Xiong Shao Gang laughed, looking at Ye Ye dancing with him, he wished to hold onto her forever, but deep down, he knew, such perfection could never be his… After dancing with all three of the Xiong family, Ye Ye, full from the meal and wine, checked the time; it was already 11 PM, so she said her goodbyes. Xiong Shao Gang escorted Ye Ye to the hotel lobby where the doorman went to fetch her car. They stood waiting at the entrance. “Do you need me to see you off?” Shao Gang asked. “No need, go back and spend time with Uncle Xiong and the others tonight, and then have a good talk. As the saying goes, life in the underworld isn’t always in our control… Forgive Uncle Xiong… after all, we were born with black blood in our veins! Since we can’t change it… let’s face it!” Ye Ye said sincerely. “I’ll try my best! Do you remember our agreement?” Xiong Shao Gang looked deeply into Ye Ye’s eyes. “Yes! Three kisses, and two more to go!” Ye Ye said with a smile; she wasn’t one for coyness. “Alright… for the second one…” Shao Gang leaned down and kissed Ye Ye’s lips… Ye Ye didn’t resist, just let him hold her. His kiss felt like the warmth of family, not the wildness of Long Yu or the passion of Dean… After a moment, he lifted his head, “Ye Ye, can I like you?” Shao Gang asked softly. “You can, but only as a brother likes a sister…” Ye Ye smiled, smartly defining the situation. “Hehe, okay, there’s still one kiss left. If that kiss can make you respond to me, then please give me a chance to like you… as a man likes a woman!” Xiong Shao Gang said determinedly. “Alright!” Ye Ye agreed, but she knew she would never respond to him, because he was her brother! “Go inside, my car is here.” A car pulled up straight outside the door, Ye Ye said. “I’ll watch you leave,” Xiong Shaogang said. “No, I want to see you go inside, or you might sneak away!” Ye Ye said sharply. “Alright! Goodbye, Ye Ye.” Xiong Shaogang gave another deep, helpless look at Ye Ye’s stunningly beautiful face before turning to leave. Deep down, he knew — he would never be her destined one!
Ye Ye watched Xiong Shaogang walk back into the lobby and smiled with relief. If her three kisses could reconcile a father and son, it would be a joyful deed! Turning around, just as she was about to get into her car, she was momentarily dazzled by a sleek, silver-black Chrysler on the snowy ground across the street. Upon closer inspection, it was Dean’s motorcade… and in the main car, the rear window was slightly lowered, revealing Dean’s face from the nose upwards… and he was angry… Ye Ye suddenly realized that Dean might have seen Xiong Shaogang kissing her… She hurried over…
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Ye Ye quickly approached the silver-black Chrysler, tapping on the closed rear window. The dark glass obscured her view, and Ye Ye shouted, “Dean, I know it’s you, come out, it’s not what you think!” She hadn’t deceived Dean or gone out to meet another man under false pretenses! Therefore, if it were true, Ye Ye would not argue, but this was indeed not the case, and what she feared most in life was being stubbornly misunderstood, especially by Dean… The window slowly descended, Ye Ye leaned on it, urgently speaking to the cold-faced Dean inside, “Dean, it’s not like that, really!” Dean looked at Ye Ye, his lake-blue eyes revealing no emotion, just his usual coldness, and said slowly, “You still haven’t learned how to be obedient…” “No, it’s not like that, that man is the son of my uncle who just had a birthday, we are not like that…” Ye Ye was eager to explain, her breath turning into white mist in the cold air, her hands reaching through the open window to grab Dean’s arm. Dean removed her hand, prying her fingers off one by one, his cold gaze fixed on her reddened nose from the cold, his tone distant and regal, like a king on a high throne, “I don’t need a woman who repeatedly challenges my dignity. Leave… Jones, drive on…” With that, the electric window slowly rose. In the night breeze, Ye Ye watched Dean disappear behind the window, her heart feeling as if she was being forced to stand on a cliff edge, trembling and panicked. She watched Dean’s motorcade slowly drive out of sight… She knew that a man as proud as Dean would never forgive her for kissing another man in front of so many of his subordinates, outside his own hotel… It was like trampling his dignity into the ground… But she really didn’t know he would see… and she wasn’t being promiscuous… No, she had to explain, this time it wasn’t her being wild… She didn’t want to be misunderstood like this, even if it meant a breakup, it shouldn’t be because of such a misunderstanding!
Ye Ye quickly tried to run back to her car to chase after him, but the icy road was unforgiving, and she slipped and fell. Instinctively, she tried to brace her fall with her hand, reopening the wound on her left arm, a sharp pain followed by the pull of gravity, she fell hard to the ground… “Miss… are you okay…?” The hotel’s doorman ran over from a distance, surrounding the fallen Ye Ye. Ye Ye only felt pain and cold, the icy ground and bone-chilling wind, she was only wearing a knee-length cheongsam and a fur bolero… Curled up on the ground, she couldn’t stand up, only letting the blood from her left arm’s wound flow slowly, startling the doormen… “Call the police, she might be injured…” “Don’t move her, she might have broken something…” Voices buzzed around her, making Ye Ye feel confused and hollow, as if they were not discussing her, her thoughts already following the receding motorcade… She tried to get up, but her body was numb from the cold, her arm hurt, her heart — hurt more…
“Sir, it looks like the lady has fallen!” Jones, in the front passenger seat, saw Ye Ye fall through the rearview mirror, and saw people crowding around… Dean leaned back in his seat, silent. “Something seems to have happened, many people are gathering!” The driver also glanced at the left rearview mirror, noticing more and more people surrounding the scene. Dean felt his heart constrict, an uncomfortable, unfamiliar feeling, clenching his fist tightly, suddenly reminded of when Ye Ye had her car accident, he stood at the cliff, watching the crashed car… It was the same feeling… “Turn around!” The entire motorcade made a U-turn…
