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CHAPTER 181

That was it, Li Jing was getting tired if not already tired about the men in her life. They all needed a rain check and should know that she was not some kind of toy or property or business stuff they could banter over.

"Li Jing."

"What!"

"Lower your voice!"

"Make me," she dared him. She was not ready for his scolding and heaven helped him that he scolded her. She was a damn adult you know!

"Ye Cheng, you may be my boss, but you are not the boss of me. I am tired of you treating me like you own my life. This is my personal life. Do you see me complaining about the ladies in your life?"

Li Jing did not wait for him to answer before answering for him. "A big 'N' and a little 'o', No."

"Li Jing." His eyes darkened, giving them a warning hue and telling her to stop silently but she didn't. Instead, the look on his face only aggravated her the more.

Consequences be damned. She was going to give him a piece of her mind.

"Did I ever butt in on your relationship with Bai Qing Mei even when she was talking me down and kissing you like there was no tomorrow, did I butt in? Wait, no need to answer, I know the answer. Still a damn fucking no."

Ye Cheng was speechless. Within a minute, she had gone from calm, naïve, scared to a hot, not so naïve, angry young beautiful lady.

Irrespective, Ye knew she was affected by what had happened at the office the other day when Bai Qing Mei revealed herself and kissed the life out of him.

Even just saying it, he noticed she bit her lips regrettably after mentioning the kiss. It hurt her but he failed to realize it.

It was the same way she failed to realize that rubbing his mistake in his front was hurting her and just watching Luo Jinhai peck her was infuriating just like this maddening woman!

"So please and please, Ye Cheng. You do not have the right to tell me whom I am to go out with and whom I am not to go out with. This is my life, I chose to live it the way I see it fit!"

"Li Jing," the words left his mouth softly, a perfect contrast to the expression on his face. He knew she was right but everything about her being right only angered him.

It was like she was saying she did not need him to protect her and his whole being wanted to. He had come to the point whereby he loved doing so. It became his watchword. Something to ensure each day.

The feeling he felt now was like a child growing up shouting at his mother that he was leaving the house and do no longer need them.

He was hurt, deeply and for the first time since Li Jing started querying him, she saw pain flash in those brown lovely eyes of his.

"Wait, I am not finished." Even that did not stop her from knocking some sense into him with her sharp words. "I know you may give me the excuse of you caring for my safety and wellbeing but honestly, Ye Cheng, I do not need it. Obviously, they did not know I was with you and until now, there had been no threat whatsoever. So, please, stop being a mother hen."

OUCHIE!

Li Jing broke his heart a million times over with her words and the funny thing was that this was the first time he was having it this way.

It was still hard for him to comprehend and put things in place about her words. He was scared, scared that she who he trusted was about to go, leave him for good. She no longer needed him nor his protection.

Li Jing was hurting her saviour unknowingly!

"So, please I am done and if you feel it is because I am staying here that you have the right to do what you want to do or to control me, please, by all means, I would be leaving this house and getting a place on my own."

Ye Cheng's heart skipped a bit and the next few words Li Jing said fell on deaf ears as his mind began to travel to various places within that moment and all hurt he had shone away came rushing back.

All his life, he has had someone leave him and now she that he was getting close to that he trusted was leaving him alone too? Forgetting that he had not known her for too long, still, he held her close to his heart.

"So, I am done. Done with it all. I am going." She waited for some seconds for him to say something, anything in fact but he didn't. Instead, he stood like someone who wanted to burst into tears any second.

Even at that, Li Jing was hurt herself to bother. She liked him and she wasn't denying that but she did not even know where she stood with him but he was bossy and jealously pursuing all her suitors away.

There was no way she would not be angry. At the very least let this night, let her have it all to herself. Let her have it to be angry and happy and relieved.

And as soon as the fear took over, Ye Cheng lost it.

She cast one more waiting glance at him and sighed, then turned around and left. However, before she took two steps away, she felt a hand suddenly grab her arms and pulled her back to face him.

The whole event had shocked her and when she looked up to see him, his eyes darkened further as he wore his pain proudly. Her eyes were still wavering and lost in his when Ye Cheng leaned down and kissed her fully on the lips.

It shocked her but with the way he kissed her, begging for entrance at her lips, it only made her head swoon and she parted her lips subconsciously for him, allowing him entrance as her widened eyes shut close.