long time ago, and wanted Xiao Zhong to give her a definite answer. If Xiao Zhong’s answer was similar to what she thought, then she mustered up the courage to confess her love to Fu Jingting, who had taken over the Fu Group, in her soph*more year.
That year, after she had asked Xiao Zhong, his reply letter did not arrive on time like usual, every Sunday, but half a month later. In the letter, Xiao Zhong also did not answer her question, but offered to meet her, saying that he had something very important to say to her in person, and left a phone number in the letter for her to save.
She saved it and dialed it. Xiao Zhong answered, but he seemed to be ill and his voice was weak, even breathless. After he told her the address and time of the meeting, she heard a doctor on his side saying it was time to go into the operating room, after which the call was disconnected.
When the time came for her appointment a month later, she went to the place Xiao Zhong said she would meet him, but to her surprise, she waited from noon until dark without waiting for Xiao Zhong, during which time she was unable to reach him on the phone, and returned to her dormitory in disappointment.
That was the whole story of her and Xiao Zhong from the time they met to the end of their relationship, and the doggone thing was that Xiao Zhong and the man she had a crush on at the time were actually the same person, Fu Jingting!
“You’re right, it’s true that Xiao Zhong and I have no similarities now.” Fu Jingting lowered his eyelids.
Because of the fading of hypnosis, he gradually remembered what his old self was like.
But he knew very well that even if he was relieved of hypnosis, he would not be able to change back to his old self after experiencing shopping mall fights and intrigues.
“Alright, what’s the use of talking about this, so what if you are Xiao Zhong, what does it have to do with you saying you love me?” Rongshu took a deep breath, suppressing the emotions that were churning inside her, and said in a clear, cold and bland voice.
“Of course it does!” Fu Jingting’s thin lips twitched as he spoke back “Many years ago, I fell in love with Maple Leaf, and even I couldn’t believe it, I actually fell in love with a girl I had never met before through the text of a letter, that is you, Rong Shu!”
“Wait!” Rongshu made a quick stop motion, “You said that you fell in love with me a long time ago when you were still Maple Leaf?”
“Yes!” Fu Jingting nodded his head.
Rong Shu laughed, a few sneers in her laughter, “Do you think I would believe that? Six years ago you were with Gu Manyin, that means ……”
“It’s not!” Knowing what she was going to say, Fu Jingting immediately interrupted her, his face serious as he explained, “I have never loved Gu Manyin, what I love has always been you, six years ago I would be with her, that’s because I took her for you.”
“What?” The expression on Rongshu’s face was stunned and her lips opened, “Took her for me?”
Fu Jingting nodded, “Six years ago, I saw you say in a letter that you wanted to confess your love to someone you liked, I couldn’t accept it, so I wrote back to you and asked you to meet me, just to tell you personally that I had always loved you and wanted to be with you, but I didn’t expect that it wasn’t you who came, it was Gu Manyin!”
Chapter 268
When he received that letter from her and saw that it said that he was going to confess his love for someone, he got a heart attack and had a heart attack all of a sudden and was admitted to the hospital, only half a month later, he barely got his energy back, then he wrote back to her and asked her to meet him, wanting to tell her the truest thoughts of his heart.
It was just at that time that the hospital said they had a suitable heart and he knew he could live, so he was determined and ready to confess his love to her. Of course, he wouldn’t have done that if he didn’t have a heart and wouldn’t have delayed her, after all, he was dying.
On the day she received his letter and called him, it happened to be the day of his operation. After the operation, he recuperated for a month and was barely able to get out of bed, then he let Zhang Cheng push him to the meeting place, only to wait for Gu Manyin.
Because he had never seen what Maple Leaf looked like before, and it just so happened that Gu Manyin told him some of the things written in their letter, that’s why he believed Gu Manyin was Maple Leaf.
Rongshu understood Fu Jingting’s words and stared in shock, “You’re saying Gu Manyin impersonated me to meet with you?”
“Yes!” Fu Jingting nodded, “Six years ago, on the day I made an appointment with you at ten in the morning, it was Gu Manyin who came.”
“That’s not right, you clearly said to meet at two o’clock at noon, I waited from noon until evening, and you didn’t come!” Rongshu stared at her intently.
Fu Jingting wrinkled his eyebrows, “When did I say noon at two o’clock? I still remember that phone call six years ago very clearly, I said ten in the morning.”
“Yes, you did say ten in the morning, but on the morning of the meeting, you sent another text message, saying that you couldn’t go in the morning and changed the time to two in the afternoon.” Rongshu said as she squeezed up her palms.
“I never sent you any messages that day.” Fu Jingting said back.
Rongshu shook her head, “That’s impossible, Xiao Li told me that you sent a text message.”
“Someone else told you?” Fu Jingting narrowed his eyes, “So what you’re saying is that you didn’t see the text message with your own eyes?”
Rongshu hmphed, “Yes ……”
Looking at the man’s dark and cold face, she probably realised that she had been lied to back then!
Fu Jingting did not send the text message, the text message was fabricated out of thin air by Xiao Li in order to stop her from meeting Fu Jingting in the morning.
As for why Xiao Li did this, Rongshu knew why, to help Gu Manyin!
When she was a freshman and soph*more, she and Xiao Zhong were still corresponding, and everyone in the dorm knew about it at the time, and they had laughed at her for it, what an age it was to still communicate with people in this way.
After she found out, Gu Manyin not only didn’t feel ashamed, but even asked her about Xiaozhong’s affairs.
Thinking of this, Rong Shu’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot, with anger and hatred.
She had never thought that a person, could be shameless like this!
Looking at Rong Shu’s body trembling from anger, Fu Jingting stretched out his hand, trying to soothe her.
But instead, it was slapped away by Rong Shu indifferently.
Fu Jingting looked at his hand that had been slapped red, and his eyes dimmed for a moment.
She hadn’t forgiven him yet ……
Fu Jingting put his hand down, “Now do you understand why I said that it was always you that I loved, not Gu Manyin?”
Rongshu’s eyes flickered and she did not speak.
Fu Jingting looked at her, his heart a little nervous.
He didn’t know what she would say back, whether she believed it or not.
If she did, would she forgive him?
The air gradually became frozen.
Rongshu did not say anything.
Fu Jingting’s heart was also growing uneasy.
At this point, Rong Shu finally reacted, she raised her eyes and calmly looked at Fu Jingting, “Mr. Fu, as you said just now, the one you love has always been me, but why can’t I feel it?”
“What do you mean?” Fu Jingting was slightly stunned.
Rongshu smiled lightly, “You said you love Maple Leaf, but I am Maple Leaf, I have been married to you for six years, six years, and you have not found out that I am Maple Leaf, do you really love me? If you love me, shouldn’t you have found out long ago that Gu Manyin is a fake?”
“It’s not like that, it’s not that I didn’t want to find out, it’s ……”
“All right!” Rong Shu raised her hand to cut off his words, “I don’t want to talk to you more, and I don’t believe you love me, you love me you wouldn’t be unable to recognize me, furthermore, even if you love me for real, but I don’t think you love Rong Shu, what you really love is Maple Leaf the vest.”
Rongshu looked at him, “Why else would you have come to me and told me you loved me as soon as you found out I was Maple Leaf? But when I was Rongshu, you never had the slightest love for me, you were even indifferent to the extreme, Fu Jingting, you treat me and Maple Leaf like two people altogether you know?”
Fu Jingting’s thin lips pursed, “Yes, I admit that I treated you and Feng Ye as two people, but when I didn’t know you were Feng Ye, I still fell in love with you, I just didn’t know it myself.”
Rongshu’s pupils shrank slightly.
Falling in love with her when she didn’t know she was Maple Leaf?
Was that possible?
Rongshu quickly calmed down and snorted, “I’m sorry Mr. Fu, these words are fine for you to fool little girls, but they can’t fool me, I don’t even know who I really love, forgive me, it’s hard for me to believe that in this world, there are actually such people.”
Fu Jingting lowered his eyes.
She still didn’t want to believe that he loved her.
Even if he had already said it to this point.
“Besides, what are you telling me this for, Mr. Fu, since Gu Manyin has been impersonating me for six years, why don’t you make the mistake go on, or do you still want me and Gu Manyin to take our respective places and then remarry me?” The corners of Rongshu’s mouth curved out in a sneer as she looked at Fu Jingting.
Fu Jingting pursed his thin lips indifferently, acquiescing.
When I was Rongshu, you didn’t even look at me. Now that I’ve become Fengye, you come up and say you love me and want to remarry me, why? Am I someone that you can just not want and can get back whenever you want? I’m telling you Fu Jingting, I’m not that cheap, so I’m definitely not going to remarry you with you, not to mention, I’ve long since stopped loving you!”
If he could find out before Gu Manyin woke up that Gu Manyin was a fake and that she was the real Maple Leaf, even if he loved Maple Leaf as a waistcoat, she would be willing to accept it, willing to rekindle her feelings for him, not minding that he had become completely different from before.
After all, no matter how much he changed, he was still Fu Jingting, just as Maple Leaf, the vest, was still her, no matter how hidden, so she had faith that he would turn his love for Maple Leaf into love for Rongshu
But there is no if, everything is too late, they can’t go back!
Although he had long heard Rong Shu say that she didn’t love him several times, but every time he heard it, Fu Jingting still felt some slight pain in his heart, also blocked and swollen, very uncomfortable.
“Mr. Fu, go back, since we’ve already come this far, why go on like this.” Rongshu said as she stepped back, “Maybe we were never meant to be, from the start!”
Fu Jingting’s thin lips twitched, wanting to say something, when his phone suddenly rang.
He wrinkled his brows, then took out the phone and looked at it, Gu Yaotian was calling.
Fu Jingting put the phone down and had no intention of answering it immediately, instead he said “I know what I told you today has given you a big shock, but I won’t give up!”
After saying that, he looked at her deeply for a few seconds and turned around to walk towards the office door.